WEST MUST “DEFEND THE PEOPLE OF KYRZAKSTAN BEFORE THE COUNTRY BECOMES ANOTHER SAFE HAVEN FOR TERRORISTS.” This oil rich country has resources sought by Russia, China and the U.S. but, apart from the remoteness of the country in central Asia, where world diplomats even have trouble locating it on the map, there is nothing [...]
SENATE INTELLIGENCE COMMITTEE HEARING THROWS A WHIFF OF TRANSPARENCY INTO TARGETED DRONE ASSASSINATIONS BY U.S. AGENCIES. Hearings for John Brennan, current counter-intelligence chief and Obama’s nominee for director of C.I.A., show signs of restlessness of some Senators like the chair of the committee, Dianne Feinstein. Expressing frustration at the difficulty of the committee in [...]
ISRAEL: GET YOUR GAS MASK, YITZAK! SYRIA MAY BE ABOUT TO “TRANSFER” ITS CHEMICAL WEAPONS TO THE HEZBOLLAH MILITIA IN LEBANON. Israeli warplanes, for the first time in six years, launch an airstrike keep inside Syria, allegedly targeting a convoy headed toward Lebanon with such weapons. Although analysts doubt that either Syria or its [...]
DRINKING BEER WITH BUSH OR PLAYING FLAG FOOTBALL WITH ROMNEY: WHEN ARE NEWS REPORTERS GOING TO DROP THEIR PRETENSES OF BEING OBJECTIVE JOURNALISTS? An Associated Press reporter confuses political news with a fashion review in describing Romney’s attire and other senseless details of Romney and his campaign aides playing a game with reporters and [...]
VOTER DISENFRANCHISEMENT IS NOT JUST ABOUT VOTER ID LAWS. Although they’ve received the lion’s share of media attention and legal activity, efforts by states to impose new voter ID requirements before this Election Day are hardly the only methods being used by lawmakers and government officials to cut down on the number of Americans [...]
U.S. MILITARY SLOW TO CONVICT SOLDIERS ACCUSED OF RAPE AND OTHER SEXUAL ASSAULT CHARGES—BUT QUICK TO THREATEN DISCIPLINE OF A WHISTLE-BLOWER FROM MILITARY CRIME LAB. McClatchy Newspapers publishes a report on the disposition of such charges and shows that less than 10% of them result in convictions. In another part of the wider [...]
“NATIONAL STARBUCKS APPRECIATION DAY” TO COUNTER THE CHICK-FIL-A ONE—DOES THAT MAKE A LOT OF SENSE? Cord Jefferson doubts it, noting that there is a vast difference between the two fast-food restaurants in their active support of either side of the marriage equality issue. For conservatives, the “day” made sense as contributing to the coffers [...]
TRAGEDY TIME IN AMERICA: WHEN THE COUNTRY’S ASSASSIN-IN-CHIEF BECOMES THE COUNTRY’S COMFORTER-IN-CHIEF. President Obama does the “moral multi-tasking” which seems to go with his office of leader of his nation which has become the bully of the world. The Aurora CO shootings follow the endlessly repeated pattern in which horrific situations, both “man made” [...]
“WE HAD TO DESTROY THE VILLAGE IN ORDER TO SAVE IT.” (Common Dreams) This “idiotic” statement of a U.S. Army Major to explain the bombing of the Ben Tre hamlet during the Vietnam war seems to be the “thinking” as well behind the current “education reform” movement directed to destroying public education in order to [...]
PHILADELPHIA STORY: COULD BE U.S. STORY WHEN IT COMES TO THE CLOSING OF PUBLIC SCHOOLS. (Black Agenda Report) Philadelphia is only one of the most recent of numerous school systems including Atlanta and New York City, following the lead of U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan, former CEO of Chicago public schools in wielding a [...]
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