FEDS WANT MAJOR EXPANSION OF SECRET WIRETAP POWERS OVER WEB-BASED SERVICES. Facebook, Google, Skype and other brand names behind your favorite internet sites and programs are chafing at proposed new rules from the Obama administration that would force companies to comply with sweeping wiretaps and information requests from the FBI and Justice Department. While companies [...]
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 [...]
“INSUFFICIENTLY PRO-ISRAELI?” New U.S. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel had his appointment held up on such “insufficiency” charge but now, on a trip to Israel, he seems to be establishing his sufficiency bones. In presenting a large deal for U.S. arms shipments to Israel, he says that the deal is a “clear signal” to Iran [...]
BOMB AT BOSTON MARATHON KILLS 3 PEOPLE, INCLUDING 1 CHILD AND THERE IS AN OUTPOURING OF U.S. SYMPATHY FOR THE VICTIMS. A secret C.I.A. counter-terrorist raid in Afghanistan kills 17 people, including 12 children. Sympathy out-pouring?—not so much, at least in the U.S. Not so, however, in Afghanistan itself, where the PM Hamid Karzai [...]
SENATE DEAL ON BACKGROUND CHECKS DOES NOTHING TO CLOSE GUN SALE LOOPHOLE. In a sign of hoe fractured the national political landscape has become on even the most widely supported of issues, cheers went up from gun control advocates after the Senate merely allowed debate on a bipartisan bill that would expand federal background [...]
AT LAST, MOVIE-GOERS CAN ENJOY SECURITY FROM ANOTHER MASSACRE IN A MOVIE THEATRE. Regal Cinema reacts to aftermath of the shooting in Aurora, Colorado by a deranged male with a new policy of searching the purses of female customers. Jim Hightower comments with deep sarcasm on this closing of a tiny chink in the [...]
TINY “SUICIDE DRONES” COULD ALLOW THE UNITED STATES TO LAUNCH “PRECISION” ASSASSINATIONS ANYWHERE IN THE WORLD. 11 years after the attacks of September 11, the arsenal of weaponry that the “war on terror” has justified continues to grow along with the global reach of U.S military and intelligence operations. Drone strikes have become the [...]
“NON-ALIGNED MOVEMENT” IS NOT STOPPED BY A HURRICANE IN TEHRAN, BUT ITS MEETING THIS WEEK MAY RAISE A MIGHTY WIND IN INTERNATIONAL DIPLOMACY. The “Atlanticist” alliance of U.S., Israel and NATO members that fancies itself as the “international community” is shaking with anger against the meeting of 120 world “non-aligned” nations in Tehran. The [...]
WHILE THE U.S. SUPPORTS THE PROTESTS AGAINST “OUR ENEMY” (THE SYRIAN GOVERMENT) IT TOASTS ONE OF “OUR BASTARDS” (THE KING OF BAHRAIN) IN HIS CONTINUED SUPPRESSION OF PRO-DEMOCRACY PROTESTS IN THAT COUNTRY. (Asia Times) The Crown Prince of Bahrain receives full state “honors” on a visit to Washington just as a Bahrani leader says that the government will [...]
The accusation that the Bush administration directly ordered the CIA to “get” a prominent academic and Iraq War critic with disparaging personal information has taken a serious turn, with the U.S. Senate now prepared to investigate the incident. .. The story emanates from information given to the New York Times by a former CIA official, [...]
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