NEW YORK TIMES TAKES ITS LITTLE HATCHET TO A RACIAL DISCRIMINATION SUIT BY BLACK FARMERS. An article in the Times derogates a class action lawsuit against the USDA claiming what is a long-known fact, that this agency has conspired with local white racists to administer farm loans in a way to restrict opportunities for [...]
VAMPIRE CAPITALISM ON THE PROWL FROM DETROIT TO ATLANTA. Bruce A. Dixon describes the process by which predatory “banksters” use their political clout to manufacture fiscal “crises” in Detroit and the Atlanta suburb of DeKalb County, to force political leaders to declare their elected governments in default, and impose bankster-profitable austerity and privatization measures. [...]
IRANIAN LEADERS DON’T TRUST OBAMA IN SECRET TALKS; WILL THEY TRUST VALERIE JARRETT? Leaked White House information notes that Jarrett, the Iranian-born advisor to Obama, is heading up the preliminary talks with Iran leading to the possibility of “after-the-elections” negotiations on Iran’s nuclear development program, despite her lack of any diplomatic experience. John Glaser [...]
AUSTERITY-PROTESTING CHAOS IN STREETS OF SPAIN, PORTUGAL AND GREECE—AND NEW YORK TIMES CHOOSES MOSTLY THE FACT THAT MARKETS “FALTER” IN THESE COUNTRIES AS THE NEWS “THAT’S FIT TO PRINT.” As European central bank demands austerity measures cutting benefits to people as condition of buying up their bad debts, riots occur across southern Europe and [...]
IF WESTERN POWERS CARPET BOMB IRAN, IT WILL BE BUT THE “CONTINUATION OF POLITICS BY OTHER MEANS.” (Asia Times) Conn Hallinan adopts the language of military strategist Carl von Clausewitz to describe the showdown between lran and the West over Iran’s asserted but never proven program of enhancing uranium to produce nuclear weapons. The [...]
NEW CODE OF “RESPECTABLE” JOURNALISM: “EXTREMISM IN THE DEFENSE OF EMPIRE IS NO VICE.” (Dissident Voice) James Petras, simply by substituting the word “empire” for “freedom” in the Barry Goldwater’s famous saying about extremism, lays bare the tendency of mainstream media like the New York Times, Washington Post and Financial Times to pay obeisance to the [...]
ISRAEL V. IRAN: NEW YORK TIMES STARTS THE “GREAT WAR” JUST A TAD EARLY. (Common Dreams) The New York Times Magazine Magazine comes out with a lurid cover suggesting that this war is already underway and will escalate against the current source of an “existential fear” which seems always to drive Israeli foreign policy. A [...]
THE MORAL CAVALRY TO THE RESCUE: SOFT IMPERIALISM IN THE SOAPY WORLD OF AMERICAN VIEW OF OTHERS. (Counterpunch) Laura Agustin de-constructs the moral world of journalist Nicholas Kristof, one of many operators in a “rescue industry” not content to leave all the self-congratulatory opportunities to Oprah Winfrey. In the name of humanity (as in anti-prostitution [...]
IN THE LAND OF OPPORTUNITY, WEARING A TURBAN CAN GET YOU MURDERED AS AN ARAB TERRORIST. (Arizona Republic) A Phoenix area man, a Sikh from India, describes the atmosphere in America as the 10th anniversary of the 9-11 bombings approaches. He describes the experience of himself and members of his family in being suspected as [...]
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