Ron Fullwood
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Attack Of The Land-grabbers: The Race For Land In Africa
Multinational corporations are part of a new scramble for Africa: taking land from subsistence farmers but this time with support of African governments. → Read More
Did Russia Commit The Sony Hack & Frame North Korea?
David Seaton argues that Russia had the motivation and the means to attack Sony to highlight the weakness of American capitalism. → Read More
Above The Law: The Invasion Of Panama & The World's Lone Superpower
20 years after the George H.W. Bush's brutal invasion, a look at how it helped the US appear untouchable and immune to international law. → Read More
Mining The Earth & Fracking The World: Spooning Up The Waste
Kate’s collects the top mining, fracking and environmental news from around the world including: Bangladesh: Villagers “using spoons, sponges and shovels” are trying to mop up 77,000 gallons of oil unleashed in an area that is a UNESCO World Heritage Site. A Padma Oil Co. tanker collided with a cargo ship. Oil has spread “across 50 miles of rivers and canals.” Padma is paying the locals for… → Read More
Henry Miller’s “Air Conditioned Nightmare:” Battle Cry Against The Coming Nuclear Order
When Henry Miller (1891-1980) returned from France to America in 1939, he was quick to identify air conditioning as both a metaphor and a real cause of a lamentable degradation of life. His first writing upon his return, published as “The Air Conditioned Nightmare” in 1945, was based on his road trip across America in 1939. Looking at this book from the 21st century, it is surprising to read his… → Read More
The USA FREEDOM ACT And The Price We Pay for Security
The US Senate voted on a bill that would heavily reform the NSA's methods of data collecting and the protection of privacy in the United States. The USA FREEDOM ACT was to "rein in the dragnet collection by the National Security Agency (NSA) and other government agencies, increase transparency of the Foreign intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC), provide businesses the ability to release… → Read More
Refugee Rights in the Mother of the World: Sudan's Lost Generation
In the wake of regional strife, Cairo has served the Sudanese people as a generational vacuum, displacing educated youth with an unsettled life of perversion and isolation. One young man bounced back and forth between Turkey, and Sudan, while not in Cairo. The youth began to submit falsified testimonies to the bureaucratic infrastructures imposed by NGOs, and UN agencies providing refugee… → Read More
Are There Any Limits On The President's Ability To Wage War?
Americans concerned with our U.S. presidents’ ability to unilaterally wage war have to be shaking their heads. President Obama has authorized war in Iraq and Libya, not only to defend Kurdish civilians besieged in the Iraqi mountains but also against forces in Syrian territories. Attempting to curb this new escalation seems utterly futile. I've been mulling over ways in which someone in America… → Read More
The Door Mat Party
As I was listening to NPR this morning, I heard a voice of reason, a voice of intelligence and decency, booming across the airwaves. This voice wasn’t unfamiliar to me, as I am already a big supporter of the man, but all the same it was an early morning blessing to hear Sen. Bernie Sanders on the air. At any rate, the focus of Sanders’ rant this morning was the epic failure of the Democratic… → Read More
The Truth About The Marshall Plan
For years, politicians and commentators have said that their policies are just like the Marshall Plan, officially called the European Recovery Program (E.R.P.), in order to tout their polices as positive. Just a few examples: Al Gore called for a “global Marshall Plan” to combat global warming in 1993; writers for the Worldwatch Institute called a “Marshall Plan” to advance human security and… → Read More
Famous Kiwi Radio Host Invites #Roastbusters Rapists To "Call In and Defend Yourselves"
File: A sign at Slutwalk London, 2011. (Roga Muffin / Flickr) Yet again the corporate media is traumatising the victims of sexual abuse and sexual assault, #Roastbusters, Andrea Creighton, Aotearoa, Avondale, Beraiah Hales, corporate media, Dominion Post, Erin Gloria Ryan, Hone Harawira, J.R. Murphy, Jan Logie, Jezebel, Lauda Finem, mainstream media, Mandy Hager, Maori, MSM, neoliberalism, New… → Read More
Drilling Deeper: New Report Casts Doubt on Fracking Production Numbers
Post Carbon Institute has published a report and multiple related resources calling into question the production statistics touted by promoters of hydraulic fracturing (“fracking”). By calculating the production numbers on a well-by-well basis for shale gas and tight oil fields throughout the U.S., Post Carbon concludes that the future of fracking is not nearly as bright as industry cheerleaders… → Read More
America’s Protection Racket In Iraq: We Never Learn (Part 2)
The vast majority of Americans never had to sacrifice a thing for Bush's wars. Opposing it was to oppose Bush, anti-war was just a political abstraction. There was mass slaughter of Iraqis -- and American journalists died, as well, in Bush's Iraq war. Still we called on him to just end it. Not this time around, though. Where's the anti-war principle? Where are the anti-war values? Where did… → Read More
From Campfire to Computer Screen: Ghost Stories Evolve for the 21st Century
With the Autumn season upon us, we arrive at that great holiday where spooks, ghosts, and goblins rule the night. Of course, what fall season is complete without Halloween? Halloween, where we actually celebrate imaginary horrors of all sorts. One of the most interesting traditions of Halloween is the telling of a story, whether it was in front of a campfire or in sitting in a circle with a… → Read More
How The Islamic State (& The Mainstream Media) Lies About Islam
The past few months have seen ISIS used as a basis to vilify Islam through a variation of methods. The most prominent of which has been an insinuated animosity between Islam and Christianity. Especially by professing such animosity is rooted in Quranic teaching. As a person who has studied Islam my whole life, I can confirm that this is complete and utter nonsense. Christians and Jews are among… → Read More
Did "Britishness" Become Meaningless After The Scottish Referendum?
Beyond the triumphalism of the British mainstream media, beneath the jubilation of the London politicians, the last rites of “Britishness” may be taking place. The percentage margin of victory for the pro-British Union in the Scottish independence referendum belies any notion of a comfortably united British, so-called “United Kingdom.” Scots were clearly galvanised to the tune of a remarkable… → Read More
Fury At Prison Death Of Ghulam Azam
Professor Ghulam Azam, founder of Jamaat-e-Islami in Bangladesh died in a prison hospital last Thursday. His family and lawyer who had been campaigning for the unwell 91-year-old to be allowed home are outraged at the conditions in which he died. Azam's funeral took place on Saturday, in Dhaka, with hundreds of thousands of mourners paying their respects. Separate memorials were held in cities… → Read More
America's Perpetual Protection Racket in Iraq (Part 1)
At my most cynical, it's hard not to feel like we're subject and victim to a perpetual protection racket where our nation's past military misadventures in the Mideast and Asia are primed and positioned to spark and erupt into sectarian violence in concert with each other, just to keep the U.S. military in the protection business. The United States stirs up trouble then promises to protect… → Read More
"We Tortured Some Folks!" Does Obama Think We're Idiots?
Under the statue of former U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower outside the U.S embassy in central London, a protester dressed as 'Guantanamo Bay prison det, 9/11, Barack Obama, CIA, Dianne Feinstein, George W. Bush, John Brennan, Senate Intelligence Committee, torture, torture report, → Read More
Can We Call The Torture Report Redactions A Cover-up? Part 2
Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, foreground left, and CIA Director John Brennan, foreground right, take their seats on Capitol Hill in Wash, ACLU, al-Qaida, Amrit Singh, Barack Obama, CIA, Detention and Interrogation Program, Dianne Feinstein, George W. Bush, h: Abu Zubaydah, Jay Rockefeller, John Brennan, Leon Panetta, Marcy Wheeler, Michael Hayden, New York Times, Senate… → Read More