August 2009

Summit criticises US-Colombia deal
Posted: Saturday, August 29, 2009

South American leaders have issued a statement warning "foreign military forces" not to threaten the sovereignty of any of the region's nations.

The declaration, which was signed by all 12 leaders of the Union of South American Nations (Unasur), came after a lengthy debate on Friday on plans to increase the presence of US troops at bases in Colombia.

The statement "reaffimed that the presence of foreign military forces must not ... menace the sovereignty and integrity of a South American country and in consequence regional peace and stability".

It deliberately avoided specific mention of the US military in order to allow all the leaders, including Alvaro Uribe, the Colombian president, to sign the text.
Full Article : aljazeera.net

Obama and Perilous Delusions of Democracy
Posted: Tuesday, August 25, 2009

¤ CIA-Trained Security Chiefs Elected to the Palestinian Leadership
The U.S. government has been meddling in the Palestinian internal affairs since at least 2003. Its effort is to transform the Palestinian national movement for liberation and independence into a more compliant or quisling government, willing to accede to Israel’s political and security demands.

¤ Political and Economic Disabilities
¤ DNA Evidence Can Be Fabricated, Scientists Show
¤ Brazil played role in U.S.-backed overthrow of Chile's Allende, document shows

¤ Brazil Conspired with U.S. to Overthrow Allende
In December 1971, President Richard Nixon and Brazilian President Emilio Garrastazú Médici discussed Brazil's role in efforts to overthrow the elected government of Salvador Allende in Chile, formerly Top Secret records posted by the National Security Archive today reveal. According to a declassified memorandum of conversation, Nixon asked Médici whether the Chilean military was capable of overthrowing Allende. "He felt that they were...," Médici replied, "and made clear that Brazil was working toward this end."

¤ Obama: Afghan war secures America

¤ Fake elections won’t bring peace to Afghanistan
This week’s presidential election in Afghanistan will be an elaborate piece of political theater designed to show increasingly uneasy Western voters that progress is being made in the war-torn nation after seven years of US-led occupation. Most Afghans already believe they know who will win the vote: the candidate chosen by the United States and its NATO allies.

¤ How to bring peace to Afghanistan
An election held under the guns of a foreign occupation army cannot be called legitimate or democratic. That’s a basic tenet of international law. Nevertheless, the US and its NATO allies have been lauding last week’s faux presidential elections in Afghanistan as both a sign of growing support for Hamid Karzai’s Western-backed government and the birth of democracy in Afghanistan.

¤ Does MSNBC Want a Race War?

¤ How Lockerbie bomber appeal threatened Scottish justice
As the political furore over the release of convicted Lockerbie bomber Abdelbaset Al Megrahi engulfs three countries in bitter recriminations, The Mail on Sunday can now reveal the new and compelling evidence which he says would have proved his innocence.

¤ Lockerbie: Will the Truth Ever Come Out?
¤ Lockerbie bomber flies home to a hero's welcome
¤ Gordon Brown in new storm over freed Lockerbie bomber

¤ Michael Jackson's death reportedly ruled a homicide
¤ Coroner rules Jackson's death homicide

¤ Mexico allows possession of drugs for ‘personal use’

¤ Mexico Legalizes Drug Possession
Mexico enacted a controversial law on Thursday decriminalizing possession of small amounts of marijuana, cocaine, heroin and other drugs while encouraging government-financed treatment for drug dependency free of charge.

¤ US official tastes Pakistanis' anger at America

¤ Obama and Duncan's Education Policy: Like Bush's, Only Worse
¤ Why has Human Rights Watch Fallen Silent on Honduras?

¤ Unwritten CIA Death Contract Awarded to Blackwater
Hats off to Mark Mazzetti of the New York Times for ferreting out what it was that sent CIA Director Leon Panetta scurrying over to Congress in late June. According to Mazzetti, Panetta’s top lieutenants, many of them holdovers from the last administration, had just told him that, under President Bush, they had farmed out assassinations to their Blackwater subsidiary. I use “they” advisedly, since the CIA holdovers that had kept Panetta in the dark continue to function as Panetta’s top managers.

