October 2011

MI5 references emerge in phone hacking lawsuit

by News Sources 10.22.2011

The New York Times reports: A British private detective at the center of the phone hacking scandal that has shaken Rupert Murdoch’s media empire cited the MI5 file of a close friend of Princes William and Harry in notes he kept on his work for the tabloid The News of the World, according to a [...]

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Mahmoud Ahmadinejad interviewed on Al Jazeera

by News Sources 10.22.2011

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Iraq’s government, not Obama, called time on the U.S. troop presence

by News Sources 10.21.2011

Tony Karon writes: President Barack Obama’s announcement on Friday that all 40,000 U.S. troops still in Iraq will leave the country by New Year’s Eve will, inevitably, draw howls of derision from GOP presidential hopefuls — this is, after all, early election season. But the decision to leave Iraq by that date was not actually [...]

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Former financial regulator William Black: Occupy Wall Street a counter to white-collar fraud

by News Sources 10.21.2011

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How the austerity class rules Washington

by News Sources 10.21.2011

Ari Berman writes: In September the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget (CRFB), a bipartisan deficit-hawk group based at the New America Foundation, held a high-profile symposium urging the Congressional “supercommittee” to “go big” and approve a $4 trillion deficit reduction plan over the next decade, which is well beyond its $1.2 trillion mandate. The [...]

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99ers join Occupy Wall Street movement

by News Sources 10.21.2011

Arthur Delaney writes: Fed up with a long jobless spell, Kian Frederick raged against economic injustice during a protest in New York City. “We’re tired of blaming the victim,” Frederick said during a speech before she and three others were arrested for blocking the street. “If you’re not in the richest 2 percent, you’re struggling. [...]

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How income inequality skyrocketed and the 1 percent profited from the decline of unions

by News Sources 10.21.2011

Zaid Jilani writes: This evening, House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-VA) will give a speech at the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School of Business about how to address income inequality, likely trying to capitalize on the 99 Percent Movement he once derided as unruly “mobs.” Although exactly what policies Cantor will suggest to deal with [...]

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Nassim Taleb’s perspective on Occupy Wall Street

by News Sources 10.21.2011

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Why was Shalit deal reached now?

by News Sources 10.21.2011

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Syria uses U.S. technology in cyber crackdown

by News Sources 10.21.2011

Hamed Aleaziz writes: As the autocratic regime in Syria brutally cracks down on a pro-democracy opposition, it is using technology developed by an American company, Blue Coat Systems, to suppress dissent and block access to the internet, tech experts say. Two weeks ago, Telecomix, a tech activist group, released information from the Syrian government-run Syria Telecommunications Establishment. [...]

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Egyptian military stokes sectarian conflict

by News Sources 10.21.2011

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‘NTC plans secret burial for Gaddafi’

by News Sources 10.21.2011

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Gaddafi’s last stand

by News Sources 10.21.2011

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The end of the Gaddafi cult

by Paul Woodward 10.21.2011

Juan Cole writes: The final weeks of Muammar Qaddafi’s violent and coercive life reminded me vividly of Jim Jones and the People’s Temple Cult. It was obvious from late last August that Qaddafi had lost. The people in his own capital of Tripoli rose up against him in all but a few small neighborhoods, courageously [...]

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Obama’s gift to the Koch brothers and curse to the planet

by News Sources 10.20.2011

Jamie Henn, Co-founder and Communications Director of 350.org, writes: Here’s a unique political strategy for you: in the lead up to a crucial election, as anti-corporate sentiment is sweeping the nation, consider giving a huge handout to a major corporation that happens to be your biggest political enemy and is already spending hundreds of millions [...]

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Keeping Libya’s promise after Gaddafi’s death

by News Sources 10.20.2011

Larbi Sadiki writes: The Arab Spring, still unfolding, began with death. But that is how life is laboured into this world. And the significance and substance of new life can sometimes be commensurate with the “volume” of death, or the size and stature of the deceased. Gaddafi was larger than life. He was a “prophet” [...]

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Muammar Gaddafi, the ‘king of kings’ dies in city of his birth

by News Sources 10.20.2011

Reporting on Gaddafi’s death, Peter Beaumont writes: Witnesses said he perished pleading for mercy after being dragged out of a hiding place inside a concrete drain. According to one fighter, the dying Gaddafi demanded: “What have I done to you?” Abdel-Jalil Abdel-Aziz, a doctor who accompanied Gaddafi’s body in an ambulance as it was taken [...]

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What does Gaddafi’s fall mean for Africa?

by News Sources 10.20.2011

Mahmood Mamdani writes: “Kampala ‘mute’ as Gaddafi falls,” is how the opposition paper summed up the mood of this capital the morning after. Whether they mourn or celebrate, an unmistakable sense of trauma marks the African response to the fall of Gaddafi. Both in the longevity of his rule and in his style of governance, [...]

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Obama flush with Wall Street cash

by News Sources 10.20.2011

The Washington Post reports: Despite frosty relations with the titans of Wall Street, President Obama has still managed to raise far more money this year from the financial and banking sector than Mitt Romney or any other Republican presidential candidate, according to new fundraising data. Obama’s key advantage over the GOP field is the ability [...]

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A presidency rotten at its core

by Paul Woodward 10.20.2011

What’s the good of calling yourself a Democrat if you don’t practice democracy? President Obama’s first allegiance has proved not to be the upholding of democracy, but instead the preservation and expansion of secrecy. It is revealing that a man who in so many other domains often appears like a pushover, unable to find any [...]

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Tom Engelhardt: Bailing out the complex

by TomDispatch 10.20.2011

Is the national security complex too big to fail? By Tom Engelhardt Think of Iraq as the AIG of wars — the only difference being that the bailout there didn’t involve just three payouts.  More than eight years after the Bush administration invaded that country, the bailout is, unbelievably enough, still going.  Even as the [...]

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Gaddafi killed

by News Sources 10.20.2011

The New York Times reports: The head of the Libyan military council said that Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi was killed Thursday as fighters battling the vestiges of his fallen regime wrested control of his hometown of Surt after a prolonged struggle. Al-Jazeera television showed what it said was Colonel Qaddafi’s corpse as Libyans rejoiced. Abdul Hakim [...]

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Occupy K Street

by News Sources 10.19.2011

Ari Berman writes: If you want to understand how the top 1 percent have accumulated such power in American politics, look no further than Washington’s K Street lobbying corridor. Wall Street has long been the dominant player in the capital. “The banks,” Senator Dick Durbin said in 2009, “are still the most powerful lobby on [...]

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American 16-year-old boy — latest victim in Obama’s global drone war

by News Sources 10.19.2011

The Washington Post reports: In the days before a CIA drone strike killed al-Qaeda operative Anwar al-Awlaki last month, his 16-year-old son ran away from the family home in Yemen’s capital of Sanaa to try to find him, relatives say. When he, too, was killed in a U.S. airstrike Friday, the Awlaki family decided to [...]

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