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Monday, November 7, 2016
The Anti-Empire Report #146 -- November 6th, 2016 -- William Blum SHARE
Aside from the common, but erroneous notion that it was the two US bombs dropped over Hiroshima and Nagasaki, respectively, that brought Imperial Japan's military adventures in Asia and the Pacific to an end, William Blum's musings here on US foreign policy are, as usual, spot on. The question is, of course, what direction that foreign (read : military) policy will take after 20 January 2017, and whether any of us will survive it....Henri
The Anti-Empire Report #146 -- November 6th, 2016 -- William Blum SHARE
Aside from the common, but erroneous notion that it was the two US bombs dropped over Hiroshima and Nagasaki, respectively, that brought Imperial Japan's military adventures in Asia and the Pacific to an end, William Blum's musings here on US foreign policy are, as usual, spot on. The question is, of course, what direction that foreign (read : military) policy will take after 20 January 2017, and whether any of us will survive it....Henri
Wednesday, November 2, 2016
Taking a Page from Joe McCarthy -- Consortiumnews SHARE
McCarthyism is alive and well in the United States, as Robert Parry's article demonstrates. It may seem ironic that it is now being applied to Republicans, rather than Democrats, as it was back in the days of Tail Gunner Joe, but on the other hand, who can tell the difference between a 'Democrat' with a background as a 'Goldwater Girl' and who never saw a US war of aggression abroad she didn't like - at least before it turned sour - and a Republican ?...Henri
Taking a Page from Joe McCarthy -- Consortiumnews SHARE
McCarthyism is alive and well in the United States, as Robert Parry's article demonstrates. It may seem ironic that it is now being applied to Republicans, rather than Democrats, as it was back in the days of Tail Gunner Joe, but on the other hand, who can tell the difference between a 'Democrat' with a background as a 'Goldwater Girl' and who never saw a US war of aggression abroad she didn't like - at least before it turned sour - and a Republican ?...Henri
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Wednesday, September 14, 2016
China and Russia Press Ahead, Together -- Consortiumnews SHARE
That the times they are a-changing, most of us are hopefully aware. But how - and in what direction ? Alistair Crooke's Consortiumnews article may help us understand where we are heading - and why the neocons, with Ms Clinton at their head - are so worried and willing to take such enormous risks to maintain the illusion of US global hegemony....Henri
China and Russia Press Ahead, Together -- Consortiumnews SHARE
That the times they are a-changing, most of us are hopefully aware. But how - and in what direction ? Alistair Crooke's Consortiumnews article may help us understand where we are heading - and why the neocons, with Ms Clinton at their head - are so worried and willing to take such enormous risks to maintain the illusion of US global hegemony....Henri
Monday, October 21, 2013
Bonfire of the straw men SHARE
For those who desire to see behind the false indignation of such outlets as the New York Times and the NPR, Peter Lee's instructive article at the Asian Times Online explains what Chinese government representatives (as we can presumably take them to be) have been and have not been saying about the role of the US and the USD in our globalised world....
Henri
Bonfire of the straw men SHARE
For those who desire to see behind the false indignation of such outlets as the New York Times and the NPR, Peter Lee's instructive article at the Asian Times Online explains what Chinese government representatives (as we can presumably take them to be) have been and have not been saying about the role of the US and the USD in our globalised world....
Henri
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Sunday, October 6, 2013
The killing of Tony Blair SHARE
Don't let the title mislead you ; this is about a film which George Galloway and others have pledged to make about the killings committed by Anthony Charles Lynton Blair, e g, the UK Labour Party, over a million people in Iraq, and, not least, the financial killings he takes such extraordinary pains to hide from view....
Henri
The killing of Tony Blair SHARE
Don't let the title mislead you ; this is about a film which George Galloway and others have pledged to make about the killings committed by Anthony Charles Lynton Blair, e g, the UK Labour Party, over a million people in Iraq, and, not least, the financial killings he takes such extraordinary pains to hide from view....
Henri
Wednesday, October 2, 2013
Patrick Cockburn : Diary SHARE
A concise and sober analysis of the role of propaganda in the recent imperial wars (note that Mr Cockburn doesn't describe them as such), by an eminent reporter of outstanding integrity. To my mind a must-read....
Henri
Patrick Cockburn : Diary SHARE
A concise and sober analysis of the role of propaganda in the recent imperial wars (note that Mr Cockburn doesn't describe them as such), by an eminent reporter of outstanding integrity. To my mind a must-read....
