THE HONDURAN COUP—DENIALS ASIDE, US INVOLVEMENT IS CLEAR While Barack Obama keeps mouthing platitudes, and is (so far) refraining from endorsing the coup, the usual jackals–local and American–are busy doing the dirty work in the shadows to make the coup a success. Hypocrisy has rarely reached such heights of cynicism in the highest pulpits of US [...]
THE DARFUR “GENOCIDE” GRADUALLY EXPOSED AS A PROPAGANDA PLOY By Black Agenda Report (BAR) managing editor Bruce A. Dixon For more than five years, the Save Darfur Coalition has used a slick and star-studded multimillion dollar ad campaign to paint a horrific vision of 400,000 dead in a black vs Arab war of extermination. No [...]
Dateline: Jake Lynch | Transcend Media Service | 1-7 June 2009 By Jake Lynch Quite a few movies and TV programs have focused on the Israeli commando raid on Entebbe, Uganda. The Israeli commando exploits eventually helped to create the notion among Israelis that resort to force was always an easy, glorious, and sure option [...]
By ARIANNA HUFFINGTON / Dateline June 25, 2009 REMEMBER ALL THAT CHANGE AMERICANS VOTED FOR IN NOVEMBER? Well, there’s been a change in the plans for change. The detour has come courtesy of a familiar nemesis: DC lobbyists who, this year alone, have watered-down, gutted, or out-and-out killed ambitious plans for reforming Wall Street, energy, [...]
[LEO HINDERY, TYCOON WITH UNUSUAL IDEAS ABOUT EXECUTIVE PAY.] So how much wealth have the world’s wealthy lost since the global economy oozed into meltdown mode last September? And how has that meltdown impacted how average people feel about the fabulously wealthy? Good questions. Last week brought some answers.
The first set came from two corporate pillars of the financial “wealth management” community. They’ve just released the first comprehensive survey of grand fortune in the post-meltdown global economy…
PRIVATIZATION, CHARTERS, MASS FIRINGS—Is this what we voted for? Created 07/01/2009 – 10:01 By BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon Last weekend in Chicago, US Secretary of Education Arne Duncan delivered the keynote address at Rainbow PUSH’s annual conference and education roundtable. Duncan is the premiere executor of corporate inspired policies that have closed dozens of [...]
GIVING HONDURAS THE HAITI TREATMENT // BY GLEN FORD, BLACK AGENDA REPORT Created 06/30/2009 – 22:51 A Black Agenda Radio Commentary by Glen Ford (If you want to listen instead of read, click HERE) President Zelaya with George W Bush in 2006, when the empire still looked upon him with benign eyes. • President Obama [...]
Dateline for original piece: The Nation June 19, 2009 By William Greider The most disturbing thing about Barack Obama’s call for financial reform was the way in which the president falsified our predicament. He tried to make it sound as though everyone was implicated in the financial breakdown and therefore no one was really [...]
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