¤ Paycheck President
¤ Russia/Georgia/U.S. One Year Later: Who Came Out Ahead?
War clouds refuse to disperse a year after Georgia waged war against Russia. On the anniversary of Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili's ill-fated invasion of South Ossetia 8 August, Russian President Dmitri Medvedev warned: "Georgia does not stop threatening to restore its 'territorial integrity' by force. Armed forces are concentrated at the borders near Abkhazia and South Ossetia, and provocations are committed," including renewed Georgian shelling of the South Ossetian capital Tskhinvali.

¤ Katrina Pain Index - 2009
¤ All the President’s Zombies

¤ The Debilitating Myth of the 'Free Market' Alternative
When choosing a pet, do you prefer unicorns or bunnies? I prefer unicorns because, though bunnies are undeniably snuggly, unicorns have a much better color. That lustrous pink fur beats out dull brown every time. And if you can get one with wings — well, how can floppy ears compete with that? It isn’t even close, is it?

¤ Scientists reveal the real reason why we walk in circles when lost

¤ Intolerable stress placed on troops
The suicide rate among Army personnel is rising at an alarming pace. According to Lt. Gen. (Dr.) Eric B. Schoomaker, the Army's surgeon general, the suicide rate has nearly doubled in the last five or six years, the Express-News reported. Through the first seven months of 2009, 141 active-duty and reserve soldiers had committed suicide. During all of 2008, there were 140 confirmed suicides.

¤ Obama and Perilous Delusions of Democracy
When Barack Obama was inaugurated on January 20, there was euphoria across the land and millions of people cheered in the streets of Washington. Many people are convinced that American democracy has been redeemed and that the federal government no longer poses a peril to individual rights. Since the people’s choice is now at the helm of the U.S. government, Americans are free.

¤ Another Long, Hot Summer
¤ Enough Already
¤ Man who sold Iraq war now vetting embedded journos
¤ Somalia: Half the population in humanitarian crisis amid an escalating civil war
¤ U.S. Says Rendition to Continue, but With More Oversight

¤ Report Reveals CIA Conducted Mock Executions
A long-suppressed report by the Central Intelligence Agency's inspector general to be released next week reveals that CIA interrogators staged mock executions as part of the agency's post-9/11 program to detain and question terror suspects, NEWSWEEK has learned.

¤ Iraqi suspect: It cost $10,000 to pass checkpoints

¤ Netanyahu to Sweden: Condemn IDF organ harvesting article

¤ A Mean Streak in the US Mainstream
When we Europeans – the British included – contemplate the battles President Obama must fight to reform the US health system, our first response tends to be disbelief. How can it be that so obvious a social good as universal health insurance, so humane a solution to common vulnerability, is not sewn deep into the fabric of the United States? How can one of the biggest, richest and most advanced countries in the world tolerate a situation where, at any one time, one in six of the population has to pay for their treatment item by item, or resort to hospital casualty wards?

¤ Deaths, Missing Detainees Still Blacked Out in New CIA Report

Venezuelans March For and Against Education Law
Posted: Tuesday, August 25, 2009

By Tamara Pearson
August 24, 2009 – Venezuelanalysis.com

There were marches across Venezuela on Saturday, both to support and protest the Education Law, which was passed on 14 August. Thousands marched and celebrated the new law in Caracas, while the opposition protest turned violent after it deviated from its planned route.

The marches in favour of the new law were part of a "Festival for Education and Peace" which also rejected the increased U.S. military presence in Colombia.

Copies of the new law were distributed at the marches and in Caracas there were a number of stages with different music, dance, and theatre groups performing.

Student leader Robert Serra, speaking at the march in Caracas, highlighted the importance of having won the equal vote on universities through the new law. "Many have died for this benefit," he said, referring to the student struggle for democracy on campus over the past several decades.

Serra also criticised the opposition for setting up a "media show" rather than sustaining a debate around the law. "We want universities by the people... for the poor," he said. "We want educated people that aren't easily manipulated."

