DOES ISRAEL HAVE A RIGHT TO EXIST? Let’s put that another way, says Patrick Higgins; does “murderous settler-colonialism” have a right to exist? The current Israeli raids on Gaza provoke this question. Higgins compares the Jewish settler movement in the middle east to the process of white settlers “winning the west” from native Americans. [...]
“THE ISOLATION, THE EMBARGO, THE INDIFFERENCE, LOOKING THE OTHER WAY, HAVE BEEN INEFFECTIVE…” (Reuters) Latin American leaders delivered a “bruising” message against President Obama and American policies towards Cuba at the recently concluded Summit of the Americas in Colombia. Far from being feted as a “rock star” when he attended the conference shortly after winning [...]
THE INVASION OF SYRIA STARTS WITH JOHN MCCAIN AND JOE LIEBERMAN… (Foreign Policy) ` Noted hawks in the U.s. Senate, John McCain and Joe Lieberman surprised everyone with an unannounced trip to the Turkey-Syria border this week to visit refugees of the Syrian uprising and, more importantly, to meet with leaders of the “Free Syrian Army” to [...]
While the country sits in the grip of a historic recession and economic downturn, numerous states are taking aim at the victims of this crisis and placing unprecedented — and potentially unconstitutional — new burdens on those that rely on government aid to survive. Proposed in 36 states and signed into law among a smaller [...]
DOES THE FOURTH AMENDMENT APPLY TO YOUR IRISES AND FINGERPRINTS? THE UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT DOESN’T THINK SO… (Al Jazeera) “Mobile biometrics.” It’s a phrase with a futuristic ring to it, but this technology is not out of a science fiction novel. It is very real, and it is about to get a major boost via [...]
LAND GRAB IN AFRICA: EVEN HARVARD UNIVERSITY IS GETTING INTO THE ACT. (Colorlines) While China is widely condemned for its economic imperialism by buying up productive lands in Africa, it’s a world-wide practice in which entrepreneurs from everywhere are putting a “humanitarian” gloss on some very lucrative operations that fatten their own bottom lines but [...]
The accusation that the Bush administration directly ordered the CIA to “get” a prominent academic and Iraq War critic with disparaging personal information has taken a serious turn, with the U.S. Senate now prepared to investigate the incident. .. The story emanates from information given to the New York Times by a former CIA official, [...]
INTERNET CENSORSHIP BEGINS AT HOME. (Intel Hub) As U.S. government agencies condemn suppression of popular access to the internet in countries with “suppressive” regimes, an article on the Intel Hub website indicates that this practice is occurring throughout the world. The internet search engine Google, which operates the popular YouTube site on which citizens post [...]
PALESTINE PAPERS SHOW ONE-SIDED U.S. SUPPORT OF ISRAEL AGAINST PALESTINE IN 3 U.S. PRESIDENTIAL ADMINISTRATIONS. (Al Jazeera/EPA) (Counterpunch) New documents leaked to and published by al Jazeera show a pattern of consistent offers of compromise by a craven Palestinian leadership, consistently rebuffed by an Israeli leadership bent on total elimination of Palestine, and consistently supported [...]
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