Time magazine's May 28 cover features "King Bibi: He's conquered Israel. But will Netanyahu make peace - or war?" Netanyahu heads Israel's worst ever government. Bipartisan MKs are racist, hard-line rogues. What little opposition exists is weak-kneed. Most go along to get along.

From: www.ruthlesscriticism.com

In succession, governments in the European Union are kicked out of office for having prescribed to their peoples rigid “savings programs” with the aim of regaining their national creditworthiness. The affected countries seem to be victims of finance capital, which downgrades their ratings, extorts them with unbearable interest rates, or turns their money spigot off completely by denying them new loans and the refinancing of their due debts.

By DAVE LINDORFF - Counterpunch

It seems pretty clear by now that the three young “domestic terrorists” arrested by Chicago police in a warrantless house invasion reminiscent of what US military forces are doing on a daily basis in Afghanistan, are the victims of planted evidence — part of the police-state-style crackdown on anti-NATO protesters in Chicago last week.

By Keith Jones - WSWS

The organizers of Tuesday’s nocturnal protest, the 29th successive evening demonstration held in downtown Montreal in support of the student strike, had defied the legal requirement that they seek police permission for their demonstration. Citing this failure, the police declared the protest an “illegal assembly,” then used tear-gas and baton charges to disperse the crowd of more than 2,000...In the melee that followed, 113 people were arrested...for alleged acts of violence committed while resisting the police’s violent dispersal of the protest or for wearing a mask.

Chicago's my home. I'm close to where protests occurred on the Michigan Avenue Bridge and nearby. Cops were everywhere. In partial lock-down, my building was affected. Some residents felt unsafe to go out. With well-armed police in riot-gear, knowledgeable Chicagoans know the risks of getting in harm's way. Anyone can be targeted for any reason. Cops are notoriously brutal. They have carte blanche authority to operate with impunity. They take full advantage.

Systemic Israeli crimes against humanity include neighborhood incursions, unprovoked violence, air, ground and sea attacks, and killing with impunity. Daily offenses are commonplace. Rule of law principles are spurned. Palestinian lives don't matter. They're murdered in cold blood. Accountability is denied.

By Lauren Kelley - AlterNet

Although the majority of Americans now believe that gay and lesbian citizens should have the legal right to marry, homophobia obviously runs deep among many in this country. One of those raging homophobes is Pastor Charles Worley of the Providence Road Baptist Church in Maiden, North Carolina, who recently told his congregation that "the queers and the homosexuals" should be "detained in camps" and left to die.

By Michael McGehee - May 22, 2012

Christopher Hitchens fell from grace when he allowed his atheism to become a tool for Western imperialism...Now The Guardian UK's George Monbiot has pulled a Hitchens by allowing his outrage of "genocide" to become a tool for Western imperialism...It started last year with his tirade against writers David Peterson and Edward Herman over their book The Politics of Genocide. George just couldn't believe they wrote what they did. By challenging the popular narrative of what happened in Rwanda and Srebrenica they were guilty of being "genocide deniers."

By Krystalline Kraus - May 22, 2012

...[T]his report does nothing but in essence defend the state and the police from any wrong doing by not providing any real points of accountability or condemn any police or state tactics..."The OIPRD report is proof that Toronto police will when given the chance systematically do everything they can to hurt, harass and humiliate people..."

Congressional hawks want war. Bipartisan support backs it. Moderates outnumber hotheads. At issue is for how long. Saber rattling, fear mongering, and bogus accusations persisted for years. Now it's showing up in legislation.

SchNEWS Issue 814 - 11th May 2012

Kelly was repeatedly hit, kicked and tasered as he lay on the ground pleading for [the cops] to stop. Eventually he is left handcuffed and unconscious when the police stopped to chat about who had the most grazes on their knuckles. Paramedics arrived on the scene but the Filth insisted on their minor cuts and bruises being seen to first. Kelly was left in a coma and died 5 days later.

Tuesday, 22 May 2012 - Ainfos

On the 11th of May Roberto Adinolfi, CEO of an Italian state controlled nuclear engineering company, was shot and wounded. A cell of the insurrectionist Informal Anarchist Federation have claimed responsibility for the attack in a statement...Previous acts claimed by Informal Anarchist Federation cells include sending a letter bomb to the Italian tax collection office, almost blinding a worker at the office and risking the lives of the postal and clerical workers who unwittingly carried the bomb.

By Patrick Martin - WSWS

President Barack Obama on Monday praised the performance of Chicago city officials and the Chicago Police Department after a week of violence, repression and frame-ups directed against anti-war demonstrators in the city...Speaking at the conclusion of the NATO summit, Obama paid tribute to Mayor Rahm Emanuel...and added...“Chicago’s finest did a great job under significant pressure and a lot of scrutiny.”

By ALAN FARAGO - May 22, 2012

The place where Trayvon Martin lost his life is not on trial. But as surely as the places we build reflect us, we are reflections of our surroundings. In a real estate market driven off the rails by oversupply, mortgage fraud, and greed, why would builders be held to account? They only build what the market wants, right? Their legal rights to build sprawl are as solid as George Zimmerman’s right to carry a weapon and to stand his ground. Right?