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Who buys our debt and are they just shells for the Fed?
Tariq Ali: "I can't see the old way of reproducing a political party of the left, modeled on the Republican and Democratic structures, as working. These people only work with money. They do not even speak with very many ordinary people. It is credit-card democracy. The left cannot and should not emulate this. America is the hardest nut to crack, but unless it is cracked we are doomed."
By David Swanson
Admit that torture does not work The popularity and acceptability of torture have soared in the United States and around the world. This is not simply because the United States has tortured. The U.S. government, many of its policies, its wars, and key torture supporters have not seen similar boosts in popularity.
By Tom Engelhardt
Engelhardt: The Ten Commandments for a Better American World I wish I knew your name. I've been thinking about you, about all of us actually and our country, and meaning to write for a while to explain myself. Let me start this way: you should feel free to call me an American nationalist. It may sound ugly as hell, but it's one way I do think of myself.
Elizabeth Warren is clearly getting on the Administration's nerves.
Scientists have captured the first detailed microscopy images of ultra-small bacteria that are believed to be about as small as life can get. The existence of ultra-small bacteria has been debated for two decades, but there hasn't been a comprehensive electron microscopy and DNA-based description of the microbes until now. The cells have an average volume of 0.009 cubic microns (one micron is one millionth of a meter). About 150 of these bacteria could fit inside an Escherichia coli cell and more than 150,000 cells could fit onto the tip of a human hair. The scientists also discovered just how much there is yet to learn about ultra-small life. "We don't know the function of half the genes we found in the organisms from these three phyla." This is the smallest a cell can be and still accommodate enough material to sustain life.
Adding to the chorus of protest over President Obama's push for a controversial new trade pact with Asia, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) sounded off on the Trans-Pacific Partnership and accused mainstream media of not covering what could be one of the biggest trade agreements in history.
Bill O'Reilly is the worst sort of trash. He is the sort of trash that is consciously built. He has worked without rest at creating an oeuvre and persona built entirely on the ravaging and profaning of his occupation. He is, whether one considers him one or not, a journalist. He is the ultimate Anti-American.
The BRICS New Development Bank (NDB) -- a key alternative to the IMF enabling developing nations to get rid of the US dollar as a reserve currency -- will be operative by the end of this year. The NDB will finance infrastructure and sustainable development projects not only in the BRICS nations but other developing nations.
James Bonnet shares his ideas on story. I love his work.
Examining our priorities and national focus. There is more to us than some of the things on which we choose to debate.
Have you ever wondered what the No. 1 song in the country was on your date of birth? Okay, probably not, but it's still fun to find out!
This article clearly shows how the psychological use of "We, Our and Us" forms the psyche of the Muslim mind to believe they are commanded by Allah. It creates a feeling of unity with the Creator and the compulsion to impose this unity on all people with the altruistic belief that they are promoting the integration of mankind with the Creator.
Scientists at the San Diego Zoo Safari Park are looking at new ways to breathe life into critically endangered animals. They're collecting samples from thousands of creatures, including rhinos, teetering on the brink of extinction, reports CBS News correspondent John Blackstone. Meet Chutti, a scampering baby rhino who was born on Thanksgiving. His name means "holiday" and he's one of 68 greater one-horned rhinos bred at Safari Park, increasing the numbers of this endangered species to around 3,000 worldwide. Hope hangs on a futuristic technology. It's a complex procedure where skin cells become stem cells, which then become egg and sperm necessary for in-vitro fertilization. The embryo would be carried by a surrogate mom from a related species. "If we don't do something as a human species, our grandchildren and great grandchildren will never see these animals."
Spectacular insights into the early life of galaxies
Astronomers at the Very Large Telescope have taken the best 3D-pictures of the early universe ever. They discovered objects emitting so little light that the Hubble Telescope could not find them. The resulting pictures are considered a milestone in cosmology. Researchers found a lot of valuable information in them, helping them to check previous theories and models like the question whether the universe really looks the same everywhere. And indeed: The pictures showed many galaxies of similar shapes and colors. Theoretically, everything that we see today developed out of a hot, homogenous gas. That includes stars and galaxies like our Milky Way. Soon after the Big Bang, dark matter triggered the compression of that gas into matter as we know it today. This will help scientists to understand what was happening when these galaxies were born.
