US and allies ramp up plans for military intervention in Syria By Chris Marsden; 30 April 2012 – WSWShttp://www.wsws.org/articles/2012/apr2012/syri-a30.shtml Accusations that the Syrian government is either wholly or mainly responsible for breaches of the United Nations’ ceasefire are meant to provide a pretext for military intervention by the imperialist powers and their proxies. The US [...]

What’s Next for Libya? – by Stephen Lendman NATO’s “responsibility to protect” (R2P) was subterfuge to wage war. Months of terror bombing left Libya a channel house. Africa’s most developed country was ravaged, not liberated. Protracted struggle continues. Expect it to persist for years. When is war not war? It’s when mass killing and destruction [...]

The Purpose of Education: Social Uplift or Social Control? By Andrew Gavin Marshall This is part 2 of the series, “Class War and the College Crisis.” Originally published at the author’s website: http://www.andrewgavinmarshall.com In Part 1 of this series, I examined the elite assault on education – through the Chamber of Commerce, right-wing think tanks, [...]

Ontario NDP enables savage austerity budget By Carl Bronski; 30 April 2012 – WSWShttp://www.wsws.org/articles/2012/apr2012/onta-a30.shtml This past Tuesday, the social democrats of the Ontario New Democratic Party (ONDP) sat passively in their parliamentary seats and abstained from voting on one of the most vicious, anti-worker budgets ever tabled in the provincial legislature. Holding the balance of [...]

If Transportation Security pat downs at public venues, thousands of drones over the skies of America, and the National Security Agency’s new Echelon-like listening center in Utah weren’t enough to convince you that we’re living in a police state, thenArticle source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/SHTFplan/~3/aktbBWsX_wc/martial-red-zone-in-america-heavily-armed-security-teams-to-patrol-chicago-feds-prepare-for-mass-detentions-evacuation-planning-underway_04302012

The Empire vs. Iran (and Syria): A New World War for a New World Order? By Jooneed Khan; April 27, 2012 – rabble.cahttp://rabble.ca/columnists/2012/04/empire-vs-iran-and-syria… Confronted with a declining World Order it can no longer control, does the West want to re-assert its will through a new world war, which this time would be really global? A [...]

May Day By Noam Chomsky; April 29, 2012 – Znethttp://www.zcommunications.org/may-day-by-noam-chomsky Source: Zuccotti Park Press People seem to know about May Day everywhere except where it began, here in the United States of America. That’s because those in power have done everything they can to erase its real meaning. For example, Ronald Reagan designated what he [...]

Drone Warfare in Yemen – by Stephen Lendman Predator drones sanitize killing on the cheap compared to manned aircraft and ground troops. Teams of remote warriors work far from, and at times, closer to battlefields. Drone pilots operate computer keyboards and multiple monitors. Sensor staff work with them. They handle TV and infrared cameras, as [...]

Daring to Criticize Israel – by Stephen Lendman Addressing this issue responsibly risks rebuke, ostracism, or job loss. For some, it’s a career ender. Scoundrel media writers and broadcasters are vulnerable. So are university professors. Joel Kovel lost his Bard College position for writing books like “Overcoming Zionism” and calling Israel “a machine for the [...]

Detained refugee children suffer behind bars By Jay Fletcher; Sunday, April 29, 2012 – Green Left Weeklyhttp://www.greenleft.org.au/node/50849 A letter written by a 10-year-old girl in detention in Darwin drew national attention on April 24 and voiced the “sad, depressing and hopeless” lives children and young people experience in detention. The note, hand-written in Vietnamese, was [...]

If there exists a single factor that can put enough pressure on the whole of the American economy and force it to crumble under its own weight, it’s the price the average American pays for gas. Extreme up-side gas price swings have preceded seven of the last eight American recessions, most recently in the summer [...]

‘Israel’s Gone Way Beyond Apartheid’ By Jeff Halper and Frank Barat; April 29, 2012 – Znethttp://www.zcommunications.org/israel-s-gone-way-beyond-apar… Source: New Internationalist Frank Barat caught up with Jeff Halper, long-time Israeli peace activist, author and director of the Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions (ICAHD), while he was on a European speaking tour which will take him from the [...]

Russia prepares for a US-Israeli military strike against Iran By Clara Weiss; 28 April 2012 – WSWShttp://www.wsws.org/articles/2012/apr2012/russ-a28.shtml Russia has undertaken intensive preparations during the past few months for a possible military strike by Israel and the United States on Iran. According to recent reports, the Russian General Staff expects a war against Iran this summer, [...]

