July, 2012 // Posts published in July, 2012
Israeli Spending on Illegal Settlements Hits Two-Decade High of $1.1 Billion
Via Allison Deger at Mondoweiss: “Haaretz reported settlement spending has skyrocketed by 38% since 2010,reaching a two-decade high of $1.1 billion. Historically this level of funding was surpassed only once in 1993 during the post-Oslo boom in Israeli control over the West Bank.” Earlier this month, I wrote of an Associated Press report detailing the dramatic ...
Sudan: Hand Over Bush and Blair, And We’ll Hand Over Omar Bashir
CNN’s Christiane Amanpour asked Sudan’s Ambassador to the UK, Abdullahi Alazreg on Monday whether Sudan will hand over the country’s president, Omar al-Bashir, who has been indicted for war crimes by the International Criminal Court. Alazreg responded by saying that Sudan is “willing to hand over whomever, provided that America hands over Bush and the United ...
Romney Roils Middle East Waters With Diversions from U.S. Policy and Insults to Palestinians
Mitt Romney’s 36-hour stop in Israel lasted long enough for him to add a new set of gaffes and missteps to his itinerary for this foreign trip designed to showcase his foreign policy chops. Yesterday, I outlined a series of misadventures for the Mitt which included a Dan Senor-initiated embrace of a unilateral Israeli strike ...
Ron Paul: Audit the Fed Moves Forward!
Last week the House of Representatives overwhelmingly passed my legislation calling for a full and effective audit of the Federal Reserve. Well over 300 of my Congressional colleagues supported the bill, each casting a landmark vote that marks the culmination of decades of work. We have taken a big step toward bringing transparency to the ...
US Interventionism in Somalia Grows
Earlier this month, the UN Security Council Committee Chairman issued a letter warning against the increased use of drones over the skies of Somalia, saying such actions may violate international law. Excerpt: The number of reports concerning the use of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) in Somalia in 2011-12 has increased in comparison with previous mandates. ...
Does Wolfowitz Actually Believe US Proxy War in Syria Will Bring Democracy?
Paul Wolfowitz, sort of the Don of neoconservatism, still believes US aggression in the Middle East can proliferate democracy: Wolfowitz just lets the question about post-war chaos and sectarianism wash over him. Iraq and Syria are different, he says. Actually, they’re quite similar.The sectarian make-up of the country is similar, the fact that Sunni extremists ...
Empty Seats and Empty Minds at the Olympics
The British Olympic organizers restricted ticket purchases, rewarded corporate purchases but not corporate use, imposed price controls on tickets available to the public and state violence against the resulting scalpers (touts) — and are distraught and surprised over the empty seats that characterize so many of the Olympic events so far. To reduce the embarrassment ...
SPECIAL REPORT: The Recently Revealed Mayan Alien Artifacts
ALIENS, LIES AND VIDEOTAPE Recently there has been a substantial amount of skeptical interest in what appears to be full disclosure from the Mexican government in regards to never before seen Mayan artifacts clearly depicting aliens and spacecraf...
Ackerman on Obama and the Rule of Law
Via Glenn Greenwald, Bruce Ackerman on Obama and the rule of law:
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