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Monday
By John Klyczek
With his prison sentence commuted by fellow Rhodes scholar, Bill
Clinton, disgraced ex-Congressman Mel Reynolds was arrested in Harare, Zimbabwe,
on Monday, February 18. Reynolds, who was convicted of the “statutory” rape of a
16-year-old girl and solicitation of child pornography, is now charged with
“possession of pornographic material he shot on different occasions . . . in his
hotel rooms” including “more than 100 pornographic videos and a further 2,000
nude pictures,” according to NewsdzeZimbabwe.
By Paul Craig Roberts
On the 100th Anniversary of World War 1, the Western powers are
again sleepwalking into destructive conflict. Hegemonic ambition has Washington
interfering in the internal affairs of Ukraine, but developments seem to be
moving beyond Washington’s control.
They do it because they can
By Publius
I’m a WASP in my late 60s and retired after spending most of my
working life in finance. I’m a US Army veteran. And I get harassed by Customs
and Border Protection each time I return to my home in the USA.
By Michael Winship
Last Wednesday’s announcement by Federal Communications Commission
Chairman Tom Wheeler that the FCC would write new rules to insure open access to
the Internet—otherwise known as Net neutrality—generally was seen by consumers
as a step in the right direction. But media reform advocates were concerned that
it didn’t go far enough.
By Nicola Nasser
The recent two-day first official visit in forty years by an
Egyptian defense minister to Russia of Egypt’s strongman, Field Marshal Abdel
Fattah al-Sisi, accompanied by Foreign Minister Nabil Fahmy, was indeed an
historic breakthrough in bilateral relations, but it is still premature to deal
with or build on it as a strategic shift away from the country’s more than
three-decade strategic alliance with the United States.
Tuesday
By Ben Tanosborn
Vic Wild, paying homage to his adoptive Red-White-and-Blue, gave
two gold medals to Russia which if given to the United States, would have tied
Russia’s final tally in gold (Russia, however, would have won the final total
medal count by one instead of five).
By Linda S. Heard
While EU envoys to Kiev were patting themselves on the back for
twisting the arm of Ukraine’s beleaguered leader, President Viktor Yanukovych
had made a hasty exit. ‘Peaceful’ demonstrators in Independence Square were
still baying for his blood even after he signed an agreement to early elections,
a reversion to the 2004 constitution clawing back presidential powers—as well as
the formation of a unity government!
By Wayne Madsen
(WMR)—The neoconservatives who continue to permeate the Obama
administration in the persons of the foul-mouthed and ill-tempered Assistant
Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs Victoria Nuland, National
Security Adviser Susan Rice, and U.S. Ambassador to the UN Samantha Power, along
with second- and third-tier functionaries, have decided on all-out covert
warfare with the nations of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO). This
information has been passed to WMR by intelligence assets in the field in some
of the most remote parts of the Asian land mass.
By Lisa Simeone
Ah, yes, earlier this month it was toothpaste, now it’s shoes.
By Missy Comley Beattie
By the time you read this, I may have a grandson. May be on my way
to spend a week with him. I’m excited yet anxious, thinking of years ago and the
way I felt when I was pregnant, unconcerned with gender, caring only about a
healthy baby.
Wednesday
By Mike Lofgren
There is the visible government situated around the Mall in
Washington, and then there is another, more shadowy, more indefinable government
that is not explained in Civics 101 or observable to tourists at the White House
or the Capitol. The former is traditional Washington partisan politics: the tip
of the iceberg that a public watching C-SPAN sees daily and which is
theoretically controllable via elections. The subsurface part of the iceberg I
shall call the Deep State, which operates according to its own compass heading
regardless of who is formally in power.
By Paul Craig Roberts
Who’s in charge? Certainly not the bought-and-paid-for-moderates
that Washington and the EU hoped to install as the new government of Ukraine.
The agreement that the Washington- and EU-supported opposition concluded with
President Yanukovich to end the crisis did not last an hour. Even the former
boxing champion, Vitaly Klitschko, who was riding high as an opposition leader
has been booed by the rioters and shoved aside. The newly appointed president by
what is perhaps an irrelevant parliament, Oleksandr Turchynov, has no support
base among those who overthrew the government. As the BBC reports, “like all of
the mainstream opposition politicians, Mr. Turchynov is not entirely trusted or
respected by the protesters in Kiev’s Independence Square.”
By Sibel Edmonds
I just finished reading a ridiculous hit piece published at
Eurasia.Net accusing the Turkish people of being conspiracy theorists for
believing that the imperial US and EU are engaged in schemes towards regime
change around the world. According to the article and its sources, one must be
ignorant, uninformed, uneducated and a big time conspiracy theorist in order to
believe that the US-EU are engaged in political manipulations and regime change
operations around the world.
