While new questions swirl about the influence of Islamists among rebel groups in Syria, the United States has moved significantly closer to direct military intervention in the brutal civil war by pledging a sizable increase in aid to opposition groups fighting Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and his allies. The aid promised by the Obama administration [...]
“THE DANGER SIGNS ARE ALL AROUND”: 2012 IS THE YEAR OF CLIMATE CHANGE With the end of another year comes the predictable reviews of various events and specific categories of what occurred in 2012. For scientists and weather experts, their conclusion is stark and sobering: climate change is happening “before our eyes” and at [...]
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 [...]
“YOU ARE THE PEOPLE PROTECTING THE REVOLUTION AND SYMBOL OF OUR PRIDE.” (IPS News) This inscription scrawled on the wall of a police training facility in Libya expresses the intention of the transitional government to take over security in the post-Gaddafi era. The reality behind these intentions is that many of the country’s “protectors” [...]
WHAT TO DO IN A TIME OF ECONOMIC CRISIS? GO SHOPPING OF COURSE! (In These Times) It wasn’t just George W. Bush exhorting Americans after 9/11 to go shopping to show terrorists they cannot disrupt our normal lives. It becomes a standard of “normalcy” itself in a consumerized culture when, despite a disastrously low level [...]
HUMANS IN LIBYA: HOW’S THAT HUMANITARIAN INTERVENTION THINGY WORKING OUT FOR YOU? (World Socialist) Not very well, latest reports indicate, as the NATO effort to relieve Libya of the humanitarian disaster supposedly threatened by forces loyal to Gaddafi becomes a real disaster in the “regime change” agenda of NATO. Daily and frequent bombings have taken [...]
Former U.S. Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney writes from Libya… ……………………. While serving on the House International Relations Committee from 1993 to 2003, it became clear to me that the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) was an anachronism. Founded in 1945 at the end of World War II, NATO was founded by the United States in response [...]
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