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 [...]
WHEN LOCAL NEWSPAPERS DIE, CAN THE DEATH OF COMMUNITY CITIZENSHIP BE FAR BEHIND? This question is addressed by Jessica Bruder in a feature article in the Christian Science Monitor. Her article is keynoted by a mournful style New Orleans funeral on the occasion of the drastic reduction of newspaper publication in favor of more [...]
HOW ALEXANDER THE GREAT BECAME ALEXANDER THE HUMILIATED: MODERN EMPIRES SHOULD LEARN A LITTLE FROM HISTORY. (Counterpunch) Deepak Tripathi notes a recurring pattern when imperial powers, drunk with the hubris of their self-perceived invincibility, push their domination to the point of deeply humilating vanquished peoples. What history “teaches” is that these operations carry within them [...]
JFK ASSASSINATION: ON 48TH ANNIVERSARY, NEW YORK TIMES DEGRADES CONSPIRACY THEORY INTO A “CAUTIONARY TALE.” Josiah Thompson, who “wrote the book” on the mysterious “umbrella man” at the scene of JFK’s murder 11/22/63, is interviewed by film-maker Errol Morris, whose “op-doc” video is reproduced in today’s Times. In a perpetual style of ridicule of conspiracy [...]
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