by Jacob Chamberlain, Black Agenda Report
“I would rather have a white president fundamentally dedicated to eradicating poverty and enhancing the plight of working people than a black president tied to Wall Street and drones,” activist-academic Dr. Cornel West told British journalists. Barack Obama, like his predecessor, should be tried for war crimes. Continue reading »
Rainbows for the Ruling Class
The elevation of Obama to the highest office has prompted a veritable flourishing of unprincipled, opportunistic African Americans. Lisa L. Williams is typical of this morally squalid lot.
by Randy Shields
One of the great things about America is that it’s easy to be psychic here. This is the land of psychic opportunity. Anyone can hang out a shingle and predict the future. Anyone can read a palm that’s greased. If you want to know what’s going to happen next in America, all you have to do is ask yourself: what’s the most outrageous, ironic, perverted and soul-crushing thing that can happen in any given situation? Whatever that thing is, that’s what will happen. And you won’t have to wait long to see your prediction come true. Continue reading »
by Stephen Lendman
Arafat Jaradat’s father being helped after identifying his son’s tortured body. When will all this ugliness end? Those who cover it up in the media, and enable it to go on, the politicians, are all accomplices.
State terrorism is official Israeli policy. Torture and cold-blooded murder define it. Arafat Jaradat is Israel’s latest victim. He died wracked in pain Saturday. Israel attributed it to cardiac arrest. Shin Bet claimed no detectable health problems during interrogation. Accusations of torture were dismissed. Coverup and denial don’t wash.
Exit Free
From the Book
RADICAL PEACE: People Refusing War
By William T. Hathaway
Like the abolitionists of yore, these people seek to abolish service to unjust and immoral causes. This pits them against the greatest superpower in history.
The following report was contributed by Naomi Golner, one of the founders of Exit Free, a collective in the USA that helps women leave the military by discharge or desertion.
I’ve become a criminal for peace. How I got there is a complicated story, beginning when the community college where I teach reduced most of its humanities faculty to adjunct status. It saved them a bundle on salaries. We now teach a maximum of three courses per semester, for a really miserable hourly wage with no benefits. They brought in other part-timers to fill the gaps. So the faculty are now mostly freelancers. I ended up with a lot less money but a lot more time. Continue reading »
By Bill Van Auken, WSWS.ORG
27 June 2012
Jimmy Carter receiving his Nobel in Oslo.
A column published Monday in the New York Times by Jimmy Carter, the 39th president of the United States, constitutes an extraordinary indictment of the Obama administration for engaging in assassinations and other criminal violations of international law and the US Constitution.
Titling his column “A Cruel and Unusual Record,” Carter writes: “Revelations that top officials are targeting people to be assassinated abroad, including American citizens, are only the most recent, disturbing proof of how far our nation’s violation of human rights has extended.” Continue reading »
The nation is dying from a failure of (good) leadership but don’t look to Barack Obama for it.
Obama: Pseudo leadership at its best.
An Answer to the recent Article entitled “10 Reasons Why Obama will win in 2012.”
1. At best Mr. Obama has been a lackluster and even anemic Party leader and a weak President.