A “LAKE SIDE SETTLEMENT” IN AFRICA HAS “MOVED” 22 KILOMETERS FROM THE BANKS OF THE CONTINENT’S LARGEST WATER RESERVOIR. (Africa News) Lake Chad in Nigeria and Chad continues to dry up at an alarming pace. The extended drought put the lives of 30 million people in the Sahel region at risk and precipitates an intense struggle [...]
“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 [...]
RISING INSTABILITY IN AFGHANISTAN COULD SPUR EARLIER U.S. TROOP WITHDRAWS. (New York Times) ` In a plan strenuously opposed by the Pentagon, the New York Times reports that the Obama administration is considering what can only be described as a mild acceleration of their purported “timetable” to withdraw U.S. forces from Afghanistan. Conflict with the [...]
THE “ONE PERCENT” IS DOING BETTER THAN WE THOUGHT. MUCH BETTER… (Wall Street Journal) Between the rise of “Occupy Wall Street” and a nationwide surge in discussion over income inequality, most Americans are aware that the fabled “one percent” — the very top of the country’s economic food chain — are doing far better than the “99 [...]
The federal government’s case against banks for duplicitous and potentially illegal mortgage practices may be reaching an unsatisfactory final settlement even as one of the largest perpetrators of foreclosure fraud takes outrageous steps to block further investigation into their actions at the height of the housing crisis. Tens of millions of homeowners remain “underwater,” owing [...]
House padlocked? Pet bird kidnapped? Threatening letters arriving in the mail for no apparent reason? Be careful, because America’s biggest bank is also its biggest perpetrator of fraudulent foreclosures, and it may be coming after you… Bank of America, already neck-deep in litigation and fallout from rampant fraud and mistakes relating to its booming post-recession foreclosure business, has another [...]
“MAKING EVIL ACTS SEEM ENTERTAINING.” (Black Agenda Report) This is Margaret Kimberley’s view of the “mission accomplished” Veterans Day appearance by President Obama on the U.S.S. Vinson, the ship used to carry the body of Osama bin Laden to its summary burial at sea. His appearance coincides with the news that several NCAA basketball games [...]
PRESIDENT OBAMA, SUPREME COURT LET TROY DAVIS DIE: “THE STATE OF GEORGIA IS ABOUT TO DEMONSTRATE WHY GOVERNMENT CAN’T BE TRUSTED WITH POWER OVER LIFE AND DEATH.“ (Atlanta Journal-Constitution) Troy Davis, who most believe was unjustly convicted of killing on off-duty police officer in 1989, was put to death by the state of Georgia last [...]
IF BAGHDAD IN 2003 WAS A “CAKEWALK,” IS TRIPOLI IN 2011 TO BE CAKEWALK II? (Sydney Morning Herald) This is a troubling possibility, says Paul Geough, noting the same cluelessness today as in 2003 about the future of a country “liberated” after a quick march into a capital city from a much-hated dictator. Now as [...]
OBAMA UBER ALLES: 15 MEMBERS OF CONGRESSIONAL BLACK CAUCUS HELP PASS “DEBT RELIEF” BILL THAT WILL COMPLETE THE “RUINATION” OF BLACK AMERICANS. (Black Agenda Report) Glen Ford names names among the 40 members of the Black Caucus after minority leader Nancy Pelosi releases them to “vote their conscience” on a bill that, Ford says, will [...]
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