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  • InI 09:51 on August 15, 2009 Permalink | Reply
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    GazaFriends: "Free Mohammed Khatib and the Non-Violent Activists from Bil'in" 

    At 3AM on Monday, August 3, the Israeli army raided Bil’in and arrested Mohammad Khatib, along with six other Palestinian community activists and one American human rights observer from the village. This move is an attempt by Israeli authorities to silence a popular resistance movement gaining international attention and inspiring other Palestinian communities. This West Bank agricultural village, known for its weekly protests against the Israeli apartheid wall, has become a symbol for the Palestinian popular resistance to Israel’s ongoing military occupation.

    While many are quick to condemn Palestinians when they resort to armed resistance, Israel has been left free to harass, imprison and sometimes kill Palestinians who nonviolently resist the confiscation and destruction of their land in Bil’in and elsewhere.

    In June 2009, Mohammed Khatib traveled to Canada for preliminary hearings on an historic lawsuit launched by Bil’in village against two Quebec-based companies, Green Park International and Green Mount International. Both companies are building illegal Israeli-only settlements on Bil’in’s land.

    Mohammad’s arrest is just one in a series of many carried out by the Israeli military in Bil’in since June 2009, coinciding with the beginning of these legal proceedings. Video of the ongoing struggle in Bil’in, including interviews with Mohammad Khatib and Israeli human rights lawyer Michael Sfard, can be seen here:

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  • InI 20:25 on August 14, 2009 Permalink | Reply
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    Cuba: Gardening its Way Out of Crisis 

    14 August, 2009 — Council on Hemispheric Affairs

    Sunlight brightens the paved streets and historic buildings of Havana, Cuba, bouncing off the tents of vendors and the tin drums of a street band. Once stricken by poverty and inequality, the city has slowly blossomed as a result of the bustling enterprise of urban agriculture. Between buildings and behind street walls, in every green space available, locals have cultivated crops, utilizing the techniques of sustainable urban farming. After years of isolation from the United States and the former Soviet Union, Cuba has independently fostered development of urban agriculture and now provides an environment of growth and structure for its economic, social and political policies.

    Cuba is the only country in the world that has developed an extensive state-supported infrastructure to support urban food production. Functionally, this system was established in response to acute food shortages in the early 1990s, which occurred after the collapse of the Soviet Union, when the island was forced to find an alternative manner of cultivating crops. Havana has established and expanded on this innovative model since this time, and it continues to lead the island nation in its quest for self-sufficiency. The increasing prevalence of urban agriculture benefits the economy, environment, community and health of Cuban citizens.

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  • InI 15:56 on August 14, 2009 Permalink | Reply
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    Tons of Imperial Fun: Hellfire Hillary Pours Oil on Somalia's Fire By Chris Floyd 

    14 August, 2009 — Atlantic Free Press

    SomaliaThere is apparently no path blazed by George W. Bush that Barack Obama will not eagerly follow. Surges, assassinations, indefinite detention, defense of torture, senseless wars and rampant militarism — in just a few short months, we’ve seen it all.

    To this dismaying record of complicity and continuity, we can add an increasing direct involvement in the horrific, hydra-headed conflict in Somalia, whose latest round of fiery hell was instigated by the American-backed invasion of Somalia by Ethiopia in late 2006. Under Bush, U.S. forces were deeply and directly enmeshed in the murderous action, dropping bombs on fleeing refugees, ‘renditioning’ other refugees to the tender mercies of Ethiopia’s notorious prisons, and even sending in death squads to clean up after missile strikes and bombings. (For background, see ‘Silent Surge: Bipartisan Terror War Intensifies in Somalia.’)

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  • InI 11:20 on August 14, 2009 Permalink | Reply
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    Honduras: Attack on Peaceful Protestors Escalates By Jenny Atlee, Quixote Center 

    The repression is escalating.  Crackdowns are occurring in San Pedro Sula as well as Tegucigalpa.

