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Last Updated: Jun 16th, 2008 - 00:56:12 |
Analysis
Media reformers: It�s the economy
By Michael Winship
Last weekend�s National Conference on Media Reform in
Minneapolis was a freewheeling, articulate, committed gathering of activists,
policy wonks and everyday citizens dedicated to the idea that there can be no
real democracy without a media democracy -- independent reporting from diverse
communities free of the interference and spin of government and big business.
Perhaps nowhere else can you witness an FCC commissioner like Michael Copps get
a rock star standing ovation worthy of Mick Jagger or hear the words, �Common
carrier rules are hot!�
Jun 16, 2008, 00:19
Analysis
The black days of 1948
By Dr. Marwan Asmar
For a long time, Israel sought to perpetuate a myth
that it was not their officials who sought to expel the Palestinians out of
their country but it was the Arabs who made them leave. This is how Israel
justified and today justifies its existence by denying what it has done to
others.
Jun 13, 2008, 00:14
Analysis
Why oil prices are so high
By Paul Craig Roberts
How to explain the oil price? Why is it so high? Are
we running out? Are supplies disrupted, or is the high price a reflection of
oil company greed or OPEC greed? Are Hugo Chavez and the Saudis conspiring
against us?
Jun 12, 2008, 00:21
Analysis
Credit Default Swaps the next crisis -- subprime is just a �Vorspeise�
By F. William Engdahl
While attention has been focussed on the
relatively tiny US "subprime� home mortgage default crisis as the center
of the current financial and credit crisis impacting the Anglo-Saxon banking
world, a far larger problem is now coming into focus. Sub-prime or high-risk
Collateralized Mortgage Obligations, CMOs as they are called, are only the tip
of a colossal iceberg of dodgy credits instruments which are beginning to go
sour. The next crisis is already beginning in the $62 trillion market for
Credit Default Swaps. You never heard of them? It�s time to take a look, then.
Jun 10, 2008, 00:18
Analysis
A million questions with one answer
By Peter Chamberlin
According to the US State Department, there are
approximately a dozen separate anti-Semitic beliefs, the worst of which is the
claim that wealthy Jewish-Americans economically control the government, the
media, international business or finance.
Jun 10, 2008, 00:12
Analysis
Zionist terror 1946 to 2001
By Jerry Mazza
Why would we think that some portion of the Jewish
people would not end as hardened by history as their oppressors? After all,
they were a people who had been chased, derided, expelled through the centuries
from country to country, only to land in the horrors of Nazi Germany, the
camps, the ovens, the first industrial-strength genocide.
Jun 9, 2008, 00:23
Analysis
Heart of darkness: Princess Patricia and a Taliban takeover
By Eric Walberg
News from Afghanistan makes no sense. On the one hand
there are upbeat stories like the recent Canadian Operation Rolling Thunder in
Pashmul, Kandahar. �I started the operation on a hospital operating table and
I�m ending it with everybody coming back safely. I couldn�t be happier,� beamed
Major Grubb, leading the 2nd Battalion of the bizarrely named Princess
Patricia�s Light Infantry Company.
Jun 6, 2008, 00:18
Analysis
Poisonous plutocracy pushes economic inequality
By Joel S. Hirschhorn
The biggest political issue receiving no attention by
the Democratic and Republican presidential candidates is the powerful
plutocracy that has captured the government to produce rising economic
inequality.
Jun 5, 2008, 00:16
Analysis
In Afghanistan, US opens the door to opium for the masses (second of a two-part series)
By Eric Walberg
While the current occupations of Afghanistan and Iraq
look to be part of an ambitious plan of US domination of the Muslim world, both
are proving to be a much greater problem than their shadowy planners supposed.
And whatever the conspiracy underlying the jigsaw puzzle Afghanistan forms a
key piece in, it is certainly not one made in Russia, despite current US
attempts to paint Russia, formerly enemy number one, as enemy number two, after
the current enemy du jour -- Islam.
Jun 4, 2008, 00:22
Analysis
The US is repeating the Soviets� mistakes in Afghanistan, plus showing remarkable creativity in the horrors department (first of a two-part series)
By Eric Walberg
Twenty years ago last week, the Soviet Union began its withdrawal from Afghanistan, eight and a half years after it was
invited by the desperate People�s Democratic Party of Afghanistan
(PDPA), which had degenerated into intra-party squabbling and was beset by
Islamic rebels massively financed by the United States. The straw that broke
the Soviets� back was when the US began providing Stinger missiles to Osama bin Laden and his friends.
