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Freedom Rider: The Sotomayor Hype By BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
The nomination of Sonia Sotomayor to the Supreme Court should be an opportunity to assess her record, and to critically assess the Obama administration and develop strategic responses to his actions. Instead, most of the discussion post nomination has focused on one speech Sotomayor gave in 2001 and the person of color boot strap story… Continue reading
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Joe Bageant: A redneck view of the Obamarama
When it comes to expressing plain truths, few are as gifted as American rednecks. During recent travels in the Appalachian communities of West Virginia, Tennessee and Kentucky I’ve collected scores of their comments on our national condition and especially President Barack Obama. Continue reading
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Video: “Absolutist” to defend the law? Michael Ratner
23 May, 2009 It’s outrageous to equate people who demand the rule of law with those who break it Bio Michael Ratner is President of the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) in New York. He has taught at Yale Law School, lectured at Columbia Law School, and was President of the National Lawyers Guild. Continue reading
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Red Herrings and The “War on Terrorism” By Larry Chin
The furor over House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s knowledge of the Bush/Cheney administration’s use of torture is the latest Washington noise that conveniently diverts attention from the illegitimate ‘war on terrorism’ that continues to serve as the justification for torture, murder and war. Continue reading
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Obama’s Animal Farm: Bigger, Bloodier Wars Equal Peace and Justice By Prof James Petras
McChrystal’s rise to leadership is marked by his central role in directing special operations teams engaged in extrajudicial assassinations, systematic torture, bombing of civilian communities and search and destroy missions. He is the very embodiment of the brutality and gore that accompanies military-driven empire building. Continue reading
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Pentagon Preparing For War With The Enemy: Russia By Rick Rozoff
The US plans to deploy ground-, sea-, air- and space-based anti-missile systems primarily around and against Russia (Poland, the Czech Republic, Norway, Britain, Japan and Alaska to date), the Pentagon will hold in reserve nuclear warheads for activation without a monitoring mechanism provided to Russian inspectors and arms reduction negotiators. Continue reading
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Of Swine and Scapegoats: Reflections on Racism and Right-Wing Nuttery By Tim Wise
From Michelle Malkin to Neal Boortz to the perpetually unhinged and borderline-psychotic Michael Savage, the right was spewing the line that the outbreak of H1N1 flu was yet more reason to close the border with Mexico. To hear these folks tell it, ‘illegal aliens’ were flooding the nation, perhaps intentionally, with the goal of making… Continue reading
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Pathway To Darkness, Part 1: “The Easter Bombers”
Since the suspects are ODA a serious threat to the national security of Great Britain, their deportation hearings will take place in secret. So whatever evidence the authorities may have against them which is not admissible in open court will apparently be presented behind closed doors, if at all. Continue reading
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Thoughts On The War Between The USA And Pakistan By Winter Patriot
This, ultimately, is what makes a major escalation of the war between the US and Pakistan inevitable. The Obama administration embodies none of the change we were hoping for. We are still governed by Bush/Clinton retreads, neo-con chicken hawks, friends and agents of Israel, and Wall Street bankers. None of these people see anything wrong… Continue reading
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The Wall Street Demos Commemorating ML King’s 1967 Anti-War Speech & 1968 Assassination By Lenni Brenner
King was in in Memphis, Tennessee, in 1968 with his Poor People’s Campaign, supporting the lowest of the low, the city striking ‘garbage men.’ Thus it is fitting that this April 3rd and 4th saw Wall Street demos, called in his memory, against Barack Obama’s stuffing the pockets of the rich with Main Street’s taxes. Continue reading
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The Pentagon’s Cyber Command: Formidable Infrastructure arrayed against the American People By Tom Burghardt
From its inception, Cyber Command has been theorized as a nodal point for launching crippling attacks against the civilian and military infrastructure of imperialism’s enemies. Continue reading
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General Motors: When We Are Led to Believe a Lie By Gregg Shotwell
GM sold 4.4 million vehicles in the U.S. in 1992 and employed 265,000 UAW members. GM sold 4.5 million vehicles in the U.S. in 2007 and employed 73,000 UAW members. Continue reading
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Avoiding World Conference on Racism Shows Obama’s Disrespect For Blacks By Glen Ford
Why is the White House reporting to ‘Jewish leaders’ on an issue that is of interest to all Americans, most especially people of color? Has Obama arranged such briefings on Durban II for ‘Black leaders,’ ‘Latino leaders,’ or ‘Native American leaders’ – representatives of constituencies that have suffered genocide, slavery, discrimination, forced displacement and all… Continue reading
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Inside the AT&T – NSA ‘Secret’ Relationship
Here’s an AT&T engineer explaining just what NSA wants to keep from American citizens: that the NSA is engaged in the warrantless surveillance of all communications (whether telephone conversations, emails, IMs or in other forms) involving AT&T customers. Continue reading
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Video – Zinn on class in America Pt.2
Howard Zinn: In the United States we are brought up to think there’s only one class Part Two Continue reading
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Video – Zinn on class in America Pt. 1
Howard Zinn: In the United States we are brought up to think there’s only one class Continue reading
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Bernanke’s Financial Rescue Plan: The growing prospect of a U.S. default by Mike Whitney
There are myriad problems with Bernanke’s lending facilities which are nothing more than a crafty way of transferring wealth from the Fed to private industry via low interest loans. Continue reading
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