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  MH-370 and Victory For The Chagos Islanders (Diego Garcia) posted by John Pilger via gary, 2019-02-27 19:11:58
John Pilger, an independent, traditional, investigative journalist of the old school must be congratulated for his tireless efforts in making this issue known to the world and pursuing the case of the displaced and dispossessed Chagossians, which efforts recently culminated in a favourable legal decision for the Islanders who were illegally removed from their home in order for the Americans to appropriate and install a highly sophisticated communications military base on Diego Garcia, which base is suspected to be implicated in the disappearance of Malaysian airliner, MH-370. (full story)
prose / international
 The Truth Is ... posted by darcy, 2019-02-25 15:54:58
The entire WORLD is sick and tired of US military interventions and interference from Washington. However, that reality hasn’t dented the delusional neocon dream that America owns the world and is able to dictate foreign policy to other sovereign nations from Washington. (full story)
prose / international
The Radical Sayings of Jesus -- Ignored Today posted by Mike Rivage-Seul via jane, 2019-02-24 20:47:20
Jesus, according to the Gospel narratives was a social reformer much as was his radical cousin, John the baptist. The narratives clearly and unmistakably depict Jesus as a champion of the oppressed and a despiser of the rich, wealthy and powerful elites, yet modern popular preachers and churches swimming in wealth pay little regard to his clearly political teachings of social reformation. Jesus himself labelled such as hypocrites and wolves in sheep's clothing. . (full story)
prose / international
Venezuela Should Take US to International Court posted by Jay Janson via cyd, 2019-02-23 21:36:23
Reuters reported that even prior to last Friday's clarification from the US Treasury, European buyers were already slashing purchases because of concerns over payments. Reuters reported that two of the world's largest oil traders, Vitol and Trafigura, said that they would comply with all US sanctions. (full story)
prose / international
Microsoft Workers Demand Company End Army Contract posted by Andrea Germanos via stella, 2019-02-23 18:42:16
"As employees and shareholders we do not want to become war profiteers." (full story)
prose / international
China’s Australian Coal Ban posted by Binoy Kampmark via gus, 2019-02-23 18:11:47
Indeed, the 'hole-in-ground,' resource limited Australian economy is proving, as it should, the gross incompetence of the DUNCE Australian government that imagined that non-diversification would not make the nation economically vulnerable. The 'she'll be right mate' attitude of incompetent government has recently been challenged by China that is issuing a not so subtle hint to the dunce Australian conservative government to cease its absurd kowtowing to Washington's anti-China political policies, and that such servile obsequiousness has a price. After all America is barely able to manage its own military interventionist resource theft based economy which precludes assisting Australia by increasing Australian resource imports. And so a price will be exacted by China on knee-walking (to Washington), custard faced, incompetent, servile Australian politicians and their bereft of real diversified sovereign policies aimed at the benefit of the Australian nation/people as opposed to serving Washington's insane, counter-productive militaristic policies. (full story)
prose / international
‘Indispensable Nation’ No More posted by Andrew J. Bacevich via claire, 2019-02-22 23:01:57
“Only those of us who were born under Queen Victoria,” wrote Ronald Knox, “know what it feels like to assume, without questioning, that England is permanently top nation, that foreigners do not matter, and that if worst comes to the worst, Lord Salisbury will send a gunboat.” Knox offered this trenchant observation, redolent with irony and perhaps tinged with regret, not as a policymaker or strategic thinker, but from the vantage point of a clergyman. From the 1920s through the 1950s, Monsignor Knox was the most famous and influential Catholic priest in all of Great Britain. As such, he entertained a distinct perspective on what actually qualifies as permanent and what merely offers the appearance. (full story)
prose / international
Ballad Of A Thin Man posted by Bob Dylan via jaxie, 2019-02-22 22:05:31
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poetry / international
The [Sick] US Admin Doesn't Care Two Hoots What the World Thinks posted by Dave Lefcourt via stella, 2019-02-21 23:50:19
When it comes to US machinations in the world how horrendous can they get? Is that the operative word, something worse? Horrific, unspeakable-although unspeakable is usually reserved for the holocaust perpetrated by Hitler's Nazi Germany against the Jews. (full story)
prose / international
America, The Pathology of Unilateralism posted by jake, 2019-02-21 22:43:32
The national pathology infecting America outwardly and unmistakably manifests itself as the false belief that only America is the “exceptional, indispensable” nation, total fantasy without need to qualify as no nation is indispensable, in fact if America were dispensed with, the world would be free of all its criminal, mass murdering wars of theft, appropriation and exploitation, which it wages for its corporate masters, make no mistake, America is a Corporatocracy, not a Democracy. (full story)
prose / international
 Putin Threatens US Soil If U.S. Missiles Deployed in Europe Target Russia posted by teleSUR via cyd, 2019-02-20 20:19:50
Russian President Vladimir Putin, during his annual presidential address to the legislature Wednesday, criticized the United States for ignoring the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) treaty by deploying missile launchers in Romania and Poland. (full story)
prose / international
 Understanding Rogue Cultures posted by claire, 2019-02-19 21:42:23
In my early university years, when a humanities degree had worth, I undertook a few units in cultural analysis incorporated in two related majors, sociology and media/textual studies. It proved a wonderful choice as no culture falls out of the sky, everything can be known about any existing and historical culture by studying and analysing the cultural artefacts it produces and in this respect young cultures like the American, are comic book simple. I should add that this discipline is easily able to determine the future behaviours of any culture. (full story)
prose / international
The Image is the Medium/Reality posted by Chris Hedges via gus, 2019-02-19 11:58:59
Donald Trump, like much of the American public, is entranced by electronic images. He interprets reality through the distortions of digital media. His decisions, opinions, political positions, prejudices and sense of self are reflected back to him on screens. He views himself and the world around him as a vast television show with himself as the star. His primary concerns as president are his ratings, his popularity and his image. He is a creature—maybe the poster child—of the modern, post-literate culture, a culture that critics such as Marshall McLuhan, Daniel Boorstin, James W. Carey and Neil Postman warned us about. (full story)
prose / international
 UK Lawmakers Accuse Facebook Execs as 'Digital Gangsters,' As New Zealand Moves to Tax Tech Giant posted by Jessica Corbett via stacey, 2019-02-19 11:29:55
As U.K. lawmakers called for strict regulations "to curb the worst excesses of surveillance capitalism" following the release a damning report that details an investigation of Facebook, New Zealand's Labour Party announced Monday it is pursuing tax reforms to require multinational tech giants "to pay their fair share." (full story)
prose / international
 Facebook Favors Propaganda Blocks Video Outlets Critical of US Foreign Policy and Corporate Media posted by Jessica Corbett via shirl, 2019-02-19 11:13:55
Journalists and advocates of press freedoms are once more directing outrage and criticism at Facebook for selectively censoring pages on its platform and refusing to explain the reason behind a decision that appears to many as a clear double standard applied to outlets critical of U.S. foreign policy and corporate interests. (full story)
prose / international
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