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There
is and never was a 'global' economic crisis. The world is increasingly
wealthy and multipolar, and this is the Real Spring that is being
ignored by the imperially dominated media, and deliberately so.
Even
the NRA bans visitors with guns at its headquarters despite being in a
"conceal and carry" state and having a firing range on site, according
to published reports. "They might be worried about deranged antis trying
to kill them," or lack the proper "insurance," say NRA defenders
online, citing the same reasons the organizations they blast for "gun
free zones" use. Who can say hypocrite?
Since
January 1, more than 400 tons of gold have been drained from COMEX and
gold ETF holdings in order to satisfy world demand for physical
possession of bullion. Again we see that institutions of the US
government are acting 100% against the interests of US citizens. Just
who does the US government represent?
By Richard Clark
Global Economic Crisis and the Coming/Current Depression
Obama's Director of National Intelligence has warned that the deepening world capitalist crisis poses a paramount threat to US national security, & that its continuation could trigger a return to the violent extremism of the 1920s and 30s. Clearly underlying his remarks are fears within our massive US intelligence apparatus, as well as among the more conscious layers of America's ruling elite, that this could lead revolution.
Global Economic Crisis and the Coming/Current Depression
Obama's Director of National Intelligence has warned that the deepening world capitalist crisis poses a paramount threat to US national security, & that its continuation could trigger a return to the violent extremism of the 1920s and 30s. Clearly underlying his remarks are fears within our massive US intelligence apparatus, as well as among the more conscious layers of America's ruling elite, that this could lead revolution.
By clare hanrahan
"Woe Unto the Empire of Blood" -- Transform Now Plowshares Convicted and Jailed
Report on trial and conviction of Transform Now Plowshares on sabotage and
"Woe Unto the Empire of Blood" -- Transform Now Plowshares Convicted and Jailed
Report on trial and conviction of Transform Now Plowshares on sabotage and
By Anthony Kalamar
Sharewashing is the New Greenwashing
The idea of a "sharing economy" is an important one, and urgently needed today, but the word "sharing" is increasingly being roped into a sharewashing agenda. The key difference between the promise of the actual sharing economy, and the flood of sharewashing companies seeking to hide under its mantle, is that the latter inescapably involve monetary exchange, for profit.
Sharewashing is the New Greenwashing
The idea of a "sharing economy" is an important one, and urgently needed today, but the word "sharing" is increasingly being roped into a sharewashing agenda. The key difference between the promise of the actual sharing economy, and the flood of sharewashing companies seeking to hide under its mantle, is that the latter inescapably involve monetary exchange, for profit.
The Credibility Litmus Test
In our economy of problems, we'll never have a recession.
Police
and the Japan Coast Guard conducted a joint drill Saturday to prepare
for a possible terrorist attack on the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power
plant. About 150 officers and other people, including members of a
special assault team of the police, participated in the drill at the
Fukushima No. 2 nuclear power plant, about 10 km from Fukushima No. 1.
Both plants are operated by Tokyo Electric Power Co.
By David Swanson
Why We Allow the Destruction of Our Planet
It's not enough to point out that our political system is completely corrupted by money, including money from coal and oil and nukes and gas. Of course it is.
Why We Allow the Destruction of Our Planet
It's not enough to point out that our political system is completely corrupted by money, including money from coal and oil and nukes and gas. Of course it is.
By Gary Corseri
Robinson Jeffers: America's Neglected-At-Our-Peril Poet-Prophet
"If we are ever to grasp our fleeting Zeitgeist, we need the whole round picture--politics, the Arts, slang, sexuality, foold--the whole cascading shebang! The American poet who best provides that, for his time and ours, is Robinson Jeffers, who died one year before JFK was killed, but at 75, had lived to see terrible presentiments."
Robinson Jeffers: America's Neglected-At-Our-Peril Poet-Prophet
"If we are ever to grasp our fleeting Zeitgeist, we need the whole round picture--politics, the Arts, slang, sexuality, foold--the whole cascading shebang! The American poet who best provides that, for his time and ours, is Robinson Jeffers, who died one year before JFK was killed, but at 75, had lived to see terrible presentiments."
Hopefully,
one day soon we will live in harmony with the animals. They are God's
creatures as we. Isaiah fortells a time when the lion and kid will be
friends. Right now, I am only hoping that man will be kinder to his
fellow animal inhabitants.
