A SPECTRE IS HAUNTING EUROPE AND AMERICA: AND IT’S NAME IS AUSTERITY. The literally killing effects of austerity measures undertaken as a solutions to the “financial crisis” are documented in a new book by David Stuckler and Sanjay Basu. Decimation of health support services is blamed with creating epidemics of everything from HIV and [...]
THEY GIVE OSCARS, DO THEY NOT, FOR FISCAL CHARADES LIKE THE ONE NOW PLAYING IN WASHINGTON, D.C.? If they did, Fix the Debt, the spectacular show produced by billionaire Pete Peterson, with a cast of dozens of fellow plutocrats, would be a shoo-in for an award. The lobby group that Peterson heads has already [...]
HOMEGROWN THREATS: NYPD DEFINES SUCH MUSLIM BEHAVIORS AS GIVING UP SMOKING, GAMBLING AND HIP HOP MUSIC AS INDICATIONS OF THEIR “JIHADIZATION.” In New York as elsewhere Muslim Americans are subjected to very intrusive surveillance at any places where they might congregate with fellow Muslims, not only at mosques but cafes and book stores that they [...]
BLACK HISTORY MONTH: IF YOU ONLY READ ONE BOOK ON THE HISTORY OF THE BLACK PANTHER PARTY. Anti-war activist Ron Jacobs recommends Joshua Bloom and Waldo Martin’s Blacks Against Empire as that book. Jacobs notes how the BPP was demonized in the press and persecuted by Cointelpro operations against groups suspected of “domestic violence” [...]
MARRIAGE EQUALITY COMES OUT OF 2012 ELECTIONS A BIG WINNER Questions regarding gay marriage rights and marriage equality were victorious on four state ballots this past Tuesday in what LGBT activists are calling a crucial turning point in national recognition of same sex marriage. The wins in Maine, Maryland Minnesota and Washington represent a [...]
NO IFS OR ANDS OR BUTS: THE BUILDINGS TAKEN DOWN IN “TERRORIST” ATTACKS ON 9/11/01 WERE ”CONTROLLED DEMOLITIONS.” This is the unanimous conclusion of a group of structural engineering experts, many with career experience with the deliberate demolition of buildings. Although the evidence of same was always there in the debris of these explosions, [...]
RAISING THE JIHADIST FLAG OVER THE SYRIAN OPPOSITION. While the world’s mainstream press continues to demonize the Syrian government and idolize the opposition to same, two New York Times reporters tell a story that seldom enters that “stream.” An increasing factor in the rebel opposition is the rise of involvement of jihadist Muslim groups [...]
` 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 [...]
APPLAUSE! APPLAUSE! TO OBAMA FOR HELPING TO STRIP AWAY HABEAS CORPUS RIGHTS OF GITMO DETAINEES. (Brasscheck TV) Cenk Uygur offers this satirical “applause” for the President for the role of the U.S. government in generating a federal court ruling that essentially removed the right of detainees to demand trials as an earlier Supreme Court ruling [...]
U.S. OFFICIALS DO THE “THREE MONKEYS” ROUTINE ON ABUSE OF DETAINEES IN AFGHANISTAN. (New York Times) United Nations report describes a dismaying practice of “systematic torture” of arrested insurgents, while the U.N. and U.S. are planning to withdraw their security forces in the country as the government forces take over counter-insurgency operations. American officials are [...]
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