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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
“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 [...]
FAMILIARITY BREEDS CONTEMPT: DOES ANYTHING MORE NEED TO BE SAID ABOUT THE MUTUAL HOSTILITY OF AMERICANS AND AFGHANS IN AFGHANISTAN? (Dissident Voice) In a season of near-daily assaults of Afghans on Americans or Americans on Afghans, Gary Leupp surveys some history and notes that this tends ever to be the case in “Empires” when domination [...]
“WE EXIST IN A LESSER CATEGORY.” (Electronic Intifada) Rana Baker, a young Gazan student, writes a post of this title on her blog. She reflects on the world-wide attempt to “understand” if not condone the American soldier who killed 16 Afghan civilians, with no such sympathy in sight for Mohammed Morah, the Palestinian man who killed three [...]
AN IRAN-PAKISTAN PIPE LINE? PROVOCATIVE MOVE ON THE GRAND CHESSBOARD OF U.S.POLITICAL POWER IN CENTRAL ASIA. (OilPrice.com) Increasingly volatile relation between the U.S. and Pakistan resulting from U.S. actions in the “war of terrorism” that Pakistanis see as violation of their sovereignty and a deprivation of their desperate need for Iranian oil leads Pakistan to pursue [...]
“THERE’S NO QUESTION THIS PIPELINE WILL SPILL — IT’S A QUESTION OF WHEN.” (Salon) As Republicans and Democrats in Congress pressure the federal government to fast-track approval of the massive Keystone XL pipeline from the Canadian tar sands — President Obama has just ordered the southern half of the project to be constructed — new studies find [...]
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