A Moody’s report finds that the budget proposal put forward by House Republicans could lead to 7000,000 fewer jobs by the end of 2012 and lead to “unnecessary risk” as the economy slowly recovers. Odds are uncomfortably high that the federal budget impasse will prompt a government shutdown. The Obama administration has shown significant spending [...]
UNITED STATES CONDUCTING AMNESIAC DIPLOMACY IN BAHRAIN. (Stars & Stripes) Not long after peaceful protesters calling for democratic reforms in a country ruled by the same family since 1783 were gunned down in Pearl Square, a top envoy from the United States was sent to the country as a means of “reassurance” to the Bahraini [...]
A guest post by Michael Parenti Some years ago in New England, a group of environmentalists asked a corporate executive how his company (a paper mill) could justify dumping its raw industrial effluent into a nearby river. The river—which had taken Mother Nature centuries to create–was used for drinking water, fishing, boating, and swimming. In [...]
The ultimate goal of the Koch-funded political organization “Americans For Prosperity” is to “take the unions out at the knees.” And with their aggressive involvement in the major fight in Wisconsin to strip employees of collective bargaining rights, they are making moves top do just that. Americans For Prosperity is a group started by billionaire [...]
South Dakota became the first state where legislation was put forward that could potentially have classified the murder of doctors or others involved in assisting or abetting abortion procedures as permissible under the legal classification of “justifiable homicide.” Now, after South Dakota lawmakers shot down their own measure, other Midwestern states are picking up the [...]
U.S. SEEKS DIPLOMATIC IMMUNITY FOR A CLANDESTINE CIA AGENT WHO COMMITTED BROAD DAYLIGHT MURDERS OF PAKISTANI CIVILIANS. (Counterpunch) Mike Whitney comments on the case of Raymond Davis, who committed these acts in pursuit of his role of gaining intelligence to help the CIA prosecute its drone attacks in Pakistan, as part of the broader U.S. [...]
The non-profit watchdog group Public Campaign Action says yes. A Washington-based campaign finance watchdog group is calling on Wisconsin prosecutors to launch an investigation of Governor Scott Walker, alleging potentially illegal fundraising activity in an exchange with the prankster who posed as billionaire David Koch, the group says. The Public Campaign Action Fund provided me [...]
Rolling Stone reports that U.S. military commanders in Afghanistan used illegal “psychological operations” in order to ‘manipulate” high-ranking members of Congress and other American and foreign dignitaries or top-ranking officials on their visits to the country. The strategy was used — successfully, as it turns out — to obtain substantial increases in funding and troops [...]
IS THE STUXNET WORM TODAY’S EQUIVALENT OF THOSE ELUSIVE WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION? (Eurasia Review) The fable of Iraq’s WMD possession is echoed in another likely hoax perpetrated by U.S. government agencies and a compliant mainstream press. The New York Times in particular took the “bait” offered by a much-hyped report that U.S. and Israeli [...]
Many already know the deep connection between the billionaire Koch brothers, their deep-pocketed conservative political organization and lawmakers like Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker that are pursuing aggressively anti-union strategies in a number of GOP-controlled states. In the case of Gov. Walker, Koch money helped him get elected and Koch money is also being funneled into [...]
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