BOMB AT BOSTON MARATHON KILLS 3 PEOPLE, INCLUDING 1 CHILD AND THERE IS AN OUTPOURING OF U.S. SYMPATHY FOR THE VICTIMS. A secret C.I.A. counter-terrorist raid in Afghanistan kills 17 people, including 12 children. Sympathy out-pouring?—not so much, at least in the U.S. Not so, however, in Afghanistan itself, where the PM Hamid Karzai [...]
MAKING THE MIDDLE EAST SAFE FOR ISRAEL: SUMMER GAMES FOR GAZAN CHILDREN ARE CANCELLED. (Electronic Intifada) The annual games—supported by funding from the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) are cancelled for this year. The cash-strapped status of the agency seems to be the result of a 75% reduction in U.S. government support of an agency with a program [...]
“FORTUNATELY FOR OHIO, PEOPLE THERE HAD A WAY TO DIRECTLY UNDO THE DAMAGE THEIR GOVERNOR DID. HERE, OUR ONLY RECOURSE IS TO UNDO THE GOVERNOR’S TERM IN OFFICE.” (Milwaukee Journal Sentinel) Voters in Ohio soundly rejected the legislative overreach of Republican Gov. John Kasich on Tuesday by approving a referendum to repeal Kasich’s signature law [...]
DROVE MY CHEVY TO THE LEVEE—BUT WHERE THE HELL IS THE LEVEE? (Associated Press) Even the U.S. Corps of Engineers, responsible for maintaining all the levees throughout the country that serve as flood protection, are unsure about many of these levees. Though tasked after Katrina to develop a “database” of the country’s levees, they have [...]
NOTRE DAME UNIVERSITY GETS GRINCH-OF-THE-MONTH AWARD. (Yahoo Sports) Chapman High School in Clayton, Kansas, struggling to re-open after devastating tornado, is hit by a “cease and desist” letter from Notre Dame to restrain them from using a “Fighting Irish” logo that closely resembles the one used by Notre Dame. Clayton may feel lucky that ND [...]
ONE-THIRD OF PEOPLE OF INDIA LIVING IN POVERTY; AND THAT’S A LOW-BALL ESTIMATE. (UK Independent) In this country of 1.2 billion people, the government defines the poverty level as an income of 42 pence, a level called “ludicrously low” by skeptics. For all of India’s vaunted development of a prosperous middle class, the benefits of [...]
OUTGOING U.S. DEFENSE SECRETARY TAKES SWIPE AT NATO AS HE HEADS OUT THE DOOR. (New York Times) Robert Gates tells European “think tank” audience that NATO has failed to live up to the vision of its founders, that it has deteriorated into a “penny-pinching” agency with the lack of “political will” for effective political action. [...]
HOW GREEN IS MY INNER MONGOLIAN UNREST? (Asia Times) Popular protest in this autonomous Chinese region takes some of the form of an “independence” demand of a local ethnic minority, as demonstrated in last year’s Tibetan revolts. But as well and even more so, the protests seem focused on the intrusion of coal mines and [...]
OPINION: THE RESPONSIBILITY OF TORTURE PROSECUTION (Guardian UK) fter years of promises, the Obama administration has announced that it will not be closing the military prison at Guantanamo Bay any time soon. In fact, 9/11 “mastermind” Khalid Sheikh Mohammed will be tried their in a military tribunal, continuing the dark legacy of the Bush administration’s [...]
WHEN URI AVNERY SPEAKS…. (AntiWar.com) …World leaders, especially those in Israel, had best listen carefully. Surveying the popular unrest now sweeping across the Middle East, Avnery brings the explanation down to the singular fact of the collaboration of Egypt and other Arab states with the U.S. and Israel in their agenda of promoting the suppression [...]
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