July 26, 2011
Mike Davis, The Coming Economic Disaster Posted by Mike Davis at 8:15am, July 26, 2011. [Note for TomDispatch Readers: A heartfelt thanks to all of you who, in these dog days of summer, contributed $100 or more for a personalized, signed copy of Christian Parenti’s cutting-edge new book, Tropic of Chaos: Climate Change and the New Geography [...]
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July 26, 2011
For those interested in the cancer of the voodoo economic rhythm this editorial should be illuminating. But consider this. The US elite that wishes to rule the planet has been putting what it feels is necessary to achieve this goal for at least a century. What has always driven this march to hegemony is that the people [...]
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July 5, 2011
The damaged units of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. Photograph: AIR PHOTO SERVICE / HO/EPA How did the thinking go? Well he does seems to have been anti-nuclear, with good reason BUT why the change in opinion and then this? The answer is quite simple, at least for me, but trust me that [...]
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June 30, 2011
Petraeus is expected to start his new job in September [Reuters] The US Senate has voted unanimously to confirm General David Petraeus to be the new director of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). Petraeus, commander of US forces in Afghanistan, was nominated by President Barack Obama to replace Leon Panetta, who is leaving the CIA to become [...]
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June 4, 2011
John Glaser, June 02, 2011 Email This | Print This | Share This | Comment | Antiwar Forum Iraq has been perhaps the least covered country in the Middle East throughout the Arab Spring. Popular protests and demonstrations there have been discreet, but only relative to Egypt, Tunisia, Yemen, Syria, etc. This comparative quiet is no excuse for the [...]
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June 3, 2011
Crushed Ice in Nuseirat: My Gaza Refugee Camp Revisited Kids in Nuseirat. (Photo: John Harvey) By Ramzy Baroud – Gaza ‘Do you remember Mahmoud?’ asked Abu Nidal, my neighbor from nearly 20 years ago, when I lived in Gaza. “Yes, of course, I do,” I answered. I remembered him as yet another troublemaking child among [...]
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June 3, 2011
Portugal limps into election that could tilt EU further to the right Poll suggests beleaguered economy weighed down by onerous €78bn bailout will be the latest surrendered by a leftwing leader Share Giles Tremlett guardian.co.uk, Friday 3 June 2011 15.41 BST Article history Portugal’s Socialist prime minister José Sócrates faces losing Sunday’s election after [...]
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June 2, 2011
The saga being acted out by Rudd about Australia on the Security Council continues. It has been going for some time and obviously as long as he has abundant air in travel and his lungs it will continue. There of course, surprise surprise is a cost as the lobbying reaches Olympic proportions or perhaps World Cup Football dimensions. [...]
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May 29, 2011
U.S. Tells Its Afghan Workers: No Torture, Corpse Mutilation By Spencer Ackerman It’s never a good sign when you have to tell the men guarding your base not to murder civilians, torture detainees or desecrate corpses. But U.S. special-operations forces in Afghanistan are leaving nothing to chance. The Combined Joint Special Operations Task Force-Afghanistan put 10 contracts [...]
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May 28, 2011
UK training Saudi forces used to crush Arab spring • British military personnel run courses for snipers • Human rights groups furious over Riyadh link Share198 Jamie Doward and Philippa Stewart guardian.co.uk, Saturday 28 May 2011 21.00 BST Article history Saudi special forces, seen here training in Mecca, were used to crush protests in [...]
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May 26, 2011
Welcome to the violent world of Mr. Hopey Changey 26 May 2011 When Britain lost control of Egypt in 1956, Prime Minister Anthony Eden said he wanted the nationalist president Gamal Abdel Nasser “destroyed… murdered… I don’t give a damn if there’s anarchy and chaos in Egypt”. Those insolent Arabs, Winston Churchill had urged in [...]
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May 26, 2011
Andrew Breitbart‘s ‘electronic brownshirts‘ The latest Breitbart-inspired ‘gotcha’ has backfired, but the targets of rightwing attack videos should not cave to dirty tactics Share140 Comments (172) Amy Goodman guardian.co.uk, Wednesday 18 May 2011 19.00 BST Article history Andrew Breitbart holds a news conference on Acorn Revealed: The Philadelphia Story at the National Press Club. [...]
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Been waiting a long time for this. But not surprised. Are you? Think first a Monbiot point of view
The damaged units of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. Photograph: AIR PHOTO SERVICE / HO/EPA How did the thinking go? Well he does seems to have been anti-nuclear, with good reason BUT why the change in opinion and then this? The answer is quite simple, at least for me, but trust me that [...]
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