L.A. UNDRESSED BY RUTH FOWLER. British journalist and screen-writer who wrote “Girl, Undressed,” based on her experience in the New York City sex trade, deconstructs the public outrage concerning Christopher Dorner, the deranged former LAPD officer turned cop killer. As usual, public notice focuses on the derangement and not what was in the mind [...]
PRETEXT FOR WAR?—WHO IN SYRIA IS LAUNCHING SHELLS INTO TURKEY? As NATO condemns the Syrian government for “stray” shells hitting inside Turkey, General in charge of military operations in the area says it is uncertain whether they came from the government or from elements of the Syrian opposition and the Kurdish minority in Turkey, [...]
THE CUBAN MISSILE CRISIS: THAT’S HISTORY, ISN’T IT? It is indeed history that 50 years ago the world approached self-annihilation, as a nuclear confrontation between the U.S. and the Soviet Union brought the world to the brink of that catastrophe when the Soviet Union’s plans to place missiles in Cuba ran against the U.S. [...]
U.S. AND NATO TROOPS IN AFGHANISTAN HAVE “GUARDIAN ANGELS”: TO PROTECT THEM FROM…THEIR AFGHAN “ALLIES.” Recent instances of the killing of occupation troops by members of Afghan security forces highlight what has become a “debacle” of failed mission in the country. The commanding General decrees designated “angels” in each unit to keep their guns [...]
OBAMA CARE LIVES! (BUT FOR HOW LONG?). (Yahoo News) The Supreme Court delivers its long-awaited verdict on the constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act. In a 5-4 decision, conservative Chief Justice Roberts joins the “liberal” members of the Court in upholding virtually all of the law, including the controversial “individual mandate” to require everyone to [...]
NATO’S NEW “PARTNERSHIPS” ARE “SPRINGING UP LIKE POISONOUS MUSHROOMS AFTER A SPRING RAIN.” (Boiling Frogs) This month’s summit in Chicago demonstrated the aggressive expansion of NATO, which is the cover entity for the worldwide military presence of the United States. An especially active area of expansionism involves such Balkan states as Macedonia and Bosnia, to whom the [...]
POWERFUL MULTI-NATIONAL AGRIBUSINESS CORPORATIONS AND A COMPLIANT AND CORRUPT LOCAL GOVERNMENT: RECIPE FOR WORLD LAND GRABS. (Foreign Policy in Focus) Recent protests in African country of Sierra Leone highlight a world pattern: the acquisition for mono-culture cultivation of tracts of land removed from the control of local farmers. Around 20% of the country’s arable land [...]
The first three months of 2012 have emerged as a turning point in the American occupation of Afghanistan, with a string of deadly and gruesome incidents seeming to embody the wider deterioration of a mission that is ill-defined and spiraling out of control. Recent headlines out of Afghanistan have left little doubt that something very [...]
THE “AL QAEDA” BRAND ON INSURGENCY IN AFRICA IS SELLING QUITE NICELY, THANK YOU, AS A PRETEXT TO WESTERN RE-CONQUEST OF THAT CONTINENT. (Global Research) Focusing on a scary report of a British foreign policy think tank, Finian Cunningham describes intelligence agencies in the U.S., Britain, France and NATO as attempting to raise the “specter” of [...]
“ALL THEY CARE ABOUT, IN THE END, IS THE WAR ITSELF—OR RATHER, WAR ITSELF.” (Chris Floyd) The April 1 annnouncement by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton that the U.S. government will be help arm the “Free Syrian Army” opposition comes as no surprise to Chris Floyd, although the real “fools” being played by these and [...]
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