SRI LANKA IS “COUNTRY OF CONCERN” TO BRITISH FOREIGN OFFICE FOR ITS HUMAN RIGHTS ABUSES; BUT A MAIN BUSINESS OPPORTUNITY FOR U.K. ARMS DEALERS. Expose article by U.K. Independent shows that millions of pounds worth of small arms have flown into the country, many of them used in the escalated violence of the government [...]
A renewed legislative effort to raise the national minimum wage and give a boost to the millions of Americans mired in working poverty was a featured promise made by President Obama in Tuesday’s State of the Union address. But political reality is likely to intrude on the president’s vision as familiar foes of wage hikes [...]
HOMEGROWN THREATS: NYPD DEFINES SUCH MUSLIM BEHAVIORS AS GIVING UP SMOKING, GAMBLING AND HIP HOP MUSIC AS INDICATIONS OF THEIR “JIHADIZATION.” In New York as elsewhere Muslim Americans are subjected to very intrusive surveillance at any places where they might congregate with fellow Muslims, not only at mosques but cafes and book stores that they [...]
For the second time in less than six months a “once-in-a-lifetime” weather catastrophe struck the U.S. East Coast, leaving America’s most populous region and economic heart paralyzed and struggling to recover. And just like the unimaginable devastation caused by last October’s Superstorm Sandy, last weekend’s massive blizzard has the disturbing fingerprints of`climate change all over it. [...]
STATE OF THE UNION? AWFULLY SHAKY. STATE OF GLOBAL CORPORATE PROFITS? NEVER BEEN BETTER. AND THERE LIES THE HEART OF AMERICA’S JOBS CRISIS… (Robert Reich) President Obama delivered his fourth State of the Union address to Congress last night, brimming with optimism and laying out another laundry list of proposals and wonderful plans that, as [...]
Swathed in comforting talking points and politically sharpened rhetoric, a seemingly innocuous report from President Obama’s “jobs panel” may be a troubling preview of the near future in Washington policymaking. It also underscores the likelihood that President plans on running his hotly contested reelection campaign and his presumptive second term as a committed centrist. One [...]
Republicans were not happy with President Obama’s promise in his State of the Union Tuesday night to rebuff any attempts — for now — to cut Social Security benefits or raise the retirement age, although he did not specifically mention fighting efforts to adjust when benefits kick in. The president called for a “bipartisan solution” [...]
PRESIDENT OBAMA’S STATE OF THE UNION: NOT “SATISFYINGLY PROGRESSIVE.” (Reuters) (The Nation) The Nation’s John Nichols grades the president’s State of the Union and finds some things to applaud but many more that ought to be troubling for progressives. What Nichols calls Obama’s “Dwight Eisenhower speech” was big on unity, hopeful rhetoric and a supposedly [...]
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Breaking before President Obama delivers his second State of the Union address on Tuesday night is the revelation that he will propose a spending freeze on all non-security and non-”entitlement” portions of the federal budget, keeping a major chunk of domestic government spending at the level pf the budget for fiscal year 2011. While the [...]
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