And yet I cannot tell Existence and concept of life. Perhaps if you were closer to me Moon, I would talk to you
The
United States government is investing tens of millions of dollars each
year on offensive hacking operations in order to exploit vulnerabilities
in the computers of its adversaries, Reuters reports.
Sunshine from Southern Utah
Carbon County has been home for over half of my 60 years. I have a passion for this place and appreciation for the folks who live here. I turned down very nice offers to work and live elsewhere. The point of this essay is not to run down Carbon County. This community does not live in fear of monuments or monsters under the bed. We do not benefit by feeling sorry for counties that have fared better than us. We would be best served by working to make our community more livable, our people healthier. If we have a collective fault it is clinging to the gambler's dream, hoping the next coal mine or gas play somehow assures prosperity. Instead of waiting for our futures to be decided in far away corporate board rooms, we should be creating it for ourselves.
Carbon County has been home for over half of my 60 years. I have a passion for this place and appreciation for the folks who live here. I turned down very nice offers to work and live elsewhere. The point of this essay is not to run down Carbon County. This community does not live in fear of monuments or monsters under the bed. We do not benefit by feeling sorry for counties that have fared better than us. We would be best served by working to make our community more livable, our people healthier. If we have a collective fault it is clinging to the gambler's dream, hoping the next coal mine or gas play somehow assures prosperity. Instead of waiting for our futures to be decided in far away corporate board rooms, we should be creating it for ourselves.
A
shudder went through Wall Street on Friday after the revelation that
Bloomberg News reporters had extracted subscribers' private information
through the company's ubiquitous data terminals to break news. Bloomberg
said the functions that allowed journalists to monitor subscribers were
a mistake and were promptly disabled after Goldman Sachs complained
that a Bloomberg reporter had, while inquiring about a partner's
employment status, pointed out that the partner had not logged onto his
Bloomberg terminal lately.
By Rob Kall
Present Shock- Interview with Douglas Rushkoff; on Conspiracy theories, Preppers and the end of story
Present Shock- Interview with Douglas Rushkoff; on Conspiracy theories, Preppers and the end of story
Douglas
Rushkoff's book, Present Shock, is brilliant, covering the way our
culture is changing-- with in depth discussion on narrative and story,
how the "Hero's Journey" narrative is fading, being replaced by
something very different.
On
Mother's Day, a salute to the life-changing experience of
breastfeeding, its relationship to veganism, & associated
controversies on twitter.
There
have been a slew of articles discrediting austerity as the pathway to
economy recovery. But there have also been many articles denouncing
stimulus. I have written a few articles against austerity citing its
failure under SAPs in Africa, and in the EU in countries like the U.K.,
Greece and Spain. Flawed research and condemnation of Keynes have been
used to support austerity arguments.
From the Boston Marathon bombing to escalating violence in Syria, the state of U.S.-Russia relations looms large.
By Abdus-Sattar Ghazali
Pakistan elections do not augur well for President Zardari
Many surprises sprung by Saturday's elections in Pakistan will have grave repercussions for the political spectrum with the Pakistan People's Party confined to Sindh, the Awami National Party facing a split and President Asif Ali Zardari denied a second term in office, says Shaheen Sehbani of The News.
Pakistan elections do not augur well for President Zardari
Many surprises sprung by Saturday's elections in Pakistan will have grave repercussions for the political spectrum with the Pakistan People's Party confined to Sindh, the Awami National Party facing a split and President Asif Ali Zardari denied a second term in office, says Shaheen Sehbani of The News.
By earl ofari hutchinson
Charles Ramsey Stood Racial Stereotypes on their Head
A week after the great debate over whether Charles Ramsey is an American hero or another American casualty of media induced racial stereotyping or both after helping save the lives of the three kidnapped Cleveland women, one thing is now clear. Ramsey has done the seemingly impossible. He's turned racial stereotyping on its head.
Charles Ramsey Stood Racial Stereotypes on their Head
A week after the great debate over whether Charles Ramsey is an American hero or another American casualty of media induced racial stereotyping or both after helping save the lives of the three kidnapped Cleveland women, one thing is now clear. Ramsey has done the seemingly impossible. He's turned racial stereotyping on its head.
Sen.
Rand Paul (R-KY) on Saturday warned President Barack Obama was working
on behalf of "anti-American globalists" in the United Nations who were
plotting against the U.S. Constitution. In a fundraising email sent on
behalf of the National Association on Gun Rights, Paul alleged the U.N.