The opposition march in Caracas tried to go beyond its designated route and some marchers broke through the temporary metallic fence that police had rigged at the end of the route.

Some protestors threw objects such as rocks, paint bombs, and bottles at the police, who were unarmed. Police responded with tear gas. Six police were injured.

Venezuela's Radio Mundial reported that on Friday in a meeting with public security personnel about the marches, the opposition representative, Oscar Perez, left before the opposition route had been decided on. Later, opposition legislator Ismael Garcia said they would march where they wanted since they were not granted permission to march to the National Assembly.

Minister for Justice, Tareck El Aissami, said the opposition had prepared the violence in advance. The public prosecutor, Luisa Diaz, ordered an investigation into the opposition march to determine who was responsible for the violence.

Opposition leaders responded by requesting that the public prosecutor investigate Colonel Antonio Torres for "ordering... the repression of the participants in the march against the Organic Education Law."

On 14 August the National Assembly passed the new Education Law, which controversially increases the role of the state in education and guarantees that education is "a universal human right and fundamental, inalienable, non-renounceable social duty, and a public service... governed by the principles of integrality, cooperation, solidarity, attentiveness, and co-responsibility."

That same day, supporters and opponents of the newly passed law marched. When police intervened to keep the two marches away from each other, marchers threw rocks and glass bottles, the police responded with tear gas, and there were several injuries.

Source: Venezuelanalysis.com

'Chavez to visit Iran in September'
Posted: Thursday, August 20, 2009

The Venezuelan Ambassador to Iran David Velasquez says his country's president will visit Iran in the "first week of September". Velasquez said that President Hugo Chavez's two-day visit to Iran will be part of a regional tour, which will also take him to Russia, Syria and Libya, ISNA reported.
Full Article : presstv.ir

Barack Obama, Front Man for the ‘Man’
Posted: Monday, August 17, 2009

¤ John Pilger: Empire, Obama, and the Last Taboo
John Pilger argues that while liberals now celebrate America's return to its "moral ideals", they are silent on a venerable taboo. This is the true role of Americanism: an ideology distinguished by its myths and the denial that it exists. President Obama is its embodiment.

¤ Barack Obama, Front Man for the ‘Man’

¤ Political and Economic Disabilities
We’re told the recession is nearly over, again, but our system’s foundation reveals more weakness at each structural repair attempt by capital’s construction crew, also known as our government. This particular crisis will pass, but soon lead to others more serious until we make the economy work for the betterment of all, and not just benefit some at ever more deadly cost to everyone else.

¤ CIA-Trained Security Chiefs Elected to the Palestinian Leadership

¤ Obama is lost in space, Chávez says
¤ Bombings Worse than Nagasaki and Hiroshima

¤ Hillary Clinton seeks to strengthen US imperialism’s position in Africa
US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s 11-day tour of Africa took in seven countries across the continent. Following on from President Obama’s trip to Ghana, her visit highlights his administration’s intention to strengthen the US position in Africa against the challenge of its rivals.

¤ Still Funding Blackwater Mercenaries
President Obama’s senior advisor, Valerie Jarrett, was confronted over the weekend with the fact that the administration continues contracting with the scandal-plagued mercenary firm Blackwater (which now does business as Xe Services and US Training Center).

¤ Inside the Taliban: 'The more troops they send, the more targets we have'

¤ Time to End the War in Afghanistan: Unconditional Negotiations, Now!

¤ Washington fuels Africa's crisis
Barack Obama made his first visit to sub-Saharan Africa as president in July, speaking in Accra, Ghana, on the heels of the G8 Summit in L'Aquila, Italy. The G8 meeting highlighted--like last year's summit in Hokkaido, Japan--the continued failure of the world's wealthiest nations to live up to their promises of aid to Africa.

¤ Panetta Seeks to Whitewash CIA Crimes
CIA Director Leon Panetta's article titled "It's Time To Move On" published in the August 4th Miami Herald is a stunning disservice to the principles of justice. It not only calls for whitewashing the Agency's past horrific crimes, which have included torture and murder, but openly advocates the use of force and violence.

