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God Has Left the Building...
Sheila Samples
If you talk to God, you are praying; If God talks to you, you have schizophrenia.~~Thomas S. Szasz, The Second Sin
Several months ago, CNN published the results of a couple of disturbing polls about Americans and their religious beliefs. The first found that more Americans are rejecting religion and thus, according to CNN, America is becoming "less Christian." The second, a Pew survey of only 742 mostly white evangelical Protestants, revealed that more than six in 10 of them believe that torture is often or sometimes justified.
More than six in 10? What this says about those claiming to be God's own is that perhaps they should use their Bibles for more than "thumping." Because not one in 10 -- not one in 10 thousand -- not one in 10 million -- Christians believes that torture can ever be justified. Ever.
Canada ’s Guantanamo
Eric Walberg
Just what will it take to wake Canadians up to their government’s lies and subterfuge, wonders Eric Walberg
A scandal erupted last week in sleepy Ottawa with the revelations of Canada’s chief diplomat in Kandahar in 2006-07, Richard Colvin, who told a House of Commons committee on Afghanistan that Afghans arrested by Canadian military and handed over to Afghan authorities were knowingly tortured. His and others’ attempts to raise the alarm had been quashed by the ruling Conservative government and he felt a moral obligation to make public what was happening.
A Real Revolution in the Making in the U.S. Health Care Industry
By Rodrigue Tremblay
“The conservative goal has been the "Third Worldization" of the United States: an increasingly underemployed, lower-wage work-force; a small but growing moneyed class that pays almost no taxes; the privatization or elimination of human services; the elimination of public education for low-income people; the easing of restrictions against child labor; the exporting of industries and jobs to low-wage, free-trade countries; the breaking of labor unions; and the elimination of occupational safety and environmental controls and regulations.” Michael Parenti, progressive author and lecturer
Gilo and Last Straws
eileen fleming
On the Palestinian side of the 1967 Green Line, upon a hilltop southwest of occupied East Jerusalem and separated from Beit Jala [a suburb of Bethlehem] by a deep gorge, is Gilo.
Gilo is understood to be an illegal settlement by the United Nations and European Union, but Israel and the US spin it as a neighborhood.
This week's announcement of Israel's plan to build 900 more dwellings in Gilo with a price tag of NIS 1.86 million for a 5-room apartment has garnered international criticism as well as from the US.
Targeting Muslim Charities in America
by Stephen Lendman
In a December 2008 article, this writer explained that the Texas-based Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development (HLF) was the largest American Muslim charity until the Bush administration bogusly declared it an enemy of the state and shut it down.
On December 4, 2001, the Treasury Department declared HLF a terrorist group, froze its assets, and falsely claimed they were being used to funnel millions of dollars to Hamas. HLF's appeal was denied.
Dark clouds are hovering over the Middle East
Salim Nazzal
It is obvious now that the Jewish extremist’s government in the Zionist state is interested in anything but not in peace.
This government rejects all sort of political compromise which made the earlier American president Bill Clinton, who is visiting the region these days, telling them that since Jews has chosen to come to the Middle East, they have to agree on political compromise; otherwise they will have no friends in the future. But it is doubtful that the Jewish extremists are ready to hear any voice expect their own voice following the saying of the founder of the state of Israel the war lord Ben Gorion that the important thing is what Jews do, and not what Goyem (non Jews) say.
Imaginary Gold Bullion: How Deep Does the Plunder of the World’s Resources Go?
How Much of the World’s Gold Supply Is Salted with Tungsten and Steel?
By Martha Rose Crow, M.S.
Because I manage 103 blogs, people send me many articles and bits of information. A lot of it is stuff I’ve seen or read before or can't use, but sometimes something ‘golden’(pun and metaphor intended) crosses my desk that sticks in my head and won’t go away.
Two days ago, someone sent me an important article. Besides posting the article (‘On Doing God’s Work’ by Ron Kirby) on my ‘Evil Economics’ blog http://evileconomics.blogspot.com, I didn’t know how else to share the information but write this article and send it out into the world.
Most people on the planet know that Congress and the Obama administration have not yet really tried to investigate the corruption on wal-street (caustic pun and metaphor intended) and/or bring the cabal of criminals to justice --plus enact laws such as another Glass-Segal Act to prevent another such widespread scale of economic crisis and corruption in the future.
What's Thanksgiving really all about?
Mary Shaw
The Native Americans who survived were herded onto reservations, where they faced their own set of challenges. This form of apartheid separated Native Americans physically, socially, and economically from the world outside the reservation.
The Thanksgiving holiday is just around the corner, but this year I am tempted to skip the festivities. While some Americans mark this holiday as an occasion to give thanks and gratitude for their perceived blessings, that benign and admirable purpose too often takes a back seat to what Thanksgiving has become in recent decades: a celebration of gluttony and excess.
In conversations about the upcoming holiday, I hear Americans talk excitedly about their plans to overeat -- to eat so much that they've built a post-meal nap into their annual Thanksgiving routine. It's all about the feast. It's all about stuffing themselves fuller than Grandma stuffed the turkey. More mashed potatoes. Extra gravy. A second slice of pie. Then sleep it off. And they're proud of it.
Has "nation building" ever succeeded?
November 21, 2009 was a bad day for Afghanistan if you look at the news reports. That's nothing new. Afghanistan has had decades of bad days since the Soviet invasion and the civil war sustained by U.S. financial and intelligence efforts in partnership with the Pakistani intelligence community.
There are two assumptions that justify the essential role of the question in any further effort by the United States in Afghanistan. 100,000 of the finest troops in the world can't subjugate a nation of 31 million people indefinitely. In order to achieve the "mission," there must be a viable government with the motivation and ability to keep in check those forces dangerous to the U.S. These two assumptions form the criteria for"nation building" (or "state building").
If there are some examples of nation building as referents, then there might a justification for further military and political presence. If there are no real examples of nation building, then the current administration's decision making process is based on an empty concept, one that merely justifies occupation and ongoing warfare based on deliberately unstated reasons.
As the Light onto the Nations
by Gilad Atzmon
‘Israel is the light onto the nations’ says the Torah. Indeed it is, and not just because the Torah says so. Israel is ahead of everyone else in many fronts. Take for instance, terrorizing civilian populations and practicing some of the most devastating murderous tactics upon elders, women and young.
The Jerusalem post reported yesterday that the Chairman of NATO's Military Committee, Admiral Giampaolo Di Paola, visited Israel earlier this week to study “IDF tactics and methods that the military alliance can utilise for its war in Afghanistan.” A senior Israeli defence official added "The one thing on NATO's mind today is how to win in Afghanistan…Di Paola was very impressed by the IDF, which is a major source of information due to our operational experience."
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