Jacob backed Arnold Schwarzenegger’s California gubernatorial campaign. He took control of Khodorkovsky’s YUKOS oil shares just before the Russian government arrested him. In 2010 Jacob joined Rupert Murdoch in a shale oil extraction partnership in Israel through Genie Energy – a subsidiary of IDT Corporation. Within months, Sarah Palin had hired former IDT executive Michael Glassner as her chief of staff. Is Palin the Rothschild choice in 2012?
Category: Global Issues
[Note to TomDispatch Readers: Consider today’s post a stand-alone companion to my previous piece “Welcome to Post-Legal America.” And keep in mind that the offer of a signed, personalized copy of Adam Hochschild’s bestselling…
June 11, 2011 Note: The following letter, which is self-explanatory, was emailed to various officials of the African Union, whose email addresses were available on its web site, on June 8, 2011. So far, I…
By Yorgos Mitralias: Hundreds of thousands of Greek ‘Indignés’ (‘Outraged’) walk out to wage war against their neoliberal persecutors Two weeks after it started the Greek movement of ‘outraged’ people has the main squares in…
Each human life represents a value. Mankind is not alike. There is slight consolation in the fact that our losses were one thousand, and the enemy’s ten. Who knows if among those one thousand there…
By Steven J. M. Jones: “Propaganda Steers our Opinion Exactly where it is Intended to Go.” By its own definition it is media’s job to tell us about ourselves and the world around us, to…
By Philip A. Farruggio: Do you remember the film ‘King of Kings (1961), the story of Jesus? In one scene, Jesus is going out to the wilderness for 40 days to search his soul etc….
This third interview with Finian Cunningham, an Irish journalist now living in Manama, Bahrain, is probably the most telling yet. The arrest of 47 medical personnel and the subsequent torture after their arrest for crimes…
The relentless and intensifying Western air war against Libya will soon enter its fourth month. For the first thirteen days starting on March 19 under the control of U.S. Africa Command and Operation Odyssey Dawn…
On June 1st, the member states of the Atlantic Alliance (NATO) meeting in Brussels decided to “renew the mission”, namely extend the war on Libya, “for another 90 days to late September”. What is unfolding is an escalation of military operations, which at the same time is leading to a protracted war.