We have been reading about so many Al Qaeda members killed or captured here and there every single day since the attacks on September 11, 2001. I mean EVERY SINGLE DAY. Please be my guest and check out the headlines from today, yesterday, the day before yesterday, last week . . . Go ahead and check the headlines for every single day for the last ten years. You see what I mean? Continue reading
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization is a cold war relic with no positive use in the 21st century. Its original intent, or so it was claimed, was to protect Western nations from a supposedly threatening Soviet bloc. The Soviet Union collapsed, and now some of the old Soviet bloc states are NATO members themselves. Why does this organization still exist? Continue reading
I woke up to an especially beautiful Alexandria morning yesterday, a clear blue sky punctuated with meandering fluffy clouds. Savoring the aroma of percolating coffee, I watered the multi-hued flowering plants on my terrace before pausing to feel the sun’s rays bathing my face. Continue reading
Dr. William Sammons, an expert on the health and environmental effects of biomass combustion, has traveled to southern Indiana from the East Coast numerous times to testify at public hearings against burning biomass for energy. Continue reading
Israeli company has FAA permission to fly drones in U.S. airspace! • France seeks to amend pro-austerity European fiscal pact • Conservative think tanks step up attacks against Obama’s clean energy strategy • Wind-Generated Energy Is Working Well for Us in Iowa • JPMorgan allegedly forecloses on home two months after its purchase • Ex Monsanto lawyer Clarence Thomas to hear major Monsanto case • More . . . Continue reading
The latest bomb plot and underwear bomber were foiled by the ever-vigilant CIA in a sting in Yemen within the last few weeks. Fortunately, no targets or plane tickets had been purchased by the time the plot was foiled. Continue reading
If there were any real terrorists, Jose Rodriguez would be dead. Continue reading
Like Vioxx, Merck’s expensive “super aspirin” that caused thousands of cardiovascular events before being recalled, Merck’s Fosamax, the first bisphosphonate bone drug, flew out of the FDA with only a six-month review. Continue reading
Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges wrote, “Dictatorships foster oppression, dictatorships foster servitude, dictatorships foster cruelty; more abominable is the fact that they foster idiocy.” Continue reading
Imagine a world plunged in darkness and extreme cold with the sunlight screened by a thick dust cloud. Imagine a world flung back into chaos. This is an image conceived of a world abandoned to dereliction by doomsday weapons. Continue reading
Icelandic anger brings debt forgiveness in best recovery story • Former Mormon explains why Mitt Romney should never be president • JPMorgan Chase has lost $20 billion on its bad trade, taking into account share price • Five Facts that put America to shame • Facebook co-founder Saverin gives up U.S. citizenship before IPO • More are renouncing U.S. citizenship as IRS cracks down • Zimbabwe’s latest way to stop HIV: Force women to have fewer baths and shave off their hair to make them less attractive • More . . . Continue reading
“The Social Security program . . . represents our commitment as a society to the belief that workers should not live in dread that a disability, death, or old age could leave them or their families destitute.”—President Jimmy Carter, December 20, 1977. Continue reading
The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) recently issued their annual report on the status of freedom of the press in the world in which the lead article charges, amongst other things, that there are no independent journalists allowed in the East African country of Eritrea. Continue reading
I have always looked at government subsidies with suspicion . . . trying to identify whether they are designed to assist (those in need) or to render support (for a cause). And looking at housing subsidies has been no different. Continue reading
What do people mean when they say, “I’m spiritual but not religious?” The Dalai Lama said, “My only religion is kindness.” John Lennon wanted to imagine “no religion” as part of creating a loving world, and the mystic-leaning Van Morrison sang of “no guru, no method, no teacher”—an idea J. Krishnamurti promoted. Continue reading
Spanish activists line streets to continue protest of dreadful economy • Chicago police prepare for NATO Summit with riot gear and sound cannon • Judge keeps CIA volume on Bay of Pigs secret • Rogue authority: California cases highlight out-of-control U.S. police forces • GOP voter registration firm turns in thousands of ‘invalid’ registration forms in California • McCain pushes Orwellian cyber-security bill • More . . . Continue reading
