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Of course it's about race!
Mary Shaw
A few days ago, former U.S. President Jimmy Carter noted that racism is likely responsible for much of the anti-Obama sentiment that has monopolized the media in recent weeks.
That seems pretty clear to me, too.
But the right-wing mouthpieces are denying that race has anything to do with it. Racism, you see, is not something most Americans would want to publicly admit to these days.
OBAMA'S TEACHING MOMENT FALLING ON DEAF EARS
Allen L Roland
After Obama's bailout of Wall Street ~ his cry for meaningful reform or new regulations is falling on deaf ears. The so-called Recession has seemingly ended for the financial elite who have a new unlimited credit line from the Fed. Meanwhile Main Street's credit line has dried up, along with their spending, and their nightmare Depression continues unabated. Reform is desperately needed before the next bubble bursts:
We have all witnessed President Obama's cave in to Big Pharma in the Health Care Reform package where the Public option, which over 62% of Americans as well as doctors favor, is now no longer part of the package.
UN General Assembly president “frustrated” in his attempts to end blockade of Gaza
Stuart Littlewood
Farewell, Fr Miguel... and thank you for trying
Outgoing United Nations General Assembly President Miguel d'Escoto Brockman says he was obstructed by leading UN members from trying to improve the lives of Palestinians in the Gaza Strip.
"My greatest frustration this year has been the Palestine situation," he told the 192-nation assembly in his final address on 14 September before handing over the one-year presidency to Libyan diplomat Ali Treki.
Revolving doors
Khalid Amayreh
Another round of shuttle diplomacy from US Middle East Envoy George Mitchell fails to convince the Israelis to freeze settlement building. In Ramallah, Khaled Amayreh wonders how many doors are left for Mitchell to knock on.
American Envoy to the Middle East George Mitchell has once again failed to convince Israeli leaders to freeze Jewish settlement expansion in the West Bank and East Jerusalem. The freeze is viewed as an essential precondition for the resumption of the stalled peace process between Israel and the Palestinian Authority (PA).
Doctors Aiding Torture
by Stephen Lendman
In April 2009, a confidential February 2007 ICRC torture report was publicly released. Titled, "ICRC Report on the Treatment of Fourteen 'High Value Detainees' in CIA Custody," it detailed harsh and abusive treatment from their time of arrest, detention, transfer, and incarceration at Guantanamo where ICRC professionals interviewed them.
Besides detailed information on torture and abusive treatment, they obtained damning, consistent detainee accounts of medical personnel involvement, including:
-- their monitoring of and direct participation in torture procedures;
Revolutionary new physics could lead to ultimate weapons of mass destruction
Roland Michel Tremblay
As a sci-fi author and science consultant for films and television documentaries, I have made it my mission to seek out every alternate theory out there – no matter how crazy they may seem – to explore any possibility of new physics that might be uncovered and put to use. That is, until I came across something so perfect and convincing that I had to stop in my tracks.
I now realize, to my complete astonishment, that the true Theory of Everything already exists, in a book published soon after the new millennium – you just haven’t heard about it yet. Who is this author, Mark McCutcheon, and what is this book, The Final Theory, that I have read? My God! This is not the usual crackpot theory used as fodder for some lame sci-fi TV series; this is it – the first truly viable new physics to have ever arisen.
NEW 'HUMANKIND' - "WE are the leaders we've been looking for"
Grace Boggs
American author, feminist, social activist Grace Boggs at 94 - thoughts worth pondering. Excerpted, compiled, edited by Carolyn Bennett
You cannot change any society unless you take responsibility for it, unless you see yourself as belonging to it, and responsible for changing it.
'If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom and deprecate agitation are men who want crops without plowing up the ground, rain without thunder and lightning' [Frederick Douglass].
For most people including myself this oft-quoted passage from Frederick Douglass sums up all that we had to learn from him. We viewed revolutionary struggle mainly as the oppressed standing up, rebelling against an external enemy, and (not yet) as two-sided transformation. Thus revolutionary leadership meant only agitation and mobilization.
Israel/America: A Rambling Poem
Remi Kanazi
I recently appeared on GRITtv with Laura Flanders to perform a spoken word poem entitled Israel/America: A Rambling Poem. The poem appeared after a segment on BDS (Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions).
I recognize this is not the traditional format, but because of the overt political nature of the piece, I thought it may be of interest.
I am the editor of the recently released collection of poetry, Poets For Palestine. I will be touring the US and Canada this fall on the upcoming Poets For Palestine tour.
Why Obama is the President of War not “Change”
Joshua Blakeney
It is such a bitter irony that the son of a formerly colonized Kenyan should now become the colonizer, advancing the interests of the mostly white power elite [3] With his administration of war mongers, corporate lickspittles and apologists for torture Barack Obama is seeking to revive, not “change,” the concept of a “Divine America” which finds its genesis in the Lebensraum policies implemented against the indigenous people of North America.
This penetrating overview and analysis traces the ideology driving the Obama administration back to the concept of a "Divine America" and the policies applied against the indigenous people of North America. The son of a formerly colonized Kenyan, double-speak Obama has now become the colonizer. From the hero of the Civil Rights Movement which bouyed him to power to the champion of militarism. "Brand Obama" has embraced the infrastructure of the most lethal military complex ever assembled at the service of an ever expanding imperial agenda. Which of Obama’s two faces can we believe in and why has the Left chosen so far to see only one?
A Taste of AFRICOM: Some history on Somalia to put the most recent attacks by the Obama administration into perspective
by chycho
The True Story Of Black Hawk Down
American commandos killed Saleh Ali Saleh Nabhan, one of the most wanted Islamic militants in Africa, in a daylight raid in southern Somalia on 15 September 2009. This attack is a good "indication of the Obama administration’s willingness to use force against Al Qaeda’s growing influence in the region.”
“American officials on Monday provided few details but confirmed that Special Operations forces commandos, operating from a nearby American warship, participated in the helicopter raid… The helicopters, either with sniper bullets or air-to-surface missiles, quickly disabled the trucks, according to villagers in the area, and several of the Shabab fighters tried to fire back. Shabab leaders said that six foreign fighters, including Nabhan, were quickly killed, along with three Somali Shabab.
“‘We are very upset, very upset,’ said a Shabab official from the town of Merka, near where the raid happened. ‘This is a big loss for us.’ Ahmed Gaabow, a resident of the area, said that the helicopters then landed and retrieved the bodies, apparently for identification purposes.”
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