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Latin America and the Paradoxes of Anti-Imperialism and Class Struggle
James Petras
The complexities of the new political relations in Latin America require that we breakdown what previously was the unified components of anti-imperialist politics.
For example in the past, anti-imperialist regimes pursued policies which opposed US military aggression and intervention in Latin America and throughout the third world; opposed foreign investment especially in extractive sectors; and, not infrequently, expropriated or nationalized strategic sectors; opposed joint military exercises and training missions; supported nationalist liberation movements and extended political – material support; diversified trade and investment to other economic regions and countries; developed regional political organizations which opposed imperialism and formed regional economic organizations which excluded the US.
Elizabeth Warren: Hold the Cheers
by Stephen Lendman
Populism isn't a Beltway attribute. Or good faith. Or supporting government of, by and for everyone equitably and fairly.
Monied interests run America. Republicans and Democrats serve at their discretion. They constitute duopoly power. They're two sides of the same coin. On major issues mattering most, not a dime's worth of difference separates them.
In September 2010, Obama appointed then Harvard Law Professor Elizabeth Warren as interim Bureau of Consumer Financial Protection (BCFP) head until a permanent director was named.
Organized Labor in America Today
by Stephen Lendman
Labor Day once had meaning. Workers had reason to celebrate hard won rights. No longer. More on this below.
The day is commemorated on the first Monday of September. It's been so since 1882.
In June 1894, it became a federal holiday. It was when workers had few rights. Management controlled things. Labor was systematically exploited.
It took many years of organizing, taking to the streets, going on strike, boycotting management, battling police and National Guard forces, and paying with blood and lives to win rights.
They included an eight-hour day, a living wage, employer-paid benefits, and passage of the 1935 landmark Wagner Act.
It established the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB). It guaranteed labor the right to bargain collectively on equal terms with management. It did so for the first time.
Israel's Latest Land Grab
by Stephen Lendman
On Sunday, Israel's Civil Administration announced confiscation of around 1,000 acres of privately owned Palestinian land.
It lawlessly declared it State Land. It's to establish a Gva'ot settlement. It's located south of Bethlehem. It's in the Southern West Bank.
Peace Now calls itself "the leading voice of Israeli public pressure for peace." It called Israel's action "unprecedented."
In 1984, Gva'ot was established as a military base. Earlier, Israel's Housing Ministry planned to build 15,000 units. The idea was to establish a city in Gva'ot.
Smaller plans substituted. The new announcement expands Gva'ot. It'll become a new settlement. It may connect to the Green Line.
Peace Now called Sunday's announcement "proof (that) Netanyahu does not (want) a new 'Diplomatic Horizon' but" intends blocking Palestinian self-determination.
THE RUSSIANS
GAITHER STEWART
"Native land of enduring patience,
The land of the Russian people!"
(Fyodor Tiutchev, (1803-1873), Romantic poet, second to Pushkin)
Russia has been forced to fight off invaders and plunderers for millennia. The West has attacked her directly (Napoleon, the Nazis), or by proxy (The Turks in the 1850s Crimean War, egged on by the French and British) almost every 50 years. Russia has always prevailed—or survived—but at huge cost in lives and suffering. Image: Relief of the (British) Light Brigade, National Army Museum.
Question 1 for 9/11 Smarties: What really happened on September 11, 2001?
By Elizabeth Young
Nineteen fanatical Arab hijackers, masterminded by an evil genius named Osama bin Laden, crashed airplanes into important buildings in the N.E. sector in the United States because they “hate our freedoms,”
is a conspiracy between Osama Bin Laden (who isn’t even wanted by the FBI [1q]) and the Arab terrorists who the U.S. government claims hijacked planes and crashed them in to important buildings in the N.E. sector in the United States.
“Conspiracy” is a REAL word for a REAL act that has existed in human societies in all cultures throughout human history. If conspiracies did not exist, we would not have a word for it. The problem that we face today is that the US Government has arrogated to itself a singular role as a political pontificate that believes that it and its agents in the Justice Department, alone, constitute the only “person” (corporate person) on this Earth who is allowed to use the word “conspiracy” as it employs the charge of “conspiracy” every week in trials to put both guilty and innocent people in jail while deriding and discrediting all others who employ the word as “conspiracy theorists.” (Paris Flammonde) [2q]
There are inside, outside and even an outside inside stories (conspiracy theories) about what really happened on 911.
Test your knowledge of the September 11, 2001 stories and see if you can spot the Terrorist Job (the story), The Inside Job/Global Domination (the story behind the story), The Exotic Weapon story (another story behind the story) or The Metaphysical story (the story behind the story behind the story behind the story!).
Selling Nato's Killing Machine
by Stephen Lendman
On August 17, the Wall Street Journal and Washington Post featured op-eds selling NATO at a time when its existence more than ever threatens humanity's survival. More on them below.
Claiming NATO is a "political and military alliance for peace and security" is farcical on its face. Its mission is polar opposite.
US-led NATO is an imperial tool. It's a global killing machine. It prioritizes war. It deplores peace. Humanity's survival hangs in the balance.
NATO includes 28 member nations, 22 Euro-Atlantic Partnership Council (EAPC) ones, seven Mediterranean Dialogue countries, and four Istanbul Cooperation Initiative (ICI) states.
They comprise nearly one-third of world nations. NATO plans exponential expansion. It wants new members and partners.
Hard Truths on Ukraine MSM Suppress
by Stephen Lendman
On September 4 and 5, Britain will host a summit meeting of NATO heads of state. NATO Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen will chair the proceedings.
At issue is justifying the unjustifiable. It's doing so based on Big Lies. It's wrongfully accusing Russia of "illegal actions in Ukraine."
It's suppressing polar opposite truths. It's supporting Washington's imperial agenda. It's presenting a unified anti-Russian front.
It's deploying thousands of combat-ready forces closer to Russia's border. It's "sustain(ing) a robust (Eastern European) presence…"
It's risking the unthinkable. It's risking open East/West confrontation. it's risking global war.
Ravaging and Destroying Syria
by Stephen Lendman
Advancing America's imperium matters most. Core international, constitutional and US statute laws aren't important.
Nor high crimes against peace. On geopolitical issues mattering most, MSM editors, correspondents, columnists and contributors support what demands condemnation.
Syria is Obama's war. He launched it. He continues it. He’s guilty of horrendous high crimes against peace.
He bears full responsibility for what UN High Commissioner for Refugees Antonio Guterres calls "the biggest humanitarian emergency of our era." Nearly half of all Syrians are affected.
No end of conflict looms. Takfiri extremists serve as US proxies. They're imported from dozens of countries.
Russia's Foreign Ministry on Ukraine
by Stephen Lendman
Russia's efforts to end Ukrainian crisis conditions are heroic. Washington obstructionism prevents it.
Complicit EU states share blame. So does Kiev's illegitimate putschist government.
Daily Western propaganda rages out-of-control. It represents upside reality. Truth is repeatedly suppressed. Big Lies substitute.
Russian Federation Minister of Foreign Affairs Sergey Lavrov is a world class diplomat. He deplores war. He champions peace.
He tirelessly pursues it. His heroic efforts to end Syrian and Ukrainian conflicts stand out.
He's done it despite ruthless US-led Western opposition. He deserves Nobel Peace Prize recognition.
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