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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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Africa Focus: Oil Leaks in the Gulf of Mexico & Niger Delta: Double Standard World Racism
Tuesday, June 01 @ 03:28:17 AST |
By Franz J. T. Lee
June 01, 2010
We are on our way to post-apartheid South Africa, to enjoy the latest
pan et circenses, the World Cup, but will the cup of the Niger Delta
also pass us by, cross our way?
Once more we witness that racism is an integral element of
international relations, an ideological reflex of the corporate
imperialist world market. Again the class interests of millions of
exploited and dominated African wage slaves who are vegetating in dire
poverty simply do not figure in breaking news of the international mass
media. Few people know that Africa, specifically Nigeria, is the number
one supplier of excellent fine crude oil to the USA. Nigeria has over
600 oilfields which produce 40% of the total oil imports of Washington
D.C. One would imagine that the White House would know what is
happening in Black Africa, in the Niger Delta where the black gold
freely flows; that this delta is the world capital of oil leaks,
spills, multinational criminality and pollution of Mother Nature, of
Africa.
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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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Latin America: Messing with Disaster: Conference on Climate Intervention Technologies
Sunday, March 28 @ 02:38:58 AST |
By Jutta Schmitt
March 28, 2010
This week, from
March 22nd to March 26th, the 'Asilomar* International
Conference on Climate Intervention Technologies', hosted by the Climate
Response Fund, is taking place in Pacific Grove, California-USA, where
scientists discuss possible means to counter-balance climate change and
its impacts. The kind of measures proposed to mitigate climate change
pertain to the realm of geo-engineering and climate intervention
techniques, and are outlined in the Conference's working agenda.(1)
The agenda
itself can best be described as an array of proposals for
'disaster management', aimed at 'moderating' global climate change.
Listed among the various physical science aspects of climate
intervention are experiments related to Solar Radiance Engineering,
which respond to 'Solar Radiation Management' or the 'management of
climate change in the stratosphere and above', which test 'the
potential for aerosols in the troposphere or stratosphere to limit
incoming solar radiation'. Under the specific approaches for Solar
Radiation Management figure the stratospheric injection of sulfate or
other materials with global or regional coverage, satellite deflection
of solar radiation, cloud brightening on a global or regional scale by
sea salt or dimethyl sulfide (DMS) injection, 'ocean brightening' as
another means to deflect solar radiation, arctic intervention and
specific regional intervention relating to hurricane modification and
redirection of storms, among others.
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Inside U.S.A.: The Right, the Left and the Ugly: Fear and Loathing in White America
Friday, March 12 @ 12:26:30 AST | By BAR executive editor Glen Ford
March 12, 2010 - blackagendareport.com
"Are we witnessing a left-right convergence – or two fundamentally opposed camps intersecting at a certain point in time on the way to very different destinations?"
When President George Bush and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi first, unsuccessfully, attempted to ram a bank bailout bill through the U.S. House in late September 2008, only one-third of Republicans and three-fifths of Democrats voted for the measure. The Congressional Black Caucus was opposed, 21 to 18, with the more progressive CBC members mostly voting No. Former presidential candidate Rep. Dennis Kucinich asked, "Is this the U.S. Congress or the board of directors at Goldman Sachs?" Two-thirds of the GOP Caucus bucked their president.
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War and Terror: Budgets, War and Blind Ambition: The Limited Minds of the American Elite
Monday, February 08 @ 19:52:59 AST | By Chris Floyd
February 08, 2010 - chris-floyd.com
The American elite's unbounded, unquestioned, indeed unconscious sense of imperial entitlement and dominance -- based ultimately on war, the threat of war and the profit from war -- is one of the defining characteristics of our age. And if you would like to see a glaring example of this attitude in action, look no further than the front page of Tuesday's New York Times, where one David Sanger gives us his penetrating "news analysis" of the Administration's just-announced $3.8 trillion budget.
Sanger focuses on the huge, continuing deficits that the budget forecasts over the next decade. Completely ignoring the plain truth that his own expert source tell him later in the story -- that "forecasts 10 years out have no credibility" -- Sanger boldly plunges forward to tell us just what it all means. You will not be surprised to hear that the upshot of these big deficits is that neither Obama nor his successors will be able to spend any money on "new domestic initiatives" for years to come. But let's let Sanger, savant and seer, tell it in his own words:
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Latin America: Washington Alters U.S. Air Force Document on Accord with Colombia
Monday, November 30 @ 06:30:20 AST | Washington Alters U.S. Air Force Document to Hide Intentions Behind Military Accord with Colombia
By Eva Golinger
November 27, 2009 - venezuelanalysis.com
In an explicit attempt to hide Washington's military objectives in South America, a U.S. Air Force document submitted to Congress in May 2009 that provoked deep concerns in the region has been modified and re-published on November 16, 2009. The official U.S. Air Force document, revealed and denounced by this author on November 4th, explained the justification for a $46 million request to improve the military installations in one of the seven bases Washington will occupy under the military accord signed on October 30th between Colombia and the United States. The modified document has eliminated all mention of war and military operations in the region, as well as offensive language directed at Colombia's neighbors, Venezuela and Ecuador. Nevertheless, Washington's intentions remain the same.
