February 2012
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To honor that historic day in South African...
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brosephstalin:
We didn’t take the ANC or Mandela off the terrorist watch list until just four years ago.
And let’s not forget who thought South Africa’s Apartheid regime was just so awesome, that they offered to sell them nuclear weapons…
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The Zuckerberg Tax →
The NYT on how the wealthy avoid paying taxes by borrowing tax free on their assets, and why it is unsustainable.
You will almost never find me quoting the Times on this blog. They are imperialist in perspective, repulsively pro-Israel, and due to budgetary restrictions they generally run things about 36 hours later than other international sources break them. Nonetheless, this is an interesting...
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10 NYC occupiers have been arrested during J29 and...
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Al Jazeera English's Empire: Egypt: The promise... →
One of the most fair and balanced treatments I have seen regarding where Egypt finds itself today.
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I recently found myself going over the countries...
It was obvous then and now, themajority of the countries involved (besides the US and UK) had nothing to gain from the fight. So it reasons to say that they must have had something else to gain, no?
It is a little bit disturbing to think of how easily a major power like the US (or the EU or any other body) can rapidly “purchase” a coalition, if it puts its mind to it.
Just a quick,...
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Israeli forces clash with worshipers at Al-Aqsa →
verbalresistance:
JERUSALEM (Ma’an) — Israeli forces clashed with Palestinians in Jerusalem’s Al-Aqsa Mosque compound on Friday, exchanging a volley of tear gas and rocks.
Israeli troops entered the Haram al-Sharif (Noble Compound) after the Friday noon prayer, and fired tear and and sound grenades, causing confusion amongst the large crowds who worship at the holy site on Fridays, a...
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NYPD intelligence chief wanted sources in every... →
This is critically important journalistic work… and I almost never say that:
Key Quotes:
“Take a big net, throw it out, catch as many fish as you can and see what we get,” one investigator, quoted by the AP, recalled Cohen saying.
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“On Wednesday the AP disclosed that the department had also conducted extensive surveillance efforts in New Jersey’s largest...
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In light of the death of Marie Colvin it seems more important to return to some of the background of what is going on in the region as a whole.
The last paragraph can be tossed, if you like, but the rest is quite good.
Andrew
Imperialist bloodletting worsens in Middle East
Submitted by WorldRevolution on January 30, 2012 - 21:52
(from The Internationalist)
After a car bomb exploded in Damascus...
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One of the most interesting and fair dissections... →
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Fidel Castro launches memoirs in Havana: Former... →
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“You are horrified at our intending to do away with private property. But in your...”
– Karl Marx, The Communist Manifesto (via solitaryforager)
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Malaria kills twice as many people as previously...
Malaria kills 1.2 million people every year, a finding that has implications for global efforts to eliminate the disease
Malaria kills twice as many people every year as formerly believed, taking 1.2 million lives and causing the deaths not only of babies but also older children and adults, according to research that overturns decades of assumptions about one of the world’s most lethal...
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“I am a socialist because I believe that socialism will solve the misery of the...”
– Helen Keller (via fuckyeahmarxismleninism)
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India defies sanctions, won't cut Iran oil imports... →
Commendable as hell.
theamericanbear:
Energy wars!
MUMBAI, India—India has joined China in saying it will not cut back on oil imports from Iran, despite stiff new U.S. and European sanctions designed to pressure Tehran over its nuclear program.
“It is not possible for India to take any decision to reduce the import from Iran drastically because, after all, the countries which can provide the...
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“I am opposing a social order in which it is possible for one man who does...”
– Eugene Debs(via thoughtfulchild)
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Nato Chief in Turkey:
“We have no interest at all in interfering in Syria, even to provide safe corridors.” Amazing, isn’t it? When a country has a lot of oil, they get rapid Western “assistance.” When they don’t, and their people are bleeding… we don’t give a shit. Andrew
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“Officials in key parts of the Obama administration are increasingly convinced...”
– http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/feb/17/us-officials-iran-sanctions-military-action And the machine of empire rambles on, consuming human lives for profit and for Zionist Israel’s racist policies.
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Shale-shocked: Fracking gets its own Occupy... →
Strong opposition to “fracking” in New York State has resulted in a “little revolution”.
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In light of the bombings in Delhi, Thailand, and...
I would like to raise one question before getting to bed:
Israel claims, without citing any evidence, that Iran is behind these attacks. WHAT INTEREST would Iran have in provoking the international community to use increasingly repressive and potentially militaristic tactics against it? Very few….
The US and Israel? VERY different story. Note how we don’t seem to mind that Iranian...
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Obama changes contraception rules in face of... →
What a bullshit “leader.” Head of an irrational democracy.
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The United States' "case" against Hezbollah
The allegations span South American cocaine shipments, US-used car dealerships, money-laundering in West Africa, several money-exchange houses, and end up in a Lebanese bank.
In December the US justice department filed a civil claim [PDF] against certain assets both in Lebanon and in the United States in what is seen as the US government’s latest attack on Hezbollah, the Lebanese Shia...
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We must stop this corporate takeover of American...
David Koch and Charles G Koch: the US supreme court’s Citizens United decision has enabled the industrialists to fund conservative groups to the tune of $200m already in this electoral cycle. Photograph: Getty
The corporate barbarians are through the gate of American democracy. Not satisfied with their all-pervasive influence on our culture, economy and legislative processes, they want...
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Jewish Columnist says he deeply regrets writing a... →