Tariq Aziz: 'Britain and the US
Killed Iraq.
I Wish I was Martyred'
By Martin Chulov in Baghdad
"Bush and Blair lied intentionally. They
were both pro-Zionist. They wanted to destroy
Iraq for the sake of Israel, not for the sake of
the US and Britain." Continue
Arab Majority Backs Nuclear Iran
By Benjamin Birnbaum
The 2010 Arab Public Opinion Poll found that 57
percent of respondents not only believe that
Iran's nuclear program aims to build a bomb but
also view that goal positively -- nearly double
the 29 percent who thought so in 2009. Continue
Nothing Short of Nukes Will Work
By Gwynne Dyer
The problem is that there's nothing the US can do
to Iran, short of nuking the place, that would
really force Tehran to kneel and beg for mercy. Continue
Report: Obama Launches New
Program to Help Corporations
"Take
Advantage of Low Labor Costs" Abroad
By David Sirota
Now look, I'm all for a robust foreign aid budget
- we don't do nearly enough to help the
developing world. However, using foreign aid
money to specifically help private corporations
"take advantage of low labor costs" in
the developing world - that's not
"aid," that's rank taxpayer
subsidization of for-profit exploitation. Continue
And Now for Some Good News
By Johann Hari
We'll never know the names of all the people who
paid with their limbs, their lungs, or their
lives for the goodies in my home and yours. Continue
Faber: Dow May Plunge to 1,000
By Dan Weil
The implications of Dow 1,000 will be positive
for one industry printing, Faber says.
Does anyone really think that the money
printing presses won't run 24 hours a day? Continue
What Collapsing Empire Looks
Like
By Glenn Greenwald
Does anyone doubt that once a society ceases to
be able to afford schools, public transit, paved
roads, libraries and street lights -- or once it
chooses not to be able to afford those things in
pursuit of imperial priorities and the
maintenance of a vast Surveillance and National
Security State -- that a very serious problem has
arisen. Continue
In Case You
Missed It
The Lies Of Hiroshima Are The
Lies Of Today
By John Pilger
On the anniversary of the dropping of the atomic
bomb on Hiroshima on August 6, 1945, John Pilger
describes the 'progression of lies' from the dust
of that detonated city, to the wars of today -
and the threatened attack on Iran. Continue
Google-Verizon
Deal:
The End of The Internet as We
Know It
By Josh Silver
Since its beginnings, the Net was a
level playing field that allowed all content to
move at the same speed, whether it's ABC News or
your uncle's video blog. That's all about to
change, and the result couldn't be more bleak for
the future of the Internet, for television, radio
and independent voices. Continue
Afghans
Say NATO Strikes Killed Civilians:
NATO officials acknowledged preliminary reports
that four to a dozen or more civilians were
killed in a coalition airstrike Thursday in
Nangarhar Province. Afghan accounts put the
civilian deaths as high as 32.
U.S.
troops kill Afghan civilians : As
many as a dozen or more Afghan
civilians died during a nighttime raid by U.S.
troops hunting for Taliban commanders in eastern
Afghanistan, military officials acknowledged
Thursday.
NATO
helicopter goes down in southern Afghanistan:
Taliban spokesman Qari Yousef Ahmadi claimed the
insurgent group shot the craft down with a
rocket. Johnson said the cause of the incident is
being investigated and hostile fire has not been
ruled out.
Iraq:
3 policemen killed in drive-by shooting:
A drive-by shooting and a bomb hidden in a
motorcycle killed three traffic policemen in
Baghdad on Friday, taking to eight the number
from the city's force killed this week, police
and hospital officials said.
Obama's
desperate letter to the Iraqi ayatollah:
Although the full contents of the letter is not
known, what is certain is that it does not
contain any specific reference or guidance as to
how or in what manner Sistani should intervene
China
is a barometer on whether Israel will attack
nuclear plants in Iran: Chinas
defiance irks the US to the point that Americans
officials are now openly critical of Beijing.
Perhaps the US knows something about Israels
intentions toward striking Iran that China doesnt
U.S.
