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Appalling Migrant Worker Conditions in Qatar
by Stephen Lendman
Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani is Qatar's Emir. He heads a despotic monarchal rogue state.
He maintains supreme power. What he says goes. Ordinary Qataris have no say.
State terror defines official policy. Qatar has one of the world's worst human and civil rights record. Democratic rights are verboten.
Torture and other forms of repression are commonplace. So is brutal worker exploitation. Foreign nationals suffer most. According to the State Department's 2012 human rights report: "The principal human rights problems were the inability of citizens to change their government peacefully, restriction of fundamental civil liberties, and pervasive denial of expatriate workers’ rights."
On Blood Rituals
By Gilad Atzmon
Study finds 7 cases of herpes transmitted by Jewish penis sucking ritual.
Haaretz reported today that a couple of weeks ago, New York City Councilman David G. Greenfield introduced a bill that would bar the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene from requiring informed consent for metzitzah b'peh.
Metzitzah b'peh (blood sucking) is a Jewish blood ritual where a circumciser (mohel), “sucks out blood from a baby’s penis after circumcision.”
The N.Y. health department has linked several infant deaths to Metzitzah b'peh. Needless to say that the American health authorities’ concerns are more than reasonable. However, not many people are familiar with the history of the political and medical discussion over that particular Jewish blood ritual.
Troy Davis and family live on in new book
Mary Shaw
Jen Marlowe's newest book, I Am Troy Davis
Davis was convicted of the 1989 murder of police officer Mark MacPhail in Savannah, Georgia. Years of appeals were unsuccessful despite significant doubts about his guilt.
Davis's original trial was flawed, and most of the witnesses later recanted or contradicted their stories. There was no physical evidence linking Davis to the crime, and his conviction was based solely on that questionable testimony by witnesses. In other words, there was reasonable doubt as to Davis's guilt.
A Bad Month for the the Dollar
by Robert Bonomo
September was not a good month for the U.S. dollar. The world’s reserve currency is sustained in large part by the Petrodollar, the agreement by the Saudis and OPEC to price oil in dollars and only accept dollars for payment. The US gets a guaranteed demand for its fiat currency and in exchange the US has agreed to protect militarily Saudi oil fields. However, after President Obama was forced to back off his plans to attack Syria in support of the Saudi backed insurgency fighting the Assad regime, one of the pillars of the Petrodollar scheme was shaken to its core.
Saudi Arabian Backed Insurgents Responsible for Ghouta Chemical Weapons Attack
by Stephen Lendman
Russia has evidence proving it. More on that below. A previous article said the following:
On August 29, Mint Press News headlined "Exclusive: Syrians in Ghouta Claim Saudi-Supplied Rebels Behind Chemical Attack," saying:
"Rebels and local residents in Ghouta accuse Saudi Prince Bandar bin Sultan of providing chemical weapons to an al-Qaida linked rebel group."
Abu Abdel-Moneim lives in Ghouta. He's the father of an insurgent fighter. "My son came to me two weeks ago asking what I thought the weapons were that he had been asked to carry," he said.Some were "tube-like" in structure. Others were like a "huge gas bottle." They were stored in tunnels.
Public Banking Avoids Today's Debacle
by Stephen Lendman
Putting money back in public hands where it belongs would avoid what's now ongoing. It's an idea whose time has come.
It's how to run America's economy. It's about doing it responsibly. It's been done before. It's high time things worked that way again.
Money power in private hands doesn't work. The Fed's been looting America for a century. It bears full responsibility for today's crisis. Its deplorable record explains why. It includes:
- rising consumer debt;
- record budget and trade deficits;
- an out-of-control national debt;
- record numbers of personal and business bankruptcies;
- millions of home foreclosures;
- depression level unemployment, poverty, homelessness and hunger;
- an unprecedented wealth gap between rich elites and ordinary Americans; and
- a hugely unstable economy lurching from one crisis to another.
America: The Republic of Lying
by Stephen Lendman
Longtime investigative journalist Seymour Hersh addressed it. More on what he said below.
Others like him did years earlier. They included HL Mencken, Charles Edward Russell, Lincoln Steffens, Upton Sinclair, and IF Stone among others.
Stone (1907 - 1989) said he "tried to bring the instincts of a scholar to the service of journalism; to take nothing for granted; to turn journalism into literature; to provide radical analysis with a conscientious concern for accuracy, and in studying the current scene to do (his) very best to preserve human values and free institutions." He deplored the ascendancy of "right-wing kooks" taking over America. Ralph Nader called him a modern day Tom Paine.
Israel and Washington Target Iran
by Stephen Lendman
Olive branches aren't in either country's vocabulary. Both nations are modern day Spartas writ large. They live by the sword.
They do so irresponsibly. They do it lawlessly. They're ruthlessly out-of-control. They're partners in crime.
They deplore peace and stability. They thrive on conflict and violence. They wage one war after another. They threaten humanity in the process.
They're rogue states. They make more enemies than friends. Threatening, intimidating, and bullying don't win hearts and minds. Nor does causing unimaginable levels of human suffering.
Putin Nominated for Nobel Peace Prize
by Stephen Lendman
The International Academy of Spiritual Unity and Cooperation Among Nations of the World (IASUCANW) nominated him for the 2014 award.
On October 11, this year's winner will be announced. Annual nominations must be postmarked by February 1.
Putin and Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov collaborated. They've addressed regional conflicts responsibly. They've gone all out for peace in Syria. They want things resolved diplomatically. They want all sides on board to do so. They continue doing it against long odds. Both men deserve recognition for their efforts. They persist tirelessly.
They do it knowing Obama wants regime change. War is his bottom line option to achieve it. Preventing it will be a monumental achievement. So will resolving Syria's conflict peacefully.
Netanyahu's General Assembly Dissembling
by Stephen Lendman
Last year he made a fool out of himself. He did so before a world audience. His cartoon bomb went viral. It bombed.
He looked more cartoonish than his prop. One cartoonist showed a picture of Daffy Duck's head exploding. An observer referred to Bibi's "Clint Eastwood chair" moment.
Another compared his explosive to what Warner Bros.' animated character Wile E. Coyote used in Looney Tunes cartoons.
A Washington Post op-ed asked if his stunt was a "poor choice of a ridiculously-looking, over-simplified bomb cartoon (or) a calculated choice (to) create (an) indelible image everyone would be talking about?"
He didn't calculate what they'd say. The Wall Street Journal compared his stunt to Nikitia Krushchev's shoe-banging incident.
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