Margaret Flowers and Kevin Zeese, Truthout | Op-Ed
Green Party candidate for President Dr. Jill Stein in Madison, Wisconsin on December 16, 2011. (Photo:Richard Hurd)
More people are taking action in their communities to meet their basic needs because of government corruption at all levels that protects the status quo when urgent change is needed. People are moving on many fronts to challenge the system and create the world they want to see. Continue reading »
By Ruth Eisenbud
Gandhi understood the fallacy of creating the religious state of one people at the expense of another.
Mike Ingles
In his great American novel, “Slaughterhouse-five” Kurt Vonnegut said this about a massacre: Everything is supposed to be very quiet after a massacre, and it always is, except for the birds. And what do the bird’s say? All there is to say about a massacre, things like “Poo-tee-weet.”
There is nothing else to say about such a tragedy. But that won’t stop television reporters and bloggers from analyzing every scrap of evidence, interviewing every quack psychologist, every mourning mother.
Plus ça change…It’s America after all.
Mike Ingles
The crazies are rumbling. Former Secretary of Education, William Bennett, said on Meet the Press yesterday, in response to the massacre at Sandy Hook, that all schools should have armed guards stationed on the school grounds. Ditto says Louie Gohmert, crazed Congressman from Texas, who went on to decry, “I wish to God she (Dawn Hochsprung, school Principal) had had an M-4 in her office, locked up so when she heard gunfire, she pulls it out and she didn’t have to lunge heroically with nothing in her hands and takes him out and takes his head off before he can kill those precious kids.” Louie, has a real problem with verb tenses. Continue reading »
By Stephen Lendman
Palestinian demonstrators burn a poster of prime minister Salam Fayyad during a protest against the rising cost of living in the West Bank city of Hebron on September 10, 2012.
Ten times worse than South Africa’s Apartheid, but the world turns a blind eye.
It’s the Occupation, Stupid. Haaretz contributor Amira Hass is right saying so. Current headlines highlight thousands of West Bank protesters. Palestinians took to the streets against unaffordable rising prices. In some areas, things got violent. Demonstrators smashed windows, tried to storm a municipality building, and clashed with police. On Sunday, trucks and taxis blocked the Bethlehem to Hebron road. In Ramallah, tires were set ablaze. Streets were blocked. University and other school classes were cancelled.
Duheishe refugee camp residents marched on Abbas’ headquarters. Beit Jala protest leaders urged nonviolence but joined others expressing outrage. Continue reading »
by Stephen Lendman
Mexican-style democracy reflects America’s. Wealth and power run both countries. Promised change won’t come. Nieto’s agenda reflects it. Neoliberalism’s death grip assures punishing hard times for ordinary people at a time of protracted economic Depression…”
“Ganó!” (He won) proclaims the background display. Enrique Peña Nieto: the new figurehead in charge of the Mexican bourgeoisie’s affairs. A democratic farce to match what we witness in “el Norte.”
Like its northern neighbor, wealth and power dominate Mexican politics. Elections are notoriously tainted. Populist candidates are excluded. The late John Ross said Mexico perfected the art of electoral theft. Longstanding problems fester. For millions, they’re unbearable. They include extreme poverty, unemployment, underemployment, deep-seated private and public corruption, drug-related crime and violence, and political repression. Continue reading »
