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  • When Self Loathing Becomes Law: The Clarence Thomas Story
    30 March 2009 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Whenever America commemorates past wars, or wages new ones, one persistent theme is how a particular war was essential to “the defense of freedom.” Although the United States has fought some wars where its liberty interests were at risk, in recent times this “defense of freedom” mantra has become little more than a subterfuge to conceal the fact that America’s military is increasingly being deployed so that multi-national corporations can plunder the human and natural resources of weaker (…)

  • Philippine Extra-Judicial Killings Continue, Obama’s Response In Question
    29 March 2009 par (Open-Publishing)

    Philippine Extra-Judicial Killings Continue, Obama’s Response In Question by Brian McAfee
    On March 23rd, Sabina Ariola, the leader of "Citizens for Excellence, Progress, Peace towards the Country’s Great Future," was gunned down. She is the 992nd civilian to be killed in the ongoing spree of extra-judicial killings that have been occurring since 2001, when Gloria Macapagal Arroyo assumed the (…)

  • Hidden Homeless Emerge as US Economy Worsens
    27 March 2009 par (Open-Publishing)

    Hidden Homeless Emerge as US Economy Worsens
    Global Research, March 26, 2009 Reuters SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Emergency shelters brimming with homeless people in California’s capital are quietly turning away more than 200 women and children a night in a sign of the deteriorating U.S. economy.
    The displaced individuals on waiting lists at St. John’s Shelter and other facilities often turn instead to relatives or friends for temporary living quarters, perhaps moving into a spare room, (…)

  • America Is in Need of a Moral Bailout
    25 March 2009 par (Open-Publishing)

    America Is in Need of a Moral Bailout
    by Chris Hedges
    Global Research, March 24, 2009 TruthDig
    In decaying societies, politics become theater. The elite, who have hollowed out the democratic system to serve the corporate state, rule through image and presentation. They express indignation at AIG bonuses and empathy with a working class they have spent the last few decades disenfranchising, and make promises to desperate families that they know will never be fulfilled. Once the (…)

  • The Fall of the Towers of Wall Street
    25 March 2009 par (Open-Publishing)

    Capitalism From the Standpoint of Its Victims by M. SHAHID ALAM
    It has never been easy offering a critique of capitalism or markets to my undergraduate students. Most have never heard an unkind word about these bedrock institutions, which they know to be the foundations of American power and prosperity..
    http://www.counterpunch.org/shahid0...

  • Video: Scenes from the “March on the Pentagon” Rally
    22 March 2009 par (Open-Publishing)

    Here are few scenes from the “March on the Pentagon” rally held on Saturday, March 21, 2009, in Washington, D.C. After listening to some speakers, the huge, and colorful, demonstration moved from its base camp just south of the Lincoln Memorial, across the Memorial Bridge, which spans the Potomac River, into Northern Virginia. On the Virginia side, it crossed east towards the Pentagon and then beyond it to other sites, housing the “Merchants of War-Making.” They have been raking in billions (…)

  • Good News!!! Obama offers new start with Iran
    20 March 2009 par (Open-Publishing)

    Good News!!! Obama offers new start with Iran
    Reuters – U.S. President Barack Obama addresses the Iranian people, in this frame grab of videotaped speech released …
    WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Barack Obama issued an unprecedented videotaped appeal to Iran on Friday offering a "new beginning" of diplomatic engagement to turn the page on decades of U.S. policy toward America’s longtime foe.
    "My administration is now committed to diplomacy that addresses the full range of issues (…)

  • 667 US Afghan War deaths, 4-6 million Afghan excess deaths, 100,000 dead so far in Obama’s War on Terror
    20 March 2009 par (Open-Publishing)
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    As summarized in the title, 667 US soldiers have died so far in the Afghan War as compared to 4-6 million violent and non-violent Afghan excess deaths. So far, in the first 2 months of the Obama presidency, non-violent Indigenous Asian excess deaths and under-5 infant deaths in the Occupied Palestinian, Iraqi and Afghan Territories total about 100,000 and 70,000, respectively. Obama could stop all 3 holocausts tomorrow but he simply won’t - "yes we can" clearly doesn’t extend to cessation of (…)

  • Video: Antiwar Veteran Arrested at VA Protest in Washington, D.C.
    19 March 2009 par (Open-Publishing)

    On March 19, 2009, antiwar Veterans held a press conference, at 12:30 PM, in front of the headquarters of the VA, just north of the White House. Their purpose was to draw attention to the “March on the Pentagon” rally set for this Saturday, March 21st. That action is sponsored by the ANSWER Coalition of which the “Veterans and Service Members Task Force,” is a part. Also, the Veterans wanted to underscored how those that have served the nation in foreign conflicts are not receiving adequate (…)

  • Steps to Financial Cataclysm Paved with Industry Dollars
    19 March 2009 par (Open-Publishing)

    $5 BILLION IN POLITICAL CONTRIBUTIONS BOUGHT WALL STREET FREEDOM FROM REGULATION, RESTRAINT, REPORT FINDS
    Steps to Financial Cataclysm Paved with Industry Dollars
    March 4 - The financial sector invested more than $5 billion in political influence purchasing in Washington over the past decade, with as many as 3,000 lobbyists winning deregulation and other policy decisions that led directly to the current financial collapse, according to a 231-page report issued today by Essential (…)