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Getting into Massa's Drawers: Truly Creepy Details about the Congressman

March 26th, 2010

by Greg Palast

For the two weeks before tickle-and-grope charges busted open on him, and before his resignation from Congress, our BBC Television investigations team was hunting for Representative Eric Massa.

We wanted to know what he had hidden in his drawers. Not his knickers, which have captivated America's peep-show media, but Massa's file drawers where he keeps his dirtier secrets.

Frankly, I don't give a rat's ass about Massa's creepy little peccadilloes. But I care an awful lot about creeps that quietly backed him.

Massa plays himself as a two-fisted Progressive Democrat, telling the President to jam his fake health care bill where the Rahm don't shine, and he gave the Iraq war his middle finger. I mean, the guy was on Rachel Maddow.

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In death row case, Supreme Court came through but Texas remains guilty

March 26th, 2010

Mary Shaw

On March 24, the U.S. Supreme Court issued a stay of execution for Texas death row inmate Hank Skinner. The stay will allow the Court more time to consider Skinner's civil rights claim that he is entitled to DNA testing which he believes will prove his innocence. The news came just one hour before Skinner was to be strapped to the gurney.

While this is certainly a relief, it does nothing to address the underlying fact that the authorities in Texas were ready and eager to execute Skinner without testing the available evidence. Apparently it's not important to them to be absolutely sure that they're killing the right guy.

Had the Supreme Court not intervened, Skinner would probably be dead now. And what if the DNA were later tested and proved that he was indeed innocent? We may be close to Easter, but there's no resurrecting an executed man.

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The McCain-Lieberman Police State Act

March 26th, 2010

by Stephen Lendman

If enacted, it will advance what this writer addressed in a December 2007 article titled, "Police State America - A Look Back and Ahead," covering numerous Bush administration laws, Executive Orders (EOs), National and Homeland Security Presidential Directives, edicts, and various illegal acts targeting designated domestic and foreign adversaries, dissent, civil liberties, human rights, and other democratic freedoms.

Straightaway post-9/11, George Bush signed a secret finding empowering the CIA to "Capture, Kill or Interrogate Al-Qaeda Leaders." He also authorized establishing a covert global gulag to detain and interrogate them without guidelines on proper treatment.

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"Mommy, Mommy! Why Am I Fat?"

March 26th, 2010

By David Kendall

Malnutrition comes in a delightful assortment of colorful flavors nowadays. But poverty and obesity are a correlation that Americans find hard to swallow.

"Genetics and family history can predict whether you will become obese but then so can your ZIP code," says Adam Drewnowski, world-renowned leader in innovative research approaches for the prevention and treatment of obesity, and Director of the Nutritional Sciences Program at the University of Washington in Seattle. In December of 2003, Drewnowski said, "If poverty and obesity are truly linked, it will be a major challenge to stay poor and thin." [1]

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WE WILL NEVER BE ABLE TO REPAY OUR DEBT TO HAITI

March 26th, 2010

Victor Ramos - President, SOS International Discrimination


Alexander Petion

If liberty is priceless, we will never be able to repay our debt to Haiti. The support of that Caribbean nation for Latin-American emancipation cost her dearly. Almost as much as the price she has paid for her own very existence. A price much, much higher than the earthquake that has now devastated her.

Haiti has been punished and drowned in abject poverty - almost on purpose. And we were accomplices.

This year we celebrate the bicentennial of our independence, and it is important to realize that without the decisive support of the Republic of Haiti, that independence could have not been accomplished. Or at least, not at that time, or in that form.

When Jose de San Martin faced the advance of the Spanish royalists and the conspiracy from Buenos Aires; when Simon Bolivar flew to Jamaica after his defeat in the Venezuelan coasts; when the monarchy of the unscrupulous Fernando VII with its arsenal and army of veterans of the Napoleonic wars devastated Latin America with fire and blood, the luminous figure arose of Alexander Petion, President of Haiti.

