Noam Chomsky |
America's Real Foreign Policy
Noam Chomsky, TomDispatch
Chomsky writes: "There is a 'received standard version,' common to academic scholarship, government pronouncements, and public discourse. It holds that the prime commitment of governments is to ensure security, and that the primary concern of the U.S. and its allies since 1945 was the Russian threat."
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Noam Chomsky, TomDispatch
Chomsky writes: "There is a 'received standard version,' common to academic scholarship, government pronouncements, and public discourse. It holds that the prime commitment of governments is to ensure security, and that the primary concern of the U.S. and its allies since 1945 was the Russian threat."
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Remaining
Snowden Documents to Be Released to Avert 'Unspecified US War'
John Leyden, The Register
Leyden writes: "All the remaining Snowden documents will be released next month, according to whistle-blowing site Cryptome, which said in a tweet that the release of the info by unnamed third parties would be necessary to head off an unnamed 'war.'"
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John Leyden, The Register
Leyden writes: "All the remaining Snowden documents will be released next month, according to whistle-blowing site Cryptome, which said in a tweet that the release of the info by unnamed third parties would be necessary to head off an unnamed 'war.'"
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France's
Former President Sarkozy Taken Into Custody
Bill Chappell, National Public Radio
Chappell writes: "Just two years after leaving the presidency, former French leader Nicolas Sarkozy turned himself in to police this morning as part of an inquiry into a cover-up of suspected illegal campaign fundraising. Sarkozy, 59, is reportedly France's first former president to be taken into formal custody."
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Bill Chappell, National Public Radio
Chappell writes: "Just two years after leaving the presidency, former French leader Nicolas Sarkozy turned himself in to police this morning as part of an inquiry into a cover-up of suspected illegal campaign fundraising. Sarkozy, 59, is reportedly France's first former president to be taken into formal custody."
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Juan Cole | In
the Deaths of Three Israeli Teens, Likud Policies Are Also
Implicated
Juan Cole, Informed Comment
Cole writes: "The kidnapping and killing of three Israeli squatter youth whose parents usurped Palestinian land has produced a paroxysm of hatred and calls for reprisals in Israel."
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Juan Cole, Informed Comment
Cole writes: "The kidnapping and killing of three Israeli squatter youth whose parents usurped Palestinian land has produced a paroxysm of hatred and calls for reprisals in Israel."
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Lawrence B.
Wilkerson | Empire's Age-Old Aim: Wealth and Power
Lawrence B. Wilkerson, Reader Supported News
Wilkerson writes: "Surely, however, at this opening to the 21st Century, we have made some progress. Our constant rhetoric - particularly from Washington - asserts that we have. International criminal justice and human rights are pursued with relish, are they not?"
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Lawrence B. Wilkerson, Reader Supported News
Wilkerson writes: "Surely, however, at this opening to the 21st Century, we have made some progress. Our constant rhetoric - particularly from Washington - asserts that we have. International criminal justice and human rights are pursued with relish, are they not?"
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Chilean Court
Rules US Complicit in Murders of US Citizens in 1973
Pascale Bonnefoy, The New York Times
Bonnefoy writes: "The United States military intelligence services played a pivotal role in setting up the murders of two American citizens in 1973, providing the Chilean military with the information that led to their deaths, a court here has ruled."
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Pascale Bonnefoy, The New York Times
Bonnefoy writes: "The United States military intelligence services played a pivotal role in setting up the murders of two American citizens in 1973, providing the Chilean military with the information that led to their deaths, a court here has ruled."
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Congress
Quietly Deletes Disclosure of Privately-Sponsored Trips
Shane Goldmacher, National Journal
Goldmacher writes: "It's going to be a little more difficult to ferret out which members of Congress are lavished with all-expenses-paid trips around the world after the House has quietly stripped away the requirement that such privately sponsored travel be included on lawmakers' annual financial-disclosure forms."
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Shane Goldmacher, National Journal
Goldmacher writes: "It's going to be a little more difficult to ferret out which members of Congress are lavished with all-expenses-paid trips around the world after the House has quietly stripped away the requirement that such privately sponsored travel be included on lawmakers' annual financial-disclosure forms."
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