If Obama OKs the Keystone XL, it will exacerbate global warming and put the U.S. on the hook for spills and environmental degradation, all in service to one of the planet’s dirtiest fuels by James Hansen In March, the State Department gave the president cover to open a big spigot that will hitch our country to one of the dirtiest fuels on […]
The Economic and Social Legacy of Margaret Thatcher, “The Iron Lady” by Colin Todhunter “We understood the Conservative government’s determination to use the state machine against us. In order to dismember the welfare state, they had to break the trade union movement and they needed to break the miners first.” – Mick McGahey, Vice President of the National Union of Mineworkers 1972-87. […]
What Better Time Than Now by Stephen Lendman Money power in private hands games the system. It does so destructively. Controlling money, credit and debt for private enrichment assures speculation, booms, busts, inflation, deflation, instability, crisis, recessions and depressions. The Cypriot crisis alone begs the question. Money power in public hands could have avoided what’s now happening. Ordinary Cypriots face […]
Several groups of peace activists have demonstrated in New York to generate a public uprising across the United States against the government’s use of assassination drones by PressTV The protesters rallied in New York on Wednesday to call for an immediate halt to US assassination drone attacks in other countries and to voice their opposition to any use of drones […]
The upcoming Grand National once again sparks debate reflecting, as Animal Aid director Andrew Tyler states below, a shift in public opinion towards the notorious race which is increasingly being viewed as the exploitative festival of cruelty it actually is. Note the laughable arguments made by racing commentator Chris McGrath, below – the people who risk their horses lives for […]
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley The United States leaves an indelible impression on the peoples that come in contact with it: in the case of Iraqis, a legacy of death by bombs, bullets, incineration, starvation, disease and genetic damage. The U.S. didn’t invent war crimes, but its global reach and high tech style of killing makes America […]
Arms Control as a Weapon by Glen Ford The United Nations General Assembly vote on regulation of the international arms trade purports to be a modest step away from violence in the world, but is in fact the very opposite. The newly approved Arms Trade Treaty is conceived and designed as a facilitator of war by its main sponsor, the […]
Imperialism has been the most powerful force in world history over the last four or five centuries, carving up whole continents while oppressing indigenous peoples and obliterating entire civilizations by Michael Parenti Yet, it is seldom accorded any serious attention by our academics, media commentators, and political leaders. When not ignored outright, the subject of imperialism has been sanitized, so […]
Send a Strong Message Against NATO Intervention in Syria? by Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya Is there a connection between events in Syria (maybe even US tension with North Korea) and Russia’s impromptu Black Sea war games that started on March 28, 2013? While on his way from Durban in South Africa, where the BRICS — Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South […]
The best way to understand the seemingly reckless, recurring threat of nuclear war on the Korean Peninsula is this: the East Asian region is being run like a Mafia protection racket by Finian Cunningham And the criminal Mafia is the US. The conflict emanates from Washington and is perpetuated by Washington. Why? To justify what would otherwise be seen as […]
where mortgage payments are apparently optional by Matt Phillips Among the many nasty side-effects of the European debt crisis, bigotry’s return to pleasant conversation may be the least-commented upon, and the nastiest. Granted, few actually say Germans are power-hungry, scatologically-obsessed skinflints. And it’s only usually hinted broadly that Spaniards are hot-blooded, undisciplined spendthrifts; and Greeks shiftless tax-dodgers. Those people, you […]
by Greg Mitchell The Washington Post killed my assigned piece for its Outlook section this weekend which mainly covered media failures re: Iraq and the current refusal to come to grips with that (the subject of )–yet they ran this misleading, cherry-picking, piece by Paul Farhi claiming the media “didn’t fail.” I love the line about the Post in March 2003 carrying some skeptical pieces […]
