TODAY KIVALINA, TOMORROW THE WORLD? COULD BE IF THE PDI GETS ITS WAY. Counterpunch prints introduction to new book in which Christine Shearer describes the plight of a small Alaskan village which has sued fossil fuel companies for the cost of re-locating themselves from a coastal location made extremely vulnerable to sea surge because [...]
GARDENER ON THE ROOF: SINGAPORE’S “SKY GREEN” AGRI-BUSINESS SHOWS THE WAY TO FOOD SELF-SUBSISTENCE FOR A CROWDED CITY. Being that Singapore is a country of essentially one city of 5 million people, it has depended heavily on food imports from neighboring countries. Sky Green is project hoping to eliminate that situation, with a technology [...]
Escalating inequality in the American economy and its most recent “turnaround” has led to a disturbing juxtaposition of record corporate profits and soaring executive pay while wages for average workers hit record lows as a percentage of the nation’s economic output. It’s the ultimate repudiation of “trickle down” economics that busts the myth of business [...]
“WE’RE LOSING THE COUNTRY. WHAT IS HAPPENING NOW IS (GREECE’S) LARGEST INVASION EVER.” This utterance by a member of a fascist party in Greece underscores the siege mentality behind the government’s recent rampage of the country seeking to expel “foreign-looking” people, using tactics of denial of due process for any who would seek refugee [...]
“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 [...]
STATE OF THE UNION? AWFULLY SHAKY. STATE OF GLOBAL CORPORATE PROFITS? NEVER BEEN BETTER. AND THERE LIES THE HEART OF AMERICA’S JOBS CRISIS… (Robert Reich) President Obama delivered his fourth State of the Union address to Congress last night, brimming with optimism and laying out another laundry list of proposals and wonderful plans that, as [...]
Swathed in comforting talking points and politically sharpened rhetoric, a seemingly innocuous report from President Obama’s “jobs panel” may be a troubling preview of the near future in Washington policymaking. It also underscores the likelihood that President plans on running his hotly contested reelection campaign and his presumptive second term as a committed centrist. One [...]
AS WORLD PRAYS FOR PEACE ON EARTH, PENTAGON PREPARES FOR FULL SPECTRUM DOMINANCE OF THAT EARTH (Global Research) Michel Chossudovsky and Finian Cunningham, for Global Research, review the history across presidential administrations from Truman to Obama, and embracing the leadership of both major U.S. parties of an agenda of promoting what George H.W. Bush called [...]
IN THE LAND OF OPPORTUNITY, WEARING A TURBAN CAN GET YOU MURDERED AS AN ARAB TERRORIST. (Arizona Republic) A Phoenix area man, a Sikh from India, describes the atmosphere in America as the 10th anniversary of the 9-11 bombings approaches. He describes the experience of himself and members of his family in being suspected as [...]
“WHEN (AVIGDOR) LIEBERMAN PREDICTS VIOLENCE, IT WOULD BE UNWISE TO IGNORE HIM.” (Counterpunch) So says Israeli peace activist Uri Avnery as the Palestinian Authority prepares to make a bid at the United Nations for recognition of a Palestinian state. As the Minister of Foreign Affairs makes this statement, the Israeli Defense Forces are preparing for [...]
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