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It was only a matter of time before the US mainstream media struck back against Kim Jong Un’s diversion of Washington’s attention from Iran to North Korea. The war the US hawks want is in the Middle East, where the oil is. On Wednesday, CNN ran a piece that had the effect of linking Iran’s […]

On Tuesday, a 6.1 magnitude earthquake hit Kaki, 80 km from Bushehr, the site of Iran’s nuclear power generators, which are due to go online in May. The Iranian government and the Russian contractor that built the plants both said that the nuclear plants were unaffected. Aljazeera English reports: Iran is an active seismic zone, […]

Barbara Garson writes at Tomdispatch.com If you had to date the Great Recession, you might say it started in September 2008 when Lehman Brothers vaporized over a weekend and a massive mortgage-based Ponzi scheme began to go down.  By 2008, however, the majority of American workers had already endured a 40-year decline in wages, security, […]

The USG Open Source Center translates or paraphrases Syrian news items on the economy of the war-torn country: Syrian Economic Roundup 01 – 07 Apr 13 Syria — OSC Summary Tuesday, April 9, 2013 Document Type: OSC Summary [Reports selected and rearranged by J.C.] Al-Iqtisadi on 4 April cited the Damascus Chamber of Commerce, saying […]

The intrepid Max Fisher of WaPo reports that Jon Stewart’s Daily Show satire of North Korea’s menacing statements went viral in China, garnering 2.3 million hits! This news seems to me wonderful in every way. That Chinese youth know where to get real news is most excellent. That China’s new President Xi Jinping allowed the […]

A car bomb killed at least 15 persons in downtown Damascus on Monday and wounded over 60. It is not clear if the bombing is a sign of the increased vulnerability of the capital to its guerrilla opposition or instead a sign of desperation on the part of rebels facing a massive and so far […]

Iceland gets 26% of its electricity from geothermal power, and is a pioneer in the industry, such that Kenyan and other scientists go there for training. It has cut its carbon emissions almost to zero, and is even considering attempting to export electricity to the UK. This video surveys Iceland’s geothermal energy production: The US […]

Democracy Now! interviews the Iceland member of parliament, access to whose twitter account was summarily demanded by the US government because of her involvement in Wikileaks and whistleblowing on US actions in Iraq. Icelandic Lawmaker Birgitta Jónsdóttir on Challenging Gov’t Secrecy from Twitter to Bradley Manning The blurb: “Icelandic Parliamentarian Birgitta Jónsdóttir played a critical […]