EGYPT’S “MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD” LEADERSHIP HAS PRACTICED PRECIOUS LITTLE “BROTHERHOOD” TOWARD ITS MUSLIM BRETHREN IN GAZA. The post-Mubarak regime in Egypt was elected to the immense delight of Palestinians in Gaza as elsewhere, with the expectation that the new government would cease the collaboration of Egypt in maintaining the seige of Gaza by maintaining border [...]
ANTI-DRONE ACTION: IT’S NOT JUST A 13-HOUR RAND PAUL FILIBUSTER ANYMORE. Medea Benjaming and Noor Mir describe an April “month of uprising” against drone use both domestically and in pursuit of U.S. foreign policy interests. This “uprising” is taking many forms, including prohibitions for police use in many cities and states, protests at the [...]
PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN? DOWNLOADING ZERO DARK THIRTY FOR LESS THAN A DOLLAR. Government of Antigua is accused by government of the United States of operating a form of “state sponsored piracy” by setting up a website from which users can download Hollywood movies and music industry songs at extremely cheap rates, even though [...]
“A LACK OF EMPATHY, CONSCIENCE, THE INCAPACITY TO FEEL GUILT, AS WELL AS A CALLOUS DISREGARD FOR SAFETY OF OTHERS.” This is part of the DSM-IV manual of illnesses in describing a psychopathic personality. It is, as well, a good working definition of the “personality” of international corporations which, once they were (in 1896) [...]
THE U.S. IS ENGAGED IN PLENTY OF “NATION BUILDING”; IT’S JUST NOT THE AMERICAN NATION THAT ITS GOVERNMENT IS BUILDING. Nick Turse notes the stark contrast between rhetoric and reality in President Obama’s words that the U.S. is not interested in “nation building” abroad but in “freeing resources” from investment in foreign development to [...]
PRESIDENT OBAMA WINS REELECTION. ` Surpassing the 270 electoral votes necessary shortly after 11 PM on Tuesday night, President Barack Obama defeated Republican challenger Mitt Romney to win a second term in the White House. After a historically long, bitter and expensive campaign, the status quo was retained in Washington as the House and Senate [...]
THE CUBAN MISSILE CRISIS: THAT’S HISTORY, ISN’T IT? It is indeed history that 50 years ago the world approached self-annihilation, as a nuclear confrontation between the U.S. and the Soviet Union brought the world to the brink of that catastrophe when the Soviet Union’s plans to place missiles in Cuba ran against the U.S. [...]
THE EURO-ZONE IN TROUBLE? PUT THE BLAME ON THE SOUTH OF ITALY. A New York Times article highlights this take on European Union economic troubles, in which northern members of the European Union tend to blame delinquencies in countries the like of Greece, Italy and Spain for their “Euro” troubles. The article describes the [...]
A LESSON THAT AMERICAN FOREIGN POLICY NEVER SEEMS TO LEARN: IF YOU FEED A SCORPION IT WILL BITE YOU. British columnist Robert Fisk cites this saying in a survey of the dismal history of U.S. efforts to arm insurgent and opposition elements: from the support of the Afghan insurgency against the Soviet Union to [...]
NOTHING “UNCLEAR” ABOUT IT: FOR-PROFIT COLLEGES IN AMERICA ARE RIP-OFFS BOTH OF STUDENTS AND OF TAXPAYERS. New congressional report of committee headed by Senator Tom Harkin documents the profound failure of for-profit colleges to deliver a high quality and usable education to their students despite the huge investment of federal tax dollars, especially in [...]
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