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Shining Light In Dark Corners

Shining Light In Dark Corners
I came to understand that I am not the light or the source of light. But light -- truth, understanding, knowledge -- is there, and it will only shine in many dark places if I reflect it. Comments about the news by a pragmatic progressive realist.
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Myanmar Military Sells Out Disaster Victims
2008-05-15 09:03:00
Bloggers Unite - Blogging for Human Rights In the most cynical act I can recall, Myanmar 's military leaders have denied the right to life of tens thousands of refugees of Cyclone Nargis for greed and political reasons. Rather than pulling out all stops by accepting all aid possible to save as many lives as possible, the government is deliberately allowing death on a massive scale to ensure they are credited with the aide that does get through, and to allow some aide to cyphoned off to line their pockets. I'm sure they have decided they already have too many people, and the storm presents a means to cull the herd. New York Times The directors of several relief organizations in Myanmar said Wednesday that some of the international aid arriving into the country for the victims of Cyclone Nargis was being stolen, diverted or warehoused by the country?s army. The United States military?s Joint Typhoon Warning Center said there was a possibility that ?a significant tropical cyclone...
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'Angry' Iran sharpens tone with Baghdad's leaders
2008-05-14 23:51:00
Tri-City Herald When a group of Iraq i envoys headed to Iran recently, they were fully prepared for some tense moments. But they also hoped to come away with something to show for it: pledges of cooperation on weakening Shiite militias in Iraq. Instead, they got a scolding from some of Iran's most powerful voices - accusing the Iraqi leadership of bowing to Washington and forgetting about Tehran's support for Shiites persecuted by Saddam Hussein. The swipes during the April 30-May 2 meetings - described to The Associated Press by members of the Iraqi delegation and other senior officials - signified more than a passing spat between the main Shiite centers of gravity in the region. Relations between Iraq's Shiite-led government and the rulers in neighboring Iran have come under unprecedented strains as Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki moves against rivals and negotiates long-term pacts with Washington. There's almost no chance it could lead to a full-blown rupture. Iran's infl...
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Arabs and the West Stands Mute While Lebanon is Hijacked by Hezbollah
2008-05-14 02:56:00
As tough the talk has been against Iran by Doublethink Dubya, now when he has something to complain about, he is all but silent. Are the Neocons in Washington and Tel Aviv planning to sacrifice Lebanon to allow a pretext to attack Iran? Or is the US military really on it's last legs and Israel already defeated by Hezbollah ? Los Angeles Times Shaken by a Hezbollah military offensive in recent days, Lebanon's pro-West ern parties have launched an intensive campaign to lobby allies in Washington, Europe and the Arab world to intervene diplomatically or even militarily on their behalf, officials here said. But there was little sign Monday that the West was prepared to intervene. [..]"Yes, we are maintaining a watchful eye on the area, but not any more than we have been recently," a Defense official in Washington told The Times, speaking on condition of anonymity. Israel bombed Hezbollah for 33 days in 2006 without significantly reducing the militia's fighting power or audacity. ...
The Myth of Voter Fraud
2008-05-13 16:20:00
New York Times Editorial There is no evidence that voting by noncitizens is a significant problem. Illegal immigrants do their best to remain in the shadows, to avoid attracting government attention and risking deportation. It is hard to imagine that many would walk into a polling place, in the presence of challengers and police, and try to cast a ballot. There is, however, ample evidence that a requirement of proof of citizenship will keep many eligible voters from voting. Many people do not have birth certificates or other acceptable proof of citizenship, and for some people, that proof is not available. One Missouri voter, Lillie Lewis, said at a news conference last week that officials in Mississippi, where she was born, told her they had no record of her birth. Proof of citizenship is just one of an array of new barriers to voting that have been springing up across the country. Indiana adopted a tough new photo ID voting requirement, over objections from Democrats that it wo...
