Happy Independence Day; You Have No Government By Carolyn Baker

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By Carolyn Baker
Speaking Truth to Power
July 02, 2007

Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere;
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.
Surely, some revelation is at hand;
Surely the Second Coming is at hand.
The Second Coming! Hardly are those words out
When a vast image out of Spiritus Mundi
Troubles my sight; somewhere in the sands of the desert
As shape with a lion body and the head of a man,
A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun,
Is moving its slow thighs, while all about it
Reel shadows of the indignant desert birds.
The darkness drops again; but now I know
That twenty centuries of stony sleep
Were vexed to nightmare by rocking cradle,
And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,
Slouches toward Bethlehem to be born?

- William Butler Yeats

As this article is being written the world is entranced with terrorist attacks in the United Kingdom, and U.S. residents are stocking up on beer and barbecue for the most sacrosanct of all American holidays. Barefoot children are running through sprinklers and reveling in backyard swimming pools. Fireflies flicker through muggy Midwest nights, and urban jungles swelter in a sultry aura of crime and poverty. But whether in the McMansions of Florida bedroom communities or locked in the suffocating despair of Chicago’s Cabrini Green, everyone knows—everyone feels it, but no one is talking about “it.” That “it”, that “something” is why depression is rampant, and why Americans are so sleep-deprived. That “something” can’t be fixed with a new mattress or more Tylenol PM, and when long nights of fitful or no sleep turn into another workday, the American way is to rise and shine into frenetic workaholism and ten thousand other distractions so that no one has to think or talk about “it”.

William Engdahl: Full Spectrum Dominance and the NWO

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TheRealNews
July 05, 2009

Pt 1 William Engdahl on his book Full Spectrum Dominance: Totalitarian Democracy in the New World Order

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“Full Spectrum Dominance: Totalitarian Democracy in the New World Order” by Stephen Lendman

The Economy Sucks and or Collapse 2

The Crooks Get Cash While the Poor Get Screwed by Chris Hedges

by Chris Hedges
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Truthdig
July 6, 2009

Tearyan Brown became a father when he was 16. He did what a lot of inner-city kids desperate to make money do. He sold drugs. He was arrested and sent to jail three years later for dealing marijuana and PCP on the streets of Trenton, N.J., mostly to white kids driving in from the suburbs. It was a job which saw him robbed at gunpoint and stabbed in the chest. But it made him about $1,400 a week.

Brown, when he got out after three and a half years, was done with street life. He got a job as a security guard and then as a fork lift operator. He eventually made about $30,000 a year. He shepherded his son through high school, then college and a master’s degree. His boy, now 24, is a high school teacher in Texas. Brown would not leave the streets of Trenton but his son would. It made him proud. It gave him hope.

One killed in Honduras, Zelaya landed in El Salvador + Honduras under siege

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PressTV
Mon, 06 Jul 2009 P06:58:07 GMT

At least one person has been killed and several others injured in clashes between Honduran soldiers and supporters of deposed President Manuel Zelaya.

Thousands of pro-Zelaya supporters gathered outside Tegucigalpa’s airport to welcome the ousted leader while the military did not allow his jet to land in Honduras.

After a short landing in Nicaragua, Zelaya went to El Salvador late Sunday for talks with the head of the Organization of American States and other regional leaders.

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via One killed in Honduras, Zelaya landed in El Salvador

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Honduras under siege

McKinney released, returning to U.S. + Palestine, the world’s largest open air prison

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By RHONDA COOK, LARRY HARTSTEIN
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Sunday, July 05, 2009

Cynthia McKinney’s mom said she’s learned that her daughter is on the way home.

Leola McKinney said a friend who contacted the U.S. Embassy in Israel reported that the former congresswoman was released from Israeli custody and taken to Ben Gurion International Airport.

“We finally got word that she was released,” Leola McKinney said late Sunday afternoon. “We don’t know what time she is supposed to fly out. All we know is that they took her to the airport.

“I would be more relieved when I know she’s on the flight,” Leola McKinney added. “But I am relieved that she’s away from there.”

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via McKinney released, returning to United States | ajc.com.

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Palestine, the world’s largest open air prison

gazafriends
July 05, 2009

We are NOT the Story, Its Not Just Our 21 Kidnapped Passengers.
Palestine, the world’s largest openair prison- episode 5

The kidnapping of 21 international human rights workers attempting to deliver needed aid to a besieged people is an outrage, but it is hardly an isolated one.

Since its founding in 1948 the State of Israel has regularly kidnapped and tortured Palestinians, throwing them into forgotten prisons where they can languish for years. Today, over 11,000 Palestinian political prisoners without benefit of due process, some never even charged – men, women, and children endure torture and isolation in Israeli jails, outdoor prison camps, and secret black sites. They come from all walks of life: doctors, journalists, parliamentarians, workers, resistance fighters, homemakers, students and others. They are our sisters and brothers.

