HUGO CHAVEZ SAYS US AND NATO PLANNING TO INVADE LIBYA TO SECURE ITS OIL RESERVES.
(Global Research)
The President of Venezuela, who has forged a close relation with Moamar Gadhafi, makes that statement as U.S. naval forces move into the Mediterranean in what might be the prelude to an invasion—or might be merely a symbolic U.S. show of force. Opposition leaders within Venezuela condemn the President’s statement, saying it puts the country on the “wrong side” of an international condemnation of the Libyan regime.
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IN RAY DAVIS CASE, NEW YORK TIMES FURNISHES (ONCE AGAIN) A “JOURNALISTIC GETAWAY CAR” FOR CLANDESTINE U.S. GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS.
(World Socialist)
The Times, along with other American media outlets, acceded to a State Department request to withhold information that Davis, charged by Pakistani police with broad daylight killing of two civilians, is an agent of the C.I.A. engaged in secret operations in that country. A Times editor attempts to “explain” the paper’s policy, saying journalistic responsibilities might be trumped by “humanitarian” considerations (exposure might endanger other human assets—spies—in the country)—never mind that exposure might help put the brakes on severe consequences for the human beings who are targets of these clandestine operations (like drone attacks).
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QE2 (THE SHIP) RETIRED TO FERRY SERVICE IN 2008; NO SUCH LUCK WITH BEN BERNANKE’S QE2 (THE PLAN FOR ECONOMIC RECOVERY).
(Counterpunch)
Mike Whitney notes that the very promotion of a speculative investment bubble that created the crash of 2008 is being revived as hedge funds are taking advantage of Federal Reserve’s bargain basement interest rates to create new highs in debt levels that may lead to still another burst. In a huge irony, some of the hottest stocks on Wall Street are those very “mortgage-based securities” that produced the decimation of the housing market.
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HARVARD AND PRINCETON BOW TO COMPETITIVE PRESSURE AND RE-INSTATE EARLY ADMISSIONS POLICY.
(USA Today)
The two elite universities, along with the University of Virginia, had in 2006 dropped their tradition of giving early notices to high school seniors of their selection to those campuses. Now, as competition in the marketplace of student admissions grows, they return to the policy, which critics say unduly favors the more at the expense of less affluent students. While their actions are justified by officials as in the “best interest” of incoming students in allowing them to make more orderly plans for their college careers, critics say that’s like saying Coca Cola created Zero Coke for the benefit of soft drink imbibers, rather than that it was actually a strictly business decision to “sell a product.”
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PERSONHOOD FLORIDA LEADER SAYS MANY OPPONENTS OF MEASURE TO GIVE LIFE PROTECTION RIGHTS TO FETUSES HAVE IN EFFECT PARTICIPATED IN KILLING OF THEIR OWN CHILDREN.
(Florida Independent)
Bryan Longworth makes this statement, as the group continues its efforts at a constitutional amendment conferring personhood rights on fetuses, effectively defining all abortions as murders. He admits that the group is far short of its petition-gathering goal and may have to content itself by supporting a bill requiring women to view ultra-sound images of their fetuses prior to abortion, a measure passed by the legislature but vetoed by former Governor Crist, with new Governor Scott expected to sign any such bill.
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Quote of the day...
I’m beginning to think we are living in a moment of national insanity. On the one hand, we hear pious exhortations about education reform, endlessly uttered by our leaders in high political office, corporate suites, foundations, and the media. President Obama says we have to “out-educate” the rest of the world to “win the future.” Yet the reality on the ground suggests that the corporate reform movement—embraced by so many of those same leaders, including the president—will set American education back, by how many years or decades is anyone’s guess. Sometimes I think we are hurtling back a century or more, to the age of the Robber Barons and the great corporate trusts.
Diane Ravitch, historian of American education, reviewing “reform” movements in education that seem to be destroying meaningful education,
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