The New York Times: “This isn’t about ideology. It’s about oil spills,” said Lee Hunt, president of the International Association of Drilling Contractors, a trade group that is trying to broaden bilateral contacts to promote drilling safety. “Political attitudes have to change in order to protect the gulf.” Yes, muscling in on potentially massive reserves…
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The Zionist lobby sure doesn’t have much appeal anymore with the yoof
The American Jewish student community is increasingly vocal against Israeli crimes and BDS is their justified weapon: “We are not willing to have our money spent on manufacturing cluster bombs or any ingredients that violate the rights of the people of Palestine. Or any people,” explained Matan Cohen, an Israeli student at Hampshire College and…
How to receive a White House pat on the head
Here’s a lesson for progressive and Leftist writers and bloggers. If you want White House approval (God knows why you would, if independence is valued) then don’t be too critical, praise the wonders of Barack Obama and bask in the glow: The vice president told Democrats to “stop whining.” The president told them to “buck…
Pentagon watches books go up in flames
Land of the free? The Pentagon burned 9,500 copies of a book it deemed a threat to national security. The US government paid the publisher nearly $50,000 dollars in printing costs, had the books pulled and destroyed. A government approved censored version of US Army Lt. Col Anthony Shaffer’s “Operation Dark Heart: Spycraft and Special…
Why on earth would America want to help the people they’ve invaded?
While reading this story about a new British documentary explaining the decision of the Iraqi insurgency to stop fighting the Americans and battle al-Qaeda instead in the years after the 2003 invasion, this quote is astounding: As General Jack Keane, the former vice chief of staff of the US Army, admitted in an interview at…
ABC Radio Overnights on Middle East realities
As the sham Middle East “peace process” continues, I was invited last week for a long interview and listener questions on ABC Overnights. We covered settlements, the BDS movement, the one-state solution, Barack Obama’s blind spots and the Holocaust:
Privatisation for breakfast, lunch and dinner
Are there limits to privatisation or should we just consider asking multinationals to sell babies to the highest bidder? A private company in Maryland has taken over public libraries in ailing cities in California, Oregon, Tennessee and Texas, growing into the country’s fifth-largest library system. Now the company, Library Systems & Services, has been hired…
Murdoch hearts anybody other than sensible US politicians
Hello, my name is Fox News and I like Christians, no mosques anywhere and far-right Republicans: With the exception of Mitt Romney, Fox now has deals with every major potential Republican presidential candidate not currently in elected office.
