AS LIBYAN GOVERNMENT HESITATES TO ARREST ANYONE IMPLICATED IN LETHAL ATTACK ON U.S. CONSULATE, AMERICAN INTELLIGENCE AGENTS PREPARE A NEW “TARGET LIST” FOR BRINGING THE CULPRITS TO JUSTICE: “BIN LADEN IS DEAD” STYLE. The New York Times reports on how politics in both the U.S. and Libya have stymied aggressive action against the perpetrators [...]
“WAITING FOR SUPERMAN” (ARNE DUNCAN) AND HE “WON’T BACK DOWN.” Last year’s and this year’s entries in the bash-the-teachers derby movies have made the same point: that big city schools are a mess, the teachers and the unions are to blame, and that union-busting and turn-around closing of “failing” schools to be replaced by [...]
IS PRESIDENT OBAMA PLAYING ELECTION YEAR POLITICS WITH YOUNG AND AMBITIOUS “ILLEGAL” IMMIGRANTS? In the razor-thin margins that will likely decide this year’s presidential election, both sides are going after every last possible vote in a bid to seize the White House. Due to their booming population and heavy concentrations in so-called “swing states” [...]
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 [...]
AFGHAN MASSACRE: CAN YOU SPELL M-Y-L-A-I? (World Socialist) Patrick Martin, reflecting on the rampage of killing by (apparently) one U.S. soldier in Afghanistan, reflects on parallels with My Lai and similar atrocities committed against Vietnamese civilians over 40 years ago. The situations are different on the surface, as the current incident involves, so for [...]
“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 [...]
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 [...]
TOTAL RECALL: OVER ONE MILLION WISCONSIN VOTERS SIGN A PETITION TO REMOVE GOV. SCOTT WALKER FROM OFFICE VIA RECALL ELECTION. (Wisconsin State Journal) The long struggle against Wisconsin Republican Gov. Scott Walker reached a stunning crescendo on Tuesday as organizers of the effort to recall Walker turned in more than one million signatures for the [...]
“SEVERELY WEAKENED” AL-QAEDA IS SHOWING A SERIOUS CASE OF SURVIVAL IN THE FORM OF ITS LOCAL “FRANCHISES.” (Asia Times) Defense Secretary Panetta’s claim that operations like the capture of Osama bin Laden have put al-Qaeda “on the decline” is again belied by recent terrorist attacks in Iraq and Syria. While the central leadership may have [...]
IRANIAN COMPLAINTS OF U.S. PLANS TO SEND MORE SHIPS TO PERSIAN GULF ARE DISMISSED BY PENTAGON AS PROOF THAT SANCTIONS AGAINST IRAN ARE EFFECTIVE. (USA Today) Pentagon as well as White House spokesmen make this statement, on the apparent premise that an imperialist move in international affairs is justified if it is having a desired [...]
Recent Comments