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 | | World Focus: White Citizenship
Friday, August 06 @ 13:01:04 AST |  What "We Want Our Country Back" Really Means
By Margaret Kimberley
August 06, 2010 - blackagendareport.com
The founding fathers made one thing perfectly clear when they ratified the constitution in 1787. Full citizenship rights were meant only for white men of property. Over a period of nearly 200 years, people’s movements guaranteed that those rights were extended to everyone regardless of race or gender, but the fact that the struggle literally took centuries should not be forgotten. It is tempting to snicker at the sight of today’s Tea Party members, grown men wearing knee breeches and three-cornered hats. Yet their costumes tell an important tale. They evoke an era still seen as the high water mark of American society, the days of the enslavement of one race and the extermination of another. This movement has captured the Republican Party outright and leaves even some Democratic politicians and pundits in a state of fear and/or awe.
The pull of that early history is ever present for many white Americans. No matter the degree of progress made, the adherence to the evils of America’s early days are never far from the surface. Simply put, there are too many brown faces for the liking of a majority of white people. Even the president has a brown face. His very presence has been a shock to the country’s system and to the mythology which says that only white people are truly American.
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World Focus: What more does it take to waken the US workers from their state of self-denial?
Thursday, August 05 @ 14:01:16 AST | By Franz J. T. Lee
August 05, 2010
In the 'Project for a New American Century' and many other
military-strategic documents available for public insight on the
Internet, the elitist warlords of the military-industrial complex have
told the world what globalization, 'full spectrum dominance' and
'military humanism' are all about. Global think tanks like the 'Club of
Rome' and the de facto 'One
World Elite Parliament', better known as the 'Bilderberg Group', have
begun to disclose their ultimate purpose which is no less than the
construction of a 'One World Government'.
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World Focus: Oil Leaks in the Gulf of Mexico threatening all Plant, Animal and Human Life
Wednesday, July 21 @ 12:13:42 AST |
By Franz J. T. Lee
July 21, 2010
Millions here in Venezuela and elsewhere do not seem to be informed
about the imminent danger which is facing mankind as a result of the
huge oil leaks in the Gulf of Mexico. It is not a matter of closing a
hole here and there.It is a matter of life or death. Below we will just
indicate the real problem, warn about a possible
extinction of life on planet Earth about a global agony over the next
years and decades.
It is not the first time that the experimentum mundi, the experiment
which Mother Nature
is carrying out with herself, that planetary life is mortally being
threatened by extinction. The bourgeois capitalist mode of destruction
is hell bent on annihilating life, which took millions of years to come
into existence, within two or three centuries. Over billions of years,
many times already
sparks of possible organic life, sensorial certainty and social
consciousness in a myriad
of terrestrial levels, degrees and forms had been in imminent danger of
partial or total extinction due to sudden natural changes in the
climate and other structural processes in the solar environment as a
result of cosmic causes, tendencies and latencies. Surely
at the dawn of humanity, Proconsul africanus, our ancient forefather,
who had lived some 30 000
000 years ago on the 'Dark Continent' did not experience the last fatal
cataclysm which
destroyed over 90% of earthly life. He, and she, as intrinsic creations
of Mother Nature had a simple natural death, a transmutation, which
lasted hundred thousands of years, to other
spheres, other worlds. other transgalactic realities. Unfortunately,
one of the
successors of Ancient Man is ruling class homo
homini lupus, the real discoverer of labor, of merciless
economic exploitation of nature and society.
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World Focus: Learning from Iran
Saturday, July 17 @ 02:29:24 AST |  By Ralph Nader
July 16, 2010 - CommonDreams.org
An article in the current issue of the AARP Bulletin is likely to get a “What’s this?” reaction from many of its millions of readers. It is titled “Iranian Cure for the Delta’s Blues,” with the eye-opening subtitles: “Mississippi Looks to Iran’s health care system”” “That model has improved health dramatically”; “Will it travel well to Baptist Town?”
The media has painted Iran as a backward third world country of 72 million people, who have little to teach us. Presidents Bush and Obama further a narrow view of Iran by looking at it through a military lens. Iranians do suffer from a lack of freedom of expression and widespread human rights abuses.
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World Focus: Some Thoughts on "Patriotism" Written on July 4th
Wednesday, July 07 @ 13:41:55 AST |  By William Blum
July 07, 2010 - killinghope.org
Most important thought: I'm sick and tired of this thing called "patriotism".
The Japanese pilots who bombed Pearl Harbor were being patriotic. The German people who supported Hitler and his conquests were being patriotic, fighting for the Fatherland. All the Latin American military dictators who overthrew democratically-elected governments and routinely tortured people were being patriotic — saving their beloved country from "communism".
