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 [...]
IF BAGHDAD IN 2003 WAS A “CAKEWALK,” IS TRIPOLI IN 2011 TO BE CAKEWALK II? (Sydney Morning Herald) This is a troubling possibility, says Paul Geough, noting the same cluelessness today as in 2003 about the future of a country “liberated” after a quick march into a capital city from a much-hated dictator. Now as [...]
OBAMA UBER ALLES: 15 MEMBERS OF CONGRESSIONAL BLACK CAUCUS HELP PASS “DEBT RELIEF” BILL THAT WILL COMPLETE THE “RUINATION” OF BLACK AMERICANS. (Black Agenda Report) Glen Ford names names among the 40 members of the Black Caucus after minority leader Nancy Pelosi releases them to “vote their conscience” on a bill that, Ford says, will [...]
THE RUPERT MURDOCH SCANDAL AND THE CORRUPTION OF MEDIA AND GOVERNMENT: THE MORE THINGS SEEM TO CHANGE, THE MORE THEY WILL STAY THE SAME. (Black Agenda Report) This is Margaret Kimberley’s perspective in reflecting on the denunciation by political leaders in the U.S., U.K. and Australia of the atrocious “news” practices of the media mogul’s [...]
AMERICA’S “INDUSTRIAL-SCALE…KILLING MACHINE.” (AlterNet) President Obama has made headlines for his promises to withdraw US troops from Iraq and Afghanistan, seemingly scaling back America’s commitment to military intervention overseas and especially the Muslim world. But that public imagery is utterly false, as the Obama administration has presided over an unprecedented expansion of the United States [...]
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