In recent months, the uprising in Syria has become bloodier and bloodier. In the beginning, in spring and summer of 2011, the crowds were largely peaceful. The Baath regime of Bashar al-Assad responded by placing snipers on rooftops of tall buildings and having them fire randomly into the protesting crowds. They would kill 5-10 people […]
Top Ten Pieces of Bad News for Romney on Eve of Convention
1. Ron Paul declined the opportunity to speak at the Republican Convention because he does not “fully support” Mr. Romney. Paul as the leader of the Libertarian wing of the party and as someone who appeals to youth may just have done some damage, fomenting division at Tampa in Republican ranks. 2. Romney staffers were […]
Plot to Provoke war with Iran thwarted by Navy analyst
Shorter WaPo: In spring of 2007, someone in the Bush administration (unindicted co-conspirator Richard Bruce Cheney? Neocons?) Sends uber hawk Vice Admiral Kevin J. Cosgriff to Oil Gulf with instructions to provoke a war with Iran. He allegedly toys with challenging Iran’s claim to half of the Shatt al-Arab. He certainly decided abruptly to bring […]
Tampa Area Republicans terrified of Tea Party, Ryan (Guzzo)
Paul Guzzo writes in a guest column for Informed Comment: As Republicans from all over the nation converge upon the City of Tampa to celebrate the Grand Old Party’s present, Hillsborough County, Florida-based Republicans seem to be more concerned with the party’s future. The Tea Party Movement was supposed to provide the GOP with the […]
South Africa: Label West Bank Squatter Products; Israel: You Apartheid State!
Having Avigdor Lieberman as a foreign minister is one of the worst things that could happen to Israel. I was in Brazil last year this time when Lieberman visited, and parliamentarians were saying they would not meet with him because they consider him a racist. He has a long record of saying offensive and chauvinist […]
Just Deserts: Iraqis get Iraq’s Oil, not Bush/Cheney (Muttitt)
Gregg Muttitt writes at Tomdispatch: Mission Accomplished for Big Oil? How an American Disaster Paved the Way for Big Oil’s Rise — and Possible Fall — in Iraq By Greg Muttitt In 2011, after nearly nine years of war and occupation, U.S. troops finally left Iraq. In their place, Big Oil is now present in […]
Top Five Worst Planks in GOP Platform
These are the promises that the Republican Party is making to us if it wins: 1. Outlawing abortion altogether, with no exceptions for the life and health of the mother, incest or rape. 2. Preventing the Department of Homeland Security from monitoring far right-wing hate groups (Republican House majority leader John Boehner said that the […]
Syrian Official: Resignation of al-Assad on the Table
Admittedly, the Baathist government of Bashar al-Assad could go on faltering for a long time. And it is very hard to know what is going on inside Syria, since few journalists are allowed in and those who sneak in are operating under very diificult conditions and are sometimes killed by the regime, whether deliberately or […]
Hurricane Isaac may Threaten RNC convention of Climate-Change Deniers in Tampa
Hurricane season comes every year in the Mexican Gulf, so it is no real surprise that a tropical depression in the Atlantic may well turn into Hurricane Isaac, and that it in turn may menace the Republican convention in Tampa, as attendees gather this weekend. The party has contingency plans were that to happen. But […]
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