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Nobel Hypocrisy 101
by Stephen Lendman
Nobel tradition is horrific. Disreputable. Long and inglorious. War criminals win peace prizes. Past honorees include a rogue's gallery of some of the world's worst.
Peace advocates are spurned. Ignored. Shut out for doing the right thing. Especially in today's highly-charged atmosphere.
Selection is politicized. It's longstanding policy. It's no surprise.
Nobel Committee members violate their own rules. Alfred Nobel's will was clear and unequivocal.
It says Peace Prize recipients "shall have done the most or the best work for fraternity between nations, for the abolition or reduction of standing armies and for the holding and promotion of peace congresses."
Worthy candidates are routinely passed over. History's most famous peace advocate never won.
Mahatma Gandhi was nominated five times. Nobel Committee members never recognized his accomplishments. They're hugely important to this day.
Renouncing Judaism
by Stephen Lendman
Decades of Israeli high crimes against peace are reason enough for all Jews for justice to do it. Shlomo Sand for one.
On October 10, he headlined his London Guardian commentary " 'I wish to resign and cease considering myself a Jew.' " More on this below.
Zionism harms Jews and non-Jews alike. Its roots date from the late 19th century. In his book titled "Overcoming Zionism: Creating a Single Democratic State in Israel/Palestine," Joel Kovel said:
Zionism seeks "the restoration of tribalism in the guise of a modern, highly militarized and aggressive state."
It "cut Jews off from (their) history…It "led to a fateful identity of interests with antisemitism the only thing that united them."
UK Vote on Palestinian Statehood: Hold the Cheers
by Stephen Lendman
On Monday, MPs will vote up or down on whether to recognize Palestinian statehood. Doing so is non-binding. It's largely symbolic.
Labour Friends of Palestine proposed the motion, stating:
"This House believes that the Government should recognize the state of Palestine alongside the State of Israel."
The vote follows Sweden's newly-formed center-left Prime Minister, Stefan Lofven, announcing his intention to recognize Palestinian statehood.
It's the first EU country to do so. Likely not the last. It's the 135th to recognize what's long overdue.
Vets Win Expansion Of Freedom Of Speech and Right To Assemble
By Margaret Flowers and Kevin Zeese
Veterans For Peace Three Year Campaign Removes Curfew as Vets and Allies Protest the Wars, Honor The Dead
Each October 7 for the last three years, the date of the US invasion of Afghanistan, members of Veterans For Peace and their allies have gathered at the Vietnam Veteran’s Memorial in Lower Manhattan for a soulful ceremony. Their purpose: to mark another year of a war in Afghanistan and call for peace, to honor all whose lives are destroyed by war and to expand the First Amendment right to peaceably assemble. This year, they were finally able to do so without facing a small army of police threatening arrest if the ceremony went past the arbitrary 10 pm curfew placed on the memorial.
And this year, veterans and allies had more reasons to gather: to protest new wars being waged by President Obama without approval of Congress or the United Nations and to remember the much-loved Jacob David George, a veteran of three tours in Afghanistan, who died of ‘moral injury’ three weeks before.
Racist Extremism in Israel
by Stephen Lendman
Israel is no democracy. It never was one. For sure not now. Netanyahu is a world-class thug. He exceeds the worst of Sharonian evil.
Extremists around him reflect hardline fascist rule. They control Knesset poiicy. They hold over 80% of its seats.
They overwhelm moderate voices. They treat Arab representatives like potted plants. They have no say whatever. Israeli Arab citizens are enfranchised in name only.
Peace, equity and justice are convenient illusions. Hardline rule prevails. State terror reflects official policy. So does institutionalized racism.
Jews alone are wanted. Muslims are persecuted for praying to the wrong God. Occupied Palestinians have no rights whatever.
Freedom Walking for Palestine and BDS
by Stephen Lendman
In the 1960s, US Freedom Riders challenged racist injustice and related human rights abuses. Their activism made a difference.
They rode interstate buses across segregated southern states. They risked life and limb at times doing so.
They endured arrests for trespassing, unlawful assembly, as well as violating state and local Jim Crow laws.
They highlighted racial injustice. They did so because it matters.
They provoked violent reactions. They bolstered civil rights activism.
They gave the Movement more credibility. More meaning when it was needed most.
The Coming Revolution: Evolutionary Leap or Descent Into Chaos and Violence?
David DeGraw
A Critical Crossroad
“A revolution is coming – a revolution which will be peaceful if we are wise enough; compassionate if we care enough; successful if we are fortunate enough – but a revolution which is coming whether we will it or not. We can affect its character; we cannot alter its inevitability. - Robert F. Kennedy
A new paradigm is organically evolving: new economic systems, sustainable communities, solar energy, organic farming, liquid democracy, worker co-ops and new media. For all the problems we are confronted by, there are existing viable solutions. There is much to feel positive about. A decentralized global uprising is undermining systems of centralized and consolidated power. A new world is being born.
Crowning the Dragon: World's Top Economy
by Stephen Lendman
It was just a matter of time before China surpassed America as the world's leading economy based on purchasing power parity (PPP).
It's an exchange rate between currencies measured by the cost of a representative basket of goods in one country v. another.
Surprisingly, China's growth happened faster than experts expected. In 2011, IMF economists estimated it would overtake America in 2016.
At the time, they projected its PPP GDP at $18,975.7 trillion v. $18,807.5 trillion for America.
They now estimate America's 2014 PPP GDP at $17.4 trillion v. $17.6 trillion for China.
The speed of China's growth is remarkable. As recently as 2005, its economy was less than half the size of America's.
Media Scoundrels Wage War
by Stephen Lendman
They're in lockstep with US imperial policy. They support its dark side unapologetically.
They're propaganda bullhorns for wrong over right. They're de facto Washington house organs.
Readers and viewers are irresponsibly cheated. They're willfully misinformed. They're treated like mushrooms. Well-watered and in the dark.
Everything they most need to know is suppressed. Truth is systematically buried.
Doing so blocks accurate news, information and analysis. Managed news misinformation substitutes.
All rubbish all the time persists. It doesn't rise to the level of bad fiction. It gives Big Lies new meaning.
Dueling Ideologies: America v. Russia and Venezuela
by Stephen Lendman
These countries are geopolitical opposites. America represents rogue governance. Permanent war is official policy.
Russia and Venezuela prioritize world peace and stability. Responsible governance. Respect for sovereign independence. Rule of law inviolability.
On October 8, Obama addressed top Pentagon commanders. He usually does it in White House surroundings.
"(N)ow was a good time for me to come over to the Pentagon," he said. "(T)o hear from our top military about the work that they're doing."
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