The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
WAR POWERS ACT Is Obama above the law By GEORGE F. WILL Miami Herald, 05.30.11 The U.S. intervention in Libya’s civil war, intervention that began with a surplus of confusion about capabilities and a shortage of candor about objectives, is now taking a toll on the rule of law. In a bipartisan cascade of hypocrisies, …
From a senior engineer of Iranian descent often in Iran: The view from within Iran is that, “help us get rid of this regime”, people are even willing to welcome an all out air assault if it ends up with an eventual regime change , move to secularize, and early stages of democracy. I do not see …
Continue reading “Inside Iran — Young, Impoverished, & Restless”
AU demands end to NATO Libya strikes India calls for immediate cessation of hostilities in Libya NATO launches fourth night of Libyan strikes Phi Beta Iota: We consider the attacks on Tripoli to be outrageously illegal and immoral by every standard. There is every reason for the non-NATO world to bring war crime charges against …
BRICS’ open revolt against European grip on IMF Narayan Lakshman The Hindu, 26 May 2011 Paris: The International Monetary Fund’s Executive Directors from the BRICS economies have openly revolted against the prospect of the Fund’s Managing Director role reverting to a European, deepening the woes of an organisation that was recently rocked to its very …
NATO: A Feast of Blood From Tripoli, 24 May 2011 With that as background [moved to end of post], last night’s NATO rocket attack on Tripoli is inexplicable. A civilian metropolitan area of around 2 million people, Tripoli sustained 22 to 25 bombings last night, rattling and breaking windows and glass and shaking the foundation …
Continue reading “Cynthia McKinney from Tripoli: NATO War Crimes”
The Role of Facebook in Disaster Response Posted on May 22, 2011 by Patrick Meier| I recently met up with Facebook colleagues Simon Axten and Matt Perault to discuss the role that they and their platform might play in disaster response. So I thought I’d share some thoughts that come up during the conversation seeing as …
Continue reading “The Role of Facebook in Disaster Response”
Sacrificial Crowds and Radical Power: A Meditation by Justin Rogers-Cooper, 19 May 2011 Advocate (CUNY Graduate Center) In early January the BBC reported that Mohammad Bouazazi, a Tunisian college graduate who illegally sold fruits and vegetables in Sidi Bouzid, had died from his self-inflicted burns. He had set himself on fire by dousing his body with petrol …
Continue reading “Reflections on Tyranny versus Crowd Power”
