INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL TRIBUNAL ON FORMER YUGOSLAVIA DELIVERS NO JUSTICE AND NO RECONCILIATION BUT A LOT OF CONTINUED SERB-BASHING. Diana Johnstone reviews the recent activities at the Tribunal and concludes that it has and continues to demonize the Serbian state and its leaders in pursuit of defining NATO’s 1999 bombing of Kosovo as a “humanitarian [...]
GOOD TIMES ROLL ON WITH THE U.S. ASIA-PACIFIC “PIVOT.” The 2011 decision to increase sales of arms to U.S. allies in the region to counter growing Chinese influence in the area is providing a bonanza of opportunities for the military-industrial complex. As a Reuters report puts it, “Fears resulting from China’s growing military spending [...]
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 [...]
President Obama’s presumptive choice to replace Hillary Clinton as secretary of state in his second term is in the middle of a partisan storm stirred up by angry Republican lawmakers over her role in the Benghazi attack that killed four Americans. But others argue that the Libya incident and her role in disseminating information about [...]
HOW AN ECONOMIC BOOM CAN BE A BUST FOR LABOR. THE USA? NOT THIS TIME, BUT SOUTH KOREA. A report of the International Trade Union Confederation makes this point about the economy of South Korea, often upheld as a “model” of what an Asian economy can be. If so, it is not a model [...]
HAPPY (?) LABOR DAY!!! JIM HIGHTOWN PUTS THE “JOBLESS RECOVERY” ON THE SKEWER FOR YOUR HOLIDAY BARBECUE. The Dow Jones is up, corporate profits and CEO salaries are sky-rocketing, so the U.S. economy is “booming,” right? Well, says Hightower, only if you ignore the economic plight of middle and working class Americans, who are [...]
“NON-ALIGNED MOVEMENT” IS NOT STOPPED BY A HURRICANE IN TEHRAN, BUT ITS MEETING THIS WEEK MAY RAISE A MIGHTY WIND IN INTERNATIONAL DIPLOMACY. The “Atlanticist” alliance of U.S., Israel and NATO members that fancies itself as the “international community” is shaking with anger against the meeting of 120 world “non-aligned” nations in Tehran. The [...]
More signs are pointing towards as many as two new arenas for U.S. military intervention in the Middle East, with strategic and political circumstances putting Syria and Iran in American cross-hairs before this November’s “historic” presidential election. While much of the campaign is framed by the media as a clash of vast ideological differences between [...]
KWAME NKRUMAH’S DREAM OF A “UNITED STATES OF AFRICA” HAS MORPHED INTO—THE AFRICOM MILITARY DOMINATION OF THE COUNTRY. The leader of Ghana was deposed by a U.S.-backed coup 1966, as was his successor, visionary Muammar Gaddafi in Libya in 2011. Now, in what Glenn Ford describes as a process of Africa “re-enslaving itself,” 53 [...]
` 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 [...]
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