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Fighting for the Family of Man
By: Peter Chamberlin
The American people are slowly waking-up to what we are. We are a Nation that has surrendered our right to determine our own destiny for the promise of a job, a nice home, or healthcare that we can afford. We think that we are still the same people who volunteered to fight a war against an obvious evil because it was the right thing to do, but that is no longer who we are.
The long series of wars that we have made possible, because we continued to think that it was right, have changed us. Our support for endless war has opened the door for a few individuals to reap astronomical profits from our Army’s actions. Our government is the hands of men who profit enormously by manufacturing and exporting war, not the tools of war, but actual war itself. Serving a government that creates wars, then uses our children for cannon fodder in them is a travesty beyond measure.
TURKEY FOR ALL OR TURKEY TO ANYONE, TO REMEMBER TO TUPAMAROS NOW OFFICIALLY FAT AND SOMETHING IN CONNECTION WITH THE TIMES MEAGER
Comments for CX36 Radio Centenario of American sociologist, Prof. James Petras.
"The money is there and we should stop talking about the crisis because when government revenues are so high why people do not get the benefits of this situation? That's the fundamental question for the PIT-CNT. Do not go into the trap of saying that we are in crisis, we need to protect and accept pay cuts and other rubbish "www.radio36.com.uy
Who Owns America and Why?!
by Len Hart, The Existentialist Cowboy
Always severely divided in one way or another, the U.S. has become two nations --one of the very,very rich elite on the one end and the rest of us on the other. The rich have literally waged war upon the poor since the nation's founding. The so-called 'Robber Baron Era' was notable for preceding and causing the Great Depression.
Income and wealth disparities are even worse now! As a direct result of Reagan/Bush tax cuts benefiting only the upper classes just ONE PERCENT of the U.S. population owns more than 95 percent of everyone else combined. Poverty is higher among every minority group. A 'ruling elite' of just one percent is primarily White Anglo Saxon Protestant.
...two Americas...one privileged, the other burdened...one America that does the work, another that reaps the reward. One America that pays the taxes, another America that gets the tax breaks.
THE TRUE MEANING OF CHRISTMAS / 2009
Allen L Roland
The true meaning of Christmas is the celebration of the birth of a love that unites and binds the universe but also exists deepest within each one of us:
To me, now more than ever, the true meaning of Christmas is the celebration of a never ending love. Not the love we think of in desiring or possessing someone else but rather ~ the whole sublime aspect of conscious unconditional love which seeks only the perfection of its object and is, at the deepest level, the underlying and uniting force of the Universe ~ the Unified Field.
The birth of Jesus is, in reality, the awareness of that love in human form ~ but all of us are capable of loving that deeply if we will but surrender to what is deepest within ourselves.
Jesus thus becomes an evolutionary forerunner for a love and state of soul consciousness that is deepest within us all ~ and a love which we all unconsciously seek in our individual quests to find and celebrate our authentic selves.
With health care, don't let the perfect be the enemy
Mary Shaw
Early in the morning on December 24, the U.S. Senate passed its version of a health care reform bill. The next step is conference committee, where the Senate and House versions -- quite different each another -- will be reconciled and merged.
The Senate version contains a lot of compromises -- so many that some progressives feel the Senate should have let the bill die and then started again from scratch next year. But a new Senate bill would require the same 60 votes to break a filibuster, and those 60 votes would surely require similar compromises, since the cast of characters would be the same. To wait until after the 2010 elections would be to continue losing people every day who die from lack of health insurance. That would not be acceptable.
Is Congress planning to destroy every Middle East TV Channel that criticizes Israel?
Part I: Targeting Lebanon’s Al Manar
Franklin Lamb Beirut
“Regarding Al Manar it’s personal for Israel. The reason is that Al Manar did to the Israeli government propaganda machine during and following the July 2006 war what Hezbollah fighters did to Israeli troops. Al Manar kicked butt. That station must be made to disappear. The plan is to stop the 15-20 million daily viewers of Al Manar from receiving its transmission and well as to intimidate all the other Middle East TV channels that are suspected of moving toward the growing “Culture of Resistance’ spreading in the Middle East from Lebanon.” A Washington DC observer of how Israel controls the US Congress 12/9/09
Waging false-peace by sporting symbolic arrests vs. waging political science to bring real peace!
Zahir Ebrahim
Apropos of the article “Waging Peace: Mass Arrests at White House Antiwar Rally” floating on the web, as an 'untermensch' whose people are suffering the brunt of “imperial mobilization”, I humbly say thank you to the courageous handful of conscionable American people, all 61 of them who offered their arrests to make a profound statement of conscience. Of the 200-plus million American people, that even 61 would feel the pain of “freedom” that the world is being subjected to is still a statement of conscience. Having said that, symbolism is no match for political science. None of the people mentioned above, including authors of books, who have so courageously stood up for the minimal decency that none of the rest of us seem to have, have apparently penetrated that fact in their speeches, writings, and in offering their ownselves for arrest.
COMPULSORY PRIVATE HEALTH INSURANCE: JUST ANOTHER BAILOUT FOR THE FINANCIAL SECTOR?
Ellen Brown
Dr. Benjamin Rush, a signer of the Declaration of Independence, is quoted as warning two centuries ago:
“Unless we put medical freedom into the Constitution, the time will come when medicine will organize into an underground dictatorship. . . . The Constitution of this republic should make special privilege for medical freedom as well as religious freedom."
That time seems to have come, but the dictatorship we are facing is not the sort that Dr. Rush was apparently envisioning. It is not a dictatorship by medical doctors, who are as distressed by the proposed legislation as the squeezed middle class is. (For a withering analysis by an outraged M.D. of the nearly 2000 - page House bill, see here.) The new dictatorship is not by doctors but by Wall Street -- the FIRE (finance, insurance, and real estate) sector that now claims 40% of corporate profits.
The Unbearable Likeness of Being Part of an Empire
Thomas H. Naylor
When I moved to Vermont in 1993 I thought Vermont was the most radical state in the Union in terms of its commitment to human solidarity, sustainability, direct democracy, egalitarianism, political independence, and nonviolence. Seventeen years later, I’m not so sure. Politically speaking, Vermont has become more and more like every other state—a mirror image of the Empire of which it is a part. Above all, it is one of the most politically correct states in the nation. The academic, political, spiritual, and media leaders of the Green Mountain State, once known for their fearless independence, behave as though they were experimental mice on an electric floor after experiencing learned helplessness from repeated shocks, waiting to be rescued by Barack Obama. But Barack Obama is nowhere to be found.
The "Omaha Two:" Victimized by COINTELPRO Injustice
by Stephen Lendman
After a two week April 1971 trial and four days of deliberation, an 11 white/one black member jury convicted Mondo we Langa (formerly David Rice) and Edward Poindexter for the bombing murder of police officer Larry Minard on August 17, 1970. Both men denied involvement, and ever since consistently maintained their innocence, insisting they were framed. Supporters agree, including Amnesty International that declared them political prisoners, and no wonder.
They were Omaha chapter National Committee to Combat Fascism (NCCF) leaders, an off-shoot of the Black Panther Party, targeted (as later revealed) by secret FBI/police Domino task force/COINTELPRO tactics, following J. Edgar Hoover's orders to infiltrate, disrupt, sabotage, and destroy their activism for ethnic justice, racial emancipation, and real economic, social, and political equality across gender and color lines.
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