Syria: Pro-government rally. They are usually discounted or omitted from mainstream reporting. -
For nearly a year, externally generated violence wracked Syria. Dirty Western hands planned and implemented it. Rogue regional despots were enlisted for support. Replacing an independent regime with a pro-Western one and isolating Iran are planned. Russia and China thwarted two Security Council resolutions designed to facilitate intervention.
On February 16, a non-binding Arab League General Assembly resolution passed with similar language. Saudi Arabia and other Gulf states backed it. Pressure’s building for escalated anti-Assad measures. Sooner or later expect intervention, perhaps war. At issue is isolating Iran, then targeting the Islamic Republic. Replicating 1953 in some form’s coming, perhaps more war that may involve Russia and China defending their interests. Read more…
First in a series prepared by Eric Schechter “The world is changing quickly, and we need to help steer it according to our shared values — our vision of what might be.”
ABOUT THE AUTHOR “Imagine no possessions.” I’m just like John Lennon, except without the talent.
I’m single and heterosexual, or maybe asexual. I might consider taking a partner if I found a woman who is perfect for me, if such a thing is possible. Women who want to know more about that can look at either of
I recently retired from teaching advanced mathematics. At the age of 55 I finally saw what most people know at age 10: that the most important questions in our lives are not mathematical. Even in economics, the math is just window-dressing and quantification; the most basic ideas contain virtually no math. And the most important question of all is, how can we all learn to live in peace together? No math in that at all. Read more…
By Alejandro López, WSWS.ORG, a socialist organization Thank you, WSWS.ORG
A casualty of the Valencia clashes.
Hundreds of thousands of workers demonstrated in 57 Spanish cities on Sunday against the latest labour reform passed by the right wing Popular Party (PP).
The demonstrations were called by the main trade unions, Comisiones Obreras (Workers Commissions—CC.OO) and Unión General de Trabajadores (General Union of Workers—UGT).
In Madrid an estimated 110,000 protestors took the streets according to El País, while the unions put the figure at 500,000. In Barcelona the same newspaper estimated 100,000 protestors and the unions 400,000. Demonstrations in Saragossa, Gijón, Seville, Gerona, Murcia, León, Toledo, Pamplona and Tarragona were sizable. Read more…
Tactics & Strategies— The Black Panther Party Militancy made BPP big, not community activities
Veteran activist Joost Van Steenis questions the reformist path for Occupy. Is he right? Do reforms have a legitimate role in the Occupy protest movement?
By Joost Van Steenis
The fast rise and decline of the Black Panther movement. After the murder of Malcolm X in 1965 the BPP was founded in Oakland and reached its peak in 1969 with 10.000 members and a newspaper circulation of 250.000. The first action point was the militant defence of blacks by wearing black clothing and showing loaded guns. The State Assembly Chamber in Sacramento was invaded in 1967 by armed members when the Party was still fairly small. The Party had a list of ten demands to promote the situation of blacks in the USA as decent housing and education, freedom for black prisoners, against police brutality, etc.
Only after the decline the Party started in 1971 with community activities and later got involved in electoral policies. Reform tactics and community activities did not stop the decline and in 1980 the party had virtually disappeared. Read more…
I got your letter (forwarded) asking for information for your book. To answer your first question, Yes, I’m enjoying living in Holland. I’m becoming the little Dutch girl — the little Black Dutch girl, but that doesn’t bother people here. They’re very tolerant and internationally minded.
As for the rest of your questions, at first I didn’t think I could answer them. They reminded me too much of an essay test in school. Plus it’s not exactly pleasant to remember back on all this stuff, you know. I’m trying to leave it behind and start a new life. Read more…
The prosecution of Judge Baltasar Garzón by Spanish authorities is both politically and morally obscene. Already barred from office for eleven years, he is now the only man to face charges as a result of the brutal crimes perpetrated by the fascist regime of General Francisco Franco.
Garzón: Victim of a judicial lynching. •
Alejandro López and Chris Marsden
Garzón is accused of perverting the course of justice and breaking the 1977 Law of Amnesty by investigating the murders of over 114,000 people during the 1936-1939 Spanish Civil War. The victory of Franco’s fascist forces in that conflict, set the stage for World War II in Europe. Franco’s regime survived the war and allied itself with US imperialism, lasting until the dictator’s death in 1975. Read more…
A Black Agenda Report Radio commentary by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon
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At the same time that the Grammy Awards honored Etta James and Whitney Houston, it did away with most of their award categories, 31 in all. Most of the stricken awards were for Latin jazz and other Latin music, four R&B categories, zydeco, Hawaiian and Native American music. A large group of artists protested outside the award ceremony last weekend, and pledge to continue fighting for the restoration of recognition to to their music, to our music. When we surrender this power to greedy corporations, we are complicit in cultural genocide.
“Most of the musical categories eliminated by the Grammies this year were Latin, black and nonwhite…” Read more…
Revolutionary Violence vs Institutionalized Violence
"There were two 'Reigns of Terror,' if we could but remember and consider it; the one wrought murder in hot passions, the other in heartless cold blood; the one lasted mere months, the other had lasted a thousand years; the one inflicted death upon a thousand persons, the other upon a hundred million; but our shudders are all for the "horrors" of the minor Terror, the momentary Terror, so to speak; whereas, what is the horror of swift death by the axe compared with lifelong death from hunger, cold, insult, cruelty and heartbreak? A city cemetery could contain the coffins filled by that brief terror that we have all been so diligently taught to shiver at and mourn over; but all France could hardly contain the coffins filled by that older and real Terror - that unspeakable bitter and awful Terror which none of us has been taught to see in its vastness or pity as it deserves..." —Mark Twain, writing about the French Revolution.
Make creeps like Kissinger
and Palin miserable.
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