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The
new Israeli government will not be interested in compromise on any
front, though it is somewhat divided on when and how to attack Iran (or
how to get the United States to do the job for it). It will exhibit much
of the racist extremism that has characterized Israeli politics of
late.
An
interview wherein Bill Moyers and Glenn Greenwald discuss the Boston
Marathon bombing, terrorism and civil liberties, the dangers of secrecy,
US foreign policy and general issues relating to US political and media
culture:
Do
we even notice the scorpion on our back as we frog-kick across the
water towards PlayLand? When we eventually feel the fatal sting, we'll
turn and see the Dominant Culture sinking with us. We could ask, "Why?
Everything you have done is killing us all." And the scorpion (who in my
movie looks a lot like Dick Cheney) replies, "I couldn't help it. It's
my nature. What part of Capitalism didn't you understand?"
There
are plausible economic arguments for requiring all Americans to
purchase health insurance (although they're not as conclusive as their
proponents usually claim). But they certainly don't outweigh the dire
economic effect healthcare costs have on most Americans.
The
government is pushing our fear button in order to justify wholesale
over-riding of the Constitutional rights we have, says TCBH! contributor
Dan DeWalt
Should
we feel guilty about the elimination of whole native populations,
slavery, confiscation of lands? Should the spoils always go to the
victors? What about their descendants?
current
gun crime methodology is right out of an old episode of Columbo ,
Baretta or Miami Vice , before desk computers, thanks to the NRA. Let's
get those bad guys.
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The
tenth annual Interfaith Walk for Peace is Sunday, April 28 in
Philadelphia. It's an opportunity to meet people from other
backgrounds, people with other beliefs, and take a stand together for
cross-cultural friendship.
Serious Trouble in Syria
I had to write this because I go to school with a lot of folks who have family in this region of the world. These are beautiful human beings, not cannon fodder, and it angers me to see children being murdered, all in the name of world domination and the exploitation of regional natural resources... ALLEGEDLY.
I had to write this because I go to school with a lot of folks who have family in this region of the world. These are beautiful human beings, not cannon fodder, and it angers me to see children being murdered, all in the name of world domination and the exploitation of regional natural resources... ALLEGEDLY.
Rich
right-wingers, including the Koch Brothers and Rupert Murdoch, are
eying the purchase of the Los Angeles Times and other major regional
newspapers to create an even bigger platform for their propaganda, a
media strategy that dates back several decades.
Emerging
evidence from the Boston Marathon bombings suggests the brutal attack
on innocent civilians was motivated by the fury of two brothers against
overseas crimes of the U.S. government. In that, the martial-law
lockdown of Boston may be a glimpse at the future to come.
Tribeca Film Festival and its affiliate Tribeca Film Institute work hard to increase diversity in the media.
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Could President Obama be a Republican Trojan horse?
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Mark
Zuckerberg's new political group, which bills itself as a bipartisan
entity dedicated to passing immigration reform, has spent considerable
resources on ads advocating a host of anti-environmental causes --
including driling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR) and
constructing the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline.
Two
bills aimed at protecting residents living near the state's 29 salt
domes, written after the appearance of a 13-acre sinkhole in the idyllic
bayous of Assumption Parish, cleared the House Committee on Natural
Resources Wednesday. Legislation introduced by Rep. Karen Gaudet St.
Germain, D-Pierre Part, would control the drilling, operation and
plugging of salt domes. The underground mountains of salt are often used
to store hydrocarbons, but companies also drill into them to extract
brine. The infamous Bayou Corne sinkhole, which has required the
evacuation of about 350 nearby residents, is in St. Germain's district.
The
dedication this week of the George W. Bush Presidential Library and
Museum was more than an opportunity for the five living U.S. presidents
to compare notes on what Stefan Lorant called "the glorious burden" of
the office. Bush's ultimate goal -- already hawked by his former
political advisor Karl Rove -- is to become another Harry S. Truman, a
regular-guy commander in chief whose stock rose sharply about 20 years
after he left office.
Charlie
was branded a deserter. Google "Charlie Veitch traitor" today, and you
get around 38,000 results. Depending on which link you click, he’s
either totally insane, an establishment shill, brainwashed, a government
agent, a satanist, a sex criminal, corrupt, or a blackmailed putz.
Videos were mocked up superimposing dollar signs in his eyes, horns on
his head, and his face onto Gary Glitter’s body. One of Charlie’s oldest
heroes, Alex Jones—that guy who freaked out at Piers Morgan and exists
in a space somewhere between Glenn Beck and Charlie Sheen—declared that
Veitch had “psychopath eyes.”
The
United States should consider military action to curb Syrian chemical
weapons after Washington went public with suspicions they have been used
in the country's civil war, Israel's deputy foreign minister said on
Friday. The challenge by Zev Elkin, a confidant of Prime Minister
Benjamin Netanyahu, underscored tension this week over the allies'
assessments on Syria, as well as longer-running disputes about how
aggressively to confront Iran's nuclear program.
The
Air Force plans to investigate an allegation that fighter pilot Lt.
Col. James Wilkerson, whose sexual assault conviction was overturned by a
lieutenant general in part because the general believed Wilkerson was
an upstanding husband and officer, had an extramarital affair in 2004
with a woman who says she gave birth to his baby. The woman who says
Wilkerson fathered her child wrote to Stars and Stripes after she
learned of his sexual assault conviction and Franklin's decision to
overturn the verdict.
President
Barack Obama ripped Republican-led efforts to defund Planned
Parenthood, during a Friday speech to the women's health organization's
annual gala in Washington, D.C. Obama, who made history by becoming the
first sitting U.S. president ever to address the group, offered a
spirited defense of Planned Parenthood's mission. Noting that one in
five American women has turned to Planned Parenthood for health care
services ranging from contraception to cancer screenings, Obama said
"when politicians try to turn Planned Parenthood into a punching bag,
they're not just talking about you, but they're talking about the
millions of women who they serve."
The
House of Representatives on Friday approved and sent to the president
legislation intended to end a week of turmoil at several of the nation's
major airports, where the sequestration furlough of air traffic
controllers caused long delays for thousands of passengers. The vote
came 16 hours after the bill won unanimous support in the Senate, and
the White House said the president would sign it.
Virtually
the entire right, from John McCain to The Wall Street Journal to the
neoconservative movement and The Washington Times, is thumping the tubs
for war against Syria. Now that the White House has acknowledged, with
some caveats, that sarin gas has apparently been used in Syria,
President Obama will come under enormous, and probably irresistible,
pressure to go to war. Still, the White House is cautious in its
assessments, and in its letter to Congress the White House said: Given
the stakes involved, and what we have learned from our own recent
experience, intelligence assessments alone are not sufficient. Only
credible and corroborated facts that provide us with some degree of
certainty will guide our decision-making.
Economic
debates rarely end with a T.K.O. But the great policy debate of recent
years between Keynesians, who advocate sustaining and, indeed,
increasing government spending in a depression, and austerians, who
demand immediate spending cuts, comes close -- at least in the world of
ideas. At this point, the austerian position has imploded; not only have
its predictions about the real world failed completely, but the
academic research invoked to support that position has turned out to be
riddled with errors, omissions and dubious statistics.
