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- The role of the intellectual
- White House Press: Ground Rules (Clinton 2000 interview with Amy Goodman)
- Egypt…the revolution keeps revolving (Today’s “Women’s March”)
- Bradley Manning in court, Day One
- Occupy Wall Street as Three-card Monte for the media (or: Who’s a ringer?)
- The time we killed civilians in order to save civilians… (NATO in Libya)
- Rick Perry’s YouTube advertisement: Let the voting begin.
- The last gasps of the Bill of Rights, plus Ozone Widget and the Lord’s Army (Nation Defense Authorization Act)
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- “Corporations are people, my friend”
- The place where the drones go…
- Entrenched social inequality, as visible at Starbucks
- How the government will spend its discretionary monies in 2012
- Now that Mubarak is gone, Egypt is free and democratic!
- The forces of counter-revolution amass (reacting to Occupy)
- Interview of Francis Fox Piven (strategy and tactics of struggle, and Occupy Wall Street)
- The atomic bomb and Hiroshima: We had to drop it, to save American lives, right?
- How did you fare Buy Nothing Day?
- Occupy Everywhere: Roundtable with Michael Moore, Naomi Klein, P. Bruener, Rinku Sen, W. Greider
- Foucault in a cowboy hat
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Tag Archives: Obama
Obama, how’s the Nobel Peace Prize working out?
Recent accomplishments: Assassinating an American citizen by executive fiat, without judicial process. Campaign promise to close Guantanamo: now permanently annulled! War front two: Afghanistan and beyond! War front three: how many civilians can we kill in Pakistan and Yemen with … Continue reading
Posted in Campaign 2012, Obama is a disaster for the Left, War crimes
Tagged campaign promises, cartoon, nobel, Obama, peace prize
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Obama, the Jewish extremist
Obama gave a speech at the UN on the subject of Palestinian statehood. A number of commentators have pointed out that Obama’s position regarding the matter is now more extreme than the majority of Israeli citizens. Here are some of … Continue reading
The Debt “Crisis” and what it means
The debt crisis is pulling me out of my hiatus. There is much to say, but here are the basics. 1. This is a false crisis. If you yell fire, people will panic and do things they otherwise would not. … Continue reading
Posted in Mythologies of capitalism, The war economy
Tagged bill, debt ceiling, debt crisis, democrats, Obama, republicans, taxes
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Glenn Greenwald on Obama’s Civil Liberties (compared to Bush era)
Rough notes: Obama’s policies, especially regarding civil liberties and foreign policy, have been a wholescale extension, and often intensification, of Bush era policies. Even the political right has lauded Obama for having such a “strong” foreign policy. “For decades Republicans … Continue reading
Posted in US News, Sadly Broken
Tagged Bush, civil liberties, climate of fear, Glenn Greenwald, habeus corpus, indefinite detention, Obama, Wikileaks
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Robert Fisk is lucid on Middle East topics (2009 interview)
Some crib notes: 1. Middle East was carved up in the most artificial way after WWII; they never got a chance to have any political unity nor form their own nation-states. Hence, they revert to sectarian loyalties; either by tribe, … Continue reading
Posted in Interesting and unlabelled
Tagged Fisk, Iran, Israel, Middle East, nuclear bomb, Obama, Palestine, Tehran
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Obama’s speech on Palestine-Israel: responses and clarifications
Obama gave a speech yesterday about the Middle East conflict in which he announced that the US was officially supporting the Palestinian 1967 borders. Is this a major push toward new solutions, or just more of the same? Some are … Continue reading
Posted in Another day in Occupied Palestine
Tagged 1967 borders, conflict, Finkelstein, Israel, Middle East, Netanyahu, Obama, Palestine, speech
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Humanitarianism, the new code of hypocrisy
Suffice it to say that in today’s world, zealous declarations about protecting civilians and humanitarian intervention is the newest cipher for Western strategic operations. When Obama, Sarkozy, and their allies make broad claims about saving humanity from evil, they are … Continue reading
Posted in Libya: will it be revolution?
Tagged CIA, Gaddafi, hypocrisy, intervention, Obama, oil, rebels, Richard Falk, war
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Libya intervention, Obama hypocrisy
It has become clear that the UN resolution authorizing the use of force in Libya is essentially a mandate to oust Gaddafi. There are three major problems with what is going on, from my point of view. First, is the … Continue reading
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Tagged civilian, Gaddafi, invade, no-fly zone, Obama, UN Security Council
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Libyan intervention: humanitarianism or imposing regime change?
Update: From aljazeera’s Libya liveblog: 4:00pm Civilians have been hit in the bombardment of sites in Libya, says Russia – which called for an immediate end to the strikes. A foreign ministry spokesman said: In that respect we call on … Continue reading
Posted in Interesting and unlabelled
Tagged intervention, Libya: will it be revolution?, no-fly zone, Obama
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King vs. Obama
If you have time to watch/read this video (or its attached transcript), it is enlightening and revealing. With surprising acumen, commentators compare Martin Luther King to Obama and find Obama hard to distinguish from any of his predecessors, even George … Continue reading
Posted in Mythologies of capitalism, Terrorism, US military, US politics
Tagged Afghanistan, Iraq, Martin Luther King, Obama, poverty, war
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