Day: April 2, 2009

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Mosaic News – 4/1/09: World News From The Middle East

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“Netanyahu Caps Political Comeback With Premiership,” IBA TV, Israel
“Netanyahu Won’t Work Towards A Two-State Solution,” Al Jazeera TV, Qatar
“Islamic Banking Thrives,” Palestine TV, Ramallah
“Protests Mount On The Eve Of G20 Summit,” Al Arabiya TV, UAE
“Arab-Latin American Leaders Eye Common Goal,” Dubai TV, UAE
“Kuwait Bourse Bans 36 Companies From Trading,” Dubai TV, UAE
“Secular Iraqi Parties Support Maliki,” Alsumaria TV, Iraq
“Pink Taxis For Women in Lebanon,” NBN TV, Lebanon
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Israel: Netanyahu threatens war on Iran, spurns “two-state solution” By Bill Van Auken

The Atlantic, the PresCon and Kremlinology—Did Bibi really say that? By Ron Kampeas

Netanyahu to Obama: Stop Iran—Or I Will by Jeffrey Goldberg

G20 protests rock London’s financial area + G20 What happened

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The Most Successful American President: George W. Bush, Part 3: Goals and Successes By Steven Jonas, MD, MPH

by Steven Jonas, MD, MPH
Featured Writer
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crossposted on TPJmagazine
April 2, 2009

At the end of my column on this subject two weeks ago, I restated my position that “success,” whether in a Presidency or on a Saturday morning errands trip, is to be measured against goals set and the degree to which they have been achieved.  Thus, when one looks at the BushCheney (or CheneyBush — as I have said, your choice) record, is this a “failed Presidency?”  Hardly.  They set out to achieve what I have on more than one occasion termed a “coup d’etat in slow motion.”  BushCheney did not measure success in terms of polls nor subsequent Republican electoral victories (at least so far).  Forget them.  We must look at what they did with the control of the Executive Branch that they had.

Upon gaining the Office of the Presidency Bush man first embraced the powers truly vested in him by the Constitution.  Bush was then little challenged by a very weak opposition.  Further, he was strongly supported for most of the first six years by his lock-step Republican Congress, and ongoing, his in-the-pocket Privatized Ministry of Propaganda.  Together, he used them to create an Office of the Presidency with powers that no reading of the Constitution can possibly support.  That’s success, man.  Let’s review some of the policy specifics.  They are well-known to most readers of TPJ, but we shall review them briefly here anyway.

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The AIG Mess – Made to Order for the GOP by Steven Jonas, MD, MPH

by Steven Jonas, MD, MPH
Featured Writer
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crossposted on Buzzflash.com
April 2, 2009

When I was a boy, back in the 40s and 50s, when the Ringling Brothers, Barnum and Bailey Circus came to my hometown, New York City, every April, it was a big deal. The circus trains would pull into the Sunnyside Yards in Queens and unload their cargo. Then a huge parade was organized, going from the Yards, through the Queens-Midtown tunnel, across 35th Street to 8th Avenue, then north on 8th to the old Madison Square Garden, which occupied the full block between 8th and 9th Avenues, 49th and 50th Streets. (That Garden was the third building in New York City to have the same name. The first two had actually been located on Madison Square at 26th Street. The present Garden, the fourth, is at 32nd St. and 7th Ave.)

The parade, of course, was lead by the elephants. Every year, of course, there was a huge job afoot (literally) in the cleanup after them by “New York’s Strongest,” the workers of the Sanitation Department.

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Man dies during G20 protests in London (video link; updated again)

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Update 2: April 8, 2009

Update 1: April 5, 2009

by James Meikle, Paul Lewis, Jenny Percival and Sandra Laville
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Israel: Netanyahu threatens war on Iran, spurns “two-state solution” By Bill Van Auken

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By Bill Van Auken
http://www.wsws.org
2 April 2009

Sworn in Tuesday as prime minister in the most right-wing government in Israel’s history, Benjamin Netanyahu threatened a military strike against Iran and signaled a break with the so-called “two-state solution” to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict backed by Washington.

Netanyahu took office at the head of a fractious coalition after weeks of political horse-trading. The February 10 election in Israel gave Netanyahu’s Likud party one less seat in the Knesset than the Kadima party of outgoing Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and Tzipi Livni, the former foreign minister and the party’s candidate. Nonetheless, Netanyahu was tapped to form the government because Likud and other parties on the right of the Israeli political spectrum dominate the Knesset.

