THE WAY OF THE KNIFE: THE C.I.A., A SECRET ARMY, AND A WAR AT THE ENDS OF THE EARTH. A new book of this title by Mark Mazzetti is about to be released and is excerpted in the New York Times. It describes the “secret deal” in 2004 between the C.I.A. and the Pakistani state [...]
A MILITARY DRONE BASE RIGHT HERE IN BROOKSVILLE! “A PARANOID PORTION” OF THE POPULATION PROTESTS. With the support of Senator Bill Nelson, an aviation authority applies to Hernando County FL to locate there one of the 6 drone sites slated for development in the U.S. Protests are launched by a Nature Coast peace group [...]
BLACK HISTORY MONTH: IF YOU ONLY READ ONE BOOK ON THE HISTORY OF THE BLACK PANTHER PARTY. Anti-war activist Ron Jacobs recommends Joshua Bloom and Waldo Martin’s Blacks Against Empire as that book. Jacobs notes how the BPP was demonized in the press and persecuted by Cointelpro operations against groups suspected of “domestic violence” [...]
U.S. DEVELOPING NEW EXCUSE TO DELAY WITHDRAWING FROM AFGHANISTAN. The U.S. government “reluctantly” agreed to transfer detainees from Bagram prison to Afghan ones, expressing concerns about a history of detainees being tortured in local prisoners. John Glaser sees this as a false reason for prolonging the American presence in the country, as human [...]
President Obama continued with the task of fleshing out his second-term cabinet on Monday, selecting two men for important national security posts that indicate a decidedly hawkish shift in his administration. The president’s decision also ushers in a potentially two-sided political fight, with conservatives and progressives each taking issue with the men nominated for defense secretary [...]
(Principled Progressive returns on Wednesday. Have a safe and happy 2013!) SIBEL EDMONDS’ PREDICTIONS FOR THE NEW YEAR: SAME OLD, SAME OLD, MORE “WAR ON …WHATEVER.” A noted whistleblower posts her year-end assessment as the old year splutters out and and the new year rings in. Piece of cake, she says. When one puts [...]
Will a “grand bargain” to avert the ostensible calamity of going over the “fiscal cliff” forge a legislative accord on the backs of the most vulnerable Americans? Progressives are increasingly worried about President Obama’s use of Social Security as a bargaining chip with an increasingly rancorous Congress. Not much more than a month since Election Day, [...]
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 [...]
THE “REAL” PETRAEUS SCANDAL, PART I: WHAT ABOUT THE DRONES? With the press all atwitter over the female liaisons of now ex-CIA director and retired four star General David Petraeus, Robin Wright argues in The Atlantic that the “real” scandal is how virtually no one in the same media class bothered to question Petraeus’ [...]
PROBLEM OF THE DAY FOR PARENTS OF 350,000 CHILDREN IN CHICAGO: HOW TO GET THROUGH A MONDAY WITHOUT SCHOOLS. Chicago Teachers Union begins a strike today as negotiations between school board and teachers breaks down. There is bitter acrimony between the Mayor, Rahm Emanuel and the head of the CTU, Karin Lewis, who calls [...]
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