“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 [...]
INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL TRIBUNAL ON FORMER YUGOSLAVIA DELIVERS NO JUSTICE AND NO RECONCILIATION BUT A LOT OF CONTINUED SERB-BASHING. Diana Johnstone reviews the recent activities at the Tribunal and concludes that it has and continues to demonize the Serbian state and its leaders in pursuit of defining NATO’s 1999 bombing of Kosovo as a “humanitarian [...]
FIRST THE SENTENCE, THEN THE VERDICT: THE WAR ON TERRORISM IN WONDERLAND. Lewis Carroll’s classic depiction of a trial of Alice evokes the kind of “legal procedure” in which people are convicted and punished before or even instead of being found guilty after presentation of the evidence of their crimes. A legal memorandum from the Office [...]
U.S. AND WORLD MEDIA COVERAGE OF THE CONNECTICUT SHOOTING IS DRIVEN BY A POLICE STATE “AGENDA.” So argues former Assistant Treasury Secretary Paul Craig Roberts, following his interview on the subject for Moscow RT television. Roberts notes that this media, like most others, is focused on the issue of a ban on “assault weapons,” whereas the most [...]
“WE HAVEN’T BURIED THE CHILDREN YET. WE’RE NOT DISCUSSING IT.” While media mogul Rupert Murdoch has been praised for his public reactions to the Connecticut school massacre by calling for stricter gun regulations in the United States, his Fox News cable channel is accused of dropping the ball on coverage of the tragedy by [...]
“IT SHOWS HOW MUCH DESIRE THERE IS FOR SECRECY AMONG HUGE DONORS WHO WANT TO BE ABLE TO SPEND MONEY TO INFLUENCE THIS ELECTION WITHOUT LEAVING ANY FINGERPRINTS.” So-called “social welfare” nonprofits groups are spending more money to influence the 2012 election than the super-PACs loosely connected to the actual campaigns, a new report [...]
OPINION: THE RESPONSIBILITY OF TORTURE PROSECUTION (Guardian UK) fter years of promises, the Obama administration has announced that it will not be closing the military prison at Guantanamo Bay any time soon. In fact, 9/11 “mastermind” Khalid Sheikh Mohammed will be tried their in a military tribunal, continuing the dark legacy of the Bush administration’s [...]
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