Politics

British Government officials spelt the word “language” wrong in an official press release announcing that new language tests are to be forced on immigrants. The ironic mistake comes as immigrant mothers are being threatened with deportation if they don’t improve their English language skills. On Friday, the Home Office published a press release which read “new English langauge test for family route migrants.” The Home Office promptly moved to rectify the error, but not before it caused a backlash online.

Paul O’Neill was fired from his job as George Bush’s Treasury Secretary for allegedly disagreeing with the former president’s policy on tax cuts. O’Neill has revealed that Bush had asked him prior to the 9/11 attacks to find him a way of invading Iraq.  Bush told the former Treasury Secretary 10 days after his inauguration to “go find me a way” to go into Iraq. What qualifies as suspicious behavior? Cheney meeting with nearly every oil executive in existence and discussing Iraq’s oil fields months before 9/11, even though those executives denied meeting with him before Congress?

A former US Senate foreign policy analyst in Washington has accused the U.S. of preparing to deliberately sabotage peace talks with Syria in order to justify an upcoming invasion.  In an interview with Iranian state media, James Jatras discussed remarks made by US Vice President Joe Biden, who announced that America was ready for military intervention in Syria if peace talks failed. Presstv.com reports: Press TV: What is your take on what the US vice president has said basically when he is talking about getting involved militarily now in Syria?

A chief Israeli Rabbi has called for the mass executions of all Palestinians, calling on Tel Aviv to commit the mass-genocide instead of arresting them and “leave no one alive” in order to establish safety in occupied Palestinian territories.  Rabbi Shmuel Eliyahu posted a message on his Facebook page, saying that the “Israeli army has to stop arresting Palestinians … but, it must execute them and leave no one alive“. Presstv.ir reports: As chief rabbi of the city of Safed, Eliyahu is known for his racist behavior and remarks about Arabs and Muslims.

Exclusive: The 2008 Wall Street crash resulted from a combination of unrestrained greed and political contempt for government regulators who might have prevented the devastation. In The Big Short, the tale is told from the perspective of a few players who saw the inevitable and made money on the crash, writes James DiEugenio. By James…