MILITARY UBER ALLES: LIBERTARIAN WRITER DECRIES THE MILITARIZATION OF AMERICAN LIFE. Jason Raimondo examines two chunks in the edifice of the structure of military dominance of the culture. (1) the recent decision to allow women into combat roles, which he sees as a triumph of equality over liberty, an “opportunity” for women to share in the [...]
L.A. UNDRESSED BY RUTH FOWLER. British journalist and screen-writer who wrote “Girl, Undressed,” based on her experience in the New York City sex trade, deconstructs the public outrage concerning Christopher Dorner, the deranged former LAPD officer turned cop killer. As usual, public notice focuses on the derangement and not what was in the mind [...]
U.S. DEVELOPING NEW EXCUSE TO DELAY WITHDRAWING FROM AFGHANISTAN. The U.S. government “reluctantly” agreed to transfer detainees from Bagram prison to Afghan ones, expressing concerns about a history of detainees being tortured in local prisoners. John Glaser sees this as a false reason for prolonging the American presence in the country, as human [...]
HAS THE WORST CASE SCENARIO FOR ARCTIC DRILLING BEEN REALIZED IN ALASKA? Warnings from scientists and environmental activists that unchecked oil drilling in the Arctic could lead to a potential disaster may have come to some semblance of fruition after a massive Shell Oil rig became grounded in a remote section of the pristine [...]
DEEP IN THE HEART OF TEXAS: ISLAMOPHOBIA TAKES A SET-BACK. Irving school officials, responding to a rash of complaints that school children were being “indoctrinated” with pro-Islamic propaganda, hired a “socially conservative” educator to evaluate these claims. What he found, instead, was that the school curriculum in fact lacked such propaganda, and that pro-CHRISTIAN [...]
BRITISH MP’S PLAY THE JUNKET GAME FOR TRIPS TO ISRAEL: PRO- AND ANTI-ISRAELI LOBBY GROUPS PICK UP THE TAB. Conflicts involving Israel may be deadly for Gazans and Israelis, but they are an opportunity for MPs to pick up a paid trip the only “price” of which is that they issue statements of support [...]
U.S. AND NATO TROOPS IN AFGHANISTAN HAVE “GUARDIAN ANGELS”: TO PROTECT THEM FROM…THEIR AFGHAN “ALLIES.” Recent instances of the killing of occupation troops by members of Afghan security forces highlight what has become a “debacle” of failed mission in the country. The commanding General decrees designated “angels” in each unit to keep their guns [...]
NOTHING “UNCLEAR” ABOUT IT: FOR-PROFIT COLLEGES IN AMERICA ARE RIP-OFFS BOTH OF STUDENTS AND OF TAXPAYERS. New congressional report of committee headed by Senator Tom Harkin documents the profound failure of for-profit colleges to deliver a high quality and usable education to their students despite the huge investment of federal tax dollars, especially in [...]
MIGRATION: CAN’T WE ALL JUST GO WITH THE FLOW? (Culturestrike) The Earth Summit Rio + 20 has involved some intelligent discussion about migration not as a crime or as something to be “controlled,” but as the natural result of changes on earth, especially environmental ones. Michelle Chen embraces this “ecological” view of migration, treating [...]
CHICAGO’S “MY KIND OF TOWN”—-IF MY NAME IS “MO” OR “GLOVES.” (Black Agenda Report) Two Chicago police with these nicknames were very much in “evidence” in the plotting of a “terrorist plot” in the days leading up to just-concluded NATO Summit conference. They worked their way into the confidence of radicalized protesters and created [...]
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