THE HEADLINES

Prince Harry in the Bahamas (Photo from Uhuru News)

AFRICAN PEOPLE’S SOCIALIST PARTY: ENOUGH ALREADY OF BRITISH COLONIALISM IN THE BAHAMAS.

 (Uhuru News) 

“Royal” visit of Prince Harry elicits a call for the end of Bahamas membership in the Commonwealth of Nations and for its treatment by the U.K. as a sovereign co-equal rather than a colored-people’s Queen-worshipping colony.

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 LEADERSHIP: THIS PAGE IS NOT AVAILABLE.

(Counterpunch)

This is the notation found on a website to which Brian Cloughley went to get information about the U.S. general responsible for the “training” of Afghan security forces. This internet artifact is taken by Cloughley as ironically apt for the “unavailability” of anything like competent military leadership, which was already a “farce” when he wrote a 2009 article and remains every bit as farcical today as hapless U.S. soldiers, often as not unable even to speak the language of those they are “training,” add to the mix an “ugly American” insensitivity among foreign people whom they are “serving” even as President Obama declares that things are going just nicely, thank you, in the American agenda of standing down in Afghanistan as the Afghans stand up.

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 THE THREE D’S: U.S. KILLING HOPE IN KAZAKHSTAN.

(Truth-Out)

Savage government put-down of oil strikers against an oil company associated with Chevron and Exxon recalls the “Grand Chessboard” of U.S. domination of central Asia. U.S. Presidents from Carter through Obama have pursued the agenda set down by Carter’s national security advisor, Zbigniew Brzeninski, of “development, diplomacy and defense.” The “Silk Road” location of these countries has left them as key pieces for manipulation of the pieces of American imperialism on this road as a “pipeline” of trade and military supplies between Asia and the West.

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 THE 1% GETS 93% OF THE “ECONOMIC RECOVERY” IN AMERICA.

(New Deal 2.0) 

A research enterprise called New Deal 2.0 shows that recovery from the recent great recession has been heavily skewed toward fantastic improvement of incomes at the top end of income levels and no recovery at all near the bottom of same. Specifically, a comparison of incomes between 2009 and 2010 shows that income distribution in the country is returning to a level of inequality not seen since the years before the New Deal of the 1930s.

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“CREATIVE FINANCING” ALLOWS FLORIDA LEGISLATURE TO KICK THE CAN OF PAINFUL BUDGET DECISIONS DOWN THE ROAD.

(Herald Tribune Politics) 

In the just-completed session, the legislature accomplished the seemingly impossibe feat of a balanced budget on reduced revenues without raising taxes or making enormous cuts in appropriations to public programs. But there are things that, like Scarlett O’Hara, they will have to “think about tomorrow,” as the bills for some of their creative financing will come due. For one example, keeping university expenditures relatively low by requiring students to pay 15% more tuition may bring a “kicked down the road can” of less than superb universities as they are priced out of the ability of middle income people to pay in a middle class recession.

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Quote of the day…

 Joseph Kony deserves to be put in cuffs and dragged before the ICC. Raising the profile of the heinous nature of the guy’s crimes is awesome. The idea that popular opinion can be leveraged with viral marketing to induce foreign military intervention is really, really dangerous. It is immoral to try and sell a sanitised vision of foreign intervention that neglects the fact that people will die as a result. That goes for politicians as much as for Jason Russell.

Jack McDonald, on effort of film maker Russell through his movie Kony 2012, to make the African child-soldier warlord Kony “public enemy no 1,” by means of a “viral” campaign through social media to “crowdsource” efforts to bring him to justice.

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