Arms Trade Treaty was a secret plot to completely disarm American
civilians.
More
than any recent U.S. president, Ronald Reagan has been lavished with
honors, including his name attached to Washington's National Airport.
But the conviction of Reagan's old ally, ex-Guatemalan dictator Rios
Montt, for genocide means "Ronnie" must face history's judgment as an
accessory to the crime.
There
is a growing mystery surrounding one of the three women rescued from
captivity Monday. Michelle Knight, 32, spent more than a decade being
held against her will, but, unlike Amanda Berry and Gina DeJesus, she
didn't have a tearful, joyous family reunion. In fact, Knight's family
has no idea where she is right now. On Friday, Knight left the hospital
without seeing her family or telling them where she was going.
Minnesota
Congresswoman and former Republican presidential contender Michele
Bachmann was back at her sound bite machine ways this week, calling 9/11
and the Benghazi consulate attacks "judgments from God." Bachmann spoke
at a D.C. prayer event named "Washington: A Man of Prayer," linking the
tragedies of 9/11 and Benghazi to the hand of the almighty.
Research
published today in the journal Nature Climate Change looked at 50,000
globally widespread and common species and found that more than one half
of the plants and one third of the animals will lose more than half of
their climatic range by 2080 if nothing is done to reduce the amount of
global warming and slow it down. This means that geographic ranges of
common plants and animals will shrink globally and biodiversity will
decline almost everywhere.
By Tom Engelhardt
Nick Turse: Israel, Iran, and the Nuclear Freight Train
Has a weapon ever been invented, no matter how terrible, and not used? The crossbow, the dreadnought, poison gas, the tank, the landmine, chemical weapons, napalm, the B-29, the drone: all had their day and for some that day remains now. Even the most terrible weapon of all, the atomic bomb, that city-buster, that potential civilization-destroyer, was used as soon as it was available.
Nick Turse: Israel, Iran, and the Nuclear Freight Train
Has a weapon ever been invented, no matter how terrible, and not used? The crossbow, the dreadnought, poison gas, the tank, the landmine, chemical weapons, napalm, the B-29, the drone: all had their day and for some that day remains now. Even the most terrible weapon of all, the atomic bomb, that city-buster, that potential civilization-destroyer, was used as soon as it was available.
In
1966, only 20 percent of mothers with young children worked outside the
home. By the late 1990s, 60 percent. For married women with children
under age 6, the transformation was even more dramatic: from 12 percent
in the 1960s to 55 percent by the late 1990s.
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Syria: how the violence began, in Daraa
Contrary to many reports, the armed rebellion in Syria did not grow from peaceful protests. Armed attacks on police and civilians in Daraa took place during the political reform marches in Daraa, in March 2011.
Contrary to many reports, the armed rebellion in Syria did not grow from peaceful protests. Armed attacks on police and civilians in Daraa took place during the political reform marches in Daraa, in March 2011.
General News
Analysis of American policy towards Syria, and the claims by the U.S. about Syria's use of chemical weapons.
Analysis of American policy towards Syria, and the claims by the U.S. about Syria's use of chemical weapons.
Krugman dead wrong!
Paul Krugman's ideas for more borrowing and spending won't work. Read my article to learn why.
Paul Krugman's ideas for more borrowing and spending won't work. Read my article to learn why.
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Pilotless Planes, Pacific Tensions By RICHARD PARKER
Is Skynet coming? Totally autonomous drones threaten to take complete control of the sky, the land and the sea from those nasty humans... THIS week the Navy will launch an entirely autonomous combat drone -- without a pilot on a joystick anywhere -- off the deck of an aircraft carrier, the George H. W. Bush. The drone will then try to land aboard the same ship, a feat only a relatively few human pilots in the world can accomplish. This exercise is the beginning of a new chapter in military history: autonomous drone warfare. But it is also an ominous turn in a potentially dangerous military rivalry now building between the United States and China.
Is Skynet coming? Totally autonomous drones threaten to take complete control of the sky, the land and the sea from those nasty humans... THIS week the Navy will launch an entirely autonomous combat drone -- without a pilot on a joystick anywhere -- off the deck of an aircraft carrier, the George H. W. Bush. The drone will then try to land aboard the same ship, a feat only a relatively few human pilots in the world can accomplish. This exercise is the beginning of a new chapter in military history: autonomous drone warfare. But it is also an ominous turn in a potentially dangerous military rivalry now building between the United States and China.
