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A huge gulf exists between international values and intra-national values – and even within countries that are ostensibly “non-racist” there are huge discrepancies in values as applied to racial minorities.
Thus Apartheid Australia has been shocked by cases of infant deaths due to parental neglect but utterly IGNORES the ongoing Aboriginal genocide at home (9,000 avoidable Indigenous deaths annually) and Apartheid Australia’s involvement in the passive mass murder of 0.3 million Occupied (…)

The US under Emperor Obama is still conducting a War on Terror that in horrible reality is a War on Arab, Muslim, Asian, and non-European Women and Children who represent a substantial proportion of the 9-11 million excess deaths in the Bush (now Obama) wars, 1990-2009 (see: "9-11 excuse for US global genocide. The real 9-11 atrocity - millions [9-11 million] dead in Bush wars [1990-2009]": ).
However it is also clear that the Bush (now Obama) War on Terror is also a US War for Drugs - a (…)

Book Talk with Ralph Nader
He’s an activist, political gadfly and author. His name is Ralph Nader and he has a new book out. This time it’s a nonfiction one and its subject, naturally, is political. The title is: “Only the Super-Rich Can Save Us!” On September 26, 2009, at the Baltimore City’s Book Festival, Nader discussed some of the reasons that caused him to write his tome. He spoke for over an hour and half before a standing room only audience. Nader’s speech was sponsored by Red (…)

Daniel Patrick Welch, regaining his muse after an unfortunate hiatus, marvels at the audacity of the THC (Talking Heads Chorus), who tell us with a straight face that it’s our own damn fault if the fake "recovery" sputters—for not spending the money we don’t have!
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These recessions are getting shorter and shorter. If you delay admitting it’s happening until the shit really hits the fan, then claim it’s all better while the shit is still spraying all over you, eventually it will (…)

At a press conference, on Friday, Sept. 25, 2009, activists demanded that the Baltimore Gas & Electric Company (BGE), roll back its electric rates to 2006 levels and for it to grant “immediate rate relief.” BGE is a subsidiary of Constellation Energy, (CE). The event was held in front of the office of the Public Service Commission, a state regulatory agency located in Baltimore, MD. The “Maryland Coalition for BGE Reregulation” sponsored the press conference. Leo Burroughs is one of its (…)

By Nicola Nasser*
It was extraordinarily questionable why U.S. President Barak Obama chose not to credit the War on Afghanistan with a separate paragraph in his speech to the General Assembly of the United Nations on September 23, to “note” the war on Iraq with only a four – line paragraph, and instead to escalate his war of words on Iran, as if the expansion of the war on Afghanistan into Pakistan was not enough over-depletion of an already exhausted U.S. human, financial and military (…)

Letter to the World re Climate Racism, Climate Terrorism & Climate Genocide by Apartheid Australia.
Dear Sir/Madam,
First World-imposed climate genocide is predicted (from estimates of top UK climate scientist Dr James Lovelock FRS) to kill 10 billion non-Europeans this century, this carnage including 6 billion under-5 year old infants, 3 billion Muslims (a Muslim Holocaust 500 times greater than the WW2 Jewish Holocaust or the "forgotten" WW2 Bengali Holocaust), 2 billion Indians, (…)

An Indian child is set to address the UN Climate Summit in New York. This 13 year old Indian child, Yugratna Srivastava, can tell the world leaders - including PM Kevin Rudd (aka KRudd), the leader of climate criminal, functional climate change denier, climate liar, climate racist, climate terrorist and world-leading per capita greenhouse gas (GHG) polluter, anti-Asian, anti-Indian Apartheid Australia – of the acute threat man-made climate change poses to the children of the world. (…)

$21 Billion Orbiting Solar Array will Beam Electricity to Earth
September 15th, 2009 by Lin Edwards
The Japanese are preparing to develop a two trillion yen (approximately $21 billion USD) space solar project that will beam electricity from space in the form of microwaves or lasers to around 300,000 homes in Japan within three decades. The project, to be undertaken by a research group from 16 companies including Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd, aims to spend the next four years (…)

By David Glenn Cox
As a survivor of the Republican revolution, which began when Ronald Reagan took office, I have seen the world turned upside down like a sort of Mad Hatter’s tea party. You see, the Republicans were going to get the boot heel of the federal government off your back.
They began by privatizing the student loan program. No more would students apply by mail and receive checks from some faceless bureaucrat at the Treasury Department at the prime interest rate. Now with your (…)