THEY GIVE OSCARS, DO THEY NOT, FOR FISCAL CHARADES LIKE THE ONE NOW PLAYING IN WASHINGTON, D.C.? If they did, Fix the Debt, the spectacular show produced by billionaire Pete Peterson, with a cast of dozens of fellow plutocrats, would be a shoo-in for an award. The lobby group that Peterson heads has already [...]
COLOMBIA: “CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY BEING CARRIED OUT IN OUR NAME.” This is labor activist Daniel Kovolak’s characterization of the Free Trade Agreement passed by Congress and signed by the President. This agreement, when implemented, will result among other things in huge amounts of U.S. agricultural products being “dumped” tariff-free in Colombia, creating wholesale displacement [...]
NEW CODE OF “RESPECTABLE” JOURNALISM: “EXTREMISM IN THE DEFENSE OF EMPIRE IS NO VICE.” (Dissident Voice) James Petras, simply by substituting the word “empire” for “freedom” in the Barry Goldwater’s famous saying about extremism, lays bare the tendency of mainstream media like the New York Times, Washington Post and Financial Times to pay obeisance to the [...]
“WE HAD TO DESTROY THE VILLAGE IN ORDER TO SAVE IT.” (Common Dreams) This “idiotic” statement of a U.S. Army Major to explain the bombing of the Ben Tre hamlet during the Vietnam war seems to be the “thinking” as well behind the current “education reform” movement directed to destroying public education in order to [...]
“THE ISOLATION, THE EMBARGO, THE INDIFFERENCE, LOOKING THE OTHER WAY, HAVE BEEN INEFFECTIVE…” (Reuters) Latin American leaders delivered a “bruising” message against President Obama and American policies towards Cuba at the recently concluded Summit of the Americas in Colombia. Far from being feted as a “rock star” when he attended the conference shortly after winning [...]
ALL I EVER NEEDED TO KNOW TO RUN ATLANTA’S SCHOOL SYSTEM, I LEARNED BY SERVING ON THE BOARD OF BRITISH PETROLEUM. (Black Agenda Report) Errol Davis, head of Atlanta school system, has the kind of “background” in public education that is typical of other school chiefs in other cities as well as Secretary of Education Arne [...]
“COCAINE, DEATH SQUADS AND THE WAR ON TERROR: U.S. IMPERIALISM AND THE CLASS STRUGGLE IN COLOMBIA.” (Counterpunch) Daniel Kovalik reviews a recent book of this title that makes the case that the “war on drugs” in Colombia is not as advertised to the public an attempt to eradicate the cocaine trade of the country but [...]
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