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The Atlantic, the PresCon and Kremlinology—Did Bibi really say that? By Ron Kampeas

Netanyahu to Obama: Stop Iran—Or I Will by Jeffrey Goldberg

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The Atlantic, the PresCon and Kremlinology—Did Bibi really say that? By Ron Kampeas

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By Ron Kampeas
JTA
April 1, 2009

In our little self-obsessed community of Jews watching the Middle East, reading the “Daily Alert,” published by the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations, is what passes for Kremlinology.

It purports to be a roundup of news and opinion in the Middle East, but it misses the point often enough, that you have to wonder what the thinking is; the opinions it selected strongly backed the Bush administration’s Iraq adventure, yet it never, as far as I can recall, linked to any of the the flurry of stories in early 2004 that once and for all buried the notion of Saddam holding weapons of mass destruction. Kremlinology: In PresCon world, the weapons are still there.

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Goldberg’s headline  — “Netanyahu to Obama: Stop Iran — or I will” — as well as his lede just don’t stand up. I come out of a wire service tradition and I need to see the quote backing up the lede, pronto, and not only does it not appear high-up, it just never appears.

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via The Atlantic, the PresCon and Kremlinology—Did Bibi really say that? | Capital J | JTA – Jewish & Israel News

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Israel: Netanyahu threatens war on Iran, spurns “two-state solution” By Bill Van Auken

Netanyahu to Obama: Stop Iran—Or I Will by Jeffrey Goldberg

Iran Israel US Nukes

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Netanyahu to Obama: Stop Iran—Or I Will by Jeffrey Goldberg

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by Jeffrey Goldberg
http://www.theatlantic.com
An Atlantic exclusive
March 31, 2009

The message from Israel’s new prime minister is stark: if the Obama administration doesn’t prevent Tehran from developing nuclear weapons, Israel may be forced to attack.

In an interview conducted shortly before he was sworn in today as prime minister of Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu laid down a challenge for Barack Obama. The American president, he said, must stop Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons—and quickly—or an imperiled Israel may be forced to attack Iran’s nuclear facilities itself.

“The Obama presidency has two great missions: fixing the economy, and preventing Iran from gaining nuclear weapons,” Netanyahu told me. He said the Iranian nuclear challenge represents a “hinge of history” and added that “Western civilization” will have failed if Iran is allowed to develop nuclear weapons.

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via Netanyahu to Obama: Stop Iran—Or I Will – The Atlantic (March 31, 2009)

h/t: Cem Ertür

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Israel: Netanyahu threatens war on Iran, spurns “two-state solution” By Bill Van Auken

The Atlantic, the PresCon and Kremlinology—Did Bibi really say that? By Ron Kampeas

Iran Israel US Nukes

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Chomsky: It should be remembered that Germany went to the depths of barbarism in 10 years

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Noam Chomsky on the economy and democracy Pt.3

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Kucinich: Merrill Lynch Bonuses 22X Bigger Than AIG

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Thinking Positively About Monetary Policy by Dr. Ellen Hodgson Brown

G20 protests rock London’s financial area + G20 What happened

Geithner’s ‘Dirty Little Secret’: The Entire Global Financial System is at Risk by F. William Engdahl

Michael Hudson: The Way We Were and What We Are Becoming

Economic Meltdown: The “Dollar Glut” is What Finances America’s Global Military Build-up by Prof. Michael Hudson

The Economy Sucks and or Collapse 2

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The Nation and “socialism” by David Walsh

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by David Walsh
http://www.wsws.org
2 April 2009

For examples of intellectual and political bankruptcy, one could hardly do better than peruse the pages of the Nation, the American liberal publication. An excellent starting-point would be the magazine’s ongoing series, “Reimagining Socialism.”

The collection of short essays by a variety of liberal and “left” commentators in the US, is a response to the breakdown of world capitalism and the discrediting of free market ideology, a phenomenon that even the mass media acknowledges. Popular hatred for the corporate-financial aristocracy is increasingly a fact of American daily life.

The Nation‘s response is a pre-emptive effort to convince its readers that socialist revolution is impossible and the best of all possible worlds would be the emergence of mass reformist pressure on the Obama administration and the Democratic Party.

The series prompted a sardonic comment this week in Britain’s Financial Times, one of the more astute voices of bourgeois opinion. Columnist Michael Skapinker (“Dangers in a World of Disillusionment,” March 30) notes that “Oddly, those who should be rejoicing most at capitalism’s humbling are as lost as everyone else.” He observes that the Nation “has now published an extensive series of essays called ‘Reimagining Socialism,’ in which one writer after another admits they cannot reimagine socialism.”

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Barbara Ehrenreich: Is Capitalism Dead?

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April 02, 2009

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Bill Moyers Journal: Families over the edge + Socialism

As Economy Reels, Tariq Ali Calls for “Reimagining Socialism”

The rise of ‘socialism for the 21st century’

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