TRNN video: 'But my Mom doesn't have papers'

I recommend that you look at the Context links on the right hand side of this link.

Video: The Real News Network

Killing them softly

Antemedius

[...] Obama's surge in Afghanistan will ensure a steady supply of "collateral damage", even though sane military voices condemn "democracy at gunpoint" and Taliban "tacticians" mock Gen. David Petraeus' counterinsurgency tactics.

The Bush "war on terror" has been rebranded as "overseas contingency operations" (OCO) by the Obama administration.

Pepe Escobar argues everything remains the same, but with a new twist: Washington selling OCO in AfPak to US public opinion not as an American war - but as a Pakistani war.

Pepe Escobar: Welcome to the new “new world order”

Related to what I've written here and here, two commentaries by Pepe Escobar from The Real News Network:

REAL NEWS NETWORK: ISRAELI TROOPS ADMIT GAZA ABUSES

Phyllis Bennis takes a sober look at what happened in a TRNN interview with Paul Jay.



Additional background here.

Also, McClatchy on Israeli Jihad

THIS IS WHY THE NATION MAGAZINE SUCKS....

The Real News Network interviews pseudo-leftists Katrina vanden Heuvel and Victor Navasky of The Nation. They speak nonsense. This is why I don't read that mag anymore: Vanden Heuvel co-opts with the Right and Navasky is just a has-been.