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Last Updated: Nov 20th, 2009 - 00:46:32 |
Commentary
Some U.S. holiday terror?
By Jerry Mazza
Okay, call me crazy, paranoid, even “a
conspiracy theorist.” Egads! But I heard it first on the news this morning.
Then it flashed across my computer screen this afternoon in a story from the
Washington Post. FAA:
Computer system restored, delays persist. Oh-oh! Remember I’m the guy who
wrote two stories about Hasan being a jihad patsy. And that seems to be panning
out, especially since Webster Tarpley added his article to the mix. But
methinks someone’s being naughty, not nice, again.
Nov 20, 2009, 00:24
Commentary
The Great Depression meets the Great Recession
By Howard Lisnoff
Few novels written in the U.S. are more
penetrating and riveting than John Steinbeck’s 1939 blockbuster The Grapes
of Wrath. Winning both the 1940 Pulitzer Prize and The Nobel Prize for
Literature in 1962, it recounts the fictional odyssey of the Joad family as
they are dispossessed from their homestead in the dustbowl of Oklahoma and set
off in search of the promised land of California.
Nov 20, 2009, 00:12
Commentary
American jihad in Pakistan
By Peter Chamberlin
The questions about Pakistan’s war on terrorism
revolve around secret connections that undercut the war effort, whether the
Army is seriously fighting a war or simply putting on a show to convince the
doubters. Are Pakistan’s militants really backed by a consortium of
intelligence agencies, and if so, then who is in this consortium? Are any
Pakistani agencies involved in this operation taking place under their own
noses?
Nov 20, 2009, 00:10
Commentary
Who’s afraid of Hiroshima? Obama’s nuclear hypocrisy
By James Corbett
When the Nobel Prize committee announced their choice for this year’s Peace Prize winner,
they stressed that a key factor in awarding Obama the prize had been the
commitment to a nuclear-free world he had outlined in speeches such as the one
he delivered in Prague earlier this year.
Nov 20, 2009, 00:08
Commentary
Let’s get fiscal: More stimulus, more government jobs programs, more debt relief
By Mike Whitney
There’s no reason why a sharp-witted politico
like Barack Obama can’t survey the wreckage around him and draw the same
conclusions as FDR.
Nov 19, 2009, 00:20
Commentary
Globalization unchecked: How alien media are suffocating real culture
By Ramzy Baroud
A Muslim family sits across of me in café, in a
largely Muslim Asian country. An older woman shyly hunches over and desperately
tries to avoid eye contact with the giant plasma screen TV, blazing loud music
on the popular music video channel, MTV. The scantily dressed presenter
introduces her ‘top song’ for the week. Beyonce, dressed in so very little,
annoyingly reiterates that she is “a single lady.” The old woman’s son is
mesmerized by what he sees. He pays no attention to his mother, young wife or
even his own son who wreaks havoc in the coffee shop. The man’s T-shirt reads:
“what the fxxx are you looking at?”
Nov 19, 2009, 00:16
Commentary
America’s leadership deficit
By Peter Morici
Bigger than the budget deficit, America has a
leadership gap.
Nov 19, 2009, 00:12
Commentary
The US needs to be censured for its immoral behavior
By Paul Craig Roberts
It is conventional wisdom that it was the draft
that ended the Vietnam war. According to this explanation, cowardly college
students subject to the draft and their unpatriotic families, forced an end to
the war. This is Karl Marx’s explanation. Material interests, not empty
morality, are said to have brought the war to an end.
Nov 18, 2009, 00:17
Commentary
The Hague’s the place for trials
By Linda S. Heard
The big question is: Will those accused of
perpetrating the 9/11 carnage get impartial jurors in New York?
Nov 18, 2009, 00:13
Commentary
For Obama it’s one (term) if by war, two if by peace
By Harvey Wasserman
As the world awaits Barack Obama’s decision on
Afghanistan, a lethal myth has spread. It says that standing up to the military
will doom him to be a single-term president.
