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EMPEROR GEORGE AND THE LOST WAR IN IRAQ
By Susan Lindauer, former U.S. back channel to Iraq and the second non-Arab American arrested on the Patriot Act
Once upon a time there was a President named George who wanted to be Emperor. (Not a bad idea. He was a lousy President. He really needed a different job.)
President George had traveled to Mexico—once. So he figured the whole world was pretty much like Texas. He thought about it for, oh, five minutes. What he needed was a country far, far away to invade. Surely those foreigners would be charmed by his folksy swagger (being more primitive and all). They'd appreciate him more than those Gosh Darn Americans, who had awfully high expectations of a President. Why, he imagined these foreigners would bow and scrape and wow over his every golf shot.
So he pulled out a map. And he saw Iraq--- with a "Q." And he asked one of his ministers what he'd heard about this place. The minister's eyes got bright: "Ohhh," he said. "Iraq's got oil and pipelines. We could make some serious profits if we grabbed Baghdad, and tossed its rulers in the trash can of history."
The Great Work of the Occupy Wall Street Movement
Heather Wodehouse
Occupy Wall Street is like no protest before it. As it spreads like wildfire across cities around the world, it protests the power that profit-driven and amoral corporations have over the world, including our governments. Occupy Wall Street champions the interests of the people. It voices the powerlessness the 99% feel over the way the 1% is running the world. It asks for the return of true, uncorrupted democracy and the redistribution of wealth and power among people. It wants change: deep, radical and lasting change.
This type of world-shaking change is exactly what Thomas Berry’s book, The Great Work, demands. He argues that today, humanity’s Great Work is to figure out how to live in a mutually beneficial and supportive relationship with the rest of the universe. He makes it very clear that environmental concerns are not to be relegated to one department of the government, of the university, of the corporation, of our lives. The very opposite is true: we humans are only one tiny part of the universe. Living by values that tell us otherwise will surely end our part in the earth’s history.
I Want My Country Back
from: Jimmy Copens and Sam Cooper, Jericat Music, Red Heart Records
Music: Jimmy Copens and Sam Cooper
Lyrics: Jimmy Copens, Philip Austin, James Reed, Sam Cooper
Produced by Jimmy Copens and Sam Cooper / Red Heart Records
QE4: Forgive the Students
Ellen Brown
Among the demands of the Wall Street protesters is student debt forgiveness—a debt “jubilee.” Occupy Philly has a “Student Loan Jubilee Working Group,” and other groups are studying the issue. Commentators say debt forgiveness is impossible. Who would foot the bill? But there is one deep pocket that could pull it off—the Federal Reserve. In its first quantitative easing program (QE1), the Fed removed $1.3 trillion in toxic assets from the books of Wall Street banks. For QE4, it could remove $1 trillion in toxic debt from the backs of millions of students.
The economy would only be the better for it, as was shown by the G.I. Bill, which provided virtually-free higher education for returning veterans, along with low-interest loans for housing and business. The G.I. Bill had a sevenfold return. It was one of the best investments Congress ever made.
Targeted for assassination by NATO? Will Seif al Islam Gadhafi survive to have his day in court?
Franklin Lamb
During the late evening of 10/20/11 the White House, the Office of the Secretary of State, the US Senate Foreign Relations Committee and the Libyan Embassy in Washington, DC received a faxed communication from an American organized international legal team currently preparing their departure to Libya.
Doubts About Gaddafi's Reported Assassination
by Stephen Lendman
NATO, Washington, Western media, Qatar-controlled Al Jazeera, Saudi-controlled Al Arabia, UK-controlled BBC, and other mainstream sources reported his death. More on that below.
On October 20, Mathaba.net disputed official accounts, saying:
"Green Committees have confirmed that the leader is alive, and that the enemy is seeking to take advantage of his being currently out of communications."
Israel Arrests Palestinians While Releasing Others
by Stephen Lendman
In mid-October, Netanyahu's cabinet agreed to free 1,027 Palestinian political prisoners in two waves (including 27 women and nearly 300 children) in return for Hamas releasing Gilad Shalit after over five years in captivity.
Wave one is completed, freeing 477 Palestinians. In two months, phase two will release another 550. According to terms, 203 will be deported, 40 exiled overseas, and 163 expelled to Gaza.
Currently, Israel still holds over 5,000 detainees. As a result of torture, medical neglect, or assassinations, over 200 died martyrs in captivity. Another 302 are called "veteran detainees," serving 17 years or longer.
Canada Pursues U.S.-Style Security and Foreign Policy
By Dana Gabriel
In the last number of years, there has been a dramatic shift in Canadian security and foreign policy with regards to continental, hemispheric and global issues. While Canada is working with the U.S. on a North American security perimeter deal, there are also efforts to strengthen defense relations with Britain and other allies. Canada has also elevated its status in NATO and is playing a more prominent role in military operations overseas.
“Champion of Israel” in UK Cabinet self-destructs, Drove coach and horses through government’s Ministerial Code for mysterious buddy
Stuart Littlewood
The dodgy relationship between Britain's defence secretary, Dr Liam Fox, and his friend Adam Werrity has been entertaining the media and public here for the last several days.
Werrity, a onetime flat-mate of Fox's and best man at his wedding, has been traipsing around the world after the defence secretary, popping up "by amazing coincidence" in the same cities and organising and appearing at meetings where Fox discussed state business. And he turned up at Fox's London office so many times that tongues began to wag.
Class War in America
by Stephen Lendman
Class war raged for decades. Business and America's super-rich always win. In his 1925 short story titled "Rich Boy," F. Scott Fitzgerald said:
"Let me tell you about the very rich. They are different from you and me. They possess and enjoy early...They think, deep in their hearts, that they are better than we.."
"Even when they enter deep into our world....they still think that that they are better than we are. They are different."
In his article, titled "The Truth About 'Class War' in America," economist Richard Wolff said:
"The last 50 years have indeed seen continuous class warfare in and over federal economic policies."
Corporate giants and America's super-rich waged war against working Americans and won. Notably since the 1970s, "(b)usiness and its allies shifted most of its federal tax burden onto individuals."
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