EQUATING ZIONISM WITH FASCISM AND ANTI-SEMITISM? OH MY! As U.S. White House and Congress denounce this comparison made by the Turkish prime minister, many Jews and non-Jews, in Israel and elsewhere, get the point of comparing the “war crimes” of Zionist Israel with that of Hitler or Mussolini. Back in 1991 the UN rescinded [...]
THE HOUSING RECOVERY: IT’S NOT FOR HOMEOWNERS. Darwin Graham Bond gives a crash course in how real estate investment companies are snapping up mortgage-foreclosed properties and are helping to transition homeowners into house renters. The extremely low rates of the Federal Reserve are feeding this frenzy of investments that, as far as housing is [...]
“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 [...]
TODAY KIVALINA, TOMORROW THE WORLD? COULD BE IF THE PDI GETS ITS WAY. Counterpunch prints introduction to new book in which Christine Shearer describes the plight of a small Alaskan village which has sued fossil fuel companies for the cost of re-locating themselves from a coastal location made extremely vulnerable to sea surge because [...]
GARDENER ON THE ROOF: SINGAPORE’S “SKY GREEN” AGRI-BUSINESS SHOWS THE WAY TO FOOD SELF-SUBSISTENCE FOR A CROWDED CITY. Being that Singapore is a country of essentially one city of 5 million people, it has depended heavily on food imports from neighboring countries. Sky Green is project hoping to eliminate that situation, with a technology [...]
BLACK EMANCIPATION: LINCOLN’S HORSE-TRADING OR FREDERICK DOUGLAS’S STRUGGLE? Louis Proyect deconstructs the message behind the Stephen Spielberg movie “Lincoln” based on a screenplay by Tony Kushner. While ostensibly about the 16th U.S. President, the Kushner/Spielberg effort seems more like an indirect ode to the present one, depicting Lincoln as, like Obama, a wheeler-dealer [...]
THE EURO-ZONE IN TROUBLE? PUT THE BLAME ON THE SOUTH OF ITALY. A New York Times article highlights this take on European Union economic troubles, in which northern members of the European Union tend to blame delinquencies in countries the like of Greece, Italy and Spain for their “Euro” troubles. The article describes the [...]
AMERICAN PRIORITIES: MORE MONEY FOR PRISONS, LESS FOR HIGHER EDUCATION. An alarming trend that has taken hold in the United States is a startling divergence in the amount of public money earmarked for the sustenance of the nation”s system of higher education versus that spent on incarceration. America is now a place where [...]
Washington gridlock and presidential politics are combining to cripple the nascent sector of wind energy in the United States, leaving the country lagging behind nearly every other industrialized nation and a key source of renewable energy on the brink of deep cuts even as fossil fuels receive billions in taxpayer subsidies. The fight over wind [...]
Are companies that are part of the U.S. boom in “fracking” and natural gas extraction using some of the nation’s largest and most respected colleges and universities as front groups to release research favorable to the industry and its push for expansion? That is the conclusion some have reached after high-profile cases of biased reports [...]
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