Captured by law enforcement after what was often a violent 24-hour manhunt. the surviving suspect in the Boston Marathon bombings last Monday now recovers in a hospital under the careful watch of state and federal officials. With considerable video evidence of his role in the crime, few think Dzhokhar Tsarnaev is innocent of participating in [...]
BLACK HISTORY MONTH: IF YOU ONLY READ ONE BOOK ON THE HISTORY OF THE BLACK PANTHER PARTY. Anti-war activist Ron Jacobs recommends Joshua Bloom and Waldo Martin’s Blacks Against Empire as that book. Jacobs notes how the BPP was demonized in the press and persecuted by Cointelpro operations against groups suspected of “domestic violence” [...]
President Obama’s presumptive choice to replace Hillary Clinton as secretary of state in his second term is in the middle of a partisan storm stirred up by angry Republican lawmakers over her role in the Benghazi attack that killed four Americans. But others argue that the Libya incident and her role in disseminating information about [...]
“PROVIDING MATERIAL SUPPORT OR RESOURCES TO DESIGNATED FOREIGN TERRORIST ORGANIZATIONS.” It this sounds like a serious crime under U.S. criminal code, it is. But it’s a close enough characterization of much of Western actions in support of the “rebels” who have challenged government forces in both Libya and Syria. One American citizen in particular, [...]
The most generous contributors to Mitt Romney’s campaign will be rewarded with a lavish retreat at a “posh” Utah resort this weekend where they will rub elbows with some of the biggest names in conservative politics, meet the men on Romney’s short list for running mate, be given direct access to the candidate and help [...]
THE INVASION OF SYRIA STARTS WITH JOHN MCCAIN AND JOE LIEBERMAN… (Foreign Policy) ` Noted hawks in the U.s. Senate, John McCain and Joe Lieberman surprised everyone with an unannounced trip to the Turkey-Syria border this week to visit refugees of the Syrian uprising and, more importantly, to meet with leaders of the “Free Syrian Army” to [...]
At a pace much faster than anyone could have projected, the landscape of campaign finance in American politics has undergone a dramatic transformation to a point where deregulated outside groups hold a distinct advantage over individual campaign war chests. The monumental presidential contest of 2012 appears to be the dawn of the super-PAC age in [...]
by Shannon Joyce Prince Remember back seven years ago to the aftermath of September 11th when the world was divided into the good and the axis of evil, those who had democracy and those whose envy of it drove them to murderous fundamentalism? Remember the charge of the extreme right – that anybody who didn’t [...]
Today I received an appeal from Marianne Markowitz, CFO of Obama for President, for funds to match the “blitz” of McCain last-days expenditures. As one who habitually tilts against windmills, I sent her the following reply. If by the slightest chance I receive a reply I shall post it here. I know it’s totally unrealistic [...]
The petty sniping-du-jour between the Obama and McCain campaigns focuses on Obama’s allegedly “close” relationship with Rashid Khalidi, a Palestinian academic associated with the late Yassir Arafat of the Palestinian Liberation Army, defined by the U.S. government as a “terrorist” organization. The McCain campaign has made a big deal of an older story (from April [...]
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