June 2011

The Demonization of Gaddafi
Posted: Monday, June 27, 2011

¤ The Undoing of Libya

¤ The Demonization of Gaddafi
In the first months of the Arab Spring, foreign journalists got well-merited credit for helping to foment and publicize popular uprisings against the region's despots. Satellite TV stations such as Al Jazeera Arabic, in particular, struck at the roots of power in Arab police states, by making official censorship irrelevant and by competing successfully against government propaganda.

¤ Amnesty Questions Claim That Gaddafi Ordered Rape as Weapon of War

¤ Bankers Gear Up for the Rape of Greece

¤ Exposing Israel's Most Dangerous Secret

¤ The Drug War at 40

¤ The Mother of Intervention

¤ Haiti, 17 Months After the Quake

¤ 60 dead in car bomb blast at Afghan hospital

¤ Libya says 15 killed in NATO attacks on "civilian targets"

¤ AU condemns Nato strikes in Libya

¤ The Lie Behind the Afghan War

¤ Obama Forfeits Peace Prize

¤ The Audacity of the Obama Administration.

¤ Whither Greece
The fight for Europe’s future is being waged in Athens and other Greek cities to resist financial demands that are the 21st century’s version of an outright military attack. The threat of bank overlordship is not the kind of economy-killing policy that affords opportunities for heroism in armed battle, to be sure. Destructive financial policies are more like an exercise in the banality of evil – in this case, the pro-creditor assumptions of the European Central Bank (ECB), EU and IMF (egged on by the U.S. Treasury).

¤ Banker Occupation of Greece

¤ The Revolution Reaches Europe: Tens of Thousands Protest in Greece and Spain

¤ Are We Giant Suckers?

¤ US police on trial over Katrina killings

¤ Memo reveals intelligence chief's bid to fuel fears of Iraqi WMDs

¤ Britain and France ‘using Qatar to arm Libyan rebels’

¤ Vocabulary Glossary for Libya

¤ Elderly woman has to remove diaper for pat-down

¤ Justice In America: A Tale Of Two Crimes

¤ US, Israel Escalate Threats Against Flotilla, Including US Citizens

¤ The US Needs to be More Like China

Imperialism 101
Posted: Thursday, June 23, 2011

¤ Kuwaiti PM survives no-confidence vote, faces new grilling

¤ More countries to recognize Palestinian state next month

¤ 7.0-magnitude quake hits Honshu in Japan

¤ Libya, Canada's Other Ugly War

¤ British, French Agents Undercover in Libya to Get Gaddafi

¤ A summit in Tehran trumps the US

¤ The War in Libya: The African Union's Mistake of Policy and Principle

¤ It's Time to End the Bombing and Find a Political Solution in Libya

¤ Iran slams NATO's "deadly strikes" on Libya

¤ ''The West Is Terrified of Arabic Democracies''

¤ Imperialism 101
Imperialism has been the most powerful force in world history over the last four or five centuries, carving up whole continents while oppressing indigenous peoples and obliterating entire civilizations. Yet, it is seldom accorded any serious attention by our academics, media commentators, and political leaders. When not ignored outright, the subject of imperialism has been sanitized, so that empires become “commonwealths,” and colonies become “territories” or “dominions” (or, as in the case of Puerto Rico, “commonwealths” too).

¤ Exposing the Growing Corporatism Dominating American Diplomacy Abroad

¤ More Treachery at the Fed?

¤ U.S. Civil Rights Advocates Still Fighting "Race War"
Exactly 40 years after former United States President Richard Nixon labelled his administration’s drug policy a "war" in 1971, a huge coalition of civil rights leaders, advocates and educators converged in Washington D.C. to expose an on-going conflict that they believe is less ‘a war on drugs’ and more an assault on the rights of African Americans in the 21st century.

