THERE’S A SMALL CHANCE THAT FURTHER AUDIT OF THE VENEZUELAN ELECTION WILL OVERTURN THE RESULS OF THAT ELECTION. How small? One in 25,000 trillion, according to a statistical analysis of election boxes already audited, the likelihood that audits of the remainder could reverse the “populist” outcome that continues the policies of Hugo Chavez. So [...]
MORE THAN 70 US SERVICEMEMBERS ARE SEXUALLY ASSAULTED EVERY DAY AS EPIDEMIC OF SEX CRIMES IN MILITARY GRABS NATIONAL SPOTLIGHT. A new report from the Pentagon finally admits the vast extent of the US military’s crisis of sexual assault, with data showing at least 26,000 members of the armed forces were assaulted last year, the [...]
WILL “KEYSTONE COPS,” IN THE NAME OF “SECURITY,” BE SUPPRESSING PROTEST AGAINST KEYSTONE XL PIPELINE IN NEBRASKA? Local officials of the pipeline company behind the oil company, TransCanada, are in negotiations with local police enforcement agents about using “off duty” police officers to insure against “violence” among the protesters. The local protest group, Bold [...]
Elections in Venezuela have produced a new leader for country following the sudden death of former President Hugo Chavez earlier this year. The United States and its allies are refusing to accept the results, however, propping up opposition protests that have led to street violence and demands for a recount. Events surrounding the aftermath of [...]
A small town in Arkansas is dealing with an oily mess after an ExxonMobil tar sands pipeline burst beneath dozens of homes, an accident that many say portends the fate of more American communities if the much larger Keystone pipeline is built. The spill comes at a time of rising political support for TransCanada’s massive [...]
THE WAY OF THE KNIFE: THE C.I.A., A SECRET ARMY, AND A WAR AT THE ENDS OF THE EARTH. A new book of this title by Mark Mazzetti is about to be released and is excerpted in the New York Times. It describes the “secret deal” in 2004 between the C.I.A. and the Pakistani state [...]
Political posturing has trumped science and environmental concerns in the long and tortured journey to the increasingly inevitable construction of the massive Keystone XL oil pipeline from Canada to the US Gulf Coast. Bipartisan pressure is building on President Obama both sides await a delayed decision from the White House on whether the pipeline will [...]
EQUATING ZIONISM WITH FASCISM AND ANTI-SEMITISM? OH MY! As U.S. White House and Congress denounce this comparison made by the Turkish prime minister, many Jews and non-Jews, in Israel and elsewhere, get the point of comparing the “war crimes” of Zionist Israel with that of Hitler or Mussolini. Back in 1991 the UN rescinded [...]
CLIMATE CRUSADERS “UNDER ATTACK.“ Bill Mckibben writes in Grist of the recent travails facing two of the globe’s most ardent and respected leaders of the movement to take aggressive action against climate change. NASA scientist James Hansen, arrested last month for his dogged opposition to the Keystone XL pipeline, a project he says will [...]
ARE ELDERLY AMERICANS THE “PICTURE OF AFFLUENCE?” Thatfflu is the picture drawn in a new Pew Research study of the “net worth” of American households. The average net worth of seniors of $170,500 seems “affluent” only by contrast with the almost non-existent amount of $ 3,700 for those under 35. With many older people now [...]
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