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Danny Schechter – How PBS Lost the Public

It’s hard for me to feel sorry about the travails of the PBS “News Hour” where bland has been beautiful for years and an obsessive loyalt y to mechanistic balance — always tilting right — has been in command for decades. The news on PBS survived all these many years because of lavish funding from major corporate sponsors who felt comfortable with its stuffy and unthreatening approach. In the yea...

U.S. GDP—A Longer Trend Analysis – By Jack Rasmus

Wednesday, June 12, 2013 Nearly daily in recent weeks, indicators of the US economy have fluctuated wildly. One day reports of manufacturing and factory orders show a declining economy, another day housing prices and residential home building appear to rise; the next day purchasing managers show a services (88% of the economy) employment trend of absolutely no gain in job creation, followed by a...

Harvey Wasserman – Victory for Grassroots Activism and Public Safety: San Onofre Nuclear Plant Closure Announced

From his California beach house at San Clemente, Richard Nixon once watched three reactors rise at nearby San Onofre. As of June 7, 2013, all three are permanently shut. It’s a monumental victory for grassroots activism and it marks an epic transition in how we get our energy. In the thick of the 1970s Arab oil embargo, Nixon said there’d be 1000 such reactors in the US by the year 2000. As of t...

Obama’s Budget—More Cuts Coming – By Jack Rasmus

With Obama’s publication of his 2014 budget proposals this past April 2013, the current round of deficit cutting set in motion by Obama’s Simpson-Bowles Commission four years ago may be coming to a conclusion of sorts by this September 2013. The important question is: why now a conclusion after four years of deficit cutting negotiations by Obama and Congress? And what might this last act—the fina...

Stephen Lendman – Evidence of Israeli Mass Murder Discovered

On June 1, Press TV headlined “Mass graves from 1948 war discovered in Jaffa.” Palestinian Jaffa is now Tel Aviv’s Jaffa municipality. Six mass graves were discovered. They contain remains of at least hundreds of Palestinian victims. These and other questions remain unanswered. How many more mass graves are yet to be discovered? How many never will be found? How many thousands o...

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