The Odyssey of Hassan Hijazi ANNOTATED NEWS, The Middle East, Zionist Occupation Comments Off Jun 102011 A Brown-Haired Young Man By URI AVNERY Hassan Hijazi, the unexpected visitor MY HERO of the year (for now) is a young brown-haired Palestinian refugee living in Syria called Hassan Hijazi. He was one of hundreds of refugees who held the demonstration on the Syrian side of the Golan border fence, to commemorate the Naqba – “Disaster” – the exodus of more than half the Palestinian people from the territory conquered by Israel in the war of 1948. Some of the protesters ran down to the fence, crossing a minefield. Luckily, none of the mines exploded – perhaps they were just too old. Continue reading » Did you like this? Share it:
DeVos, Koch, Scaife, Walton, ALEC, AFC: The Corporate Royalists and Right-Wing Groups Propelling the GOP’s Assault on the Middle Class ANNOTATED NEWS, ASSHOLES, BASTARDS & CRIMINALS, CITIZEN TOOLS Comments Off Jun 102011 Before there was a David Koch and his brother Charlie there was a Richard Mellon Scaife lavishly underwriting the filthy work of the right propaganda machine. And he’s still at it. By Jim Hightower, Hightower Lowdown Richard Mellon Scaife, the Grandaddy of right-wing funders. In January, a small group of Indiana schoolteachers encountered their governor, Mitch Daniels, in a hallway of the state capitol. They were part of an outpouring of Hoosiers who had come to Indianapolis that day to protest Daniels’ almost-gleeful political attack on the pay and even the worthiness of public employees. Having the chance, this scrappy group dared to confront his eminence. Why, they asked, was he demonizing and so drastically under-cutting those who educate Indiana’s children? Continue reading » Did you like this? Share it:
McCain’s Hero: More Socialist Than Obama! ANNOTATED NEWS, IDEOLOGICAL STRUGGLE Comments Off Jun 102011 From our archives: Articles you should have read when first published, but didn’t. Now we know, of course, that Obama has proved as bad if not worse than a Republican, making the comparison a little moot. Teddy Roosevelt slate CHATTERBOX McCain can call Obama a socialist or he can call Teddy Roosevelt his hero. He can’t do both. By Timothy Noah Posted Thursday, Oct. 23, 2008 Imagine that instead of telling Joe “the Plumber” Wurzelbacher that “when you spread the wealth around it’s good for everybody,” Barack Obama had said the following: We grudge no man a fortune in civil life if it is honorably obtained and well used. It is not even enough that it should have been gained without doing damage to the community. We should permit it to be gained only so long as the gaining represents benefit to the community. … The really big fortune, the swollen fortune, by the mere fact of its size, acquires qualities which differentiate it in kind as well as in degree from what is possessed by men of relatively small means. Therefore, I believe in a graduated income tax on big fortunes, and … a graduated inheritance tax on big fortunes, properly safeguarded against evasion, and increasing rapidly in amount with the size of the estate. Continue reading » Did you like this? Share it:
The Bloodlust of Teddy Roosevelt ANNOTATED NEWS, ASSHOLES, BASTARDS & CRIMINALS 1 Response » Jun 102011 June 8, 2011 What’s a Scholar to Do? T.R. By WILLIAM LOREN KATZ The New York Sunday Times on November 28, 2010 published noted historian Geoffrey C. Ward’s review of a biography of President Theodore Roosevelt [TR]. His review reveals something distressing about the way some of our scholars gloss over our iconic figures and write history as the U.S. fights multiple wars. A popular war hero, President for seven years, a prominent international figure [awarded the Nobel Peace Prize], arguably the man who built the U.S. overseas empire, TR’s brash aggressiveness has long made him Mount Rushmore in size and a favorite of school texts. He is always listed among our best and most important leaders. Continue reading » Did you like this? Share it:
The Death of Dr. Death ANNOTATED NEWS, CONTROVERSY Comments Off Jun 102011 The author does not provide a totally satisfactory answer to the many interrogations posed by a subject as loaded with emotion and metaphysics as the end of a life, nor are we crazy about his rather hostile tone to Kevorkian’s deeds, in large measure caused by the pressures and active persecution he operated under, but this piece is a worthy departure point, nonetheless.—Eds Kervorkian’s Legacy By BINOY KAMPMARK The writer and Gaullist Minister André Malraux observed that, during his life, children were no longer taken to graves and taught the brevity of human life. Death, to put it simply, was being banished by citizens of western society. The longer one lived, the less inclined one was to consider the implications of mortality. Today, signs of aging are hidden cosmetically; the aged are banished to nursing homes at a moment’s notice to be cared for in padded incarceration. Continue reading » Did you like this? Share it:
The Breitbart Effect: Why Weiner’s Boring (Non-) Sex Scandal Is Getting More Play Than Republicans’ Sordid Sexcapades ANNOTATED NEWS, ASSHOLES, BASTARDS & CRIMINALS, KULTURKAMPF 1 Response » Jun 102011 By Joshua Holland, AlterNet Weinergate, as it has been dubbed by pundits across the political spectrum, must be the lamest (non-)sex scandal to come down the pike in years, yet it seems to be getting as much play as Watergate. That such trivia as an adult sending relatively benign photos and “racy messages” to other consenting adults should be of interest to anyone besides the Representative’s wife – much less the making of a week-long “news” story – is obviously a sad reflection of our shallow, sex-and-celebrity-obsessed culture. Continue reading » Did you like this? Share it:
ARCHIVES: The Stakes in ‘Punishing’ Greece ANNOTATED NEWS, CAPITALISM & SOCIALISM Comments Off Jun 102011 ESSAYS YOU SHOULD HAVE READ THE FIRST TIME AROUND, BUT DIDN’T Originally posted February 17, 2010 18:08 | By Rick Wolff Global capitalism imploded in 2007. The central causes of capitalism’s crisis include: 1. the end of real wage increases in the US and the substitution of rising worker debt far beyond what workers could sustain; 2. the buildup of excess global industrial capacity (underconsumption relative to production); 3. the explosion of speculation and excess risk-taking by banks, other financial and non-financial corporations, and the rich; 4. the systematic misrepresentation of credit risks by capitalist rating firms; 5. the failure of supervision and regulation by governments increasingly dependent on corporations and the rich (for campaign contributions, lobbyists’ supports, etc.) over the last quarter century; 6. the growing indebtedness of governments; 7. the huge imbalances between trade and capital flows among nations (and, above all, the trade deficits of the US and the trade surpluses of the PRC) Continue reading » Did you like this? Share it:
The Obama Doctrine: Lawless Imperial Aggression ANNOTATED NEWS, IMPERIALISM, Olympian-class scumbags, US Foreign Policy Comments Off Jun 102011 By Stephen Lendman Wikipedia says US presidential doctrines state “key goals, attitudes, or stances for United States foreign affairs.” Except for James Monroe in 1823 asserting a declaration of regional dominance, later ones reflected Cold War and imperial politics since Harry Truman. On March 29, eight New York Times contributors asked “Is There an Obama Doctrine,” preceded by an introduction saying his previous day America’s role in Libya speech asserted unilateral authority to intervene abroad “when our interests and values are at stake,” an illegal position under international and constitutional law, unmentioned in the debate. Continue reading » Did you like this? Share it:
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