¤ US cannot afford war in Afghanistan

¤ If Americans Don’t Get Hurt, War Is No Longer War

¤ The Plan to Destabilize Syria
The efforts to overthrow the Syrian government have a lot in common with what has been undertaken in Libya. However, the results are substantially different owing to each country’s social and political background. The project to break up these two States simultaneously was initially brought up by John Bolton on 6 May 2002 when he was serving as Undersecretary of State in the Bush administration. It’s implementation by the Obama administration nine years down the line - in the context of the Arab Awakening - is not without problems.

¤ Be Watchful: U.S. Might Be “Fleecing the Flock”

¤ Iceland Declares Independence from International Banks

¤ Britain: the Euro could not last

¤ Afghan Withdrawal: Obama Lied, Soon Many Will Have Died

¤ Egypt declines World Bank loan as incompatible with national interest
¤ The Real War –vs– The Illusions

¤ The true definition of "Terrorist"

¤ Imperial President Obama Pretends Not to Wage War

¤ Greece: The dictatorship of finance capital
The diktat handed down by the International Monetary Fund demanding the imposition of even harsher austerity measures before the release of the €12 billion final tranche of the current Greek bailout package marks a sharp turn in the unfolding European financial crisis.

¤ Papandreou Budget Hole Threatens to Swallow Europe, Defies Debt-Crisis Fix

¤ The political background to the nuclear disaster in Japan

¤ Syrian minister vows amnesty for opposition and exiles

¤ The Myth of Precision-Guided Coercion

¤ The Reshaping of Cuba

There Was No Libyan Peaceful Protest
Posted: Monday, June 20, 2011

¤ What's the Nuclear Energy For, George?

¤ The Saudi Arabian Moment

¤ Nato Air strike On Civilians in Tripoli

¤ There Was No Libyan Peaceful Protest, Just Murderous Gangs and Nic Robertson
Nic Robertson and Anderson Cooper are surely aware of their achievement in promoting the human carnage of civil war and the destruction of a beautifully well-kept and prosperous nation, the 53rd highest developed country in the world with free health care and education. A standard of living that was higher than nine European nations, including Russia, is no more, thanks to their having daily led our entertainment with their war mongering of purposely distorted reporting, misreporting, disinformation, and blacking out of information that would have made this massive loss of human life impossible.

¤ America for Sale

¤ Nato bomb 'kills nine Libyan civilians'

¤ GOP splitting over U.S. role in Libya and Afghanistan

¤ Where's our missing $17bn? Iraq demands return of oil money

¤ Those Libyan Atrocities: Do They Really Stand Up?
In war, accounts of atrocities need to be treated with scepticism. Surveying a battlefield where he had once fought, the great Confederate general Stonewall Jackson turned to an aide and asked: "Did you ever think, sir, what an opportunity a battlefield affords liars?" He meant that in war people, motivated by fear, self-interest or a simple desire to make sense of a confusing and terrifying situation, make things up. And in the midst of a fast-moving conflict it is more than usually difficult to prove them wrong.

¤ Desperately Seeking Legitimacy

¤ Obama Doubles Down on the War on Terror

¤ Haiti Between the Storms

¤ Harvard, Vanderbilt, Spelman Exposed for Taking Part in “African Land Grab”
A new report raises questions about the connection of Harvard, Vanderbilt and other U.S. universities to European financial interests buying or leasing vast areas of African farmland. Called “Understanding Land Investment Deals in Africa,” the report by the Oakland Institute claims farmers in Africa are being driven off their lands to make way for new industrial farming projects backed by hedge funds seeking profits and foreign countries looking for cheap food.

¤ China plays long game on Congo copper

¤ Stop the Greek hostage crisis!