    Micheletti decreta de nuevo  el toque de queda

    Vergonzosa intimidación policial y militar en el STIBYS

    Our delegation is accounted for and unharmed.  They are now accompanying Honduran human rights workers and sending alarming reports.  Police and military are rounding up people and taking them to places used for torture in the 1980s.  Ambulances full of people with their faces smashed in and bodies beaten are racing to hospitals — among them is Marvin Ponce, a Honduran member of Congress who just met with State Department officials in Washington to denounce to coup.

    The Universidad Pedagogica and the STIBYS [Brewery Workers'] union hall (a private building which has served as the organizing center for the Anti-Coup resistance front) have been taken by the military and large numbers of people are reported detained.  Human rights organizations fear they are being tortured.

    Please call the State Department (202-647-4000) and the U.S. Ambassador Llorens in Tegucigalpa — 011-504-236-9320 ext. #4268.  Tell them that violence is escalating and that members of our International Delegation, including U.S. citizens, are currently accompanying human rights workers to locations in which people are being detained.

    Jenny

    The Quixote Center is a band of “impossible dreamers” who joined together in 1976.  We are a multi-issue, grassroots social justice organization with roots in the Catholic social justice tradition.  Independent of church and government structures, the Center operates with an understanding that an educated and engaged citizenry is essential to making social change.  For over 30 years, the Quixote Center has gathered together people of faith and conscience to organize highly effective campaigns for systemic change.


     

  • InI 10:24 on August 14, 2009 Permalink | Reply
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    Ramzy Baroud – Fatah: A New Beginning or an Imminent End? 

    13 August, 2009 — Palestine Think Tank

    ArafatThis is hardly the rational order of things. An overpowering military occupation was meant to be resisted by an equally determined, focused and unyielding national movement, hell-bent on liberation at any cost and by any means. This is the unwritten law that has governed and shielded successful national liberation projects throughout history. The Fatah movement, under Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, however, wants to alter that order, meeting Israeli colonialism with ill-defined ‘pragmatism’, extreme violence with press statements laden with endless clichés that mostly go unreported, and a determined Israeli attempt at squashing Palestinian aspirations with political tribalism, factional decay and internal divisions.

    Indeed, the long delayed Fatah Congress, held in Bethlehem on August 4 has underscored the obvious: the all-encompassing movement which was meant to exact and safeguard Palestinian national rights has grown into a liability that, if anything, will continue to derail the Palestinian national project. This comes at a time when the Palestinian people are in urgent need of a collective response that is strong enough to withstand Israeli military pressure and coercion at home, eloquent enough to communicate the Palestinian message to a global audience, and astute enough to galvanize international support and sympathy to the benefit of Palestinian freedom and independence.

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  • InI 09:45 on August 14, 2009 Permalink | Reply
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    Book Review: Ecological Revolution for Our Time by Simon Butler 

    12 August, 2009 — MRZine – Monthly Review

    John Bellamy Foster.  The Ecological Revolution: Making Peace with the Planet.  New York: Monthly Review Press, 2009.  328 pp.

    eco-rev.jpgKarl Marx and Frederick Engels famously urged the world’s workers to unite because they had a world to win, and nothing to lose but their chains.  Today, the reality of climate change and worsening environmental breakdowns globally adds a further vital dimension to this vision of human liberation.  We still have a world to win — but we also have a world to lose.

    The ecological crisis is not simply the result of poor planning or bad decisions.  Nor is it an unforeseeable accident.  It’s the inevitable outcome of an unjust economic and social system that puts business profits before all else — even as it undermines the natural basis of life itself.

    With his previous books, such as Marx’s Ecology and The Vulnerable Planet, and as the editor of the US-based Marxist journal Monthly Review, John Bellamy Foster has established a well-earned reputation as one of the world’s most persuasive voices arguing for fundamental social change to tackle the looming ecological catastrophe.

    His new book, The Ecological Revolution, could not have been published at a more timely moment.  It argues a solution to the ecological crisis “is now either revolutionary or it is false.”

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  • InI 07:59 on August 14, 2009 Permalink | Reply
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    Fact Checking Lanny Davis on Honduras By Greg Grandin 

    13 August, 2009 — Council on Hemispheric Affairs

    Last Friday, I debated lawyer-turned-lobbyist Lanny Davis, now working for the business backers of the recent Honduran coup, on Democracy Now! It actually wasn’t much of a debate — in the way that word means an exchange of ideas — as Davis was fast out of the box, preemptively trying to taint host Amy Goodman and me as ‘ideologues.’

