JIM CROW GOES TO PALESTINE. Israel is practicing against its Palestinian minority the same repressive apartheid-maintaining measures that kept blacks in “their places” (literally) in the U.S. in the years leading up to the civil rights movement. The walls that attempt to separate Jews and Muslims are the equivalent to the “red lining” in [...]
MEET AMADOU SANOGO, FRUIT OF THE TREE OF UNITED STATES AFRICA COMMAND “TRAINING.” (Black Agenda Report) Sanogo was a Captain in the African country of Mali when he led a coup to overthrow the government. As he continues to rule while suppressing a vicious counter-coup, it is noted that Ganogo was one of a myriad of [...]
THE FOLLY OF PREMATURE AUSTERITY: DID NAOMI KLEIN WRITE THE HANDBOOK ON THE CURRENT WORLD “DEBT CRISIS?” (Alternet) Robert Borosage notes how “conservative and corporate elites” are, throughout the world, inducing panic over this so-called crisis. In fact, Borosage believes, the real economic crisis is not over deficits in governmental budgets but over the lack [...]
BAIL-OUTS AND AUSTERITY: LIKE A HORSE AND CARRIAGE THEY GO TOGETHER IN YET ANOTHER EUROPEAN COUNTRY. (Daily Mirror) Greece joins Portugal, Spain and Ireland as countries for which the European Union has agreed to provide funds to deal with their financial insolvency in return for “austerity” measures that cut back on government funding of public [...]
PEACE PROCESS IN THE MIDDLE EAST? WHAT PEACE PROCESS? (Foreign Policy in Focus) Analyzing the state of play in the long running effort to bring peace between Jews and Arabs, Didier Jacobs reaches the gloomy conclusion that the peace process has little going for it in terms of the dispositions of all parties, as they [...]
STARS AND STRIPES FOREVER—-AND EVERYWHERE (Z Net) Michael Parenti posts an Independence Day weekend blog by reviewing the history of American interventionism throughout the world, and notes that neither liberal nor conservative critics of this policy have understood this as not the result of “irrational” policies subversive of American “national interest” but rather fully rational [...]
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