Former head of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. and long-time Republican Sheila Bair tells Bill Moyers what the big banks have done and that they’re getting away with it. The blurb: “Sheila Bair on Big Banks’ Greed and Impunity March 22, 2013 Sheila Bair, the longtime Republican who served as chair of the Federal Deposit […]
Isaac Asimov Predicts Interactive Internet 25 Years Ago
Renowned science fiction author Isaac Asimov predicts the interactive World Wide Web in 1988, 25 years ago.* *correction from “20 yrs, which is how the poster tagged it at youtube.
Israeli Right: Obama Undermined Netanyahu, Endangers Israel with Call for Palestinian State
President Obama’s speech to students in Jerusalem is covered by Aljazeera. Obama did complain a little about the Israeli occupation of the Palestinians, but he threw in the towel on trying to halt the vast and daily landgrab of Israeli colonizers on Palestinian territory. He postponed the issue to final status negotiations, over which he […]
Phil Donohue Recalls how he Was Fired From MSNBC for Being anti-war (Goodman Interview)
At Democracy Now! Phil Donohue recalls how then General Electric-owned NBC fired him from his popular and top-rated talk show on MSNBC in spring of 2003 because it feared his voice in opposition to the Iraq War. It is great to have the whole story from Donohue. Here is what I wrote at this blog […]
Obama slights Palestinians, who stage Tent Protests
Aljazeera English reports on Obama’s opening remarks on arrival in Israel, and how he called Palestine the historic homeland of the Jews but neglected to mention the Palestinians. Non-Jewish Palestinians have lived in geographical Palestine for nearly 2000 years, first as Christians and after the Muslim conquest gradually becoming majority Muslim (and they been the […]
As Obama Greets Iranians on Nowruz, He’s Made some Medicines hard to Afford (Jahanpour)
Farhang Jahanpour writes in a guest column for Informed Comment Nowruz, the Iranian New Year, is one of the oldest festivals celebrated in the world. In fact, the palace of Persepolis built in the sixth century BC was an audience hall for celebrating Nowruz. It takes the spring equinox (falling on 20 or 21 March […]
As Israelis Press Obama on Iran, Let’s Remember they Urged Iraq War, Too
The Israeli leadership, including Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, will attempt to strong-arm President Barack Obama, during his visit to Israel, into attacking Iran. (In part this noise about Iran is to deflect attention from the vast Israeli land grab in the Palestinian West Bank). It is now often forgotten, and even denied, that the then […]
How Obama’s Jerusalem Visit Undermines Peace (Rashid Khalidi Video)
As President Obama heads to Israel, the West Bank and Jordan on what seems mainly to be presidential tourism, Rashid Khalidi at Democracy Now! explains how the United States is undermining Mideast peace and harming the Palestinian population. Meanwhile, some Palestinians are protesting Obama’s visit. The USG Open Source Center translates a report from the […]
Global Warming has doubled the Risk of More Hurricane Katrinas (McCauley)
Lauren McCauley writes at Commondreams : Warming global temperatures have doubled the risk of "Katrina magnitude events," says a new study published Monday in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. By analyzing the dramatic and sudden increase in water levels—or storm surges—which occur as a result of fierce hurricane winds and low […]
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