UC Davis Students and Faculty Face Prison Time for Peaceful Protest Against Bank The pepper spraying of UC Davis students shocked the nation, but the persecution that the Davis Dozen protesters face is far worse. By Mela Heestand; April 27, 2012 – AlterNethttp://www.alternet.org/story/155185/uc_davis_students_and_f… The pepper-spraying of University of California Davis protesters on November 18, 2011 [...]

Deny the British Empire’s Crimes? No, We Ignore Them By George Monbiot; April 28, 2012 – Znethttp://www.zcommunications.org/deny-the-british-empires-crim… Source: The Guardian There is one thing you can say for the Holocaust deniers: at least they know what they are denying. In order to sustain the lies they tell, they must engage in strenuous falsification. To dismiss [...]

Redemption of the White Liberal By Herb Dyer; April 28th, 2012 – Dissident Voicehttp://dissidentvoice.org/2012/04/redemption-of-the-white-li… As I came of age in the mid-60’s during the thick of the Civil Rights and Black Power Movements, great debates raged over when, whether, and how so-called “white liberals” could or should contribute to our cause. White clergy held prominent [...]

Legalizing Inside and Criminalizing Women Outside In a ruling handed down on March 26, 2012, the Ontario Court of Appeal invalidated a section of the Criminal Code banning bawdy-houses (s. 210), while maintaining the provision against pimping (s. 212), and the prohibition of communication in a public place for purposes of prostitution (s. 213). The [...]

Dying to Live Free – by Stephen Lendman Israel’s prison gulag is one of the world’s most hellish. Palestinians held suffer horrifically. Inflicting pain and suffering is official Israeli policy. Rule of law principles are spurned. Virtually all Palestinians held are political prisoners. Refusing food is their only resistance weapon. The Addameer Prisoner Support group [...]

Memorial for Christopher Hitchens in New York City: A gathering of the unprincipled and politically clueless By David Walsh; 25 April 2012 – WSWShttp://www.wsws.org/articles/2012/apr2012/hitc-a25.shtml Vanity Fair magazine hosted a memorial in New York City April 20 for the late journalist Christopher Hitchens, who died of cancer in December. According to the Guardian, the event, at [...]

FASH, BANG, WALLOP 22nd April 2012 – SchNEWS Issue 812http://www.schnews.org.uk/stories/FASH,-BANG,-WALLOP/ UPDATE: 23/04/12 Quote of the day: “Well who thought it was a good idea to organize these two demonstrations on the same day? Surely it was obvious there would be problems” – random Brighton theatre-goer/by-stander Yesterday’s counter-protest against the March for England exceeded all expectations. [...]

Glorifying Israel Shames Harvard – by Stephen Lendman Harvard’s motto is “VERITAS (truth).” Its shield displays it. So do rings students buy. It wasn’t present at Harvard’s April 19 – 20 Israel Conference (IC). Perhaps an invitation wasn’t extended. IC was billed as a “first of its kind on Harvard’s campus.” Initiated by Israeli students, [...]

This article has been contributed by Todd Sepulveda of www.prepperwebsite.com Do you know anyone who is on the Zombie Diet Food Plan?  As you stop to ponder that question, let me assure you that you do.  You just might not realize it at this moment.  But I promise, by the end of this article, you will have [...]

Psychiatry’s bible, the DSM, is doing more harm than good By Paula J. Caplan; April 27, 2012 – Washington Posthttp://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/psychiatrys-bible-the… About a year ago, a young mother called me, extremely distressed. She had become seriously sleep-deprived while working full-time and caring for her dying grandmother every night. When a crisis at her son’s day-care center [...]

Class War and the College Crisis: The “Crisis of Democracy” and the Attack on Education The following is the first part of a series of articles, “Class War and the College Crisis.” Originally published at: http://www.andrewgavinmarshall.com By Andrew Gavin Marshall Today, we are witnessing an emerging massive global revolt, led primarily be the educated and [...]

Balaclava! VMC Broadsheet Issue 36 News and views from around Vancouver April 25, 2012 – Vancouver Media Co-ophttp://vancouver.mediacoop.ca/story/balaclava-vmc-broadsheet… April 2012′s Balaclava! features voices from the WAM Women Action Media conference, a look at Hoody Up Vancouver, as well as demonstrations against the Enbridge pipeline as well as condo construction on Musqueam territory. Click here for [...]