¤ Africa drafted its declaration on the rights of man in 1236

¤ Kenya's Mau Mau war: veterans demand justice from Britain
Five veterans from the Mau Mau war in Kenya arrived in Britain last month to sue the British government for their imprisonment and torture 60 years ago. In the 1950s, Britain was desperately trying to hold on to its colonial empire and it crushed a nationalist rebellion in Kenya in a shockingly brutal manner.

¤ Life and Death in Baghdad as Americans Leave

¤ Colombian Elites Fear Bolivaran Revolution
As a result of Colombian President Álvaro Uribe’s decision to allow six U.S. military bases on his country’s soil the propaganda war has heated up in the Andean region. In neighboring Venezuela, Hugo Chávez says Colombia is seeking to destabilize the border and has hinted that war could be imminent.

¤ What Does Barack Obama Really Want in Afghanistan?

¤ Prepare For War: Chavez

¤ Is Obama Just Another Politician?

¤ Toppling a Coup, Part V: The Resistance Cracks the Oligarchy

Prepare for war: Chavez
Posted: Monday, August 17, 2009

PRESIDENT Hugo Chavez on Sunday bridled at US plans to use military bases in Colombia, asserting that Venezuela was the top US target in the region and that Venezuelans should prepare for war.
Full Article : straitstimes.com

When the Dead Have No Say
Posted: Thursday, August 13, 2009

¤ Honduras Coup 2009 Homepage

¤ US Natural Gas Consumption Seen Falling 2.6% In '09
¤ Under Pressure from Hawks, Obama Tacks to the Right

¤ South American Leaders Concerned Over Colombia-U.S. Military Plan
South American presidents expressed deep concerns over a United States plan to increase its military presence in Colombia at a Union of South American Nations (UNASUR) Summit in Quito, Ecuador, on Monday. Full details of the U.S.-Colombia military plan have not been released, but the U.S. is expected to have a significant presence at three air bases and two naval bases, in addition to the two Colombian military bases it currently operates in.

¤ 'US showed support for protesters in Iran'
¤ Iran calls EU trial statement 'capitulation'

¤ Nader Was Right: Liberals Are Going Nowhere With Obama
¤ Lost in Translation: Clinton Says She, Not Bill, is the Secretary of State

¤ Chávez: Ideas and Militias -- What a Creation!

¤ When the Dead Have No Say
Official Washington is buzzing about "metrics." Can the war in Afghanistan be successful? Don't ask the dead. Days ago, under the headline "White House Struggles to Gauge Afghan Success," a New York Times story made a splash. "As the American military comes to full strength in the Afghan buildup, the Obama administration is struggling to come up with a long-promised plan to measure whether the war is being won."
Don't ask the dead. They don't count.

¤ Is It Now a Crime to Be Poor?
¤ Endless War: The Suicide of the United States
¤ Kill Them All and Cover Them with Bullshit
¤ Torture Program Architects Made Millions

¤ Will endless wars save the dollar?
"Since 1945, the US dollar has been the world reserve currency. As its value depreciates, countries holding huge dollar reserves begin to worry. China in particular has expressed grave concerns since it holds nearly $2 trillion in US currency reserves, mostly in the form of US treasury bonds. According to some reports, it is drawing down its dollar reserves by purchasing gold and stocks of raw materials and energy."

¤ Guns Germs and Steel Video

¤ Legendary Guitarist Les Paul Dies Aged 94

Keeping Track of the Empire's Crimes
Posted: Saturday, August 8, 2009

¤ Honduras Coup 2009 Homepage

¤ It Pays to Have a Nuke
¤ Obama's Israel Albatross
¤ The Conservative Counter-Attack in Latin America
I would submit that events in Honduras are not isolated, but rather part of a conservative counterattack taking shape in Latin America. For some time, the right has been rebuilding in Latin America; hosting conferences, sharing experiences, refining their message, working with the media, and building ties with allies in the United States.

