“The trouble is that when American dollars earn only six percent over here, they get restless and go overseas to get 100 percent. The flag follows the dollar and the soldiers follow the flag. “I wouldn’t go to war again as I have done to defend some lousy investment of [...]
23:21 05/10/2012 Operetta in 5 Acts: Netanyahu’s Own Theater By Uri Avnery The master magician has drawn another rabbit from his top hat. A real and very lively rabbit. He has confounded everybody, including the leaders of all parties, the top political pundits and his own cabinet ministers. He has also shown [...]
‘Every people in the world lives in a place. For Palestinians, the place lives in them.’ By Jamal KanjEach year on May 15 Palestinians commemorate the Nakba or Catastrophe. On that May Day, Palestine ceased to exist from the world’s map and 85 percent of its natives were evicted from their historical homes and villages. [...]
Nicolas Sarkozy with his wife, Carla Bruni. She has said she is looking forward to ‘living like everyone else’ after her husband’s defeat. Photograph: Rex Features Nicolas Sarkozy prepares to hand over presidency – and judicial immunity Outgoing French president likely to return to law practice, but could be forced to explain himself over series [...]
Rebekah Brooks leaves the Leveson inquiry with her husband, Charlie. Photograph: Stefan Rousseau/PA Rebekah Brooks turns screw on Jeremy Hunt with ‘hacking advice’ email Culture secretary under pressure as email appears to show he asked Murdoch firm’s advice on dealing with hacking scandal The embattled culture secretary, Jeremy Hunt, came under renewed pressure when the former News [...]
Rebekah Brooks … close ties with David Cameron. Photo: Reuters Brooks reveals sympathy messages from PM Karen Kissane May 12, 2012 Read later Prime Minister David Cameron signed texts to Rebekah Brooks LOL, which he thought meant “lots of love”, Mrs Brooks, a former chief executive of News International, told the Leveson inquiry into the press. [...]
British Played Central Role in CIA-Saudi Undercover Underwear Bomb Plot British authorities will neither confirm nor deny their involvement by John Glaser, May 10, 2012 Print This | Share This British intelligence played a central role in the undercover operation involving a supposed new underwear bomb threat from an al-Qaeda off-shoot in Yemen, Reuters reports. The government this [...]
Katter If you have been bored enough to follow Australian politics it appears that as usual the mediocre lead the more mediocre. First there is the unelected supremo Prime Minister Gillard. After losing her first and probably last go at being elected as a PM as the leader of a successful party she has [...]
Hundreds of Thousands March Against Austerity in UK Public workers, including 20,000 off-duty police officers, protesting pension and benefit cuts – Common Dreams staff Hundreds of thousands of public sector workers are taking part in a UK-wide strike to protest proposed government austerity that has taken aim at their pensions and benefits. Public sector workers [...]
Report: Fracking Wastewater Disposal Methods Leave Environment, Public Health at Risk New report from NRDC shows national implications for Pennsylvania‘s risky fracking wastewater practices – Common Dreams staff A report released Wednesday from the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) shows that the five main ways of dealing with wastewater from fracking leave public health and the environment [...]
Pentagon Propaganda ‘Fiasco’ Gets Scrutiny in House Wasteful war propaganda and the dirty deeds of the Pentagon‘s corporate contractors are exposed by John Glaser, May 10, 2012 Print This | Share This A member of the House Armed Services Committee on Wednesday threatened an amendment to block funding for Pentagon propaganda efforts, citing reports critical of their management and [...]
US Officials Worried Israel’s Unity Deal Raises Prospect of Iran Strike The Likud-Kadima unity government might neutralize opposition to Israeli strike by John Glaser, May 10, 2012 Print This | Share This Top officials in the Obama administration are worried that Israel’s recent deal to form a national unity government between the Likud and Kadima parties raises the [...]
More than a decade after the Taliban were driven from power in Afghanistan, the plight of the country’s women remains dire, with threats and attacks by insurgents on women leaders, schoolgirls, and girls’ schools, and harassment of women for “moral crimes” such as running away from forced marriages or [...]
Hundreds of Filipinos rallied outside the Chinese Embassy to protest alleged bullying of the Philippines [EPA] Anti-China protests are taking place in the capital of the Philippines over a territorial dispute in the South China Sea. About 1,000 people gathered outside the Chinese embassy in Manila to protest against what they say are Chinese intrusions, [...]
Your move, Tina Brown. With a photo that was engineered to ignite a storm of online heat and noise, Time magazine’s coverdepicts a 26-year-old-motherbreastfeeding her three-year-old son, who stands on a chair. The story is meant to explore the growing trend of “attachment parenting“, preached primarily by Dr Bill Sears, co-author of the Baby Book, which encourages mothers [...]
Gen Martin E Dempsey speaks during a briefing at the Pentagon. The course was suspended when a student objected to the material. Photograph: Susan Walsh/AP A course for US military officers has been teaching that America’s enemy is Islam in general and suggesting that the country might ultimately have to obliterate the Islamic holy cities of Mecca and Medina [...]
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JP Morgan chief executive Jamie Dimon called the mistakes ‘egregious’. Photograph: Justin Lane/EPA It would be funny if it were not tragic. Here is a loss of $2 billion being described on the BBC as a tiny part of $300 billion in assets. Just think for a moment just what could be done with $3 [...]
Seaplex researchers Matt Durham and Miriam Goldstein encounter netting and plastic in the Pacific. (Photograph: Scripps Institution of Oceanography)Scientists from the Scripps Institution of Oceanography looked at the North Pacific Subtropical Gyre (NPSG), known as the ‘Great Pacific Garbage Patch,’ and found an “alarming amount” of plastic trash, much in small bits. Plastic [...]
Still In Vietghanistan by Abby Zimet With ongoing news of atrocities by U.S. forces and a new poll finding that just 23% of Americans, the lowest rate ever, support the Afghanistan War, a former Marine in Vietnam and currentVeterans For Peace president wonders why people ask him about the “rules of war” governing dead bodies – as though there [...]
. Help Wanted: Strong Leadership on Climate Change, Starting Immediately by Jennifer Browdy de Hernandez Now if only President Obama could show the same leadership on climate change as he has just demonstrated on the divisive same- sex-marriage issue The same narrow-minded interests that made same-sex marriage such a boogeyman for the President are also controlling the [...]
(Image: Johnny Selman) If Canada proceeds, and we do nothing, it will be game over for the climate. Game Over for the Climate The science of the situation is clear — it’s time for the politics to follow by James Hansen Global warming isn’t a prediction. It is happening. That is why I [...]
A cartoon included in the Joint Staff Forces College presentation on “Jihad: Defined and Operationalized” contains a number of ugly stereotypes.Hundreds of US military officers have enrolled in the course on Islamic radicalism since it was first offered four years ago at the Defense Department’s Joint Forces Staff College in Norfolk, Virginia. US Military Taught Officers: ‘Hiroshima’ Tactics For [...]
The News of the World was shut down amid a hacking scandal that forced senior executives to quit [GALLO/GETTY] David Cameron, the British prime minister, allowed his former spokesman, Andrew Coulson, access to some of the government’s most sensitive secrets without full security clearance, an inquiry has been told. Asked on Thursday by Robert Jay, the [...]
at 7:42am, May 10, 2012. There has been much discussion recently about the Obama administration’s “pivot” from the Greater Middle East to Asia: the 250 Marines sent to Darwin, Australia, the littoral combat ships for Singapore, the support for Burmese “democracy,” war games in the Philippines (and a drone strikethere as well), and so on. The U.S. is definitely [...]