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Spread of Nuclear Capability Is Feared
2008-05-12 20:02:00
washingtonpost.com At least half a dozen countries have also said in the past four years that they are specifically planning to conduct enrichment or reprocessing of nuclear fuel, a prospect that could dramatically expand the global supply of plutonium and enriched uranium, according to U.S. and international nuclear officials and arms-control experts. Much of the new interest is driven by economic considerations, particularly the soaring cost of fossil fuels. But for some Middle East ern states with ready access to huge stocks of oil or natural gas, such as Kuwait, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, the investment in nuclear power appears to be linked partly to concerns about a future regional arms race stoked in part by Iran's alleged interest in such an arsenal, the officials said.
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Help Myanmar Recover
2008-05-10 05:36:00
Bloggers Unite Please take action both today by sending an online email and then on May 15th by blogging about helping to pick up the pieces in Myanmar .
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Propaganda Story Still Squelched by Big Media
2008-05-09 16:45:00
AlterNet Eight thousand pages of documents related to the Pentagon's illegal propaganda campaign, known as the Pentagon military analyst program, are now online for the world to see, although in a format that makes it impossible to easily search them and therefore difficult to read and dissect. This trove includes the documents pried out of the Pentagon by David Barstow and used as the basis for his stunning investigation that appeared in the New York Times on April 20, 2008. The Pentagon program, which clearly violated U.S. law against covert government propaganda, embedded more than 75 retired military officers -- most of them with financial ties to war contractors -- into the TV networks as "message surrogates" for the Bush Administration. To date, every major commercial TV network has failed to report this story, covering up their complicity and keeping the existence of this scandal from their audiences.
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F.B.I. Raids Office of Special Counsel
2008-05-07 21:04:00
The Bush Administration is unprecedented in the scope of it's attempt to dismantle virtually every mechanism of accountability for the Executive Branch. Here is another shameful example. New York Times The office of the official responsible for protecting federal workers from political interference was raided by F.B.I. agents on Tuesday as part of an investigation into whether he himself mixed politics with official business. The raid took place at the office of Scott J. Bloch, the head of the Office of Special Counsel. Computers and documents were seized by agents trying to determine whether Mr. Bloch obstructed justice by hiring an outside company to ?scrub? his computer files, The Associated Press reported. Investigators also searched Mr. Bloch?s home in suburban Virginia after obtaining a subpoena. ?It is not clear to us what they are searching for,? James Mitchell, a spokesman for the office, told Reuters. ?We are cooperating with law enforcement.? Mr. Mitchell said about ...
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Cornering the Market on Food
2008-05-07 16:07:00
AlterNet On a frozen island near the North Pole, a huge hole has been blasted out of the side of an Arctic mountain, and a tunnel has been drilled deep into the rock. When the facility under construction here is completed, it will be lined with one-meter-thick concrete, fitted with two high-security blast-proof airlock doors, and built to withstand nuclear war, global warming, terrorism, and the collapse of the earth's energy supplies. It's known as the "Doomsday Vault," and in it will be stored millions of seeds and mankind's hope for the future of the world's food supply. The idea is that in the event of massive ecological destruction, those seeds could be used to reconstruct the planet's agricultural systems. Exactly who might remain to begin replanting the earth after such a catastrophe is only one of the questions this astounding project raises. The more immediate question is, are seeds in peril? The answer is yes, especially the seeds that provide us with food, fiber, ...
More About: Environment , Food , Market
Georgia says very close to war with Russia
2008-05-06 18:45:00
Reuters Russia 's deployment of extra troops in the breakaway Georgia n region of Abkhazia has brought the prospect of war "very close", a minister of ex-Soviet Georgia said on Tuesday. Separately, in comments certain to fan rising tension between Moscow and Tbilisi, the "foreign minister" of the breakaway Black Sea region was quoted as saying it was ready to hand over military control to Russia. "We literally have to avert war," Temur Iakobashvili, a Georgian State Minister, told reporters in Brussels. Asked how close to such a war the situation was, he replied: "Very close, because we know Russians very well." "We know what the signals are when you see propaganda waged against Georgia. We see Russian troops entering our territories on the basis of false information," he said.
