A SPECTRE IS HAUNTING EUROPE AND AMERICA: AND IT’S NAME IS AUSTERITY. The literally killing effects of austerity measures undertaken as a solutions to the “financial crisis” are documented in a new book by David Stuckler and Sanjay Basu. Decimation of health support services is blamed with creating epidemics of everything from HIV and [...]
SIDING WITH THE CHARTER SCHOOL SUGAR DADDIES. This is Bruce Dixon’s description of President Obama’s educational policy. The No Child Left Behind program of school privatization and operation on a corporate accountability measures based on standardized tests results has continued with a vengeance with the Race to the Top policy of the current administration. [...]
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 [...]
NO JOY IN LEOPOLDVILLE: AMERICANS MAY JUST HAVE VOTED FOR FOUR MORE YEARS OF CONGOLESE GENOCIDE. This is the view of Glen Ford, commenting on a U.S. election whose winner has, under the guise of “peace-keeping” in a “civil war” situations, been fomenting, through proxy African governments, the very genocidal violence that has killed [...]
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 [...]
Natural gas development has exploded across the United States thanks to non-existent regulations, political support and a nod of approval from the Obama administration. But are the economic and environmental challenges associated with relying on natural gas and other underground fossil fuels deposits being sourced in seemingly every corner of the country as America’s future [...]
New York could soon join a growing number of states and municipalities that have decriminalized the possession of small amounts of marijuana, part of a sweeping trend of more lax public policies and public opinion towards pot. New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo this week endorsed legislation aimed at removing criminal penalties for individuals caught with [...]
YOU CAN’T TRUST THOSE SNEAKY IRANIANS: THEY MAY BE CONDUCTING NUCLEAR WEAPONS TESTS ON THE SLY. (McClatchy) Director of International Atomic Energy Agency Yukiya Amana adds something to the pile of suspicions about Iranian nuclear weapons development, reporting that in 2003 Iran “may” have cleaned-up a site of such testing before submitting to an IAEA [...]
AN IRAN-PAKISTAN PIPE LINE? PROVOCATIVE MOVE ON THE GRAND CHESSBOARD OF U.S.POLITICAL POWER IN CENTRAL ASIA. (OilPrice.com) Increasingly volatile relation between the U.S. and Pakistan resulting from U.S. actions in the “war of terrorism” that Pakistanis see as violation of their sovereignty and a deprivation of their desperate need for Iranian oil leads Pakistan to pursue [...]
“COCAINE, DEATH SQUADS AND THE WAR ON TERROR: U.S. IMPERIALISM AND THE CLASS STRUGGLE IN COLOMBIA.” (Counterpunch) Daniel Kovalik reviews a recent book of this title that makes the case that the “war on drugs” in Colombia is not as advertised to the public an attempt to eradicate the cocaine trade of the country but [...]
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