October 2011

The Occupy movement has rattled the establishment

by News Sources 10.31.2011

Time reports: The London arm of the worldwide Occupy Wall Street movement has proved its ability to shake up an institution, as a third senior cleric from St. Paul’s Cathedral has resigned in less than three weeks. The Occupy London protest has been camped outside the historic church for a little more than two weeks, [...]

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An investment banker says bankers must listen to the Occupy movement

by News Sources 10.31.2011

Ken Costa, one of the best-known investment bankers in the City, London’s financial district, recognizes that the Occupy movement resonates with a wide constituency that cannot be ignored. A cloud of public anger has appeared on the horizon; it is growing. It may currently be no bigger than a man’s fist but it presents us [...]

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Celebrations as UNESCO welcomes Palestine as full member

by News Sources 10.31.2011

Karl Vick writes: Monday’s lopsided 106-14 vote in Paris serves as a reminder of the popularity most of the world feels for the Palestinian bid for full membership in the U.N. itself. That application is now pending before the U.N. Security Council, where the United States is threatening to use its veto — but really, [...]

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Nuclear powers plan weapons spending spree, report finds

by News Sources 10.31.2011

The Guardian reports: The world’s nuclear powers are planning to spend hundreds of billions of pounds modernising and upgrading weapons warheads and delivery systems over the next decade, according to an authoritative report [PDF] published on Monday. Despite government budget pressures and international rhetoric about disarmament, evidence points to a new and dangerous “era of [...]

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U.S. turned a blind eye to torture in Afghan prisons

by News Sources 10.31.2011

The Washington Post reports: Across the street from U.S. military headquarters in Kabul, shrouded from view by concrete walls, the Afghan intelligence agency runs a detention facility for up to 40 terrorism suspects that is known as Department 124. So much torture took place inside, one detainee told the United Nations, that it has earned [...]

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Attacks on Americans in Kabul get Haqqani network’s message across

by News Sources 10.31.2011

Rod Nordland reports: Every bomb, they say, has a return address. When car bombs blew up in West Beirut, or explosions cut down worshipers in Sadr City mosques, survivors generally knew who was to blame, and more or less why — even when no one claimed responsibility. So, too, with the suicide car bomb that [...]

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Tom Engelhardt: Wall Street by the book

by TomDispatch 10.31.2011

OWS at Valley Forge A (self-)graduation speech for the occupiers of Zuccotti Park By Tom Engelhardt Once the Arab Spring broke loose, people began asking me why this country was still so quiet.  I would always point out that no one ever expects or predicts such events.  Nothing like this, I would say, happens until [...]

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Obama administration plans to increase military support for autocratic Gulf rulers

by News Sources 10.30.2011

The New York Times reports: The Obama administration plans to bolster the American military presence in the Persian Gulf after it withdraws the remaining troops from Iraq this year, according to officials and diplomats. That repositioning could include new combat forces in Kuwait able to respond to a collapse of security in Iraq or a [...]

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Inequality in America is even worse than you thought

by News Sources 10.30.2011

Justin Elliot reports: There has been no shortage of headlines this week about the growing income and wealth inequality in the United States. A new study from the Congressional Budget Office, for example, found that income of the top 1 percent of households increased by 275 percent in the 30-year period ending in 2007. American [...]

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Occupy Baltimore wins support of police and fire fighters unions

by News Sources 10.30.2011

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Bank of America’s death rattle

by News Sources 10.30.2011

Bill Black writes: Bob Ivry, Hugh Son and Christine Harper have written an article that needs to be read by everyone interested in the financial crisis. The article (available here) is entitled: BofA Said to Split Regulators Over Moving Merrill Derivatives to Bank Unit. The thrust of their story is that Bank of America’s holding [...]

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U.S. drone kills 28 in south Somalia

by News Sources 10.30.2011

Another attack by a US assassination drone has claimed the lives of at least 28 civilians, while injuring dozens of others in southern Somalia, Press TV reports. The incident took place in the town of Gilib, 350 kilometers south of Mogadishu, a Press TV correspondent reported on Sunday. The Washington Post reported on Thursday: The [...]

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Prominent Egyptian blogger in military detention

by News Sources 10.30.2011

Al-Masry Al-Youm reports: Alaa Abd El Fattah, a prominent blogger and activist, will be held for 15 days of military interrogation, his lawyer said on Sunday. Meanwhile, Bahaa Saber, another activist and blogger, has been released but is still under investigation. Abd El Fattah was called into the military prosecution office for questioning regarding his [...]

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Egyptians protest against torture and murder of prisoner

by News Sources 10.30.2011

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The murder brigades of Misrata

by News Sources 10.30.2011

Daniel Williams writes: If anyone is surprised by the apparent killing of Moammar Gadhafi while in the custody of militia members from the town of Misrata, they shouldn’t be. More than 100 militia brigades from Misrata have been operating outside of any official military and civilian command since Tripoli fell in August. Members of these [...]

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The American way of bombing?

by News Sources 10.30.2011

At Open Democracy, Derek Gregory writes: The problems with remote-controlled warfare are legion. The human operator ‘is terribly remote from the consequences of his actions; he is likely to be sitting in an air-conditioned trailer, hundreds of miles from the area of battle.’ He evaluates ‘target signatures’ captured by various sensor systems that ‘no more [...]

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In rubble-strewn Sitra, faces of the young foretell a grim future for Bahrain

by News Sources 10.29.2011

Reporting from Sitra in Bahrain, Anthony Shadid writes: Sometimes a name suggests a condition. There was Beirut a generation ago, Baghdad more recently. In Bahrain, a Persian Gulf state so polarized that truth itself is a matter of interpretation, it is Sitra. Here, the faces of young men foretell a future for the country that [...]

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Fear and starvation in Mogadishu

by News Sources 10.29.2011

Ghaith Abdul-Ahad writes: Three decades ago, Mohamed Siad Barre, commander of the Supreme Revolutionary Council, head of the politburo of the Somali Revolutionary Socialist Party and the last ruler of a functional Somali state, built vast concrete buildings all over Mogadishu. The beautiful city on the coast of the Indian Ocean, with its Arabic and [...]

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Rebels claim Gaddafi was tied to plot against Iraq

by News Sources 10.29.2011

The New York Times reports: When Tripoli, the Libyan capital, fell, rebel fighters found secret intelligence documents linking Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi to a plot by former members of Saddam Hussein’s military and Baath Party to overthrow the Iraqi government, according to an Iraqi official who spoke on the condition of anonymity. The details of the [...]

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Talk to Al Jazeera – Slavoj Zizek

by News Sources 10.29.2011

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Wall Street isn’t winning — it’s cheating

by News Sources 10.29.2011

Matt Taibbi writes: I was at an event on the Upper East Side last Friday night when I got to talking with a salesman in the media business. The subject turned to Zucotti Park and Occupy Wall Street, and he was chuckling about something he’d heard on the news. “I hear [Occupy Wall Street] has [...]

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People & Power – The Koch Brothers

by News Sources 10.29.2011

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Listening Post – The Guardian: Leading the journalistic pack?

by News Sources 10.29.2011

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Keep Wall Street occupied

by News Sources 10.29.2011

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