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The Afghan ant hole

March 25th, 2010

Eric Walberg

NATO plans for Afghanistan this year are shaping up nicely: negotiate with the Taliban, but at the same time kill them in Kandahar and Kunduz.

A joint operation involving several thousand troops was launched in Kandahar last week, the second one this year after Operation Mushtarak in Helmand province. Kandahar has been the bailiwick of 2,500 contingent of Canadian troops who have suffered heavy losses in this mountainous home of the Taliban. It is ruled by a Canadian national, Governor Tooryalai Wesa, a close friend of President Hamid Karzai’s brother Ahmed Wali Karzai, chairman of the Kandahar provincial council, infamous for his involvement in the drug trade.

Already, there are strong indications from Marja, that the new offensive will run into trouble. The Taliban claimed responsibility for a suicide bombing there two weeks ago that killed 35. Though Marja now has one coalition soldier or policeman for every eight residents, after dark the city is like “the kingdom of the Taliban”, said a tribal elder in Marja. “The government and international forces cannot defend anyone even one kilometre from their bases.”

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Freedom in One Word

March 25th, 2010

by Michael Boldin

Now that Heath Care legislation has passed, the obvious question for opponents is this: Now What? My answer is best summed up with just one word:

Marijuana.

No, I don’t mean that you should go out and smoke away your anger and frustration. Instead, you should feel empowered. The best way to explain this is by telling the story of a disabled mother from Northern California.

ANGEL’S STORY

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The Chicanery of the Democratic Party Foxes

March 25th, 2010

Larry Pinkney

A rotten, poisonous, stinking pie is far worse than no pie at all. Yet, this is precisely what the corporate Democratic Party and corporate “news” media have repeatedly forced down the throats of the ‘American’ people, cloaked in the deceptive rhetoric of “change” and “reform.”

The Democratic Party foxes and the Republican Party wolves are not in the least bit interested in breaking their insidious feeding frenzy with the corporate Wall Street / military industrial complex. However, at this stage in history, it is the Democratic Party foxes who have taken deception, authoritarianism, wars abroad, a de facto police state at home, and constant subterfuge to the lowest depths of political cynicism and manipulation yet to be experienced by this nation.

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Obamacare's Passage: A Full-Scale Retreat

March 25th, 2010

by Stephen Lendman

After eight years under George Bush, people demanded change. Obama and congressional Democrats promised it, then disappointed by accomplishing the impossible - governing worse than skeptics feared, worse than Republicans across the board on both domestic and foreign policies.

They looted the nation's wealth, wrecked the economy, consigned millions to impoverishment without jobs, homes, savings, social services, or futures while expanding global militarism through imperial wars, occupations, and stepped up aggression on new fronts with the largest ever "war" budget in history - way over $1 trillion dollars annually plus supplementals and secret add-ons, greater than the rest of the world combined when America has no enemies.

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How Can Mujica Say He Is Against Violence When Uruguayan Soldiers Under His Command Are Killing Haitians?

March 25th, 2010

James Petras

Comments for CX36 Radio Centenario of American Sociologist, Prof. James Petras from the United States. Monday, 22 March 2010 "that Mujica is saying is that state violence is not violence, that violence only when people resist oppressors. And when he says that the FARC have become a political movement, the FARC has stated many times-and practiced-the fact of being a political organization. The Patriotic Union many FARC militants disarmed down from the mountains, formed a party and suffered five thousand dead, imprisoned and disappeared the Patriotic Union speech then what makes these pronouncements Mujica when a total ignorance of the political environment that exists in Colombia?" www.radio36.com.uy

Chury: We're like every Monday here in Montevideo, Uruguay, to devote this space to analyzing the information in the world and connect with James Petras there in New York, USA.

Petras: good day, how are you?, Welcome

Chury: We're fine, trying to analyze some of the coverage reports on Obama's health plan that won a narrow vote in the U.S. Congress and other issues in relation to policies in Latin America at this time.

Petras: What this means in particular health plan and becoming as essential to such care as in the United States and has shown many shortcomings?

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