General Augusto Pinochet of Chile, mass murderer and torturer: "I would like to be remembered as a man who served his country."
P.W. Botha, former president of apartheid South Africa: "I am not going to repent. I am not going to ask for favours. What I did, I did for my country."
Pol Pot, mass murderer of Cambodia: "I want you to know that everything I did, I did for my country."
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World Focus: Barack Obama: Are we moving from the Slave to the Nuclear Holocaust?
Saturday, July 03 @ 22:58:15 AST | 
How many
hundred millions of precious lives will World War III devour in its oil
Moloch?
By Franz J. T. Lee
July 03, 2010
In Venezuela we are seriously studying the latest reflections and
warnings of Fidel Castro. We are asking whether we are moving from the
catastrophic oil leaks in the Gulf of Mexico to the nuclear broil, to
the Nuclear Holocaust in the Middle East, to the next World War.
In all these capitalist developments, Karl Marx had the first
theoretical word, will the world proletariat have the last praxical
word? At last, are the global workers wakening up from their slumber?
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World Focus: Killing Children: From Ghazi to Detroit
Friday, May 28 @ 03:03:22 AST |  By Ron Jacobs
May 26, 2010 - counterpunch.org
In Iraq, the news that families were having the doors to their houses kicked in by heavily armed US forces who then proceeded to awaken everybody in the house, overturn their bedding and other belongings and arrest the household's menfolk became commonplace for several years following the US invasion of that country. All too often, women and children were killed by US troops during these raids.
In Afghanistan, a similar scenario continues with daily raids of houses and businesses being conducted by US forces in that country. The scene usually unfolds with a kicked in door and several uniformed soldiers entering the house with their weaponry ready to fire. Occasionally, a concussion grenade is thrown first while helicopter gunships hover noisily overhead. Sometimes the soldiers' guns are already blazing when they enter. All too often children end up dead or wounded.
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World Focus: Terminally Dumb People
Friday, May 14 @ 10:48:35 AST | The Anti-Empire Report
By William Blum
May 14, 2010 - killinghope.org
Terminally-dumb people have always been with us of, course. It can't be that we've suddenly gone stupid.
If you shake your head and roll your eyes at the nonsense coming out of the Teaparty followers of Sarah "Africa is a country" Palin and other intellectual giants like Glenn Beck and Rush Limbaugh … If you have thoughts of moving abroad after the latest silly lies and fantasies like "Obama the Marxist" and "Obama the antichrist" … If you share Noam Chomsky's feeling: "I have never seen anything like this in my lifetime" … keep in mind that the right wing has long been at least as stupid and as mean-spirited. Consider some of the behavior of the same types for half a century during the Cold War with its beloved — albeit imaginary — "International Communist Conspiracy".
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World Focus: 'Solar Radiation Management' or Manhattan Project 2.0?
Monday, April 12 @ 22:43:38 AST |
'Solar
Radiation Management' or Manhattan Project 2.0?
By
Jutta Schmitt
April 12, 2010
Shielding Electronics
from Electromagnetic Pulses
Every
technology
on the market today is based on alternating current
technologies in relation with semiconductor technologies and if these
were seriously threatened this would mean, in the final analysis, that
everything
that we nowadays need to live, work and recreate ourselves, could be
destroyed. --
Uwe Behnken
It's
intriguing. Just barely a week after the Asilomar Conference on Climate
Intervention Technologies had taken place in Pacific Grove, California,
we heard honorable knights for the defense of global climate integrity,
such as the American Enterprise Institute's Resident Fellow and Co
director of the AEI Geoengineering Project Lee Lane, advocate a
global imposition of geoengineering technologies on behalf of the
advanced, industrialized states of the world in the firm
conviction, that "geoengineering experiments shouldn't require
global agreement“,
because these would in any case be guided by the shining light of the
government of the United States and its noble constitutional obligation
to promote the welfare of the American people. This is how Lane evokes
'American national interest', this magic, self-sufficient concept that
justifies the use of any means in order to obtain, that is, impose the
desired objective. (1)
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World Focus: The Looming Trade War With China
Sunday, March 28 @ 02:42:35 AST | By Mike Whitney
March 28, 2010 - counterpunch.org
A war of words has broken out between China and the United States and the pundits are predicting that it will end in a full-blown trade war. The Obama administration thinks that China is manipulating its currency to gain an unfair trade advantage and increase its exports. China's Premier Wen Jiabao's adamantly denies the charge. "I do not think the renminbi is undervalued" he says. "And we are opposed to countries pointing fingers at each other or taking strong measures to force other countries to appreciate their currencies....If the United States uses the exchange rate to start a new trade war, China will be hurt. But the American people and US companies will be hurt even more."
