“MONSANTO PROTECTION ACT” BRINGS IMMUNITY TO REGULATION OF FOOD TO YOUR DINNER TABLE. It was done quietly last week, an obscure provision slipped into a congressional spending bill, the passage and presidential signing of which averted a government shutdown. The so-named provision allows Monsanto and other corporate food processors exemption from federal regulation by [...]
A MILITARY DRONE BASE RIGHT HERE IN BROOKSVILLE! “A PARANOID PORTION” OF THE POPULATION PROTESTS. With the support of Senator Bill Nelson, an aviation authority applies to Hernando County FL to locate there one of the 6 drone sites slated for development in the U.S. Protests are launched by a Nature Coast peace group [...]
PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN? DOWNLOADING ZERO DARK THIRTY FOR LESS THAN A DOLLAR. Government of Antigua is accused by government of the United States of operating a form of “state sponsored piracy” by setting up a website from which users can download Hollywood movies and music industry songs at extremely cheap rates, even though [...]
LASSO THAT ICEBERG, COWBOY! Exxon Mobil prepares massive oil drilling off the coast of Newfoundland, ironically near the point at which the Titanic was sunk by an iceberg. To ally any fears that another iceberg could produce an even larger environmental disaster, the company plans to construct concrete towers taller than the Eiffel Tower [...]
WHAT’S MORE “INEFFECTIVE”? PUBLIC SCHOOL TEACHERS OR NEW STUDENT/TEACHER EVALUATIONS? Principals and teachers in New York state are witnessing the first round of student and teacher evaluations under the new test-based achievement guidelines championed by education “reformers.” The results have been as flawed as many expected leading thousands of teachers and principals to protest [...]
NEW CODE OF “RESPECTABLE” JOURNALISM: “EXTREMISM IN THE DEFENSE OF EMPIRE IS NO VICE.” (Dissident Voice) James Petras, simply by substituting the word “empire” for “freedom” in the Barry Goldwater’s famous saying about extremism, lays bare the tendency of mainstream media like the New York Times, Washington Post and Financial Times to pay obeisance to the [...]
AMERICA IS ADDICTED TO IMPRISONING ITS OWN CITIZENS… (New Yorker Magazine) Not even during the days of Stalin’s Soviet gulags have so many individuals been under forceful incarceration as there are currently sitting in American prisons. More than 6 million people are sitting in cells across the country. These are not victims of a totalitarian [...]
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 [...]
“SEVERELY WEAKENED” AL-QAEDA IS SHOWING A SERIOUS CASE OF SURVIVAL IN THE FORM OF ITS LOCAL “FRANCHISES.” (Asia Times) Defense Secretary Panetta’s claim that operations like the capture of Osama bin Laden have put al-Qaeda “on the decline” is again belied by recent terrorist attacks in Iraq and Syria. While the central leadership may have [...]
“IT IS NOW NOT THE GENERALS, BUT CORPORATIONS AND BUSINESS LEADERS WHO WILL BE AT THE FRONT OF THIS STAGE.” (Reuters News) The war in Iraq is over, so send in the multi-national corporations. And they are prepared to come. Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki’s visit to Washington was as much about “celebrating” the official [...]
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