FIVE YEARS OF HELL IN GAZA. (Irish Times) The statistics are simply catastrophic. 45 percent unemployment. 300,000 Gazans living on less than $1 a day. Fishing bans leading to hunger and diminished exports. These numbers are the toll of Israel’s unilateral blockage of Gaza, enforced for five years since Palestinians there elected a Hamas-led government. [...]
CHINA IS TAKING CAREFUL NOTES ON EGYPT AS IT LEARNS LESSONS ON HOW TO SURVIVE IN A TUMULT OF MASS PROTESTS. (Asia Times) Italian columnist Francesco Sisci notes that Chinese leaders are relatively “comfortable” in the face of the revolts sweeping the Middle East, feeling that the situation may weaken the position of their chief [...]
QUANTITATIVE EASING MAY BE EASING THE U.S. ECONOMY INTO AN INFLATION CYCLE. (Counterpucnh) The generating of “new money” in the Federal Reserve QE program is arguably fueling a “recovery” in Wall Street stock prices and the bottom lines of banks and other corporations. A few “grumblers” and doubters, many affiliated with the bond market which [...]
PRESIDENT OBAMA’S STATE OF THE UNION: NOT “SATISFYINGLY PROGRESSIVE.” (Reuters) (The Nation) The Nation’s John Nichols grades the president’s State of the Union and finds some things to applaud but many more that ought to be troubling for progressives. What Nichols calls Obama’s “Dwight Eisenhower speech” was big on unity, hopeful rhetoric and a supposedly [...]
Principled Progressive will now be the permanent home of the daily headlines formerly published on the “Sun State Activist” page. Check back for news headlines every morning Monday through Friday, as well as original opinion, commentary and other stories you need to know. …………………………………………………………. THE FALL FROM GRACE OF HELEN THOMAS—AND THE DISGRACE OF AMERICAN [...]
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 [...]
As we prepare to celebrate, mourn, support or oppose the people whom we have just elected and the referendum proposals we have enacted in the last elections, it may be useful to pause to contemplate the problems associated with these and all other elections. I like to say: “the election is over, let the campaign [...]
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