Critics say ruling is reminiscent of legal
justification for Japanese-American internment camps
By Sarah Lazare
A federal judge ruled Thursday that the NYPD’s secret spying on
Muslims in schools, restaurants, and mosques with no evidence of wrongdoing is
perfectly legal, and it was the media’s exposure of this surveillance that was
the real cause of harm. The decision prompted outcry from civil rights and
racial justice advocates.
By Frank Scott
Which is why what remains of a privileged population in the USA is
being mobilized to support regime change in Syria, Thailand, Venezuela and the
Ukraine, a health care marketplace in the USA, a zealous drive to destroy Iran
and an equally fanatic attempt at declaring Russia a worse menace now than at
the time of brain dead American anti-communism.
Thursday
By Jerry Mazza
In the Feb. 23 The New York Times, Stephen P. Hinshaw and Richard
M. Scheffler point to “the writing is on the chalkboard” with their op-ed Expand
Pre-K, Not ADHD: “Over the next few years, America can count on a major
expansion of early childhood education. We embrace this trend, but as health
policy researchers, we want to raise a major caveat: Unless we’re careful,
today’s preschool bandwagon could lead straight to an epidemic of 4- and
5-year-olds wrongfully being told that they have attention deficit hyperactivity
disorder.”
By Wayne Madsen
(WMR)—Not since the massacre at a summer camp of social democratic
Norwegian youth by the Israel-loving Norwegian neo-Nazi Anders Breivik has there
been clearer evidence of the collusion between Zionists and neo-Nazis as the
statement by the pro-Zionist U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Geoffrey Pyatt that the
neo-Nazi Ukrainian political party Svoboda “played an extremely constructive
role during these three months of demonstrations.”
By Linda S. Heard
President Viktor Yanukovych has fled the scene but who can blame
him? Even after he announced a truce so-called peaceful protesters attacked
retreating police with volleys of petrol bombs. And when he caved-in to an
EU-brokered deal to fulfill their demands, the crowd in Kiev’s Independence
Square was baying for his blood and referring to opposition leaders as
“traitors” for signing-up to it.
By Philip A Farruggio
For those out there who have never had a dog or cat as a pet for a
long period of time, what I am about to share may seem overly dramatic. Yet, one
hopefully realizes that these blessed creatures become like little children to
us. They, like little children, need our focused attention and caring in order
to survive.
By Walter Brasch
My son’s best friend bought an iPhone shortly after they were first
released in 2007.
Friday
By Arthur D. Robbins
For centuries, the United States Constitution has been held up to
the world as one of civilization’s greatest achievements. It has been exalted
and extolled at home and abroad, emulated and imitated by countries in both
hemispheres. In some broad sense, it has provided a foundation for our belief in
man’s perfectibility and the possibility of government that serves the common
good.
By Wayne Madsen
(WMR)—The policy employed by U.S. President Barack Obama, British
Prime Minister David Cameron, and Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper, the
primary agitators behind the violent overthrow of democratically-elected
governments around the world, can best be referred to as the OCH
(Obama-Cameron-Harper) doctrine. The first country to feel the effect of the OCH
doctrine is Ukraine, where mob violence, stoked by provocateurs on the payroll
of global hedge fund vulture George Soros and the Central Intelligence Agency,
brought about the overthrow of the government of democratically-elected
President Viktor Yanukovych.
By Paul Craig Roberts
In 2004, Hungary joined the EU, expecting streets of gold. Instead,
four years later in 2008, Hungary became indebted to the IMF. The rock video by
the Hungarian group, Mouksa Underground sums up the result in Hungary today of
falling into the hands of the EU and IMF.
By John W. Whitehead
The following incidents are cautionary tales for anyone who still
thinks that they can defy police officers, even if it’s simply to disagree about
a speeding ticket, challenge a search warrant or defend oneself against an
unreasonable or unjust charge, without deadly repercussions. The message they
send is that “we the people” have very little protection from the standing army
that is law enforcement.
By Michael Winship
That’s a pretty pathetic knight up there on the cover of the March
issue of Harper’s Magazine. Battered and defeated, his shield in pieces, he’s
slumped and saddled backwards on a Democratic donkey that has a distinctly
woeful—or bored, maybe—countenance. It’s the magazine’s sardonic way of
illustrating a powerful throwing down of the gauntlet by political scientist
Adolph Reed, Jr. He has challenged the nation’s progressives with an article in
the magazine provocatively titled, “Nothing Left: The Long, Slow Surrender of
American Liberals.”
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