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New York Ending Stop and Frisk?
by Stephen Lendman
Stop-and-frisk is longstanding New York City policy. It's blatantly racist. It targets Blacks and Latinos. It's unconstitutional.
It violates privacy rights. In 2012 alone, nearly 700,000 people were affected. Ray Kelly was New York's longest serving police commissioner.
He served from January 1, 2002 to December 31, 2013. He lied calling stop and frisk effective. Clear evidence proves otherwise.
Five Ws and one H
By Robert Singer
The Five Ws are questions whose answers are considered basic in information gathering. They are often mentioned in journalism (cf. news style), research and police investigations. They constitute a formula for getting the complete story on a subject. According to the principle of the Five Ws, a report can only be considered complete if it answers these questions starting with an interrogative word:
Who is it about?
What happened?
When did it take place?
Where did it take place?
Why did it happen?
The "Five Ws" and one H were memorialized by Rudyard Kipling in his "Just So Stories" (1902), in which a poem accompanying the tale of "The Elephant's Child" opens with:
I keep six honest serving-men (They taught me all I knew); Their names are What and Why and When And How and Where and Who.
Each question should have a factual answer — facts necessary to include for a report to be considered complete.
The official story of Sandy Hook and the recent mass shootings as reported in the media answer The "Five Ws and one H."
Is Syrian “Peace” Conference Laying the Foundation for War?
By Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers
Those opposed to war in Syria better get ready to prevent war again.
The Geneva II conference which claims to be seeking to end the war in Syria seems designed to fail and instead to provide an excuse for military intervention by the United States and its allies. Human rights activist, Ajamu Baraka, describes the negotiations as an ‘Orwellian subterfuge’ designed to provide justification for war and a lot of facts support his view.
The negotiations are destined to fail because of the way they have been set-up and the preconditions of the United States and its allies in the Syrian opposition demanding that President Bashar al-Assad agree to leave government before negotiations go forward.
“LA ÉPOCA DEL CENTRO IZQUIERDA COMO FUERZA DINÁMICA EN LATINOAMÉRICA SE ESTÁ DEBILITANDO Y CRECE LA OFENSIVA IMPERIALISTA”
El análisis de James Petras, lunes 27 de enero de 2014
“Creo que la época del centro izquierda como fuerza dinámica, avanzando sobre la economía, mejorando los gastos sociales, se está debilitando. Y la ofensiva capitalista, la ofensiva imperialista, está aprovechando eso para conseguir mayores concesiones”, dijo el sociólogo norteamericano James Petras, al analizar en CX36 (*) la coyuntura económica de América del Sur. En ese marco, se refirió a la cumbre de la CELAC que sesionará en La Habana los días 28 y 29 de enero. “La CELAC debe tomar determinaciones más profundas sobre la integración en el continente, pero con muchas dificultades porque la división es entre gobiernos neoliberales, gobiernos más nacionalistas y gobiernos totalmente entreguistas”, dijo. Además, Petras analizó la situación que atraviesa Ucrania y se refirió al estancamiento en las negociaciones por la paz en Siria. A continuación transcribimos íntegramente el análisis de James Petras que Usted puede volver a escuchar aquí:
The Meaning Of Dieudonné
By Gilad Atzmon
Since the 1968 Student Revolution, the European and American Left, together with a herd of Jewish progressive intellectuals, have invested enormous effort in attempting to break society down into multiple segments of identities.
The Left adopted this peculiar approach because it could never cope with its own failure to bond with working people.
The Jewish intellectuals, who led the campaign, realized that fragmented and divided nations are far less dangerous for Jews. As we know, Jews are threatened by cohesive, patriotic nationalism, and for a good reason. After all, they were amongst the prime victims of such an ideology.
Bizarrely enough, dazzled by the emerging false prophecy of post-68 ‘identity politics,’ the Left was quick to drop its universal ethos. While in the past it aimed to cross the divide and unite the working people, the post-68 Left actually split and ghettoized the Western subjects by means of identification.
Obama's MyRA Proposal: Hold the Cheers
by Stephen Lendman
Americans don't need another phony retirement scheme. They need employer-provider defined benefits they once enjoyed.
They need guaranteed pensions. They need safe and secure ones. They need Social Security protected. They need it strengthened.
It's not an entitlement. It's not welfare. It's a contractual federal obligation. It's for eligible recipients who qualify.
America's Criminal Afghanistan Legacy
by Stephen Lendman
Over 12 years of war left millions dead. Violence, displacement, deprivation, starvation and diseases killed them.
Many others suffer horrifically. Media scoundrels ignore high crimes of war, against humanity and genocide. America turned Afghanistan into a wasteland.
No end of conflict looms. It can continue for another decade or longer. It'll do so as long as America is involved.
World Food Program's Health and Nutrition director Carrie Morrison reported more on America's disturbing legacy. Around 55% of Afghan children suffer severe malnutrition, she said.
An entire generation is affected. Their bodies and minds are stunted. America bears full responsibility.
Media Scoundrels Target Ukraine
by Stephen Lendman
They do it in editorials. It's in commentaries. It's in feature op-eds. More on this below.
Previous articles discussed Ukraine. It's under attack. Western dark forces want regime change.
At stake is its national sovereignty. What's ongoing involves weakening and isolating Russia.
Western-sponsored violence continues. It erupted in November. Police showed remarkable restraint. They still do.
Western officials wrongfully blame President Viktor Yanukovych government for street thug violence. So do US media scoundrels.
On January 29, Russia's Federation Council (its upper parliamentary house) passed a resolution. It condemned Western interference in internal Ukrainian affairs.
Israel's Secret Nuclear Program
by Stephen Lendman
It's an open secret. It's been known for years. Media scoundrels suppress it. They pretend none exists.
It's real. It's menacing. Imagine ignoring what threatens humanity. Imagine pretending Iran's peaceful nuclear program does so. Imagine risking regional or global war by doing it.
London's Guardian is an establishment broadsheet. It's usually conformist. Once in a while it's not.
It wrote many times about Edward's Snowden's revelations. It told readers what they need to know. On January 15, it headlined "The Truth about Israel's secret nuclear arsenal."
Rarely ever would US establishment publications suggest one. Or Israel's chemical and biological weapons.
Enough Is Enough: Fraud-ridden Banks Are Not L.A.’s Only Option
by Ellen Brown
“Epic in scale, unprecedented in world history.” That is how William K. Black, professor of law and economics and former bank fraud investigator, describes the frauds in which JPMorgan Chase (JPM) has now been implicated. They involve more than a dozen felonies, including bid-rigging on municipal bond debt; colluding to rig interest rates on hundreds of trillions of dollars in mortgages, derivatives and other contracts; exposing investors to excessive risk; failing to disclose known risks, including those in the Bernie Madoff scandal; and engaging in multiple forms of mortgage fraud.
So why, asks Chicago Alderwoman Leslie Hairston, are we still doing business with them? She plans to introduce a city council ordinance deleting JPM from the city’s list of designated municipal depositories. As quoted in the January 14th Chicago Sun-Times:
The bank has violated the city code by making admissions of dishonesty and deceit in the way they dealt with their investors in the mortgage securities and Bernie Madoff Ponzi scandals. . . . We use this code against city contractors and all the small companies, why wouldn’t we use this against one of the largest banks in the world?
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