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Declaration of Independence and reflect upon its meaning this Fourth of July.
Jul 2, 2009, 00:22
Commentary
Happy Fourth! China is bidding on Iraq’s oilfields
By Jerry Mazza
As July 4th, our Independence Day, rolls around
and we begin our troop withdrawal; as the Iraqis celebrate and after untold
thousands of US soldiers have died and a million Iraqis to boot . . .
Jul 2, 2009, 00:20
Commentary
Pirates of the Mediterranean
By Paul Craig Roberts
On June 30, the government of Israel committed
an act of piracy when the Israeli Navy, in international waters, illegally
boarded the “Spirit of Humanity,”
kidnapped its 21-person crew from 11 countries, including former US
Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney and
Nobel Laureate Mairead MaGuire,
and confiscated the cargo of medical supplies, olive trees, reconstruction
materials, and children’s toys that were on the way to the Mediterranean coast
of Gaza. The “Spirit of Humanity,”
along with the kidnapped 21 persons, was towed to Israel’s Port of Ashdod.
Jul 2, 2009, 00:18
Health
Doctors boo Obama in Chicago
By Martha Rosenberg
CHICAGO -- You would have thought it was Wrigley
Field not the Hyatt
Regency Chicago.
Jul 2, 2009, 00:16
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Jul 2, 2009, 00:14
Commentary
‘And we elect them again and again’*
By Howard Lisnoff
Americans (at least some of those who reside in
the U.S.) have a very limited sense of history. This can be seen in all the
bluster from politicians regarding the rebellion in Iran. Nowhere is there any
recounting of the U.S.-backed government of Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, the Shah of
Iran, who ruled for decades by way of draconian policies toward his own people
for the sake of British, U.S., French, and Dutch oil interests. Even the taking
of the American Embassy by Iranian students in 1979 was seen here as divorced
from the prior history of U.S.-Iranian relations.
Jul 2, 2009, 00:12
Commentary
Liberté includes freedom of dress
By Linda S. Heard
The burqa worn by Muslim women is “a sign of
subjugation” that is not “welcome” in his country, says French President
Nicholas Sarkozy.
Jul 2, 2009, 00:10
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Jul 2, 2009, 00:04
Health
No reason to favor private health insurers
By Joel S. Hirschhorn
In the national debate about health care reform,
absolutely nothing makes less sense than the positive views of much of the
public about private health insurers.
Jul 1, 2009, 00:19
Special Reports
Israeli gunboats seize Gaza aid ship
Press release, Free
Gaza Movement
30 June 2009 -- Today Israeli Occupation Forces
attacked and boarded the Free Gaza Movement boat, the Spirit of Humanity,
abducting 21 human rights workers from 11 countries, including Noble laureate
Mairead Maguire and former US Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney (see below for a
complete list of passengers). The passengers and crew are being forcibly
dragged toward Israel.
Jul 1, 2009, 00:17
Commentary
Iraq war: Not another whitewash, please!
By Linda S. Heard
A scheduled independent inquiry into Britain’s
role in the Iraq war is long overdue. The invasion of Iraq arguably constitutes
Britain’s greatest blunder since the 1956 Suez Crisis, which resulted in the
then Prime Minister Anthony Eden suffering an emotional breakdown and being
forced to quit office.
Jul 1, 2009, 00:15
Commentary
Tribal Marxism for Dummies
By Gilad Atzmon
For very many years the Palestinian solidarity
discourse was dominated by leftist ideology carried largely by Jewish Marxists.
Though the support of Jewish leftists was rather important at an early stage,
it lost its primacy and urgency as Palestinian resistance and the Palestinian
solidarity discourse evolved into a vivid autonomous discourse based on widely
accepted ethical grounds.
Jul 1, 2009, 00:13
Commentary
Waking up
By Pablo Ouziel
We wake up in the morning to hear and watch the
newest tragedy that has swept the attention of the world's media.
Jun 30, 2009, 00:24
News Media
Congressional caucus looks for way to save dying print media
By Wayne Madsen
On June 25, the Caucus on Freedom of the Press
held a forum on the state of journalism in the United States in the
Congressional Visitors Center in Washington, DC. The forum was organized by
Representatives Adam Schiff (D-CA) and Mike Pence (R-IN), two of the founding
members of the caucus.
Jun 30, 2009, 00:22
Commentary
Illusory return to economic normalcy
By Ben Tanosborn
“Everything would be okay if it weren’t for that
CNN scaring us out of our wits, giving us all those stories and commentary on
the recession and presumed bad economy,” was the statement someone made at the
table, as we were having breakfast at a delightful bedand breakfast of the most
charming Victorian-accented town in Washington State: Port Townsend.
Jun 30, 2009, 00:20
Commentary
Cap and trade or distance tariffs?
By Kent Welton
Cap and trade is overly complicated and
byzantine to say the least and, worse, easily subject to corruption and private
profiteering from within a necessary public interest and mission. It’s a huge
mistake.
Jun 30, 2009, 00:16
Commentary
40 years after Stonewall, still a long way to go
By Mary Shaw
I am writing this on June 28, 2009 -- the 40th
anniversary of the Stonewall riots in New York’s Greenwich Village in 1969,
which marked the beginning of the LGBT rights movement here in the U.S.
Jun 30, 2009, 00:14
Special Reports
$2.775 billion in US aid supports Israeli nuclear weapons program
By Grant F. Smith
President Barak Obama’s fiscal year 2010 budget
request for $2.775 billion in military aid to Israel is proceeding smoothly
through the Congress.
Jun 29, 2009, 00:20
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