¤ Hiroshima and Nagasaki Remembered

¤ Keeping Track of the Empire's Crimes
There have been numerous news stories in recent months about secret CIA programs, hidden from Congress, inspired by former vice-president Dick Cheney, in operation since the September 11 terrorist attacks, involving assassination of al Qaeda operatives or other non-believers-in-the-Empire abroad without the knowledge of their governments.

¤ The Myths of Afghanistan
¤ The Recession Isn't Over, By a Long Shot

¤ U.S.-Brokered Mediation in Honduras Has Failed
The mediation effort that U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton arranged to try to resolve the Honduran crisis, which began when a military coup removed Honduran President Mel Zelaya more than four weeks ago, has failed. It is now time – some would say overdue – for the Latin American governments to play their proper role.

¤ Honduran Coup: The US Connection
While the Obama administration was careful to distance itself from the recent coup in Honduras — condemning the expulsion of President Manuel Zelaya to Costa Rica, revoking Honduran officials' visas, and shutting off aid — that doesn't mean influential Americans aren't involved, and that both sides of the aisle don't have some explaining to do.

¤ Honduras: Military Coup Engineered By Two US Companies?
I recently visited Central America. Everyone I talked with there was convinced that the military coup that had overthrown the democratically-elected president of Honduras, Manuel Zelaya, had been engineered by two US companies, with CIA support. And that the US and its new president were not standing up for democracy. Earlier in the year Chiquita Brands International Inc. (formerly United Fruit) and Dole Food Co had severely criticized Zelaya for advocating an increase of 60% in Honduras’s minimum wage, claiming that the policy would cut into corporate profits. They were joined by a coalition of textile manufacturers and exporters, companies that rely on cheap labor to work in their sweatshops.

¤ Partners In Crime

¤ Seven New US Military Bases in Colombia Is Hardly a Move to the Left

¤ There Is a Military Option on Iran
¤ The World Needs A Breather From The US.
¤ Murder, Inc?
¤ The Hidden Truth Behind Drug Company Profits
¤ Hiroshima Day: America Has Been Asleep at the Wheel for 64 Years
¤ Barack Obama's doublespeak

¤ So Much for the "End of Racism"
Americans love to claim the death of racism. Conservatives in particular commonly posit that there’s no more need for affirmative action or so-called special treatment of racial minorities in higher education, government jobs and other areas, given the progress made in this country. As someone who grew up in East Los Angeles housing projects and later attended elite universities, UCLA and now UC Berkeley, I often hear the “end-of-racism” claim in graduate seminars, academic conferences and in the news from conservatives and average Americans.

¤ Murdoch to Charge for News Online 'If We Ever Publish Any'
¤ Obama administration asks SCOTUS to block detainee photos
¤ Barracks and Burger King: U.S. Builds a Supersized Base in Afghanistan

¤ Pentagon Wrestles with Possible Twitter, Facebook Ban

Why The U.S. Government Hates Venezuela
Posted: Wednesday, August 5, 2009

By Shamus Cooke
August04, 2009 - Workers Action

The propaganda wheels are turning fast. The barrage of anti-Venezuela misinformation that began while Bush was in office has intensified in recent months. Not a week goes by without the U.S. mainstream media running at least one story about the "dictatorial" Venezuelan government. Historically, the U.S. government’s foreign policy "coincidentally" matches the opinion of the media and vice versa.

A front page New York Times article on August 2, 2009 cited "new evidence" that the Venezuelan government "still" supports the FARC – a peasant-based guerrilla group that has fought the Colombian government for decades.

This "new evidence" is a mere recycling of the last tactical attempt to link the Venezuelan government with the FARC: computers were supposedly confiscated from FARC leaders that showed innumerable ties to Venezuelan government officials. Of course anybody can write anything on a computer and say it came from somewhere else. Evidence like this needs only a willing accomplice – the media – to legitimize it.

The Venezuelan government denies the accusations. But even if Venezuela maintained a policy of openly supporting the FARC, it would be more justifiable than the U.S. policy of openly supporting the Colombian government. Colombia is the most-hated and repressive government in the western hemisphere, but the U.S. gives billions of dollars of financial, military and political aide. This despicable relationship has not ended under Obama, but has in fact strengthened.

