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“Yes, we can!”
“Yes, we can,” was the rallying cry of the Obama campaign for the presidency. It was a cry for change and the promise of better things for ordinary working people. Obama caught the imagination of the people, enough so that they supported him and abandoned the darling of the Democratic Party, Hillary Clinton. Continue reading
The “twin harpies” of U.S. foreign policy bring mayhem to the world
(WMR)—U.S. National Security Adviser Susan Rice and her colleague, U.S. Ambassador to the UN Samantha Power, who can best be described as the “twin harpies” of U.S. interventionist foreign policy, have managed to turn back the clock to the Cold War in Europe, plunged a breakaway region of an African country after a long civil war into its own civil war, and forced the U.S. to deal with an Al Qaeda-led rebel faction which wants to turn Syria into an Islamic state. Continue reading
Right to resist oppression
In August 2004, Richard Hugus, critic of progressive injustice, wrote an article on the “Lies of the Israeli Peace Movement.” Continue reading
BDS: Permanent address for Palestinian solidarity
The intellectual dishonesty of Israel’s supporters is appalling. But in some odd way, it is also understandable. How else could they respond to the massively growing Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) campaign? Continue reading
Let ‘em Starve! Let ‘em Starve! Let ‘em Starve!
You know how songs get stuck in your head. The one stuck in mine this holiday season is “Let it Snow! Let it Snow! Let it Snow!,” except what I keep hearing is Let ‘em Starve! Let ‘em Starve! Let ‘em starve! Continue reading
Salafists, Muslim Brotherhood eyeing Himalayan region
(WMR)—WMR’s sources in India report that Indian and Nepalese authorities are growing increasingly concerned over the massive influx of Muslim immigrants, along with Wahhabist and Salafist clerics, into the Indo-Nepalese border region. Many of the recent Muslim immigrants are from Bangladesh. Continue reading
In Pennsylvania, Alabama, and Texas, drivers pulled over, asked for blood and saliva
No, this isn’t an April Fool’s joke. No, it isn’t a scene out of a dystopian novel. It’s just another day in the good ol’ USA. Continue reading
Too rich to be incarcerated
Ethan Couch, a 16 year old resident of Dallas, Texas, was driving a vehicle while intoxicated when he killed 4 people standing near the side of the road and injured 9 others. While many teenagers do reckless and thoughtless things, this “poor” youngster had the additional burden of suffering from “affluenza,” a disease that strikes only the wealthy and/or their children. Continue reading
Problem: climate change; solution: system change
As if there weren’t already more than enough evidence to convince thoughtful people of the problem, the recently concluded U.N. sponsored meetings on Climate Change made it crystal clear. Continue reading
Gunpowder and blood on their cold, dead hands
This grim anniversary of the Newtown, Connecticut, killings, with 28 dead, reminded us of that moment back in 2000 when Charlton Heston made his defiant boast at the NRA convention that gun control advocates would have to pry his rifle from his “cold, dead hands.” You would have thought he had returned to that fantasy world of Hollywood where, in a previous incarnation, he portrayed those famous Indian killers Andrew Jackson and Buffalo Bill Cody, whose Wild West, as Cody marketed it, still courses through the bloodstream of American mythology. Continue reading
The logic of 9/11: US-Saudi-Pakistani connections
Last week, Congressmen Walter Jones and Stephen Lynch introduced a resolution urging President Obama to declassify the legendary “28 redacted pages of the Joint Intelligence Committee Inquiry of 9/11” issued in late 2002, which point to official Saudi involvement in 9/11. After much lobbying, and under an oath of secrecy, Jones was allowed to read the censored document: “I was absolutely shocked by what I read. What was so surprising was that those whom we thought we could trust really disappointed me.” Continue reading
Green light for Greenwald: Government duplicity or government duality?
Patterns play a major role in identifying entities. We get to know people, organizations and governments based on their record and their pattern of behavior and actions. This is a fact. What happens when an entity identified by a consistent set of patterns suddenly deviates and engages in actions and behavior that completely differ from all its previous ones? We question the sudden deviation. We question the reasons behind the differentiation. Because we must. Because we have to—especially when the entity in question is our government and the current ruler of our lives. Continue reading
Hearts colder than Alexa’s big freeze
When snow blanketed the eastern suburbs of Cairo last weekend for the first time in over a century, due to snowstorm Alexa, Egyptian children squealed with delight. This was their chance to make snowmen and engage in snowball fights, activities most of their parents had only witnessed on TV or in movies. Those kids were lucky; they had hot meals and warm beds waiting at home. Social media was ablaze with photographs of scenes that wouldn’t look amiss on the covers of seasonal greetings cards. One showed a statue of former Egyptian Prime Minister Saad Zaghloul Pasha in a swirl of white flakes with the poignant caption “Cover me!” But stone doesn’t risk frostbite, hypothermia or death when temperatures plummet. Continue reading
The end of childhood in the era of the emerging American police state
It wouldn’t be a week in America without another slew of children being punished for childish behavior under the regime of zero tolerance which plagues our nation’s schools. Here are some of the latest incidents. Continue reading
Now hear this!!
