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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
Health
Open letter to the House Progressive Caucus (except Kucinich and Massa)
By Kéllia Ramares
I am deeply disappointed in you for voting for
the “Greater Health Insurance Industry Profits Act,” a.k.a. H.R. 3962, and especially
for voting for it with the Stupak anti-abortion amendment attached, after your
voting against the amendment’s being attached in the first place.
Nov 20, 2009, 00:22
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Nov 20, 2009, 00:20
Analysis
Things could get ugly fast
By Mike Whitney
Things could get ugly fast. With the Democrats
backing-off on a second round of stimulus, the Fed signaling an end to
quantitative easing, and Obama moaning about rising deficits; there’s a good
chance that the stumbling recovery could turn into another sharp plunge.
Nov 20, 2009, 00:18
Announcements
Stop the execution of 126 Iraqi women
By Layla Anwar
This is an urgent appeal regarding a piece of
very serious information I have just received.
Nov 20, 2009, 00:16
Special Reports
NSA’s public relations spinmeisters
By Wayne Madsen
(WMR) --
M. E. “Betsy” Harrigan penned an op-ed
in the November 6, 2009, Washington Times, in which she bemoaned the
fact that so many uninformed Americans believe the National Security Agency
(NSA) is out to monitor their every phone call and email.
Nov 20, 2009, 00:14
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
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NewsLinks
Links to other sources of news and commentary
Rejecting Obama, U.S.
Jews push West Bank settlements ● Israeli air strikes target Gaza 'smuggling
tunnels' ● US Army Corps blamed for Katrina floods ● Canada complicit in
torture of innocent Afghans, diplomat says ● AOL to cut one-third of workforce
● U.S. mortgage delinquencies reach a record high ● Darwin book with
creationist spin passed out at university ● Texas' gay marriage ban may have
banned all marriages ● More . . .
Nov 20, 2009, 00:02
Analysis
Nuke Gaza
By Jeff Gates
Israeli officials are right to worry. Gazans
too. Yet Americans should worry even more.
Nov 19, 2009, 00:22
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
Elections & Voting
On voter registration, the Columbus Dispatch gets it right, almost
By Bob Fitrakis
Is election reform brewing in the Buckeye State?
In an extensive and well-argued editorial the Columbus Dispatch made the case
for the integration of key state government databases into a statewide
electronic voter registration system under the control of the secretary of
state’s office, as proposed in pending legislation.
Nov 19, 2009, 00:14
Commentary
America’s leadership deficit
By Peter Morici
Bigger than the budget deficit, America has a
leadership gap.
Nov 19, 2009, 00:12
Analysis
Today’s ancient warfare: Facts vs. beliefs
By Jeff Gates
In unconventional warfare, manipulated beliefs
are used to displace inconvenient facts. When waging war by way of deception,
false beliefs are an oft-deployed weapon.
Nov 18, 2009, 00:19
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
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