ALL I EVER NEEDED TO KNOW TO RUN ATLANTA’S SCHOOL SYSTEM, I LEARNED BY SERVING ON THE BOARD OF BRITISH PETROLEUM. (Black Agenda Report) Errol Davis, head of Atlanta school system, has the kind of “background” in public education that is typical of other school chiefs in other cities as well as Secretary of Education Arne [...]
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 [...]
IT’S AIPAC-BLOSSOM TIME IN WASHINGTON, D.C. (New York Times) Candidates for President—the incumbent and his GOP rivals—stand in line to address the American Israel Public Affairs Committee. While the Republicans pander the jingo votes with a tough stands against the possibility of Iran gaining nuclear weapons and becoming a more ominous “existential” threat to Israel, Obama condemns [...]
IN SOUTH AFRICA, THE FREEDOM CHARTER IS A DEAD LETTER (BUT NOT TO WORRY, NELSON MANDELA’S PICTURE IS ON THE NEW SOUTH AFRICAN CURRENCY.) (Black Agenda Report) The current President of South Africa, of the revolutionary ANC party, makes it clear that nationalization of the mining industry, as pledged in the 1950s-era Freedom Charter of [...]
PORTUGAL: WHAT HAPPENS WHEN AUSTERITY DOESN’T WORK… (New York Times) Greece is in flames, with hundreds of thousands of citizens taking to the streets and clashing with authorities over more mandated austerity measures that bankers and financiers claim are a vital step on the path to economic recovery for Europe. Greece is in bad shape, [...]
“A CIA-M16 PLAN TO STAGE FAKE BORDER INCIDENTS AS AN EXCUSE FOR AN INVASION (OF SYRIA) BY SYRIA’S PRO-WESTERN NEIGHBOURS.“ (Global Research) Sound like something that might be happening in 2012 as the U.S., U.K., France and the Arab League contemplate an “intervention” in a Syria in which anti-government demonstrations are being “brutally suppressed?” Well [...]
TOUGH TIMES FOR GOVERNMENT WORKERS IN THE U.S.A. (New York Times) A New York Times article describes the malaise of public sector employees across the country as local governments are making them, as a Wisconsin woman said, “scapegoats for a troubled economy,” attempting to balance stressed budgets by cutting back on retirement and health care [...]
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