May 31, 2011
Tomgram: Engelhardt, Welcome to Post-Legal America Posted by Tom Engelhardt at 9:05pm, May 30, 2011. [Note to TomDispatch Readers: A small reminder: the popular TD offer of a signed, personalized copy of Adam Hochschild’s now-bestselling new book, To End All Wars: A Story of Loyalty and Rebellion, 1914-1918, in return for a $100 contribution to this website will end [...]
Tags: Adam Hochschild, Law, New York Times, Osama bin Laden, Presidency of George W. Bush, President, Tom Engelhardt, Torture, United States
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May 19, 2011
Barack Obama to back Middle East democracy with billions in aid President pledges cash to support Egypt and Tunisia after criticism US has been too slow to support uprisings Share60 Ewen MacAskill in Washington The Guardian, Thursday 19 May 2011 Article history Barack Obama will use his speech as an attempt to reposition the [...]
Tags: Arab people, Arab world, Barack Obama, Bashar-al Assad, egypt, Location of Osama bin Laden, middle east, President, Syria, Tunisia, United State, United States, White House
Posted in Capital, Capital Project, Capitalism, CIA, Consent, Democracy, Democracy in the Arab World, Dictators, disaster, Dissent, economic measures, Economics, Economy, elections, Elites, Fascism, Foreign Policy, Global capitalism and imperialism, Hillary, Human Rights, Imperial Project, Imperialism, Israel, Israel and diaspora forces of crime, Israel and force, Israel and oil, Israel and the settlers, Israel and zionist moral crimes, Israel death and destruction, Israel expulsion, Israel lobby and what it can do, Israel's wall, Israeli checkpoints, Middle East, Militants, Military, Military madmen, Military Murders, Mission Creep, NATO, Negotiate. It's now or never, Nigeria, Nigeria oil, Obama, Obama warmonger, oil, oil and gas resources, Oil in the USA, Propaganda, Protest, Protests, Refugees, Syria, Syria sanctions, Ted Rall, Tom Dispatch, torture, Tunisia, Uganda, US elections, US Foreign Policy, US Politics, US war crimes, USA, voodoo rhythm economics, War, War Crimes, War is a crime, War on terror, Wikileaks, Women's issues, Womens' views and action | No Comments »
May 12, 2011
Tomgram: William Astore, A New Age of “Enlightened” War Posted by William Astore at 10:00am, May 12, 2011. In case you hadn’t noticed, they are — no kidding around — absolutely the niftiest non-humans on Earth. I’m speaking about the special operations force of Navy SEALs that took out Osama bin Laden. They and their special ops [...]
Tags: al-Qaeda, Central Intelligence Agency, New York Times, Osama BinLaden, Project for Excellence in Journalism, Special forces, United States, United States Navy SEALs, Washington Post
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May 9, 2011
The predatory capital project and its partner the imperial project are fast running out of the fresh kill zones they require in the killing fields they so euphemistically called the “new world” or the “third world” Marx clearly predicted that there would have to be a massive expansion of the predatory beast into the rest of the world, [...]
Tags: Anarcho-Syndicalism, Asia, Bakunin, Elite, Karl Marx, Latin America, London, Marx, Marxism, Mikhail Bakunin, United States
Posted in Anarchism, Bakunin, Capital, Capital Project, Capitalism, Chomsky, Consent, Counterpunch, D Room, Democracy, Democracy Now!, Dirty Energy, disaster, Dissent, economic measures, Economics, Economy, Education, Elites, Emma Goldmann, Englehardt, Escobar, European Foreign Policy, Fascism, Fisk, Foreign Policy, Galeano, Imperial Project, Imperialism, Indigenous, Indigenous Australians, Jason Ditz, Labor, Leon Panetta, MI 6, Military, Military madmen, Miscarriage of Justice, Mission Creep, NATO, nuclear, Obama, Obama warmonger, oil, people's protests, Pilger, Predator Drone, Propaganda, Protest, Protests, Ray McGovern, Rudolf Rocker, Rupert Murdoch, Sabrosky, Stateless socialism, Swanson, Tom Dispatch, torture, Unemployment, University education, US economy, US elections, US Foreign Policy, US Politics, US war crimes, War, War Crimes, War is a crime | No Comments »
May 9, 2011
After bin Laden Hit, U.S. Aides Raise Dubious Hopes for Peace by Gareth Porter, May 09, 2011 Email This | Print This | Share This | Antiwar Forum Barack Obama and top administration officials have taken advantage of the killing of Osama bin Laden to establish a new narrative suggesting the event will pave the way for negotiations [...]
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May 8, 2011
Tomgram: Andy Kroll, Welcome to the McJobs Recovery Posted by Andy Kroll at 5:50pm, May 8, 2011. [Note for TomDispatch Readers: For those of you who created a wavelet of contributions in response to our offer on Tuesday of a personalized, signed copy of Adam Hochschild’s remarkable new history of World War I, To End All Wars: [...]
Tags: Adam Hochschild, Bertrand Russell, British Army, History, To End All Wars, Twentieth Century, Wars and Conflicts, World War I
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May 8, 2011
In a recent video interview at the Real News site there is some very interesting information. The whole interview should be watched. You can do that at http://therealnews.com/t2/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=31&Itemid=74&jumival=6731. It starts with the news that S & P has said a few things about the US economy. The witch doctors of financial boogie fever have spoken But they seem to [...]