Tough or as inconvenient as it may be, one can live without money. But you can't live without energy. In short, money at its core is a proxy for energy.
This week Republican lawyers will be busy arguing two important cases before the Supreme Court. On Monday, they hope to strike another blow at our dying democracy. The plan for Wednesday is to take another whack at killing the ACA, or Obamacare.
On Wednesday, the Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in one of the most anticipated cases of the term: King v. Burwell, a marvel of reverse-engineered legal absurdity that, if successful, will tear a huge hole in the Affordable Care Act and eliminate health insurance for millions of lower-income Americans -- exactly the opposite of what the law was passed to do.
By William Dunkerley
Tragedy of Nemtsov's Death Hijacked by Denigrators of Putin Russian anti-corruption activist gunned down. Putin enemies seize opportunity to malign Putin's rule.
If the Russian investigation discovers CIA involvement, the Russian government will keep it quiet. The audacity of Washington murdering a washed-up Russian politician in order to blame the Russian government bespeaks of war. Putin, unlike Washington, does not want war.
Anyone pointing out that arming the regime in Kiev would strengthen fascists and neo-Nazis is instantly accused of being a Putin propagandist: exactly like those arguing that the best anti-Assad fighters were al-Qaeda-affiliated were accused of being Assad propagandists (until that became the official position of the US Government).
With the December 17, 2014 announcement of opening of diplomatic relations between the United States and Cuba, removing Cuba from the State Sponsored Terrorism List is the next logical step followed by lifting the onerous restrictions of the U.S. Blockade of Cuba. But logic has not been a part of U.S. geo-political dealings with Cuba.
This article contrasts how others, namely Iceland, dealt with their large banks who brought on the world recession of 2008. The treatment and attitude towards the large banks is contrasted with the supplicant view of the large banks in this country.
Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro announced a new mandatory visa requirement for all Americans visiting the country. The leader also called to review and downsize the number of US embassy staff in Caracas. Also, George W. Bush, Dick Cheney and Republican Congress members Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, Robert Menendez, and Marco Rubio will be denied visas into the country. He labeled Bush and Cheney as "terrorists."
By Timothy McGettigan
Let Them Eat Cake! CSU-Pueblo Wins Football Championship - Boasts Students and Faculty too Poor to Buy Food CSU-Pueblo President Lesley DiMare congratulates students for establishing Pack Pantry, a food relief program for faculty, students, and staff who can't afford groceries. DiMare gratefully accepted a year-end salary bonus in 2014 while many of her students and employees went hungry. Latest Articles
In the recent context of political and media destabilization facing Djibouti, and a few days before the verdict of the court actions in London of the State of Djibouti against the businessman Abdurahman Boreh, this article offers an analysis of this situation
Third Annual HBCU Climate Change Conference to Be Held in New Orleans March 26-29
A consortium of historically black colleges and universities, led by Dillard University's Deep South Center for Environmental Justice and Texas Southern University Barbara Jordan-Mickey Leland School of Public Affairs, will host the Third Annual HBCU Student Climate Change Conference March 26-29,2015 in New Orleans, Louisiana.
Why We Still Need a Selma
One week after Alabama state troopers bludgeoned civil rights demonstrators on the Edmund Pettus Bridge outside Selma on March 7, 1965 a visibly shaken Lyndon Johnson called for and addressed a joint session of Congress. His message was clear. His administration would pull out all stops to pass a voting rights bill which was the objective of the Selma marches.  Best News Links from the Web
The United States is in the final stages of negotiating the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), a massive free-trade agreement with Mexico, Canada, Japan, Singapore and seven other countries. Who will benefit from the TPP? American workers? Consumers? Small businesses? Taxpayers? Or the biggest multinational corporations in the world? One strong hint is buried in the fine print of the closely guarded draft. If a final TPP agreement includes Investor-State Dispute Settlement, the only winners will be multinational corporations.
