` WHAT A SECRET MEETING OF GLOBAL CORPORATE ELITES TELLS US ABOUT THE 2012 ELECTION AND WAR IN SYRIA (The Guardian) ` Virtually unnoticed by the mainstream media and most ordinary Americans, a secret meeting held last week just outside of Washington DC could very well have decided on a great many important things. The [...]
“THERE’S NO QUESTION THIS PIPELINE WILL SPILL — IT’S A QUESTION OF WHEN.” (Salon) As Republicans and Democrats in Congress pressure the federal government to fast-track approval of the massive Keystone XL pipeline from the Canadian tar sands — President Obama has just ordered the southern half of the project to be constructed — new studies find [...]
IF SARASOTA COUNTY, FLORIDA IS GOING TO PROVIDE ALL THE PUBLIC SERVICES, WHY DOES THE CITY OF SARASOTA EVEN NEED TO EXIST? (Sarasota Herald-Tribune) This is the “existential” question which some city officials in Sarasota are driven to ask. It comes as the city, with recession-driven deficits like never before, is considering budget-cutting measures like consolidating city and [...]
APOCALYPSE NOW: LEADING SCIENTISTS SAY WORLD STANDS “FIVE MINUTES TO MIDNIGHT” ON THE “DOOMSDAY CLOCK” (UK Guardian) The so-called “Doomsday Clock” at the University of Chicago is an exercise in public relations by some of the world’s leading scientists, seeking to categorize in a familiar method the kind and level of threats facing the very [...]
WITH NO OPTIONS “OFF THE TABLE,” THE UNITED STATES AND ISRAEL ARE INCREASINGLY ALONE IN THE GLOBAL RESPONSE TO A “NUCLEAR” IRAN. (UK Daily Mail) President Obama had tough words for Iran as he met with world leaders at an Asia-Pacific conference in Hawaii this week, promising to lead the diplomatic efforts against supposed Iranian [...]
America’s shattered system of campaign finance regulation may be full of loopholes now, allowing the past two elections to attain records for money spent and setting 2012 up for the most expensive contest ever, but the influence of money in politics stands to become a crisis thanks to a movement afoot that would abolish all [...]
“A LASTING IMPRESSION ON DECENT WORLD OPINION.” (Black Agenda Report) Glen Ford so describes the enduring consequences of the invasion by outside forces (U.N., U.S., EU, NATO etc.) that brought down the “tyrant” Gaddafi, turned a blind if not a rejoicing eye at the “butchering” of him by rebel soldiers, and participated in creating a [...]
By Jerry D. Rose Romans 13: 11,12 And that, knowing the time, that now it is high time to awake out of sleep: for now is our salvation nearer than when we believed. The night is far spent, the day is at hand: let us therefore cast off the works of darkness, and let us put [...]
By Jerry D. Rose President Barack Obama and his family are vacationing in Martha’s Vineyard off Cape Cod, but it seems that a President never stops doing his “job” even when on his vacation. The golf course is a perennial venue (along with hunting parties in some cultures) in which “leisure” pursuits provide a relaxed [...]
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