The recent announcement that the U.S. military would move potentially thousands of troops to Colombia, where they will access five Colombian military bases, has put Venezuela and the rest of Latin America on alert. The Obama administration has not explained the move publicly, though Latin Americans need no explanation.

The continent has a long history of being exploited by U.S. corporations, who work in tandem with the U.S. government to oust "non-cooperative" governments, using countless tactics to meet their objectives including clandestine C.I.A. coups.

The recent U.S.-backed military coup in Honduras sent shockwaves throughout the region, exposing the Obama administration for what it is: yet another government dedicated to the interests of the super-wealthy and corporations, who want their "investments" in Latin America to be protected from "populist" governments who redistribute wealth and land.

U.S. corporations have felt their power slipping in the hemisphere for years, much of it due to the influence of Venezuela. This is because social movements in Venezuela have advanced further than anywhere else in the world – factories have been taken over and run by workers, community councils make local decisions democratically, land is being taken over by peasants, independent media is spreading, and the property of U.S. corporations has been taken over to be used for the needs of the average Venezuelan. Although the vast majority of these gains are due to the work of grassroots Venezuelans, the government has not only given approval to such actions, but often is responsible for suggesting the ideas.

Venezuela’s example has dramatically changed the political landscape in Latin America, inspiring millions. For the first time, governments and social movements alike feel empowered to oppose U.S. corporate dominance and instead are seeking to arrange their economies in ways that benefit the majority of people.

In Venezuela these ideas are often referred to as 21st century socialism, and the rest of the hemisphere is clamoring to get on board. The battle of ideas between 21st century socialism and free-market capitalism has already been settled in the region, with capitalism facing utter defeat.

Having lost in the realm of ideas, those supporting capitalism must compensate by other means. Barack Obama is a very outspoken devotee of capitalism, and has shown by his coup in Honduras – and also the military build-up in Colombia – that he will go to any length to prop-up U.S. corporations and rich investors in the region.

There can be absolutely no doubt that Obama will seek to undermine the Venezuelan government by any means available, including the very real possibility of a proxy invasion through Colombia. None of these attempts to undermine the advances in Venezuela and other countries will benefit the peoples of Latin America or the United States, minus a tiny minority of the super wealthy. With this kind of understanding often comes organizing and action, with the ultimate aim to end U.S. economic and military intervention abroad, not only in Latin America, but the Middle East and beyond.

Shamus Cooke is a social service worker, trade unionist, and writer for Workers Action. He can be reached at shamuscook@yahoo.com

Source: Workers Action

Venezuela to probe Colombia's arms allegation
Posted: Wednesday, August 5, 2009

The Associated Press

Chavez's government says it will investigate to find out if rebels had Venezuelan weapons

President Hugo Chavez's government said Monday it will investigate to find out if anti-tank rocket launchers sold to the Venezuelan military during the 1980s ended up in the hands of Colombia's largest rebel group.

Justice Minister Tareck El Aissami said authorities had launched "an internal investigation ... to determine the origin and destination of these weapons," referring to Swedish-made AT-4 launchers that Colombia says were found in a cache belonging to guerrillas.
Full Article : lasvegassun.com

The Obama opiate: Crisis deepens, crowds cheer
Posted: Monday, August 3, 2009

¤ Team Obama Co-Opts the Bush Doctrine

¤ Obama’s empire
The 44th president of the United States was elected amid hopes that he would roll back his country’s global dominance. Today, he is commander-in-chief of an unprecedented network of military bases that is still expanding.

¤ US-Colombia military ties face resistance

¤ The Obama opiate: Crisis deepens, crowds cheer
Six months since taking the reins, the Barack Obama administration has met its primary objective. It has swiftly ramped up the murderous imperial agenda inherited from Bush-Cheney while the masses, pacified and deceived by the appeal of the Obama image, pay no attention to realities.
No attention to the fact that the Obama administration's global war strategy, which puts Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Latin America, and other regions into new military-intelligence crosshairs, promises the expansion of global instability, resource conquest, and "war on terrorism" ruin.