I do a lot of reading, gathering information and opinions that one does not find in the mainstream media. As a result, I have come to this conclusion: WE ARE IN A STATE OF WAR!! Continue reading
Wasn’t it like this during the last days of Rome?
In 1962, as a teenager, I visited Detroit for the first time. Continue reading
Washington drives the world toward war
Washington has had the US at war for 12 years: Afghanistan, Iraq, Somalia, Libya, Pakistan, Yemen, and almost Syria, which could still happen, with Iran waiting in the wings. These wars have been expensive in terms of money, prestige, and deaths and injuries of both US soldiers and the attacked civilian populations. None of these wars appears to have any compelling reason or justifiable explanation. The wars have been important to the profits of the military/security complex. The wars have provided cover for the construction of a Stasi police state in America, and the wars have served Israel’s interest by removing obstacles to Israel’s annexation of the entire West Bank and southern Lebanon. Continue reading
Expressing solidarity with the workers who rioted in Singapore’s “Little India”
Two nations I would neither like to live in nor be born into: one is Dubai and another is Singapore. Continue reading
Tallahassee taxpayers get little back from red-light camera deal
TALLAHASSEE, Fla.—Red light cameras are supposed to make dangerous intersections safer. But at what cost? Continue reading
The midnight visit from Reagan’s ghost
Barack was tired. He had just returned from a long trip to South Africa to memorialize Nelson Mandela. He had flown out and back with former President George W. Bush, a man that Barack inherently knew was nothing less than a war criminal. Yet, politics is what it is: A never ending series of compromise and accommodation. Clinton (Bill that is . . . well Hillary too for that matter) had taught him that this was the way it is and that was that, so why bother? It was late and he was really tired. He needed to finish drinking his night cap and go to sleep. After he rang for the White House butler, he gathered up some notes for an upcoming speech and . . . Continue reading
Read this before you take that statin
The American Heart Association (AHA) and the American College of Cardiology (ACC) recently released new cardiovascular disease prevention guidelines. They are an egregious example of much that is wrong with medicine today. Continue reading
Neocons target Ukraine in “Orange Crush”
The neocons are still alive and active as ever inside Secretary of State John Kerry’s State Department. Kerry’s Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs, Victoria Nuland, who previously served as Hillary Clinton’s State Department mouthpiece, has threatened sanctions against Ukraine. Continue reading
Who really masterminds anti-Iran sanctions?
There is no remission to Washington’s belligerence towards Iran and no deal seems to be an antidote to this venom of spite secreted out on the part of the US officials on a daily basis. Continue reading
Freedom Rider: Talking about Mandela
Nelson Mandela’s passing provides an important and rare opportunity for discussion of some very serious issues. We should not fear principled critique of people we admire but instead we have been treated to maudlin self-indulgence, useless idol worship and wrongheaded defense of Mandela’s memory. Continue reading
Assuaging my conscience
Prior to Diana Wagman’s participation in Operation Santa 2013, she anticipated letters written by children, asking for toys. Later, overwhelmed to read “pleas from parents,” Wagman wrote a moving op-ed about her expectations and the clash with reality. Continue reading
Israel’s high-pressure Leviathan gas 4 miles down and too costly to develop
Israel is having problems trying to profit from the Mediterranean gas field that it has been trying to steal from some of its neighbors. Drilling has been stopped since May 3, 2012, (SEE: Leviathan Oil Well Drilling Postponed) by Noble Energy’s “Homer Ferrington” rig, which had been working in the Leviathan gas field. Drilling stopped because of the unexpected high gas pressures encountered at the greatest depths. Continue reading
Kerry’s switch from mediator to antagonist
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry was scheduled to start his ninth trip of shuttle diplomacy between Palestinian and Israeli leaders on this December 11. However, the bridging “security arrangements,” which he proposed less than a week earlier on his last trip, have backfired and are now snowballing into a major crisis with Palestinian negotiators who view Kerry’s “ideas” as a coup turning the US top diplomat from a mediator into an antagonist. Continue reading
No more US boots at Afghan doorsteps?
In his refusal to sign the Afghan-US security pact which would enable some US troops to stay in Afghanistan after 2014, Afghan President Hamid Karzai is signaling a clear message to the United States: Afghanistan does not need US troops on its ground any more. Continue reading
Japan’s deadly new ‘Fukushima fascism’
Fukushima continues to spew out radiation. The quantities seem to be rising, as do the impacts. Continue reading
The end of private property in the era of the American police state
If the government can tell you what you can and cannot do within the privacy of your home, whether it relates to what you eat, what you smoke or whom you love, you no longer have any rights whatsoever within your home. Continue reading
Laying the foundation for blatant fascism in the U.S.
Posted on December 20, 2013 by Larry Pinkney
When corporations and government become, in actuality, intertwined as one entity, the end result is fascism. This is the precise reality in the United States in this 21st century, and it has spread like a cancer throughout this nation. Continue reading →