¤ France and Germany agree on aid for Greece

¤ Housing prices will fall another 20 percent

¤ How the Euro Became Europe's Greatest Threat

¤ U.S.-Saudi rivalry intensifies

¤ Apologist for war crimes

¤ Middle-class worker loyalty to employers on decline

¤ Don't Expect to See Gasoline Below $3 Any Time Soon

¤ African-American unemployment at 16 percent

¤ Dating Site Causes Outrage by Dumping 30,000 Ugly People

¤ The Media's "Deficit" Disorder

¤ Bob Gates's "Business" of Lying
On Wednesday, Sen. Patrick Leahy asked departing Defense Secretary Robert Gates about future U.S. relations with Pakistan and other "governments that lie to us." Gates responded, in his flat Kansas twang, that "most governments lie to each other. That's the way business gets done."

¤ Lies, damn lies, and reports of battlefield atrocities

¤ To My Fellow Sufferers of Stockholm Syndrome: When Your Captor Is the State
If you live in the United States (and more broadly, if you live in any modern State), you are a victim of Stockholm Syndrome. This is necessarily true, even if you passionately protest against the overwhelming majority of the policies and actions pursued by the State in which you live.

¤ CIA instigating mutiny in the Pakistani army

¤ Internet body throws open domain names

Why Regime Change in Libya?
Posted: Saturday, June 18, 2011

¤ Plantation Nation
America seemed to achieve a great victory when Obama was elected president, both overcoming its wretched racist history and sending a positive message to humanity. But if Malcolm were alive he might point out that an African-American running the plantation for his masters does not change anything but the skin tone of the person serving those masters. Accepting such cosmetic change when our “plantation” needs radical transformation may be too costly a price to bear.

¤ Why Regime Change in Libya?
In light of the brutal death and destruction wrought on Libya by the relentless US/NATO bombardment, the professed claims of "humanitarian concerns" as grounds for intervention can readily be dismissed as a blatantly specious imperialist ploy in pursuit of "regime change" in that country. There is undeniable evidence that contrary to the spontaneous, unarmed and peaceful protest demonstrations in Egypt, Tunisia and Bahrain, the rebellion in Libya has been nurtured, armed and orchestrated largely from abroad, in collaboration with expat opposition groups and their local allies at home.

¤ Waging Another Unconstitutional War

¤ Libya: Connect the Dots-You Get a Giant Dollar Sign

¤ Obama's Libya Defense
The arguments made to "legalize" war, torture, warrantless spying, and other crimes by John Yoo and Jay Bybee and their gang are looking rational, well-reasoned, and impeccably researched in comparison with Obama's latest "legalization" of the Libya War.

¤ Frantz Fanon 50 Years On

¤ The American West in Flames

¤ Brazil Breaks From the Neoliberal Era
From 2004 to 2010, Brazil's economy grew at an average of 4.2 percent annually, or more than twice as fast as it had grown from 1999-2003; or for that matter, more than twice as fast as its annual growth from 1980-2000. This was despite the impact of the world recession of 2009, which left Brazil with no growth for that year.

¤ Obama as the Bernie Madoff of the Democratic Party

¤ How the US Routinely Violates Human Rights at Home

¤ Selling Depression
The discovery that many people with life problem or occasional bad moods would willingly dose themselves with antidepressants sailed the drug industry through the 2000s. A good chunk of the $4.5 billion a year direct-to-consumer advertising has been devoted to convincing people they don't have problems with their job, the economy and their family, they have depression. Especially because depression can't be diagnosed from a blood test.

¤ How Miserable? Index Says the Worst in 28 Years

¤ Western War Rackets and the Authoritarian Arab Leaders
"Militarization complements the characteristics of warmongering and it has been institutionalized in the Western democratic system of governance and its spill-over impact is spreading fast across the globe. Arabs are no exception particularly those living under the controlled strategic shadow of the European-American imperialism."

¤ Moratorium on GMOs

¤ Sooner or Later Our Children Will Ask: "How Did This Happen?"

¤ Greek Protesters Are Better Economists Than the European Authorities

¤ UK to be sued over Bahrain crackdown

¤ Britain a 'crude colonial power in decline', says Argentina's president Cristina Kirchner

¤ The Destabilization of Syria and the Broader Middle East War

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