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A Critique of United States 'Grand Strategy toward China'
29 May 2015; posted by the editor - Features, United States, China
By James Petras
“We will have a very strong (military) presence, very strong continued posture throughout the region to back our commitments to our allies, to protect and work with our partners and to continue ensuring peace and stability in the region, as well as back our diplomacy vis-à-vis China on the South China Sea”.David Shear, US Department of Defense’s Assistant Secretary for Asian and Pacific Security Affairs.
Indian President Modi “seals $22 billion of deals on China visit . . . China had already promised $20 billion of infrastructure investment during (Chinese President) Xi’s visit to India last year”.
Financial Times (5/18/165, p. 4)The highly influential Council on Foreign Relations recently published a Special Report entitled “Revising US Grand Strategy toward China”, (Council on Foreign Relations Press: NY 2015), co-authored by two of its Senior Fellows, Robert Blackwill and Ashley Tellis (‘B and T’), which proposes a re-orientation of US policy toward China. The Report is a policy for buttressing ‘US primacy in Asia’ and countering what they describe as “the dangers that China’s geo-economic and military power pose to US national interests in Asia and globally”. The Report concludes by listing seven recommendations that Washington should follow to re-assert regional primacy.
Denis O'Brien hides behind media gag
29 May 2015; posted by the editor - Journalism, Ireland, Irish political
Denis O'Brien, owner of Ireland's main newspapers, has used a court injunction to prevent remarks made in the Dail being reported in the Irish media.
Washington's Two Track Policy to Latin America
28 May 2015; posted by the editor - Cuba, United States, South Americas, Central America
Marines to Central America and Diplomats to Cuba
By James Petras
Everyone, from political pundits in Washington to the Pope in Rome, including most journalists in the mass media and in the alternative press, have focused on the US moves toward ending the economic blockade of Cuba and gradually opening diplomatic relations. Talk is rife of a ‘major shift’ in US policy toward Latin America with the emphasis on diplomacy and reconciliation. Even most progressive writers and journals have ceased writing about US imperialism.Mars One announces series of information articles
27 May 2015; posted by the editor - Science, Technology
Mars One is publishing a new article series, Inside 360 on Mars Exchange, which will provide articles that present a more in-depth look into the details, feasibility, and processes of the Mars One mission.
Tags: Mars OneSearch Begins for Ireland's Best Young Entrepreneur
27 May 2015; posted by the editor - Business, Ireland
The 2015 National Competition to find Ireland's Best Young Entrepreneur has been launched and this year will target in particular young Irish people overseas.
Tags: Young EntrepreneurA Chance to Aid and Encourage Whistleblowers
27 May 2015; posted by the editor - Events, Europe, United States
By David Swanson
We would know much less about what our governments do were it not for those who are part of our governments until something becomes too horrible for their moral threshold, and who see a means available to inform the public. What this fact says about the proportion of governmental activity that is shameful is worth considering.Tags: whistleblowersA Civilian Is A Combatant Is A Civilian Is A Combatant
27 May 2015; posted by the editor - Features
By David Swanson
What happens when a bunch of lawyers intent on distinguishing combatants from civilians discover, by interviewing hundreds of civilians, that it cannot be done? Does it become legal to kill everyone or no one?Tags: anti-warCanada accused of unlawfully hounding Human Rights activist
26 May 2015; posted by the editor - Human Rights, Canada
A Canadian human rights activist is accusing the Canadian authorities of unlawful harassment and persecution after his passport was seized and a restraining order barred him from seeing his two children.
Tags: Kevin Galalae, depopulationPan European legislation needed to make technology more accessible for disabled
26 May 2015; posted by the editor - European Union
Following a debate on the Digital Single Market Strategy in the European Parliament Ireland, South MEP and member of the European Parliaments Disability Intergroup Deirdre Clune has called on the European Commission to ensure that new advances in technologies don’t leave people with disabilities behind.
Tags: disability, Internet accessibilityIs Al Jazeera Trying to Be CNN or Fox?