From the first night, the Free Gaza 21 have been busy trying to get news out of the prison about the illegality of Israel’s actions in relation to themselves and the other inmates inside Ramle Prison who have no voice.

Palestine, the world’s largest open air prison are 5 episodes videos showing the actual prison like situation of Palestine. Edited by the Free Gaza Movement are available in ENGLISH ITALIAN FRENCH and SPANISH. PLEASE SEE PLAYLISTS TITLED IN THE ORIGINAL LANGUAGE.

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‘Freegaza21′ deportees to arrive at Heathrow 13.30 hours Monday 6th July’

Written by Free Gaza Movement
Freegaza
Monday, 06 July 2009 07:29

On Sunday 5th July the six British crew and passengers of the Spirit of Humanity were moved to detention cells at Ben Gurion Airport, following a court hearing at which the orders for their deportation from Israel were made. The captain of the Spirit, Denis Healey, and the other five British human rights activists, are expected to be put on El Al flight LY315, from Tel Aviv, tomorrow, Monday 6th July 2009, due to arrive at Terminal One, Heathrow at 13.30 p.m.

Press are invited to meet the six deported British passengers of the Free Gaza boat: today at Terminal One: Arriving at Heathrow at 13.35 hours.

Press conference: 16.00 (4 p.m.)- Today, 6th July at the Renaissance Hotel, Bath Rd. Heathrow TW6 2AQ

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Report from the Kidnapped Passengers in Ramle Prison + McKinney Relocated from Israeli Prison

Media Silence on Israeli Hijacking of Aid Boat By Jeremy R. Hammond

Cynthia McKinney and 3 of the Gaza 21 July 4 prison call

Another Example of U.S. Censorship of Mainstream Media By Timothy V. Gatto

Spirit of Humanity Free Gaza 21

Pres. Zelaya Calls for Non-Violent Demonstrations

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Full text translation to English of the Statement of President Manuel Zelaya, issued July 4
July 04, 2009 “Information Clearing House“

Compañeros and compañeras, fellow Hondurans, your president, Manuel Zelaya Rosales, speaks to you. I want to tell you that my destiny is tied to the destiny of the Honduran people. On the morning of June 28, while I was preparing to exercise my vote in a nationwide survey, I was the victim of assaults, abuses, violations and kidnapping, I was taken captive and expelled from my country by Honduran military forces. By these military forces that today have put themselves in the service of and in complicity with the voracious elite that squeezes and asphyxiates our people, obeying their orders and not defending our nation or our democracy. This is a blow to the Honduran nation and has made clear to the world that in Honduras there is still a kind of barbarity, and people who are unaware of the harm they cause to our country and to future generations.

Through these means of communication, I call for you to continue the participation of the people. The people are the principle actors of our democracy and of the solutions that must be found to the grave problems of poverty and inequality in our country.

Biden: US won’t stop Israel attack on Iran + transcript

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Propaganda Alert!

Idemandrightforlall
July 05, 2009

Vice-President Joe Biden told ABCs This Week on Sunday that the US wouldn’t stand in the way of Israel if they decided Iran was an existential threat.

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Preview of Cindy Sheehan’s Book: Myth America

Preview of  Cindy Sheehan’s Book, Myth America
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Cindy Sheehan’s Soapbox Blog
Cindy Sheehan’s Soapbox
July 5, 2009

oshuagsmith
June 18, 2009

Cindy Sheehan’s new book MYTH AMERICA (PDF e-book deliverable via e-mail) is available for order at www.cindysheehanssoapbox.com (for a minimum donation of $10 USD.) Thank you. Peace!

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Happy Co-Dependence Day by Cindy Sheehan

Robber Class v. Robbed Class: What Can We Do? by Cindy Sheehan

Intro to Myth America by Cindy Sheehan

The Economy Sucks and or Collapse 2

Wolf Larsen, Nietzsche and the Titans of Capitalism by Gary Sudborough

by Gary Sudborough
Featured Writer
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5 July 2009

When he was young, Jack London was a very strong man and an oyster pirate on San Francisco bay. He initially believed in might makes right. However, he worked in many different occupations and noticed many strong, decent, hard working men destroyed by accidents, diseases, the fickle hand of fate or the toxic, dangerous and harsh environments of the capitalist’s factories and mines. Jack London became similar to Upton Sinclair, who wrote about the destruction of Jurgis Rudkus’s Lithuanian family in the meat packing plants of Chicago in a book called The Jungle. Jack London, besides writing novels like The Call of The Wild and White Fang, also wrote books critical of his former ideology and of capitalism such as The Sea Wolf and The Iron Heel. Much to his credit, Jack London became a socialist.