Funding for Israeli Missile Defense Programs
Reaches New High: The Jerusalem Post
reported that under President Barack Obamas
leadership, and with the help of Congressional
Democrats and other members of Congress, funding
for Israeli missile defense programs is set to
reach its highest level ever.
American
VIP humiliated at airport: Prof.
Donna Shalala, who served as the US Secretary of
Health and Human Services, was held for
two-and-a-half hours at Ben Gurion Airport during
which she underwent a humiliating security
debriefing because of her Arab last name
all this despite the fact that her hosts notified
the airport ahead of time that she is a VIP.
AP Exclusive: CIA whisked
detainees from Gitmo: Four of
the nation's most highly valued terrorist
prisoners were secretly moved to Guantanamo Bay,
Cuba, in 2003, years earlier than has been
disclosed, then were whisked back into overseas
prisons before the Supreme Court could give them
access to lawyers,
Study:
CIA doctors gave green light to torture:
A new study in the Journal of the American
Medical Association reveals that physicians with
the CIA's Office of Medical Services (OMS) played
an even greater role in facilitating the torture
of detainees than was previously recognized.
Fact or fiction? : New
al-Qaeda leader lived in U.S. for years:
A suspected al-Qaeda operative who lived for more
than 15 years in the U.S. has become chief of the
terror network's global operations, the FBI says,
marking the first time a leader so intimately
familiar with American society has been placed in
charge of planning attack
Hiroshima
And Nagasaki (PHOTOS): Never Before
Seen Images From LIFE.com
Chinese
missile could shift Pacific power balance:
U.S. naval planners are scrambling to deal with
what analysts say is a game-changing weapon being
developed by China an unprecedented
carrier-killing missile called the Dong Feng 21D
Russia's
defense spending to rise by 60% by 2013 - paper:
The construction of advanced submarines,
including Yasen and Borei class subs, and Bulava
ballistic missiles, as well as the construction
of three new Talwar class frigates, three
Improved Kilo class subs and other vessels for
the Russian Black Sea Fleet are likely to require
the largest part of the planned spending,
Makiyenko said.
Morales:
Drug Cartels Better Equipped Than Bolivian Army:
President Evo Morales confirmed Tuesday that drug
traffickers have more technology and modern
equipment than Bolivia's police and armed forces,
and he asked for help from the international
community to address that deficiency.
Bolivia
begins military training for civilians:
The program is reminiscent of one that Venezuelan
President Hugo Chavez launched in his country
after a failed 2002 coup attempt that he blamed
on the United States. Venezuela claims it has
120,000 participants.
UN
declares water and sanitation as human right:
The resolution on the right to water and
sanitation has been accepted at the UN General
Assembly recently. This resolution was presented
by the Bolivian Prime Minister and 122 countries
voted yes and 41 abstained with no countries
voting against it.
Canada
Backs Colombia's Growing Embrace of US Military:
Peasants sent packing to pave way for oil, gas
and mining investments.
Gulf oil spill: White House
accused of spinning report:
Scientists say it is 'just not true' that the
vast majority of oil from the BP spill has gone
BP
Fires 10,000 Cleanup Workers: New BP
CEO Bob Dudley wasn't kidding when he announced
last week that it was time for the company to
scale back oil-spill cleanup operations. In fact,
by the time he'd said that, the responder force
had been drawn down by about 25 percent.
BP
Scores Stimulus Cash: How the oil
spill bad guys are collecting millions in
taxpayer bucks to build a new power plant in
California.
Fannie
Mae Seeks $1.5 Billion From U.S. Treasury After
12th Straight Loss: Including todays
request, Fannie Mae has drawn $86.1 billion in
aid. The growing tally has helped spur the Obama
administration to solicit proposals to fix the
companies, and prompted some lawmakers to demand
their closure.
Social
Security in the red this year:
Social Security will pay out more this year than
it gets in payroll taxes, marking the first time
since the program will be in the red since it was
overhauled in 1983, according to the annual
authoritative report released Thursday by the
program's actuary.