Henri
Sunday, September 29, 2013
Matt Taibbi; Looting the Pension Funds SHARE
The compleat guide to transferring money from people who have worked for the public to people who work to exploit the public and make political points while doing so....
RI state treasurer Gina Raimondo declared war on public pensions, ramming through an ingenious new law slashing benefits of state employees with a speed and ferocity seldom before seen by any local government.
Called the Rhode Island Retirement Security Act of 2011, her plan would later be hailed as the most comprehensive pension reform ever implemented.
What few people knew at the time was that Raimondo's "tool kit" wasn't just meant for local consumption. Raimondo was allowing her state to be used as a test case for the rest of the country, at the behest of powerful out-of-state financiers with dreams of pushing pension reform down the throats of taxpayers and public workers from coast to coast
Matt Taibbi; Looting the Pension Funds SHARE
The compleat guide to transferring money from people who have worked for the public to people who work to exploit the public and make political points while doing so....
RI state treasurer Gina Raimondo declared war on public pensions, ramming through an ingenious new law slashing benefits of state employees with a speed and ferocity seldom before seen by any local government.
Called the Rhode Island Retirement Security Act of 2011, her plan would later be hailed as the most comprehensive pension reform ever implemented.
What few people knew at the time was that Raimondo's "tool kit" wasn't just meant for local consumption. Raimondo was allowing her state to be used as a test case for the rest of the country, at the behest of powerful out-of-state financiers with dreams of pushing pension reform down the throats of taxpayers and public workers from coast to coast
Sunday, July 21, 2013
A Shuffle of Aluminum, but to Banks, Pure Gold - NYTimes.com SHARE
A striking illustration of the consequences of deregulation. Banks are now permitted to buy companies that trade in commodities, resulting in huge profits for the banks and higher prices for consumers....
The good news ? Mr Obama is said to be considering appointing the ineffable Lawrence Henry Summers as next chairman of the Federal Reserve. Talk about the fox keeping the hen house !...
A Shuffle of Aluminum, but to Banks, Pure Gold - NYTimes.com SHARE
A striking illustration of the consequences of deregulation. Banks are now permitted to buy companies that trade in commodities, resulting in huge profits for the banks and higher prices for consumers....
The good news ? Mr Obama is said to be considering appointing the ineffable Lawrence Henry Summers as next chairman of the Federal Reserve. Talk about the fox keeping the hen house !...
Saturday, June 29, 2013
Asia Times Online :: America's Edward Snowden problem SHARE
Peter Lee's succinct analysis of the problem that Edward Joseph Snowden's revelations (by no means the first such) of NSA (and GCHG and ...) snooping represents for the US government and how poorly they - and for the most part, the corporate media in North America and Europe - have handled the issue is a must read....
Asia Times Online :: America's Edward Snowden problem SHARE
Peter Lee's succinct analysis of the problem that Edward Joseph Snowden's revelations (by no means the first such) of NSA (and GCHG and ...) snooping represents for the US government and how poorly they - and for the most part, the corporate media in North America and Europe - have handled the issue is a must read....
Wednesday, August 29, 2012
The human cost of war on Iran SHARE
Anybody remember the opening lines of the Preamble to the UN Charter ? They read as follows :
WE THE PEOPLES OF THE UNITED NATIONS DETERMINED
to save succeeding generations from the scourge of war, which twice in our lifetime has brought untold sorrow to mankind, and ...
One wonders how many days since the signing of the Charter this world has been free of «the scourge of war », which has, in contrast to WW I and II, mainly tormented the less developed regions of our planet ? The type of thinking which, in the service of power and profit, allows - indeed, actively promotes - these wars is here well portrayed by Elizabeth Murray....
Henri
The human cost of war on Iran SHARE
Anybody remember the opening lines of the Preamble to the UN Charter ? They read as follows :
WE THE PEOPLES OF THE UNITED NATIONS DETERMINED
to save succeeding generations from the scourge of war, which twice in our lifetime has brought untold sorrow to mankind, and ...
One wonders how many days since the signing of the Charter this world has been free of «the scourge of war », which has, in contrast to WW I and II, mainly tormented the less developed regions of our planet ? The type of thinking which, in the service of power and profit, allows - indeed, actively promotes - these wars is here well portrayed by Elizabeth Murray....
