...........Washington the world is watching. "The only thing worth globalizing is dissent."
- Arundhati Roy.
"When the people fear the government there is tyranny, when the government fears the people there is liberty." - Thomas Jefferson
"I sure as hell wouldn't want to live in a society where the only people allowed guns are the police and the military." - William S. Burroughs
"Intelligent discontent is the mainspring of civilization." - Eugene Victor Debs
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Obama's credibility - and that of his critics - Serge Halimi
Less than six months ago, the US was described as a phoenix risen from the ashes, with an economic recovery, independent energy resources, dominant IT multinationals and a renascent car industry. Now it is an empire in decline, brought down by the indecisive conduct of President Barack Obama . That's according to the chattering classes. They have made talking about "the strange weakness of America" a minor industry. They claim Obama damaged US credibility over Syria by not launching yet (...)Translated by Barbara Wilson
Flow of Refugees Destabilizes Lebanon
The war in Syria and its wave of refugees is destabilizing and overwhelming Lebanon. Now there are fears the hundreds of thousands of newcomers will never want to leave, and the sectarian conflict will worsen.
Today, Wall Street executives are visiting the White House as friends to give advice on the government shutdown. Five years ago on this day, they were visiting Washington to get billion-dollar bailouts. A panel of experts including former FDIC chair Sheila Bair and others weigh in on the government program that bailed out US banks with taxpayer dollars amid the 2008 crisis: http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/sep/05/nsa-gchq-encryption-codes-security
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1 October 2013
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As one of the few nations in the world with a GMO-free platform, Russia
does not allow any cultivation of GMOs for commercial purposes. Their
regulatory agencies recently suspended the import and use of an American
GM corn following a study suggesting a link to breast cancer and organ
damage. The Russian Prime Minister has now ordered the same agencies to
consider a possible ban on all GMO imports into Russia.The Russian Federal Environmental Assessment Commission has not adopted any commercialized GM varieties for agricultural use.
The recent decision by the Russians to suspend authorisation for American GM corn threatens to trigger a transatlantic commercial and diplomatic row.
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The United States of America was built on a foundation of genocide
against the Indigenous peoples of North America. In fact, all successful
settler colonial societies are founded in genocide. The process is one
of dispossession – the erasure of one group identity and the imposition
of another on the people and/or on the land.
But genocide is not merely the
foundation of the US nation state, it is also the foundation of the US
empire. The US habit of genocide has not died, but has transformed. The
US has become a serial perpetrator of genocide with the blood of many
millions of innocents spilled in pursuit of imperial hegemony.
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since March 2003, there's a great deal more vagueness. "
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Israeli
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his spy agency should be collecting all Americans' phone records. Gen.
Alexander, admitted that he "believe[s] it is in the nation's best
interest to put all the phone records into a lockbox that we can search
when the nation needs it."
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years, potentially putting up to 1 million workers on unpaid leave,
closing national parks and stalling medical research projects.
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Countdown to US default looms - A halt of US government operations
would drag the world's biggest economy closer to bankruptcy, something
unprecedented in US history. If no budget deal is done, the US would
bump up against their "debt ceiling" and run out of money by October 17
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how former students are buckling under higher-education costs in a weak
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Militarization creep: Texas cops get army tanks :
There's
little political will to contain the increasing militarization of
police, the sees Robocop-style SWAT teams with army vehicles
increasingly become the norm for domestic policing:
How Cops Became Soldiers:
It won't be long before we see pro-militarization lobbying and pressure groups. Say hello to the police-industrial complex.
Country Club Politics: How McCutcheon v. FEC Could Tee Up Elite Donors for More Influence:
On
October 8th, the United States Supreme Court will hear oral arguments
in a case that could take a political system already centered on big
money and put power even further into the hands of Wall Street bankers,
billionaires, and K Street lobbyists.
