HAPPY (?) LABOR DAY!!! JIM HIGHTOWN PUTS THE “JOBLESS RECOVERY” ON THE SKEWER FOR YOUR HOLIDAY BARBECUE. The Dow Jones is up, corporate profits and CEO salaries are sky-rocketing, so the U.S. economy is “booming,” right? Well, says Hightower, only if you ignore the economic plight of middle and working class Americans, who are [...]
“EVEN THEIR YACHT DIDN’T WANT TO PAY TAXES.” As part of its “shadow convention” project to show what vital issues are being avoided at the Republican and Democratic national conventions, Huffington Post runs a piece describing wherein lies the real policitical “action” around the GOP event in Tampa. While Romney intones the usual “morning [...]
The 2012 election will be the most expensive in history thanks to fewer regulations on political fundraising, and the national party conventions that kick off this week with the Republicans gathering in Tampa are similarly being transformed by the avalanche of big money and corporate largess. The Republican National Convention in Florida and next week’s [...]
BETTER WATCH OUT, BETTER NOT SHOUT: AUSTERITY, MILITARISM AND AN ENHANCED POLICE STATE ARE COMING TO TOWN! By Christmas of this year, either Obama or Romney will be elected President for the next four years. If Romney wins, the country is clearly in for a strong turn to the right on these matters. But [...]
U.S. AND NATO TROOPS IN AFGHANISTAN HAVE “GUARDIAN ANGELS”: TO PROTECT THEM FROM…THEIR AFGHAN “ALLIES.” Recent instances of the killing of occupation troops by members of Afghan security forces highlight what has become a “debacle” of failed mission in the country. The commanding General decrees designated “angels” in each unit to keep their guns [...]
“WHAT WE’RE GIVING YOU ARE FACTS AND CONCLUSIONS BASED ON SOLID INTELLIGENCE.” (Global Research) These ominous words—uttered by Secretary of State Colin Powell before the UN Security Council and dutifully trumpeted by a compliant media in the run-up to invasion of Iraq in 2003—are being surfed today in another journey on a war path; this time with [...]
ETCHING THE TOMBSTONE OF EUROPEAN-STYLE AUSTERITY: “THE STRATEGY OF AUSTERITY HAS…BEEN COUNTERPRODUCTIVE…” (The Globe & Mail) ` A new report from the International Labor Organization lays out in raw statistics the destruction and “devastating consequences” of the austerity programs imposed on most of Europe and, to a somewhat lesser extent, the United States. The [...]
“YOU ARE THE PEOPLE PROTECTING THE REVOLUTION AND SYMBOL OF OUR PRIDE.” (IPS News) This inscription scrawled on the wall of a police training facility in Libya expresses the intention of the transitional government to take over security in the post-Gaddafi era. The reality behind these intentions is that many of the country’s “protectors” [...]
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