THE RUPERT MURDOCH SCANDAL AND THE CORRUPTION OF MEDIA AND GOVERNMENT: THE MORE THINGS SEEM TO CHANGE, THE MORE THEY WILL STAY THE SAME. (Black Agenda Report) This is Margaret Kimberley’s perspective in reflecting on the denunciation by political leaders in the U.S., U.K. and Australia of the atrocious “news” practices of the media mogul’s [...]
THE MORTGAGE FRAUD MELTDOWN CONTINUES AS FEDERAL INVESTIGATORS NAB MEGA-BANKS THAT THEY SAY ATTEMPTED TO “SWINDLE” UNCLE SAM — AND TAXPAYERS. Stemming from reports last year that some of America’s largest mortgage companies and banks fraudulently foreclosed on homeowners, a new federal investigation has apparently found an even more pervasive and potentially serious scheme at [...]
A glut of empty homes and dire economic consequences of the housing boom did not stop the state of Florida from ushering in a sweeping overhaul of state guidelines for development that literally shred the set of regulations in place for over 25 years. With newly elected Republican Gov. Rick Scott promising to remove “roadblocks” [...]
“DEMOCRATIC” EGYPT BECOMING A THEOCRATIC EGYPT? This is the fear of many of the young secular protesters who fueled the deposing of Mubarak. The new military government has found a surprising ally in the formerly-banned Muslim Brotherhood as it struggles to return “stability” to the country. Many believe the religious fundamentalists have struck a “deal” [...]
LIBYA AND KOSOVO: IS ANOTHER ACT OF “HUMANITARIAN INTERVENTION” WAITING IN THE WINGS? (Counterpunch) Diane Johnstone, critic of the 1999 NATO action which “rescued” the victims of government repression and destroyed the country in the process, foresees ominous parallels with the current situation in Libya. Now, as then, supporters of such intervention are turning themselves [...]
U.S. GIVES (SORT OF) GREEN LIGHT TO PROTEST IN TUNISIA, BUT A DEFINITE GREEN ONE FOR EGYPTIAN SUPPRESSION OF THE PROTESTS THERE. (EPA/Pool) (Global Research) Anti-government protests sweeping across Arab states of the Middle East produce a “two-track” policy of U.S. State Department as support is offered for a proto-democratic uprising in Tunisia. Where Egypt [...]
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 [...]
U.S. SECRETARY OF STATE: DON’T LOOK AT THAT MAN BEHIND THE CURTAIN! (New York Times) (Ali Haider/EPA) Current “intelligence” on Iran indicates that the threat of that country’s development of nuclear weapons has diminished by delays in its weapons project, allegedly a combination of the effects of external sanctions and internal sabotage. Not to be [...]
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