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Obama's Depression
by Stephen Lendman
Chosen to serve power, not popular interests, Obama wrecked America's economy to save giant Wall Street banks. He's still doing it, despite claiming he's been out in front doing all he can.
By bailing out too-big-to-fail banks and waging multiple imperial wars, he intensified social misery.
As a result, Main Street is mired in protracted Depression. Economist David Rosenberg believes we're in the "third inning" of hard times malaise.
Israeli-Style Peace and Justice
by Stephen Lendman
Israel is a repressive rogue state. Netanyahu bombs Gaza and attacks fishermen while talking peace.
On October 10, without provocation, Israeli jets bombed northern Gaza. An explosion rocked Rafah city. So far, no cause is known but Israel most likely is responsible.
Israeli bulldozers demolished a Palestinian home near Bethlehem after military forces invaded Jab'a village. Palestinians were prevented from entering or leaving.
An Iranian rival for the Guinness Book of World Records
By Kourosh Ziabari
Mirseradji
The Guinness Book of World Records is being challenged with the efforts of a determined Iranian journalist. A new rival is slated to take the place of Guinness World Records in the near future. Sayyed Mortaza Mirseradji, Iranian researcher, journalist and essayist has registered a plan in the Islamic Republic of Iran Ministry of Culture and Islamic Guidance to publish a book containing cultural, spiritual and moral records called "Al-Khayrat."
According to Mirseradji, Al-Khayrat which means "good and decent deeds" in Arabic will be an all-encompassing enterprise including encyclopedic books, movies and cultural organizations which are aimed at spreading cultural and moral records in the world. Some examples of cultural and moral records include the highest number of books written by an author, the longest duration of professorship in the university, the oldest library servant etc.
The Order of the Day Is Not To "Try," But To Succeed
by Lyndon LaRouche
The failure to launch the measures needed to push President Barak Obama into expulsion from office brings the trans-Atlantic financial system ever-nearer to a total breakdown of the present system. Although emergency action to push through Glass-Steagall should be sufficient to bring the U.S. financial-breakdown crisis under at least temporary control, there is still doubt that the mounting pressure for Glass-Steagall legislation will arrive in time to prevent a total disaster throughout not only the U.S.A. itself, but the virtual entirety of the Trans-Atlantic economies. Were that breakdown allowed to occur, it would be nearly impossible to launch any meaningful sort of attempted economic recovery in North America or western Europe. The breakdown through the trans-Atlantic nations would be far worse in magnitude and related effects than Germany's 1923 hyperinflation.
Occupying Wall Street, Washington DC., and The Danger of Electing Rick Perry for President
Ziad elJishi
There is a silent majority in the United States with its representatives starting to become more and more visible. As the everyday non-chalent politics of government and presidential elections in the US continues to ignore the voice of the majority of the people and to continue to support policies that are in direct opposition of the majority of Americans and their welfare with the end result being their alienation, we will see this silent majority come out with much more obvious and determined militant resolve.
Certainly in the last decade or so, there has been a popular resistance movement in the US that perhaps was most obvious in the riots of the 1999 WTO conference in Seattle. Mostly sparked by a core group of committed youths including students who are grounded in leftist and anarchist political ideology and were both determined and committed some times leading to violent clashes with the ruling oligarchy and their enforcers.
Social Justice Protests Head Everywhere
by Stephen Lendman
Ordinary people across the Middle East, Europe and America are fed up and want long denied social justice.
Londoners are enraged about growing social pain, government in the pockets of monied interests, and endless imperial wars they want ended - NOW!
On October 8, The London Guardian headlined, "Stop the War Coalition demo in London marks 10th anniversary of Afghan war," saying:
Obama at the General Assembly: Sacrificing Palestine for Zionist Campaign Funds
James Petras
Introduction
There are two views of Obama’s speech to the General Assembly on September 21, 2011, and his opposition to the recognition of Palestine as a sovereign state and its admission to the UN. The common opinion of foreign policy experts was that Obama led the US to an ignominious diplomatic defeat, deepening US isolation in the international system.
The White House’s blatant parroting of Israel’s position to continue bilateral negotiations, while Tel Aviv continued to colonize Palestinian land and forcibly evict its residents, alienated the 1.5 billion Muslims throughout the world. Obama’s refusal to even mention the return to the 1967 borders as a basis for a “peace settlement”, totally undermined any pretext that the US could act as an “honest broker” in Mid-East peace negotiations, even in the eyes of its most slavish supporters in the PLO. His one-sided reference to Israel’s minimal casualties in maintaining the Occupation, while omitting any mention of the 12,000 Palestinian political prisoners, thousands of assassinations, everyday humiliation, routine torture of suspects and frequent defacement of Palestinian religious centers (mosques and churches, cemeteries and shrines), undermined any US effort to win favor among the millions of people involved in the pro-democracy social movements sweeping the Arab world from Tunisia, Egypt to the Gulf states.
Arab People’s Movements are Winning
Mahboob A. Khawaja, Ph.D.
Challenging the ruthless and egomaniac Arab dictators, the people’s revolutionary movements generate great deal of sensational interest and dramatic impulse on the Western news media-TV screens. Sometime the Western entertaining news media calls it “unrest” or “uprising” befitting to its economic and political aims but in reality are the people’s movements for change and freedom from the yoke of neo-colonialism. The Western military-industrial institutionalized complex needed oil to sustain convenient materialistic life and capitalism, the neo-colonial Arab rulers were the best planned scheme of things to deliver the goodies to the West in return for individual protection, security alliances and delivery of much needed military hardware.
Making Sense of Syria
by Stephen Lendman
Last March, Syria's externally generated uprisings began. Despite legitimate grievances, Washington orchestrated change there like elsewhere in the region.
It's part of its imperial "New Middle East" project to control North Africa, the Middle East and Central Asia to Russia's borders.
NATO Brussels Summit Claims Successful Afghan and Libyan Campaigns
by Stephen Lendman
Despite NATO claims, Libyans heroically keep resisting overwhelming genocidal slaughter. NATO perhaps measures success by body count.
It far exceeds 100,000 and multiples more injured, some life threatening, others debilitating. In a country of six million people, the catastrophic numbers are horrific.
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