    As Hillary Clinton’s major fundraiser during last year’s presidential primary, Davis is known for, among other things, leading the attack on Barack Obama for his association with Reverend Jeremiah Wright. ‘Why didn’t he speak up earlier?’ Davis asked in a Wall Street Journal op-ed, demanding to know why the candidate didn’t distance himself from Wright’s remarks. Recently, Davis has been hired by corporations to derail the labor-backed Employee Free Choice Act, which would make it easier for unions to organize, all the while touting himself as a ‘pro-labor liberal.’

    Davis was also the chief U.S. lobbyist of the military dictatorship in Pakistan in the late 90s and played an important role in strengthening relations between then President Bill Clinton and de facto president General Perez Musharraf.

    Now Lanny Davis finds himself defending another de facto regime in Honduras that is engaging in ‘grave and systemic’ political repression, suspending due process, harassing independent journalists, killing or disappearing at least ten people, and detaining hundreds as ‘constitutional,’ all the while touting himself as a (Honduran) constitutional expert.

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  • InI 07:56 on August 14, 2009 Permalink | Reply
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    Obama and the Honduran Crisis: Friend or Foe of Enlightened Change? 

    13 August, 2009 — Council on Hemispheric Affairs

    As the OAS prepares to send a delegation to Honduras – basically on terms dictated by Roberto Micheletti, the head of the golpista government – one can be excused for questioning why this crisis in democratic governance has yet to be resolved. The hemisphere has been unusually united in its condemnation of the coup, as has the entire international community. The United States, in line with President Barack Obama’s stated commitment to adopt more of an equal partnership in regional affairs, took a back seat – almost to a fault – putatively encouraging all of Latin America to share responsibility. But the U.S.’ failure to share authentic solidarity with the rest of the Americas, and its reluctance to take the initiative to project its obvious preeminence when it comes to Western Hemispheric affairs, prevented the region from moving toward a resolution of the constitutional crisis affecting the Central American country. In fact, the dirty little secret known to all Latin American nations is that only Washington possesses the exercisable clout necessary to force outcome on its terms. By playing cat and mouse with the rest of the hemisphere, it has jeopardized, not only the restoration of democracy in Honduras, but also future ties between the U.S. and its now rambunctious former backyard.

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  • InI 07:53 on August 14, 2009 Permalink | Reply
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    Ad Hoc Memorandum by Honduran Human Rights Activists 

    13 August, 2009 — Council on Hemispheric Affairs Forum

    Attorney General of Honduras August 7, 2009
    Tegucigalpa, Honduras
    Luis Alberto Rubi
    Attorney General

    As the fourth consecutive International Human Rights delegation present in the country since the coup d’état, we are writing to express our deep concern regarding the grave and rapidly deteriorating situation of human rights in Honduras, beginning with the events which occurred early in the morning of June 28th. In the name of the human rights observation groups which have visited (The Bi-Regional European Network Linking Alternatives in Latin America and the Caribbean, The Human Rights Delegation Headed by Rigoberta Menchu, The Center for Justice and International Law, and the Quixote Center/Quest for Peace), we ask that you provide us information about the following cases, and indicate what your office has been doing regarding the troubling human rights situation in Honduras.

    We are arranging a continuing presence of delegations for the foreseeable future, and among their principal roles will be following up on these cases on the national level with your office, as well as on the international level. They will monitor your response to this communication, as well as new cases of human rights abuses which may occur.

