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Double Injustice
by Stephen Lendman
Rasmea Yousef Odeh is a 66-year-old Palestinian/American human rights champion. She's a feminist, activist, educator and community leader.
Since 2004, she's been the Chicago-based Arab American Action Network's associate director. She's widely respected and loved.
She's involved with issues related to human and civil rights, social, economic and political justice, immigrant rights, racial profiling, gender violence, and more.
In 2013, the Chicago Culture Alliance (CCA) honored her with its "Outstanding Community Leader Award."
CCA called her a woman who "dedicated over 40 years of her life to the empowerment of Arab women, first in her homes of Palestine, Jordan, and Lebanon, where she was an activist, and then the past 10 years in Chicago."
America and Israel: Police States Writ Large
by Stephen Lendman
Wikipedia calls a police state one "in which the government exercises rigid and repressive controls over the social, economic, and political life of the population."
Merrian-Webster's definition is "a political unit characterized by repressive governmental control of political, economic, and social life usually by an arbitrary exercise of power by police and especially secret police in place of regular operation of administrative and judicial organs of the government according to publicly known legal procedures."
The Oxford dictionary calls it "a totalitarian state controlled by a political police force that secretly supervises the citizens’ activities."
The Logic behind Mass Spying: Empire and Cyber Imperialism
James Petras
Introduction
Revelations about the long-term global, intrusive spying by the US National Security Agency (NSA) and other allied intelligence apparatuses have provoked widespread protests and indignation and threatened ties between erstwhile imperial allies.
Allied regimes have uniformly condemned NSA espionage as a violation of trust and sovereignty, a threat to their national and economic security and to their citizens’ privacy.
In contrast, the Washington has responded in a contradictory manner: on the one hand, US officials and intelligence chiefs have acknowledged ‘some excesses and mistakes’, on the other hand, they defend the entire surveillance program as necessary for US national security.
Interpretations vary about the US global spy apparatus – how it was built and why it was launched against hundreds of millions of people. ‘Subjective’ and ‘objective’ explanations abound, evoking psychological, social, economic, strategic and political considerations.
A multi-factorial explanation is required.
Kristallnacht, Grynszpan and the Munich Agreement: Connect the World War Dots
By Katherine Smith, PhD
Last weekend marked a traumatic event for Jewish people living in Germany in 1938.
Kristallnacht, the Night of Broken Glass, happened 75 years ago when Nazi thugs conducted a wave of violent anti-Jewish pogroms on the streets of Berlin and other cities in Germany.
On November 9 and 10, 1938, Nazi storm troopers and non-Jewish civilians descended on towns throughout Germany and parts of Austria, destroying Jewish homes, schools, synagogues, hospitals and businesses. At least 91 Jews were killed in the two-day attack, and roughly 30,000 people were arrested and sent to concentration camps. The dark chapter in German history is seen as a precursor to the Holocaust.
U.S. President Barack Obama issued a statement to commemorate the anniversary of Kristallnacht, stating that “the event foreshadowed the systematic slaughter of six million Jews and millions of other innocent victims.”
That Kristallnacht foreshadowed the holocaust is true.
And that the murder of Ernst vom Rath foreshadowed Kristallnacht is also true. Two days before Kristallnacht, vom Rath a junior diplomat, was killed in Paris by Herschel Grynszpan, a teenager, who believed him to be Count Welczek, the German ambassador.
However, there are two things that are not true.
- Grynszpan didn’t shoot Ernst vom Rath because he was angry that Count Welczek expelled his parents from Germany to Poland. [1]
- Grynszpan didn’t shoot Ernst vom Rath because the teenager was having a homosexual affair with the junior diplomat. [1]
So why did Grynszpan shoot Ernst vom Rath on November 7, 1938?
Obama's Healthcare Fix
by Stephen Lendman
He's got himself to blame. He sold a pig in a polk. He backed one of America's greatest ever scams.
It hugely enriches providers. It does so at the expense of giving everyone universal single payer coverage. More on that below.
Obamacare is rife with problems. It leaves millions uninsured. It leaves millions more underinsured. It makes healthcare coverage more expensive.
