KABUL, May 21, 2013—Since 2009, Voices for Creative Nonviolence has maintained a grim record we call the “The Afghan Atrocities Update” which gives the dates, locations, numbers and names of Afghan civilians killed by NATO forces. Even with details culled from news reports, these data can’t help but merge into one large statistic, something about terrible pain that’s worth caring about but that is happening very far away. Continue reading
In an article published May 15, 2013, American historical social scientist Immanuel Wallerstein wrote, “Nothing illustrates more the limitations of Western power than the internal controversy its elites are having in public about what the United States. in particular, and western European states should be doing about the civil war in Syria.” Continue reading
(WMR)—President Obama’s Nixonian assault on the press is rooted in the mistaken belief that leaks of “national security” information can do great harm to the country’s security. Therefore, Obama and his attorney general, Eric Holder, a former District of Columbia judge who was appointed by President Ronald Reagan and vetted by the ultra-conservative Federalist Society, have brought the government’s immense surveillance capabilities on reporters for The New York Times, the Associated Press, The Smoking Gun website, Fox News, and now, according to one of its Washington reporters, CBS News. Continue reading
World sales of Merck’s blockbuster asthma drug, Singulair, were about $5 billion a year until last year when its patent expired in the United States. But the drug also has a darkening cloud over it. The Australian medicine watchdog has received 58 reports of adverse psychiatric events in children and teenagers taking Singulair since 2000 and reports have also surfaced in the US. Continue reading
That the fix was in was confirmed when the Godfather himself, son of a Kenyan, Barack Obama, called Uhuru Kenyatta, indicted for “Crimes Against Humanity” by those minions of Pax Americana, the International Criminal Court, to congratulate him for successfully conducting another Kenyan stolen election. Continue reading
The global condition can at any time be likened to the situation on the sinking Titanic with its crew re-arranging deck chairs and throw pillows as the ship continues to submerge. This analogy may not quite fit the present status of the global center, the USA. Here, the situation at a mental health crisis center under a full moon while suffering a shortage of powerful tranquilizers might seem pleasant by comparison. As always under profit and loss economics, increasing numbers face growing hardship bordering on absolute disaster while some enjoy ever more lavish splendor with their servant class living in relative if temporary comfort. Continue reading
A study in the journal Environmental Health Perspectives found detectable levels of arsenic in chicken from grocery stores in 10 American cities, including in organic chickens. If the drug were fed to all chickens, over 100 US deaths would result from arsenic-related lung and bladder cancers, report the authors. Continue reading
At the end of a week that reminds us to be ever vigilant about the dangers of government overreaching its authority, whether by the long arm of the IRS or the Justice Department, we should pause to think about another threat—from too much private power obnoxiously intruding into public life. Continue reading
Just in time for Memorial Day, we’re being treated to a generous serving of praise and grandstanding by politicians, corporations and others with similarly self-serving motives eager to go on record as being pro-military. Patriotic platitudes aside, however, America has done a deplorable job of caring for her veterans. We erect monuments for those who die while serving in the military, yet for those who return home, there’s little honor to be found. Continue reading
Just so we know, Benghazi is the second largest city in Libya and has a long history. And all the gangrene being generated in its wounds is political poison used to embarrass President Barack Obama and put Hilary Clinton up against the electoral wall. Yes, mistakes were made, initial cover-ups in particular. But many Republican critics, including family members of the lost, should remember this is the ugly price one pays for playing regime change. Continue reading
You know that gold bear market that the financial press keeps touting? The one George Soros keeps proclaiming? Well, it is not there. The gold bear market is disinformation that is helping elites acquire the gold. Continue reading
Ten months into Mohammad Mursi’s presidential term, Egypt remains divided, volatile and severely economically-challenged. Confidence in the president’s ability to turn the country around is sapping month-on-month. Whereas 78 percent of the population supported him following his first 100 days in office, according to a recent poll conducted by the Egyptian Centre for Public Opinion Research, a mere 30 per cent (mainly Muslim Brotherhood diehards and people living in rural areas) said they would vote for him again. Continue reading
(WMR)—President Obama, in his typical Machiavellian fashion, says he “offers no apologies” for the subpoena of two months of Associated Press phone calls covering the conversations, and quite possibly the cell phone text messages, of over 100 reporters. Continue reading
I’ll tell you what really pisses me off: The absolute indifference of most Americans to who it is that is screwing them. Continue reading
A whistleblower has revealed extraordinary information on the U.S. government’s support for international terrorist networks and organised crime. The government has denied the allegations yet gone to extraordinary lengths to silence her. Her critics have derided her as a fabulist and fabricator. But now comes word that some of her most serious allegations were confirmed by a major European newspaper only to be squashed at the request of the U.S. government. Continue reading
Over the past month there has been a statistically improbable concurrence of events that can only be explained as a conspiracy to protect the dollar from the Federal Reserve’s policy of Quantitative Easing (QE). Continue reading
