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Last Updated: Feb 9th, 2010 - 02:08:33 |
Commentary
Christmas Day Crotch Bomber tied to Israel, FBI
By Jeff Gates
The Christmas Day “terrorist” is the latest in a
series of staged incidents meant to make The
Clash of Civilizations appear plausible and “the war on terrorism”
rational.
Feb 9, 2010, 00:27
Commentary
Oil, gas, gold, copper, etc., in Haiti equals US occupation
By Jerry Mazza
This discovery comes from an incredibly deep
well of information in the writings of Ezili Danto (Marguerite Laurent), in her
article, Part
2, Oil in Haiti as the economic reasons for the US/UN occupation, written
in January. Danto’s opening line links to Part
1 of the story from her website, and contains a cache of press clippings by
her and other Haitian authors, dated October 2009. Both parts are worth their
weight in the gold of truth, revealing recent events as part of an ongoing
privatization of Haiti’s abundant assets, with Papa Clinton plus 20,000 US
troops there to put a benign face on guarding those assets as a “humanitarian
effort.”
Feb 9, 2010, 00:25
Commentary
Blood lust and bragging rights
By Paul Craig Roberts
Which organization is the greatest threat to the
Second Amendment, the anti-gun Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence or Idaho’s
pro-gun Sportsmen for Wildlife?
Feb 9, 2010, 00:19
Commentary
Fixing a bad Supreme Court decision
By Joel S. Hirschhorn
Sensible, intelligent Americans are furious over
the recent Supreme Court 5-to-4-decision referred to as Citizens United v.
Federal Election Commission that struck down limits on corporate spending
in presidential and congressional elections. Those of us who wail against the
corpocracy with its corruption of government could hardly believe that this
decision could in any way be justified. A major reaction has been a number of
groups calling for a constitutional amendment to fix the problem.
Feb 9, 2010, 00:17
Commentary
Time for an American intifada?
By Jeff Gates
During the 1960 Christmas season, Americans
flocked to the theaters to see Exodus,
a 3½- hour epic film featuring handsome freedom fighters and a riveting romance
amidst the heroic triumph of Jewish Destiny over Arab Evil Doers. Set against a
Yuletide backdrop of Biblical prophecy, moviegoers marveled as exiled Jews
returned to their fabled promised land, a staple of popular culture to which
Americans are first exposed as children in “Sunday school.”
Feb 8, 2010, 00:24
Commentary
Markets fail when humans are unregulated
By Paul Craig Roberts
Former Federal Reserve chairman Alan Greenspan
answered that he had placed his trust in a flawed theory when he was called
before Congress to explain why he, Goldman Sachs Treasury
Secretary Robert Rubin and Deputy Treasury Secretary Larry Summers, prevented Brooksley
Born, head of the Commodity Futures Trading
Corporation, a government regulatory agency, from doing her job of regulating
over-the-counter derivatives.
Feb 8, 2010, 00:18
Commentary
Walk a mile . . .
By Sheila Samples
My friend Bernie says he’s suffering from
Afghanistan information exhaustion. “During all those months that Obama was
dragging his feet about escalating the war in Afghanistan, did you ever get the
impression,” he asked, “that foxes were in the hen house, chickens were
squawking and running around crazily, wolves were tearing the foxes to pieces,
and farmers were shooting wildly into the coop with no regard for the innocent?”
Feb 8, 2010, 00:16
Commentary
Lobbyists retreat but never surrender
By Michael Winship
George Washington’s birthday is approaching and
with it will come the attendant mythology: hatchet and cherry tree, wooden
teeth, throwing a silver dollar across the Potomac River -- or the
Rappahannock.
Feb 8, 2010, 00:14
Commentary
Obama seeks $200 million fund for Khalid Sheik Mohammed trial security
By Jerry Mazza
The Obama administration is proposing to pay $200
million for security expenses to any city that tries Khalid Sheik Mohammed.
