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Bold and Daring: The Way Progressive News Should Be
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Contemporary
journalism has a horrendous habit of considering history superfluous.
If an event happened more than two--maybe three, if you're
lucky--decades ago, it's impertinent. We just want the "facts," and we
want them now. No nuance, no complexity, and, Ford forbid, please no
ambiguity. Ahistorical "journalism" is the norm; historical framing is
abnormal.
A
war on Syria, then, is an attack on Russia itself, and that's why
Russian warships are patrolling the Mediterranean. Countering the
American menace, Russia will certainly be no silent spectator, and to
show support for Russia and Syria, a Chinese warship has also shown up,
with more coming.
Syria & Ulterior Motives
Boycotting
the Olympics is not the only way to respond to Russia's harsh laws on
homosexuality. Other approaches don't punish the athletes.
If
Congress approves an attack on Syria, this attack will unquestionably
violate international law. The impression that only Congressional
approval is required to grant legality to an attack on Syria misses the
essential criterion of meeting the conditions laid out in the UN
Charter. all other possible justifications such as the Kosovo precedent
or R2P are spurious attempts to lend validity to a war crime.
By Louallen Miller
Climate Change Will Create More Syrias Extreme drought triggered the revolution in Syria. As the planet continues to warm, scientists and defense department officials warn us that more extreme weather events will produce "accelerants of instability," resulting in even more Syrian situations, especially in the developing world.
With
the popularity of a hairy wart, Pa. Gov. Tom Corbett is doing his best
to justify his critics' call of "One term Tom." Here's why.
By David Swanson
This War Too Is A Lie Some smart people thought, and perhaps some still think, that the 2003-2011 war on Iraq was unique in that it was promoted with the use of blatant lies. When I'd researched dozens of other wars and failed to find one that wasn't based on a foundation of similar lies, I wrote a book about the most common war lie varieties.
The
"New American Century" proclaimed by the neoconservatives came to an
abrupt end on September 6 at the G20 meeting in Russia. The leaders of
most of the world's peoples told Obama that they do not believe him and
that it is a violation of international law if the US government attacks
Syria without UN authorization.
The
latest Snowden revelations demonstrate that the intent of government
spying has been not only to assault privacy but to make it impossible to
achieve.
By Abdus-Sattar Ghazali
American Muslims 12 years after 9/11 Twelve years after the 9/11 terrorist attacks, American Muslims remained besieged through reconfiguration of US laws, policies and priorities. Profiled, harassed, reviled, attacked, peeped at by the CIA and the FBI, interrogated and permanently controlled at airports, the whole community felt excluded of American society.
Annual 9/11 Truth Film Festival
Government's Keeping the Student-Debt Crisis Alive and Well
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