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 [...]
IS “HOMOSEXUALITY” REALLY COMPARABLE TO “MURDER”? This is the logically strained case made by one of the men who will likely decide the fate of the marriage equality movement in America. The US Supreme Court has agreed to hear two cases directly relating to same-sex marriage rights; the Defense of Marriage Act and California’s [...]
ARTHUR MURRAY DIES IN AUSTRALIA: HIS LIFE HAD NOTHING TO DO WITH BALLROOM DANCING. Unlike that “other” AM who died in 1991, he was a heroic leader of the movement for aboriginal rights in Australia. The strike of cotton-pickers that he led had all the earmarks of an MLK-era protest in the U.S. as [...]
U.S. DRONE STRIKES IN PAKISTAN: WE’RE NOT DOING THEM; BUT DAMN THEY ARE DOING GOOD! The U.S. government resists demands to release records on drone strikes, saying there is “no proof” that such a program exists but not hesitating to “leak” operations that are said to kill terrorist leaders. And of course in defining [...]
“SOUND OF FREEDOM” IS THE “SOUND OF JACKASSES” TO SOME RESIDENTS OF WHIDBEY ISLAND, WASHINGTON. Navy Growler jets from nearby airbase may be the sound of freedom for some, but it’s an excessively noisy and even damaging sound according to others. Farmers complain that some of the “kids” who fly the jets think they [...]
MASSACRE AT OAK CREEK: “SENSELESS ACT OF VIOLENCE” OR “VIOLENCE AT THE WRONG ADDRESS?” Vijay Prasad deconstructs the post-factum reactions to the gunning down of 6 people in a Sikh (Indian) temple in Wisconsin. He finds an all-too-similar reaction to that to other recent atrocities in Colorado and elsewhere. Branding them “senseless” isolates them [...]
TERRORISTS PLAYING AROUND THE POWDER KEG IN THE CONFLICT BETWEEN ISRAEL AND SYRIA. (Asia Times) This is the view of Victor Kotsev in noting that the “fog of war” has descended on the Middle East with the pair of bombings of Israeli tourists in Bulgaria and members of the Assad government in Damascus. While [...]
` THE END OF EURO AUSTERITY: NEW FRENCH GOVERNMENT ORDERS UP HIGHER TAXES ON THE RICH AND POWERFUL (Business Week) ` The program of mass fiscal austerity imposed by Germany and Eurozone financial leaders on European nations struggling through the continent’s crippling debt crisis and recession appears to be dead, with policy changes from the new French government taking aim at the core [...]
THE BEASTS OF AFRICA—AND THE KEEPERS WHO FEED THEM. (Black Agenda Report) A White House paper called “U.S. Strategy Toward Sub-Saharan Africa” captures the attention of Glen Ford. The paper is yet another of President Obama’s platitudinous pronouncements of the high ideals of democracy and development for a continent racked by military dictatorships and poverty. [...]
APPLAUSE! APPLAUSE! TO OBAMA FOR HELPING TO STRIP AWAY HABEAS CORPUS RIGHTS OF GITMO DETAINEES. (Brasscheck TV) Cenk Uygur offers this satirical “applause” for the President for the role of the U.S. government in generating a federal court ruling that essentially removed the right of detainees to demand trials as an earlier Supreme Court ruling [...]
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