“FREE LIBYA” OPPOSITION FORCES ARE SAYING “THANKS BUT NO THANKS” TO OFFERS OF U.S. ASSISTANCE.
(AntiWar.com)
Leaders make statements and people in the streets carry signs urging U.S. to stay out of Libya, expressing the sentiment that their revolution will be accomplished without foreign intervention.
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U.S. IS KEEPING ARISTIDE OUT OF HAITI BECAUSE HE WOULD BE A “DISTRACTION” FROM THE COUNTRY’S RECONSTRUCTION AND ITS DEMOCRATIC ELECTORAL PROCESS. WHAT RECONSTRUCTION? WHAT DEMOCRATIC PROCESS?
(Black Agenda Report)
The democratically elected President ousted by U.S. coup in 2004 is being kept in South African exile under U.S. pressure to keep him there as national elections in Haiti proceed to a run-off. South Africa’s position as an elected “non-permanent member” of the UN Security Council keeps it under the U.S. thumb and prevents Aristide’s using the passport he holds to return to his native country, now in the midst of an election in which the most popular party, that of Aristide, is banned from participation. Brazil, the country most involved in the country’s faltering “reconstruction,” is, like South Africa, constrained by its UN ambitions from any action offensive to its American sponsors.
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WHETHER OR NOT THE U.S. SUCCESSFULLY PROSECUTES JULIUS ASSANGE, HIS WIKI-LEAKS STYLE OF JOURNALISM IS FUELING CURRENT PROTESTS IN THE MIDDLE EAST AND WILL BE A WAVE FOR THE FUTURE OF WORLD JOURNALISM.
(Dissident Voice)
Kevin Zeese provides analysis of the flood of revelations about corruption and U.S. intelligence involvements of Arab governments comes as traditional newspaper readership is in decline and as new internet-based ways of informing the public are coming ever more to the fore.
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UNDOCUMENTED IMMIGRANTS, ENCOURAGE OR SUPPRESS? SOME IN UTAH THINKS THERE’S ANOTHER WAY.
(Deseret News)
Pro- and anti-immigrant advocates are joining forces in the state to try to establish a bipartisan panel studying the possibility of establishing a “state-to-state” arrangement with the Mexican state of Nuevo Leon to allow importation of Mexican labor into the state when it is determined that there are jobs needing to be filled that citizen workers can’t or won’t fill.
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FROM “THEY OUGHT TO FRY HIM” TO MORAL OPPONENT OF DEATH PENALTY: ONE FLORIDA WOMAN’S JOURNEY OF CONSCIENCE.
(Florida Capital News)
Michelle Rehwinkel Vasilinda, a state legislator from Tallahassee, made the “fry” statement in 1978 in support of execution of serial killer Ted Bundy. Now, she introduces a bill to abolish the death penalty and, in addition to arguments about the morality of the practice, she cites the high monetary cost to the state in carrying out executions. Death penalty proponents say she “misses the point,” the point being that the state already administers life sentences to armed robbers, and a “distinction” is necessary for penalties for their actions as opposed to those of serial killers.
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Quote of the day…
I don’t think that free speech means viciousness. It’s like the old adage, ‘You can’t yell fire in a crowded theater.’ My Lord, this is not just yelling fire in a crowded theater, this is causing vicious, vindictive pain. It’s an assault on a family that’s mourning, an assault on our veterans and an assault on the civil rights of gays and lesbians. I would think the combination would be enough for the Supreme Court to grant a rare exception to the First Amendment.
Jeff Kaufmann, state legislator in Iowa, as that state continues to ban Westboro Baptist Church demonstrations at military funerals, in defiance of recent Supreme Court decision declaring unconstitutional such a ban in Maryland.
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