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 Greg Palast, News Analysis: Today, only one in seven dollars of GDP is paid in salaries (versus four of five dollars in the US and UK). Where have the billions gone? No one dare look for it, nor the source of the First Lady's wealth. The last journalist who asked about the funds, Elmar Huseynov, was gunned down in his home. A journalist who questioned what happened to Huseynov was jailed. No third journalist is investigating what happened to the first two. |
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 Jim Hightower, Op-Ed: Whiteclay exists solely so booze peddlers can profit from the Oglala tribe's miseries. They sell 4 million cans of beer a year to Pine Ridge residents, including high-alcohol malt liquor. So much for that "Drink Responsibly" slogan. One in four children on the reservation is born with fetal alcohol birth defects. The life expectancy of tribal members is less than 50 years. |
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 Jeffery Smith, News Analysis: "If the IAEA succeeds in visiting the site and does not find evidence of nuclear weapons activities, its credibility will be seriously damaged and it will be unable to persuasively make the case for visits to more serious sites of concern inside Iran," said Kelley. Although they formerly worked together — Albright claims on his website that Kelley invited him to participate in an Iraq inspection — they are now poles apart. |
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 Arnie Saiki, Op-Ed: Obama thanked Prime Minister Noda for updating him on his "reform efforts liberalizing trade and playing a leading role in Asia Pacific's economy," and for Japan's continued interest in joining the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP). In addition Obama added, "that their shared vision also calls for the strengthening of energy cooperation, and discussed expanding liquid natural gas (LNG) exports from the United States to Japan." |
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 Peter Schurmann, News Analysis: There are currently around 13 million veterans between the ages of 19 and 64 living in the United States. Some 17 percent of those without insurance report suffering from service-related disabilities or functional limitations, while 41 percent say they have unmet medical needs. Another 34 percent say they have delayed care due to cost, the report notes. |
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 Khalil Bendib, Cartoon: Award-winning Berkeley-based editorial cartoonist Khalil Bendib's cartoons are regularly featured in dozens of small and mid-size newspapers across the country, and they can be viewed at www.bendib.com. They have also been featured in USA Today, The New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, San Francisco Chronicle, and numerous other large mainstream newspapers. |
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 Stephen S.Roach, Op-Ed: With Europe and the US still accounting for the largest shares of China's end-market exports, there can be no escaping the tight linkages of Asia's China-centric supply chain to the ups and downs of demand in the major developed economies. Moreover, there is an important and worrisome twist to those linkages: China itself has tilted increasingly toward Europe as its major source of external demand. In 2007, the European Union surpassed the US as China's largest export market. |
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![]( "As New Jersey OKs NYPD Surveillance, Muslim Groups Continue Challenge to") Amy Goodman, Video Report: The review's finding means Muslims will have no recourse to state law to prevent the NYPD from monitoring and cataloging their daily life. The decision has angered Muslim groups who were seeking an end to the intrastate police operations and surveillance throughout the Northeast. We get reaction from Gadeir Abbas, staff attorney for the Council on American-Islamic Relations. |
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 Elizabeth Rose, Op-Ed: A recent study by the University of Maryland found that three-quarters of Americans favored cutting military spending, including two-thirds of Republicans as well as nine in 10 Democrats. This study also confirmed that respondents generally underestimate the magnitude of the military budget, and that when they receive information about its size — for example, the $642,500,000,000 that the House approved for the Pentagon — they're more likely to support Pentagon spending cuts. |
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 Judd Legum, News Report: You can see a similar letter sent to alleged "non-citizens" by the Broward County Supervisor of Elections HERE. ("The Supervisor of Elections… has received information that you are not a citizen of the United States.") If recipients of the letter do not respond within 30 days — a deadline that is mere days away — they will be summarily removed from the voting rolls. |
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