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Behind U.S.-Backed Bahrain Regime’s “Dialogue”
Protests in Bahrain today took to the U.S. embassy with signs including “Stop Supporting Dictators.” For updates on the Bahrain uprising, see the #Feb14 hashtag on Twitter; for breakdown: accuracy.org/uprisings REEM KHALIFA Available for a limited number of interviews, Khalifa is senior editor for diplomatic affairs at Al Wasat in Bahrain. She said today: “The…
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Environmentalist Faces 10 Years for Bids to Stop Drilling
AP reports today: “Environmental activist Tim DeChristopher knew what he was doing when he made $1.8 million in false oil and gas drilling bids at a federal auction. He knew he couldn’t possibly pay for them. And he knew he could end up behind bars. “But he did it for the cause. On Thursday, a…
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Prosecuting Manning for WikiLeaks: “Killing the Messenger”
Glenn Greenwald writes today: “The U.S. Army yesterday announced that it has filed 22 additional charges against Bradley Manning, the Private accused of being the source for hundreds of thousands of documents (as well as [the video ‘Collateral Murder’]) published over the last year by WikiLeaks. Most of the charges add little to the ones…
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Wrong Kind of Intelligence: U.S. Killing Children in Afghanistan
Kelly and Brollier are with Voices for Creative Nonviolence. Kelly said today: “The drone intelligence and all of the other surveillance available to the U.S. military couldn’t help bomber pilots figure out, on March 1, 2011, that the nine people they believed to be insurgents, on a mountainside in the Pech Valley, were actually children.…
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More Cuts — Or Make Rich, Corporations Pay Up
RICHARD WOLFF Wolff just wrote the piece “How the rich soaked the rest of us,” which states: “The richest Americans have dramatically lowered their income tax burden since 1945, both absolutely and relative to the tax burdens of middle income groups and the poor.” Wolff is author of the book Capitalism Hits the Fan: The…
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The Real “National Security” Budget: $1.2 Trillion a Year
CHRISTOPHER HELLMAN Hellman just wrote the piece “The Real U.S. National Security Budget” (for TomDispatch.com), which gives a breakdown and states: “What if you went to a restaurant and found it rather pricey? Still, you ordered your meal and, when done, picked up the check only to discover that it was almost twice the menu…
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“Deficit Fears Irrational, Cuts Will Impede Recovery”
JAMES K. GALBRAITH, THEA HARVEY Chair of Economists for Peace and Security, Galbraith (available for a limited number of interviews) is Lloyd M. Bentsen Jr. chair in government/business relations at the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas at Austin. His latest book is The Predator State: How Conservatives Abandoned…
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U.S. “Hypocrisy” on Libya and International Criminal Court
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has called for the ouster of Muammar Qaddafi, citing “universal principles.” MICHAEL RATNER President of the Center for Constitutional Rights, Ratner said today: “While it appears that serious crimes against humanity are being committed by the Libyan government, the referral of those abuses to the International Criminal Court by the…
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Wall Street Criminality: Origin of State Crises
Last night Charles Ferguson, director of “Inside Job” (about Wall Street’s wrongdoing), upon receiving the Oscar for best documentary, said: “Forgive me, I must start by pointing out that three years after our horrific financial crisis caused by financial fraud, not a single financial executive has gone to jail, and that’s wrong.” See video at…
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Palestinians, Israel and Freedom and Democracy
AHMET DOGAN, via Ann Wright, Greta Berlin Professor Dogan, whose 18-year-old son Furkan was killed during the Israeli military raid on a Gaza-bound flotilla in May 2010, is in Washington, D.C. He hopes to convince U.S. officials to open an independent investigation into his son’s killing by Israeli commandos and to discuss with them what…