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Food Crisis Rises To Forefront In Asia
2008-05-05 23:21:00
Globalization is perpetuated by the third world's leaders, hungered by the West's promise of money, until reality hits home. IPS News Three words -- high food prices -- emerged like a gatecrasher at an event hosted by the Asia n Development Bank (AsDB) here that was originally billed as a celebration of the bank?s new vision for poverty eradication in Asia. Participants at the event discussed the AsDB?s ?Strategy 2020? -- the long- term strategic framework (LTSF) for the 2008-2020 period -- and raised the alarm about the current global food crisis. It is a reality that the bank cannot ignore, they said, in light of the millions who could be condemned to a life of hunger and poverty in the region. "The rising food prices are a threat to food security and a threat to poverty reduction, and we stress that food security must be adopted as a challenge of the LTSF," D. Subba Rao, secretary of India?s finance ministry, said during a Sunday morning seminar for the central bank governor...
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Death toll in Sadr City fighting approaching 1,000
2008-05-01 20:02:00
BigNewsNetwork.com A spokesman for the Iraqi government's Baghdad security operations says 925 people have been killed in Sadr City . The spokesman, Tahseen al-Sheikhly, said Wednesday 2,600 others have been wounded. Sadr City has been the scene of fierce clashes pitting U.S. and Iraqi forces against Shi'ite militiamen loyal to radical cleric Moqtada al-Sadr. The death toll announced Wednesday is much higher than previous estimates, which indicated about 400 people had been killed in Sadr City in the past month. Meanwhile, Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki has vowed to disarm militias by force and disband the Shi'ite Mahdi Army, Sunni insurgent groups and al-Qaida in Iraq.
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Dirty Tricks in PA
2008-04-30 05:53:00
Obama Community Blog If you were planning to vote yesterday in the Pennsylvania primary you had another thing coming as reports of voting machine problems in all of Obama's stronghold precincts. Several machines were malfunctioning in the city, leading one local community leader to allege "dirty tricks" were the cause. Many residents trying to cast ballots yesterday found long lines and broken machines and intimidation across the region. Six of ten machines were down at a busy Delaware County polling site. It took 103 people 8 hours to vote in Upper Darby, which is heavily populated by immigrant and first time voters. Many of those freshly-minted voters had difficulties using the six machines that still functioned. "Hell of a day for six of the machines to go down," said one poll worker. In South Philadelphia, voting machines were broken at 4th and Ritner, smack dab in the middle of a Obama strong hold. "The dirty tricks have begun," said John Lucas, spokesman for the election b...
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U.S. Was 'Clueless' on Counterinsurgency in Iraq
2008-04-29 19:27:00
The New York Sun Paul Wolfowitz, in his first public remarks on the Iraq war in years, said the American government was "pretty much clueless on counterinsurgency" in the first year of the war. The former deputy secretary of defense said yesterday that the force sent to Iraq was adequate for fighting Saddam Hussein's military, citing the speed with which American troops toppled the regime. But Mr. Wolfowitz said no one in the Bush administration anticipated that Saddam would order his security services to wage an insurgency after their formal defeat on the battlefield. If you were an Army chief and were about to meet a superior force on the ground that had a history in a previous conflict of decimating your Army in a frontal assault, what would you do? a. Surrender b. Die with honor in a frontal assault. c. Avoid a frontal assault, go asymmetrical and mount an insurgency. DUH! It just shows you how out of touch with reality the Neocons were and still are.
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Zbigniew Brzezinski: The Weakness of America
2008-04-29 05:43:00
American Interest Magazine I think you?re putting your finger on a major weakness of contemporary America. The weakness is that we?re more democratic than we?ve ever been before, in the sense that popular pressures translate into policy pressures very quickly. And we?re probably as ignorant as ever about the rest of the world, because everybody now lives in a kind of simplistic, trivialized virtual reality in which fact and fiction, impressions and impulses, are mixed up in an incoherent fashion. The public really has no grasp of complexities, no sense of intellectual refinement in judging them, and our political leaders have become increasingly demagogic. The way George W. Bush campaigned for the war in Iraq, with reference to fictitious WMDs, and with sweeping, simplistic, black-and-white generalizations about freedom and tyranny, is a case in point. But he was responding to our increasingly imbecilized societal condition. This is very troublesome. I think the degeneration of the...