The original Air Force document dated May 2009 outlined the importance of the military base in Palanquero, Colombia to enable "full spectrum military operations" in South America. The original military document also detailed the necessity of investing $46 million to improve the airfield, ramps and other essential installations on the base, converting it into a Cooperative Security Location (CSL) for U.S. military missions in the region.
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Inside U.S.A.: How I Stopped Hating Thanksgiving and Learned to Be Afraid
Monday, November 16 @ 03:36:32 AST | By Robert Jensen
November 15, 2009 - dissidentvoice.org
I have stopped hating Thanksgiving and learned to be afraid of the holiday.
Over the past few years a growing number of white people have joined the longstanding indigenous people’s critique of the holocaust denial that is at the heart of the Thanksgiving holiday. In two recent essays, I have examined the disturbing nature of a holiday rooted in a celebration of the European conquest of the Americas, which means the celebration of the Europeans’ genocidal campaign against Indigenous people that is central to the creation of the United States.
Many similar pieces have been published in predominantly white left/progressive media, while indigenous people continue to mark the holiday as a “National Day of Mourning.”
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War and Terror: U.S. imperialism: Hidden in plain sight
Saturday, August 22 @ 11:13:55 AST | By Stephen Gowans
August 22, 2009 - gowans.wordpress.com
The dominant U.S. approach to exercising influence over people in foreign countries is to operate through locals who are committed to U.S. imperialist values or fiercely oppose U.S. enemies. Locals, whether rulers, politicians, military officers, journalists, scholars or activists, are provided with opportunities, funding, training, equipment and support in exchange for assuming leadership roles on behalf of U.S. interests or against U.S. targets. The sine qua non of the paradigm is the appearance of independence. While locals may express admiration and support for U.S. positions, their own pro-U.S. stances, or opposition to U.S. enemies, are to be understood to have been arrived at independently. And, in many, if not most, cases, this is true. Locals who assume leadership roles on behalf of U.S. interests are often educated or trained in the United States, where they have absorbed pro-imperialist values. At the same time, the ubiquitous U.S. mass media convey pro-imperialist values to locals who haven't been educated in the imperial nerve center. And some may, for their own (often class) reasons, be passionate opponents of individuals, groups or movements the United States government would like to eliminate. What matters is not how pro-U.S. positions, or anti-U.S.-enemy passions, are arrived at, only that some locals have them and that U.S. funding and support provide them with a platform to influence the political, military and informational landscape of their home country.
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Inside U.S.A.: Is Barack Obama steering a healthy ship out of turbulent titanic global waters?
Thursday, August 20 @ 00:12:43 AST | By: Franz J. T. Lee
August 20, 2009
Is the
capitalist world economic crisis over? Are we coming to grips
with the
financial scandal and banking fiasco? Have we saved world
capitalism
and can we now peacefully get down to big business, to big wars
again?
Although lately.
very little was reported from Wall Street, are its 'Crash, Crack
and
Slump' really just nightmares of the remote past?
Is US President
Barack Obama steering a healthy ship of State out of the
turbulent
titanic waters of the Bermuda Triangle? When will the 'Obamania'
stop
... when will we see imperialism as a global reality?
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War and Terror: Panetta Seeks to Whitewash CIA Crimes
Thursday, August 06 @ 18:07:58 AST | By Sherwood Ross
August 06, 2009
CIA Director Leon Panetta's article titled "It's Time To Move On" published in the August 4th Miami Herald is a stunning disservice to the principles of justice. It not only calls for whitewashing the Agency's past horrific crimes, which have included torture and murder, but openly advocates the use of force and violence. Panetta writes, "the focus on the past, especially in Congress, threatens to distract the CIA from its crucial core missions: intelligence collection, analysis and covert action." In CIA lingo, "covert action" has always meant dirty tricks, from blackmailing to assassinating foreign leaders, and from pouring bribe money to influence elections to overthrowing governments. Covert action is not your church Tuesday night bingo party. And these criminal acts are invariably performed in sneaky secret because if the American people learned of them they would never tolerate the spy agency's cruelty and tax waste. Besides, some CIA crimes could make you puke.
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