Responding to Stephen Colbert and Justice Scalia
eileen fleming
"Our tradition of separation of church and state too often separates church and state."-Stephen Colbert, Oct. 13, 2009
The other night on The Colbert Report, on a segment called "Symbol Minded"
View it here: http://www.colbertnation.com/the-colbert-report-videos/252639/october-13-2009/the-word---symbol-minded
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Khaled Amayreh in occupied Jerusalem
Israeli paramilitary police stormed the Haram Al-Sharif (Noble Sanctuary)
While some calm has returned to the compound of Al-Aqsa Mosque, the Muslim holy site is still under grave threat.
An uneasy calm is descending over East Jerusalem after thousands of Israeli troops lifted a tight siege lasting two weeks on Al-Aqsa Mosque compound, one of Islam's holiest sanctuaries.
The site witnessed violent disturbances two weeks ago when Israeli paramilitary police stormed the Haram Al-Sharif (Noble Sanctuary) in an effort to arrest Palestinians who had repulsed an attempt by a group of Jewish fanatics who were trying to arrogate "prayer rights" at the Islamic shrine.
Israel rejects UN council backing for Gaza war crimes report
Rory McCarthy
UN human rights council passes resolution endorsing Goldstone report, which accused Israel and Hamas of war crimes.
Israel has angrily rejected what it called a "one-sided" resolution by the UN human rights council today that backed a highly critical report on the Gaza war and opened the way to possible international war crimes investigations.
The council voted to endorse the report by a South African judge, Richard Goldstone, which accused both Israel and Hamas of committing war crimes and possible crimes against humanity during the three-week war in Gaza in January. Goldstone, whose work was hailed by leading international human rights groups, found there may be individual criminal responsibility over the killing of civilians.
Imperial Globalization and Social Movements in Latin America
James Petras and Henry Veltmeyer
Introduction
The unimpeded growth of Euro-American capitalism following the collapse of Soviet and European communism, the conversion of China and Indochina to state capitalism, and the rise of US backed, free market military dictatorships in Latin America give new impetus to Western empire building, labeled “globalization”.
The process of globalization was the result of ‘external’ and ‘internal’ conditions and class coalitions embedded in the social structure of both the imperial and ‘recipient’ or targeted countries. The expansion of capital was neither a linear process or continual expansion (accumulation) nor of sustained collaboration by the targeted countries. Crises in the imperial centers and regime transformations in collaborator regimes affected the flow of capital, trade, rules and regulations.
Venezuela is no tyranny
Francisco Dominguez
Honduras
Dictatorship has returned to Latin America in Honduras, not in the genuine, if imperfect, democracy of Venezuela
As Latin Americans witness the return of dictatorship – with Honduras suffering political executions, widespread repression and condemnation from human rights organisations about curtailing of press freedoms – it seems a strange time for the media to repeat opposition allegations that Venezuela is becoming a tyranny.
Venezuela is far from the "dictatorship which has a facade of democracy" described by General Raúl Baduel, who has been accused of corruption. What kind of tyranny oversees a 70% increase of participation in presidential elections, as Chávez has, or the government holding 13 free and fair elections in 10 years?
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