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 [...]
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 [...]
PUSSY RIOT IN RUSSIA: NOW THERE’S AN ISSUE INTO WHICH AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL CAN SINK ITS TEETH. Diane Johnstone examines the behavior of the international “human rights” organization in going to the defense of a feminist punk-rock band “persecuted” by the Russian government for performing an allegedly “decadent” show in a Russian cathedral in which [...]
“SOUND OF FREEDOM” IS THE “SOUND OF JACKASSES” TO SOME RESIDENTS OF WHIDBEY ISLAND, WASHINGTON. Navy Growler jets from nearby airbase may be the sound of freedom for some, but it’s an excessively noisy and even damaging sound according to others. Farmers complain that some of the “kids” who fly the jets think they [...]
ALL THE NEWS THAT EVEN THE BBC FEELS COMPELLED TO AIR. The BBC, whose coverage of the Syrian “crisis” practically amounts to cheerleading for the Syrian opposition, is seemingly forced into one of its occasional “lapses” in that role when it airs a piece documenting what may well be a “war crime” involving that [...]
JULIAN ASSANGE: WHERE THERE IS UNITY IN GOVERNMENT OPPRESSION, THERE MUST BE UNITY IN CITIZENS’ RESPONSE. In a speech at the embassy of Ecuador in London which has granted him asylum from extradition to Sweden, the Wiki-Leaks founder praises crowd of “witnesses” who turned out in the middle of the night, crediting them with [...]
WHAT COUNTRY IS REALLY THE “DE-STABILIZING” COUNTRY IN THE HORN OF AFRICA? One might think this would be the tiny country of Eritrea, since it has been singled out for “sanctions” for its supposed support of “terrorist” elements in Somalia. Actually, says Glen Ford, even UN monitors have found no such support, and those [...]
TERRORISTS PLAYING AROUND THE POWDER KEG IN THE CONFLICT BETWEEN ISRAEL AND SYRIA. (Asia Times) This is the view of Victor Kotsev in noting that the “fog of war” has descended on the Middle East with the pair of bombings of Israeli tourists in Bulgaria and members of the Assad government in Damascus. While [...]
MASSA’S IN THE COLD, COLD GROUND—BUT THE LEGACY OF WHITE SLAVEOWNER DOMINANCE LIVES ON IN ATLANTA. (Black Agenda Report) Bruce Dixon so describes the situation there, as a nuclear and “clean coal” developing outfit, Southern Companies, will hold a downtown celebration next month of its supposed civic virtues, including the showing of a corporate-friendly film [...]
` SUPREME COURT REAFFIRMS “CITIZENS UNITED” RULING BY REMINDING MONTANA THAT “CORPORATIONS ARE PEOPLE, TOO.” (The Nation) ` Lost in the excitement over the ruling the gutted three-quarters of Arizona’s controversial immigration law was the Supreme Court’s resounding 5-4 decision to strike down the state of Montana’s ban on corporate contributions in state and local elections. Montana’s regulations had [...]
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