WATCH YOUR MOUTH, JOHN KERRY. The new U.S. Secretary of State commits the unpardonable sin of comparing the suffering visited on innocent people at the Boston Marathon with the 2010 Israeli raid and killing of numerous passengers on a “flotilla” of vessels bound with humanitarian aid to breach the Israeli blockage of Gaza. Israeli [...]
PRESIDENT OBAMA WINS REELECTION. ` Surpassing the 270 electoral votes necessary shortly after 11 PM on Tuesday night, President Barack Obama defeated Republican challenger Mitt Romney to win a second term in the White House. After a historically long, bitter and expensive campaign, the status quo was retained in Washington as the House and Senate [...]
New state-based voting restrictions have been joined by a more dangerous player in the game of voter suppression. There is growing concern that an army of tens of thousands of poll watchers ready to be stationed at voting sites across the country on Election Day could potentially disenfranchise poor and minority voters and swing the [...]
IRANIAN LEADERS DON’T TRUST OBAMA IN SECRET TALKS; WILL THEY TRUST VALERIE JARRETT? Leaked White House information notes that Jarrett, the Iranian-born advisor to Obama, is heading up the preliminary talks with Iran leading to the possibility of “after-the-elections” negotiations on Iran’s nuclear development program, despite her lack of any diplomatic experience. John Glaser [...]
“WAR CRIMES IN PROGRESS.” Amnesty International so characterizes the escalating practice of Syrian rebels beating and summarily executing people associated with the Syrian government, many of whom are soldiers manning checkpoints designed to quell the insurgency. Free Syrian Army, the “umbrella” group supported by U.S. and other foreign powers and which “coordinates” rebel efforts, [...]
“IT’S GOING TO RUIN OUR OCEAN”: SHELL OIL’S PLAN FOR MASSIVE ARCTIC DRILLING RUNS AGROUND…LITERALLY. (CNN) The “most complex, most difficult wells” ever drilled are to be found in the Alaskan wilderness, where Shell is launching a controversial plan to increase oil exploration in the Aleutian Islands. It is one of the largest such [...]
New restrictions on voting rights included in legislation passed by numerous states since the last presidential election is being blamed for the potential disenfranchisement of millions of currently registered voters — including nearly one million in Pennsylvania alone — in time for this November’s contest. The nationwide crackdown on voting is being described as a [...]
“WE’RE GOING TO BE SEEING A LOT MORE WEATHER LIKE THIS, A LOT MORE IMPACTS LIKE WE’RE SEEING FROM THIS SERIES OF HEATWAVES, FIRES AND STORMS. AND WE BETTER PREPARE FOR IT.” (Democracy Now) ` Scientists and weather experts are trying to explain to ordinary Americans that the recent string of extreme and violent [...]
TSUNAMI PREPAREDNESS IN THE COUNTRIES AROUND THE INDIAN OCEAN?—NOT SO MUCH. (IPS News) Countries including some island nations along the continents of Australia, Asia and Africa are mostly ill-prepared to protect their people from recurring tsumanis in the Ocean. In some places, governments do not bother to warn people in certain areas of impending disaster, [...]
Nearly 200,000 Florida residents may be disenfranchised by their state government, with officials in Gov. Rick Scott’s administration seeking to “scrub” names from the voter rolls in time for the November election. A broad coalition of voting rights groups are pleading with Gov. Scott and the Florida secretary of state — in charge of the [...]
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