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

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ARCHIVES: HUNTING – the war on wildlife

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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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Obama’s Phony “Pivot” on the Budget: The Trickster is At It, Again

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Sep 212011
 

Obama claims he is removing Social Security from the chopping block, if only temporarily. But he is the one who put Social Security there in the first place before he was even sworn into office, and has kept it in jeopardy ever since.

A Black Agenda Radio commentary by Glen Ford

The consummate bunko artist.

There is no “new” Obama. He’s the same guy who put Social Security on the chopping block before even taking the oath of office, and “gave away the social programs store” in an attempt for forge a “grand bargain” with the GOP. “He will accept anything that can remotely be construed as a tax hike on some wealthy people as sufficient cause to return to his previous passion for savaging Medicaid and Medicare.” This isn’t about tax fairness; it’s about preserving what’s left of the New Deal and the Great Society. Continue reading »

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Barack Obama VS Those Craaaazy Republicans: Is He the Lesser Evil, or the More Effective Evil?

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Sep 212011
 

By BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon

The inalterable fraudulence of American politics (so far) reflects its complete control by the corporate class. —Eds

The last refuge of Obamaphiles is that no matter how many times the First Black President double-crosses us by cutting Medicare and Medicaid, no matter how completely he betrays his voters and us by ignoring black unemployment, by deporting one million Latinos, by protecting the banksters responsible for the foreclosure crisis and by invading, bombing, occupying and subverting even more countries than the Cheney-Bush regime, his white supremacist tea party opponents are far worse. But what if Democrat Barack and the Republican tea partyers are just playing different positions on the same team? Continue reading »

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Goodbye Obama

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Sep 162011
 

So Long Labor and Greens!

By GEORGE OCHENSKI

AFL-CIO's chief Trumka: His bark is a lot worse than his bite. When will Big Labor learn?

It’s getting harder and harder to figure out how President Obama is going to win re-election when his administration continues to abandon its base in favor of traditional Republican supporters. Nothing illustrates this better than two recent incidents. OnThursday, Aug. 25, AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka told reporters labor is planning to scale back involvement in the Democratic Party. Then the State Department, headed by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, gave a green light to construction of 1,700-mile Keystone XL Pipeline that will carry crude oil from Canada’s tar sands across Montana, to refineries in Texas and Louisiana. Ironically, the latter decision comes as hundreds of America’s top environmentalists are being arrested for protesting to stop that pipeline. Continue reading »

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US and Colombia Escalate Attacks on Liberation Church

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Sep 162011
 

In the Lion’s Den
Liberation Theology was born in Latin America.  Since its inception it has been fiercely attacked by all the guardians of the status quo, from the US through all its tentacles, covert and overt, to the Pope himself. The official justification for the US position is embedded in Cold War rationales, but in reality it’s part of the American bourgeoisie’s longstanding class war against the working class and the rise of socialist alternatives around the world. —Eds

by DAN KOVALIK

Archbishop Romero

When I was 12 years old – at the time a devout Catholic and Reaganite – I saw something on television which had a profound effect on my life.   It was a 60 Minutes piece about El Salvador, and it focused on the murder of Archbishop Romero and the four Churchwomen, some of them American, brutally raped and murdered there.   What was striking to me about the piece was its suggestion that the forces behind these atrocities may well have been those being sponsored by the United States.   As we know now, this was indeed the case.   And, it was this realization — that the U.S. was behind the persecution of the Church in El Salvador, and as I came to know later, throughout Latin America — which changed how I viewed the world and the U.S.’s role in it. Continue reading »

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JIM HIGHTOWER: Perryism In Action

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Sep 162011
 

 

As governor of Texas, Rick Perry has been a five-watt bulb sitting in a 100-watt socket.

Perry: An opportunistic imbecile, smart enough to play in the American political sandbox, but deadly on serious issues.

When the hot and dry tinderbox of Central Texas recently exploded into dozens of raging wildfires that killed four people and burned over a thousand family homes down to their slabs, Perry wasn’t even in his socket – he was in South Carolina campaigning for president. So he had to rush back, a day late, to pose as governor. He did a mess of photo ops – and even took a political potshot at Barack Obama, blaming him for shortchanging Texas on federal firefighting help. Continue reading »
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