     

  • InI 16:24 on August 13, 2009 Permalink | Reply
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    The Real Grand Chessboard and the Profiteers of War By Prof. Peter Dale Scott 

    11 August, 2009 — Global Research

    “In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist. We must never let the weight of this combination endanger our liberties or democratic processes. We should take nothing for granted. Only an alert and knowledgeable citizenry can compel the proper meshing of the huge industrial and military machinery of defense with our peaceful methods and goals, so that security and liberty may prosper together.” Dwight David Eisenhower, “Military-Industrial Complex Speech,” 1961, [1]

    “My observation is that the impact of national elections on the business climate for SAIC has been minimal. The emphasis on where federal spending occurs usually shifts, but total federal spending never decreases. SAIC has always continued to grow despite changes in the political leadership in Washington.” Former SAIC manager, quoted in Donald L. Barlett and James B. Steele, “Washington’s $8 Billion Shadow.” Vanity Fair, March 2007[2]
    “We make American military doctrine” Ed Soyster, MPRI[3]

    The Myth of the Grand Chessboard: Geopolitics and Imperial Folie de Grandeur

    In The Road to 9/11 I summarized the dialectic of open societies: how from their energy they expand, leading to a higher level of more secretive corporations and agencies, which eventually weaken the home country through needless and crushing wars.[4] I am not alone in seeing America in the final stages of this process, which since the Renaissance has brought down Spain, the Netherlands, and Great Britain.

    Much of what I wrote summarized the thoughts of writers before me like Paul Kennedy and Kevin Phillips. But there is one aspect of the curse of expansion that I underemphasized: how dominance creates megalomanic illusions of insuperable control, and how this illusion in turn is crystallized into a prevailing ideology of dominance. I am surprised that so few, heretofore, have pointed out that from a public point of view these ideologies are delusional, indeed perhaps insane. In this essay I will argue however that what looks demented from a public viewpoint makes sense from the narrower perspective of those profiting from the provision of private entrepreneurial violence and intelligence.

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  • InI 16:02 on August 13, 2009 Permalink | Reply
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    Video: Battle for the Amazon: People vs the government Pt.1 

    The largest indigenous movement in decades battles to save the Amazon Basin from oil exploitation Pt 1

     

  • InI 15:56 on August 13, 2009 Permalink | Reply
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    Video: Gold, impunity, violence in El Salvador 

    Assassination of anti-mining resistance leader Marcelo Rivera part of terror campaign against activists

    A 37-year-old teacher, community center founder, and anti-mining activist is found tortured and assassinated in Northern El Salvador. Authorities, despite all evidence to the contrary, attribute the death to common gang violence. In the following weeks, other critics of mining are victims of death threats, attempted kidnappings and shootings. Communities plunged into fear not seen since the Civil War of the 1980s place the blame on the presence of Pacific Rim, a Canadian gold mining company.

     

  • InI 07:41 on August 13, 2009 Permalink | Reply
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    Three stories from 2005: Japan Linked Tamiflu to Sudden Deaths in Children 

    13 November 2005

    Tokyo – Japan’s health ministry says it plans to reissue a warning of dangerous behavioral side effects linked to the anti-influenza drug Tamiflu. This comes amid reports that several children in Japan died after taking the medication. Governments around the world are stockpiling the medicine amid growing fears of a possible human pandemic of avian influenza.

    Japan’s health ministry says it is looking into reports of a number of sudden deaths of young people who had taken prescribed dosages of Tamiflu.

    The ministry confirms that it has concluded that the death of one boy was the result of side effects from the drug. The ministry says it has found 64 cases of psychological disorders linked to the drug in the past four years.

    Dr. Rokuro Hama, head of the Japan Institute of Pharmaco-Vigilance, says he has investigated eight suspicious deaths of children aged between two and 17 over the past three years, which he thinks are linked to Tamiflu. He reported his findings Saturday at a meeting of the Japan Society of Pediatric Infectious Diseases.

    Dr. Hama said Sunday that Tamiflu appears to be similar to other powerful drugs that can cause behavioral changes.

