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  • RECENT THOUGHTS ON OBAMA AND THE MILITARY-INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX
    16 February 2010 par (Open-Publishing)

    OBAMA AND THE GRIM SHADOW OF AMERICA’S TORTURE PRISONS - AND THE BRUTAL FACT ONLY DREAMERS AND FOOLS BELIEVE IN CHANGE IN AMERICA
    POSTED RESPONSE TO A COLUMN BY JOHANN HARI IN THE INDEPENDENT
    Yes, absolutely, the secret prisons in Afghanistan, and those in other places, cast a grim shadow across Obama’s smiling face.
    I believe that decisions like keeping America’s torture gulag operating abroad are the greatest source of people’s disappointment with Obama.
    But I’m afraid people were (…)

  • The Philippine War is Not So Different from Afghanistan
    10 February 2010 par (Open-Publishing)
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    American history has been dominated by war; so, too, may the American future be.
    The war in Afghanistan feels foreign to Americans: a far distant land, a confusing and alien culture, and combat against a shadowy enemy. That feeling is mistaken. America has spent much of its history fighting wars like the one in Afghanistan. So much so, in fact, that Afghanistan would be familiar to an American in 1900, and conventional wars such as World War II would seem strange.
    In fact, in many ways (…)

  • THE NEW STAR SPANGLED BANNER
    7 February 2010 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Oh say can you see by the fluorescent light
    The politicians we’ve bought at our last corporate meeting?
    Whose venal hearts and deceit wrought health care’s defeat,
    While from boardrooms we laughed and then raised premiums?
    And the wars that were fought for the profits we’ve sought
    Gave proof to our shareholders that freedom is bought.
    Oh say does that banner of corporate fascism now wave,
    O’er democracy’s corpse and the working class slaves?
    David R. Hoffman, Legal Editor of (…)

  • Huge "Scheherazade" Painting & Poem by Gideon Polya: "One Day in the Life of Barack Obama"
    6 February 2010 par (Open-Publishing)

    Last year I published on Bellaciao a very carefully researched and documented quantitative analysis of the mass murder of Muslim civilians, and notably of children, by the US Alliance in the Occupied Territories of the American Empire under Barack Obama and entitled “Hey, Hey, USA, how many kids did you kill today? Answer: 1,000”: . This article comes up as #1 out of about 8,000 hits on a Google Search for the famous anti-war chant “Hey. Hey . USA, how many kids did you kill today?” (…)

  • letter of february to obama
    3 February 2010 par (Open-Publishing)

    Mr. Barak Obama, President February 1st, 2010 The White House
    1600 Pennsylvania Avenue N.W.
    Washington DC 20500
    Dear Mister President,
    After the attempted terrorist attack, which luckily failed, on flight 253 Amsterdam-Detroit, you took the necessary measures to reinforce security on the airlines, which is normal.
    When we read the list of the countries suspected of terrorism, for which passengers will be closely monitored, and we saw Cuba on this list, we burst out (…)

  • There ALREADY are 100s of ARM netbooks around $100! Didn’t know that?
    31 January 2010 par (Open-Publishing)

    $100 ARM Computers Direct from China:Flooding US Market
    There are hundreds of netbooks based on ARM processors, but they are all the same! If you didn’t know that, it’s because they are mostly in China — so far. They are about to flood the US markets with cheap computers, not much more, delivered to your door. Some are already in hole-in-the-wall electronics stores in New York and possibly other cities. This changes everything (in electronics, computers, and other fields).
    For more: (…)

  • Video: Doctors Flowers and Paris Arrested, Re: Obama and Medicare for All
    29 January 2010 par (Open-Publishing)

    On Jan. 29, 2010, Doctors Margaret Flowers and Carol Paris were arrested outside a hotel, at the Inner Harbor, in Baltimore, MD, where President Barack Obama was to give a speech. They were on a sidewalk outside the Renaissance hotel holding a banner. The doctors had a letter that they wanted to give to the President and/or one of his aides, re: Medicare for All. They were arrested for trespassing, according to to a police officer at the scene. Later after getting into a police car, this (…)

  • Howard Zinn, historian who challenged status quo, dies at 87 (video)
    28 January 2010 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Mark Feeney and Bryan Marquard, Globe Staff
    Howard Zinn, the Boston University historian and political activist who was an early opponent of US involvement in Vietnam and whose books, such as "A People’s History of the United States," inspired young and old to rethink the way textbooks present the American experience, died today in Santa Monica, Calif, where he was traveling. He was 87.
    His daughter, Myla Kabat-Zinn of Lexington, said he suffered a heart attack.
    "He’s made an (…)

  • Restore the Power to the People: Amend the Constitution!
    28 January 2010 par (Open-Publishing)

    ¿Plata o plomo? Colombian and Mexican drug gangs ask government officials, judges and police officers which they prefer, “silver or lead,” when offering bribes and threatening violence.
    The U.S. Supreme Court decision granting corporations the same free speech rights as natural persons allows them to spend unlimited amounts of money to influence elections and public affairs.
    Corporations, foreign and domestic, can now force politicians to choose silver or lead when supporting or (…)

  • The Real Purpose Of Airport Body Scanners: Breaking The Will Of The People
    28 January 2010 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Steve Watson
    Airports serving as trial grounds for the prison planet
    The clamor to ramp up airport security with invasive naked body imaging scanners has nothing to do with ensuring the safety of travelers. Rather it is part of an ongoing incremental push to break the will of the people and encourage mass subservience and meek obedience.
    Perhaps the most alarming aspect of the body scanner push is that people are willingly accepting it. As Bloomberg news reports today, “Passenger (…)