No money for schools? Governments
Go to Extremes as the Downturn Wears On:
Plenty of businesses and governments furloughed
workers this year, but Hawaii went further
it furloughed its schoolchildren. Public schools
across the state closed on 17 Fridays during the
past school year to save money, giving students
the shortest academic year in the nation
Exotic
Deals Put Denver Schools Deeper in Debt:
In the spring of 2008, the Denver public school
system needed to plug a $400 million hole in its
pension fund. Bankers at JPMorgan Chase offered
what seemed to be a perfect solution.
Camden
Closing Library System: - New
Jersey's most impoverished city will close all
three branches of its public library at year's
end unless a rescue can be pulled off.
Senate
leaves without funding black farmers suit:
A Republican senator blocked a measure on
Thursday that would have compensated black
farmers in one of the largest civil rights
settlements in U.S. history, again delaying
action on a decades-old bias lawsuit.
August
05, 2010
The US Isn't Leaving Iraq, It's
Rebranding the Occupation
By Seumas Milne
Obama says withdrawal is on schedule, but
renaming or outsourcing combat troops won't give
Iraqis back their country. Continue
Tony Blair Must Be Prosecuted
By John Pilger
Blair conspired in and executed an unprovoked war
of aggression against a defenseless country,
which the Nuremberg judges in 1946 described as
the "paramount war crime." This has
caused, according to scholarly studies, the
deaths of more than a million people, a figure
that exceeds the Fordham University estimate of
deaths in the Rwandan genocide. Continue
US-led Raid Killed 39 Civilians
By Press TV
President Hamid Karzai's office said
late on Wednesday the inquiry shows 39 civilians
-- all women and children -- were killed in the
attack. Continue
Whose Hands?
Whose Blood?
Killing Civilians in Afghanistan
and Iraq
By Tom Engelhardt
The men who led us down this path, the
presidents who presided over our wars, the
military figures and secretaries of defense, the
intelligence chiefs and ambassadors who helped
make them happen, will have libraries to
inaugurate, books to write, awards to accept,
speeches to give, honors to receive. Continue
The Lunatics Manual
By Bob Herbert
The way to fight a war is to mobilize the country
not just the combat troops behind
an integrated wartime effort. To do that, leaders
have to persuade the public that the war is worth
fighting, and worth paying for. Continue
The Next War
By Robert Koehler
"I'm going to be killing people.
I'm actually joining the Marines and will be
doing this in real life." Continue
So Please Tell Me Again: What's
The War About?
By William Blum
When facts are inconvenient, when international
law, human rights and history get in the way,
when war crimes can't easily be justified or
explained away, when logic doesn't help much, the
current crop of American political leaders turns
to what is now the old reliable: 9/11. Continue
NATO And The US: Protectors of
Global Corporate Capitalism
"The American Media
Empire of Managed News"
By Guns and Butter - with Dr. Peter
Phillips.
NATO and the US with all these bases are the
protectors of global corporate capitalism, they
are the protectors of the world bank, that's the
agenda. Those are the oppressors. Continue
The Century of the Self
Must Watch Documentary By Adam Curtis
How politicians and business learned to
create and manipulate mass-consumer society. Continue
In Case
Missed It
Torture Inc. Americas Brutal
Prisons
Must Watch Video Documentary
Savaged by dogs, Electrocuted With Cattle Prods,
Burned By Toxic Chemicals, Does such barbaric
abuse inside U.S. jails explain the horrors that
were committed in Iraq? Continue
Fannie and Freddie's Foreclosure
Barons
By Andy Kroll
How the federal housing agencies and
bailed-out banks are helping shady lawyers make
millions by pushing families out of their homes.
Continue
Food Stamp Use Hit Record 40.8m in
May
By Bloomberg News
The number of Americans who are receiving
food stamps rose to a record 40.8 million in May
as the jobless rate hovered near a 27-year high,
the government reported yesterday. Continue
Do the Rich Need the Rest of
America?