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  • InI 13:40 on August 12, 2009 Permalink | Reply
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    The Myth of Policing By Consent By Kevin Blowe 

    28 July, 2009 — Random Blowe The full text of an article I’ve written that appears in the current issue of Red Pepper.

    In one the bleaker parts of Stepney’s Commercial Road, in London’s East End, is a modern housing association building called Peter House. Just around the corner from it stands another, on Sidney Street, named Painter House. In late September 2008, the Metropolitan Police Federation and the Daily Mail managed to work themselves into a fury at the decision by Tower Hamlets Community Housing to name these properties in commemoration of one of the area’s most celebrated anti-heroes and one of the most notorious incidents in east London’s turbulent working-class history. In January 1911, police hunting a Latvian anarchist gang, who had shot and killed three police officers in a jewellery-shop robbery, cornered three suspects at 100 Sidney Street. The siege that followed, famous locally as the ‘Battle of Stepney’, is remembered for the escape, disappearance and ensuing elevation to popular outlaw status of the gang’s anarchist leader, Peter the Painter, a man who many historians now believe may not even have existed.

    But the siege is also remembered for the controversial decision by the then Home Secretary – one Winston Churchill – to take personal charge of the police blockade, call out army reinforcements and then insist that the fire brigade stand by whilst the besieged building burnt to the ground and incinerated those trapped inside. Seldom has any sense of separation between political influence and the supposed ‘operational independence’ of the police been breached more blatantly, or more brutally.

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  • InI 12:54 on August 12, 2009 Permalink | Reply
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    Obama Continues Bush Policies in Latin America By Mark Weisbrot 

    There were great hopes in Latin America when President Obama was elected.  U.S. standing in the region had reached a low point under George W. Bush, and all of the hemisphere’s left-leaning governments expressed optimism that Obama would go in a different direction.

    These hopes have been dashed.  President Obama has continued the Bush policies and in some cases has done worse.

    The military overthrow of democratically elected President Mel Zelaya of Honduras on June 28 has become a clear example of Obama’s failure in the hemisphere.  There were signs that something was amiss in Washington from the beginning, when the first statement from the White House failed to even criticize, much less condemn, the coup.  It was the only such statement from a government to take a neutral position.  The General Assembly of the United Nations and the Organization of American States voted unanimously for “the immediate and unconditional return” of President Zelaya.

    Conflicting statements from the White House and State Department emerged over the ensuing days, but last Friday the State Department made clear its “neutrality” as between the dictatorship and the democratically elected president of Honduras.  In a letter to Senator Richard Lugar, the State Department said that “our policy and strategy for engagement is not based on supporting any particular politician or individual,” and appeared to blame President Zelaya for the coup: “President Zelaya’s insistence on undertaking provocative actions contributed to the polarization of Honduran society and led to a confrontation that unleashed the events that led to his removal.”

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  • InI 12:07 on August 12, 2009 Permalink | Reply
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    The New Great Depression Selected Articles 8-11 August, 2009 

    11 August, 2009 — Global Research

    Award Winning Movie: “SUPERPOWER”:
     Interview with Filmmaker on RBN this Thursday!
    – by Barbara-Anne Steegmuller – 2009-08-15

    Ward Churchill, Robert Prechter, Jane Burgermeister, and Bob Chapman on The Global Research News Hour
     Program details, Aug 10-14
    – 2009-08-14

    9/11 Mind Swell
    Scientific evidence refutes the official story
    – by Joel S. Hirschhorn – 2009-08-11

    The Real Grand Chessboard and the Profiteers of War
    – by Prof. Peter Dale Scott – 2009-08-11

    GDF Suez unit gets EU approval to take water firms
    – 2009-08-11

    Fiscal ruin of the Western world beckons
     For a glimpse of what awaits Britain, Europe, and America, look at what is happening to Ireland
    – by Ambrose Evans-Pritchard – 2009-08-11

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  • InI 09:42 on August 12, 2009 Permalink | Reply
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    "Inside the Revolution: A Journey into the Heart of Venezuela, Directed by Pablo Navarrete" 

    12 August, 2009 — MRZine – Monthly Review

    February 2009 marked 10 years since Hugo Chavez took office, following a landslide election victory, and launched his revolution to bring radical change to Venezuela. While wildly popular with many in the country, Chavez’s policies and his outspoken criticisms of the U.S. government have made him powerful enemies, both at home and abroad, especially in the media. Filmed in Caracas in November 2008, on the eve of the 10th anniversary of Chavez’s controversial presidency, this feature-length documentary takes a journey into the heart of Venezuela’s revolution to listen to the voices of the people driving the process forward.

