“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 [...]
U.S NAVY PREPARES TO DEPLOY LASER “DEATH RAY” IN PERSIAN GULF After years of speculation that the Pentagon was working on a secret laser weapon project, euphemistically described as a “death ray” by observers, the Navy revealed the finished product this week. It’s a curious device that can shoot lethal laser rays at objects, [...]
DEEP IN THE HEART OF TEXAS: ISLAMOPHOBIA TAKES A SET-BACK. Irving school officials, responding to a rash of complaints that school children were being “indoctrinated” with pro-Islamic propaganda, hired a “socially conservative” educator to evaluate these claims. What he found, instead, was that the school curriculum in fact lacked such propaganda, and that pro-CHRISTIAN [...]
WHAT IS THE NATURAL HABITAT OF THE CHEETAH? TRY THE WASHINGTON ZOO. (New York Times) Keepers at the Smithsonian zoo in D.C. are resorting to elaborately-prepared “date nights” at the zoo to encourage mating of cheetahs and other wild animals whose habitats in the “wild” are rapidly approaching annihilation with world climate change and other [...]
“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 [...]
UZBEKISTAN: SHOULD THIS “STRATEGIC PARTNER” OF THE U.S. BE PUNISHED FOR ITS “APPALLING RECORD ON HUMAN RIGHTS”? (IPS News) A coalition of human rights organizations calls on President Obama not to renew the military assistance it provides to this central Asian country and cites the example of other “Arab Spring” countries that have rebelled against [...]
ARE U.S “ANTI-JIHAD” BLOGGERS PROVIDING “MATERIAL SUPPORT” TO TERRORISTS LIKE THE MAN SUSPECTED IN NORWEGIAN MASSACRES? (New York Times) This possibility in raised in noting the reliance of the Norwegian man accused of the attacks on the writings of influential American bloggers. While this may be a thin reed on the basis of which to [...]
LIBYA AND KOSOVO: IS ANOTHER ACT OF “HUMANITARIAN INTERVENTION” WAITING IN THE WINGS? (Counterpunch) Diane Johnstone, critic of the 1999 NATO action which “rescued” the victims of government repression and destroyed the country in the process, foresees ominous parallels with the current situation in Libya. Now, as then, supporters of such intervention are turning themselves [...]
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