AFRICAN-AMERICANS: LET THEM EAT SYMBOLS. The just-past inaugural festivities highlight the yawning discrepancy between the rhetoric and reality of the situation of black Americans. Black leaders at every level from the courthouse to the White House seem to think like some modern day Marie Antoinettes. Faced with the reality of African Americans stuck in [...]
DOES ISRAEL HAVE A RIGHT TO EXIST? Let’s put that another way, says Patrick Higgins; does “murderous settler-colonialism” have a right to exist? The current Israeli raids on Gaza provoke this question. Higgins compares the Jewish settler movement in the middle east to the process of white settlers “winning the west” from native Americans. [...]
CAN THE PAKISTANI GOVERNMENT PUT THE TALIBAN GENIE BACK INTO THE BOTTLE AFTER THEY HAVE RELEASED IT? This question is raised by the much publicized case of Malala Yusafzai, the 14-year old Swat Valley girl who infuriated Taliban extremists by asserting the right of girls to an education and as doctors struggle to save [...]
` THE CIA WANTS TO KILL PEOPLE WITHOUT KNOWING WHO THEY ARE. COMFORTING, NO? (Washington Post) ` In what would be a severe and unprecedented escalation of America’s ongoing drone war around the globe, the CIA may be given the authority to dramatically escalate its persistent campaign of drone strikes against militant fighters in Yemen. [...]
“THE ISOLATION, THE EMBARGO, THE INDIFFERENCE, LOOKING THE OTHER WAY, HAVE BEEN INEFFECTIVE…” (Reuters) Latin American leaders delivered a “bruising” message against President Obama and American policies towards Cuba at the recently concluded Summit of the Americas in Colombia. Far from being feted as a “rock star” when he attended the conference shortly after winning [...]
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