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The
forcing down of Bolivian President Evo Morales's plane -- denied
airspace by France, Spain and Portugal, followed by his 14-hour
confinement while Austrian officials demanded to "inspect" his aircraft
for the "fugitive" Edward Snowden -- was an act of air piracy and state
terrorism. It was a metaphor for the gangsterism that now rules the
world and the cowardice and hypocrisy of bystanders who dare not speak
its name.
By Dave Lindorff
In Obamaland, "Rule of Law' is for the Other Suckers: US (and French) Courts Ruled Head-of-State Immunity is Absolute 
US
courts have ruled heads of state have absolute immunity when traveling,
so what's this with the US orchastrating capture of Bolivia's Morales
and searching his plane? asks TCBH's Dave LIndorff
Overall,
it has become somewhat shameful to be an American. But possibly far
worse than the way the rest of the world perceives us is the damage that
we have done to ourselves. Consider for a moment what the past 12 years
have meant in terms of what the United States government can now do to
any American citizen.
Just
imagine if the movement to amend big money out of politics got as much
attention, say, as the wrangling over IRS "targeting" -- a classic
money-in-politics controversy. Imagine if all Americans knew that calls
for an amendment are coming not just from traditional progressive
reformers but from Republican legislators and honest conservatives at
the state and national levels.
The
BLS news release points out that the number of involuntary part-time
workers (the number of people who are unable to find full-time jobs or
whose hours were cut back) increased by 322,000 in June to 8.2 million.
This deplorable report provided the cover for the market riggers to take
the stock market up and the gold market down. Remember that economic
theory about "rational markets"? Another deception.
In addition to money, two other variables combine to weaken our political process.
By Stephen Pizzo
What's in Your Mail? Inquiring Minds Want to Know President Eisenhower warned as he left office not to allow a "military/industrial complex" to capture the national agenda and treasury. It did anyway. Now we face a new threat; the "security/industrial complex." And we're losing that battle as well.
I
here argue that the term "progressive" could play a vital role in
today's U.S. political discourse, deriving historically from a homegrown
populist pro-democracy and anti-corporate movement that was pragmatic
in its approach and free of the scary ideological character represented
by many foreign-born "isms." Obama supporters' Orwellian theft of this
honorable term is a fascist-style language perversion we need to resist.
The world is beginning to awaken to the need to stand up against the Empire if they ever want to be free.
For
China and Russia, Washington's favorite targets for human rights
demonization, giving Snowden asylum would have been a propaganda
triumph, but neither country wanted the confrontations that Washington's
reprisals would have caused. In short, the governments of the countries
on earth want Washington's money and good graces more than they want
truth and integrity or even their independence.
By Thomas Riggins
Stop and Frisk: What Mayor Bloomberg Really Thinks About Minority Youth Bloomberg's comments defending "stop and frisk" reveals his real attitudes toward minority youth-- it seems it is not a good one.
Photo
caption: 'The Twitter account of House intelligence committee chairman
Mike Rogers, left, placed Edward Snowden in the company of two infamous
double agents. Photograph: J Scott Applewhite/AP'
In
this story from France 24 international news service: 'NSA
whistleblower Edward Snowden should be given political asylum in France,
party leaders from across the political spectrum have said in the wake
of the latest US spying allegations.'
Even
though he was known to like to live well, police said they were
startled when they entered Monsignor Nunzio Scarano's apartment after he
called them one night in January to report a burglary. The
investigators disclosed that the trove of stolen goods estimated to be
worth up to 6 million euro ($7.82 million) included six works by Giorgio
de Chirico, one by Renato Guttuso, one attributed to Marc Chagall and
pieces of religious art.
The
always outspoken filmmaker Oliver Stone spoke up for Edward Snowden and
against President Obama during an appearance Thursday at the Karlovy
Vary International Film Festival in the Czech Republic. Stone, who was
showing two episodes of his television series The Untold History of the
United States at the event, hailed the NSA leaker as a hero and declared
it as disgrace that Obama is more concerned with hunting down Snowden
than reforming these George Bush-style eavesdropping techniques.
