ISRAEL: GET YOUR GAS MASK, YITZAK! SYRIA MAY BE ABOUT TO “TRANSFER” ITS CHEMICAL WEAPONS TO THE HEZBOLLAH MILITIA IN LEBANON. Israeli warplanes, for the first time in six years, launch an airstrike keep inside Syria, allegedly targeting a convoy headed toward Lebanon with such weapons. Although analysts doubt that either Syria or its [...]
IS THE WORLD READY FOR ANOTHER EXTENDED EXTRADITION PROCEEDING AS OCCURRED FOR TRIAL OF CHILEAN DICTATOR AUGUSTO PINOCHET? (Truthdig) Amy Goodman notes how world governments are falling over themselves to assist in a prosecution of former WikiLeaks operator Julian Assange, a whistleblower against abuses in the “war on terror.” In the Pinochet case, a Spanish judge fought [...]
FIVE WORST STORIES OF 2011: REMEMBERING WHAT YOU HOPED TO FORGET ` MAY 1: DING, DONG, THE WICKED WITCH IS DEAD. Happy celebrations, from a triumphant “mission accomplished” White House appearance of President Obama to spontaneous dancing in the street, greet the news that Osama bin Laden, generally labeled as the force behind the 9/11/01 [...]
TOUGH TIMES FOR GOVERNMENT WORKERS IN THE U.S.A. (New York Times) A New York Times article describes the malaise of public sector employees across the country as local governments are making them, as a Wisconsin woman said, “scapegoats for a troubled economy,” attempting to balance stressed budgets by cutting back on retirement and health care [...]
Inside the cockpitof the spy place at Trapani (Photo: JANE MINGAY/UK Telegraph) THE STUFF OF WHICH NEW MEMORIES OF WAR ARE MADE. (UK Telegraph) Though the UK does not celebrate Memorial Day, the Sunday Telegraph gets into the spirit of the weekend by putting a reporter aboard an RAF spy plane based in Trapani, Sicily [...]
THE GREG MORTENSEN STORY: THREE CUPS OF AMERICAN IMPERIAL HUBRIS. Madeleine Bunting de-constructs what appears to be but one of a string of “disgraced” authors who wrote books claiming information of personal experiences that were actually fabrications. Mortensen was the American nurse who claimed to have been hurt on a mountain climb and restored to [...]
THE COLD DATA OF GLOBALIZATION HITS AMERICAN WORKERS; HARD. (Huffington Post) A government report finds that American multinational corporations, which employ a significant chunk of the American workforce and for years have been the engine behind job growth in the United States, have made a dramatic shift in employment patterns that is shipping a massive [...]
UNIVERSITY SOCIAL SCIENTIST, SAY YOUR RESEARCH PROJECT WAS DE-FUNDED? NOT TO WORRY BAE MILITARY CONTRACTOR WILL PUT YOU TO WORK AT A MUCH BETTER SALARY. (Al Jazeera) Mark LeVine comments on solications for employment of sociologists and anthropologist by the U.S. military, helping to bring to occupied countries the “cultural script” which will allow the [...]
“THEY SHOOT AND WE BUILD.“ (New York Times) Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu utters this statement in announcing that Israel will continue settlement building in several West Bank communities. The “shooting” refers to the massacre by intruders of 5 members of one Jewish family in the settlement of Atamar. While this negotiation-threatening action is said to [...]
IS PETER KING ON MUSLIM TERRORISM ABOUT TO CHANNEL JOSEPH MCCARTHY ON COMMUNIST SUBVERSIVES? (McClatchy) When the Wisconsin Senator in 1953 became chairman of the Senate Subcommittee on Investigations he escalated his red-hunting political career into an orgy of accusations of communist infiltration of government. As the New York congressman takes the chairmanship of the [...]
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