LEADING PHYSICIST, LONG A CLIMATE CHANGE DENIER, CHANGES HIS TUNE AFTER DOING A STUDY FUNDED BY GLOBAL WARMING DENIER ORGANIZATION. (AP) Richard Muller, biting the hand that fed him, concludes that those claiming significant global warming are indeed right, that the average temperature of the earth has increased by 1.6 degrees since the 1950′s. His [...]
America’s shattered system of campaign finance regulation may be full of loopholes now, allowing the past two elections to attain records for money spent and setting 2012 up for the most expensive contest ever, but the influence of money in politics stands to become a crisis thanks to a movement afoot that would abolish all [...]
“A LASTING IMPRESSION ON DECENT WORLD OPINION.” (Black Agenda Report) Glen Ford so describes the enduring consequences of the invasion by outside forces (U.N., U.S., EU, NATO etc.) that brought down the “tyrant” Gaddafi, turned a blind if not a rejoicing eye at the “butchering” of him by rebel soldiers, and participated in creating a [...]
DROVE MY CHEVY TO THE LEVEE—BUT WHERE THE HELL IS THE LEVEE? (Associated Press) Even the U.S. Corps of Engineers, responsible for maintaining all the levees throughout the country that serve as flood protection, are unsure about many of these levees. Though tasked after Katrina to develop a “database” of the country’s levees, they have [...]
THE LAST THREE DECADES OF THE PECUNIARY RECORD HAVE UNDERLINED A REALITY THAT INCOME INEQUALITY IS RULE, NOT EXCEPTION, IN AMERICA. In case you were wondering what the “99 percent” are doing on the streets, here is a slap in the face courtesy the Congressional Budget Office and its examination of income growth in the [...]
Florida’s new law requiring poor residents seeking state welfare assistance to submit to a drug test they pay for themselves, the first passed by a state in decades, was blocked by a judge’s ruling that could lead to the end of the controversial mandate. Drug testing the state’s poor had been a highly publicized campaign [...]
WE CAME, WE SAW, HE DIED. (World Socialist) These infamous words of U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton celebrating the killing of Moammar Gaddafi echo around Clinton’s call for an “investigation” of the circumstances of that killing. That, says Bill Van Auken, is like a murderer calling for an investigation of a murder. The facts [...]
EUROPEAN “UNION” IN DISARRAY AS FRENCH PM TELLS BRITISH PM TO “SHUT UP” ABOUT EURO CURRENCY ADJUSTMENT. (UK Independent) As the EU approaches a summit agreement on financial arrangements to avert world economic recession, Nicholas Sarkovy tells David Cameron to stop meddling in efforts to regulate European currency in the euro, which he says that [...]
President Obama announced on Friday that all US troops would be withdrawn from Iraq by the end of the year in compliance to the “status of forces” agreement previously arranged between the Iraqi government and then-President George W. Bush. The move will bring a formal end to the nearly eight-year war and American occupation that [...]
LIBYA: TO THE VICTOR BELONGS THE SPOILED MEAT OF GADDAFI’S HEAD ON A STICK. (Asia Times) Pepe Escobar pens for Asia Times a scathing indictment of the “successful” operation to depose the “tyrant” who oppressed the Libyan people (with the like of free education and medical care for all) and offended the desire of the [...]
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