A “LAKE SIDE SETTLEMENT” IN AFRICA HAS “MOVED” 22 KILOMETERS FROM THE BANKS OF THE CONTINENT’S LARGEST WATER RESERVOIR. (Africa News) Lake Chad in Nigeria and Chad continues to dry up at an alarming pace. The extended drought put the lives of 30 million people in the Sahel region at risk and precipitates an intense struggle [...]
“WE HAD TO DESTROY THE VILLAGE IN ORDER TO SAVE IT.” (Common Dreams) This “idiotic” statement of a U.S. Army Major to explain the bombing of the Ben Tre hamlet during the Vietnam war seems to be the “thinking” as well behind the current “education reform” movement directed to destroying public education in order to [...]
RISING INSTABILITY IN AFGHANISTAN COULD SPUR EARLIER U.S. TROOP WITHDRAWS. (New York Times) ` In a plan strenuously opposed by the Pentagon, the New York Times reports that the Obama administration is considering what can only be described as a mild acceleration of their purported “timetable” to withdraw U.S. forces from Afghanistan. Conflict with the [...]
THE “ONE PERCENT” IS DOING BETTER THAN WE THOUGHT. MUCH BETTER… (Wall Street Journal) Between the rise of “Occupy Wall Street” and a nationwide surge in discussion over income inequality, most Americans are aware that the fabled “one percent” — the very top of the country’s economic food chain — are doing far better than the “99 [...]
DRONES OVER BAGHDAD PROVOKE IRAQI OUTRAGE. (New York Times) The troops are gone but the big U.S. Embassy and other U.S. facilities in the city and country remain, and the State Department, in an obscure report on “diplomatic security,” reveals that it is maintaining a fleet of drone aircraft to provide surveillance only (they are [...]
The federal government’s case against banks for duplicitous and potentially illegal mortgage practices may be reaching an unsatisfactory final settlement even as one of the largest perpetrators of foreclosure fraud takes outrageous steps to block further investigation into their actions at the height of the housing crisis. Tens of millions of homeowners remain “underwater,” owing [...]
“BUT SIR, WE HAD TO TAKE A LEAK SOMEWHERE!” (UK Telegraph) U.S. officials fall over themselves to “deplore” action of U.S. Marines caught in a video which shows them urinating on the corpses of slain Afghans. These include Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta, who vows that the incident will [...]
CLASS CONFLICT IN CALIFORNIA RISES ON ISSUES OF TAXATION AND SUPPORT OF PUBLIC FACILITIES. (Counterpunch) Over the resistance of the state’s “progressive Democrat” Governor Jerry Brown, the 99% of the Occupy movement are beginning to assert their power in state politics. As budget cuts dig further holes in funding for public services and employment for [...]
AS WORLD PRAYS FOR PEACE ON EARTH, PENTAGON PREPARES FOR FULL SPECTRUM DOMINANCE OF THAT EARTH (Global Research) Michel Chossudovsky and Finian Cunningham, for Global Research, review the history across presidential administrations from Truman to Obama, and embracing the leadership of both major U.S. parties of an agenda of promoting what George H.W. Bush called [...]
EGYPT: DING, DONG THE WICKED WITCH IS DEAD!—-WELL NOT QUITE. Last February there were huge celebrations in the streets of Cairo after mass protests resulted in power being transferred from Hosni Mubarak to the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF). Now demonstrators have taken to the street again to protest the failure of SCAF [...]
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