By Robert Frank
Do you think the rest of America matters
anymore to the rich? Continue
Joe Bageant,: "I Don't Like
Liberals...
Video
An interview with Joe Bageant, author of
"Deer Hunting with Jesus" Continue
Hanging A Hammock Between Death
And The Abyss
A Götterdämmerung
Of Kitsch
By Phil Rockstroh
Does one get the feeling that the more
powerless we feel, collectively, about the rising
levels of economic exploitation exacted upon us
and the accelerating rate of ecocide committed on
the planet by corporate oligarchs, the more
celebrity "news" and other tropes of
empty distraction and denial will froth forth
from the idiot imaginings of the pop culture
douche-scape? Continue
Child Confronts Israeli Forces
Over Father's Detention
Video
Four-year-old child begging Israeli forces to
release his father from detention. "I want
daddy. Give me my dad," cried Khalid Fadel
Al-Jabari. Continue
Nine
civilians killed in roadside bomb in southern
Afghanistan: The civilians were on
their way from Khan Nishin district to the
provincial capital when their vehicle was struck
by a roadside bomb, Daoud Ahmadi said.
Afghanistan:
'At least 6' police killed by suicide bomber:
At least six Afghan policemen were killed and 13
people injured Thursday when a suicide bomber
attacked a joint convoy of Afghan and Nato forces
in the northern Afghan province of Kunduz.
Nato
admits killing Afghan civilian: The
undetermined number of deaths occurred on
Thursday in the Shirzad district of Nangarhar
province. Nato's International Security
Assistance Force (Isaf) promised in a statement
that the families of the victims would be
compensated.
Pakistan:
12 more killed, dozens shops torched in Karachi:
At least twelve more persons were killed during
incidents of violence and firing while four
markets were set on fire in Karachi, said police.
Four
killed in Iraq violence: Violent
incidents in northern Iraq have reportedly taken
the lives of four people, including one militant
and three government-allied militiamen.
Belarus
has not sold S-300 air defense systems to
Iran: The Belarusian State
Military-Industrial Committee denied the
information on the delivery of S-300s to Tehran.
Belarus has held no negotiations with Iran,
nor has it supplied any S-300s or components for
them to that country, the committees
spokesman Vladimir Lavrenyuk told Interfax.
Iran
pays 25 pct more for gasoline:
Sanctions on Iran's fuel imports are forcing the
Islamic Republic to pay well above the market
rate for its gasoline, figures from the Turkish
government seen by Reuters showed on Thursday.
Congress
may pull Lebanon military aid: Some
members of Congress are threatening to reassess
US aid to the Lebanese military following its
border clash with Israel on Tuesday. Klein was
speaking by phone from Israel, where he happened
to be visiting when the incident, which also left
two Lebanese soldiers and a journalist dead, took
place.
Only
we're allowed: After Tuesday's
border clash, Israel will continue to ignore
UNIFIL and the Lebanese army. Those bastards, the
Lebanese, changed the rules. Scandalous. Word is,
they have a brigade commander who's determined to
protect his country's sovereignty. Scandalous.
Sending
a Canadian boat to Gaza is moral thing to do:
Does Israel occupy Gaza or doesn't it? The answer
cannot be sometimes one and sometimes the other.
If Israel occupies Gaza, then it is responsible
for the needs of the 1.5 million Palestinians who
live there. If it no longer occupies it, then it
has no right to block access to it by sea or air,
or to restrict the movement of people in and out.
Swedish
activists get ready to set sail for Gaza:
Solidarity activists at a meeting in Stockholm
announced on Wednesday that a major flotilla will
attempt to break Israel's illegal blockade of
Gaza before the end of the year.
Alleged
Israeli Spy, Extradited: An alleged
Israeli spy will be extradited from Poland to
Germany within 10 days to face charges linked to
his suspected involvement in the slaying of a
senior Hamas operative in Dubai earlier this
year, a Polish appeals court ordered Thursday.
US
charges 14 over links to Somalia's al-Shabab:
US officials have charged 14 people with
providing money, personnel and services to the
Somali militant group al-Shabab. The charges stem
from four separate indictments in the US states
of Minnesota, Alabama and California.
