WATCH YOUR MOUTH, JOHN KERRY. The new U.S. Secretary of State commits the unpardonable sin of comparing the suffering visited on innocent people at the Boston Marathon with the 2010 Israeli raid and killing of numerous passengers on a “flotilla” of vessels bound with humanitarian aid to breach the Israeli blockage of Gaza. Israeli [...]
WHY DOES BARACK OBAMA HATE FDR? Despite facing slurs of “socialist” and “leftist” from his conservative opponents, President Obama is beginning to irritate fellow Democrats by seemingly turning against the party’s roots. In the same budget that guts Social Security, the centerpiece of Franklin Roosevelt’s New Deal, the president has proposed privatizing the Tennessee Valley [...]
BIG BANKS PLAY BIG ROLE IN NATION’S SHADOWY, CONTROVERSIAL NETWORK OF PAYDAY LOAN OPERATIONS. Interest rates of over 700 percent on a small loan would seem unreasonable to most people, and would be unheard of at most reputable banks. But such outlandish rates and legally questionable behavior are the norm for unregulated “payday” lenders, [...]
For the second time in less than six months a “once-in-a-lifetime” weather catastrophe struck the U.S. East Coast, leaving America’s most populous region and economic heart paralyzed and struggling to recover. And just like the unimaginable devastation caused by last October’s Superstorm Sandy, last weekend’s massive blizzard has the disturbing fingerprints of`climate change all over it. [...]
Already a defining challenge for millions of Americans after several years of unusual and deadly weather events, climate change has taken on new prominence as a political issue thanks to President Obama’s promise in his second inaugural address that he will seek to “respond” to the “threat” posed by a warming planet. But environmentalists argue [...]
WHAT DO SAUDI ARABIA, BAHRAIN AND QATAR HAVE IN COMMON? First, they are “monarchical regimes” within which are found some of the most barbaric labor practices in the world, often featuring immigrants from sub-Saharan Africa. Second, they are the closest of allies of the United States in its determined policy in fomenting insurrection in a “humanitarian [...]
HELL ON EARTH: AUSTRALIA FACES UNPRECEDENTED WILDFIRE “CATASTROPHE” Proving that the in-your-face reality of unfettered climate change is not about to recede in the new year, a national disaster is unfolding only days into 2013 in Australia, where rampaging wildfires are burning huge swaths of the country. Australians are used to the annual “bushfire [...]
DISASTER IN A TIME OF AUSTERITY: SANDY VICTIMS THROWN TO THE (LOAN) SHARKS. Victims of the superstorm devastation that struck New York and New Jersey are caught in bureaucratic red tape and the disposition of FEMA to administer any “relief” for victims through banks and other lending agencies with loan-shark level interest rates. With [...]
HAS THE WORST CASE SCENARIO FOR ARCTIC DRILLING BEEN REALIZED IN ALASKA? Warnings from scientists and environmental activists that unchecked oil drilling in the Arctic could lead to a potential disaster may have come to some semblance of fruition after a massive Shell Oil rig became grounded in a remote section of the pristine [...]
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 [...]
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