“WITH VARYING DEGREES OF CONFIDENCE.“ White House sends message to Congress saying that Syria “may” (according to U.S. intelligence agencies) have used chemical weapons against its own population. This cautious wording seems both to move U.S. toward a view that a “red line” may have been crossed that would justify (overt) U.S. intervention in [...]
IS AMERICA DEALING WITH THE NEEDS OF ITS GROWING HOMELESS POPULATION? NOT EVEN CLOSE, SAYS DIANE NILAN. Ever since the War on Poverty became the War on the Poor and the federal government opened its boondoggling agenda of “10 year plans” to “eradicate” homelessness, most U.S. communities have managed to ignore the immediate needs [...]
IN 25 U.S. STATES AND THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, A HOMELESS PERSON CAN LOSE HIS/HER CHILDREN BY THE ACT OF TRYING TO OBTAIN SOCIAL SERVICES TO HELP PROVIDE FOR THEM. As in so many ways that the homeless are “criminalized” rather than being provided for, these states make application for assistance actionable instances of “abuse [...]
THE “REAL” PETRAEUS SCANDAL, PART I: WHAT ABOUT THE DRONES? With the press all atwitter over the female liaisons of now ex-CIA director and retired four star General David Petraeus, Robin Wright argues in The Atlantic that the “real” scandal is how virtually no one in the same media class bothered to question Petraeus’ [...]
“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 [...]
TEA AT 4, SHERRY AT 6. BANKSTERS OF THE WORLD ARISE; YOU HAVE NOTHING TO GAIN BUT A LUXURY SANCTUARY FOR YOUR CRIMINALITY IN LONDON. James Petras describes the “veritable crime wave” that has swept over London as it has become the inviting destination of kleptocrats from around the world as they find a [...]
“EVEN THEIR YACHT DIDN’T WANT TO PAY TAXES.” As part of its “shadow convention” project to show what vital issues are being avoided at the Republican and Democratic national conventions, Huffington Post runs a piece describing wherein lies the real policitical “action” around the GOP event in Tampa. While Romney intones the usual “morning [...]
MASSACRE AT OAK CREEK: “SENSELESS ACT OF VIOLENCE” OR “VIOLENCE AT THE WRONG ADDRESS?” Vijay Prasad deconstructs the post-factum reactions to the gunning down of 6 people in a Sikh (Indian) temple in Wisconsin. He finds an all-too-similar reaction to that to other recent atrocities in Colorado and elsewhere. Branding them “senseless” isolates them [...]
` STATE OF FLORIDA CLOSES TUBERCULOSIS HOSPITAL IN MIDST OF “WORST OUTBREAK IN 20 YEARS”; OUTRAGE ENSUES… (Palm Beach Post) ` In what may be the most bizarre yet potentially deadly political controversies seen in Florida, Gov. Rick Scott and some state lawmakers are facing questions from health officials and public wrath for their decisions [...]
HO HUM IN RIO: ANOTHER FAILED WORLD SUMMIT ON “SUSTAINABLE PRINCIPLES.” (Counterpunch) This is Alexander Cockburn’s assessment of the just-completed conference in Rio de Janiero. Like over-hypped conferences before it, this one degenerated into the most toothless resolutions of “resolve” of the conferees to work toward that goal, without any actual agreements to work in [...]
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