Lawsuit
over Awlaki can proceed: The US
government has granted two civil rights groups
the right to represent the father of a US-born
religious scholar who has reportedly been
targeted as a result of his alleged al-Qaeda
ties.
Pentagon
bars staff from visiting WikiLeaks site:
Asked if the Pentagon is making the site
off-limits, Pentagon spokesman Bryan Whitman told
The Times that all four services "have put
out such messages."
Pentagon
demands WikiLeaks hand over documents
": The Pentagon demanded on Thursday that
whistle-blower web site WikiLeaks immediately
hand over about 15,000 secret documents it had
not yet released over the war in Afghanistan and
erase material it had already put online.
Mexican president Felipe
Calderon calls for debate on legalisation of
drugs: Mexican president,
Felipe Calderón has said that he supports a
debate on the legalisation of drugs after new
figures showed that 28,000 people had been killed
in cartel wars.
A
flawed system? U.S. boasts highest prison
incarceration numbers in world. :
With it's harsh drug laws, minimum sentencing
guidelines and repeated imprisonment of
non-violent offenders, the country has literally
thrown the shackles on millions of individuals.
In fact, the great superpower has more than 2
million of it's citizens imprisoned at this very
moment.
Americas
Solitary Confinement Nightmare: Of
course we torture, Ridgeway says. Right here in
America. In our own prisons. An estimated 80,000
Americans are in solitary confinement.
In Case Missed It: Torture
Inc. Americas Brutal Prisons:
Video Documentary: Savaged by dogs, Electrocuted
With Cattle Prods, Burned By Toxic Chemicals,
Does such barbaric abuse inside U.S. jails
explain the horrors that were committed in Iraq?
Feds
admit storing checkpoint body scan images:
The Transportation Security Administration
claimed last summer, for instance, that
"scanned images cannot be stored or
recorded." Now it turns out that some police
agencies are storing the controversial images
after all.
Lawsuit
challenges airport full-body scanners:
A privacy advocacy group is suing the Department
of Homeland Security to suspend the use of the
controversial full-body scanners employed at
airports across the country, including at every
major checkpoint at Logan International Airport.
Russia
bans exports of grain: Russia has
banned grain exports for the rest of the year
after a severe drought engulfing the country
destroyed 20 per cent of its wheat crop.
Argentina
Has Colder Winter Than Antartica, Spurring Record
Power Imports: Argentina is
importing record amounts of energy as the coldest
winter in 40 years drives up demand and causes
natural-gas shortages, prompting Dow Chemical Co.
and steelmaker Siderar SAIC to scale back
production.
Scientists
Cast Doubt on Claims BP Spill's No Threat to Gulf:
Many scientists say they're skeptical of a widely
publicized government report Wednesday that
concludes much of the oil that gushed from BP's
leaking well is gone and poses little threat to
the Gulf of Mexico.
"The
Crime of the Century: What BP and US
Government Dont Want You to Know"
Bernanke
eating crow amid gloomy reports: A
day after Ben Bernanke said rising wages would
likely spur household spending, a spate of weak
economic reports is painting an entirely
different picture.
Senate
Cuts Food Stamp Funds; Leaves Oil and Gas
Subsidies Intact: About half of food
stamp users are children and the elderly; about
one-quarter are working-age women and 14 percent
are working-age men. Most have jobs, but about 90
percent fall below the poverty line.
Iowa
Couple Sentenced to Prison for Burning Foreclosed
Home: The Associated Press recently
reported that a LeClaire couple will spend up to
10 years in prison for burning down the house
they lost in foreclosure.
August
04, 2010
Obama Warned Israel May Bomb
Iran
By Veteran Intelligence Professionals for
Sanity
We write to alert you to the likelihood that
Israel will attack Iran as early as this month.
