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”Israel” and despotic Arab regimes shake as revolution sweeps through the Middle East
Salim Nazzal
Either we live in dignity or die in dignity - A young Arab blogger
Palestinian scholar Azmi Bshara recently wrote that the whole Arab region is heading quickly towards “Tunisization;” a new term used by Arabs these days to refer to the folk revolution in Tunis.
From Mauretania in the west to Yemen in the east, demonstrations and sit INS are being seen throughout the Middle East. The kings, princes, presidents, the one-man ruler, the one-party, the one- family, the one-tribe ruling system, and naturally the Zionist state are trembling with fear.
State of Our Union Reality Check
eileen fleming
On 25 January 2011, during President Obama’s State of the Union speech he said, “America’s moral example must always shine for all who yearn for freedom, justice, and dignity. And because we have begun this work, tonight we can say that American leadership has been renewed and America’s standing has been restored.”
On 25 January 2011, Chief Correspondent for Channel 4 News in the UK, Alex Thomson reported on Israeli filmmaker Nurit Kedar regarding her film Concrete, in which former soldiers involved in Operation Cast Lead allowed themselves to be named and they stated how their commanders would "psych up" the soldiers before an operation so they were ready to shoot indiscriminately.
Eight defiant words that can prevent our country's collapse
By Dennis Rahkonen
Highly profitable General Electric and Exxon-Mobil paid no federal income taxes in 2009.
Moreover, according to the Government Accountability Office, neither did two-thirds of U.S. corporations during recent years.
Also, roughly 40,000 American factories shut down during the past decade, often to rip off sweatshop employees overseas.
If the mega rich didn't have tax evasion loopholes larger than a gaudy, whirling Ferris wheel -- and if they possessed sufficient patriotism to hire Americans (at fair wages and with decent benefits) -- there'd be much less national debt for right-wing Republicans to demagogically point to in outrageously scapegoating public service unions, Social Security, and Medicare.
Just as typical workaday citizens obviously couldn't be blamed for the Enron, Tyco, and WorldCom debacles that occurred earlier in this century, they certainly aren't at fault for the housing bubble/derivatives fiasco that tanked our economy not that long ago.
School teachers, firefighters, sanitation workers, librarians, nurses, and police officers didn't send Wall Street into a calamitous tailspin in the autumn of 2008.
Political Prisoner Ahmad Sa'adat Update
by Stephen Lendman
Political Prisoner Ahmad Sa'adat Update
A previous article discussed his background, activism and status in detail, accessed through the following link:
http://sjlendman.blogspot.com/2010/07/ahmad-saadat-palestinian-prisoner-of.html
e information on him can be found on:
http://www.freeahmadsaadat.org/
As General Secretary of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), he was sentenced in 2002 to 30 years in prison "for a range of 'security related' political offenses," including his prominence in a prohibited organization.
The Andrew Wakefield Smear Campaign and the Too-Big-To-Fail, Too-Big-To-Criticize Vaccine Industry
By Gary G. Kohls, MD
Recently the mainstream media in the US has been playing along with a vicious British smear campaign against Dr. Andrew Wakefield (author of Callous Disregard, a history of the smear campaign) concerning a 13 year-old paper that he co-authored (with a number of other scientists [who have not been similarly targeted]) that showed a serious and strong connection between the live virus "vaccine" MMR and inflammatory colitis and autistic spectrum disorder.
Even NPR - including Ira Flatow's "Science Friday" program - has stooped so low as to feature several programs/reports (that I accidentally happened to hear) vilifying Wakefield without allowing him to defend himself!! I suspect that the same one-sided attacks have been on the major networks and FOXNews as well.
What happened on NPR was not much different from what regularly happens on Fox News' with their unfair, unbalanced and one-sided attack tactics that NPR should never be a part of. Shame on them! MPR’s participation in this one-sided smear should have embarrassed the producers and everybody else that participated. NPR needs to apologize and rectify the situation. Dr Wakefield must be given sufficient airtime (how about an hour interview program?) to present his side of the story.
Chicago's Mayoral Race: Rahm Emanuel's Eligibility At Issue
by Stephen Lendman
On February 22, Chicago's mayoral primary will be held. If no candidate gets over 50% of the vote, an April 5 runoff will be held, the winner's term running from May 16, 2011 - May 18, 2015. Democrats dominate city politics. The last Republican mayor ("Big Bill" Thompson) left office in 1931. The Great Depression ended their rule when Anton Cermak took over, built a strong constituency among African Americans, and consigned Republicans to small pockets on the city's far northwest side and suburban areas post-war.
Richard J. Daley and his son Richard M. (current incumbent leaving office after six terms) ran Chicago like Republicans for over 43 of the last 55 years. If elected, so will Emanuel as a previous article explained, accessed through the following link:
The State of the Union: Not a Time for Saccharin and Gimmicks
By Kevin Zeese
Members of the corporate political duopoly switched seats and sat next to each other making it even harder to tell the corporate welfare party from the crony capitalist party. Sadly, the spokespersons for both failed to learn the lessons of history and as a result the American economy will continue to falter with U.S. militarism continuing to expand.
Listening to the saccharin rhetoric of President Obama one would think the nation’s economy was flourishing and the military was winning wars. The truth, that the economy is still in collapse and the military is stuck in war quagmires all piling up record debt, was hard to see through his veil of words.
America's Dire State of the Union
By Stephen Lendman
Like last year, Obama's address was empty rhetoric, signaling business as usual with a twist - more than ever embracing reactionary extremism, promising harder than ever hard times on Main Street.
Last year, an earlier article discussed his first State of the Union address, accessed through the following link:
http://sjlendman.blogspot.com/2010/01/obamas-outreach-to-americans-empty.html
Results again this time were predicable. Democrats loved it. Time magazine called the Republican response "frosty," saying "Stand-up comics call it a tough crowd."
Mass Street Protests in Egypt
by Stephen Lendman
An August 2009 Council on Foreign Relations Steven Cook report headlined, "Political Instability in Egypt," saying:
Facing possible instability, (m)ost analysts believe that the current Egyptian regime will muddle through its myriad challenges and endure indefinitely (with) enough coercive power to ensure" it.
It's also "entering a period of political transition. President Hosni Mubarak is (81) and reportedly" ill. His (46 year old) son Gamal "is evidently being groomed to succeed him." However, the "process could prove difficult."
The Palestine Papers and Us
Gilad Atzmon
I have a rule -- I never intervene in Palestinian political matters. I never comment on Palestinian internal debate. I do not think that I have the right to do so : I am an ex-Israeli and an ex-Jew, and I write about Israel, Jewish Identity politics, and Zionism.
For me, the leaked Palestinian Papers provide us with a valuable glimpse into Israeli politics and Western complicity in the crimes carried out against the Palestinian people. I do realise that most Palestinian commentators agree that the leaked papers have “damaged whatever little credibility the Ramallah-based authority still enjoyed among Palestinians” ; yet, more than anything else, the Papers prove beyond doubt that Israel is not a partner for peace -- In spite of the weaknesses that have been shown by the PA since the 1990’s, Israel has failed to secure a peace deal, and has consistently failed to show any will to bring the conflict to an end. In short -- Israel has always wanted more.
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