Farmed salmon are dyed with the chemicals astaxanthin and canthaxanthin to produce an appealing, though unnatural, pink
By Bob Burnett
The Arc of the Moral Universe: Same-Sex Marriage Martin Luther King, Jr., famously observed, "The arc of the moral universe is long but it bends towards Justice." The American civil rights movement has made slow progress since May 17, 1954, when the Supreme Court struck down the "separate but equal doctrine" in Brown vs. Board of Education . Nonetheless, few anticipated the rapidity of acceptance of same-sex marriage.
Are
all the negative reviews of "The Lone Ranger" the first step on a path
that will lead to the reactivation of the House Un-American Activities
Committee hearings to start a "head "em off at the pass" response to the
possibility of a new red threat coming from Hollywood?
Photo caption: 'David Gregory, David Brooks, Andrew Sorkin (Credit: AP/NBC/AP/Nam Y. Huh/AP/Chris Pizzello)'
By Abdus-Sattar Ghazali
Cairo's military is the best friend the U.S. has got: Indyk Amid violent demonstrations orchestrated by Tamaroud group, Egypt's pro-US army Wednesday deposed and arrested the elected President Mohammad Morsi. Adly Mansour, the head of the Supreme Constititonal Court, with which Morsi had repeated confrontations, was sworn in as interim president.
Nelson
Mandela is being kept alive by a breathing machine and faces "impending
death," court documents show. The former president's health is
"perilous," according to documents filed in the court case that resulted
in the remains of his three deceased children being reburied Thursday
in their original graves. "The anticipation of his impending death is
based on real and substantial grounds," the court filing said.
The
presidents of Nicaragua and Venezuela offered Friday to grant asylum to
NSA leaker Edward Snowden, one day after leftist South American leaders
gathered to denounce the rerouting of Bolivian President Evo Morales'
plane over Europe amid reports that the American was aboard. Daniel
Ortega of Nicaragua and Nicolas Maduro of Venezuela made their offers
during separate speeches in their home countries Friday afternoon.
Snowden has asked for asylum in numerous countries, including Nicaragua
and Venezuela.
Jewish
fundamentalism is setting up settlements in the Occupied West Bank and
threatening Israeli democracy. All over the Arab world and many other
Muslim countries, Islamic fundamentalism raises its head, causing havoc.
In the US, evangelical fundamentalism has created the Tea Party and is
dragging the Republican Party to the extreme right, much against its own
interest.
The
June jobs data falls into the "it could have been worse" category --
which is fast becoming the official slogan of the recovery. We are
seeing an economy that is likely to be well below its potential level of
output for more than a decade. This means that tens of millions of
people will needlessly be unemployed or underemployed.
"We'll
get Bush in the US" the world's top war crimes prosecutor tells The
Truthseeker after Dubya's deputies warn him against travel, lawyers file
for Obama...
How
distracted and "entertained" into hypnotic trance states are we? We
have been lulled into the poppy fields-- the fields of sleep and
illusion-- by jingoism & a faux news system that sells entertainment
& corporate lies that keep us smiling and satisfied, while our
childrens' and grandchildren's futures are being destroyed, as surely as
the flat-lands of South Florida and New York City will be flooded by
rising waters.
France
24 international news: 'Bolivian President Evo Morales demanded an
apology from European nations Thursday and threatened to close the US
embassy after his homebound plane was forced to land in Vienna earlier
this week amid suspicions US fugitive Edward Snowden was on board.'
By Franklin Lamb
Obama backing ElBaradei? Once again, the Obama administration was caught by surprise as the enduring "Arab spring", still in its infancy, increasingly portends ill for Western installed potentates in artificially Sykes-Picot style created "countries".
The
coup in Egypt is similar to the experience of both Turkey in the
1960s--1980s and Algeria in the 1990s, and will inevitably lead to
further disintegration and violence
All
revolutions including Egypt are messy affairs. Pres. Morsi now removed
in a coups by the military faced conditions & roadblocks preventing
any chance for success. The people w/ a newly found voice helped to get
the authoritarian Mubarak to step down. Now it's popularly elected Morsi
forced out by millions in the streets. Can any elected Egyptian pres.
stabilize the country & be supported by the people? Answer? Unknown.
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