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America's War on Islam 2.0
by Stephen Lendman
Waging war at home or abroad requires enemies. America creates them when none exist. Imperial strategy demands them. Post-9/11, Muslims were targeted for political advantage. Post-Boston bombings, America's war on Islam continues. Muslims are "war on terror" scapegoats. Washington's Middle East, North Africa and Central Asia wars rage. It's the wrong time to be Muslims in America. They're persecuted for their faith and ethnicity. At times it's for their activism, prominence, and/or charity
They're dehumanized, spied on, set up as patsies, hunted down, rounded up, held in detention, kept in isolation, denied bail, restricted in their right to counsel, tried on secret evidence, convicted on bogus charges, given long sentences, and treated harshly as political prisoners.
50 Years After MLK’s “Letter from a Birmingham Jail,” What Can We Learn?
By Gary Corseri
It was April, 1963, and Martin Luther King, age 34, had five more years to live. And we have now had fifty years to answer his letter.
Seven to eight years before, he had come to national prominence as leader of the bus boycott staged by the black citizens of Montgomery, Alabama. The boycott had begun when Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat to a white man… and that small act of courage and defiance had jump-started the modern Civil Rights Movement.
Raised in Atlanta, the son, grandson and great-grandson of ministers, King was pastor of the Dexter Avenue Baptist Church, and president of the Montgomery Improvement Association. Smart, hip, articulate, gutsy, idealistic and charismatic, at 27, he had led the boycott for over a year until the Supreme Court had ruled that Montgomery’s segregation laws violated the Constitution’s 14th Amendment, guaranteeing equal rights to all citizens. Now, President of the Atlanta-headquartered Southern Christian Leadership Conference, he sat in a jail cell in Birmingham, writing his thoughts on the margins of a newspaper, responding to eight white, Alabama clergymen who had criticized his “outsider” activism.
Hagel in Israel
by Stephen Lendman
On April 20, Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel began a weeklong Middle East trip.
Planned stops include Israel, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Egypt and the United Arab Republic (UAE).
Late Sunday morning, he arrived in Israel. Discussions will focus on Iran, Syria, and weapons sales to regional allies.
A major arms deal with Israel sends a "very clear signal" to Tehran, he said. Asked if it suggests a potential military strike, he told reporters:
"I don't think there's any question that's another very clear signal to Iran."
"Israel will make the decision that Israel must make to protect itself, to defend itself in a very dangerous, combustible region of the world."
"I think it's important that we keep our eye focused on the objective. And there is no daylight at all (between Washington and Israel) - that Iran is prevented from acquiring a nuclear capacity."
Post Peak Sanity, Oil & Freedom; Pre Peak Thirst, Hunger, War and Ponzi Fascism aka 'Organic' Back Yard Urban Tomatoes vs. New York Beekeeping
by Tracy Turner
Brett Redmayne-Titley OEN-banned OathKeepers Article Ruth Hull OEN-banned Chris Dorner (Implied) 6th Amendment Right Article
Robert Singer OEN-banned Articles Nom de Plures Revealed
Tracy Turner OEN-banned PlumeGate Fukushima Article Tracy Turner Peak Everything Article (Peak Insanity, Fascism, Thirst & Hunger)
Going Green In New York Includes Rooftop Bees and 'Healthful' Potted Herb Plants From Quaratine 37 sold by "Green" Walmart, Lowes or Home Depot - Smelled their 'Green' Pesticide Aisles?
Kids, come outside to Arkansas, Mommy's going to show you how insanely cruel Tyson factory farm grows antibiotic chickens... ...then on to Florida to show you airplanes burning high-octane aviation gas (and tractors with a centrifical-spray-rig) soaking oranges with Acephate. Said tractors are diesel-gluttons, spraying Orthene on Citrus crops that roll to supermarkets near our rurban home in trains and trucks belching diesel smog. Oil companies are evil - pontificated 900 times daily in lefty rags, 4-5 billion of us will starve in 2-3 weeks if the supply stops. Think of oil as heroin or methadone for suburb people. You are evil, you keep using bigger and bigger hits and buying more dime bags... Your wife gets high on the two SUV's in the driveway and pops out another oil-eater (GMO Similac eats oil, baby eats oil) to show her gratitude. Stop oil, and Mom, Dad and baby have no more GMO's to eat.
By Any Other Name… Terrorism Sucks!!
