PUBLIC REACTIONS TO BOSTON BOMBING: SELECTIVE SYMPATHY AND IRRATIONAL FEAR. While a definitive “who did it?” narrative has yet to emerge, preliminary reactions show an all-too-familiar pattern, according to Glenn Greenwald. There is the typical quick assumption of a “Muslim” involvement that puts U.S. Muslims everywhere at fear of retaliation, and makes “heightened security” [...]
UNITED NATIONS OFFICE FOR COORDINATION OF HUMANITARIAN AFFAIRS WASN’T VERY “HUMANITARIAN” IN ITS TREATMENT OF THE HEAD OF THEIR OFFICE IN ZIMBABWE. This is the ruling of the 3-judge panel of the UN Dispute Council, finding that OCHA management mistreated the official, Dr. Georges Tadonki, who tried to warn of the humanitarian violations of [...]
Escalating inequality in the American economy and its most recent “turnaround” has led to a disturbing juxtaposition of record corporate profits and soaring executive pay while wages for average workers hit record lows as a percentage of the nation’s economic output. It’s the ultimate repudiation of “trickle down” economics that busts the myth of business [...]
JFK ASSASSINATION: ON 48TH ANNIVERSARY, NEW YORK TIMES DEGRADES CONSPIRACY THEORY INTO A “CAUTIONARY TALE.” Josiah Thompson, who “wrote the book” on the mysterious “umbrella man” at the scene of JFK’s murder 11/22/63, is interviewed by film-maker Errol Morris, whose “op-doc” video is reproduced in today’s Times. In a perpetual style of ridicule of conspiracy [...]
9 “YOU CAN COUNT ON SEEING MORE OF THIS NEXT YEAR.” (Los Angeles Times) The Obama administration announced with glee on Tuesday that the number of immigrants deported on their watch hit a record of nearly 400,000 over a period from October of 2010 through September of this year. That amount tops the previous record [...]
EMBASSIES IN ATHENS AND GREEK INTERFERENCE WITH GAZA FLOTILLA: WHAT A DIFFERENCE A COUNTRY MAKES. (Counterpunch) Kathy Kelly, peace activist aboard the U.S. ship Audacity of Hope, stopped like ships from other countries on their mission to Gaza, describes the stark difference between the Spanish and American embassies in terms of access of protesters from [...]
Unemployment still hovers near 9 percent. Millions of Americans are struggling to find a job. The American economy is in a rut, wages for ordinary workers are down or stagnant, and there appears to be no end in sight to to economic doldrums. Think it’s all bad news? Think again. At least corporate executives are [...]
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