Link: http://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2012/05/04/disinformation-on-every-front/
Some readers have come to the erroneous conclusion that the Matrix consists of Republican Party disinformation as if there is no disinformation from the left. Others think that propaganda is the business of Obama and the Democrats. In fact, propaganda from the right, the left and the middle are all part of the disinformation fed to americans.
Link: http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/05/04/us-global-economy-idUSBRE8431LP20120504
The euro zone economy worsened markedly last month and U.S. employers cut back on hiring, according to two reports on Friday that dampened hopes for gradual recovery on either side of the Atlantic.
As nineteen year old Shanell Madison of Pearl, Mississippi tells it, she and her twin brother Terrell were sitting peacefully on the balcony of their apartment on Tuesday when they heard shots from a police shootout below. Then Terrell began recording the scene with his cellphone, and that brought the police bursting into the apartment to arrest both of them. “The police came up here after they took his phone,” Shanell told WLBT News. “They slammed him down and arrested him, and I’m like ‘Why are y’all arresting him’, and then they grabbed me and slammed me also and arrested me.”
Link: http://bellaciao.org/en/spip.php?article21913
I will hardly refer to the Cuban people, who one day rid their country of the United States domain, when the imperialist system had reached the height of its power. Men and women of different ages paraded on May Day down the most symbolic squares in all provinces of the country.
Link: http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2012/05/04-6
Today, the Obama administration proposed new rules on the fracking industry's procedures and oversight on public lands. Outdated fracking regulations have been replaced with out of touch fracking regulations, falling short of protecting communities from toxic pollution, according to environmental groups.
More than a year after the triple meltdown at the Fukushima Daiichi power plant, the Japanese government, Tokyo Electric Power Company (Tepco) and the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) present similar assurances of the site's current state: challenges remain but everything is under control. The worst is over.
Link: http://wsws.org/articles/2012/may2012/usch-m04.shtml
The fourth US-China Strategic and Economic Dialogue, beginning yesterday in Beijing, has underscored the fraught relations between the two countries over economic and geopolitical issues. The high-powered US team headed by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner is using the meeting to pressure the Chinese regime to make significant concessions.
Link: http://wsws.org/articles/2012/may2012/pers-m04.shtml
Three and a half years into the economic crisis, the conditions of life facing millions of people in the US are disastrous. Whatever the talk of an economic “recovery,” poverty, perpetual unemployment, impossible levels of debt pervade American society.