All Site Content
-
Israel’s Right Wing Future (Lawrence Davidson)
Jan. 18, 2011 (Information Clearing House) -- Zeev Sternhell is an Israeli historian and a recognized expert on Fascism. He is also an occasional contributor to the Israeli newspaper Haaretz. On 14 ...
Read more... -
The Special Tribunal for Lebanon; Independent Investigation or US-Israeli Cat's-paw? (Mike Whitney)
Jan. 18, 2011 (Information Clearing House) -- In August 2010, Hezbollah Secretary General Hassan Nasrallah presented "intercepted Israeli reconnaissance footage" and "the recorded confessions of ...
Read more... -
The Vindication (by Barack Obama) of Dick Cheney (Glenn Greenwald)
Jan. 18, 2011 (Salon.com) -- In the early months of Obama's presidency, the American Right did to him what they do to every Democratic politician: they accused him of being soft of defense ...
Read more... -
Up to Half in U.S. Have Pre-Existing Conditions: Study (Washington Post)
Jan. 18, 2011 -- WASHINGTON (Reuters) -- As many as 129 million Americans under age 65 have medical problems putting them at risk of being rejected by insurance companies or having to pay more for ...
Read more... -
Beat Your Daisy Cutters Into Daisies (Mickey Z.)
Mickey Z. -- World News Trust Jan. 21, 2011 -- Seed bombs are compressed balls of soil and compost that have been impregnated with wildflower seeds. When jettisoned onto construction sites, ...
Read more... -
Generalizing Tunisia: Context Overrides Story (Ramzy Baroud)
Ramzy Baroud -- World News Trust Jan. 20, 2011 -- When faced with problems, most authoritarian regimes maintain a policy of rigidity when the appropriate response would be flexibility, political ...
Read more... -
Imagination Nation (David Glenn Cox)
David Glenn Cox -- World News Trust Jan. 20, 2011 -- Sometimes you just can't sleep at night. We ask ourselves questions and throw ourselves into a national tizzy when a mentally ill man sprays a ...
Read more... -
The Ultimate Oxymoron: Industrial Civilization And Mental Health (Carolyn Baker)
Industrial civilization does not occur among healthy people. ~Ken Carey, Return of The Bird People~ Jan. 11, 2011 -- In the days following the tragic Tucson massacre where Congresswoman Gabrielle ...
Read more... -
Downsize or Modify? A Conversation with Noam Chomsky (Mickey Z.)
Mickey Z. -- World News Trust Jan. 18, 2011 -- While Noam Chomsky surely needs no introduction, as they say, that doesn't mean interviewing him has to follow a blueprint. So, after seeing him in a ...
Read more... -
Comtastrophe: Comcast/NBC Merger Approved (Josh Silver)
Friend, The decision was handed down moments ago,1 and you should be mad as hell. The FCC just blessed the merger of Comcast, the nation's largest cable and home Internet provider, with NBC ...
Read more... -
From Military-Industrial Complex to Permanent War State (Gareth Porter)
Jan. 17, 2011 (CommonDreams.org) -- Fifty years after Dwight D. Eisenhower's January 17, 1961 speech on the "military-industrial complex", that threat has morphed into a far more powerful and ...
Read more...
Page 509 of 909