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Lesson of the Arab Counter-Revolution: Syria Must Allow No Benghazis

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Dec 152011
 

A Black Agenda Radio commentary by Glen Ford
 

Members of the royal Saudi mafia. Always eagerly complicit in the crimes of Western imperialists.

The Arab Spring was not allowed to get very far before the Arab Counter-Revolution pounced, first on Libya, now on Syria, to reconfigure the region by military means and, thus, make it safe for the various members of the imperial club. The Americans and their European and Arab allies are seeking Syrian territory to place under their “humanitarian” shield – a “liberated” city like Libya’s Benghazi for them to “defend.”

“Counter-revolution, or, in the case of the Arab Spring, the crackdown on the very idea of a revolution, is always bloody.” Continue reading »

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Obama’s “Twisted Version of American Exceptionalism” Laid Bare

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Dec 152011
 

Submitted by Jason Leopold
Lies and massive hypocrisy is the glue that holds up the American ruling clique’s legitimacy.


Obama, the nation’s Hypocrite in Chief. 

Truthout News Analysis | Crossposted with Antemedius

President Barack Obamaz would like the world to know that the US can do whatever it damn well pleases, thank you very much.

Obama also wants the whole, wide world to get this through its thick skull: only rogue governments that implement a policy of rendition, torture, indefinite detention and extrajudicial assassination are guilty of human rights abuses and should be held accountable. Continue reading »

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The Obama Admin’s Decision to Allow Indefinite Detention of U.S. Citizens: Terrifying, With Long-Term Consequences

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Dec 152011
 

By digby, Hullabaloo

I think one of the most stunning aspects of the administration’s decision not to veto an historic expansion of government power to imprison even its own citizens indefinitely and without due process is the context. Sure, we live in a very dangerous world. But we’ve been living in one at least since the advent of of The Bomb and the last I heard we were picking off Ad Qaeda members three at a time. The fact that this is happening with the war in Iraq wound down and Afghanistan scheduled to do so as well is what’s odd.

Ginny Sloan of the Constitution Project put it well:

But what will we say to future generations if the National Defense Authorization Act of 2012 (NDAA) becomes law? That legislation contains a provision that authorizes the president to indefinitely imprison, without a criminal charge or court hearing, any suspected terrorist who is captured within the United States — including American citizens. Continue reading »
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Obama Won’t Veto the Defense Authorization Act: Welcome to Fascism with a Presidential Façade

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Dec 152011
 


WATCH VIDEO BELOW 

We always thought that “friendly fascism” would come to the United States via an internal coup, a move concocted by the entire political class involving the White House, Congress, the always complicit media, and the judicial arm.  This is not therefore a fascist coup in which some ambitious general or populist leader overthrows a sitting president, but one engineered in the deepest bowels of the capitalist establishment itself, with the same objective: to destroy the last remnants of democracy for the benefit of an usurping plutocracy. 

Current TV’s host Cenk Uygur is one of the few (perhaps the only) major media figures denouncing in no uncertain terms the abomination bound to be signed into law by Obama, but the latest betrayal of the Constitution brought to the floor of the Senate at his behest. (Watch Carl Levin (D) admit this much). The rest of the media herd, as usual, is reporting this truly historical news without much comment, as a “bipartisan” measure. Which I suppose in their sellout, manure-filled brains, makes this sneak attack on American liberties alright.  Continue reading »

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OpEds: Recovering from Authoritarian Simpatico Syndrome (ASS)

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Dec 152011
 

“Because the cops don’t need you and man they expect the same”

By Phil Rockstroh
 

Witnessing the acts and utterances of Republican presidential candidates can be regarded as a helpful psychological exercise, a type of “exposure therapy” involving the development of methods used to bear the presence of unbearable people who insist on evincing the history of human ignorance, duplicity and insanity.

“I can’t go on; I go on.”–Samuel Beckett

All alive are tasked with the challenge of, not only proceeding through life despite these kinds of insults to common sense and common decency, but to make a stand, in one’s own unique way, against prevailing forms of madness and oppression. Continue reading »
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Russia and the Return of the Repressed

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Dec 152011
 

The Communist Comeback

by ISRAEL SHAMIR
 
Communism in Russia: premature obits? 

Moscow saw its biggest demo in a decade last Saturday. It was a feel-good, peaceful manifestation of youthful Facebook users, and it was already nicknamed the Likes Parade, as the prospective participants had clicked on “like” in response to the call to demonstrate. The predictions were dire: some expected clashes and bloody martyrdom, others hoped for a conquest of the Kremlin and revolution. However things went smoothly. Police were friendly too; riot police were stationed far away near the Kremlin gates so as not to annoy the people. The speakers stressed their desire to avoid revolutionary upheaval; there were speakers from diverse groups including nationalists, the far left, liberals and the far right. Continue reading »

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