Nov 18, 2009, 00:11
Commentary
In a chilly London November, war and remembrance
By Michael Winship
In Great Britain, Remembrance Sunday falls on
the second Sunday of November, the one closest to November 11th, the
anniversary of the end of the First World War in 1918. Once, the world called
November 11th Armistice Day. Now, here in the States, at least, it is Veterans
Day.
Nov 18, 2009, 00:09
Commentary
Dying to prosecute Hasan
By Jerry Mazza
The White House went ahead Thursday, according
to the Washington
Post, and charged Major Nidal M. Hasan with 13 counts of murder. It also
reported that “Hasan has not cooperated with federal investigators seeking to
interview him. His attorney, retired Col. John Galligan, told the
Associated Press that military officials charged Hasan in the hospital without
his Army lawyers present.”
Nov 17, 2009, 00:23
Commentary
What is Israel’s role in the destabilization of Pakistan?
By Jeff Gates
When waging war “by way of deception,” the motto
of the Israeli Mossad, well-timed crises play a critical agenda-setting role by
displacing facts with what a target population can be deceived to believe. Thus
the force-multiplier effect when staged crises are reinforced with pre-staged
intelligence. In combination, the two often prove persuasive.
Nov 17, 2009, 00:21
Commentary
Aung San Suu Kyi, Omar Khadr and Barack Obama: A dreadful tale of what America has become
By John Chuckman
During his trip to Asia, President Obama called
for the government of Burma to release Aung San Suu Kyi, a noted dissident who
has spent years under house arrest.
Nov 17, 2009, 00:17
Commentary
Fifteen very bad things Republicans would do if they got their selfish way
By Dennis Rahkonen
Always the political instrument of moneyed
elites, and a retrograde societal force, the GOP today is more negatively
impactful than ever. Its agenda, if fully implemented, would prove
catastrophic.
Nov 17, 2009, 00:15
Commentary
China’s yuan, not the dollar, is too cheap
By Peter Morici
From Berlin to Bangkok, governments are
screaming about the falling dollar, because they can no longer rely on reckless
American consumers to power their economies.
Nov 17, 2009, 00:13
Commentary
The US government and the assassination of Tupac Shakur
By Thomas C. Mountain
ASMARA, Eritrea -- I first wrote about the
assassination of American Rap Music superstar Tupak Shakur almost a decade ago.
At the time I used the title “The Hand of The Man in Tupak’s Assassination” and
I use the term “assassination” for good reason.
Nov 16, 2009, 00:12
Commentary
The reactor relapse takes 3 hits to the head
By Harvey Wasserman
The much-hyped “Renaissance” of atomic power has
taken three devastating hits with potentially fatal consequences.
Nov 16, 2009, 00:10
Commentary
Major Nidal Malik Hasan, jihadist or patsy?
By Jerry Mazza
The story as it unwinds seems too scripted to be
true. That Army psychiatrist and Major Nidal M. Hasan went on a rampage at Fort
Hood with two guns blazing, a .357 Magnum and a semi-automatic pistol with laser
target-finder, after shouting the Arabic phrase ‘Allah Akbar’ (God is Greatest)
as he opened fire, and will live (so far) to talk about it, though an
Army-appointed lawyer says he will never get a fair trial.
Nov 13, 2009, 00:28
Commentary
The humble tuna
By Aetius
Romulous
The humble tuna, “the
chicken of the sea,” is an unfortunate metaphor for all that is dysfunctional
about our contemporary, Western, capitalist world. Once carefully husbanded by
the limits of individual brawn and courage, then incorporated into
international business vacuums automated to maximize returns on insatiable
consumer driven investment, tuna stocks around the globe are being decimated
and verge, for some species, on extinction. The story of the tuna is the story
of our triumphant world, and provides a unified theory of its runaway excess.
Nov 13, 2009, 00:24
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