By Agence France-Presse March 11, 2012 Former US secretary of state Henry Kissinger said in an interview Sunday that the United States should assume that Iran is actively preparing to build nuclear weapons. Kissinger, 88, was asked on the CNN… Read More ›
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Should Occupy Use Violence?
I Dunno, Should the Cops? by KEVIN CARSON Back in the mid-1980s, when the African National Congress was still fighting the South Africa’s apartheid regime, I recall Secretary of State George Schultz testifying before some Senate committee. He clutched his… Read More ›
Invisible Children called out for its policies and monetary distribution
March 7, 2012 by Bryne Yancey A new blog post from at Acadia University (Nova Scotia, Canada) sociology and political science student Grant Oyston has called into question the practices of non-profit Invisible Children. In the post, Oyston highlights the… Read More ›
Juan Perón and Social-Fascism in Argentina
History of the Terms “Social-Democracy” and “Social-Fascism” The term “social-democracy” has been used by the left since the time of Marx and Engels. The term is a pejorative one today, since it has become almost synonymous with liberal reformism. About… Read More ›
On Iran, Obama Says ‘I Don’t Bluff’ And ‘All Options Are On The Table’
With Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu due at the White House on Monday, Iran and its nuclear ambitions are again front-and-center on the policy agenda. The Atlantic just posted a report about its interview with President Obama on Wednesday in… Read More ›
Miami Valedictorian Gets Support In Fight Against Deportation
A federal judge’s decision to deport a high school valedictorian who has lived in the United States since she was 4 has sparked her Miami community to rally around her. And now student Daniela Pelaez, 18, also seems to have… Read More ›
US Military Draws Up Invasion Plans for Syria
BEIRUT: Detailed plans developed to carry out military action against Syria have been drawn up by the Pentagon and could be implemented upon orders by President Barack Obama, CNN, quoting a senior U.S. official, has reported. The crucial progress in… Read More ›
Judge Who Emailed Racist Obama Joke Calls For Investigation On Himself
U.S. District Judge Richard Cebull says he will apologize to President Obama and ask for a panel of judges to investigate his conduct after a Montana newspaper reported he had sent a racially inflammatory message using his courthouse email account… Read More ›
‘The blackest lie in history’: Republican congressional candidate says the Holocaust never happened
-Illinois candidate Arthur Jones, 64, ‘organises Nazi events to celebrate Hitler’s birthday’ -‘The Holocaust is an international extortion racket’ -Candidate has spent life savings on congressional run A congressional candidate running as a Republican in the upcoming Illinois primary says… Read More ›
Montana judge admits sending racist email about Obama
Judge Richard Cebull says he doesn’t like the president, but he doesn’t consider himself a racist. Reporting from Seattle— Montana’s chief federal judge Wednesday admitted forwarding an email to friends about President Obama that appears to equate African Americans with… Read More ›
Syria isn’t the ‘new Bosnia’, despite the narcissistic hopes of the Western commentariat
By Brendan O’Neill Oh no, this is not good, this is not good at all: more and more Western observers are starting to describe Syria as “the new Bosnia”. Which can mean only one thing. The liberal commentariat is on… Read More ›
The CIA, Cuba and Operation Peter Pan
Where’s Captain Hook in NPR’s Fairy Tale? by SAUL LANDAU and NELSON P. VALDES “Los niños nacen para ser felices.” – José Martí On November 19, 2011 NPR broadcast “Children Of Cuba Remember: Their Flight To America.” Reporter Greg Allen… Read More ›
NYPD monitored Muslim students all over Northeast
NEW YORK (AP) – The New York Police Department monitored Muslim college students far more broadly than previously known, at schools far beyond the city limits, including the Ivy League colleges of Yale and the University of Pennsylvania, the Associated… Read More ›
Native Nations Make Own Cigarettes to Avoid N.Y. Tax
By THOMAS KAPLAN ONEIDA, N.Y. — The trucks lumber past cornfields and dilapidated farm houses, pull up to a onetime bingo hall and unload their cargo: boxes of tobacco imported from the Carolinas. Inside, employees of the Oneida Indian Nation… Read More ›
Maryland lawmakers pass bill to allow gay marriage
State senators approved a gay marriage bill 25-22 Thursday, moving Maryland closer to becoming the eighth state in the U.S. to legalize same-sex marriages. Gay marriage opponents in the Senate unsuccessfully attempted to attach amendments to the House bill, which… Read More ›