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Bush: Robin Hood for the Rich
2008-04-28 20:21:00
The Bush economic policy was a scam, a rip off, probably the biggest bait and switch in history. I began with a tactic proposed by Grover Norquist called "Starving the Beast". I've been writing about it for four years. The idea is that if the US government spends itself into debt so far that it can't grow the economy enough to get out, the only outcome can be major cuts in government spending. Combine this with Globalization, the pressure on the wages of the average American will continue to decrease relative to the cost of living. The end result is we have a major counter-revolution, a return to pre-New Deal times where the rich were richer and the worker was too busy to pay attention to anything but paying for food and shelter. If you don't believe me, read on: AlterNet The recession of 2001 never ended. At least not for ordinary Americans. Ordinary Americans found that their income was declining. From 2001 to 2007, median family income declined - depending on where you ...
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Obama says US will need to abandon maize-based ethanol production
2008-04-28 03:28:00
Obama proves himself to be more statesman than politician here. In this statement he is likely to do his candidacy more harm than good, but he speaks an absolute truth that most others wouldn't dare. BigNewsNetwork.com In the US, Democratic presidential hopeful Barack Obama has said the US will not be able to ignore global suffering from a food crisis. Obama said the US should be "mindful" of the effect its own search for alternative fuel sources is having and should slowly move away from maize-based fuel production that has shared the blame for surging food prices. He said that maize-based ethanol, which is heavily subsidised in Obama's home state of Illinois, was a technology that should soon make way for other alternatives. "We're going to have to shift to cellulosic ethanol, using biomass that is not part of the food chain," he said. "And that's going to require some time." The production of bio-fuels in industrial nations has been widely blamed for the sharp rises in th...
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Zimbabwe: Headed for Civil War?
2008-04-27 00:03:00
Bloomberg.com Supporters of Zimbabwe 's opposition Movement for Democratic Change have retaliated against attacks by President Robert Mugabe's Zimbabwe Africa n National Union- Patriotic Front, New York-based Human Rights Watch said. ``The emergence of tit-for-tat retaliatory attacks between Zanu-PF and MDC supporters could further escalate the violence, putting the general population at greater risk,'' Human Rights Watch said in an e-mailed report. The violence follows the establishment by Zanu-PF supporters of torture camps in Zimbabwe's rural areas, HRW said. Zanu-PF is using the camps to punish hundreds of MDC supporters for voting for the opposition in the southern African nation's March 29 presidential and parliamentary elections, it said. The opposition MDC was poised to win control of the country's House of Assembly after 18 of the 23 contested seats were confirmed today, the chairman of the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission said. The victory would leave the southern Af...
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Joint Chiefs Preparing to Attack Iran
2008-04-26 00:03:00
washingtonpost.com The nation's top military officer said today that the Pentagon is planning for "potential military courses of action" against Iran , criticizing what he called the Tehran government's "increasingly lethal and malign influence" in Iraq. Adm. Michael Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said a conflict with Iran would be "extremely stressing" but not impossible for U.S. forces, pointing specifically to reserve capabilities in the Navy and Air Force. "It would be a mistake to think that we are out of combat capability," he said at a Pentagon news conference. Still, Mullen made clear that he prefers a diplomatic solution to the tensions with Iran and does not foresee any imminent military action. "I have no expectations that we're going to get into a conflict with Iran in the immediate future," he said.
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A Solution to the Food Crisis
2008-04-25 20:46:00
AlterNet Here's what we must do to prevent an epidemic of starvation from breaking out. First, it is essential to have safety nets and public distribution systems put in place. Donor countries should provide more aid immediately to support government efforts in poor countries and respond to appeals from U.N. agencies, which are desperately seeking $500 million by May 1. Second, we should help affected countries develop their agricultural sectors to feed more of their own people and decrease their dependence on food imports. We should promote production and consumption of local crops raised by small, sustainable farms instead of growing cash crops for western markets. And we should support a country's effort to manage stocks and pricing so as to limit the volatility of food prices. To embrace these crucial policies, however, we need to stop worshipping the golden calf of the so-called free market and embrace, instead, the principle of food sovereignty. Every country and every pe...
