(By Shalom Goldman via IslamiCommentary) Shalom Goldman After weeks-long elections in India, the Hindu nationalist BJP party, with Narendra Modi as prime-minister elect, has emerged as the overwhelming victor in a hotly contested campaign. The election results were both an affirmation of the BJP’s policies and ideologies and a resounding defeat for the Congress Party, […]
Archives for May 2014
‘Journalist’ Michael Kinsley says Gov’t should make Publishing Decisions
Glenn Greenwald spends the last third of his excellent new book, “No Place to Hide: Edward Snowden, the NSA, and the US Surveillance State”, exposing the mentality and function of pseudo-journalists like David Gregory, who are in fact better understood…
Onshore Wind Power in Europe now Cheaper than Gas, Coal or Nuclear
Originally published on Renew Economy. The falling cost of renewables is not news to those who have paid attention to analysis from green-focused think tanks, or groups like Bloomberg New Energy Finance. But it is when a major European utility, with…
Pope Francis in Jordan Reaches out to Forgotten Syrian Refugees, Christians and Muslims
By Juan Cole AFP Arabic reports that Syrian refugees, and Christian refugees in particular, are hoping that the visit of Pope Francis to Jordan on Saturday will raise the profile of their plight. Jordan is a country of 6.3 million citizens, but it has another 600,000 or so Syrian refugees. Likely on the order of […]
Rocket attack wounds 20 in Libya's Benghazi
Twenty members of a single family were wounded when a rocket slammed into their home near an army base in Libya’s second city Benghazi overnight, medical and security sources say.
Sarah Palin: Veterans died waiting for VA care because ‘Barack Obama is lazy’
Fox News contributor and half-term Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin (R) said this week that veterans had died waiting for health care from Veterans Affairs facilities because President Barack Obama was “lazy” due to his upbringing. “The problem starts…
Nigeria’s Boko Haram Crisis: What the Drones Can’t See
By Allan Christelow On the night of April 14-15 2014, militants from the group known as Boko Haram broke into the dormitory of a secondary school in the town of Chibok, in Borno state in northeastern Nigeria, and abducted some 300 girls who were scheduled to take exams the following morning. Some of the girls […]
House Passes Fake USA Freedom Act; Only hope is Senate
As explained earlier, due to pressure from the White House and NSA’s supporters in Congress, what could have been real NSA reform was completely changed at the last minute, in secret. The bill, which was substantially different than what both the Judiciary…
Shouldn’t the “1% Doctrine” Apply to the WMD of Climate Change?
(By Tom Engelhardt via Tomdispatch.com) Who could forget? At the time, in the fall of 2002, there was such a drumbeat of “information” from top figures in the Bush administration about the secret Iraqi program to develop weapons of mass destruction (WMD) and so endanger the United States. And who — other than a few suckers — […]
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