She was on her way home from a visit to her parents in a remote corner of eastern Afghanistan with her children by her side and a small group of women. Two men, their faces covered by kaffiyehs, pulled up on a motor scooter. "Who is Parveena, daughter of Sardar?" said one, looking at the group of women, their faces hidden behind blue burqas. No one answered. One of the men took his Kalashnikov and used the muzzle to lift the burqa of the nearest woman -- in conservative Afghan society, a gesture akin to undressing her in public. It was Parveena, who like many Afghans used only one name. She grabbed the muzzle, according to her father and her brother, and said, "Who is asking?" But the gunmen had seen her face, and they fired 11 bullets into her.
The American conservative movement has devolved into self-parody. That was clearly evident on Friday, when Duck Dynasty reality TV star, Phil Robertson, was handed a microphone and given a prominent speaking slot on stage at the CPAC convention. In his long, and often barely coherent speech, the Duck Commander warned the audience that America was becoming sick from sexually transmitted diseases and that wherever Jesus is missing, territorial conquest and murder ensue. He counseled the GOP presidential candidates, to "carry your Bible with you and your woman." There is a reason Robertson was invited to take the stage at CPAC. While his delivery may be unique, his views are not on the fringe of the Republican Party, they are part of the GOP mainstream. That should concern all of us.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's upcoming address to a joint meeting of Congress will probably be the most important speech of his career -- and one that has already jeopardized relations between Israel and the United States. On Tuesday morning, Netanyahu will confront an American president and insist that the future of the State of Israel, and the world, is imperiled by a pending "bad deal" with Iran on its nuclear program. On Tuesday morning, as Secretary of State John F. Kerry meets with his counterparts in Switzerland to try to complete a framework accord with Iran by the end of March, Netanyahu will stand at the lectern in Congress to tell Americans, essentially, that President Obama is either foolhardy or weak and about to sign a deal with the devil.
"NEGOTIATING" THE END OF UTLA? - Lenny Isenberg; Perdaily
Below are several rules that equally apply to good poker playing and good United Teachers Los Angeles (UTLA) union teacher representation and negotiations with Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) administration. Break these rules in either poker or the present union negotiations and the results could be disastrous. 1. Never sit down at a poker game that's too rich for your blood.2. Don't telegraph to the opposition what cards you are holding.3. Don't bluff the opposition in either poker or negotiations, unless you are willing to follow through with what you have threatened with a reasonable likelihood of succeeding.And in the present salary negotiations between UTLA and LAUSD there is something far greater at stake than whether or not teachers get paid more, after years of no salary or cost of living increase. What is also at stake- and yet remains unacknowledged- is the likelihood that if UTLA calls a strike that it will not be able to sustain or enforce it. This could very well destroy what remains of an already demoralized union rank and file- and with it the very existence of UTLA that has stood by for years while LAUSD has put the prerequisites for this final solution in place.
While Rand Paul is still popular in the CPAC hall, his extended moment as the lead act in that particular hootenanny finally may have passed. Folks are up there wanting to get their war on, and the laptop bombardiers in the audience are lapping it up. (This shebeen is in the market for any photo of the audience taken at that moment when Princess Dumbass of the Northwoods asked for all the veterans in the house to stand.) This is the inevitable second act of that drama -- that our troops were hamstrung by civilians and kept from achieving "final victory," whatever the hell that was supposed to be. The fact that there wouldn't be an Islamic State had we not by our blundering allowed it to be born in Iraq will be drowned out by however it is that you say Dolchstosslegende in Arabic. It will be ugly. And it will be heard.
In his book Globalization and Its Discontents former World Bank economist Joseph Stiglitz details the ignominious history of IMF 'structural adjustment' programs inflicted around the globe in the 1990s. While the IMF has admitted that economic austerity is both theoretically flawed and socially destructive it remains a core IMF policy and is currently being forced on peripheral Europe.
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