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Syria Nuclear Story a Diversion
2008-04-25 19:08:00
Informed Comment The US and Israel accused Syria on Thursday of building a secret nuclear reactor with North Korean help. There was a lot of innuendo in the press that the reactor was intended for nuclear weapons production. But AFP notes: 'They said US intelligence had "high confidence" that the structure bombed by the Israelis was a nuclear reactor, "medium confidence" that the North Koreans were involved in building it, and "low confidence" that plutonium from it was for nuclear weapons. [..]The real question is the timing of the announcement, since the bombing happened a long time ago. It is suspicious to me that the announcement was made just after a spy for Israel was arrested in the US who had stolen US nuclear secrets. Is it diversionary? Syria expert Josh Landis discusses a different theory of diversion, having to do with revelations that Syria and Israel are closer to an agreement on the future of the Golan Heights. I'd add that former president Jimmy Carter's rece...
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Food Crisis: Hunger Plagues Haiti and the World
2008-04-23 20:17:00
Globalresearch.ca Consumers in rich countries feel it in supermarkets but in the world's poorest ones people are starving. The reason - soaring food prices, and it's triggered riots around the world in places like Mexico, Indonesia, Yemen, the Philippines, Cambodia, Morocco, Senegal, Uzbekistan, Guinea, Mauritania, Egypt, Cameroon, Bangladesh, Burkina Faso, Ivory Coast, Peru, Bolivia and Haiti that was once nearly food self-sufficient but now relies on imports for most of its supply and (like other food-importing countries) is at the mercy of agribusiness. Wheat shortages in Peru are acute enough to have the military make bread with potato flour (a native crop). In Pakistan, thousands of troops guard trucks carrying wheat and flour. In Thailand, rice farmers take shifts staying awake nights guarding their fields from thieves. The crop's price has about doubled in recent months, it's the staple for half or more of the world's population, but rising prices and fearing scarcity ...
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US arrests man for passing secrets to Israel
2008-04-23 16:20:00
The Daily Star US authorities have arrested an American man on charges that he disclosed classified defense information, including on nuclear weapons, to Israel , the Justice Department said Tuesday. Ben-Ami Kadish worked as a mechanical engineer at a US Army weapons center in New Jersey when he provided the documents to Israel's consul for science affairs in New York over several years, the department said. US authorities also accused Kadish of illegally acting as an agent for Israel from 1979 to 2008 without notifying the US attorney general's office. The complaint alleges the consular official, identified in the indictment as "CC-1," gave Kadish lists of classified defense documents to obtain from the US Army's Armament Research, Development, and Engi-neering Center at the Picatinny Arsenal in Dover, New Jersey. On numerous occasions between 1979 and 1985, the suspect took classified documents to his residence in New Jersey, where CC-1 would photograph them, prosecutors cha...
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Selling the Iraqi War on TV
2008-04-22 19:42:00
Remember, propaganda is illegal when directed towards the voting public. AlterNet In Sunday's New York Times, investigative reporter David Barstow exposed television's "military analysts" on the Iraq War as sock puppets of the Pentagon who consciously peddle the Bush administration's talking points on Iraq while hiding their own vested economic interest in selling the public on the Bush administration's happy talk about the war. This very long and very well-documented story lays bare the most blatantly obnoxious feature of the "Military-Industrial-Media Complex" which ensures that the airwaves convey the administration's major messages on the war day in a day out. The story should mobilize the blogosphere and news media figures who still have some integrity to demand immediate reform of a massively corrupt network system of covering military affairs. For starters, the networks should be forced to fire every "military analyst" who has been recruited and accepted all-expenses...
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Clinton on Iran: If They Attack Israel, We Could 'Obliterate Them'
2008-04-22 03:54:00
ABC News Clinton further displayed tough talk in an interview airing on "Good Morning America" Tuesday. ABC News' Chris Cuomo asked Clinton what she would do if Iran attacked Israel with nuclear weapons. "I want the Iranians to know that if I'm the president, we will attack Iran," Clinton said. "In the next 10 years, during which they might foolishly consider launching an attack on Israel, we would be able to totally obliterate them."
