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” [...]
Will the nation’s vaunted military-industrial complex survive what some have billed as the “disaster” of mandatory sequestration cuts? Yes, and likely stronger than before. The self-imposed “sequester” wrought by the failure of Congress to reach a budget deal are scheduled to deliver more than $1 trillion in government spending cuts within weeks. Despite promises from [...]
President Obama’s presumptive choice to replace Hillary Clinton as secretary of state in his second term is in the middle of a partisan storm stirred up by angry Republican lawmakers over her role in the Benghazi attack that killed four Americans. But others argue that the Libya incident and her role in disseminating information about [...]
“PROVIDING MATERIAL SUPPORT OR RESOURCES TO DESIGNATED FOREIGN TERRORIST ORGANIZATIONS.” It this sounds like a serious crime under U.S. criminal code, it is. But it’s a close enough characterization of much of Western actions in support of the “rebels” who have challenged government forces in both Libya and Syria. One American citizen in particular, [...]
The most generous contributors to Mitt Romney’s campaign will be rewarded with a lavish retreat at a “posh” Utah resort this weekend where they will rub elbows with some of the biggest names in conservative politics, meet the men on Romney’s short list for running mate, be given direct access to the candidate and help [...]
THE INVASION OF SYRIA STARTS WITH JOHN MCCAIN AND JOE LIEBERMAN… (Foreign Policy) ` Noted hawks in the U.s. Senate, John McCain and Joe Lieberman surprised everyone with an unannounced trip to the Turkey-Syria border this week to visit refugees of the Syrian uprising and, more importantly, to meet with leaders of the “Free Syrian Army” to [...]
The two timeless engines of the lustful geopolitical exertions of western powers, oil and influence, have been raging with a new brutality as of late in the ongoing game of American and European dominance in global affairs. The combination of political pressure and the cost of filling up your average American — or British — [...]
WHEN DID THE “SPONTANEOUS” ARAB SPRING TURN INTO AMERICA’s “IMPERIAL RIGHT” TO FIND “A BALANCE…BETWEEN THE MILITARY AUTHORITIES” AND THE PROTESTERS? (Salon) Glenn Greenwald viciously displays the mounting hypocrisy of the mounting U.S.-role in the latest developments to rattle the middle East in the post-Arab Spring universe. Events on the ground having gotten the best [...]
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