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Extractive Capitalism and the Divisions in the Latin American Progressive Camp
James Petras
Introduction
The leading agro-mineral exporting countries, including those engaged with the world’s leading mining and energy multi-national corporations(MNC) are also those characterized as having the most independent and progressive foreign policies. Apparently the primacy of “extractive capitalism” and commodity-export based economies are no longer correlated with ‘neo-colonial’ regimes.
It can be argued that the concessions to the extractive MNC and local ‘leading’ classes assures stability, steady revenues and finances the incremental social expenditures which permit the re-election of the center-left regimes. In other words a de facto alliance between the “top” and “bottom” of the class structure is the unstated bases for center-left electoral successes despite the growing political divergence between the regimes and sections of the social movements.
FUKUSHIMA PRIMED FOR WORLD WIDE DISASTER
Allen L Roland
The radioactive Fukushima Genie is out of the bottle and is primed to accomplish a worldwide disaster. If the roof of Reactor building #4 collapses, a building that is now seismically rated at zero, a pool of 1563 spent fuel rods perched 100 feet above the ground would also collapse ~ resulting in a gusher of global radiation that would put most of the world’s human and biological populations at severe risk.
The greatest and most dangerous on going cover up in the world today is not the official 9/11 cover up (now into its 11th year); it is not the supposed assassination of Bin Laden by Navy Seals last year (an operation with no confirmed body, no video and completely staged as a re-election gimmick as we are now witnessing); but instead, it is the unspoken on going conspiracy of silence regarding the spreading worldwide nuclear radiation from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster on March 11, 2011.
American Methodists must be fearless about divestment
Stuart Littlewood
Chief Rabbi warned Brits of “reverberations” across the faith communities, so American Methodists must be fearless about divestment.
Why is the United Methodist Church apparently making such heavy weather of voting for divestment from corporates – specifically Caterpillar, Motorola and Hewlett-Packard - that profiteer from the brutal Israeli occupation of Palestine?
Americans can surely learn from their British brethren who blazed a trail through this minefield at their annual conference nearly two years ago. They voted to boycott products from Israeli settlements in Occupied Palestine, regarded as illegal under international law, and to encourage Methodists across the country to do the same.
Abdulhadi Alkhawaja Painfully Force-Fed
by Stephen Lendman
Abdulhadi Alkhawaja
May 1 marks his 83rd hunger striking day. At issue is justice denied him and all Bahrainis. One of the world's most ruthless dictatorships terrorizes them.
They resist courageously. Abdulhadi inspires them. He's now painfully force-fed against his will.
After being denied visitations for days, family members finally saw him Sunday in a prison hospital. His wife, Khadija, said he's weak but in good spirits.
He told her he's being drugged and force-fed through a nasoenteric tube. It reaches his stomach or small bowel through his nose. Reports on force-feeding Guantanamo prisoners call it torture. Thickness of a finger inserted tubes through noses and throats abrasively draw blood. They also cause severe pain, bloating, nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, and shortness of breath.
New Orleans video: Chemtrails, GMOs & Transgenics
Link: http://www.activistpost.com/2012/04/chemtrails-gmos-and-transgenics.html
By Rady Ananda
In this 10-minute entry into Alex Jones’ wildly popular video news contest, info-warriors gathered in New Orleans to give a brief background on chemtrails and genetically modified foods, bringing an update from Vermont on its GMO-food label bill.
Our research begs the eugenics question: Who are the transhumanists to decide for all of humanity that Homo sapiens should evolve into a part-machine post-human?
Released April 2012
Anchor (plus research & writing): Raphaelle O'Neil
Camera, Audio & Video Edit: David K. Jarreau
Conception and street action: Michael DiBari
Research, writing, and witness interview: Rady Ananda
Washington and Israel Threaten Humanity
by Stephen Lendman
So does NATO. It's America's imperial tool. An alliance for war, not peace, enemies were invented post-Soviet Russia.
Communism then was the alleged threat. Today it's terrorism. Strategically intervening under US control, world peace and humanity are threatened.
NATO wages America's wars. Middle East, North Africa, and Central Asian ones involve Israel. Both countries threaten world peace.
On Keeping the People Divided, Distracted and Controlled
Larry Pinkney
“And in the framework of the collectivity there were the differentiations, the stratification, and the bloodthirsty tensions fed by classes; and finally, on the immense scale of humanity, there were racial hatreds, slavery, exploitation, and above all the bloodless genocide which consisted in the setting aside of fifteen thousand millions of men...For Europe, for ourselves, and for humanity, comrades, we must turn over a new leaf, we must work out new concepts, and try to set afoot a New Man.” -Frantz Fanon
“Freedom is always the freedom of dissenters.” -Rosa Luxemburg
The United States government was brought into existence as a direct result of its murderous genocide of the Indigenous Native peoples, the brutal slavery of Black people, and the shameless exploitation and indentured servitude of many poor White people and others. To this very day, the U.S. corporate government continues to be singularly, at home and abroad, the most hypocritical, manipulative, and concomitantly violent one on this precious planet of Mother Earth.
What's Next for Libya?
By Stephen Lendman
NATO's "responsibility to protect" (R2P) was subterfuge to wage war. Months of terror bombing left Libya a charnel house.
Africa's most developed country was ravaged, not liberated. Protracted struggle continues. Expect it to persist for years.
When is war not war? It's when mass killing and destruction are called the right thing. It's also when terrorizing and traumatizing an entire population continues unaddressed.
Libya was developed and peaceful until NATO intervened. It arrived on cruise missiles, bombs, shells, other munitions, depleted and enriched uranium, other terror weapons, fifth column infiltrators, and media scoundrel complicity, as well as coverup and denial.
Palestinian Rights Activism Endangered
by Stephen Lendman
In America, Israel, Europe and elsewhere, supporting Palestinian rights publicly is dangerous.
In September 2010, FBI agents raided homes of Chicago and Minneapolis human rights activists.
Two Chicagoans affected said 20 FBI agents ransacked their home. They and others had computers, cell phones, and other personal belongings taken.
They weren't terrorists. They committed no crimes. Most supported the Freedom Road Socialist Organization. It publishes a newsletter called Fight Back.
Thermonuclear War Danger Grows over Syria, Iran
by Jeffrey Steinberg
April 24—The U.S. Navy, under orders from President Obama, is scrambling to pre-position sufficient military forces in the Persian Gulf region to launch a full-scale attack on Iran at any time between now and early Autumn. While the U.S. military—led by Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Gen. Martin Dempsey—has made its opposition to any military action against Iran at this time clearly known to the President, his top national security advisors, and to top Israeli government, military, and intelligence officials, senior Pentagon sources confirm that there is no confidence among the top American military brass that the President is paying any attention.
According to one senior Pentagon source, the nightmare fear is that if Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu orders an attack by the Israeli Defense Forces against targets in Iran, President Obama will order the U.S. military to "finish the job." These fears are based on three years of experience with this President, and the growing recognition that he is in a reckless "Emperor Nero" frame of mind.
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