EQUATING ZIONISM WITH FASCISM AND ANTI-SEMITISM? OH MY! As U.S. White House and Congress denounce this comparison made by the Turkish prime minister, many Jews and non-Jews, in Israel and elsewhere, get the point of comparing the “war crimes” of Zionist Israel with that of Hitler or Mussolini. Back in 1991 the UN rescinded [...]
SRI LANKA IS “COUNTRY OF CONCERN” TO BRITISH FOREIGN OFFICE FOR ITS HUMAN RIGHTS ABUSES; BUT A MAIN BUSINESS OPPORTUNITY FOR U.K. ARMS DEALERS. Expose article by U.K. Independent shows that millions of pounds worth of small arms have flown into the country, many of them used in the escalated violence of the government [...]
Already a defining challenge for millions of Americans after several years of unusual and deadly weather events, climate change has taken on new prominence as a political issue thanks to President Obama’s promise in his second inaugural address that he will seek to “respond” to the “threat” posed by a warming planet. But environmentalists argue [...]
THE HOUSING RECOVERY: IT’S NOT FOR HOMEOWNERS. Darwin Graham Bond gives a crash course in how real estate investment companies are snapping up mortgage-foreclosed properties and are helping to transition homeowners into house renters. The extremely low rates of the Federal Reserve are feeding this frenzy of investments that, as far as housing is [...]
BROTHER, CAN YOU SPARE A TEMP JOB? While unemployment rates in the U.S. have shown some improvement, with less than 9% of the work-force unemployed on a “given day,” this measure of unemployment masks the fact that over 13% of workers and their families will face a period of non-employment during some part of [...]
U.S. AND WORLD MEDIA COVERAGE OF THE CONNECTICUT SHOOTING IS DRIVEN BY A POLICE STATE “AGENDA.” So argues former Assistant Treasury Secretary Paul Craig Roberts, following his interview on the subject for Moscow RT television. Roberts notes that this media, like most others, is focused on the issue of a ban on “assault weapons,” whereas the most [...]
“WE HAVEN’T BURIED THE CHILDREN YET. WE’RE NOT DISCUSSING IT.” While media mogul Rupert Murdoch has been praised for his public reactions to the Connecticut school massacre by calling for stricter gun regulations in the United States, his Fox News cable channel is accused of dropping the ball on coverage of the tragedy by [...]
TODAY KIVALINA, TOMORROW THE WORLD? COULD BE IF THE PDI GETS ITS WAY. Counterpunch prints introduction to new book in which Christine Shearer describes the plight of a small Alaskan village which has sued fossil fuel companies for the cost of re-locating themselves from a coastal location made extremely vulnerable to sea surge because [...]
GARDENER ON THE ROOF: SINGAPORE’S “SKY GREEN” AGRI-BUSINESS SHOWS THE WAY TO FOOD SELF-SUBSISTENCE FOR A CROWDED CITY. Being that Singapore is a country of essentially one city of 5 million people, it has depended heavily on food imports from neighboring countries. Sky Green is project hoping to eliminate that situation, with a technology [...]
BLACK EMANCIPATION: LINCOLN’S HORSE-TRADING OR FREDERICK DOUGLAS’S STRUGGLE? Louis Proyect deconstructs the message behind the Stephen Spielberg movie “Lincoln” based on a screenplay by Tony Kushner. While ostensibly about the 16th U.S. President, the Kushner/Spielberg effort seems more like an indirect ode to the present one, depicting Lincoln as, like Obama, a wheeler-dealer [...]
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