HELL ON EARTH: AUSTRALIA FACES UNPRECEDENTED WILDFIRE “CATASTROPHE” Proving that the in-your-face reality of unfettered climate change is not about to recede in the new year, a national disaster is unfolding only days into 2013 in Australia, where rampaging wildfires are burning huge swaths of the country. Australians are used to the annual “bushfire [...]
ARTHUR MURRAY DIES IN AUSTRALIA: HIS LIFE HAD NOTHING TO DO WITH BALLROOM DANCING. Unlike that “other” AM who died in 1991, he was a heroic leader of the movement for aboriginal rights in Australia. The strike of cotton-pickers that he led had all the earmarks of an MLK-era protest in the U.S. as [...]
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 [...]
THE BEASTS OF AFRICA—AND THE KEEPERS WHO FEED THEM. (Black Agenda Report) A White House paper called “U.S. Strategy Toward Sub-Saharan Africa” captures the attention of Glen Ford. The paper is yet another of President Obama’s platitudinous pronouncements of the high ideals of democracy and development for a continent racked by military dictatorships and poverty. [...]
ORPHANED BY DEPORTATION: IMMIGRATION ENFORCEMENT IS DESTROYING IMMIGRANT FAMILIES IN THE UNITED STATES. (Huffington Post) As repeatedly touted by the Obama administration, 2011 was a record year for deportations carried out by the federal government, with nearly 400,000 immigrants — most of them with clean criminal records and with lives already established in the US — [...]
AUSTRALIAN ABORIGINES DISPLAY SOME BAD MANNERS, ALL BECAUSE OF A LITTLE GENOCIDE. (Black Agenda Report) Australian Prime Minister and opposition leader join in condemning protests in which aborigines were displaying their “righteous anger” in a way which puts a damper on Australia Day festivities. The opposition leader says that all Australians love their native population, [...]
ANOTHER U.S. PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION? MAYBE IT’S TIME FOR ANOTHER ISRAELI INVASION OF GAZA. (Jerusalem Post) The Jerusalem Post reports that senior staff of Israeli Defense Forces are preparing a larger version of the 2008 Cast Lead invasion, as rockets continue to be fired from Gazan into Israeli territory. While Hamas has only about 20,000 troops [...]
While one war ends and another continues in protracted stalemate, the Obama administration appears to have opened a new Asian front in the worldwide quest for overwhelming American influence. Despite a burgeoning debate over both the Pentagon’s soaring budget, the wisdom of a significant expansion of the United States military’s global footprint after two disastrous [...]
BAIL-OUTS AND AUSTERITY: LIKE A HORSE AND CARRIAGE THEY GO TOGETHER IN YET ANOTHER EUROPEAN COUNTRY. (Daily Mirror) Greece joins Portugal, Spain and Ireland as countries for which the European Union has agreed to provide funds to deal with their financial insolvency in return for “austerity” measures that cut back on government funding of public [...]
THE BLOB, AKA EDUCATION REFORM, IS RELENTLESSLY DEVOURING THE AMERICAN SCHOOL SYSTEM. (Common Dreams) A young community college teacher, Adam Bessie, evokes the memory of a horror B-movie, “The Blob” in which a gelatinous substance spreads out from Pennsylvania to swallow the whole country. Re-labelling this “the Bubble” after other ravaging events like the stock [...]
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