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Time to be Honest about Jobs, Reality Begs for Serious Solutions
By Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers
After his State of the Union, President Obama took a jobs tour to call for growth in the manufacturing base where only 6% of US jobs exist. This was a charade. It would be like a president touring horse, buggy and blacksmiths in search of jobs when Henry Ford was mass producing cars.
Real manufacturing output today is near an all-time high. What’s dropped precipitously in recent decades is manufacturing employment.
The technology of automation and robotics is ending manufacturing jobs. The president was on a quest for jobs where none exist, will not exist and should not exist. The US with 4% of the world’s population is responsible for 20% of manufacturing output. More manufacturing is not coming to the United States.
University of Ottawa Racism, Censorship and Abuse of Power
by Stephen Lendman
In June 2008, Allan Rock became university president. He's a former Canadian politician and UN ambassador. He's a pro-Israeli flack. He supports its worst crimes.
His administration is unprincipled. It's marked by secrecy, political censorship, abuse of power, and repudiation of fundamental university values.
He targets academic and speech freedoms. He violates Canadian law.
Profile of Imperial Lawlessness
by Stephen Lendman
Israel is second only to America in imperial lawlessness. Both nations partner in high crimes too grave to ignore.
Neither admits fault. One conflict leads to others. Both nations are modern-day Spartas. They live by the sword. Perhaps one day they'll perish by it. Humanity may not last that long.
State terror is official policy. Palestinians suffered for decades.Professor Yehuda Bauer is Hebrew University's Institute of Contemporary Jewry Professor Emeritus.
The ex-pope and the holiness myth
Mary Shaw
So now Pope Benedict XVI has retired, and the cardinals will be choosing a new leader.
Meanwhile, sentimental Catholics and others have been praising the now-former pontiff. They call him a holy man. However, in looking back through his record, I see much that is downright unholy.
Perhaps most obvious is his role in the cover-up of clergy sex abuse.
Sequester Chicken
by Stephen Lendman
On March 1, $85 billion in automatic sequestered cuts are scheduled. Congress may or may permit them. Obama calls instituting them dire. On February 19, he said.
"(They) won't help the economy, won't create jobs, will visit hardship on a whole lot of people."
He spent four years benefitting bankers, war profiteers, other corporate favorites, and super-rich elites. He did so at the expense of middle America. Others most disadvantaged suffered more.
Accountability Now
by Stephen Lendman
State terrorism is official Israeli policy. Torture and cold-blooded murder define it. Arafat Jaradat is Israel's latest victim. He died wracked in pain Saturday.
Israel attributed it to cardiac arrest. Shin Bet claimed no detectable health problems during interrogation. Accusations of torture were dismissed. Coverup and denial don't wash.
Plight of Palestinians in Israeli Prisons
By Khalid Amayreh
Journalist — Occupied Palestine
Samer Eisawi has been on an intermittent hunger strike for 212 days. (Reuters)
As the agony of hunger-striking Palestinian inmates continues unabated, the Israeli government has surprised observers with a secretly-adopted new set of laws. The laws allow for the re-arrest and indefinite incarceration of Palestinian political and resistance prisoners released in a deal brokered by Egypt nearly a year and a half ago.
The Israeli justice system is widely thought to be a mere rubber stamp in the hands of the powerful security establishment, especially the domestic intelligence agency known as Shin Bet.
The Failure of the Israeli Justice System
Palestinian lawyers and human rights activists have called the Israeli feat "scandalous and immoral." The Palestinian Authority (PA) minister for Prisoners’ Affairs Issa Karakei'a described the disclosed Israeli laws as "an immoral act befitting thieves and gangsters."
IAEA Report Confirms Iran's Peaceful Nuclear Program
by Stephen Lendman
It's no surprise. It's been that way for years. Iran's legally entitled to enrich uranium. Dozens of other countries do the same thing.
Tehran alone is criticized. Managed news misinformation begets more of it. Washington, Israel, and European partner collaborators repeat it ad nauseam.
Pat Robertson’s “God”, Salafi Muslims and Demon Spirits
By Ali Baghdadi
On February 25, 2013, Mr. Pat Robertson, a Christian Anglican leader, surprised us with a new heavy weight “revelation”. Responding to an email from a troubled young woman, he told the whole world that bought or donated old sweaters and other clothes and objects could be attached to demon spirits. Those scary unforeseen stubborn “creatures” normally cause people a lot of trouble and suffering. Washing and cleaning these items won’t convince wicked spirits to leave.
Fortunately, a prayer over old things we obtain as secondhand before we bring them home or a donation to Mr. Robertson’s “club” will help get rid of these demons. In the United States of America, the leader of the “civilized” world, there are other preachers who share Mr. Robertson views and convictions. They are men and sometimes women of “god”. They possess unimaginable power. With a touch of their hand, people with untreatable diseases or injuries are immediately “healed”.
Calling Out the Misleaders of the Phony ‘Progressives’ and the Fake U.S. ‘Left’
By Larry Pinkney
“It is both sad and simultaneously horribly fascinating to observe so many euphorically pinning their hopes and dreams on Barack Obama, a chameleon who speaks liberally of ‘change’ but who is, himself, beholden to the very same blood-sucking corporate vampires (including Lockheed and others) who are ravaging the people of America, and the entire planet…Many Black Americans and our Brown and Red sisters and brothers will, I fear, come to be deeply disappointed in Barack Obama, once he demonstrates who he really is. There will be no peace or justice under an Obama presidency. Even the majority of White Americans, with the exception of the corporate liberals and conservatives, may yet come to realize that Obama’s interests are corporate interests; they are not the needs and interests of everyday people, who represent the overwhelming majority of this nation and the world.”
–Article entitled, Barack Obama and the Euphoria of Madness, by Larry Pinkney, The Black Commentator – February 7, 2008 – Issue 263
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