¤ The Peculiar Class Solidarity of Barack Obama and "Skip" Gates
Sean Bell and Oscar Grant were shot down like dogs, but that was none of Barack Obama's concern. But when a local cop racially profiled Dr. Henry Louis Gates as if he were just another Black man, Obama's world shook. "To be subsumed within the Black mass means class death. No one was safe!"

¤ As Obama's Support Erodes, the Right is Resurgent
¤ So Much for the Promised Land

¤ United4Iran: Financial and Corporate Interests Mobilize the Left

¤ The Long Term Effects of Genetically Modified Food on Humans

¤ Warning: Oil supplies are running out fast

¤ Obama and the Settlements

¤ Rectifying the Hit-Team Affair
Americans recently learned that the CIA dreamed up a plan to use "hit teams" of assassins to wipe out terrorist leaders and gather intelligence about them. More than that, congressional overseers of intelligence were deliberately kept in the dark, per orders from Vice President Richard Cheney.

¤ The Contours of Recent American Foreign Policy
War, from preparation for it through to its aftermath, has defined both the essential nature of the major capitalist nations and their relative power since at least 1914. War became the major catalyst of change for revolutionary movements in Russia, China, and Vietnam. While wars also created reactionary and fascistic parties, particularly in the case of Italy and Germany, in the longer run they brought about domestic social changes of far-reaching magnitude. The Bolshevik Revolution was the preeminent example of this ironic symbiosis of war and revolution.

¤ The Scope -- and Dangers -- of GE's Control of NBC and MSNBC

¤ US Activists Challenge Obama on Cuba
During last year's presidential campaign, Barack Obama said he was willing to sit down with Cuban leaders without preconditions. Hopes were high for the change that Obama had promised during his campaign for the White House. Obama, however, has been slow to implement any significant policy shift towards Cuba since taking office, raising concerns among those eager to see a new relationship with the island nation.

¤ Bowing to US's 'Naked Political Power'
¤ How Many Civilian Deaths are Acceptable?

¤ This Depression is just beginning
Too bad Pulitzers aren't handed out for blog-entries. This year's award would go to Zero Hedge for its "The 'Money on the Sidelines' Fallacy" post. This short entry shows why the economy will continue its downward slide and why the US consumer will not get off the mat and resume spending as he has in the past. The fact is the Net Wealth of US Households has "declined from a peak of $22 trillion to just under $12 trillion in early March."

¤ Obama passing new law to allow searching of PC's, Laptops, and media devices
¤ Bombshell: Bin Laden Worked for US Till 9/11
¤ Enlisting in the Military and the Decision To Kill
¤ Obama's Beer Party

¤ Feeling heat in the Mideast: Nerves frayed as peace offensive off to rocky start
The Obama administration's long-awaited Mid-east peace offensive is off to a rocky start. A cohort of senior administration officials is twisting arms and offering weapons and cash to get America's squabbling Mideast clients to accept a peace deal. But the blazing summer heat has frayed everyone's nerves and shortened tempers.

¤ Skip the Happy Talk - the Depression is Just Beginning
¤ Obama CIA chief excuses Bush-era torture

¤ Civilian death toll soaring in Afghanistan
A report issued late last month by the Human Rights Unit of the United Nations Assistance Mission to Afghanistan (UNAMA) sheds light on the rising number of innocent Afghan men, women and children who are being killed in order for the US and its allies to consolidate their neo-colonial occupation of the country.

¤ Martial Law and the Militarization of Public Health: The Worldwide H1N1 Flu Vaccination Program

US war plans target Latin America
Posted: Sunday, August 2, 2009

With the June 28 military coup in Honduras, the agreement for five United States military bases in Colombia and the intensification of a dirty propaganda campaign against Venezuela, the big question is whether the US will look at launching a war that will undoubtedly spread throughout the region, or whether it will decide to postpone such a scenario and attempt to continue dealing regular blows.
Full Article : greenleft.org.au

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