t r u t h o u t | Human Activity Is Driving Earth's "Sixth Great Extinction Event"
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Thursday, July 30, 2009
t r u t h o u t | Are Liberal Netroots Groups Helping Obama Fail?
t r u t h o u t | Are Liberal Netroots Groups Helping Obama Fail?
who needs a social movement when you have capable bureaucrats?
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who needs a social movement when you have capable bureaucrats?
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t r u t h o u t | War Complicates US Aid Efforts for Afghan Women
t r u t h o u t | War Complicates US Aid Efforts for Afghan Women
These monsters will stoop to anything to feed their war machine:
"We're quite concerned that Congress is hiding behind the skirts of women to fund the war," Evans said.
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These monsters will stoop to anything to feed their war machine:
"We're quite concerned that Congress is hiding behind the skirts of women to fund the war," Evans said.
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The End of AIPAC?
These kinds of images are just getting too hard to spin - and with the corporate media monopoly broken by web outlets, the legitimacy of the Zionist project is increasingly in question.
Alan Sabrosky, "Desperate Fanatics: The ADL Pounds the Table"
About the author:
Alan Sabrosky (Ph.D., University of Michigan) is a writer and consultant specializing in national and international security affairs. In December 1988, he received the Superior Civilian Service Award after more than five years of service at the U.S. Army War College as Director of Studies, Strategic Studies Institute, and holder of the General of the Army Douglas MacArthur Chair of Research. He is listed in WHO'S WHO IN THE EAST (23rd ed.). A Marine Corps Vietnam veteran and a 1986 graduate of the U.S. Army War College, Dr. Sabrosky's teaching and research appointments have included the United States Military Academy, the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), Middlebury College and Catholic University; while in government service, he held concurrent adjunct professorships at Georgetown University and the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS). Dr. Sabrosky has lectured widely on defense and foreign affairs in the United States and abroad.
Anthony DiMaggio: Health Care, the Media and Public Opinion
NPR and MSNBC are engaged in willful and systematic deception. not exactly news...
Anthony DiMaggio: Health Care, the Media and Public Opinion
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Wednesday, July 29, 2009
t r u t h o u t | Enigma of the Uprising; Foucault and Iran
I've never been totally convinced that Foucault has any useful insights to offer... Roy's analysis on the otherhand, good stuff...
t r u t h o u t | Enigma of the Uprising; Foucault and Iran
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Why is the US in Afghanistan?
No one said controlling the Central Asian energy grid would be easy. If it was easy, it'd be done already...
Feingold: White House is Whistling Past Afghan Graveyard
By Jeremy Scahill
Tuesday, July 28, 2009
Monday, July 27, 2009
Ishmael Reed: Post-Race Scholar Yells Racism
I had a feeling that Obama would eventually retract his defense of Gates and come out with a statement affirming the professionalism and integrity of the Cambridge Police Dept. I think someone could write something very interesting about the act of putting someone in handcuffs. I wonder what percentage of us have ever been in handcuffs. Its quite the act of domination- pregnant with all kinds of symbolic resonance. I wonder what the dynamics were when the white cop put the handcuffs on the black prof. Now who's boss? Did the elderly gentleman who walks with a cane needed to be dragged out of his own home in handcuffs. I'm sure Obama will give us perfectly reasonable explanation as to why such an outcome was not actually 'stupid.'
When Gates is the radical and Obama the moderate, you know our spectrum is skewed. I wonder if Gates now has any interest in retracting all that stuff about the "behavioral dimension" to the problems confronting African Americans. You sing the song the power structure wants to hear, and they still drag you out of your home in handcuffs. Here's Ismael Reed:
Ishmael Reed: Post-Race Scholar Yells Racism
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When Gates is the radical and Obama the moderate, you know our spectrum is skewed. I wonder if Gates now has any interest in retracting all that stuff about the "behavioral dimension" to the problems confronting African Americans. You sing the song the power structure wants to hear, and they still drag you out of your home in handcuffs. Here's Ismael Reed:
Ishmael Reed: Post-Race Scholar Yells Racism
While his alliance with feminists gave Gates' career a powerful boost, it was his Op ed for the Times blaming continued anti-Semitism on African Americans that brought the public intellectual uptown. It was then that Gates was ordained as the pre-eminent African American scholar when, if one polled African-American scholars throughout the nation, Gates would not have ranked among the top twenty five. ... Last week Rachel Maddow called Gates "the nation's leading black intellectual." Who pray tell is the nation's leading white intellectual, Rachel? How come we can only have one? Some would argue that Gates hasn't written a first rate scholarly work since 1989.
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Saturday, July 25, 2009
t r u t h o u t | Obama's Health Care Struggle: Waterloo or Water Down?
I hope the Obama health-care scheme dies the long slow death it deserves.
t r u t h o u t | Obama's Health Care Struggle: Waterloo or Water Down?
