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Revisiting Iran’s Green Movement
Jalal Alavi
Iran’s Green Movement is the subject of much controversy these days.
While some are of the opinion that it is no more than a civil rights movement in pursuit of specific concessions from those in power, there are those to whom the movement is no less than a revolutionary phenomenon destined to topple the Islamic Republic [1].
Whatever the truth behind such speculations, one thing is for certain: Iran’s Green Movement is the concrete embodiment of an emerging democratic consciousness on the part of the majority of Iranians, and, as such, cannot be reduced to its component parts, including its leaders.
Fixing A Bad Supreme Court Decision
Joel S. Hirschhorn
Sensible, intelligent Americans are furious over the recent Supreme Court 5-to-4-decision referred to as Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission that struck down limits on corporate spending in presidential and congressional elections. Those of us who wail against the corpocracy with its corruption of government could hardly believe that this decision could in any way be justified. A major reaction has been a number of groups calling for a constitutional amendment to fix the problem.
It helps to know that three current constitutional amendments resulted because of Supreme Court decisions that needed remedial action: the Eleventh Amendment (shoring up states’ legal immunity), the Sixteenth Amendment (authorizing a federal income tax), and the Twenty-sixth Amendment (assuring eighteen-year-olds the right to vote).
Haiti's Earthquake: Natural or Engineered
by Stephen Lendman
Human activity can cause destructive harm. Columbia University geophysical hazards research scientist, Christian Klose, studies how, including from mining. In a recent paper, he said:
"mining activities disturb the in-situ stress in the upper continental crust and can trigger earthquakes (human-triggered seismicity)."
Past examples are numerous:
The World is Silent as Escalating Zionist Brutality and Unending Occupation Push the Palestinian People Towards Destruction
Salim Nazzal
the USA chooses to support the Zionist occupiers by all means, finacialy, militarily,
diplomatically, Palestinians and Arabs saw that their life destroyed by the US support
In light of the escalation of the Zionist brutality in the longest occupation in modern history , and the absence of international pressure on Israel, will Palestinians be pushed towards the theory of, let’s destroy the temple over all?
Bluntly speaking, this is the fact the world and Jews in particular need to think seriously of. The rejection of the peoples of the region, Palestinians, Arabs, Persians, and Turks to the Zionist state carries a strong message that the region is fed up with the Zionist Jewish occupation and the Zionist Jewish brutality. Since 1948, the date the zionist state was enforced into the region, the only news peoples hear is: Israel murders, Israel massacres, Israel expels native palestinians and replace them with over sees Jews, Israel arrests, Israel occupies, Israel develops atomic weapons, Israel develops biological weapons.
Declaration of Independance, then and now?
by: Endisnighe
A little discussion about the Correlation of the past and the present.
First off, lets take a look at the Declaration of Independance.
Natural Law assertion
When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.
Tennessee Senate Republicans Trample Over Voter Rights
Keith Talley
NASHVILLE - Tennessee Democratic Party Chairman Chip Forrester called yesterday's action by the Senate to delay the Tennessee Voters Confidence Act a partisan move by Republican leadership to deny the state's voters fair and accurate elections.
"Tennessee voters got the shaft today by a shameless group of Republican politicians bent on winning at all costs," Forrester said. "They evidently could care less about trampling on democracy. I hope voters understand they have been had by a group of politicians who cooked up an elaborate scheme to steal elections here in Tennessee.
Supreme Court Rules in Favor of Fascism
by Len Hart, The Existentialist Cowboy
As events this week have proven, SCOTUS is too highly venerated. Their latest outrage is the decree that 'corporations are people' and may spend as much money as they like in order to get their stooges into public office.
It is the worst decision since Bush v Gore which was, at the time, compared to Dred-Scott which in 1857, seven out of nine Supreme Court Justices declared that no slave or descendant of a slave could be a U.S. citizen. As a non-citizen, the court stated, Dred Scott himself had no rights whatsoever and could not sue in a Federal Court! The court ruled that he must remain a slave.
NETANYAHU, HEGEL AND THE JEWISH SPIRIT
BY GILAD ATZMON
“Spirit does not toss itself about in the external play of chance occurrences; on the contrary, it is that which determines history absolutely, and it stands firm against the chance occurrences which it dominates and exploits for its own purpose”. (Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel 1770 – 1831)
PM Netanyahu was quoted by the Israeli Ynet last week saying that the “whole of Israel would be surrounded by a fence eventually”. According to another report he said “there will be no choice but to fence Israel in on all directions”. What Netanyahu means by ‘fence’ and ‘all directions’ may be left open for the time being. However, PM Netanyahu has managed to bring to light an Hegelian interpretation of the notion of ‘Jewish spirit’ as a relentless inclination towards segregation and isolation. It is the tendency to keep oneself apart that determines and shapes Jewish collectivism. Whether it is the Zionists and their walls, the Orthodox and their Kosher universe or even Jewish anti Zionists and their racially segregated miniature activist cells, somehow every form of Jewish political engagement is there to set the Jews apart.
Russia, Turkey and the Great Game: Changing teams
Eric Walberg
Russian President Dmitri Medvedev’s visit to Turkish last month shows that Turkey and Russia are rapidly developing close economic and political ties.
For all intents and purposes, Turkey has given up on the European Union, recognising it as a bastion of Islamophobia and captive to US diktat. As Switzerland bans minarets and France moves to outlaw the niqab, the popular Islamist government in Istanbul moves in the opposite direction -- supporting the freedom to wear headscarfs, boldly criticising Israel and building bridges with Syria. This is nothing less than a fundamental realignment of Turkish politics towards Turkey’s natural allies -- the Arabs ... and the Russians.
The Anti-War Peace Movement Needs a Re-Start, America Needs a Patriotic, Broad-Based and Politically Independent Opposition to War
By Kevin Zeese
In his first year President Obama broke several war-making records of President George W. Bush. He passed the largest military budget in U.S. history, the largest one-year war supplementals and fired the most drone attacks on the most countries. He began 2010 asking for another $30 billion war supplemental and with the White House indicating that the next military budget will be $708 billion, breaking Obama’s previous record.
While some commentators on MSNBC hailed Obama as the peace candidate, he has done more for war in a shorter time than many other commanders-in-chief. U.S. attacks on other countries are not challenged in any serious way even if they result in consistent loss of innocent civilian life. It is not healthy for American democracy to allow unquestioned militarism and put war budgets on a path of automatic growth despite the U.S. spending as much as the rest of the world combined on weapons and war.
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