ISRAEL V. IRAN: NEW YORK TIMES STARTS THE “GREAT WAR” JUST A TAD EARLY. (Common Dreams) The New York Times Magazine Magazine comes out with a lurid cover suggesting that this war is already underway and will escalate against the current source of an “existential fear” which seems always to drive Israeli foreign policy. A [...]
The federal government’s case against banks for duplicitous and potentially illegal mortgage practices may be reaching an unsatisfactory final settlement even as one of the largest perpetrators of foreclosure fraud takes outrageous steps to block further investigation into their actions at the height of the housing crisis. Tens of millions of homeowners remain “underwater,” owing [...]
KEYSTONE PIPELINE XL PERMIT DENIAL: MAY BE LESS HERE THAN MEETS THE EYE. (Business Week) To the delight and self-congratulation of some environmentalists, condemnations by Republicans and a Keystone nosedive in the stock market, cooler heads begin to prevail in the business community as thoughts are given to the fact that the denial is not [...]
DEJA VU ALL OVER AGAIN: LIBYA CONTACT GROUP IS PLANNING KOSOVO II FOR THAT COUNTRY. (Asia Times) A consortium of nations consisting mostly of NATO and Arab surrogate states was formed in London in April without any apparent legitimate authority to plan the “future” of Libya, which is very much one of “regime change” through [...]
THE NEA AND THE STOCKHOLM SYNDROME. (Black Agenda Report) Bruce Dixon evokes the image of a “syndrome” in which abused people (like prisoners) tend to identify with their abusers (like prison guards) rather than their fellow victims. The National Education Association has just endorsed the re-election of President Barack Obama, even though the President and [...]
KNOW THY ALLIES: PETER DALE SCOTT IS “TAKING NOTES” ON THE LIBYAN REBELLION THAT THE U.S. AND NATO ARE SUPPORTING. (Asia Pacific Journal) The renowned scholar of “deep politics” begins a “notebook” on the complex question of just who are the rebels whose opposition to the Qaddafi regime is being supported by air strikes. Although [...]
THE NUMBER NOBODY KNOWS—OR WANTS TO REVEAL. (Z-Net) ( Jose Silva for The New York Times) That number, says Nick Turse, is the number of “overseas military bases” maintained by the U.S.A. Estimates of this number vary wildly from contradictory Pentagon accounts and those of various military “experts”: from maybe 500 to maybe upwards of [...]
The current state of political discourse in America and the rise in aggressive and often violent rhetoric and imagery from many right-wing and “tea party” politicians and personalities has grabbed much of the headlines in the wake of Saturday’s shooting in Arizona. But a more substantive national debate could form over the specific cause of [...]
U.S. SECRETARY OF STATE: DON’T LOOK AT THAT MAN BEHIND THE CURTAIN! (New York Times) (Ali Haider/EPA) Current “intelligence” on Iran indicates that the threat of that country’s development of nuclear weapons has diminished by delays in its weapons project, allegedly a combination of the effects of external sanctions and internal sabotage. Not to be [...]
Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-AZ) was shot Saturday at a public event in her congressional district in Tucson, Arizona. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords of Arizona was shot in the head Saturday and an unknown number of others were wounded when an assailant opened fire in an area where the lawmaker was meeting with constituents, officials said.There were [...]
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