Leaders fall in Europe crisis: Is Nicolas Sarkozy next?: French President Nicolas Sarkozy is widely expected to be kicked out of office in elections Sunday. If he goes, he'll be in good company: Just about every European country that has been hit by the debt crisis, and held elections since it began, have thrown out their leaders. So, Boris Johnson remains mayor – and it's not all Ken Livingstone's fault: It was nail-bitingly close but, despite his terrible record, Johnson won. Who's to blame for this triumph of image over substance? What the UK elections mean for Europe: The coalition government in Downing Street was the clear loser in the local elections, but the biggest headache for David Cameron is not the expected re-election of Boris Johnson as London Mayor – a challenger for the Premiership, but the seemingly good showing of the UK Independence Party. Argentina's Model, an Alternative to Austerity: Argentina's record levels of employment and massive reductions in poverty have little to do with exports Social Security Is Not Going Broke: Which federal program took in more than it spent last year, added $95 billion to its surplus and lifted 20 million Americans of all ages out of poverty? Why, Social Security, of course, which ended 2011 with a $2.7 trillion surplus.
Sunday, 6 May 2012
By Paul Craig Roberts|
It is interesting that it is only presidents who work to reduce conflict who become targets for assassination. Continue
'What monstrous nonsense all this is'
By Andrew Napolitano
Who will keep us safe from a president who wants to use drones here? How long will it be before local American governments – 313 of which already possess drones – use them to kill here because they are surgical and a substitute for due process? Continue
By Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn
The permanent wars carried out by the US military and its Nato spawn bring home their own violence and tragedy.Continue
The National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA)
By Nat Hentoff
Where are the Sons of Liberty, the Committees of Correspondence and the insistently courageous city councils now, when they are crucially needed to bring back the Bill of Rights that protect every American against government tyranny worse than King George III's? Continue
The Constitution and Internment Camps
8 Minute Video
Tens of thousands of American citizens had their citizenship suspended, including women and children against whom there was no evidence for the "enemy alien" designation, were held in U.S. internment camps for years.
Army manual for re-education camps applies to US citizens
By RT
The recently unearthed military manual, FM 3-39.40 Internment and Resettlement Operations, - establishes blueprints for putting the country’s own citizens into guarded Army detainment centers. Continue
By Paul Krugman
0ur political dysfunction is largely because of the transformation of the Republican Party into an extremist force that is “dismissive of the legitimacy of its political opposition.” Continue
By Alain Gresh
What did the first round of voting on 22 April tell us about the French presidential election? Continue
By Pepe Escobar
Why? Hubris. French President Nicolas Sarkozy, aka neo-Napoleonic King Sarko, former king of bling bling, "Chouchou" to [Italian] First Lady Carla Bruni, may be his own worst enemy. Continue
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