ISRAEL: GET YOUR GAS MASK, YITZAK! SYRIA MAY BE ABOUT TO “TRANSFER” ITS CHEMICAL WEAPONS TO THE HEZBOLLAH MILITIA IN LEBANON. Israeli warplanes, for the first time in six years, launch an airstrike keep inside Syria, allegedly targeting a convoy headed toward Lebanon with such weapons. Although analysts doubt that either Syria or its [...]
PUSSY RIOT IN RUSSIA: NOW THERE’S AN ISSUE INTO WHICH AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL CAN SINK ITS TEETH. Diane Johnstone examines the behavior of the international “human rights” organization in going to the defense of a feminist punk-rock band “persecuted” by the Russian government for performing an allegedly “decadent” show in a Russian cathedral in which [...]
“SOUND OF FREEDOM” IS THE “SOUND OF JACKASSES” TO SOME RESIDENTS OF WHIDBEY ISLAND, WASHINGTON. Navy Growler jets from nearby airbase may be the sound of freedom for some, but it’s an excessively noisy and even damaging sound according to others. Farmers complain that some of the “kids” who fly the jets think they [...]
ALL THE NEWS THAT EVEN THE BBC FEELS COMPELLED TO AIR. The BBC, whose coverage of the Syrian “crisis” practically amounts to cheerleading for the Syrian opposition, is seemingly forced into one of its occasional “lapses” in that role when it airs a piece documenting what may well be a “war crime” involving that [...]
JULIAN ASSANGE: WHERE THERE IS UNITY IN GOVERNMENT OPPRESSION, THERE MUST BE UNITY IN CITIZENS’ RESPONSE. In a speech at the embassy of Ecuador in London which has granted him asylum from extradition to Sweden, the Wiki-Leaks founder praises crowd of “witnesses” who turned out in the middle of the night, crediting them with [...]
WHAT COUNTRY IS REALLY THE “DE-STABILIZING” COUNTRY IN THE HORN OF AFRICA? One might think this would be the tiny country of Eritrea, since it has been singled out for “sanctions” for its supposed support of “terrorist” elements in Somalia. Actually, says Glen Ford, even UN monitors have found no such support, and those [...]
MASSA’S IN THE COLD, COLD GROUND—BUT THE LEGACY OF WHITE SLAVEOWNER DOMINANCE LIVES ON IN ATLANTA. (Black Agenda Report) Bruce Dixon so describes the situation there, as a nuclear and “clean coal” developing outfit, Southern Companies, will hold a downtown celebration next month of its supposed civic virtues, including the showing of a corporate-friendly film [...]
THE BEASTS OF AFRICA—AND THE KEEPERS WHO FEED THEM. (Black Agenda Report) A White House paper called “U.S. Strategy Toward Sub-Saharan Africa” captures the attention of Glen Ford. The paper is yet another of President Obama’s platitudinous pronouncements of the high ideals of democracy and development for a continent racked by military dictatorships and poverty. [...]
IS THE WORLD READY FOR ANOTHER EXTENDED EXTRADITION PROCEEDING AS OCCURRED FOR TRIAL OF CHILEAN DICTATOR AUGUSTO PINOCHET? (Truthdig) Amy Goodman notes how world governments are falling over themselves to assist in a prosecution of former WikiLeaks operator Julian Assange, a whistleblower against abuses in the “war on terror.” In the Pinochet case, a Spanish judge fought [...]
“FREE LIBYA” OPPOSITION FORCES ARE SAYING “THANKS BUT NO THANKS” TO OFFERS OF U.S. ASSISTANCE. (AntiWar.com) Leaders make statements and people in the streets carry signs urging U.S. to stay out of Libya, expressing the sentiment that their revolution will be accomplished without foreign intervention. ` U.S. IS KEEPING ARISTIDE OUT OF HAITI BECAUSE HE [...]
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