Bellicosity and Hypocrisy in Tel Aviv
Lies of Aggression
By PAUL CRAIG ROBERTS
On May 15, the White House Moron, in a war-planning visit to Israel, justified the naked aggression he and Olmert are planning against Iran as the only alternative to “the false comfort of appeasement, which has been repeatedly discredited by history.” Read the rest of this entry »
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Published on Friday, May 16, 2008 by the McClatchy Newspapers
Propaganda and the Media
by Joseph L. Galloway
Once upon a time, it was widely believed that one of the greatest sins the U.S. government or its temporary political masters could commit was to turn a propaganda machine loose on the American people.
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Published on Friday, May 16, 2008 by The Nation
Regime-Quakes in Burma and China
by Naomi Klein
When news arrived of the catastrophic earthquake in Sichuan, my mind turned to Zheng Sun Man, an up-and-coming security executive I met on a recent trip to China. Zheng heads Aebell Electrical Technology, a Guangzhou-based company that makes surveillance cameras and public address systems and sells them to the government.
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Exposure in the womb to common chemicals used to make everything from
plastic bottles to pizza box liners may program a person to become
obese later in life, U.S. researchers said on Wednesday.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080514/sc_nm/obesity_chemicals_dc;_ylt=AuAfiia0B2DYRXDZxnywjOAhANEA
Genetic differences may explain why white men have a higher prostate
cancer risk than Hispanic men, information which may help doctors
identify men who are more likely to develop the disease, U.S.
researchers say.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/05/15/AR2008051502365.html
Using a rope treadmill, researchers have revealed that tiny species
use no more energy climbing vertically than they do walking on the
ground, a find that bolsters theories about the earliest primates.
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/05/080515-primates-climb.html
Rather than just six, a group of tropical flies contains at least 52
species, suggesting that tropical environments are even more diverse
than thought
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn13913-dna-tests-open-a-pandoras-box-of-flies.html
Achieving sexual climax requires a complex conspiracy of sensory and
psychological signals—and the eventual silencing of critical brain areas
http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=the-orgasmic-mind
From R-G
by Robert Scheer
truthdig.com (May 13 2008)
Ah, yes, those torture confessions have proved so useful. Read the rest of this entry »
From R-G
Big Oil Strike in Brazil has Tongues Wagging, but We Continue Towards
Peak Oil
By Pedro Prieto, Tlaxcala. Posted May 7, 2008.
Since the 1980’s, the world has discovered less oil than it has consumed
every year.
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Here’s what’s new at SocialistWorker.org…
http://socialistworker.org
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Are There Just Too Many People in the World?
by Johann Hari
This is a column I don’t want to write. Its subject is ugly; it makes me instinctively recoil. I have chastised people who bring it up at environmentalist meetings. The people who talk about it obsessively have often been callous about human life, and consistently proved wrong throughout history. And yet… there is a grain of insight in what they say.
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Published on Thursday, May 15, 2008 by Rolling Stone
China’s All-Seeing Eye
With the help of U.S. defense contractors, China is building the prototype for a high-tech police state. It is ready for export.
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OR: Can you talk about how the individualizing of obesity and health
problems is problematic? Read the rest of this entry »
The Palestinian Poltergeist
Rethinking Israel After 60 Years
By JEFF HALPER
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From R-G
As the first anniversary of 9/11 approached, and a prized Guantánamo
detainee wouldn’t talk, the Bush administration’s highest-ranking
lawyers argued for extreme interrogation techniques, circumventing
international law, the Geneva Conventions, and the army’s own Field
Manual. The attorneys would even fly to Guantánamo to ratchet up the
pressure - then blame abuses on the military. Philippe Sands follows the
torture trail, and holds out the possibility of war crimes charges.
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From R-G
Worried About the Price of Gas? End the Wars
Oil Wars
By ISMAEL HOSSEIN-ZADEH
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A major medical row will erupt this month when scientists and health
experts hold two key meetings to discuss the controversial subject of
marriages between cousins and their impact on health in Britain.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2008/may/11/genetics.medicalresearch
Doom-mongers claim the first steps have been taken towards ‘enhanced
designer babies’ — but are we really marching towards eugenics?
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn13879-comment-here-come-the-designer-babies.html
Conservative bioethics’ latest, most dangerous ploy.
http://www.tnr.com/story_print.html?id=d8731cf4-e87b-4d88-b7e7-f5059cd0bfbd
The Real News May 13th, 2008
Making a killing from the food crisis
Devlin Kuyek: “Right now Cargill is making approximately $471,000 an
hour in profits.” Read the rest of this entry »
by Mostafa Omar
International Socialist Review
ISR Issue 57, January–February 2008
Review of:
Ilan Pappé, The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine
(OneWorld Publications, 2006, paper 2007)
320 pages, $15 (paper)
by Uri Avnery
Antiwar.com (May 07 2008)
Every time I hear the voice of David Ben-Gurion uttering the words
“Therefore we are gathered here …” I think of Issar Barsky, a charming
youngster, the little brother of a girlfriend of mine.
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Embassy, May 14th, 2008
NEWS STORY
Washington Tarsand Ad Campaigns Throw Mud
While the Alberta government is preparing to launch a $25-million
advertising campaign, environmental groups have already sprung into
action. Read the rest of this entry »