This would likely lead to a wider war. Continue
Israel-Lebanon Tensions Flare After
Skirmish Leaves Four Dead
By Robert Fisk:
For the Lebanese army to take on the
Israelis, with their 264 nuclear missiles, was a
tall order. But for the Israeli army to take on
the army of one of the smallest countries in the
world was surely preposterous. Continue
Obama Drops 2009 Pledge to
Withdraw Combat Troops from Iraq
By Gareth Porter
Seventeen months after President Barack Obama
pledged to withdraw all combat brigades from Iraq
by Sep. 1, 2010, he quietly abandoned that pledge
Monday, admitting implicitly that such combat
brigades would remain until the end of 2011. Continue
Queen Nancy of the Robber Class
Metrics?
By Cindy Sheehan
You, Nancyyou dont even know
the kind of pain you are causing all of the
Metrics in the world, do you? The
mothers in all the parts of the world that we are
bombing, or helping other people to bomb
dont even enter into your rarefied society.
We wouldnt want to spoil your dinner
parties/DNC fundraisers at your estate in Sonoma
County, now, would we? Continue
US Corporate Media Downplays
Pentagons Special Commando Assassination
Unit
By Peter Phillips and Mickey Huff
The New York Times, Washington Post, and
most other newspapers in the US are censoring or
under-reporting the WikiLeaks documents that show
US Task Force 373 (TF 373) is an out-of-control
assassination unit responsible for the deaths of
many hundreds of civilians in Afghanistan. Continue
Why We Sued to Represent Muslim
Cleric Awlaki
By Bill Quigley
Anwar al-Awlaki is a US citizen and
Muslim cleric living somewhere in Yemen. The US
has put him on our terrorist list and is trying
to assassinate him. The Center for Constitutional
Rights and the ACLU filed suit so we can be pro
bono lawyers for his father, Nasser Awlaki, to
stop the government from killing him. Continue
Church to Burn Copies of Koran
to Mark 9/11
By staff writers
"We will burn Korans because we
think it's time for Christians, for churches, for
politicians to stand up and say no; Islam and
Sharia law is not welcome in the U.S. Continue
The Avoidable Depression;
"No one believes the U.S.
is the land of opportunity anymore"
By Mike Whitney
8 million jobs have been lost since the beginning
of the recession, but policymakers on Capital
Hill and at the Fed refuse to initiate government
programs or provide funding that will put the
country back to work. Long-term
"structural" unemployment is here to
stay. Continue
Were Hot as Hell and
Were Not Going to Take It Any More
Three Steps to Establish a
Politics of Global Warming
By Bill McKibben
Fossil fuel is wrecking the one earth weve
got. Its not going to go away because we
ask politely. If we want a world that works,
were going to have to raise our voices. Continue
Tuesday:
42 killed in Iraq, Qaeda plants flag:
Twin car bombs in south Iraq killed 33 people on
Tuesday while al-Qaeda fighters hoisted their
flag having shot dead five police in Baghdad, a
day after the US vowed no delays to a major troop
pullout.
Rebranded
Occupation Relying Heavily on Private Military
Contractors?: President Obama said
Monday in a speech before the Disabled American
Veterans national convention in Atlanta that the
US military is on target to withdraw all its
combat troops from Iraq by the end of August. We
speak with independent journalist Jeremy Scahill,
who says this instead marks the beginning of a
downsized and rebranded occupation that will rely
heavily on private military forces.
Afghan
official survives attack, five guards killed in
blast: A senior Afghan official
Wednesday survived an attack in southern
Afghanistan, but another explosion in the region
killed five private security guards, officials
said.
Tuesday:
20 Taliban Killed in Eastern Afghanistan:
Twenty Taliban militants were killed and dozens
were wounded in operations conducted by Afghan
forces in the eastern Laghman province on Tuesday
First
NZ soldier killed in Afghanistan: New
Zealand has suffered its first combat fatality in
Afghanistan, with a soldier killed in an ambush
in the Bamiyan province that left another two NZ
troops and an Afghan interpreter wounded
Pakistan
police chief among 4 killed in bomb attack:
: The bomber detonated explosives on Wednesday at
a busy market in the city of Peshawar.
