PUBLIC REACTIONS TO BOSTON BOMBING: SELECTIVE SYMPATHY AND IRRATIONAL FEAR. While a definitive “who did it?” narrative has yet to emerge, preliminary reactions show an all-too-familiar pattern, according to Glenn Greenwald. There is the typical quick assumption of a “Muslim” involvement that puts U.S. Muslims everywhere at fear of retaliation, and makes “heightened security” [...]
U.S NAVY PREPARES TO DEPLOY LASER “DEATH RAY” IN PERSIAN GULF After years of speculation that the Pentagon was working on a secret laser weapon project, euphemistically described as a “death ray” by observers, the Navy revealed the finished product this week. It’s a curious device that can shoot lethal laser rays at objects, [...]
HOMEGROWN THREATS: NYPD DEFINES SUCH MUSLIM BEHAVIORS AS GIVING UP SMOKING, GAMBLING AND HIP HOP MUSIC AS INDICATIONS OF THEIR “JIHADIZATION.” In New York as elsewhere Muslim Americans are subjected to very intrusive surveillance at any places where they might congregate with fellow Muslims, not only at mosques but cafes and book stores that they [...]
DEEP IN THE HEART OF TEXAS: ISLAMOPHOBIA TAKES A SET-BACK. Irving school officials, responding to a rash of complaints that school children were being “indoctrinated” with pro-Islamic propaganda, hired a “socially conservative” educator to evaluate these claims. What he found, instead, was that the school curriculum in fact lacked such propaganda, and that pro-CHRISTIAN [...]
“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 [...]
AFTER THEY TORTURE YOU, A NICE GUY COMES IN AND OFFERS YOU A CIGARETTE. Jacob Levich, commenting on recent book Living Under Drones, notes the drone attacks launched by the U.S. against civilian populations in Pakistan and other countries as a “counter-insurgency” agenda against any countries resistant to American imperialist domination. He describes this [...]
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 [...]
A LESSON THAT AMERICAN FOREIGN POLICY NEVER SEEMS TO LEARN: IF YOU FEED A SCORPION IT WILL BITE YOU. British columnist Robert Fisk cites this saying in a survey of the dismal history of U.S. efforts to arm insurgent and opposition elements: from the support of the Afghan insurgency against the Soviet Union to [...]
“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, [...]
“NON-ALIGNED MOVEMENT” IS NOT STOPPED BY A HURRICANE IN TEHRAN, BUT ITS MEETING THIS WEEK MAY RAISE A MIGHTY WIND IN INTERNATIONAL DIPLOMACY. The “Atlanticist” alliance of U.S., Israel and NATO members that fancies itself as the “international community” is shaking with anger against the meeting of 120 world “non-aligned” nations in Tehran. The [...]
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