CALL IT AN OBAMA DEPRESSION / DESPITE WALL STREET CELEBRATION
Allen L Roland President Obama inherited a Bush recession but instead of initiating badly needed banking reforms ~ Obama chose a top down Wall Street bailout which accelerated Main Street's agony to the extent that it is now an Obama Depression: more »
Anti-Zionists: The New Heretics
By Jeff Gates “Those who fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it.”-- George Santayana How quickly we forget. With the Inquisition still fresh in memory, America’s Founders embraced democracy as a means to protect liberty from the… more »
A Small First Step In Cleaning Up the West's Middle East Mess
Franklin Lamb An oil slick from Israel's bombing of Lebanon's oil storage facility at Jiyeh, 30 kilometers south of Beirut, produced an environmental disaster for Lebanon's territorial waters and beaches. Sunday morning on the dunes: Why Hezbollah and… more »
Will Venezuelan Destabilization Follow the Honduran Coup?
by Stephen Lendman After ten and a half years in office, Hugo Chavez is very savvy about America's intentions. On January 17, even before Obama's inauguration, he said "Barack Obama has the 'stench' of his predecessor as US president and was at risk of… more »
Iceland: Lessons to be Learned from Economic Meltdown
Eva Joly In the wake of the failure of the Icelandic banks Messrs Brown, Barroso and Strauss-Kahn prove that they have understood nothing From G8 to G20, many heads of state and government seem to delight in repeating that nothing will ever be the same… more »
Reclaiming the Vote
ddjango In my previous post (Oblahma: Time for a Moratorium on Talk), I asked, "If there is no really discernible difference between the real agendas of the Democratic and Republican parties, what do we do about the prospect of elections in 2010 and… more »
Tags: post-democracy, post-politics
Israel moves to declare rights groups as foreign agents
Jonathan Cook In a bid to staunch the flow of damaging evidence of war crimes committed during Israel's winter assault on Gaza, the Israeli government has launched a campaign to clamp down on human rights groups, both in Israel and abroad. It has begun… more »
Israeli ethnic cleansing - Scots witness brutal 'business as usual'
Scottish Palestine Solidarity Campaign Scots witness police protection of new illegal settlement in Sheikh Jarrah, East Jerusalem. Following violent eviction by Israeli police of nine Palestinian families, settlers occupy homes within minutes.… more »
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