Mandated market rules include rude awakenings. Many consumers are left paying much more than they thought.
How to Protect Humanity from Perpetual Animosity and Wars?
Dr. Mahboob A. Khawaja
The mankind is fraught with sorrows and pains of institutionalized animosities and wars. When fear of unknown animosities and killings overwhelm the daily thinking process, a society - a nation no matter how normal claims to be, cannot function as normal beings to co-exist with their own self, the surroundings - in the human culture and make any positive contributions to human change and progress. This state of affairs reflects complete societal breakdown and march towards self-annihilation. We are witnessing and living in that delusional culture of human degeneration. Animosity and wars are not outgrowth of celestial bodies but essentially man-made follies throughout the history. All human acts are subject to change and reformation. Over the decades, this vital concern has occupied my scholarly thoughts, human interactions with so many other beings (both in the industrialized West and with people in the developing nations) to find out, how can we safeguard the “succeeding generations from the scourge of wars” and maintain normal societal living and co-existence in diversity. Had this concern and priority been in the thoughts and commitments of the governance of the modern institutions evolved more than half of century ago for global peace and security, it would have supported the sustainable movements for global peace and harmony.
Targeting Press Freedom in Palestine
by Stephen Lendman
Israeli and Palestinian Authority (PA) security forces share guilt. They operate collaboratively.
Journalists and free press activists established the Palestinian Center for Development and Media Freedoms (MADA).
Free expression is the most important of all rights. Without it all others are at risk. Israeli and PA officials notoriously censor truth.
Israeli military censorship bans or sanitizes material it calls potentially harmful to security. It does so whether or not it's true.
Israeli Supreme Court decisions limit content suppression to "tangible (or) near certain" instances of public endangerment. Interpretations are crucial.
Militant MadAmerika
Phillip Farruggio
From the Monday November 4th USA Today cover: “Elite warriors lost without war… For many highly trained ‘killing machines ‘, returning to civilian life is difficult and frightening.” This writer is not making this up, and this is not from some Saturday Night Live script! No, on the contrary, this is just how far our nation has regressed into a militant mindset, whereupon war is the natural course of things. The quintessential question is this: Where are we now at war? It seems that, ever since the last real war our nation engaged in, WW2, this empire has always been militarily involved overseas… but were they really wars? Korea and Vietnam were what our empire’s leaders like to refer to as ‘ Police Actions ‘, shipping our young soldiers into harm’s way to support covert and overt foreign policy decisions.
Former Fed Official Apologizes
by Stephen Lendman
Andrew Huszar is a former Fed official. In 2009 and 2010, he managed its $1.25 trillion mortgaged-backed security purchase program.
He's a former Morgan Stanley managing director. He's currently a Rutgers Business School senior fellow. He's a QE confessor.
He witnessed Bernanke's scam up close and personal. It benefits Wall Street. It ignores Main Street. Bernanke planned it that way.
Investopedia calls QE "monetary policy used to increase the money supply by buying government securities or other securities from the market."
It's supposed to "increase the money supply by flooding financial institutions with capital, in an effort to promote increased lending and liquidity."
Dead in the Water Peace Talks
by Stephen Lendman
Call it the curse of Zionism. Traditional Jews deplore it. True Torah Jews Against Zionism (TTAZ) say it:
● advocates "a political and military end to the Jewish exile;"
● fosters "pseudo-Judaism" based on secular nationalism;
● coercively seeks "armed materialism" in place of "a Divine and Torah centered understanding;"
● endangers all Jews worldwide;
● wants to disassociate Jews and traditional Judaism from ideological Zionism; and
● calls Israel a "Zionist State," not a Jewish one
"(H)atred of Jews and (claimed unique) Jewish suffering is the oxygen of the Zionist movement."
It needs hatred. It manufactures it. Inciting it is longstanding policy. So is manipulating it advantageously. It's to justify Zionism's existence.
It's the enemy of Jews and non-Jews alike. It's a curse. It's a hugely destructive cancer system. It perpetuates myths. Reality exposes its dark side.
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