The storms of so-called ‘economic reform and austerity’ have swept our global landscape, the far-right growing to new heights with the toxic precipitation these storms brought, Fascism’s supposedly long dead seeds thriving in the nourishment of a malignant climate. But what of society’s genuine populists, our Left, our champions of social justice and all that’s right. Continue reading
Living in America is becoming very difficult for anyone with a moral conscience, a sense of justice, or a lick of intelligence. Continue reading
For those hoping to better understand how and why we arrived at this dismal point in our nation’s history, where individual freedoms, privacy and human dignity have been sacrificed to the gods of security, expediency and corpocracy, look no farther than America’s public schools. Continue reading
The title of the article is “Backers of North Carolina’s Gay Marriage Ban: State No Longer Vulnerable.” And this in the body: “North Carolina voters approved a constitutional amendment Tuesday night banning gay marriage, but the measure also goes one step further by not allowing civil unions.” Continue reading
Last year, not one of the 491,687 new minivans sold in the United States was made in America by unionized workers. Continue reading
99-percenters protest economic woes in Europe • Romney will increase military spending by $2.1 trillion with no plan to pay for it • Mitt Romney’s years at Bain represent everything you hate about capitalism • Top Romney aide outed transgender woman in political smear • India agrees to buy $560m worth US howitzer guns • The unbelievable brutality unleashed on kids in for-profit prisons • AZ Gov Brewer signs controversial contraception bill into law • More . . . Continue reading
In a war that is many wars conducted and staged from at least a thousand bases around the world by some 250,000 military personnel, burning up more fuel than any single source on the planet, what chance does the national debt have of declining, even through the awful austerity programs aimed at slashing entitlement programs of all kinds by the profiteers of this egregious excess continue to starve the consumer economy of capital with endless debt, leaving the specter of declining jobs and an evaporating currency for our so-called capitalist system to live on? Continue reading
Recently, Mr. ‘Hope And Change’ Barack Obama (also known as the predator-drone-missile president), officially launched his corporate reelection campaign by shamelessly touting his role in the extra-judicial, U.S. government’s official version, of the assassination of Osama Bin Laden. Continue reading
(WMR)—Virginia Air National Guard F-22 Raptor pilots Major Jeremy Gordon and Captain Joshua Wilson are facing the loss of their wings and punitive administrative reprisals for appearing on CBS 60 Minutes to discuss pilot safety issues with regard to the F-22’s oxygen system. The pilots revealed problems with pilot sickness, including hypoxia, or the loss of oxygen to the brain, as a result of “unknown” problems with the F-22’s oxygen system. Continue reading
The second attempt by US authorities to try one of several alleged masterminds of 9/11, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, and his four co-accused is a farce reminiscent of the trial of Saddam Hussein that had a preordained outcome. Continue reading
Israel is currently experiencing the kind of turmoil that may or may not affect its political hierarchy following the next general election. However, there is little reason to believe that any major transformations in the Israeli political landscape could be of benefit to Palestinians. Continue reading
American voters are adrift on the sinking U.S. ship of state in a political sea awash with thousands of activist organizations reflecting every hue of the political spectrum. Responding to the voter’s SOS, a nonpartisan lifeboat has been floating around the Internet and social media for the past couple of months quickly attracting a broad range of bipartisan support. Continue reading
Everyone knows what’s wrong with the poor remnant of news and analysis that the mainstream media still manages to provide—that it’s untrue, servile to its corporate masters, and intended to deceive rather than reveal. Continue reading
May 1 began with rain and heavy clouds in the Berkshire Mountains in Western Massachusetts. Since it has been an unusually dry and cool spring in New England, I worried that the May Day demonstration planned by Occupy Wall Street would not draw the crowds so essential to keep the momentum of the movement going. Continue reading
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Iron Jawed Angels: America’s distorted history
Posted on May 17, 2012 by Sara S. DeHart, MSN, Ph.D.
I am sure that China has multiple strengths but as with many, if not most commercial American journalists, American virtues are highlighted to provide the illusion that this nation actually provides that beacon on the hill—that lights the way for others to follow. Continue reading →