THE RELEASE by WikiLeaks of the first of some quarter of a million classified US embassy cables from around the world has provoked expressions of outrage and demands for retribution from Washington and its allies. BILL VAN AUKEN 30 November 2010 [print_link] US Attorney General Eric Holder reiterated on Monday that the Justice Department, [...]
By Robert Parry | November 24, 2010 | [print_link] If American journalism should have learned one thing over the years, it is to be cautious and skeptical during the first days of a foreign confrontation like the one now playing out on the Korean Peninsula. Often the initial accounts from the “U.S. side” don’t turn out [...]
By John Burton 19 November 2010 [print_link] The Obama administration intervened in the United States Supreme Court earlier this month to oppose a taxpayers’ lawsuit seeking an injunction against an Arizona state scheme designed to funnel millions of tax dollars into religious education. Of particular note was the thoroughly anti-democratic position taken during oral [...]
By Robert Fisk | The Independent | November 20, 2010 [print_link] IN ANY OTHER COUNTRY, the current American bribe to Israel, and the latter’s reluctance to accept it, in return for even a temporary end to the theft of somebody else’s property would be regarded as preposterous. Three billion dollars’ worth of fighter bombers in [...]
November 24, 2010 By Thom Hartmann [print_link] During the time you’re reading these words, somewhere in the world somebody is getting onto or off an airplane with a few ounces of cocaine, heroin, or diamonds packed into a condom and stuffed up their rear. The cocaine, heroin, or diamonds could just as easily be [...]
___________ AMY GOODMAN’s DEMOCRACY NOW Featuring two enormously important—must read/watch— interviews with visionary activists Chilean Economist Manfred Max-Neef on Barefoot Economics, Poverty and Why The U.S. is Becoming an “Underdeveloping Nation” We speak with the acclaimed Chilean economist, Manfred Max-Neef. He won the Right Livelihood Award in 1983, two years after the publication of his [...]
THE UNITED STATES HAS BECOME MIRED in a complex web of economic instruments that are directly tied to the so-called “bubble” economy. Some economists held them as potential means to assist Americans buy homes, but others think these instruments have merely enabled fraudulent behavior that wrecked the U.S. economy. ___________________________________________ By Matt Taibbi and Maria [...]
The U.S. government is moving on political groups and activists who are exercising fundamental First Amendment rights in opposing the government’s branding of foreign liberation movements as terrorist and support their struggles against U.S. backed repressive regimes and illegal occupations. _________________________ By Michael Deutsch | Mondoweiss November 10, 2010 [print_link] _____________________ In late September the FBI [...]
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