“WE HAD TO DESTROY THE VILLAGE IN ORDER TO SAVE IT.” (Common Dreams) This “idiotic” statement of a U.S. Army Major to explain the bombing of the Ben Tre hamlet during the Vietnam war seems to be the “thinking” as well behind the current “education reform” movement directed to destroying public education in order to [...]
EUROPE IS DYING, BRICS IS ASCENDING AND WHAT DOES DR. ZBIG ADVOCATE FOR MAINTAINING U.S. FULL SPECTRUM DOMINANCE IN THE WORLD? AN EXPANDED (AND RE-ENERGIZED) EUROPE AS THE KEY U.S. ALLY. (Tom Dispatch) Pepe Escobar assays the international geo-political situation, noting the economic crisis of “old” Europe and the rising economic strength of BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, [...]
PHILADELPHIA STORY: COULD BE U.S. STORY WHEN IT COMES TO THE CLOSING OF PUBLIC SCHOOLS. (Black Agenda Report) Philadelphia is only one of the most recent of numerous school systems including Atlanta and New York City, following the lead of U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan, former CEO of Chicago public schools in wielding a [...]
THE FIRST CRIMINAL CHARGES FILED BY THE U.S. GOVERNMENT RELATING TO THE BP GULF OIL SPILL DISASTER ARE BROUGHT AGAINST…A LOW-LEVEL ENGINEER?!? (Pro Publica) The good news? After more than two years, the Justice Department has finally filed the first set of criminal charges in BP’s catastrophic Gulf of Mexico oli spill, the worst single [...]
ROBERT BALES SUFFERED FROM PTSD? HOW ABOUT THE AFGHAN CIVILIANS AMONG WHOM HE FOUND HIS MASSACRE VICTIMS? (In These Times) While the “collateral damage” to civilians of the Afghan conflict is usually measured (or estimated) in the loss of human lives, the damage may go much deeper than that. A report of the World Health [...]
OUT OF THE MOUTH OF THE AMERICAN CONSERVATIVE: AMERICA IS NOT ALL THAT “EXCEPTIONAL” AS COMPARED TO CHINA. (Global Research) Craig Paul Roberts reviews the work of Ron Unz, publisher of The American Conservative, who deconstructs the myth of American superiority to China both in economic development and the degree of freedom enjoyed by the [...]
The first three months of 2012 have emerged as a turning point in the American occupation of Afghanistan, with a string of deadly and gruesome incidents seeming to embody the wider deterioration of a mission that is ill-defined and spiraling out of control. Recent headlines out of Afghanistan have left little doubt that something very [...]
` THE CIA WANTS TO KILL PEOPLE WITHOUT KNOWING WHO THEY ARE. COMFORTING, NO? (Washington Post) ` In what would be a severe and unprecedented escalation of America’s ongoing drone war around the globe, the CIA may be given the authority to dramatically escalate its persistent campaign of drone strikes against militant fighters in Yemen. [...]
As Barack Obama prepares to go before the American people and ask for a second term in the White House and his presumptive Republican opponent demands that voters unseat the Democratic incumbent, the two presidential challengers will do so with a trail of broken ethics promises and unprecedented access to corporate interests and major lobbyists [...]
WORLD POWERS SCRAMBLE FOR ARCTIC SUPREMACY AS CLIMATE CHANGE TRANSFORMS THE TOP OF THE GLOBE. (Seattle Post-Intelligencer) Besides the familiar and well documented consequences of man-made climate change — rising seas, melting ice, mass extinctions – a potentially more deadly twist may be becoming more apparent. Several of the world’s foremost military powers, including the United States [...]
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