INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL TRIBUNAL ON FORMER YUGOSLAVIA DELIVERS NO JUSTICE AND NO RECONCILIATION BUT A LOT OF CONTINUED SERB-BASHING. Diana Johnstone reviews the recent activities at the Tribunal and concludes that it has and continues to demonize the Serbian state and its leaders in pursuit of defining NATO’s 1999 bombing of Kosovo as a “humanitarian [...]
WHAT HAPPENED TO THE RECALL MOVEMENT IN WISCONSIN? CAN YOU SAY CO-OPTATION? (Black Agenda Report) Without using that word, Bruce Dixon’s account of the devastating defeat of the effort to recall union-buster Scott Walker as Governor of Wisconsin follows exactly that scenario of what happens when political “movements” turn into political “campaigns.” The movement excitement [...]
The United States has deepened what is a growing commitment to support anti-government rebels in Syria who have taken up an increasingly violent resistance to the regime of Bashar al-Assad. With the conflict showing little signs of abating and the Obama administration escalating its rhetoric against Assad, the path may be set for imminent military intervention from Western [...]
AN IRAN-PAKISTAN PIPE LINE? PROVOCATIVE MOVE ON THE GRAND CHESSBOARD OF U.S.POLITICAL POWER IN CENTRAL ASIA. (OilPrice.com) Increasingly volatile relation between the U.S. and Pakistan resulting from U.S. actions in the “war of terrorism” that Pakistanis see as violation of their sovereignty and a deprivation of their desperate need for Iranian oil leads Pakistan to pursue [...]
AFGHAN MASSACRE: CAN YOU SPELL M-Y-L-A-I? (World Socialist) Patrick Martin, reflecting on the rampage of killing by (apparently) one U.S. soldier in Afghanistan, reflects on parallels with My Lai and similar atrocities committed against Vietnamese civilians over 40 years ago. The situations are different on the surface, as the current incident involves, so for [...]
“COCAINE, DEATH SQUADS AND THE WAR ON TERROR: U.S. IMPERIALISM AND THE CLASS STRUGGLE IN COLOMBIA.” (Counterpunch) Daniel Kovalik reviews a recent book of this title that makes the case that the “war on drugs” in Colombia is not as advertised to the public an attempt to eradicate the cocaine trade of the country but [...]
“A CIA-M16 PLAN TO STAGE FAKE BORDER INCIDENTS AS AN EXCUSE FOR AN INVASION (OF SYRIA) BY SYRIA’S PRO-WESTERN NEIGHBOURS.“ (Global Research) Sound like something that might be happening in 2012 as the U.S., U.K., France and the Arab League contemplate an “intervention” in a Syria in which anti-government demonstrations are being “brutally suppressed?” Well [...]
The actions taken by the United States on Monday may not be a formal declaration of war against Iran, but it represents the most significant escalation yet in the use of coordinated international pressure on the Iranian regime. Actual hositlieis are the next logical step. The new round of sanctions announced by the United States on Monday [...]
HEATHROW’S “SNOW PLAN” LOOKS A LOT LIKE A NO-PLAN. (UK Independent) The London airport goes 0 for 2 in responses to major snowstorms. Despite massive investment in new snow plows following the debacle of air travel grounding following a snow storm last winter, the current one disrupts travel plans of thousand of passengers, stranding some [...]
“THE UNINTENDED CONSEQUENCES OF PURPOSIVE SOCIAL ACTION.” (Asia Times) This phrase, found in the work of sociologist Robert Merton, is invoked by Pepe Escobar in commenting on the situation of the current conflict between Iran and the West resulting from Iran’s alleged development of capacity for nuclear warfare. The European Union has just issued an [...]
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