Dr. Omar Manejwala, a psychiatrist, is the senior vice president and chief medical officer of Catasys in Los Angeles and is the former medical director at Hazelden Foundation. Dr. Manejwala is a leading expert in addiction medicine and public speaker who addresses the topic of addiction and compulsive behaviors. He also is the author of Craving: Why We Can’t Seem to Get Enough. Continue reading
On May 13, the Vermont state legislature passed a bill that legalizes physician-assisted suicide for terminally ill patients whose suffering has become unbearable but who are capable of making an informed consent on their own behalf. Governor Peter Shumlin has indicated that he will sign the bill into law. Continue reading
Every so often we come across a secular Jewish ‘anti’ Zionist’ who argues that Zionism is not Judaism and vice versa. Interestingly enough, I have just come across an invaluable text that illuminates this question from a rabbinical perspective. Apparently back in 1942, 757 American rabbis added their names to a public pronouncement titled ‘Zionism an Affirmation of Judaism.’ This rabbinical rally for Zionism was declared at the time “the largest public pronouncement in all Jewish history.” Continue reading
WASHINGTON—The families of the 17 Navy SEAL Team 6 members killed when their Chinook helicopter was downed in Afghanistan in August 2011 blame the US command and the Obama administration for the tragedy and want an official investigation into what they are calling a whitewash. Continue reading
With its massive money and clout, Southern California Edison was ready to ram through a license e●ception for a reactor whose botched $770 million steam generator fix had kept it shut for a year. Continue reading
The ironically named criminal justice system in this country is good at prosecuting and creating many criminals but not very good at producing any justice. The United States would not have the largest prison population of any other country on earth if it did not also have the harshest prosecution and sentencing system of any other country. America’s addiction to racism and violence creates outright criminality among police and prosecutors. Their misconduct is tolerated and even encouraged and the result is an untold number of innocent people in jail. Continue reading
In most European cities and towns, the church is at the center, with a square in front of it. In Texas towns, it’s the courthouse. In New York, it’s Times Square, where you can be dazzled by bombastic signs from the world’s largest corporations. In Washington, the Mall affords long vistas of the Capitol, Washington Monument and Lincoln Memorial. You are meant to be awed and feel elated, so proud you might send the president or Pentagon a bounced check. Continue reading
I was running the path parallel to the main road when I heard brakes wail and then a BOOM. Unable to see anything through the dense tree leaves that partition the Kingdom of Intersections from the larger world, I looked up at billowing, grayish white smoke. Continue reading
Have you heard the latest on Obama’s Justice Department secretly subpoenaing the telephone records of AP editors and journalists, and tracking their ingoing and outgoing calls? Continue reading
(WMR)—Attorney General Eric Holder announced that in June 2012 he recused himself from the Justice Department investigation of the alleged leak of classified information on a CIA counter-terrorism operation in Yemen after he was interviewed by the FBI as part of their investigation of the leak. The Associated Press published report in May 2012 about a classified CIA counter-terrorism operation in Yemen that intercepted an advanced underwear bomb destined for a passenger plane. Continue reading
BARTOW, FL—Florida State Attorneys have announced that they will not file felony charges against Kiera Wilmot, the 16-year-old Florida student arrested and escorted off school property after she conducted a science experiment that caused a water bottle to “pop” and “smoke.” The announcement by the Florida State Attorney’s office comes after a petition on Change.org calling for the charges to be dropped was signed by more than 195,000 people from across the country. Continue reading
Despite 20 years of “Got Milk?” mustache ads, milk consumption in the US falls more every year. The National Dairy Promotion and Research Program and the National Fluid Milk Processor Promotion Program cite competition from calcium-fortified and vitamin-enhanced beverages, milk’s lack of availability “in many eating establishments” (You can’t find milk anywhere!) and a growing percentage of African Americans and Latinos in the US population who are not traditionally big milk consumers. Continue reading
It is an event “of cosmic proportions,” said one Palestinian academic, a befitting description of Stephen Hawking’s decision to boycott an Israeli academic conference slated for next June. It was also a decisive moral call which was communicated by the Cambridge University, where Hawking is a professor, on May 8. Continue reading
Pakistan’s elections come at a key junction in the region’s geopolitics, with the public firmly opposed to the US ‘war on terror’ being conducted on Pakistani soil with no regard for its sovereignty. Pakistan’s new prime minister has a mandate to take his country in a new direction, but will he use it? Continue reading
Once again (just as in the recent US Embassy bombing in Ankara) a spectacular terrorist attack takes place in Turkey and the government immediately blames another obscure Marxist terrorist group, that they have conveniently resurrected from Turkey’s distant past. Continue reading
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Freedom Rider: The Obama ‘dog whistle’
Posted on May 24, 2013 by Margaret Kimberley
Every successful politician panders to some degree. It is part and parcel of the theater of running for office in America. Candidates may say that they are adamantly in favor of abortion rights or adamantly against them, while we can never be sure that they really care one way or another. If the political wind shifts enough, the peace lover can cry out for war or the war hawk may turn into a dove. Continue reading →