Henri
Sunday, August 12, 2012
The United States and its comrade-in-arms, Al Qaeda. And other tales of an empire gone mad. SHARE
Yet again another invaluable reminder from Bill Blum on what is going on the world, behind the shows - not least the so-called 'war on terrorism' - displayed for our benefit by the corporate media in North America and Europe....
Henri
Afghanistan in the 1980s and 90s ... Bosnia and Kosovo in the 1990s ... Libya 2011 ... Syria 2012 ... In military conflicts in each of these countries the United States and al Qaeda (or one of its associates) have been on the same side. 1
What does this tell us about the United States' "War On Terrorism"?
Regime change has been the American goal on each occasion: overthrowing communists (or "communists"), Serbians, Slobodan Milosevic, Moammar Gaddafi, Bashar al-Assad ... all heretics or infidels, all non-believers in the empire, all inconvenient to the empire.
The United States and its comrade-in-arms, Al Qaeda. And other tales of an empire gone mad. SHARE
Yet again another invaluable reminder from Bill Blum on what is going on the world, behind the shows - not least the so-called 'war on terrorism' - displayed for our benefit by the corporate media in North America and Europe....
Henri
Afghanistan in the 1980s and 90s ... Bosnia and Kosovo in the 1990s ... Libya 2011 ... Syria 2012 ... In military conflicts in each of these countries the United States and al Qaeda (or one of its associates) have been on the same side. 1
What does this tell us about the United States' "War On Terrorism"?
Regime change has been the American goal on each occasion: overthrowing communists (or "communists"), Serbians, Slobodan Milosevic, Moammar Gaddafi, Bashar al-Assad ... all heretics or infidels, all non-believers in the empire, all inconvenient to the empire.
Monday, June 25, 2012
Stuxnet and the bomb SHARE
As Kennette Benedict here points out, -[t]he parallels [i e, between the development and use of the Stuxnet virus against Iran] with the invention and first use of atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki are eerie -. Foolhardy politicans are nudging the world ever closer to a war which may result in a thermonuclear conflagration that puts an end to the short happy life of H sapiens sapiens on this blue planet....
Stuxnet and the bomb SHARE
As Kennette Benedict here points out, -[t]he parallels [i e, between the development and use of the Stuxnet virus against Iran] with the invention and first use of atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki are eerie -. Foolhardy politicans are nudging the world ever closer to a war which may result in a thermonuclear conflagration that puts an end to the short happy life of H sapiens sapiens on this blue planet....
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Tuesday, February 21, 2012
Climate scientist Peter Gleick admits he leaked Heartland Institute documents SHARE
«Heartland's president Joseph Bast said the unauthorised release of confidential documents -- and a two-page memo it has condemned as a fake -- had caused permanent damage to its reputation. » Let us fervently hope that that is indeed the case....
Climate scientist Peter Gleick admits he leaked Heartland Institute documents SHARE
«Heartland's president Joseph Bast said the unauthorised release of confidential documents -- and a two-page memo it has condemned as a fake -- had caused permanent damage to its reputation. » Let us fervently hope that that is indeed the case....
Thursday, February 9, 2012
An Education in o-Occupation SHARE
An example of the type of "democracy" and "human rights" brought by the United States government to Iraq. Would the results have been any different had that country's attempt to bring "democracy" and "human rights" to Syria not, at least temporarily, been blocked by Russian and Chinese vetoes? How, by the way, are things going for universities in Libya ? And what will happen to universities in Iran, when the war on that country currently being planned by Obama&Co begins?
An Education in o-Occupation SHARE
An example of the type of "democracy" and "human rights" brought by the United States government to Iraq. Would the results have been any different had that country's attempt to bring "democracy" and "human rights" to Syria not, at least temporarily, been blocked by Russian and Chinese vetoes? How, by the way, are things going for universities in Libya ? And what will happen to universities in Iran, when the war on that country currently being planned by Obama&Co begins?
Friday, February 3, 2012
Robert Fisk: We've been here before -- and it suits Israel that we never forget 'Nuclear Iran' SHARE
Some vital background information on Iran and the bomb. But who wants to be reminded of the boring facts, when the convenient lies are so much more fascinating ?...
