Selected Articles: US, Russia, EU, Israel, UAV Warfare
USA: Today’s Payroll Jobs Report
By Dr. Paul Craig Roberts, October 03 2015
The 142,000 September payroll jobs reported today (2 Oct 2015) by the Bureau of Labor Statistics is too small to be consistent with the still high stock averages or the alleged economic recovery. Moreover, the BLS says that it over-estimated the July and August payroll jobs by 59,000. The average workweek declined to 34.5 hours. The labor force participation rate fell further and is now the lowest in about 40 years. This is especially damning when we remember that in those long ago years many more households could exist as one-earner households.
Kaleidoscope of Power Games in the Middle-East – Stunning the Exceptional Nation – Lead-up to a US-Russia Proxy-War?
By Peter Koenig, October 03 2015
October 1 – the New York Times reported that “Russian aircraft carried out a bombing attack against Syrian opposition fighters on Wednesday, including at least one group trained by the CIA, eliciting angry protests from American officials and plunging the complex sectarian war there into dangerous new territory.” The article goes on in a silly state of surprise…
The Western Alliance Is Crumbling: EU Is Abandoning U.S. on Overthrowing Assad
By Eric Zuesse, October 03 2015
Obama Cannot Defeat Assad without EU’s Help. EU Also Rejects Obama’s TTIP & TISA Demands. Obama’s Presidential ‘Legacy’ Heads to Failure
Israel’s New Police Chief Emerges from Shadowy World
By Jonathan Cook, October 03 2015
Palestinian minority in Israel worried by top cop’s twin-track as interrogator for secret police and hardline settler. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu parachuted in a new police chief last week after the government’s previous candidates were thwarted by controversy.
Israel Terrorizes Palestinians After Two Settlers Shot
By Stephen Lendman, October 03 2015
Here’s how Israeli justice works. Extremist settlers set a Palestinian family’s home ablaze, immolate three of its members in cold blood, seriously burn a fourth, and remain free to kill again because they’re not arrested – despite Israeli Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon admitting authorities know who’s responsible.
The Brave, New World of Armed Drones and UAVs. Thank God I Am Not A Child Born Today!
By Anthony Bellchambers, October 03 2015
As American planes bomb a hospital operated by Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) in the Afghan town of Kunduz, killing patients and medical staff, this terrible horror follows previous incidents around the world that replicate the example of claimed ‘collateral damage’ inflicted upon hospitals and civilian installations, in Gaza, by its attackers in 2014 and earlier.