EGYPT’S “MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD” LEADERSHIP HAS PRACTICED PRECIOUS LITTLE “BROTHERHOOD” TOWARD ITS MUSLIM BRETHREN IN GAZA. The post-Mubarak regime in Egypt was elected to the immense delight of Palestinians in Gaza as elsewhere, with the expectation that the new government would cease the collaboration of Egypt in maintaining the seige of Gaza by maintaining border [...]
COLOMBIA: “CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY BEING CARRIED OUT IN OUR NAME.” This is labor activist Daniel Kovolak’s characterization of the Free Trade Agreement passed by Congress and signed by the President. This agreement, when implemented, will result among other things in huge amounts of U.S. agricultural products being “dumped” tariff-free in Colombia, creating wholesale displacement [...]
“THERE ARE ALWAYS WAYS TO WORK FOR PEACE.“ So says Kathy Kelly, describing some of her work with Afghan Peace Volunteers. Besides urging international action to demand and enforce a cessation of hostilities in the country, APV supports a collective of Afghan women who work to create vital supplies of bedding and warm clothing [...]
NO IFS OR ANDS OR BUTS: THE BUILDINGS TAKEN DOWN IN “TERRORIST” ATTACKS ON 9/11/01 WERE ”CONTROLLED DEMOLITIONS.” This is the unanimous conclusion of a group of structural engineering experts, many with career experience with the deliberate demolition of buildings. Although the evidence of same was always there in the debris of these explosions, [...]
` IN BRITAIN THE QUEEN MADE A SPEECH BUT SHE DIDN’T SAY MUCH. (UK Independent) The Queen appears in Parliament to give her regular “speech” that articulates whatever is the policy agenda of the elected Prime Minister and cabinet. The speech given this week marks a signficant slow-down from drastic efforts at reform in the [...]
ALL I EVER NEEDED TO KNOW TO RUN ATLANTA’S SCHOOL SYSTEM, I LEARNED BY SERVING ON THE BOARD OF BRITISH PETROLEUM. (Black Agenda Report) Errol Davis, head of Atlanta school system, has the kind of “background” in public education that is typical of other school chiefs in other cities as well as Secretary of Education Arne [...]
GREAT NEWS FOR FLOWER LOVERS; NEW FREE TRADE AGREEMENTS WILL MAKE YOUR ZINNIAS CHEAPER. (New York Times) After five years of political stalemate, a rare bipartisanship is achieved as Congress approves trade agreements with Colombia, Panama and South Korea. Progressive and union leaders may rail that it means the loss of jobs as the production [...]
NOTHING TO SEE HERE, FOLKS, MOVE ON! (NPR) Pew Center for public opinion research notices how Americans have generally lost interest in the Afghan conflict, even as recent violence in that country indicates that the conflict there is far from over and U.S. detachment therefrom becomes ever more problematic. While 90% of Americans, motivated by [...]
UK’S iPOD GENERATION IS A F*CKED GENERATION. (Adbusters) Scottish mother Maria Hampton writes a withering account of the “generational conflict” within Britain (as well as the U.S.A.) in which a cohort of baby boomers have lavished luxuries upon themselves while neglecting to maintain any semblance of a hopeful future for their children. She describes the [...]
DOES THE FOURTH AMENDMENT APPLY TO YOUR IRISES AND FINGERPRINTS? THE UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT DOESN’T THINK SO… (Al Jazeera) “Mobile biometrics.” It’s a phrase with a futuristic ring to it, but this technology is not out of a science fiction novel. It is very real, and it is about to get a major boost via [...]
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