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FREEDOM RIDER: Dangerous Progressives

Most Americans believe their country is a benevolent and beloved force in the world. That belief is so deeply ingrained that even political progressives are rarely different in upholding this awful dogma. They are as likely as self-identified conservatives to support the government when it asserts a right to interfere with foreign governments, to occupy their nations, or to kill human beings on any pretext deemed necessary by the United States.

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US House passes Obama administration’s carbon trading legislation

The new American Clean Energy Act: Exposing the fraudulence of centrist “solutions” to systemic problems. By Patrick O’Connor / The World Socialist Web Site29 June 2009 RELATED (SEE BELOW) Dennis Kucinich: “Why I voted No. Passing a weak bill today gives us weak environmental policy tomorrow”— Zionlib Henry A. Waxman (D-Calif.) serves as House Energy Committee chair.  He [...]

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  Michael Jackson dies of Amurrika at 50

  Created 06/30/2009 - 10:57

  By BAR columnist michael hureaux perez

  The King of Pop is dead, and “you can hear the scavengers gnawing on bones all the way to the bank from any vantage point where you stand.” Michael Jackson succumbed to a peculiar Amurridan syndrome: TMTS, Too Much Too Soon. “In United States capitalist culture, performing artists have to deal with a public pillorying that actually ought to be reserved for the war criminals and thieves who have always run and owned this society.”

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• THE DARFUR "GENOCIDE" GRADUALLY EXPOSED AS A PROPAGANDA PLOY

  By Black Agenda Report (BAR) managing editor Bruce A. Dixon

  For more than five years, the Save Darfur Coalition has used a slick and star-studded multimillion dollar ad campaign to paint a horrific vision of 400,000 dead in a black vs Arab war of extermination. No historic or political causes are offered for this scenario; it's genocide a case of good vs. evil demanding our attention and action. But the big lies underpinning the Save Darfur campaign are coming undone. Reporters, scholars and even US envoys are returning from the region affirming that if there ever was a genocide in Darfur, and there may not have been, there isn't one now. The British government has even ruled that Save Darfur cannot, in that country, use the figure of 400,000 dead which it throws around in all its US advertisements, cause it just ain't true. (more...)

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• PRIVATIZATION, CHARTERS, MASS FIRINGS—Is this what we voted for?

  Created 07/01/2009 - 10:01

  By BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon

  Last weekend in Chicago, US Secretary of Education Arne Duncan delivered the keynote address at Rainbow PUSH's annual conference and education roundtable.  Duncan is the premiere executor of corporate inspired policies that have closed dozens of neighborhood public schools in Chicago without substantially improving educational outcomes and at vast cost to neighborhood stability and the careers of hundreds of good teachers.  But are African American organizations standing up for their own interests, for public education?  Or are we paralyzed because the corporate policies issue from the administration of a Black President? (more...)

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• GIVING HONDURAS THE HAITI TREATMENT // BY GLEN FORD, BLACK AGENDA REPORT

  Created 06/30/2009 - 22:51

  A Black Agenda Radio Commentary by Glen Ford

  (If you want to listen instead of read, click HERE)

  

  President Zelaya with George W Bush in 2006, when the empire still looked upon him with benign eyes.

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  President Obama has joined all of Latin America in denouncing the coup in Honduras. But Washington's words should always be taken “with whole spoonfuls of salt.” Obama could restore democracy to Haiti immediately, if he chose to, by allowing the return of deposed President Jean-Bertrand Aristide, but instead shuts Aristide's party out of recent Senatorial elections. President Zalaya “was aligning himself with Venezuela, Nicaragua, El Salvador and other left-led nations.... It is inconceivable that the U.S. looks forward” to his return. (more...)

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• BREAKTHROUGH ON A CRITICAL FRONT: JEWS CONFRONT ZIONISM

  

  Prominent rich American Jews like NYC's mayor Bloomberg, or the scions to the Seagram's fortune (the Bronfmans), constitute a tiny percentage of Jewish opinion, but it's the only one receiving constant and ubiquitous attention throughout the corporate media (which many of them own outright, too, as is the case with Murdoch's News Corp; Suzlberger's New York Times; or Sumner Redstone's Viacom/CBS, previously owned by another Jewish media baron, Bill Paley.)

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  JEWISH DETERMINED, OFTEN HEROIC, OPPOSITION TO ZIONISM, HAS BEEN one of the casualties in the propaganda wars surrounding all reporting about Israel and the Middle East in general.  A large number of rightwing sects, Nazis, and professional anti-semites have had a field day exploiting this truth vacuum, so it's welcome news to see Jewish voices finally breaking through.  Their value on the Palestinian issue cannot be overestimated.

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