26 May 2015; posted by the editor - Journalism, United States
By David Swanson
Some weeks back I got a call from Al Jazeera wanting me to be on a show, but insisting that I couldn't do it from a local studio via satellite or from my computer via Skype. No, I would have to fly to New York and back, and they would pay for the flight and pay a “per diem” as well (they didn't specify how much). I was not eager to take a whole day out of my life to fly to New York and back, but they sold me on it. This, they told me, would be the premier edition of a new Sunday morning news program to compete with the existing ones. And it would include different perspectives.Tags: Al JazeeraChina Lobby Pre-WWII, Israel Lobby Pre-WWIII
25 May 2015; posted by the editor - Features
By David Swanson
The history of catastrophically murderous and stupid warfare that the United States can memorialize on Memorial Day dates back to Day One and earlier, begins with the genocide of the native inhabitants of the land, the invasions of Canada, etc., and from that day to this too many deadly escapades to list.On the U.S. Killing of Two Children in Syria
23 May 2015; posted by the editor - United States, Syria
By David Swanson
The U.S. military admitted on Thursday to killing two girls in Syria.Tags: SyriaWhat's Baddawi?
22 May 2015; posted by the editor - United States, Palestine, Israel
By David Swanson
On 29 October 1948, the Israeli terrorist group Irgun ethnically cleansed the village of Safsaf in Palestine, lining some 70 men up, shooting them, dumping them in a ditch, and raping three girls. Among the survivors who fled to Lebanon were the grandparents of a young woman in Chicago who has a talent for telling stories in pictures and words. Safsaf was called Safsofa by the Romans and can be found as Safsufa on the iNakba app on your NSA-tracking device.Tags: BaddawiNavy nuclear whistle-blower surrenders to police
19 May 2015; posted by the editor - United Kingdom
A Royal Navy submariner who criticised the UK Trident nuclear submarine safety procedures has handed himself in to police on returning to the UK.
Government cash for start-ups through SURE tax refund
16 May 2015; posted by the editor - Business, Ireland
Entrepreneurs investing cash in new start-up projects can claim up to 41% of their investment back from Government through a new tax refund aimed at encouraging more people to start up businesses.
Tags: start-upsNew €10million competitive fund to support more start-ups in every county
16 May 2015; posted by the editor - Business, Ireland
A new €10million initiative to support more start-up businesses in every county of the country has today been launched by the Government as part of its Regional Action plan for Jobs.
Tags: job creation, start-upsWaterford City and County Council join anti-fluoridation coalition
16 May 2015; posted by the editor - Health, Ireland
Waterford City and County Council at their monthly plenary meeting this on 14 May 2015 passed a motion calling on the Irish Government to reverse the State's isolated policy within Europe of mandating a mandatory national water fluoridation policy for the purposes of reducing incidence levels of dental caries experienced by the population.
Tags: flouridationGrowth reported in construction and IT jobs market
14 May 2015; posted by the editor - Ireland
A continued recovery in the construction sector in 2014 was evident with a jump in the number of vacancies notified through Jobs Ireland, the government's jobs portal, according to a report published today by the Expert Group on Future Skills Needs.
Tags: Employment, IrelandPopulist Except for Pentagon
12 May 2015; posted by the editor - United States
By David Swanson
Katrina Vanden Heuvel says there’s an emerging populist agenda. Of course populist agendas tend to emerge in times of demobilization for election distraction—that is to say, in moments when huge political party and NGO resources are being dumped into focusing attention on a distant election instead of on the crises and work at hand. Witness all the efforts to get Hillary Clinton, and not Barack Obama, to oppose the TPP.PayPal donates €2,000 to Ireland's Buddy Dog Programme
12 May 2015; posted by the editor - Ireland
PayPal has donated €2,000 to Irish Dogs for the Disabled to help fund their ‘Buddy Dog Programme’, which has been running for two years.
In Convicting Jeff Sterling, CIA Revealed More Than It Accused Him of Revealing
11 May 2015; posted by the editor - United States
By David Swanson
Some Americans have heard of New York Times reporter and book author James Risen and his refusal to expose a source. But, because most reports on that matter scrupulously avoided the subject of what it was Risen had reported, relatively few people can tell you. In fact, Risen reported (in a book, as the New York Times obeyed a government request to keep it quiet) that back in the year 2000 the CIA gave nuclear weapons plans to Iran. Flaws had been introduced into the plans, with the stated intention of slowing down an Iranian nuclear weapons program if one existed. Risen's reporting that the flaws were glaringly obvious, including to the former-Russian asset assigned to deliver the plans to Iran, made the scheme look even worse than it at first sounds.Prison Gates Swing Open for Peace Activists
10 May 2015; posted by the editor - United States
By David Swanson
Kathy Kelly is just out of prison, where she'd been sent for nonviolently opposing drone murders. An appeals court has just overturned convictions for Megan Rice, Michael Walli and Gregory Boertje-Obed, imprisoned for entering and protesting a nuclear weapons site at Oak Ridge, Tenn., three years ago. Resentencing on lesser charges, and quite possibly immediate release, is expected.Tags: anti-drone protestorsIreland's Innovation success in the EU
09 May 2015; posted by the editor - European Union, Ireland
Ireland has moved up one place to eighth position in the 2015 Innovation Union Scoreboard of 28 EU Member States, published on 7 May 2015.
