Video: What’s next for Ron Paul?

by News Sources 05.11.2012

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Game over for the climate

by News Sources 05.10.2012

James Hansen, director of the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, writes: warming isn’t a prediction. It is happening. That is why I was so troubled to read a recent interview with President Obama in Rolling Stone in which he said that Canada would exploit the oil in its vast tar sands reserves “regardless of [...]

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Obama’s predilection for military force

by News Sources 05.10.2012

Conor Friedersdorf points out that, contrary to the reporting of the New York Times, President Obama does not straddle “the precarious line between hawk and dove” — he’s a hawk. Obama escalated the war in Afghanistan, adding tens of thousands of troops at a cost of many billions of dollars. He committed American forces to [...]

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Why Obama now favors same-sex marriage

by News Sources 05.10.2012

Since President Obama made it known his views on same-sex marriage have “evolved” and he now supports it, not surprisingly he’s won praise. But the idea that this was a courageous act is questionable for many reasons, not the least of which, that on this particular issue Obama would become a risk-taker when on so [...]

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Bored with Occupy — and inequality

by News Sources 05.10.2012

Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting: Occupy Wall Street is rightly credited with helping to shift the economic debate in America from a fixation on deficits to issues of income inequality, corporate greed and the centralization of wealth among the richest 1 percent. The movement has chalked up other victories as well, from altering New York [...]

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Video: Two of mass Palestinian prisoner’s hunger strike ‘on verge of death’

by News Sources 05.10.2012

UN News Service: Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today stressed the importance of averting any further deterioration in the condition of Palestinian prisoners in Israeli custody who are on hunger strike, and urged everyone concerned to reach a solution to their plight without delay. “The Secretary-General continues to follow with concern the ongoing hunger strike by Palestinian [...]

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Video: Anger spreads in Libya over spread of illegal weapons

by News Sources 05.10.2012

Al Jazeera: Anger is growing in Libya over the spread of illegal weapons and the transitional government’s inability to control armed groups. A funeral procession for a security force member who was killed during Tuesday’s attack on the prime minister’s office, turned into a protest against lawlesssness. Among the mourners was the prime minister himself, [...]

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No accountability for torture

by News Sources 05.10.2012

David Cole writes: Sometimes I think being American means never having to say you’re sorry. On Wednesday, May 2, the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, a federal appeals court in San Francisco, unanimously dismissed a lawsuit against former Justice Department lawyer John Yoo by José Padilla, the US citizen picked up at [...]

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U.S. Treasury claim of Iran-al-Qaeda ‘secret deal’ is discredited

by News Sources 05.10.2012

Gareth Porter reports: The U.S. Treasury Department’s claim of a “secret deal” between Iran and Al-Qaeda, which had become a key argument by right-wing activists who support war against Iran, has been discredited by former intelligence officials in the wake of publication of documents from Osama bin Laden’s files revealing a high level of antagonism [...]

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Video: Austerity, the euro crisis and the U.S.

by News Sources 05.10.2012

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The risks of recruiting members of al Qaeda

by News Sources 05.10.2012

The Washington Post reports: For al-Qaeda’s affiliate in Yemen, the volunteer seemed ideal. He was willing to die in a suicide operation, and he had travel papers that would allow him to board a U.S.-bound flight. It was a perfect dangle, in the parlance of spycraft, and al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula took the bait. [...]

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Video: West ‘fatigued’ over Syria

by News Sources 05.10.2012

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In ‘total war’ on Islam, Mecca becomes another Hiroshima, U.S. military officers taught

by Paul Woodward 05.10.2012

Over five years ago, I reported that in the Pentagon, several senior officers and defense executives have confided: “There may come a time when we have to kill millions of Muslims.” I was told this by Dr. Michael Vlahos, who has served in the United States Navy and the CIA and is now on the [...]

