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Last Updated: Nov 20th, 2009 - 00:50:44 |
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
Analysis
Goldstonewalled! US Congress endorses Israeli war crimes
By Nima Shirazi
On the afternoon of November 3, 2009, the United
States House of Representatives voted in favor of House
Resolution 867 (H.Res.867), an AIPAC-backed bill that urges both President
Barack Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to “oppose unequivocally
any endorsement or further consideration of the “Report of the United Nations
Fact Finding Mission on the Gaza Conflict,” referred to commonly as the “Goldstone
Report.”
Nov 16, 2009, 00:20
News Media
Washington Post opposes health care reforms
By Margie Burns
Unbeknown to people
outside the Washington, D.C., region, health reform has faced tremendous
antagonism from the Washington Post.
Nov 16, 2009, 00:18
Religion
The Catholic Church plays victim, again
By Mel Seesholtz, Ph.D.
Throughout its long history, the Roman Catholic
Church has time and time again proven itself to be one of the most dogmatic,
most powerful, and most corrupt institutions ever created. It claims to be
following in the footsteps of Jesus and preaching his message, but its leaders
have always lived in palatial splendor and are responsible for a 300-year “Holy
Inquisition” that resulted in the torture and murder of tens of thousands of
people.
Nov 16, 2009, 00:16
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
Analysis
Russia-India-China: The Bush curse
By Eric Walberg
United States President Barack Obama has shown a
flicker of independence in shaping US Eurasian politics.
Nov 13, 2009, 00:26
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
Commentary
Israel Lobby routs Obama as dollar dies
By Paul Craig Roberts
It did not take the Israel Lobby long to make mincemeat
out of the Obama administration’s “no new settlements“ position. Israeli Prime Minister
Netanyahu is bragging about Israel’s latest victory over the US government as
Israel continues to build illegal settlements on occupied Palestinian land.
Nov 13, 2009, 00:20
Analysis
Trade deficit threatens a double-dip recession, economic Armageddon
By Peter Morici
Today, the Commerce Department will report
September international trade in goods and services. The trade deficit -- the amount
imports exceed exports -- is expected to rise to $32.5 billion from $30.7
billion in August.
Nov 13, 2009, 00:18
Commentary
Israel fears justice more than Iran
By Linda Heard
Israeli and US threats against Iran are growing
louder.
Nov 13, 2009, 00:16
Special Reports
Buyer beware: Climate change and the Ventura case study
By Nikki Alexander
A seemingly wholesome local event recently led
to some disturbing discoveries about a global GHG matrix that will affect
people everywhere in all countries.
Nov 12, 2009, 00:24
Analysis
In Jon we trust
By Maidhc Ó Cathail
Appalled
by the Bush administration’s foreign policy, and feeling let down by a
compliant news media, many young Americans turned to Jon Stewart’s The
Daily Show for some critical insight into what had gone so terribly
wrong with their country, as well as some light relief from the horror of it
all.
Nov 12, 2009, 00:22
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