By CHRISTOPHER WEBER Journal Sentinel Associated Press Monday December 12, 2011 LOS ANGELES (AP) — Lowe’s Home Improvement has found itself facing a backlash after the retail giant pulled ads from a reality show about American Muslims. The retail giant stopped advertising on TLC’s “All-American Muslim” after a conservative group known as [...]
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Commodifying Education: The Corporatization of the American University
by STEVEN HIGGS Counterpunch November 21, 2011 Peter Seybold traces the pernicious influence corporatization has had on the American campus back almost a decade before the Reagan Revolution of 1980, to a memo written byRichmond,Va., attorney Lewis F. Powell Jr. to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce in late summer 1971. Powell, who [...]
Jim Lobe: “Israel’s Advocate” to Leave White House for Pro-Israel Think Tank
Jim Lobe’s blog on U.S. foreign policy can be read at http://www.lobelog.com. IPS — November 11, 2011 WASHINGTON, Nov 10, 2011 (IPS) – Dennis Ross, President Barack Obama’s topMiddle Eastaide who has attracted criticism for his allegedly strong pro-Israel sympathies, will leave his post at the end of this month, the White House [...]
The US is a Police State
Review of Andrew Kolin, State Power and Democracy By Prof. John McMurtry. This article by Professor McMurtry had been commissioned by an academic journal called New Politics. Upon receiving Professor McMurtry’s text, the editorial board decided to reject it: “We are sorry to inform you that the Editorial Board finds it inappropriate”. Review of [...]
Wall Street’s Wars — Fallujah Veteran: ‘I Served The 1%’
By Ross Caputi The author is a Marine Corps veteran of the second siege of Fallujah and a member of March Forward!. He is the founder of the ‘Justice for Fallujah Project’ which will host various events during the second annual ‘Remember Fallujah Week,’ Nov. 16-19. Click here for more information. November 8, 2011 [...]
Prof. Joseph Massad: Truths, facts and facts on the ground
Joseph Massad is Associate Professor of Modern Arab Politics and Intellectual History at Columbia University. His most recent books are The Persistence of the Palestinian Question and Desiring Arabs. Much of the international support that Israel receives is based on several lies it tells and re-tells as “facts”. Al Jazeera Last Modified: 27 [...]
Imran Khan: new trouble man for US in Pakistan
Hamid Mir The News International November 1, 2011 ISLAMABAD: Imran Khan is no more a cricketer turned politician. He has suddenly become an important regional player in theUS endgame inAfghanistan. A mind-blowing public rally of Imran Khan inLahoreon October 30 made it very difficult for the Zardari regime to give new commitments or [...]
Pepe Escobar: China and the US: The roadmaps
Pepe Escobar is the roving correspondent for Asia Times. His latest book is named Obama Does Globalistan (Nimble Books, 2009). While Beijing tries to address the West’s concerns, Hillary Clinton has a conflicting vision for the 21st century. Al Jazeera Last Modified: 31 Oct 2011 11:51 Inquiring minds scattered across the world [...]