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Michael Klare: Oil wars on the horizon

by TomDispatch 05.10.2012

There has been much discussion recently about the Obama administration’s “pivot” from the Greater Middle East to Asia: the 250 Marines sent to Darwin, Australia, the littoral combat ships for Singapore, the support for Burmese “democracy,” war games in the Philippines (and a drone strike there as well), and so on.  The U.S. is definitely [...]

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Sorry! The lifestyle you ordered is currently out of stock

by News Sources 05.09.2012

Teacher Liam Taylor leads Occupy London tours every couple of weeks through Canary Wharf, the privately-owned, guarded riverside oasis of wealth in Tower Hamlets where nine of the world’s biggest banks trade, lend and advise clients. Bloomberg reports: Bank security guards in London lock the doors when they see Liam Taylor coming. At a time [...]

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Why profiling Muslims is a dumb idea

by News Sources 05.09.2012

The bigotry that has made many Americans afraid of Muslims has been reinforced by people like Sam Harris who, because he seems smart, has led others to believe that profiling Muslims in airport security is just a matter of common sense. To his credit, at least Harris was rational enough to allow someone else explain [...]

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A web of privilege supports this so-called meritocracy

by News Sources 05.09.2012

Gary Younge writes: Shortly after Mitt Romney’s failed 2008 campaign for the Republican nomination his son Tagg set up a private equity fund with the campaign’s top fundraiser. One of the first donors was his mum, Anne. Next came several of his dad’s financial backers. Tagg had no experience in the world of finance, but [...]

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Music: Mayra Andrade — ‘Júana’

by Attention to the Unseen 05.09.2012

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The rise of the Occupy movement makes it clear the institutional church has failed

by News Sources 05.09.2012

Chris Hedges writes: Retired Episcopal Bishop George Packard was arrested in Vietnam Veterans Memorial Plaza in New York City on Tuesday night as he participated in the May 1 Occupy demonstrations. He and 15 other military veterans were taken into custody after they linked arms to hold the plaza against a police attempt to clear [...]

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The corporate media’s attempt to kill the Occupy movement

by News Sources 05.09.2012

Michael Corcoran and Stephen Maher write: This May Day brought the explosive global resurgence of Occupy, one of the most significant social movement in decades. In New York City, the heart of global capitalism and center of the movement, the New York Civil Liberties Union estimated that 30,000 demonstrators took part in a massive rally [...]

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Meet the former right-wing blogger who realized conservatives are crazy

by News Sources 05.09.2012

Joshua Holland writes: For years, Charles Johnson was a prominent right-wing “war-blogger.” On his site, Little Green Footballs, he coined the term “anti-idiotarian,” wrote frequently of a “leftist-Islamist axis,” called Daily Kos founder Markos Moulitsas “a fanatical, deadly enemy of Western civilization” and inspired the hawkish Israeli journalist Gil Ronen to gush, “If anyone ever [...]

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In Libya, the captors have become the captive

by News Sources 05.09.2012

The New York Times reports: One night last September, a prisoner named Naji Najjar was brought, blindfolded and handcuffed, to an abandoned military base on the outskirts of Tripoli. A group of young men in camouflage pushed him into a dimly lit interrogation room and forced him to his knees. The commander of the militia, [...]

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Syria’s election charade could trigger yet more unrest

by News Sources 05.09.2012

Jane Kinninmont writes: Middle Eastern rulers are well acquainted with the arts of cosmetic reform. But Syria’s electoral charade is only likely to anger the opposition. On Tuesday, the UN peace envoy to Syria, Kofi Annan, gave a sobering press conference saying that torture in Syria was worsening, that the government still appeared to be [...]

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Annan sounds Syria civil war warning

by News Sources 05.09.2012

Al Jazeera reports: Kofi Annan, the international envoy, has said his six-point peace plan for Syria is a “possible last chance to avoid civil war”. Annan, the UN-Arab League envoy entrusted with bringing an end to the violence, said on Tuesday that world powers shared a “profound concern” that Syria’s violence was escalating into civil [...]

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