Afghanistan: Obama’s ‘dumb’ war Mon May 7, 2012 1:9PM GMT Hamid Javadi U.S. President Barack Obama addressing the American public from Bagram Airbase in Afghanistan on May 1 Since taking office as president of the United States, Barack Obama made the war inAfghanistan his own war. He called the occupation of Iraq ”a dumb war”, but in Afghanistan he approved [...]
Former CIA analyst Ray McGovern says the US will not stop its assassination drone strikes due to its profits for arms makers, Press TV reports. link to voice recording. Very good listening http://presstv.com/detail/240022.html “These drone strikes create more terrorists. So, the war will keep going on and the question is who profits? [...]
Israeli flags fly over Ulpana. Photograph: Sebastian Scheiner/AP Ulpana illegal outpost must be gone by July, Israeli government is warned Judges reject coalition’s plea for delay and set new deadline for demolition of unauthorised buildings on Palestinian land The Israeli government has been given a fresh deadline for the controversial demolition of a Jewish outpost [...]
A third of all globally donated clothes end up in sub-Saharan Africa via wholesale rag houses, where they end up lining the streets or small boutiques such as this market at Katangua in Nigeria. Photograph: Monica Mark for the Guardian Europe‘s secondhand clothes brings mixed blessings to Africa Roaring trade in often smuggled charity castoffs [...]
“As the centers of American power were seized and hijacked by corporations, the media continued to pay deference to systems of power that could no longer be considered honest or democratic. The media treat criminals on Wall Street as responsible members of the ruling class. They treat the criminals in the [...]
Russia’s “Jurassic Capitalism” Pt.2 Part 2 of Aleksandr Buzgalin’s presentation on the Russian economy Go to story | Go to homepage Socialist Hollande wins French presidency Al Jazeera: Francois Hollande has been elected president of France, the country’s first Socialist leader in nearly two decades. Go to story | Go to homepage The Promise What you have [...]
thecoldwhisper (CC BY 2.0) Flags and demonstrators in Tahrir Square, late 2011. Dispatches From Cairo: Blood, Youth and Revolution Posted on May 4, 2012 By Lauren Unger-Geoffroy We asked Lauren Unger-Geoffroy, an international artist who lives in Cairo, to share her perspective of life in Egypt after the revolution. In this entry, she writes about the outbreak of new [...]
German chancellor Angela Merkel has insisted Athens must comply with the stringent terms of its €130bn (£100bn) bailout. Photograph: Fabrizio Bensch/Reuters Eurozone crisis: Merkel tells Athens and Paris to stick to spending limits Efforts to save the euro under threat after EU leaders’ strategies collide with the wishes of voters in Greece and France Europe‘s [...]
David Cameron, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom at the Annual Meeting 2012 of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, January 26, 2012. (Photo: Moritz Hager / World Economic Forum)Who’s an economy for? Voters in France and Greece have made it clear it’s not for the bond traders. A Question of Timing: What America Can [...]
The Worst Yet to Come? Why Nuclear Experts Are Calling Fukushima a Ticking Time-Bomb Monday, 07 May 2012 14:20By Brad Jacobson, AlterNet | Report Experts say acknowledging the threat would call into question the safety of dozens of identically designed nuclear power plants in the U.S. More than a year after the triple [...]
The Myth of America’s Laissez-Faire Past Tariffs, trusts, corporate-state collusion and “communism of pelf” did not equal free markets Sheldon Richman | May 6, 2012 In 1888, at the height of the Gilded Age, a rather prominent American said some startling things. First he observes: Our cities are the abiding places [...]
Global Corporations Undermining Democracy Worldwide by Isolda Agazzi GENEVA – In a world where governments are increasingly subservient to global finance capital, multinationals are gaining ground in the fight against state regulations that aim to protect the environment, public health or social policies. Instead of Chevron paying for its pollution of the indigenous lands in [...]
‘The Palestine Chronicle is proof positive that there is hope.’ (Zoriah.net)
US soldiers overlook Major‘s Bay at the Pacific Missile Range Facility on the Hawaiian island of Kauai, one of the sites of the Rim of the Pacific (RIMPAC) maritime exercises [Jon Letman/Al Jazeera] Without question: US military expansion in the Asia-Pacific The expansion of the US military into Asia-Pacific is not just about power, but [...]
‘The meetings, lunches and visits showcase a parallel, unaccountable universe where decisions are made and deals done.’ Photograph: Laurence Griffiths/Getty A web of privilege supports this so-called meritocracy On both sides of the Atlantic, the social ties that bind our political, legal and corporate forces lie exposed Shortly after Mitt Romney‘s failed 2008 campaign for [...]
François Hollande, France’s newly elected president. Photograph: Thomas Coex/AFP This is what passes for bad news these days. A proper election process looks to have rejected austerity. That’s bad apparently. In two elections candidates at least claiming to want to give people a voice may be elected or govern as part of a coalition. That [...]
There are zero commercial reactors operating in Japan today. On March 10, 2011, there were 54 licensed to operate, well over 10% percent of the global fleet. But for the first time in 42 years, a country at the core of global reactor electricity is producing none of its own. Worldwide, there [...]
Bicyclist Samuel H. Winstead talks about his family’s history with wars throughout the history of the nation during a stop at the Red Carpet Motel in Culpeper Wednesday. By Allison Brophy Champion | Culpeper Star-Exponent World War II veteran Samuel Winstead arrives today on the National Mall in Washington, D.C. following a seven-day, 350-mile bicycle Ride for [...]
Vladimir Putin was sworn in as President of Russia again, with a personal mandate of harnessing the resource potenial of Russia’s far eastern territories (Photo by Junko Kimura/Getty Images) [GALLO/GETTY] Moscow, Russia - Vladimir Putin – the apex of a highly personalised system – is back as President of Russia. Forget about a velvet [...]
THE EGYPTIANS MUST NOT GIVE IN TO THE THUGS 3 May 2012 The thuggery witnessed in Abbasiyah Square in central Cairo yesterday, resulting in the deaths of twenty and injuries to hundreds, reveals the extent to which the country’s security has deteriorated as Egypt collapses into a dark tunnel of [...]
President Barack Obama greets troops on a surprise visit this month at Bagram Air Field in Afghanistan. America, one scholar says, is “addicted to war.” (Mandel Ngan, Getty-AFP photo / May 1, 2012) Steve ChapmanMay 6, 2012 Every president is a war president Politics protects the garrison state Ninety-six years ago, when President Woodrow Wilson ran for re-election, two notable things [...]
Diageo to end funding of Heartland Institute after climate change outburst Firm has ‘no plans’ to work with thinktank following campaign comparing people concerned about climate to mass murderers Ted Kaczynski was shown on a billboard alongside the caption: “I still believe in global warming. Do you?” Photograph: Elaine Thompson/AP Diageo, one of [...]
