Unilateral French military action against suspected Al Qaeda militants in Mali, justified as an extension of the global “war on terror,” threatens to further destabilize the Islamic world as the United States intensifies its own involvement in the conflict. Internal chaos in the North African nation has created a power vacuum in parts of the [...]
GIVING “MATERIAL SUPPORT” TO THE JIHADIST ENEMY: THE U.S. GOVERNMENT. As many people languish in detention for such “crimes” as making money donations to Islamist charities, it now emerges that the Obama administration itself provided much military support for “rebel” forces in Libya by way of arms transfers to Qatar which wound up in [...]
The following is a guest blog from Black Agenda Report editor Glen Ford. This was originally posted at Black Agenda Report on October 24, and is republished here with permission from the author. ….. Debate? What debate? What we witnessed Monday night was the total hegemony of imperial corporate ideology, served up in chocolate and [...]
“THIS WAS A WRETCHED DEBATE, WITH ALMOST NO REDEEMING QUALITIES.” You’d be forgiven if you thought Barack Obama and Mitt Romney were running mates instead of political adversaries if you watched the last of three presidential debate on Monday night. The pair spent much of the nearly two-hour event agreeing with each other on [...]
ANOTHER “HUMANITARIAN CRISIS” IN LIBYA IS PLAYING OUT IN THE DARK OF WORLD PRESS COVERAGE. Lizzie Phelan details the little-known reality that the “Misrata rebels” whose plight was so much agonized over when they faced “government” extermination while the “Gaddafi regime” was still in place, are now the terrorists in Libya: the targets of [...]
VOTER DISENFRANCHISEMENT IS NOT JUST ABOUT VOTER ID LAWS. Although they’ve received the lion’s share of media attention and legal activity, efforts by states to impose new voter ID requirements before this Election Day are hardly the only methods being used by lawmakers and government officials to cut down on the number of Americans [...]
AS LIBYAN GOVERNMENT HESITATES TO ARREST ANYONE IMPLICATED IN LETHAL ATTACK ON U.S. CONSULATE, AMERICAN INTELLIGENCE AGENTS PREPARE A NEW “TARGET LIST” FOR BRINGING THE CULPRITS TO JUSTICE: “BIN LADEN IS DEAD” STYLE. The New York Times reports on how politics in both the U.S. and Libya have stymied aggressive action against the perpetrators [...]
AT LAST, MOVIE-GOERS CAN ENJOY SECURITY FROM ANOTHER MASSACRE IN A MOVIE THEATRE. Regal Cinema reacts to aftermath of the shooting in Aurora, Colorado by a deranged male with a new policy of searching the purses of female customers. Jim Hightower comments with deep sarcasm on this closing of a tiny chink in the [...]
THERE IS NOTHING SO PERMANENT AS A TEMPORARY GOVERNMENT PROGRAM. John Glaser cites this saying attributed to Milton Friedman. It seems to capture the current situation of Libya in the aftermath of attacks on a U.S. consulate in Benghazi killed 4 people, including the U.S. ambassador to Libya. In “response,” President Obama sent [...]
“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, [...]
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