Officials admit that the explosion at the Fukushima reactor was sparked by an emergency release to avoid a meltdown. A second reactor at the complex has now lost coolant, and is at risk of overheating.
The Dalai Lama is stepping down as political leader of the Tibetan exile government, while Beijing passed a law mandating that the Tibetan leader be reincarnated within China.
Moammar Qaddafi is simultaneously playing the al-Qaeda card to rally US imperialism to his side and playing the US imperialism card to rally the Libyan people to his side.
Moammar Qaddafi defended his military’s right to put down the rebels by invoking Israel’s offensive in the Gaza Strip, and insisted he still has “very good relations with the United States.”
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Oil prices rose past $104 a barrel, a two-and-a-half-year high, on fears that Saudi Arabia will not be able to make up for the shortfall as chaos engulfs Libya and threatens the entire region.
Will Julian Assange’s connections to the notorious anti-Semite and apparent agent of the Belarus dictatorship Israel Shamir be exposed before he wins a Nobel Peace Prize? We hope so.
Yemen’s embattled President Ali Abdullah Saleh blamed the rising tide of Arab revolution on Israeli subversion, while Libya’s Moammar Qaddafi blamed it on al-Qaeda. Life’s little ironies.
In vivid contrast to Lara Logan’s sexual abuse in Cairo, the mob slaying of a young Palestinian man in Jerusalem in an anti-Arab frenzy has been subject to an effective blackout.
Israeli prosecutors are preparing a $275,000 lawsuit against Bedouin families for the cost of removing them from government land they tried to take over northwest of Beersheba.
The push to tweak the 14th Amendment ominously coincides with a mainstreaming of pro-Confederacy revisionism—pointing to the emergence of a homegrown American fascism.
As his regime totters, Col. Qaddafi calls the insurrection an al-Qaeda conspiracy. But will it be enough to assure the good graces of his one-time advisor Richard “Prince of Darkness” Perle?
