Monday
By Walter Brasch
Vera Scroggins of
Susquehanna County, Pa., will now be allowed to go to her hospital, supermarket,
drug store, several restaurants, and the place where she goes for rehabilitation
therapy. She can also go to the county’s recycling center, which is on 12.5
acres of land the county had leased to Cabot Gas & Oil Corp., one of the
largest drillers in the country.
By Greg Palast
It was Good Friday,
50 years ago on March 27, 1964, that according to seismologists, the snow peaks
of Prince William Sound jumped 33 feet into the air and fell back down.
Emergency warnings about an earthquake-spurred tsunami went out to towns from
Valdez, Alaska, to Malibu, Calif., but no one thought to send a message to the
Chugach Natives in Chenega, Alaska.
Can it ever be
treated? Is it even possible?
By Bob Nichols
SAN FRANCISCO—It is
time to call it what it is: It’s a Scam. It’s a Con Job. There is no solution,
never was and never will be. That’s the whole Con and you, like most people,
probably fell for the notion hook, line and sinker that radioactivity can be
removed from water.
By Linh Dinh
The first lesson, and
it’s a very old one, is that violent protest does work, and also sinister tricks
such as having your own snipers shoot at police and fellow protesters. Without
this ramping up of mayhem and bloodshed, the Ukrainian government would not have
been discredited, destabilized and finally overthrown.
By Jerry Mazza
I’m a fly on the
wall, really, bzzzzz, and I could hear the breaking news from Newsmax.com. Mama
mia! Sharp differences over abortion and birth control surfaced as President
Barack Obama held his first meeting Thursday with Pope Francis, even as the
president sought to emphasize common ground issues like economic inequality
during a much-anticipated Vatican visit.
Tuesday
By Stephen
Lendman
Welcome to police
state Turkey. It’s no democracy. Claiming otherwise is a convenient
illusion.
By Paul Craig
Roberts
Does Obama realize
that he is leading the US and its puppet states to war with Russia and China, or
is Obama being manipulated into this disaster by his neoconservative speech
writers and government officials? World War 1 (and World War 2) was the result
of the ambitions and mistakes of a very small number of people. Only one head of
state was actually involved-–the president of France.
By Wayne Madsen
(WMR)—Roger Shuler,
the Alabama blogger and former Birmingham newspaper reporter, was released from
an Alabama jail on March 26.
By Howard Lisnoff
The flyer for the
giveaway of an AR-15 semiautomatic rifle at Grace Baptist Church in Troy, New
York, on March 23, reads “Does the Bible defend my right to keep and bear arms?”
With the donation of the rifle from a local gun shop, the church’s pastor, the
Reverend John Koletas said he was “honoring hunters and gun owners” by holding
the raffle at the church (“Troy pastor’s AR-15 rifle giveaway creates
controversy,” Times Union, March 7, 2014)
By Lisa Simeone
Oh, well. I was
trying to avoid writing about this because it’s so idiotic, and because the
official report is, predictably, so long and turgid and full of asinine acronyms
and bumbling bureaucrat-speak. But since it’s being reported all over the news,
I guess have to.
Wednesday
By Ellen Brown,
J.D.
On March 20, 2014,
European Union officials reached an historic agreement to create a single agency
to handle failing banks. Media attention has focused on the agreement involving
the single resolution mechanism (SRM), a uniform system for closing failed
banks. But the real story for taxpayers and depositors is the heightened threat
to their pocketbooks of a deal that now authorizes both bailouts and
“bail-ins”—the confiscation of depositor funds. The deal involves multiple
concessions to different countries and may be illegal under the rules of the EU
Parliament; but it is being rushed through to lock taxpayer and depositor
liability into place before the dire state of Eurozone banks is exposed
By Stephen
Lendman
It’s back to the
future. It’s reminiscent of Cold War fearmongering. It claimed the Russians are
coming.
By Linda S. Heard
Prior to the US
president’s meeting with Saudi Arabia’s King Abdullah Bin Abdul Aziz last week,
Amnesty International urged Barack Obama to tackle the kingdom’s human rights
record, suggesting that he use a female driver during his visit. That call was
supported by 52 bipartisan US lawmakers and the US-based NGO Freedom House. My
visceral reaction to that news was “Who the heck do they think they are!”
