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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 (…)

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...

China’s central bank has called for a new global reserve currency run by the International Monetary Fund to replace the US dollar.
Central bank governor Zhou Xiaochuan did not explicitly mention the dollar, but said the crisis showed the dangers of relying on one currency.
With the world’s largest currency reserves of $2tn, China is the biggest holder of dollar assets.
Its leaders have often complained about the dollar’s volatility.
China has long been uneasy about relying on the (…)

Col. Ann Wright, US Army, Ret., and a former high ranking U.S. Diplomat, just returned from Israeli Occupied Gaza. She said: “There has been an incredible crime committed on Gaza...What is going on there is a War Crime.” Col. Wright is a member of Code Pink. She made her recent trip to Occupied Gaza with Medea Benjamin, Co Founder of that organization. See, related interview, at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=im_pBRfdNAM&feature=channel_page My interview with Col. Wright took place on (…)

http://mostlywater.org/video_8000_d...

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 (…)

Genocide denial and holocaust denial are wrong and utterly repugnant for 3 major reasons: (1) it is falsehood; (2) it is profoundly offensive to the memory of the victims, survivors of such atrocities, their loved ones and indeed to all of decent humanity; and (3) it increases the probability of repetition of such awful crimes – history ignored and history denied yields history repeated.
Indeed it is for these sorts of reasons that Germany recently controversially proposed a measure that (…)

Respect MP, George Galloway has been refused entry to Canada to address the Peace Movement. According to the Government of Canada, he was barred for reasons of ’National Security’. The barring of George Galloway comes just days after ex US President George Bush spoke in Calgary, despite protests, including lawyers who argued Canada’s own law demands that ’credible’ war crimes suspects such as Bush, be banned. Condoleeza Rice, also on the most wanted list of unindicted US war criminals is (…)

Record numbers took to the streets of France yesterday in the biggest demonstrations since Nicolas Sarkozy’s election, to protest about his handling of the economic crisis.
Unions estimated that more than three million people took part in demonstrations across the country, in the second general strike over the economic crisis in two months. Police put figures at about 1.2 million. With one in three people supporting the protest, it had the highest public backing for a strike in a decade. (…)

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 (…)