BIG BANKS PLAY BIG ROLE IN NATION’S SHADOWY, CONTROVERSIAL NETWORK OF PAYDAY LOAN OPERATIONS. Interest rates of over 700 percent on a small loan would seem unreasonable to most people, and would be unheard of at most reputable banks. But such outlandish rates and legally questionable behavior are the norm for unregulated “payday” lenders, [...]
THE AFRICAN UNION HAS BECOME AN “ANNEX” OF THE PENTAGON. As Glen Ford noted last June, the expansion of U.S. forces in Africa (AFRICOM) is operating as an “infiltration” exercise of American forces being placed as “guests” of various African nations comprising the African Union. These “guests” are in a peculiar positions for guests: [...]
THE FORGOTTEN VICTIMS OF HURRICANE SANDY. While much of the media is focused breathlessly on the aftermath of winds and storm surge that battered New York and New Jersey during this week’s landfall of “super storm” Sandy, the hurricane’s first stop is generally ignored by the rest of the world. Before it threatened [...]
AUSTERITY-PROTESTING CHAOS IN STREETS OF SPAIN, PORTUGAL AND GREECE—AND NEW YORK TIMES CHOOSES MOSTLY THE FACT THAT MARKETS “FALTER” IN THESE COUNTRIES AS THE NEWS “THAT’S FIT TO PRINT.” As European central bank demands austerity measures cutting benefits to people as condition of buying up their bad debts, riots occur across southern Europe and [...]
ANAHEIM, CALIFORNIA: WE NEED “MORE THAN A MELEE” TO CURB POLICE VIOLENCE AGAINST FOLKS WHO ARE JUST “HANGING OUT” IN THEIR OWN NEIGHBORHOODS. Gary Leupp describes news accounts and videotape evidence of an incident in Anaheim of an unarmed man who was shot in the back as he fled from police after he was [...]
` U.S. DEFENSE CONTRACTORS CAN SEE THEIR FUTURE, AND THAT FUTURE IS FILLED WITH DRONES. (Los Angeles Times) An outgrowth of the United States military and intelligence community’s increasing reliance on unmanned aerial drones is the huge chunk of business now made up by drone aircraft for America defense contractors. Foreign nations see what America [...]
Gaddafi gives troops Viagra for mass rapes COLONEL Gaddafi gave his troops Viagra and ordered mass rapes to terrorise rebels, it was claimed last night. The tyrant hoped to raise soldiers’ sex drive to help them spread fear, according to the International Criminal Court’s top prosecutor. Luis Moreno-Ocampo said: “In some areas we had 100 [...]
VIOLENCE RACKS ISRAELI BORDER AREAS; AND THE NEW YORK TIMES CITES FOREIGN INFLUENCE. (New York Times) As a new round of Nakba protests “celebrates” the 63rd anniversary of Israeli independence day, the Israeli-friendly Times displays its understanding of the side on which its corporate bread is buttered. In explaining the protests, it “credits” the influence [...]
SPECIAL EDITION: THE BLACK AGENDA AMERICAN TREATMENT OF HAITI: THE OLD IMPERIALISM WITH A NEW BLACK FACE. (Black Agenda Report) A year after the earthquake, with Haiti still in a state of devastation, Jemina Pierre so characterizes U.S. policy today: a continuation of the old ways of imperial domination. While President Obama proposed immediate massive [...]
RESPONSIBILITY TO PROTECT: DOES THIS “HUMANITARIAN” RESPONSIBILITY OF WORLD COMMUNITY COVER THE PROTECTION OF AFRICAN MIGRANTS IN LIBYA FROM SUMMARY EXECUTION BY LIBYAN REBELS? (Black Agenda Report) While the “world” scrambles by its military operations to protect Libyan civilians even as it kills them by these operations, this same world is turning a blind eye [...]
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