Haven’t they heard the expression ‘People in glass houses shouldn’t throw
stones?’
By Paul Craig
Roberts
It is now apparent
that the “Maidan protests” in Kiev were in actuality a Washington organized coup
against the elected democratic government. The purpose of the coup is to put
NATO military bases on Ukraine’s border with Russia and to impose an IMF
austerity program that serves as cover for Western financial interests to loot
the country. The sincere idealistic protesters who took to the streets without
being paid were the gullible dupes of the plot to destroy their country.
Interview with
Gayathri Ramprasad, author of ‘Shadows in the Sun: Healing from Depression and
Finding the Light Within’
By Martha
Rosenberg
The just published
memoir, Shadows in the Sun, is a first-of-its-kind, cross-cultural lens to
mental illness through the inspiring story of the author’s thirty-year battle
with depression.
Thursday
By Jim Miles
It was a different
world two decades ago. The Soviet Union under Yeltsin’s hand capitulated to the
West and the slow march away from a democratizing state began. The West had
‘won’ the Cold War and had it within its range to make a global ‘peace dividend’
with promises to not extend NATO into eastern Europe. The U.S. economy, although
already on the path to serious economic debt problems, had worked side by side
with China for a new era of global prosperity, at the same time that the
economic tide in Russia was all about asset stripping and the rise of the
oligarchs.
By Wayne Madsen
(WMR)—Israel’s
domestic and foreign propaganda apparatus is spinning the yarn that convicted
U.S. spy for Israel Jonathan Pollard has served longer in prison than any other
spy for an American “ally.” The meme from Israel considers that Israel, which is
considered a “hostile intelligence” nation by the FBI, Directorate of National
Intelligence, each of the military service’s counter-intelligence branches, the
CIA, and the National Security Agency, is an American ally. American
counter-intelligence places Israel in the category of a nation with a hostile
intelligence agency.
By Paul Craig Roberts
and Dave Kranzler
As we documented in
previous articles, the gold price is driven down in the paper futures market by
naked short selling by the Fed’s dependent bullion banks. Some people have a
hard time accepting this fact even though it is known that the big banks have
manipulated the LIBOR (London Interbank Overnight Rate—London’s equivalent of
the Fed Funds rate) interest rate and the twice-daily London gold price fix.
By Linda S. Heard
The pro-Europe
protesters in Kiev succeeded in dislodging a president for which they’ve paid an
unexpected price. The Crimean Peninsula is lost to them, perhaps forever; the
majority of their military personnel based there have defected to Russia—and
there may be a lot worse to come. It’s an uncomfortable truth that people’s
power, however well intentioned, is more often than not destructive. It’s
primarily driven by the emotions of people unable to grasp the big picture. The
Kiev crowds may have initially got what they wanted, but will they want what
they get?
By Lisa Simeone
Political cartoonist
Ted Rall once again hits the nail squarely on the head.
Friday
By Jerry Mazza
One of America’s
greatest poems and poets, The Wasteland by T.S. Eliot, seems to miss the full
truth of this April, opening with its famous first line . . .
By Harvey
Wasserman
In the 35 years since
the March 28, 1979, explosion and meltdown at Three Mile Island, fierce debate
has raged over whether humans were killed there. In 1986 and 2011, Chernobyl and
Fukushima joined the argument. Whenever these disasters happen, there are those
who claim that the workers, residents and military personnel exposed to
radiation will be just fine.
By Wayne Madsen
(WMR)—Joseph
diGenova, the chief federal prosecutor who brought about the conviction of
Israeli spy Jonathan Pollard, told ABC News that to bargain with Israel over
freeing Pollard in return for unenforceable concessions by Israel in peace talks
with the Palestinians makes no sense after NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden’s
actions. DiGenova said Pollard sold Israel 360 cubic feet of documents for a sum
total of $600,000. Contrary to what Pollard has said about his actions only
serving the interests of Israel, ABC News was told by intelligence sources that
many of the documents that Pollard provided to Israel were later handed over by
the Jewish state to the Soviet Union and apartheid South Africa.
By Stephen
Lendman
On Monday, John Kerry
traveled to Israel for the 11th time. He did so relating to sham peace talks.
Last July they began. No progress whatever was achieved.
By John W.
Whitehead
Question: How can you
tell when a politician is lying? Answer: When he’s moving his lips.