Tags: Australia, Ben Bernanke, Bernanke, Economy of the United States, Federal Reserve System, God, International Monetary Fund, Julia Gillard, MarketWatch, Singapore Exchange, Standard & Poor's, United States, Wayne Swan
Posted in Al Jazeera, Al Qaeda, Anarchism, Assange, Atomics Corporation, Atzmon, Austerity, Australia, Australia Politics, Australian complicity in US warmongering policies and war crimes, Australian economy, Australian Foreign Policy, Australian Politics, Bakunin, BBC, BP, Bradley Manning, Capital, Capital Project, Capitalism, Chomsky, CIA, Climate change, Commentators, D Room, Democracy, Democracy Now!, economic measures, Economics, Economy, Education, Emma Goldmann, Erdogan, Escobar, European, European Foreign Policy, Fascism, Fisk, Foreign Policy, Fox News, Galeano, Gillard, Goldstone, Hillary, IMF, Imperial Project, Imperialism, Indigenous Australians, Israel, Japan, Jason Ditz, Labor, Leon Panetta, Libya, MI 6, Military, Military madmen, Monbiot, oil, Parliament, Pentagon, people's protests, Pilger, police, Predator Drone, Propaganda, Protest, Protests, Racism, Ray McGovern, Rudd, Rudolf Rocker, Rupert Murdoch, Sabrosky, Stateless socialism, Sustainable fishing is an oxymoron, Swanson, The Fourth Reich, Timor, Tom Dispatch, torture, UN, Uri Avnery, US economy, US elections, US Foreign Policy, US Politics, US war crimes, USA, Video, War, War Crimes, War is a crime, Waterboarding, Wikileaks, Womens' views and action | No Comments »
April 28, 2011
This is an excellent article by Nick Turse and continues a theme he has been following. Turse examines a great deal of issues and always appears in command of whatever topic he is engaging his readers on. You may remember I wrote an article over a year ago suggesting that Yemen was next in line [...]
Tags: Ali Abdullah Saleh, Barack Obama, Cooperation Council for the Arab States of the Gulf, Hosni Mubarak, middle east, New York Times, Nick Turse, Protest, United States, Yemen, Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali
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April 28, 2011
What follows is an introduction by Tom Englehardt to an article by Nick Turse. The introduction is posted here because it gives you a good insight into Tom and just how he works at the Tom Dispatch site. You will remember that on numerous occasions ikners.com has made it very clear that it is sites like Tom [...]
Tags: Bahrain, middle east, Nick Turse, Pentagon, Persian Gulf, Saudi Arabia, TomDispatch.com, Yemen
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Tomgram: Andy Kroll, Welcome to the McJobs Recovery Posted by Andy Kroll at 5:50pm, May 8, 2011. [Note for TomDispatch Readers: For those of you who created a wavelet of contributions in response to our offer on Tuesday of a personalized, signed copy of Adam Hochschild’s remarkable new history of World War I, To End All Wars: [...]
Tags: Adam Hochschild, Bertrand Russell, British Army, History, To End All Wars, Twentieth Century, Wars and Conflicts, World War I
Posted in Assange, Atomics Corporation, Austerity, Australia, Australian complicity in US warmongering policies and war crimes, Australian economy, Bahrain, Bakunin, BBC, BDS, Bin Laden, Bolivia, BP, Bradley Manning, BRIC, Burma, Capital, Capital Project, Capitalism, Children in Palestine and Gaza, CIA, Climate, Climate change, Commentators, Counterpunch, Cuba, D Room, economic measures, Economics, Economy, Education, Egypt, elections, Elites, Englehardt, Environment, Erdogan, Escobar, Escobar Escobar opinion thoughts, European, European Foreign Policy, Fascism, Fatah, Fisk, Foreign Policy, Fox News, Fukushima, Galeano, Gaza, Germany new old politics, Gillard, Gitmo disclosures, Goldstone, Greece, Guantanamo Bay a human disaster, Guantanamo crimes, Guardian, Hamas, Hillary, Honduras, IMF, immigration, Imperial Project, Imperialism, Indigenous, Indigenous Australians, Iran, Iraq, Islam and the US, Israel, Israel and diaspora forces of crime, Israel and force, Israel and the settlers, Israel and zionist moral crimes, Israel death and destruction, Israel expulsion, Israel lobby and what it can do, Israeli checkpoints, Ivory Coast, Ivory Coast Warlords, Japan, Japan Nuclear, Jason Ditz, Jewishness, Jordan, Koran, Kosovo, Labor, Leon Panetta, Libya, Malalai Joya, Media, melt down, MI 6, Middle East, Military, Military madmen, Miscarriage of Justice, Mission Creep, Monbiot, Mothers vote, Nakba, NATO, Netanyahu, News, News of the World, news report, Newsweek, Nigeria oil, nuclear, Obama, Obama warmonger, oil, Oil in the USA, Pakistan, Pakistan and war and unrest, Palestine, Pentagon, people's protests, Tom Dispatch, US economy, US elections, US Foreign Policy, US Politics, US war crimes, USA, Video, War, War Crimes, War is a crime | No Comments »