` 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 [...]
“THE ISOLATION, THE EMBARGO, THE INDIFFERENCE, LOOKING THE OTHER WAY, HAVE BEEN INEFFECTIVE…” (Reuters) Latin American leaders delivered a “bruising” message against President Obama and American policies towards Cuba at the recently concluded Summit of the Americas in Colombia. Far from being feted as a “rock star” when he attended the conference shortly after winning [...]
Warm-weather records are already falling at a dizzying pace in 2012, with some of the hottest temperatures ever recorded in the contiguous United States and other spots around the globe ratcheting up concerns among scientists and weather experts that a “tipping point” in climate change may have been reached. Just three months into 2012, the familiar seasonal [...]
THE OFT-TOLD LIE: CANADIAN TAR SANDS OIL, PIPED TO TEXAS REFINERIES, WILL REDUCE U.S. DEPENDENCE ON “FOREIGN” OIL. (Alternet) Jim Hightower points out that the “oil independence” justification of the Keystone XL pipeline belies the fact that the great cross-U.S. line, besides disrupting humans and eco-systems along its route, will have no effect on supplies [...]
ALL I EVER NEEDED TO KNOW TO RUN ATLANTA’S SCHOOL SYSTEM, I LEARNED BY SERVING ON THE BOARD OF BRITISH PETROLEUM. (Black Agenda Report) Errol Davis, head of Atlanta school system, has the kind of “background” in public education that is typical of other school chiefs in other cities as well as Secretary of Education Arne [...]
“ALL THEY CARE ABOUT, IN THE END, IS THE WAR ITSELF—OR RATHER, WAR ITSELF.” (Chris Floyd) The April 1 annnouncement by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton that the U.S. government will be help arm the “Free Syrian Army” opposition comes as no surprise to Chris Floyd, although the real “fools” being played by these and [...]
ORPHANED BY DEPORTATION: IMMIGRATION ENFORCEMENT IS DESTROYING IMMIGRANT FAMILIES IN THE UNITED STATES. (Huffington Post) As repeatedly touted by the Obama administration, 2011 was a record year for deportations carried out by the federal government, with nearly 400,000 immigrants — most of them with clean criminal records and with lives already established in the US — [...]
The United States has deepened what is a growing commitment to support anti-government rebels in Syria who have taken up an increasingly violent resistance to the regime of Bashar al-Assad. With the conflict showing little signs of abating and the Obama administration escalating its rhetoric against Assad, the path may be set for imminent military intervention from Western [...]
President Obama’s signature health care reform law is now at the mercy of the U.S. Supreme Court, where the justices will make their final ruling in private on Friday after several days of often contentious hearings. The Court’s official verdict on whether or not the “Affordable Care Act” is constitutional will not be known publicly until June at the earliest, [...]
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