Robert Fisk: We've been here before -- and it suits Israel that we never forget 'Nuclear Iran' SHARE
Some vital background information on Iran and the bomb. But who wants to be reminded of the boring facts, when the convenient lies are so much more fascinating ?...
Tuesday, January 17, 2012
Coming Soon: Obama's Big Move in Central Africa SHARE
As if the NATO (read : US) intervention in Libya hadn't already demonstrated that the struggle for control of Africa's oil resources is well and truly joined, the dispatch of these so-called «Special Forces » unit does so with all the clarity one could possibly demand. As Glen Ford here points out, «[t]he United States and Europe can no longer compete economically with China in Africa, and must now resort to raw force, through African puppet armies »....
Coming Soon: Obama's Big Move in Central Africa SHARE
As if the NATO (read : US) intervention in Libya hadn't already demonstrated that the struggle for control of Africa's oil resources is well and truly joined, the dispatch of these so-called «Special Forces » unit does so with all the clarity one could possibly demand. As Glen Ford here points out, «[t]he United States and Europe can no longer compete economically with China in Africa, and must now resort to raw force, through African puppet armies »....
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Monday, January 24, 2011
The Doomsday Project, Deep Events, and the Shrinking of American Democracy Peter Dale Scott SHARE
As the founders and members of the Anti-Imperialist League realised at the turn of the last century, an Empire abroad is incompatible with a Republic at home. Alas, those who have run the United States since that time and not least, since the end of WW II, have chosen the former, with precisely the effects Professor Scott has described above, including the state of permanent war under which we now live, on the latter. The question is whether H sapiens sapiens will make it through the present century, indeed, the present decade, alive, as this extraordinarily violent Empire enters its death throes....
Henri
The Doomsday Project, Deep Events, and the Shrinking of American Democracy Peter Dale Scott SHARE
As the founders and members of the Anti-Imperialist League realised at the turn of the last century, an Empire abroad is incompatible with a Republic at home. Alas, those who have run the United States since that time and not least, since the end of WW II, have chosen the former, with precisely the effects Professor Scott has described above, including the state of permanent war under which we now live, on the latter. The question is whether H sapiens sapiens will make it through the present century, indeed, the present decade, alive, as this extraordinarily violent Empire enters its death throes....
Henri
Sunday, August 9, 2009
women at risk Bob Herbert SHARE
'Life', Mr Herbert says, 'in the United States is mind-bogglingly violent'. Is it irony, or simply a terrible consequence of this fact, that this state replete with domestic violence doesn't hesitate (at least not when the opponent is judged to be sufficiently weak) to use its unsurpassed resources for military violence against other states, in the name of 'humanitarian intervention' ?...
women at risk Bob Herbert SHARE
'Life', Mr Herbert says, 'in the United States is mind-bogglingly violent'. Is it irony, or simply a terrible consequence of this fact, that this state replete with domestic violence doesn't hesitate (at least not when the opponent is judged to be sufficiently weak) to use its unsurpassed resources for military violence against other states, in the name of 'humanitarian intervention' ?...
Friday, April 10, 2009
Israel cries wolf SHARE
I must admit that for a commentator on US foreign policy in Southwest Asia publishing in a so-called «mainstream medium» like the New York Times, Mr Cohen is writing some most impressive OpEds these days. The fact that he is - and that the Times is publishing his work, leads me to believe that the risks posed by what he describes as «Netanyahu's intense-eyed attempt to suck America into a perpetuati
Israel cries wolf SHARE
I must admit that for a commentator on US foreign policy in Southwest Asia publishing in a so-called «mainstream medium» like the New York Times, Mr Cohen is writing some most impressive OpEds these days. The fact that he is - and that the Times is publishing his work, leads me to believe that the risks posed by what he describes as «Netanyahu's intense-eyed attempt to suck America into a perpetuati
Saturday, March 7, 2009
Jailed for a MySpace parody, the student who exposed America's cash for kids scandal SHARE
What does this say about the state of justice in the United States ? Can such practices explain, at least in part, why the rate of incarceration in that country is so high ? Do they also help to explain why election campaigns there for judicial posts have become so incredibly costly ?...
Henri
Jailed for a MySpace parody, the student who exposed America's cash for kids scandal SHARE
What does this say about the state of justice in the United States ? Can such practices explain, at least in part, why the rate of incarceration in that country is so high ? Do they also help to explain why election campaigns there for judicial posts have become so incredibly costly ?...
Henri