Philip A Farruggio
Terrorize: To fill with terror… to coerce by intimidation
It saddened me to hear of that young eight year old boy killed by the bombs in Boston. The other two people dead by that terror attack only further saddened this writer. Yet, the conversation throughout our mainstream media and by our general populace concerning such an act ended with that act of terror. Why, I asked, are not all acts of recent terrorism discussed and condemned by my fellow Americans? Does it have to be the torn apart body of one of our own that exclusively raises our ire?
When a suicide bomber blows away the lives of students and other civilians in an Israeli café, my eyes fill with tears. When Israeli Apache helicopters blast away the lives of innocent Palestinians, more tears flow. Terrorism has no parameters. It sucks no matter who does the killing and who does the dying. The overkill of the cities of Dresden and Tokyo with incendiary WMDs was just as ghastly as the ‘Rape of Nanking ‘and the carpet bombing of London. In any war, to destroy the lives of civilian non combatants is terrorism, plain and simple. Yet, my fellow Americans, many of them… most of them, could not give a rat’s ass for what our military has done in Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan and Libya… to name but a few such places.
What the Gosnell abortion trial really shows us
Mary Shaw
The Philadelphia murder trial of late-term abortion doctor Kermit Gosnell has now made the national news. Gosnell is accused of murdering seven preterm infants who were born alive during attempted abortions, as well as a pregnant Nepalese woman who died from an overdose of a sedative delivered by Gosnell's untrained staff.
Some anti-choice activists are pointing to the Gosnell case to demonstrate why abortion should be outlawed. But doing so is naive - and downright invalid - for a number of reasons.
Anatomy of a False Flag
by Stephen Lendman
False flags are an American tradition. They go way back. The Boston bombings appear the latest. More on that below.
Notable earlier false flags or incidents approximating them include:
In 1845, America lawlessly annexed Texas. It was Mexican territory. President James Polk deployed US troops. A future president led them. General Zachary Taylor paraded them along the disputed border.
In May 1846, Polk told cabinet officials that if Mexican forces retaliated, he'd ask Congress to declare war. He wanted it whether or not Mexico attacked. After an incident occurred, Polk told Congress:
"Mexico has passed the boundary of the US and shed American blood on American soil." The Mexican War followed.
Venezuela's Maduro Inaugurated
by Stephen Lendman
Latin American and other heads of state attended Maduro's inaugural ceremony. Earlier he accused opposition forces of triggering post-election violence.
"We have stopped a coup in its first stage," he said. "They are beaten, but they are coming back with a new attack." On Thursday, he flew to Lima.
He attended an emergency UNASUR meeting with other Latin American leaders. He did so to discuss what's ongoing. It continues. Opposition leader Capriles publicly urged supporters to carry out desruptive actions.
Washington's long arm is involved. Maduro understands the threat. Hopefully he's up to the challenge.
Where did they find the money to send troops to Jordan?
Michael Collins
That's your Sunday moment of Zen. We have sent troops to Jordan, specifically to the Jordan - Syria border.
The United States budget is in an state of disarray. The crazies and the sleepwalkers in Congress can't engage in rational analysis and planning, so we're forced into robo-budget cutting. Even without the histrionics of historic proportion, it is time to pay close attention to expenditures based on priorities for the vast majority of citizens. (Image)
The real unemployment rate is 23% when you count all those once employed who would work and those forced into part time employment. Our neglect of the environment and de facto stupidity has advanced climate change beyond the point of no return unless very prompt action is taken to correct the situation.
So what do those in power do? Send troops to Jordan.
When Will We Ever Learn?
Franklin Lamb
This observer has no idea if the American Ambassador here in Beirut, Maury Connolly or Secretary of State John Kerrey has ever listened to Marlene Dietrich’s classic October 1965 performance of Pete Seeger’s “Where Have All The Flowers Gone,” still stunning, deeply moving and available on the Internet.
But on this 30th anniversary of the bombing of the US Embassy in Beirut I found myself near the old embassy site on the sea front for personal reasons, and stepped down the block below the American University of Beirut to meet a friend at Starbucks. When I entered, maybe the 5th time in my life I have been to a Starbucks since I don’t drink coffee and for political reasons tend to avoid the chain,I noticed someone was playing Dietrich’s classic.
Having just read reports in the Lebanese media concerning the American Ambassador and Secretary of State’s political comments on the embassy events, three decades on, Marlene’s enchanting, deep voiced, “When will they every learn,?” numbed me.
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