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Palestinian UN Membership Roulette
by Stephen Lendman
As Palestinian legal advisor in 1987, Law Professor Francis Boyle drafted its Declaration of Independence, creating a Palestinian state.
Palestinians now want and deserve official recognition and full de jure UN membership. Washington and Israel remain obstructionist.
Doing so further isolates both countries. Globally, Obama and Netanyahu are laughing stocks, more caricatures than leaders.
Turkey redraws Sykes-Picot
Eric Walberg
A new Bermuda Triangle has been spotted, but this one is in the eastern Mediterranean -- between Turkey, Cyprus and Israel.
Turkey’s foreign policy shift is now in full gear. Having kicked out the Israeli ambassador and rejected the UN Palmer Report, Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu says that Turkey plans to take its case against Israel’s blockade of Gaza to the International Court of Justice, not alone, but with the support of the Arab League, the Organization of Islamic Cooperation and the African Union. “The process will probably reach a certain point in October and we will make our application.”
Entrapping Muslims in America
by Stephen Lendman
Post-9/11, American Muslims became fair game, targeting them for their faith, ethnicity, and at times prominence and charity.
As a result, they've been ruthlessly vilified and exploited as "war on terror" scapegoats for political advantage.
Entrapment is commonly used. Guilt or innocence doesn't matter, just the illusion that America is safer when, in fact, every victim assures greater insecurity and fear. Many are left wondering who's next.
Rage Against Wall Street Crooks
by Stephen Lendman
Angry New Yorkers organized an initiative called "Occupy Wall Street." Beginning September 17, they called for "tak(ing) the bull by the horns," referring to the familiar New York financial district symbol.
Its web site statement said:
"The one thing we all have in common is that We Are The 99% that will no longer tolerate the greed and corruption of the 1%."
How conservatives unwittingly advance Marxism
By Dennis Rahkonen
Displaying laughable absurdity, Republicans, Tea Partiers, and related reactionaries always label anyone even a millimeter to the left of their own right-wing stance on the political spectrum a “socialist.”
Besides being utterly ridiculous, that outlook works against their own professed interest.
After all, practical solutions to today’s many societal problems will necessarily come from that part of the ideological ground not being trod by clown shoes or neo-Nazi jackboots.
Libya: David Cameron's 2 Billion Pound Nightmare
By Timothy Bancroft-Hinchey
What do you get when a wannabe imperialist invents a war to get out of trouble at home, straying into deep waters that he neither controls nor understands, getting embroiled in an internecine tribal conflict that spins out of control? The answer to this question is the place where the UK’s David Cameron finds himself now: a 2-bn. pound nightmare.
Not so many months ago, we had David Cameron and William Hague declaring that the Libya Question was “not about removing Gaddafi” and that all it would take would be an immediate ceasefire from the Libyan Armed Forces. Not so many months ago we had David Cameron and William Hague declaring that the war would cost in the region of 200 million pounds, that there would be no NATO boots on the ground and that NATO would not arm the “rebels”.
Call for DOJ to Investigate Clarence Thomas
By Andrew Kreig
Originally published at the
Justice Integrity Project
Twenty Democratic members of Congress wrote federal judicial authorities on Sept. 29 to request a formal Justice Department probe of Supreme Court Associate Justice Clarence Thomas for long-term failures to disclose junkets, other gifts and income.
A coalition of both black and white Democrats told the Judicial Conference of the United States that it is required by law to seek a Justice Department investigation of the new allegations against Thomas and his wife, the Republican political activist Virginia Lamp Thomas. Most of the allegations became public this year. They involve claims of undisclosed gifts, junkets, income and other conflicts, along with the justice's failure to report his wife's earnings on annual judicial disclosure forms that he signed under oath.
“Due to the simplicity of the disclosure requirements, along with Justice Thomas’s high level of legal training and experience,” said the congressional letter to the conference secretary James C. Duff, “it is reasonable to infer that his failure to disclose his wife’s income for two decades was willful, and the Judicial Conference has a non-discretionary duty to refer this case to the Department of Justice.” To be sure, the 20 signatures are relatively few from a 435-member, Republican-run House. Their names are here. Still, the letter marks a significant step in clarifying a potential criminal component to what Thomas defenders and the nation's timid watchdog institutions often trivialize as either oversights by a busy public servant or potential “ethics” issues that have scant remedy as a practical matter.
IT’S REALLY QUITE SIMPLE ~ IT’S ALL ABOUT LOVE
Allen L Roland
Now that science has demonstrated that light may not be the one constant of the Universe at 186,292 miles per second ~ perhaps it’s time to recognize that a Unified field of love and soul consciousness is the one constant of the universe for within this field of innate connectedness, which we all once knew as a child, there is no time and space and all the forces of nature are merely conditions of state:
In a paper published on Thursday, September 22, 2011, Scientists at the world’s largest physics lab in Geneva, Switzerland reported the apparent discovery of particles traveling faster than the speed of light. The researchers described their experiment, which seems to show that a beam of neutrinos traveling through the Earth arrived at a detector some 60 nanoseconds faster than light would take to travel the same distance ~ as AP reported “The scientists fired a beam of neutrinos 454 miles underground from Geneva to Italy, They found it traveled 60 nano seconds faster than light ~ that’s 60 billionths of a second, a time no brain could register.” See report ~ http://www.zdnet.com/news/particles-move-faster-than-light/6303330
Chemtrail article in Project Censored’s Top 10 most censored stories
By Rady Ananda
For the past 35 years, Project Censored has published an annual collection of the top 25 censored news stories. In the 2012 book edition, just released this September, my article, Atmospheric Geoengineering: Weather Manipulation, Contrails and Chemtrails, ranks as the 9th most censored story in the United States.
Originally published at the Centre for Research on Globalization in July 2010, an updated version at COTO Report has seen over 15,000 page views as of this writing. The article is widely posted across the world in several English and non-English speaking countries, giving it far broader readership than we’ll ever know, but likely over a million.
The ‘People’s Microphone’
By Pablo Ouziel
With the current ‘Audacity of Hope’ entering its terminal phase, Americans engaged in social movement activity are finally catching up with their brothers and sisters in other parts of the World. What took a long time to flourish – despite the numerous calls from academics and activists from within the United States and from outside of its shores – has finally erupted into what is rapidly becoming the turning point in the relationship between people and markets (and people and government), at the heart of America’s unstable empire.
Wall street is now occupied and global indignation against plutocratic rule has reached its climax, it has come face to face with its source. Where things will go from here nobody can predict, that is the wonderful thing about civil disobedience, once its praxis enters the realm of actuality, it takes up a position in the social space, and it brings to life a dormant public domain, in which a multiplicity of voices dialogically determine collective creative actions to undertake.
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