"Capitalist Tool"
Just a few cynics doubted the magnificent procession of then Senator Barack Obama to the highest office in the land. He was the redemption of our past sins, the proof that we were a better nation than we had been. After all, race has been at the center of American politics since Bacon's Rebellion was crushed in 1667 but we were moving beyond that. And we did. Race was set aside for most of those who voted.
As it turned out, the campaign wasn't about redeeming anything other than the bill that Wall Street presented to the citizens of the United States in October, 2008. The financial system was grinding its gears, about to flame out in a series of big investment bank failures. The Secretary of the Treasury, Henry Paulson, told a private session of Congress that absent immediate aid, the financial calamity would be so devastating that Congress should prepare for riots by outraged citizens.
PermalinkWhat Is the Purpose of the London Conference on Afghanistan?
By: Peter Chamberlin
All the players in the world claim that they want to get it right in Afghanistan, so that the Afghan people might be freed from the burdens of the thirty year war, which keeps them in the Stone Age. The problem with Afghanistan is that everyone invokes false piety, claiming concerns for the well-being of the Afghan people, while promoting war as the solution to their problems. We head into an international conference looking for these answers through the prism of the same old lies.
Afghanistan will never have a chance as long as everyone keeps treating it as an international arena, in which to fight-out all their problems. As long as Americans treat it as a staging area to launch expeditionary resource wars from, and as long as Pakistan and India are allowed to continue using Afghan men to fight their proxy war, then there will be no peace in the world and no rest for the war-weary Afghans. Neither peace for the world, nor peace for Afghanistan is truly being considered in London.
Meles Zenawi: Electioneering for Personal Profit
Ogaden Online Editorial
If I do not vote on Election Day they [the TPLF] will come and ask me and even take me out of my house… The candidates are not elected to alleviate my problems. They are elected to be crowned [as Kings]1.
The above quote provides an on the scene recording and a perfect opening for an article whose intention is to shed some light on the phenomena of electioneering for personal profit in Ethiopia. This phenomena is exercised by a privileged view led by Meles Zenawi of TPLF and most of the outside world only hears about it once every three to four years. May be you have heard it by an other name; may be you did not as you may have been blinded by the skeletal pictures of famine victims news emanating from Ethiopia; or worse you may still be wondering whether all the electioneering money could be better spent on rehabilitating those affected by the famine. However it is imperative that we look in depth as to what happens in the name of ‘Democracy’ in Ethiopia once every four years.
Revisiting Iran’s Green Movement
Jalal Alavi
Iran’s Green Movement is the subject of much controversy these days.
While some are of the opinion that it is no more than a civil rights movement in pursuit of specific concessions from those in power, there are those to whom the movement is no less than a revolutionary phenomenon destined to topple the Islamic Republic [1].
Whatever the truth behind such speculations, one thing is for certain: Iran’s Green Movement is the concrete embodiment of an emerging democratic consciousness on the part of the majority of Iranians, and, as such, cannot be reduced to its component parts, including its leaders.
Fixing A Bad Supreme Court Decision
Joel S. Hirschhorn
Sensible, intelligent Americans are furious over the recent Supreme Court 5-to-4-decision referred to as Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission that struck down limits on corporate spending in presidential and congressional elections. Those of us who wail against the corpocracy with its corruption of government could hardly believe that this decision could in any way be justified. A major reaction has been a number of groups calling for a constitutional amendment to fix the problem.
It helps to know that three current constitutional amendments resulted because of Supreme Court decisions that needed remedial action: the Eleventh Amendment (shoring up states’ legal immunity), the Sixteenth Amendment (authorizing a federal income tax), and the Twenty-sixth Amendment (assuring eighteen-year-olds the right to vote).
Haiti's Earthquake: Natural or Engineered
by Stephen Lendman
Human activity can cause destructive harm. Columbia University geophysical hazards research scientist, Christian Klose, studies how, including from mining. In a recent paper, he said:
"mining activities disturb the in-situ stress in the upper continental crust and can trigger earthquakes (human-triggered seismicity)."
Past examples are numerous:
The World is Silent as Escalating Zionist Brutality and Unending Occupation Push the Palestinian People Towards Destruction
Salim Nazzal
the USA chooses to support the Zionist occupiers by all means, finacialy, militarily,
diplomatically, Palestinians and Arabs saw that their life destroyed by the US support
In light of the escalation of the Zionist brutality in the longest occupation in modern history , and the absence of international pressure on Israel, will Palestinians be pushed towards the theory of, let’s destroy the temple over all?
Bluntly speaking, this is the fact the world and Jews in particular need to think seriously of. The rejection of the peoples of the region, Palestinians, Arabs, Persians, and Turks to the Zionist state carries a strong message that the region is fed up with the Zionist Jewish occupation and the Zionist Jewish brutality. Since 1948, the date the zionist state was enforced into the region, the only news peoples hear is: Israel murders, Israel massacres, Israel expels native palestinians and replace them with over sees Jews, Israel arrests, Israel occupies, Israel develops atomic weapons, Israel develops biological weapons.
Declaration of Independance, then and now?
by: Endisnighe
A little discussion about the Correlation of the past and the present.
First off, lets take a look at the Declaration of Independance.
Natural Law assertion
When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.
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