SPECIAL EDITION: THE BLACK AGENDA AMERICAN TREATMENT OF HAITI: THE OLD IMPERIALISM WITH A NEW BLACK FACE. (Black Agenda Report) A year after the earthquake, with Haiti still in a state of devastation, Jemina Pierre so characterizes U.S. policy today: a continuation of the old ways of imperial domination. While President Obama proposed immediate massive [...]
PRESIDENT OBAMA URGED TO “FINISH THE JOB” IN LIBYA. (New York Times) The neo-conservatives and foreign policy hawks have their blood up over Libya, and they are putting significant pressure on a potentially willing President Obama to significantly escalate the U.S. intervention against Muammar Qaddafi. Writing an op-ed in the New York Timers. retired army [...]
Growing anti-union sentiment in state governments and numerous legislative attempts to take unprecedented whacks at the very existence of organized labor has led one prominent labor union to take a dramatic step that could cost the Democratic Party deeply in upcoming elections. The International Association of Fire Fighters has announced that it is going to [...]
THE CROWN PRINCE OF BAHRAIN WON’T BE ATTENDING THE WEDDING OF WILLIAM AND KATE. (Global Research) As the “excitement” of a royal wedding this week builds, the Bahraini monarch says that his presence might “tarnish” the wedding and he declines his invitation. It is suspected this decision to “un-invite” himself was prompted by the British [...]
THE GREG MORTENSEN STORY: THREE CUPS OF AMERICAN IMPERIAL HUBRIS. Madeleine Bunting de-constructs what appears to be but one of a string of “disgraced” authors who wrote books claiming information of personal experiences that were actually fabrications. Mortensen was the American nurse who claimed to have been hurt on a mountain climb and restored to [...]
BIEBER AND BIBI SHOW PROVIDES COVERAGE FOR MURDER OF A PALESTINIAN ACTIVIST. (Electronic Intifada) Teen heart throb Justin Bieber throbs hearts of Jewish girls in Israel with a Tel Aviv concert during the kidnapping and murder of activist Vittorio Arrigoni. The Israeli government used his appearance to tout the country’s cultural liberalism, and PM Benjamin [...]
$520 is a princely sum to pay for an hour’s worth of work. What kind of person would be due such a rich financial reward? The public employees, like firefighters and teachers, that are so roundly condemned by conservative politicians as overpaid and ungrateful? Of course not… How about an executive at one of the [...]
LIBYA; THE LIBERATORS COMETH. (Black Agenda Report) Black Agenda Report radio commentator Glenn Ford speaks of an imminent full-out Euro-American land invasion of the country, an extension of the clandestine European and U.S. military operations already well underway. Colonel Gaddafi’s surprise agreement to allow some foreign troops in his country to provide “humanitarian relief” is [...]
THE COLD DATA OF GLOBALIZATION HITS AMERICAN WORKERS; HARD. (Huffington Post) A government report finds that American multinational corporations, which employ a significant chunk of the American workforce and for years have been the engine behind job growth in the United States, have made a dramatic shift in employment patterns that is shipping a massive [...]
ITALY SAYS FRANCE VIOLATES “EUROPEAN PRINCIPLES” IN STOPPING A TRAIN LOAD OF TUNISIAN IMMIGRANTS MOVING FROM ITALY TO FRANCE. E.U. SAYS “WHAT PRINCIPLES?” (Eurasia Review) E.U. says France was “within its rights” to stop a train and ask for passenger travel documentation, though this might seem to violate the principle of free cross-border travel in [...]
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