    “This is a rare film about Venezuela, a country in extraordinary transition. Watch this film because it is honest and fair and respectful of those who want to be told the truth about an epic attempt, flaws and all, to claim back the humanity of ordinary people.” — John Pilger, journalist and documentary filmmaker



    London Premiere of Inside the Revolution: Thursday, 20th August

    Time: Thursday, 20th August, 6:30 PM
    (Film Starts at 7 PM)
    Location: Khalili Theatre, School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London (Thornhaugh Street, Russell Square, London WC1H 0XG)
    Nearest Tube: Russell Square
    Suggested Donation: £4

    Screenings and DVD copies available from mid-August 2009

    For more information, alborada.net; youtube.com/alboradafilms; facebook.com/pages/Alborada/102600100641.

     

  • InI 07:51 on August 12, 2009 Permalink | Reply
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    Please sign the petition to free Ezra Nawi 

    Dear all,

    This coming Sunday Ezra Nawi will appear in court again. And we will be there again, with signatures from concerned people from all over the world.

    Last time, we delivered 14,000 signatures of support that were collected through the Jewish Voice for Peace campaign.

    As she was handing over the reams of papers with 14,000 signatures, Ezra’s attorney, Leah Tsemel, told the judge: “Ezra Nawi is known throughout the world. The New York Times just did a profile of him and I have 14,000 character witnesses who produced over 100,000 letters in his defense.”

    The judge’s answer? “Wow, that many?”

    Ezra has personally requested that if you still haven’t added your signature to the petition, please do so before Saturday, and ask your friends and family, also those without Facebook accounts, to sign as well.

    Follow this link to sign: http://www.facebook.com/l/;www.freeezra.org

    Sincerely,
    The Committee Supporting Ezra Nawi

     

  • InI 07:23 on August 12, 2009 Permalink | Reply
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    Tim Wise: Socialism as the New Black Bogeyman – Red-Baiting and Racism 

    11 August, 2009 — Counterpunch

    Throughout the first six months of his administration, President Obama–perhaps one of the most politically cautious leaders in contemporary history–has been routinely portrayed as a radical by his opponents on the far-right. In particular, persons who have apparently never actually studied Marxism (or if they did, managed to somehow find therein support for such things as bailing out banks and elite corporations) contend that Obama is indeed a socialist. Reducing all government action other than war-making to part of a larger socialist conspiracy, the right contends that health care reform is socialist, capping greenhouse gas emissions is socialist, even providing incentives for driving fuel efficient cars is socialist. That the right insists upon Obama’s radical-left credentials, even as they push an Obama=Hitler meme (something they apparently think is fair, since, after all the Nazis were National Socialists, albeit the kind who routinely murdered the genuine article) only speaks to the special brand of crazy currently in vogue among the nation’s reactionary forces.

    As real socialists laugh at these clumsily made broadsides, and as scholars of actual socialist theory try and explain the absurdity of the analogies being drawn by conservative commentators, a key point seems to have been missed, and it is this point that best explains what the red-baiting is actually about.

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  • InI 06:36 on August 12, 2009 Permalink | Reply
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    Will Venezuelans be asking the same thing on August 11, 2049?  I trust not! By Roy S. Carson 

    11 August, 2009 — VHeadline

    VHeadline editor & publisher Roy S. Carson writes: It was undoubtedly with a degree of trepidation that I read El Universal’s interview with former US ambassador to Venezuela, Jeffrey Davidow, puzzled as to how the cunning diplomat that he undoubtedly is could have allowed himself to be lured into such a situation in the sure and certain knowledge that he would have every syllable subjected to intense scrutiny and analysis for what it was worth to the anti-Chavez opposition in Venezuela.

    Jeff has hitherto been loathe to get involved in Venezuelan politics other than as an extremely knowledgeable adviser to US President Barack Obama in the lead-up to and during the Summit of the Americas in Trinidad earlier this year where he had stage-managed Obama as the anti-thesis to the untold damage that had been done to United States foreign policy in Latin America throughout the George W. Bush fiasco presidency.

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