Jun 3, 2008, 00:28
Analysis
The great oil swindle: How much did the Fed really know?
By Mike Whitney
The Commodity Futures and Trading Commission (CFTC) is
investigating trading in oil futures to determine whether the surge in prices
to record levels is the result of manipulation or fraud. They might want to
take a look at wheat, rice and corn futures while they're at it.
Jun 3, 2008, 00:26
Analysis
More on the real reason behind high oil prices
By F. William Engdahl
As
detailed in an earlier
article, a conservative calculation is that at least 60 percent of today�s
$128 per barrel price of crude oil comes from unregulated futures speculation
by hedge funds, banks and financial groups using the London ICE Futures and New
York NYMEX futures exchanges and uncontrolled inter-bank or Over-The-Counter
trading to avoid scrutiny.
Jun 3, 2008, 00:24
Analysis
The conservative movement has become the biggest threat to the US Constitution
By Paul Craig Roberts
UC Berkeley tenured law professor John Yoo epitomizes
the failure of the conservative movement in America. Known as "the
torture professor," Yoo penned the Department of Justice [sic] memos
that gave a blank check to sadistic Americans to torture detainees at
Guantanamo and Abu Ghraib.
May 20, 2008, 00:22
Analysis
There is more than meets the eye about the world food crisis
By Eric Walberg
Food protests and riots have swept more than 20
countries in the past few months, including Egypt.
May 19, 2008, 00:21
Analysis
There appear to be no winners in Serbia�s recent elections
By Eric Walberg
Sunday�s elections in Serbia are being hailed as a
victory for Europe , a defeat for the �ultra-nationalist� Tomislav Nikolic and
his Radical Party. But the �For a European Serbia� alliance of President Boris
Tadic�s Democratic Party, the G17-Plus and three smaller liberal parties, over
the Radical Party, the New Serbia Party and outgoing Prime Minister Vojislav
Kostunica�s Democratic Party of Serbia (DSS) does not bode well for anyone,
including Europe. This will be another hung parliament.
May 15, 2008, 00:16
Analysis
Abusing Iran prior to and after WW II
By Jerry Mazza
In the din of anti-Iranian agit-prop, with the neocons
waving their swords at Iran, oh icon of evil, I remember that oil-smudged page
of history, the invasion of Iran by Great Britain and the Soviet Union,
following the Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union.
May 14, 2008, 00:22
Analysis
Lebanon�s sleeping giant
By Linda S. Heard
Over the last few days, the world has discovered the
hand that rocks the cradle in Lebanon. Whether Hezbollah is designated by the
US and its allies as a terrorist organization or not, it has shown, without a
shadow of a doubt, that it�s in charge.
May 14, 2008, 00:18
Analysis
What to watch in Wednesday's consumer price data
By Peter Morici
Wednesday, the Labor Department will issue April data
for the Consumer Price Index. The consensus forecast is for a 0.3 percent
increase in the headline number and a 0.2 percent increase in the core index --
the headline number with energy and food prices removed. My published forecasts
are 0.5 and 0.2 percent in these two indicators of consumer inflation.
May 13, 2008, 00:09
Analysis
Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs: Lies are truth
By Mary Rizzo
The people on the press staff of the Israeli Foreign
Affairs Ministry are talented science fiction writers. Almost nothing that they
write has any bearing on reality, and it seems that they use Orwell�s 1984
as a guidebook for news dispatches. All that they need to do is look at the
facts on the ground (terminology that was invented by the Hasbara Committee,
more than likely, because it is something different than reality. It has a bit
of the sense of imposition of a negative reality that cannot however be
challenged by �ordinary� people), and turn them on their heads. War is peace,
freedom is slavery, ignorance is strength. That�s exactly how the Israeli PR
staff represents reality with their warped mirror.
May 12, 2008, 00:14
Analysis
US terrorism report: Selective data, wrong lessons
By Ramzy Baroud
The data provided in the US State Department's annual
terrorism report for 2007 points to some interesting if puzzling conclusions.
The much publicised document, made available 30 April via the State
Department's website, makes no secret of the fact that Al-Qaeda is back, strong
as ever. It also suggests that violence worldwide is nowhere near subsiding,
despite President Bush's repeated assurances regarding the success of his
"war on terror."
May 12, 2008, 00:12
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