LASSO THAT ICEBERG, COWBOY! Exxon Mobil prepares massive oil drilling off the coast of Newfoundland, ironically near the point at which the Titanic was sunk by an iceberg. To ally any fears that another iceberg could produce an even larger environmental disaster, the company plans to construct concrete towers taller than the Eiffel Tower [...]
IMMANUEL WALLERSTEIN LOOKS AT THE GLOBE AND FINDS TURMOIL AND THE BUTTERFLY EFFECT IN THE “MIDDLE RUN” FUTURE. While predictions for a given year are a “fool’s mission” and those for centuries in the future only too easy to make, those for the “middle run” of a decade or so hence are subject to [...]
THE AFRICAN UNION HAS BECOME AN “ANNEX” OF THE PENTAGON. As Glen Ford noted last June, the expansion of U.S. forces in Africa (AFRICOM) is operating as an “infiltration” exercise of American forces being placed as “guests” of various African nations comprising the African Union. These “guests” are in a peculiar positions for guests: [...]
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 [...]
Several of the largest and most profitable corporations in the United States are joining together in a bid to initiate an “overhaul” of the corporate tax code. The result of what is one of the country’s biggest corporate lobbying efforts in Washington could be drastically lower taxes for major American businesses. The Wall Street Journal [...]
A helicopter crash in Afghanistan on Saturday proved to be the deadliest single incident for American forces during the decade-long war there, killing 30 US troops — including many members of an elite Navy “SEAL” unit. The story has received considerable attention from the American media and the political establishment, including the White House itself. [...]
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 [...]
WHAT’S THE MATTER WITH KANSAS? “BIG GOVERNMENT” STEPS IN TO BAN ABORTION (Kansas City Star) New and excessive regulations against clinics that provide abortions in Kansas have led to a backlash among clinic operators complaining of draconian new rules and by women’s rights advocates that charge the legislation that created the stricter oversight is just [...]
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