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Patrick Cockburn: Party of Change
Cockburn on the corruption of the KDP and PUK in Iraqi Kurdistan.
Patrick Cockburn: Party of "Change" Challenges Old Guard in Kurdistan
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Thursday, July 23, 2009
Obama health-care 'plan'
If you're poor enough, the govt won't force you to buy health insurance:
"There might still be people left out there who, even though there’s an individual mandate, even though they are required to purchase health insurance, might still not get it, or despite a lot of subsidies, are still in such dire straits that it’s still hard for them to afford it. And we may end up giving them some sort of hardship exemption.”
"There might still be people left out there who, even though there’s an individual mandate, even though they are required to purchase health insurance, might still not get it, or despite a lot of subsidies, are still in such dire straits that it’s still hard for them to afford it. And we may end up giving them some sort of hardship exemption.”
Race and Politics in the Age of Obama
Cornell West on the rhetoric of "responsibility":
I think that it’s quite telling that he would give personal responsibility speeches to black people, but not a lot of personal responsibility speeches to Wall Street in terms of execution. And when you actually look at the degree to which issues of accountability for poor people—but where’s the accountability when you’re bailing out these Wall Street elites, $700 billion? That’s socialism for the rich. That’s your policy. Don’t then go to these folk who are locked into dilapidated housing, decrepit school systems, many on their way to a prison-industrial complex, and talk about their fathers didn’t come through. And we know the fathers got problems. We understand that. But there are structural institutional challenges that he’s not hitting, hitting head on.
Dedrick Muhammad makes similar points in his critique of the NYT's coverage of Obama's address to the NAACP.
I think that it’s quite telling that he would give personal responsibility speeches to black people, but not a lot of personal responsibility speeches to Wall Street in terms of execution. And when you actually look at the degree to which issues of accountability for poor people—but where’s the accountability when you’re bailing out these Wall Street elites, $700 billion? That’s socialism for the rich. That’s your policy. Don’t then go to these folk who are locked into dilapidated housing, decrepit school systems, many on their way to a prison-industrial complex, and talk about their fathers didn’t come through. And we know the fathers got problems. We understand that. But there are structural institutional challenges that he’s not hitting, hitting head on.
Dedrick Muhammad makes similar points in his critique of the NYT's coverage of Obama's address to the NAACP.
Israeli Settler Violence Continues in the Occupied West Bank
Israeli Settlers Attack Palestinian Land
In Israel and the Occupied Territories, Israeli settlers have destroyed or damaged several areas of Palestinian land in ongoing attacks in the West Bank. On Tuesday, Israeli settlers damaged Palestinian trees with saws, one day after more than 1,500 olive trees were set ablaze. Palestinian farmer Mohamad Rajab of the Burin village says the attacks have continued for several days.
Mohamad Rajab: “As we arrived, we looked at the land, and there were five or six settlers cutting the olive trees. Some were cutting, others were damaging, using hand-held saws. When they saw us, they fled. The Palestinian coordination force came and found all these trees damaged. If we had waited another hour, we would have found everything destroyed. There are more than 200 olive trees. Yesterday, they burned some thirty other olive trees. A week ago, they burned another twenty olive trees, and a month ago they burned two-and-a-half acres of wheat.”
The settler attacks came in apparent response to Israel’s announcement that it will begin removing unauthorized outposts established without official Israeli government consent. But Israel has defied US calls to freeze settlement activity and ignored Arab offers of peace in return for ending the occupation of Palestinian land. Although the Obama administration says it opposes the settlements, it hasn’t proposed any suspension of the billions of dollars in US aid to Israel.
Monday, July 20, 2009
Sunday, July 19, 2009
t r u t h o u t | NATO: At Least 16 Killed in Afghan Helicopter Crash
t r u t h o u t | NATO: At Least 16 Killed in Afghan Helicopter Crash
No one said controlling the Central Asian energy grid would be easy, as Obama likes to say: "if it was easy, it'd be done already...".
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t r u t h o u t | Obama Administration Abandons Cramdown
t r u t h o u t | Obama Administration Abandons Cramdown
"As voluntary foreclosure programs flounder, White House steers clear of forcing lenders' hand in bankruptcy."
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"As voluntary foreclosure programs flounder, White House steers clear of forcing lenders' hand in bankruptcy."
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Friday, July 17, 2009
Who's in Charge of US Foreign Policy?
I just saw a clip of Tariq Ali talking about Clinton being in Honduras the week for the coup, offering the military what amounted to a green light.
t r u t h o u t | Who's in Charge of US Foreign Policy?
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Ali on Obama and Empire
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7oYdvQZVvrU
t r u t h o u t | Who's in Charge of US Foreign Policy?
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Ali on Obama and Empire
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Thursday, July 16, 2009
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