` OBAMA AND HIS FRIENDS LAUNCH NEW ERA OF FRANCO-AMERICAN RELATIONS WITH A LESS-THAN CONCILIATORY TAKE ON THE NEW FRENCH SOCIALIST PRESIDENT. (Buzz Feed) ` The overwhelming defeat on Sunday of incumbent French President Nicolas Sarkozy has already sent “ripples” across the pond to America, where Sarkozy’s successor, Socialist Francois Hollande, has received a decidedly chilly reception [...]
MAKING THE MIDDLE EAST SAFE FOR ISRAEL: SUMMER GAMES FOR GAZAN CHILDREN ARE CANCELLED. (Electronic Intifada) The annual games—supported by funding from the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) are cancelled for this year. The cash-strapped status of the agency seems to be the result of a 75% reduction in U.S. government support of an agency with a program [...]
As economic instability continues to roil world markets and threaten the marginal sliver of a recovery since the global recession of 2008, the pace of income inequality has quickened as the rich really are getting richer — a lot richer. On both sides of the Atlantic, the gap between prosperity and financial hardship is growing [...]
` THE ISRAELI-AMERICAN-IRANIAN-HOLOCAUST-NOBEL-PEACE-PRIZE-CIRCUS. (Killing Hope) ` This is the term used by William Blum in his latest “Anti-Empire Report” to describe the continuing effort by Peace Prize winner Barack Obama to perpetuate false versions of Iranian intentions to wipe Israel “off the map” through the use of “nuclear weapons” in process of being developed. This [...]
MEET AMADOU SANOGO, FRUIT OF THE TREE OF UNITED STATES AFRICA COMMAND “TRAINING.” (Black Agenda Report) Sanogo was a Captain in the African country of Mali when he led a coup to overthrow the government. As he continues to rule while suppressing a vicious counter-coup, it is noted that Ganogo was one of a myriad of [...]
ETCHING THE TOMBSTONE OF EUROPEAN-STYLE AUSTERITY: “THE STRATEGY OF AUSTERITY HAS…BEEN COUNTERPRODUCTIVE…” (The Globe & Mail) ` A new report from the International Labor Organization lays out in raw statistics the destruction and “devastating consequences” of the austerity programs imposed on most of Europe and, to a somewhat lesser extent, the United States. The [...]
WHO REALLY OWNS THE PERSIAN GULF ISLAND OF ABU MUSA? (Global Research) There is strong historical evidence for Iran’s claim to this and two other Gulf islands. But never mind the evidence—the tiny sheikdom of the United Arab Emirates is leading Arab League governments and media in castigating Iran for the assertion of this claim. Likewise [...]
“WE HAD TO DESTROY THE VILLAGE IN ORDER TO SAVE IT.” (Common Dreams) This “idiotic” statement of a U.S. Army Major to explain the bombing of the Ben Tre hamlet during the Vietnam war seems to be the “thinking” as well behind the current “education reform” movement directed to destroying public education in order to [...]
EUROPE IS DYING, BRICS IS ASCENDING AND WHAT DOES DR. ZBIG ADVOCATE FOR MAINTAINING U.S. FULL SPECTRUM DOMINANCE IN THE WORLD? AN EXPANDED (AND RE-ENERGIZED) EUROPE AS THE KEY U.S. ALLY. (Tom Dispatch) Pepe Escobar assays the international geo-political situation, noting the economic crisis of “old” Europe and the rising economic strength of BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, [...]
PHILADELPHIA STORY: COULD BE U.S. STORY WHEN IT COMES TO THE CLOSING OF PUBLIC SCHOOLS. (Black Agenda Report) Philadelphia is only one of the most recent of numerous school systems including Atlanta and New York City, following the lead of U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan, former CEO of Chicago public schools in wielding a [...]
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