The No More War Movement
09 May 2015; posted by the editor - United States
By David Swanson
Remarks at UNAC Conference, 8 May 2015
This week I read an article by someone I have a lot of respect for and who I know to mean well, and who wrote about being a part of something called “the Less War Movement.”Tags: anti-war, Peace and WarAlfred Beit art collection in jeapardy
09 May 2015; posted by the editor - Arts, Ireland
An Taisce has put forward a proposal to secure and manage Russborough House and the Alfred Beit Collection in the wake of an announcement by The Alfred Beit Foundation that it is looking to sell a significant part of the Beit picture collection on the international market.
Funding for non-Gaeltacht islands announced
08 May 2015; posted by the editor - Ireland
Funding of over €300,000 for the non-Gaeltacht islands for the period from mid-May to the end of 2015 has been announced today by the Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht after reaching an agreement with Comhar na nOileán Teo. who will be responsible for administering the fund at a total cost of €34,160 in 2015.
Industrial relations legislation reform agreed
08 May 2015; posted by the editor - Ireland
New laws on industrial relations will “balance the interests of workers and employers by providing certainty and clarity for businesses while enhancing collective bargaining in workplaces, providing for registered employment agreements to be re-established and sectoral wage rates and conditions to be re-introduced and placing the Low Pay Commission on a statutory basis”, the Government announced this week.
Tags: Industrial relationsDangerous Flailing and Bellowing of the Beast
08 May 2015; posted by the editor - Features, United States
By John Chuckman
When I think of America’s place in the world today, the image that comes to mind is of a very large animal, perhaps a huge bull elephant or even prehistoric mammoth, which long roamed as the unchallenged king of its domain but has become trapped by its own missteps, as caught in a tar pit or some quicksand, and it is violently flailing about, making a terrifying noises in its effort to free itself and re-establish its authority. Any observer immediately knows the animal ultimately cannot succeed but certainly is frightened by the noise and crashing that it can sustain for a considerable time.Tags: US policy, US collapseBring Your Limericks to Limerick
06 May 2015; posted by the editor - Local, Ireland
This year's Bring Your Limericks to Limerick competition takes place in the Dunraven Arms Hotel in Adare 2.30pm Sun 24 May as part of Féile na Máighe, which runs from Friday 22 to 24 May. The competition was made an international event two years ago as part of The Gathering celebrations in the University of Limerick and was an enormous success.
Tags: Limerick, Féile na MáigheNew sonar images of wreck of RMS Lusitania
06 May 2015; posted by the editor - United Kingdom, Ireland
One hundred years after the torpedoing and sinking of RMS Lusitania, new sonar images of the wreck have been published showing a most detailed information and overview of the wreck site compiled to date.
Tags: RMS LusitaniaIreland's proposed Climate Bill 'fatally flawed'
05 May 2015; posted by the editor - Europe, European Union, Ireland
By An Taisce
The Government's Climate Bill now going through the Oireachtas is deeply deficient compared to climate legislation already passed by other European nations. The recent independent analysis by ClientEarth, a London-based international environmental law firm, shows that the proposed legislation is politically compromised, legally ineffective and unlikely to aid in delivering any substantive climate action beyond bare compliance with EU targets.Tags: Climate changeA Preview of Coming Wars: Do Black Lives Matter in Africa?
02 May 2015; posted by the editor - Africa, African States, United States
By David Swanson
Reading Nick Turse's new book, Tomorrow's Battlefield: U.S. Proxy Wars and Secret Ops in Africa, raises the question of whether black lives in Africa matter to the U.S. military any more than black lives in the United States matter to the police lately trained and armed by that military.Tags: US military, AfricaTechno-Financial Capital and Genocide of the Poorest of the Poor
01 May 2015; posted by the editor - Features, International
By James Petras
‘The war and its results have turned Yemen back a hundred years, due to the destruction of infrastructure . . . especially in the provinces of Oden, Dhalea and Taiz.’ — Izzedine al-Asbali, Yemeni Human Rights Minister‘Yemen is devastated. There are no roads, water or electricity. Nobody’s left but thieves.’ — A resident of Sana (Yemen)
Tags: genocide
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