Iran
questions Obama's 'change':
"The Americans want to relocate their
soldiers to Afghanistan. What kind of a change in
their military policy is this?" the
president asked during a speech in the western
Hamadan Province
Iran
official: We have obtained the S-300 missile
system: Fars news agency says Tehran
signs deal with Belarus after Russia reportedly
refused to provide Iran with the surface-to-air
system over recent UN sanctions.
Russian
company: US sanctions bar Iran plane deal: U.S.
sanctions against Iran over its nuclear programme
are preventing a state-connected Russian company
from delivering five passenger jets to Iran under
a 2007 contract, the head of the company said on
Tuesday.
Iran
rejects Ahmadinejad attack reports:
Iran's presidential office has rejected as false
reports of a grenade attack on President Mahmoud
Ahmadinejad in the western city of Hamedan.
Ahmadinejad
attack 'was firework': A reported
attack on the convoy of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad,
Iran's president, was actually a teenager
throwing a firework, officials and a witness say.
Turkey
summons US diplomat: Turkey has
summoned a top US diplomat to protest against
Washington's interference in a UN mandate probing
Israel's deadly attack on a Gaza-bound aid
flotilla.
US
challenged over Awlaki hit order:
Two civil rights groups have accused the US
government of blocking their efforts to serve as
lawyers for the father of a US-born religious
scholar accused of links to al-Qaeda.
Army
probing McChrystal staff over Rolling Stone
interview: The investigation comes
as the Pentagon grapples with how much access the
reporter who wrote the piece, Michael Hastings,
should have to troops. Hastings was banned from a
scheduled embed this September in Afghanistan for
being untrustworthy
Congressman
says PFC Bradley Manning Should Face Death
Penalty for Wikileaks Case: "If
they don't charge him with treason, they ought to
charge him with murder."
Climate
Change, Water, and Risk: Current Water Demands
Are Not Sustainable: The study found
that more than 1,100 counties -- one-third of all
counties in the lower 48 -- will face higher
risks of water shortages by mid-century as the
result of global warming. More than 400 of these
counties will face extremely high risks of water
shortages
BP
claims success in 'static kill': The
eight-hour "static kill" procedure,
which involved pumping mud and cement into the
blown-out well, had gone as planned although the
situation would continue to be monitored, the
energy giant said.
Gulf
oil flow was 12 times more than feds' original
estimate: New estimates released
Monday by a government-led team of scientists
found that as much as 62,000 barrels of oil were
leaking from the well each day at its peak
far beyond the initial estimate of 5,000 barrels
a day and more in line with what scientists told
McClatchy it was.
BPs
expected oil disaster fine: $17.6 billion.
: According to this new estimate, the oil giant
liable for the Gulf of Mexico disaster will be
responsible for a $17.6 billion fine
$4,300 for each barrel of oil, less the 800,000
barrels directly siphoned from the wellhead.
August
04, 2010
Pakistan No Obedient Ally
By Eric Margolis
WikiLeaks data shows how volatile nation is
forced to act against own self interests. Continue
The CIA & The ISI:
More In Common Than We Think?
By Nida Khan
Drones Kill 12 Children Playing Outside' - 'A
Family Buries 15' - 'Americans Target the Wrong
House Again'. Virtually every morning on the
streets of Karachi, Pakistan, these sorts of
headlines gleamed across the front pages of major
papers, led the evening news broadcasts and drove
conversations around dinner tables in both elite
and impoverished households alike. Continue
Coming Home
By Camillo Mac Bica
As a Marine Corps Officer in Vietnam, - I have
accepted, albeit hesitantly and uneasily,
responsibility and culpability for my actions and
at long last have eventually managed, somewhat,
to forgive myself. Or at least to live with what
I had done and what I became. Continue
Betrayal
The Lies and Losses of War
By Chris Hedges
Americans are as capable of perpetuating
evil as those who oppose us, and this existential
crisis is one that turns those who have the
courage to stand up and speak ... into outcasts,
pariahs, prophets. Continue
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