US politics

Wochit News | (Video report) | – – “New York Sen. Chuck Schumer, the No. 3 Senate Democrat, is breaking with President Barack Obama and will oppose the Iran nuclear deal. Schumer made the announcement late Thursday night. The move is a blow to the Obama administration, which has lobbied hard for the international accord […]

Japan

Hiroshima and Nagasaki: the single greatest acts of terrorism in human history?

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by Akil Awan | (The New Statesman) – – Surely 70 years is long enough for us to put to rest the tired canard of the atomic bombings on Japan being “the lesser of the two evils”, and recognise the true gravity of this crime against humanity. Seventy years ago today, the Unites States dropped […]

Barack Obama

Obama: Opponents of Iran Deal are Warmongers

Juan Cole

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Lame duck Obama pulls no punches. In his major address Wednesday on the Vienna deal reached with Iran, Obama let his critics have it. I take it he has done the math and knows that the Republicans in the House and possibly the Senate will reject […]

Climate Change

Deep South, biggest Climate Deniers, will be among worst hit by Global Warming

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Tan Copsy | ( Risky Business) | – – Atlanta, Georgia – The Southeastern United States and Texas are uniquely at risk from climate change, according to a new report by the Risky Business Project – a non-partisan initiative chaired by Hank Paulson, Michael R. Bloomberg, and Tom Steyer. The report finds that across the […]

Campaign Finance

Could Scott Walker’s Legal Victory Expand PAC Superpowers?

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By Robert Faturechi | (ProPublica) – – A Wisconsin Supreme Court ruling on Gov. Scott Walker’s campaign practices clears the way for state candidates to work more closely with legally independent political groups and their enormous war chests. The big unanswered question is how ripples from the case might spread beyond the state’s borders. The […]

Featured

How Likely are the GOP Presidential Candidates Top 10 to drag us into War?

Juan Cole

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Fox Cable News announced its pick for the 10 Republican presidential candidates it will allow in its Thursday debate. These are candidates who are getting at least 3% support in a basket of opinion polls, including one commissioned by Fox itself. CNN will follow a similar […]

Japan

How Dropping the A-Bomb on Japan initiated the Military-Industrial Complex

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By Michael Hiltzik | (Author, Big Science) | – – This summer — August 6 and 9, to be precise — marks the 70th anniversary of the nuclear bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Seven decades on, the social, political, and moral implications of birth of the nuclear age still are widely and bitterly debated. Indeed, […]

Foreign Policy

Support for Iran Nuclear Deal: L. A. Jews for Peace Statement

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L.A. Jews for Peace | The agreement negotiated between the P5+1 (United States, United Kingdom, France, Russia, China, Germany, and the European Union) and Iran is a good deal because it diplomatically achieves a halt to Iran’s real or imagined nuclear bomb program for ten to fifteen years . It offers assurances based on the […]

Islamic State of Iraq and Syria

Russia Condemns US Mission Creep, New Bombing Plans for Syria

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Russia Today | (Video Report) | – – Editorial note: Russia Today is an organ of the Russian government, so this report is not independent, critical analysis. On the other hand, Russia is a player in Syria and what it thinks is important, and US media tend not to report outside-the-Beltway points of view. Just […]