THE FORGOTTEN VICTIMS OF HURRICANE SANDY. While much of the media is focused breathlessly on the aftermath of winds and storm surge that battered New York and New Jersey during this week’s landfall of “super storm” Sandy, the hurricane’s first stop is generally ignored by the rest of the world. Before it threatened [...]
As more than 60 million people brace for Hurricane Sandy along the U.S. East Coast this week, the gigantic super storm is seen by scientists as more evidence of the destructive link between extreme weather and man-made climate change. This unnatural “Frankenstorm” may be the gravest and most intense threat from climate change America has [...]
“INVESTING IN MUSIC FOR ALL CITIZENS”: THIS IS EXACTLY WHAT MANY AMERICAN SYMPHONY ORCHESTRAS DO NOT DO. “Non-profit” orchestras treat their audiences and their musicians just like many for-profit corporations treat their employees: get as much “productivity” as they can out of their employees by keeping their wages as low as possible. Symphonies in [...]
PRETEXT FOR WAR?—WHO IN SYRIA IS LAUNCHING SHELLS INTO TURKEY? As NATO condemns the Syrian government for “stray” shells hitting inside Turkey, General in charge of military operations in the area says it is uncertain whether they came from the government or from elements of the Syrian opposition and the Kurdish minority in Turkey, [...]
The following is a guest blog from Black Agenda Report editor Glen Ford. This was originally posted at Black Agenda Report on October 24, and is republished here with permission from the author. ….. Debate? What debate? What we witnessed Monday night was the total hegemony of imperial corporate ideology, served up in chocolate and [...]
DRINKING BEER WITH BUSH OR PLAYING FLAG FOOTBALL WITH ROMNEY: WHEN ARE NEWS REPORTERS GOING TO DROP THEIR PRETENSES OF BEING OBJECTIVE JOURNALISTS? An Associated Press reporter confuses political news with a fashion review in describing Romney’s attire and other senseless details of Romney and his campaign aides playing a game with reporters and [...]
“KINDNESS HOLDS A PLACE ON A PAR WITH INTELLECTUAL ATTAINMENT.” This admonition, given to incoming freshmen at Harvard University as they are required to take an oath to exercise “sensitivity” in their public utterances and demonstrations, highlights a tendency across the country for students on college campuses to be restrained in their “speech” [...]
“THIS WAS A WRETCHED DEBATE, WITH ALMOST NO REDEEMING QUALITIES.” You’d be forgiven if you thought Barack Obama and Mitt Romney were running mates instead of political adversaries if you watched the last of three presidential debate on Monday night. The pair spent much of the nearly two-hour event agreeing with each other on [...]
With gas prices at record seasonal highs and an increasing disparity between what a barrel of oil trades for on the open market and what consumers pay at the pump, Americans are learning the hard way that more domestic oil production does not mean less pain at the pump. The bitter presidential horse race that [...]
PAKISTAN AND THE UNITED STATES: “THE DYSFUNCTIONAL NUCLEAR FAMILY OF INTERNATIONAL RELATIONSHIPS.” This is Dilip Hiro’s description of a situation in which, in a country most of whose inhabitants have sharply “anti-American” feelings fueled by drone raids and operations like the one that took out Osama bin Laden, keeps a small arsenal of nuclear weapons ostensibly [...]
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