President Obama has tried a number of things to get China to break the dollar-link and let its currency appreciate, but, so far, nothing has worked. The president met with Tibet's Dalai Lama, in an attempt to publicly embarrass Premier Wen so that he'd rethink his exchange-rate policy. But the meeting only angered China and further strained relations between the two trade giants. The administration also announced plans to sell high-tech weapons to Taiwan, knowing the transaction would ruffle feathers in Beijing. China threatened to retaliate, but refused to budge on the central issue.
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World Focus: Quo Vadis, Africa? Some historic Reflections about a truncated Future
Wednesday, March 10 @ 17:50:03 AST |  Quo Vadis, Africa? Some historic Reflections about a truncated Future
By: Franz J. T. Lee
March 10, 2010
"Ex Africa semper aliquid novi"
(Gaius Plinius Secundus (23 - 79)
"If the American people knew what we have done, they would string us up from the lamp posts."
George H. W. Bush (Daddy Bush) 2/07/06
An article I wrote half a decade ago and which was published by VHeadline on April 3, 2005, "Kwame Nkrumah: The dark face of the Bolivarian Revolution" has, over the years, brought about vivid discussions, with reference to the future of the natural and social resources of the African and American continents, to their respective peoples and therewith to humanity as a whole.
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World Focus: A dirty war in Aden: Britain’s role in Yemen’s history
Friday, January 15 @ 06:24:26 AST |  British forces killed hundreds in their war for the port of Aden, in today’s South Yemen. Western interference continues today causing bloodshed and division as Yemen becomes the new front in the ‘war on terror’, writes John Newsinger
January 12, 2010 - socialistworker.co.uk
The fact that the US has allowed Gordon Brown to host a summit on 28 January about the supposed threat that Yemen poses to the world is obviously of immense satisfaction to the New Labour government.
This, after all, is what 108 British soldiers died for in Afghanistan in 2009 – so that these little marks of favour could be bestowed on our rulers.
The rest of us, however, should be deeply concerned about the opening of another front in the so-called “war on terror”. And, of course, we have been here before.
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World Focus: The Anti-Empire Report: The American Elite
Friday, January 08 @ 06:30:42 AST |  By William Blum
January 6th, 2010 - killinghope.org
Lincoln Gordon died a few weeks ago at the age of 96. He had graduated summa cum laude from Harvard at the age of 19, received a doctorate from Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar, published his first book at 22, with dozens more to follow on government, economics, and foreign policy in Europe and Latin America. He joined the Harvard faculty at 23. Dr. Gordon was an executive on the War Production Board during World War II, a top administrator of Marshall Plan programs in postwar Europe, ambassador to Brazil, held other high positions at the State Department and the White House, a fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, economist at the Brookings Institution, president of Johns Hopkins University. President Lyndon B. Johnson praised Gordon's diplomatic service as "a rare combination of experience, idealism and practical judgment".
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World Focus: The US and China: One Side is Losing, the Other is Winning
Monday, January 04 @ 03:50:10 AST |  By James Petras
January 3rd, 2010 - lahaine.org
Asian capitalism, notably China and South Korea are competing with the US for global power. Asian global power is driven by dynamic economic growth, while the US pursues a strategy of military-driven empire building.
One Day’s Read of the Financial Times
Even a cursory read of a single issue of the Financial Times (December 28, 2009) illustrates the divergent strategies toward empire building. On page one, the lead article on the US is on its expanding military conflicts and its ‘war on terror’, entitled “Obama Demands Review of Terror List.” In contrast, there are two page-one articles on China, which describe China’s launching of the world’s fastest long-distance passenger train service and China’s decision to maintain its currency pegged to the US dollar as a mechanism to promote its robust export sector. While Obama turns the US focus on a fourth battle front (Yemen) in the ‘war on terror’ (after Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan), the Financial Times reports on the same page that a South Korean consortium has won a $20.4 billion dollar contract to develop civilian nuclear power plants for the United Arab Emirates, beating its US and European competitors.
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World Focus: 'Dubai dream' is over as the bubble bursts
Monday, December 07 @ 17:48:22 AST |  By Simon Assaf
December 01, 2009 - socialistworker.co.uk
Dubai, the once-gleaming playground of the rich, has become the latest victim of the global financial chaos. Its powerful investment arm, Dubai World, is close to bankruptcy, and its fate dependent on the largess of other Arab governments.
The emirate of Dubai is part of a federation of seven small monarchies that make up the United Arab Emirates (UAE). These grew rich on oil and gas dollars.
But unlike its neighbours, Dubai’s oil soon ran out. So its “visionary” ruler set out to turn the desert kingdom into the financial hub of the Middle East and a global financial player—with investments that include the giant Thames Gateway port in Britain.
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