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Iraq the Debacle
2008-04-18 23:52:00
A National Defense University study by a former Pentagon official: The report said that the United States has suffered serious political costs, with its standing in the world seriously diminished. Moreover, operations in Iraq have diverted "manpower, materiel and the attention of decision-makers" from "all other efforts in the war on terror" and severely strained the U.S. armed forces. "Compounding all of these problems, our efforts there (in Iraq) were designed to enhance U.S. national security, but they have become, at least temporarily, an incubator for terrorism and have emboldened Iran to expand its influence throughout the Middle East," the report continued.
Carter - Israeli sanctions on Gaza a 'criminal atrocity'
2008-04-18 18:33:00
The consummate statesman from the US, former President Carter , minces no words about Israel these days. By making impassioned statements about Israel's excesses, he hopes to carve space for Hamas to stop rocketing unilaterally. This man is truly courageous, devoting his final years to using his influence to cut through politics as usual and make a constructive impact, whatever the cost to his personal reputation. He is a man to be admired. BigNewsNetwork.com Former US president Jimmy Carter and high-level leaders of the radical Palestinian organisation Hamas, have held talks in the Egyptian capital Cairo. The United States and Israel oppose Mr Carter's private peace mission, especially since he is making a special effort to meet with leaders of the Islamic Hamas movement, which he says cannot be ignored. On Friday, the former US president will meet with the most senior official in the Hamas movement, Khaled Meshaal, in the Syrian capital Damascus. Meanwhile, Mr Carter has def...
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Mugabe Accuses Winning Opponent of Treason
2008-04-17 15:57:00
Bloomberg.com Zimbabwe's main opposition denied allegations in state media that it conspired with the U.K. government to end President Robert Mugabe 's rule. The state-controlled Herald newspaper today cited Justice Minister Patrick Chinamasa as saying that Morgan Tsvangirai, leader of the Movement for Democratic Change, colluded with U.K. Prime Minister Gordon Brown to effect ``illegal regime change in Zimbabwe.'' The actions are ``treasonous,'' the newspaper, often used by the government to make official pronouncements, said. ``The reports in today's Herald are absolute rubbish,'' George Sibotshiwe, Tsvangirai's spokesman, said in an interview today from Johannesburg. ``No one familiar with Zimbabwe should be surprised by these tactics of defamation and lies. They are typical of Mugabe's regime and its mouthpiece newspapers.'' Tsvangirai competed in presidential elections on March 29 in which he sought to end Mugabe's 28-year rule of the southern Africa n nation. Re...
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The Beingness Doctrine
2008-04-16 02:59:00
STEPHAN A. SCHWARTZ, Editor - Schwartzreport.net Naomi Klein has written a book, Shock Doctrine, whose premise is that a formal strategy for forcing social change began evolving on the Right as long ago as the 1950s based on an extremist view of conservative free market capitalism. As Eric Klinenberg wrote in his Book Forum review 'Why do so many nations have economic policies more laissezfaire and social programs less generous than their citizens prefer? Naomi Klein argues that the answer lies in a simple two-step strategy, honed over three decades by an international cabal of freemarket fundamentalists: First, exploit crises-whether due to economics, politics, or natural disasters - to advance an agenda that would never survive the democratic process during ordinary times. Next, create a â??corporatocracy,' in which multinationals and political leaders align to promote their interests at the public's expense.'1 In her extraordinarily well-documented work she describes how...
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Will the Constitution Be Altered to Eliminate Key Liberties?
2008-04-14 16:41:00
AlterNet Though little discussed on the campaign trail, a crucial issue to be decided in November is whether the United States will return to its traditions as a constitutional Republic respecting "unalienable" human rights or whether it will finish a transformation into a frightened nation governed by an all-powerful President who can do whatever he wants during the open-ended "war on terror." That reality was underscored on April 1 with the release of a five-year-old legal opinion from former Justice Department official John Yoo asserting that President George W. Bush possessed nearly unlimited authority as Commander in Chief, including the power to have military interrogators abuse terror suspects. While most news coverage of Yoo's March 14, 2003, memo has focused on the legal gymnastics justifying harsh treatment of detainees -- including possible use of mind-altering drugs -- the centerpiece of Yoo's argument is that at a time of war the President's powers are essentially...
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