Syria: Obama And Clinton’s War for Natural Gas?
Now that President Obama has given in to Hilary Clinton, Bill Clinton and John McCain and announced that he will send US weapons to the rebels in Syria, it is important to look one of the under-reported subjects of the war: natural gas. Specifically, natural gas from the South Pars/North Dome reserves, the largest in [...]
RI Activist Helps Syrians Transition To Democracy
As a brutal revolution rages in Syria, the ancient city of Aleppo is the most deadly front in his civil-war and likely the most dangerous place in the world. On Sunday, 16 people were reportedly killed when the government fired a missile at an apartment building (video here), and 79 executed bodies were pulled from [...]
Super Bowl Ad Nixed, But For Wrong Reasons
SodaStream manufactures devices to make carbonated beverages at home and the company intended to run an ad for their contraption during the Super Bowl. But apparently CBS turned them down because Coke-a-Cola and Pepsi objected to the competition. (Update: A Sodastream ad did air during the game) But SodaStream is not only a threat to [...]
Obama’s Circumstantial Compassion For Victims
After the horrific Dec. 14 massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School, President Obama could not hold back his tears. He went to Newtown to comfort families of the victims. And at a memorial service he solemnly read off the names of the 20 children and six teachers who were killed. But he has never read [...]
A Palestinian in the Knesset
Haneen Zoabi is a Palestinian who was elected to the Israeli Knesset in 2009. Israel often reminds us of the rights it grants to “Arab Israelis,” avoiding the word “Palestinian.” In 2010 Ms. Zoabi was on the Turkish ship Mavi Marmara in the international flotilla carrying humanitarian supplies for Gaza. She witnessed the assault on [...]
Is the Democratic Peace Theory An Oxymoron?
Occasionally, you’ll see some politician (for example, former UK Prime Minister Tony Blair) make the assertion that no two democratic nations have ever gone to war. I know that I’m hardly one to criticize the former Prime Minister of the entire United Kingdom, but I’ll criticize democratic peace theory (DPT), nonetheless. The problem with DPT [...]
Israel’s Policies Similar to South African Apartheid
Severe civilian death tolls in the siege of Gaza and calls for war with Iran by Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu call attention to the reality of the Apartheid state imposed by Israel on the Palestinian people. The existence of Apartheid was verified recently in a poll of 503 Jewish Israelis published by Haaretz, of which [...]
Our ‘Special Relationship’ With England Is A Relic
“We are part of an Anglo-Saxon heritage, and he feels that the special relationship is special… The White House didn’t fully appreciate the shared history we have,” said an anonymous adviser to Mitt Romney, about the candidate to The Telegraph of Britain. When this quote appeared ahead of Mitt Romney’s disastrous foreign policy outing, it [...]
Iran: the Progressive War?
Iran 2012: Iraq 2003 All Over Again? presented the neoliberal case for the imposition of economic sanctions on Iran. The panel was moderated by Karen Finney and consisted of Democratic strategist Bob Creamer, Alireza Nader from the Rand Corporation, National Security Network executive director Heather Hurlburt, and Rhode Island’s own Senator Jack Reed. Reed was [...]
OP protests Pfizer, ALEC joining 7 N.E. Occupies
Despite the cold rainy weather, about a half a dozen Occupy Providence members took part in the #F29 Shut Down the Corporations at Pfizer in Groton, CT. The national action was called by Occupy Portland to protest members of ALEC, the American Legislative Exchange Council, a front group that writes model pro-corporate legislation. The coordinated [...]
Apple: The Company No American Should Be Proud Of
When most Americans think of Apple, they think of the hip commercials, the latest must have gadgets, and the industry leading innovation. What most do not realize is the untold story of how Apple has perfected stealing the seeds of American ingenuity and harvesting them under a complex system of third world slave labor. Throughout [...]
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