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UNMASKING THE IRANIAN POWER PLAY
Allen L Roland
Why are we surprised by the Iran elections when we are dealing with a Theocracy whose supreme leader has absolute control of the election, the election review process, as well as the Republican Guard and can readily dispose of his opposition. The real game is not being played on the streets of Iran:
Ambassador M K Bhadrakumar was a career diplomat in the Indian Foreign Service. His assignments included the Soviet Union, South Korea, Sri Lanka, Germany, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Uzbekistan, Kuwait and Turkey and his analysis is important in identifying who the real contenders are in the recent Iran presidential election as well as how high the stakes are.
Update from the Rafah border
from the International Movement to Open Rafah Border
Yesterday was a really hard day with all the sick and wounded Palestinians waiting hours under the sun egyptians authorities’ agreement to enter into Gaza. All the other people have been denied to exit Egypt
Our friends, Paki Wieland, Ellen Graves, and Don Bryant, USA pursue their hunger strikes.
After talking with our embassies, we have understood that the siege at the Rafah border is an Egypt’s exclusive decision. Israel has nothing to do in this closure. Please send emails, fax to your Egyptian embassy and tell them how shameful this situation is.
Netanyahu Speaks with Twisted Tongue
By Dr. Elias Akleh
In his foreign policy speech, Sunday 6/14 at the religiously extremist Bar Ilan University, the Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu did not only put the cart of peace in front of the horse, but he also loaded that cart with tons of heavy rocks. The Palestinian senior negotiator, Saeb Erekat, explained “The peace process has been moving at a turtle speed; tonight Netanyahu had flipped this turtle on its back”.
Citing Withheld Evidence, Supporters Of Mumia Abu-Jamal Call For Civil Rights Investigation
By Hans Bennett
On April 6, 2009, the US Supreme Court refused to consider an appeal from death-row journalist and former Black Panther, Mumia Abu-Jamal, who was convicted of first-degree murder in the shooting death of white Philadelphia Police Officer, Daniel Faulkner, at a 1982 trial deemed unfair by Amnesty International, the European Parliament, the Japanese Diet, Nelson Mandela, and numerous others. Citing the Supreme Court denial and several instances of withheld evidence, Abu-Jamal’s international support network is now calling for a federal civil rights investigation into Abu-Jamal’s case.
Afghanistan's Operation Phoenix
by Stephen Lendman
On June 15, AP reported that "Gen. Stanley McChrystal, a four-star American general with a long history in special operations, took charge of US and NATO troops in Afghanistan (today), a change in command the Pentagon hopes will turn the tide in an increasingly violent eight-year war."
McChrystal is a hired gun, an assassin, a man known for committing war crime atrocities as head of the Pentagon's infamous Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC) - established in 1980 and comprised of the Army's Delta Force and Navy Seals, de facto death squads writer Seymour Hersh described post-9/11 as an "executive assassination wing" operating out of Dick Cheney's office.
No More Pretense for Health Reform
By Kevin Zeese
CBO Estimates 36 million will still be uninsured ten years from now under most robust Democratic Plan
Well, cloudy rhetoric of “universal health care” is being clarified with the first Congressional Budget Office initial scoring of a health care bill. The two key issues of cost and coverage are not going to be solved with the health care reform being considered.
The CBO scored the Kennedy-Dodd proposal, the most robust of the reform proposals actually being considered, and the bottom line is that it will leave 36 million without coverage a decade from now. That is not what the Democrats and Obama have been promising. It is nowhere near universal coverage.
In response to Netanyahu’s speech
The Palestinian Return Centre
In a key policy speech coming at the back of seeming US pressure for a move towards peace in the Middle East, the right of return, a fundamental pillar for lasting peace in the Israeli/Palestinian conflict, is gravely threatened as the Israeli Prime Minister; Benjamin Netanyahu, lays out his vision of a Palestinian State.
Stating for the first time that he would accept an independent Palestinian State, his overtures to peace, warmly greeted in the US, is full of conditions on the Palestinian side, with no substantial concessions on the Israeli side. The “right of return”, which Netanyahu so easily dismissed in his speech, is for Palestinian refugees, a core pillar for any lasting peace recognised by various UN resolutions and international law. ‘These are the fundamental rights of Palestinians, behind which is the force of the world community and any peace initiative which detracts from this formula will fail miserably’, said Majed Al Zeer, Director of the Palestinian Return Centre.
Time to Emancipate the Airwaves: The Airwave Abolition Movement
Paul Scott
Back in 1865, two years and some change after Abe Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation, the slaves in Texas finally got the memo that chattel slavery had been abolished. Better late than never I suppose. However, if the right wing talking heads had their way, black folks would still be picking cotton in 2009.
This is the week of Juneteenth week (June 15-19th) a time when African Americans celebrate the end of the last vestiges of that peculiar institution. It is a time to celebrate the freedoms of this country that were so long denied African Americans.
But some things are still in bondage; the airwaves.
While this country prides itself as being a diverse melting pot of ideals and a plethora of differing opinions, the airwaves have long been dominated by a right wing conspiracy to control all conversations concerning race, class and all things political.
Appalachia and Colombia: The People Behind the Coal - An interview with Aviva Chomsky
By Hans Bennett
Aviva Chomsky is professor of history and Latin American Studies at Salem State College in Massachusetts. The most recent books she has written are Linked Labor Histories: New England, Colombia, and the Making of a Global Working Class. (Duke University Press, 2008) and They Take Our Jobs! And Twenty Other Myths about Immigration. (Beacon Press, 2007). She has also recently co-edited The People Behind Colombian Coal: Mining, Multinationals and Human Rights/Bajo el manto del carbón: Pueblos y multinacionales en las minas del Cerrejón, Colombia (Casa Editorial Pisando Callos, 2007) and The Cuba Reader: History, Culture, Politics (Duke University Press, 2003).
LIGHTS-OUT ON THE TUBE
From post by nimda/‘In the Public Interest’ on Nader dot org
Excerpted, edited by Carolyn Bennett
“Television today—over the air and cable—with the usual exceptions, could empty the dictionary of disparaging adjectives.…”
Television is “… second-rate movie reruns, insipid sitcoms dependent on canned laughter, dramas so spilt-second violent they eliminate any kind of memorable suspense.… Some time slots—such as daily afternoon talk-entertainment shows—are so bad, so sadomasochistic and exploitive, they escape media critics.…
“…On weekends, the shows swing from slick infomercials pushing cutlery and real estate wealth, to sports that become duller play by play—especially golf—to Sunday morning news programs where evasions of predictable questions run on and on.
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