Feb 5, 2010, 00:33
Commentary
Gulf anti-missile shield
By Linda S. Heard
The news that the US is supplying Patriot
anti-missile systems along with state-of-the-art weapons to Kuwait, Bahrain and
Qatar and is deploying warships in the Arabian Gulf signifies one of two
options. Either this provocative move is meant as an anti-Iranian deterrent or
Washington is aware that something is afoot and wants to protect its allies.
Feb 5, 2010, 00:23
Commentary
The defense industry is pleased with Obama
By Laura Flanders
Who says the president is failing to show
leadership? In one area at least, there’s no sign of flag or falter. If
anything, the administration’s only becoming more forthright. Sad to say, that
area is military build-up.
Feb 4, 2010, 00:22
Commentary
Capitalist tool
By Michael Collins
Just a few cynics doubted the magnificent
procession of then Senator Barack Obama to the highest office in the land. He
was the redemption of our past sins, the proof that we were a better nation
than we had been. After all, race has been at the center of American politics
since Bacon’s Rebellion was crushed in 1667 but we were moving
beyond that. And we did. Race was set aside for most of those who voted.
Feb 4, 2010, 00:20
Commentary
Decency and strength
By Kathy Kelly
Here in Colorado Springs, student and community
organizers recently invited me to try and help promote their campaign against a
proposed “No Camping” ordinance, a law to ban the homeless from sleeping on
sidewalks or public lands within the city limits.
Feb 4, 2010, 00:18
Commentary
What do Iraqis want?
By Abbas J. Ali
Despite warnings from friends who reside in
Iraq, I recently traveled to the war-torn country after almost 30 years of
absence.
Feb 3, 2010, 00:22
Commentary
Blair has slithered off the hook again
By Linda S. Heard
Say what you will about Britain’s former prime
minister, Tony Blair, the man’s a masterful manipulator. Who else could have
endured a day’s questioning over his role in the Iraq blunder without changing
his script once or displaying the slightest contrition?
Feb 3, 2010, 00:20
Commentary
So now what?
By Arthur Lukas
Okay, we elected a Democratic Congress in 2006. We
not only increased the Democratic majority in 2008, but we also elected a
Democratic president. We threw those rascally Republicans out of office, and
put in their place a president and party of our hopes and dreams. Happy days
were here again!
Feb 3, 2010, 00:16
Commentary
Supreme Court-porate opinion blesses corruporate campaign financing
By John-Paul Leonard
Machines and
institutions do not speak and do not breathe. The Jolly Green Giant, Aunt
Jemima and Ronald McDonald are not real and therefore do not, or should not,
get rights as living, breathing people.
Feb 3, 2010, 00:14
Commentary
Hijinks or undercover ops?
By Laura Flanders
If four politically-motivated young men with
left-wing (or Muslim), rather than right-wing ties, broke into the office of a
senior Senate Homeland Security Committee member and gained access to her
computer files -- do you think we’d be hearing less about hijinks and more
about Guantanamo?
Feb 3, 2010, 00:12
Commentary
What’s quaking, what’s shaking?
By Jerry Mazza
An article by Holly Deyo on rense.com raises the
question Did An 8.6 Quake Hit
China? Her lede reads, “Something occurred in China
yesterday [January 27, 2010], something that may have been a magnitude 8.6
quake.’
Feb 2, 2010, 00:25
Commentary
Last rites for America’s near-death democracy
By Ben Tanosborn
American democracy, its vital signs fading away,
received January 21 its political extreme unction from America’s highest
priestly body, the United States Supreme Court. In what will turn out to be the
biggest yet landmark decision affecting an “intended government” of the people
by the people and for the people, the highest court in the land decided by a
ruling of 5 to 4 -- clearly alongside ideological lines of both right and center
-– that money and power cannot be held back. Not when defining what democracy
is or should be, thus determining our fate; clearly, and unashamedly, telling
us that, Constitution aside, we are committing first degree mockery when we
tout to the four winds that we are a free people living under democratic rule.
Feb 2, 2010, 00:17
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