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BDS: The Winds of Change Blew from the UK and the Blow Back
eileen fleming
Within hours of the courageous landmark decision by Britain’s trade unions that voted overwhelmingly to commit to build a mass BDS movement on Israel as the way to negotiate for justice for Palestinians, Peter Benjamin Mandelson, Britain's current First Secretary of State, Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, President of the Board of Trade and Lord President of the Council, announced that boycotts are "unhelpful and polarize the debate." [1]
According to Wikipedia, Baron Peter Benjamin Mandelson was one of the very first people in Britain to be labeled a "spin doctor" is referred to as the "Prince of Darkness" and Tam Dalyell, while Father of the House of Commons, claimed Mandelson formed part of Blair's 'Jewish cabal' in May 2003. In response Mandelson stated, "Apart from the fact that I am not actually Jewish, I wear my father's parentage with pride." [2]
A criminal state that must be isolated, boycotted
By Khalid Amayreh
Israel is unusually furious over the publication this week of the Goldstone commission report which accuses the apartheid regime of committing war crimes and crimes against humanity in the Gaza Strip during the bloody blitz against the coastal Palestinian territory nearly nine months ago.
Israeli officials and hasbara doctors have been railing against Goldstone, who is both Jewish and Zionist, to the extent of accusing him of “anti-Semitism,” an increasingly stale and ineffective weapon which Israel resorts to when all other propaganda tools don’t work.
Benyamin Netanyahu, the extremist Prime Minister of the Zionist regime has even asked US Special Envoy to the Middle East George Mitchell to assist Israel , especially at the American arena, in order to curb the fallout from the report.
Pakistan : Disappearances, Torture abd Obama’s Death squads
Bill Van Auken
As the Obama administration prepares a major escalation of the so-called AfPak war, reports from Pakistan’s Swat Valley, near Afghanistan’s eastern border, provide a gruesome indication of the kind of war that the Pentagon and its local allies are waging.
While touted by Obama and his supporters as the “good war,” there is mounting evidence that the Pentagon and the CIA are engaged in a war against the population of the region involving death squads, disappearances and torture.
The Pakistani army sent 20,000 troops into Swat, part of the country’s North West Frontier Province (NWFP), last April to wage war against ethnic Pashtun Islamist movements (routinely described as the Pakistani Taliban) that have supported fellow Pashtuns across the border who are resisting the US-NATO occupation of Afghanistan.
This offensive, which was carried out on the direct and highly public insistence of US envoy Richard Holbrooke and senior American military officers during repeated trips to Islamabad, unleashed a humanitarian catastrophe. In what amounted to a massive exercise in collective punishment, many civilians were killed or wounded and some 2.5 million people were driven from their homes.
Of course it's about race!
Mary Shaw
A few days ago, former U.S. President Jimmy Carter noted that racism is likely responsible for much of the anti-Obama sentiment that has monopolized the media in recent weeks.
That seems pretty clear to me, too.
But the right-wing mouthpieces are denying that race has anything to do with it. Racism, you see, is not something most Americans would want to publicly admit to these days.
OBAMA'S TEACHING MOMENT FALLING ON DEAF EARS
Allen L Roland
After Obama's bailout of Wall Street ~ his cry for meaningful reform or new regulations is falling on deaf ears. The so-called Recession has seemingly ended for the financial elite who have a new unlimited credit line from the Fed. Meanwhile Main Street's credit line has dried up, along with their spending, and their nightmare Depression continues unabated. Reform is desperately needed before the next bubble bursts:
We have all witnessed President Obama's cave in to Big Pharma in the Health Care Reform package where the Public option, which over 62% of Americans as well as doctors favor, is now no longer part of the package.
UN General Assembly president “frustrated” in his attempts to end blockade of Gaza
Stuart Littlewood
Farewell, Fr Miguel... and thank you for trying
Outgoing United Nations General Assembly President Miguel d'Escoto Brockman says he was obstructed by leading UN members from trying to improve the lives of Palestinians in the Gaza Strip.
"My greatest frustration this year has been the Palestine situation," he told the 192-nation assembly in his final address on 14 September before handing over the one-year presidency to Libyan diplomat Ali Treki.
Revolving doors
Khalid Amayreh
Another round of shuttle diplomacy from US Middle East Envoy George Mitchell fails to convince the Israelis to freeze settlement building. In Ramallah, Khaled Amayreh wonders how many doors are left for Mitchell to knock on.
American Envoy to the Middle East George Mitchell has once again failed to convince Israeli leaders to freeze Jewish settlement expansion in the West Bank and East Jerusalem. The freeze is viewed as an essential precondition for the resumption of the stalled peace process between Israel and the Palestinian Authority (PA).
Doctors Aiding Torture
by Stephen Lendman
In April 2009, a confidential February 2007 ICRC torture report was publicly released. Titled, "ICRC Report on the Treatment of Fourteen 'High Value Detainees' in CIA Custody," it detailed harsh and abusive treatment from their time of arrest, detention, transfer, and incarceration at Guantanamo where ICRC professionals interviewed them.
Besides detailed information on torture and abusive treatment, they obtained damning, consistent detainee accounts of medical personnel involvement, including:
-- their monitoring of and direct participation in torture procedures;
Revolutionary new physics could lead to ultimate weapons of mass destruction
Roland Michel Tremblay
As a sci-fi author and science consultant for films and television documentaries, I have made it my mission to seek out every alternate theory out there – no matter how crazy they may seem – to explore any possibility of new physics that might be uncovered and put to use. That is, until I came across something so perfect and convincing that I had to stop in my tracks.
I now realize, to my complete astonishment, that the true Theory of Everything already exists, in a book published soon after the new millennium – you just haven’t heard about it yet. Who is this author, Mark McCutcheon, and what is this book, The Final Theory, that I have read? My God! This is not the usual crackpot theory used as fodder for some lame sci-fi TV series; this is it – the first truly viable new physics to have ever arisen.
NEW 'HUMANKIND' - "WE are the leaders we've been looking for"
Grace Boggs
American author, feminist, social activist Grace Boggs at 94 - thoughts worth pondering. Excerpted, compiled, edited by Carolyn Bennett
You cannot change any society unless you take responsibility for it, unless you see yourself as belonging to it, and responsible for changing it.
'If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom and deprecate agitation are men who want crops without plowing up the ground, rain without thunder and lightning' [Frederick Douglass].
For most people including myself this oft-quoted passage from Frederick Douglass sums up all that we had to learn from him. We viewed revolutionary struggle mainly as the oppressed standing up, rebelling against an external enemy, and (not yet) as two-sided transformation. Thus revolutionary leadership meant only agitation and mobilization.
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