Things to consider—

Since early 2011, Obama's been waging proxy war on Syria. Imported death squads masquerade as freedom fighters. The scheme's familiar. It repeats. It reflects US imperialism's dark side. In the 1980s, CIA-recruited mujahideen fighters battled Afghanistan's Soviet occupiers. Ronald Reagan called them "the moral equivalent of our founding fathers." He characterized Contra killers the same way. —Stephen LendmanFor over a century now US ambassadors have acted as fifth columns in the nations they are embedded in, their role chiefly to foster corporate and plutocratic power and coordinate machinations against any truly pro-democratic government.•••••"The dead end identity politics of SF Pride, which sells out a peace hero like Bradley Manning to curry favor with the American ruling class, is what I had in mind. The empire loves your tameness, irrelevance and cowardice, SF Pride. You don’t bother the American ruling class — a five foot two, 105 pound soldier does because he has a conscience and because he didn’t make comfort the guiding principle of his life...." —Randy Shields
Sep 302011
 
By Paul Craig Roberts
Global Research, September 30, 2011

In the past decade, Washington has killed, maimed, dislocated, and made widows and orphans millions of Muslims in six countries, all in the name of the “war on terror.” Washington’s attacks on the countries constitute naked aggression and impact primarily civilian populations and infrastructure and, thereby, constitute war crimes under law. Nazis were executed precisely for what Washington is doing today.

Moreover the wars and military attacks have cost American taxpayers in out-of-pocket and already-incurred future costs at least $4,000 billion dollars–one third of the accumulated public debt–resulting in a US deficit crisis that threatens the social safety net, the value of the US dollar and its reserve currency role, while enriching beyond all previous history the military/security complex and its apologists. Continue reading »

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Sep 302011
 

Originally seen on November 7, 2009
ARTICLES YOU SHOULD HAVE READ THE FIRST TIME AROUND, BUT MISSED. 

Simulposted with Animal Rights Africa 


Recompiled by Bob Prescott-Graham, formerly w. 
Committee to Abolish Sport Hunting (C.A.S.H.)


Hunters cherrypick the best specimens, turning them into trophies and useless carcass, thereby weakening the species gene pool.

HUNTERS ARE KILLERS, plain and simple. Let us not mince words. Hunters try to justify their violent pastime, but whatever they say to the contrary, hunting is the premeditated, cold-blooded killing of innocent animals.  Theobject of the hunt is to kill animals. Hunters argue that it is not just about killing. They claim that the camaraderie, nature appreciation, exercise, nature education, and so-called conservation benefits are just as important a part of the hunt as the actual killing or attempted killing of the target animal.

 

But most people can appreciate and learn about nature and also contribute to nature conservation efforts without having to kill animals, and by doing their shooting with a camera instead of a gun or bow. Continue reading »

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Sep 302011
 

North Africa and the Global Political Awakening, Part 1
By Andrew Gavin Marshall
Global Research, January 27, 2011

For the first time in human history almost all of humanity is politically activated, politically conscious and politically interactive… The resulting global political activism is generating a surge in the quest for personal dignity, cultural respect and economic opportunity in a world painfully scarred by memories of centuries-long alien colonial or imperial domination… The worldwide yearning for human dignity is the central challenge inherent in the phenomenon of global political awakening… That awakening is socially massive and politically radicalizing… The nearly universal access to radio, television and increasingly the Internet is creating a community of shared perceptions and envy that can be galvanized and channeled by demagogic political or religious passions.  Continue reading »

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Sep 292011
 

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Posted Sept. 28, 2011

Interview with Chris Hedges, author of “The World As It Is: Dispatches on the Myth of Human Progress”, conducted by Scott Harris
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In the months after the near collapse of the U.S. financial and banking system in 2008 that triggered the most serious global economic meltdown since the Great Depression, America has witnessed an uneasy silence suggesting either trauma or stunned acquiescence among the general populace. While polls find that the population at large blames the recklessness of wealthy bankers and speculators for record unemployment and home foreclosures, the only real anger expressed in the streets in recent years has come from corporate-backed Tea Party activists bent on defunding social safety net programs while labeling President Obama a Muslim-socialist, and attacking unions. Continue reading »

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Sep 292011
 

The system is worse than just “broken.”

By Eric Schechter on Thursday, 29 September 2011

No, it doesn't and never did.

The system is broken” has become a commonly used phrase, in part because it is so tidy. My own view is more extreme than that, though I haven’t figured out a tidy phrase for it yet.

To say that “the system is broken” suggests that it once worked well, and that it can be made to work well again, through reforms. I disagree with that view. I believe the system has inherent flaws in its basic design, and never has worked well, and never can, though for a time it may have given some people the impression of working well, or of having worked well at some point in the past. I think we need to scrap the whole design and start anew. And I think we need to do it soon, or the old design will soon kill us all. Continue reading »

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