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Obama’s Song and Dance in Cairo
By Dr. Elias Akleh
Young athletic Obama reflects active energy whether running up the ladder stairs into his Air Force One plane, or giving speeches, such as the song-and-dance so-called historic speech to the Islamic World in Cairo University last Thursday June 4th.
This was a very well written speech meant to touch the hearts of Muslims by playing some of their religious tunes citing Qur’anic verses in order to re-gain their trust and their cooperation the US lost during the Bush administration.
Lebanon’s election results and the Age of Resistance
Franklin Lamb
Hezbollah Election HQ
Dahiyeh
Hundreds of Muazzen called believers to Lebanon’s Mosques at 3:35 a.m. this morning for the Al Fajr (the Dawn) prayer. The haunting and beautiful strains of “ Allahu Akbar, (God is great) and Ash-‘hadu ana la elaha ella Allah (I bear witness that there is no God by Allah) wafted from Minarets and flowed softly, pushed by the morning sea breezes, along Beirut’s sandy, but trash strewn beaches at Ramlet al Baida. Drifting along the Corniche Mazzra and Raouche, below the American University of Beirut, they swirled around the silent and narrow streets and alleys of Lebanon’s Capitol and drifted east and up along her mountains. Caressing the mountain tops they embraced the majestic Basilica at Harrissa, high above Jounieh, topped by its 15-ton bronze statue of "Saydet Libnan" or Notre Dame du Liban.
Obama's Outreach to Muslims: Empty Rhetoric, Same Old Policies
by Stephen Lendman
As well as anyone, Edward Said understood the West's long-standing antipathy to Islam - reflected in Samuel Huntington's "The Clash of Civilizations" article in the summer 1993 issue of Foreign Affairs and later a 1996 book.
He wrote that future conflicts won't be "primarily ideological or primarily economic. The great divisions among humankind and the dominating source of conflict will be cultural....the principal conflicts of global politics will occur between nations and groups of different civilizations. The clash of civilizations will dominate global politics. The fault lines between civilizations will be the battle lines of the future" - demagogically suggesting a benevolent, superior West confronting a belligerent, hostile, inferior Muslim world. In other words, good v. evil.
NOAH’S ARK REVISITED
By Andrew Glikson
AN ALLIANCE OF PRO-CARBON SCEPTICS AND FUNDAMENTALISTS IS RETARDING 11TH HOUR ATTEMPTS AT MITIGATION OF DANGEROUS CLIMATE CHANGE
ABSTRACT
Mammals have only been able to attain large dimensions on land once atmospheric CO2 concentrations declined toward c. 500 ppm during the Eocene (56-34 million years ago) (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mammal), with related cooling of c.5 degrees C, formation of the Antarctic ice sheet and decline of sea levels by c.70 meters. current atmospheric carbon gas levels (CO2 - 387 ppm; CO2+CH4 >450 ppm equivalent) threaten fast-tracking toward the top of ice age conditions.
No regrets for a "choice of words"
by Asa Gordon
"It is the ultimate sexism to assert that the experience of women does not offer better insight into the problems of women than does the experience of men, particularly when the statement is qualified by the phrase "more often than not." Similarly, it is the ultimate racism to assert that it is racist to suggest that the experience of the victims of white supremacy, in a nation founded on white male supremacy, may "more often than not" provide better insights into the nature of racism in America...than what is provided from the experience of being a white male"
Animal rights, ecofeminism, and rooster rehab
Mickey Z. interviews pattrice jones
pattrice jones is an ecofeminist educator, activist, and writer. She is the author of Aftershock: Confronting Trauma in a Violent World: A Guide for Activists and Their Allies and co-founder of the Eastern Shore Sanctuary and Education Center.
Founded in a rural region of Maryland dominated by the poultry industry, the sanctuary provides a haven for hens, roosters and ducks who have escaped or been rescued from the meat and egg industries or other abusive circumstances, such as cockfighting. Not surprisingly, pattrice and company take things further than your average sanctuary. "We work within an ecofeminist understanding of the interconnection of all life and the intersection of all forms of oppression," she explains. "Thus we welcome and work to facilitate alliances among animal, environmental, and social justice activists."
"Vargas Llosa is an old scam artist »
By James Petras
Vargas Llosa James Petras
VARGAS LLOSA: Insults, slander and falsehoods & fabrications in defence of the most reactionary groups.
The American Sociologist, Prof. James Petras Interviewed on Radio Centenario CX36/ Efraín by Chury Iribarne, Monday, June 1, 2009.
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”Vargas Llosa has been a scam artist for years. He’s written some interesting stories and he handles words very well, but he essentially lacks a direct experience with the kind of people he’s talking about in some of his original stories -apart from the upper middle class, that is. He’s always inventing some reactionary fantasy that will please rich people and academics. But in political terms, he’s a piece of shit.”
LISTEN UP, BUSTER
by Mary Pitt
We, the people, are sick and tired of hearing that "single payer is off the table" in the same breath with "health care reform". Attempting to "repair" a broken-down old vehicle without considering the possibility of a replacement as an alternative simply makes no financial sense. The same is true with trying to repair our broken health system.
We are beseiged on all sides by all the profit-generated complaints about the evils of "socialism" creating waiting lines and people dying while waiting for health care as well as the specter of "paying for somebody else's doctor bills." That is pure malarkey and far from the situation as it already exists. Let's take a look at the model that is already before us.
The 1967-war revisited - Part 2
By Khalid Amayreh
In June 1967, when Israel launched the 6-day-war on Egypt, Syria and Jordan, Khalid Amayreh was 10 years’ old. In the following two-part article, he recollects the war, whose outcome and ramifications continue to trouble Palestine, the Middle East and the rest of the world:
Read Part 1
I personally witnessed numerous demolitions when I was eleven years old. The demolition, or blowing-up operation, would begin with declaring the village where the doomed house was located a closed military zone. The declaration would be made via loudspeakers located atop military jeeps.
Greenbacks, "crazy lone nuts" and dead presidents
by webabuser
I wrote the following as a comment to the Member Post in which Ellen Brown demands that President Obama bypass the Federal Reserve and issue a new United States currency free from debt and interest. I decided that since comments to member posts do not appear on the main page that I would reprise my comment in its own article.
Lincoln issued his famous greenbacks to fund the Civil War without enslaving the American people to the 30% interest demanded by the bankers. Lincoln refused to plunge the people of the nation into a debt they could never pay back, and issued his own currency instead.
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