Saturday, March 26, 2011

Out in Force: 300,000 to march in London anti-cuts protest [5:49m video]

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from Russia Today (RT) via U-Tube. So far I have seen only very shallow coverage of this major event in US mainstream media. They are foc...

Bahrain's New Symbol of Resistance

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by Rannie Amiri from CounterPunch .  While our mainstream media focuses almost entirely on the war in Libya, and, to a lesser extent, on t...

How Catastrophe Heralds a New Japan

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by Kojin Karatani from CounterPunch .  It's not Japan's demise that the earthquake produced, but rather the possibility of its rebi...

Five Billionaires Who Party Harder Than Russell Brand’s Arthur

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by Jamie Johnson from Vanity Fair .  Once again Jamie leads us on an excursion in the lives of the one-percent , among people whom you and...
Friday, March 25, 2011

GE, Leader in Tax Evasion, Pays Virtually No Tax Yet Got Bailed Out in Crisis

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by Yves Smith from her blog .  Globalized capitalism has provided many opportunities for corporations and their ruling class owners to exp...

Endgame: Divide, rule and get the oil

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by Pepe Escobar from Asia Times Online .   Once again this political realist gives us the real story about events in Libya and the Near Ea...

US Army deserter readies for legal battle, faces tough odds

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from RT (Russia Today) . [3:31m video and transcript] I am posting this today largely because you will not see this reported in US media. ...
Thursday, March 24, 2011

Lifting the Veil [1:52:00 video]

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I lifted this fine documentary from an article by Lenore Daniels entitled, " U.S. Dictatorship? Propaganda and Hope ".  It is my f...
Wednesday, March 23, 2011

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BLOGGER'S NOTE: I have two posts today which are lengthier than what I normally post. At least for me and, I gather, for many others, a ...

People Power in Egypt: Defusing a Revolution?

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by Michael Barker from Counter Currents .  (17.5 single-spaced pages) The coverage of world events by ruling class media to shape the view...

Seymour Hersh and the Men Who Want Him Committed

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by Matthew Phelan from Who What Why .  (About 6.5 pages) The article is really, and more importantly, about Hersh's revelations with r...
Tuesday, March 22, 2011

Banker on How to Solve Debt Crisis: The Public Needs to Work Harder for Less Money and 50% Fewer Benefits

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by Courtney Comstock from Business Inside r.  Of course, this European banker is right. And, of course, he is assuming the continuation of...

The West bombs, the Arab League ducks

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by Pepe Escobar from Asia Times Online . Escobar does an excellent job of deconstructing the many myths (our motives are humanitarian, the...
Monday, March 21, 2011

War stalks revolution in Middle East

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by Sreeram Chaulia from Asia Times Online .  This astute author looks at the current situation in Bahrain from a historical perspective re...

Governments Have Been Covering Up Nuclear Meltdowns for Fifty Years to Protect the Nuclear Power Industry

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from Washington's Blog .  If you check his sources, once again you will find that this intrepid investigative blogger does his researc...

Powering Down

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by Linh Dinh from Dissident Voice . The author offers a thoughtful commentary mostly about the "stoical" Japanese facing their n...

A New McCarthy?

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by Helen Thomas from Falls Church News-Press .  King's search would do best to ask why any Muslim would be against our great country wh...

Some Fight Back

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by Michael Donnelly--A Review of Joe Bageant's Rainbow Pie: A Redneck Memoir    What happened to the natural sense of community that e...
Sunday, March 20, 2011

How a New Jobless Era Will Transform America

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by Don Peck from The Atlantic .  I have not had time to fully read this article, but it looks very interesting. The Atlantic is a mainstre...

The Capitalist Follies

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by David Glenn Cox from OpEd News .  The author looks at the current crises and the way capitalist authorities frame their coverage of the...