Iran blames Israel, US for nuke scientist murder + Who killed the nuclear scientist?

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RussiaToday
January 13, 2010

Iran has accused Israel and the US of killing a nuclear physics professor in Tehran, claiming his death was an effort to slow down the country’s nuclear program. The country’s government blamed Tuesdays bomb blast on an armed Iranian opposition group reportedly following orders from Israel and the US. The US state department has dismissed the accusations as absurd. The professor, who publicly backed an Iranian opposition leader in the disputed June presidential election, was killed by a remote-controlled bomb that blew up outside his home.

Marginalizing Martin: Ignoring MLK’s Still-Relevant Speech by Ed Ciaccio

by Ed Ciaccio
Dandelion Salad
Featured Writer
January 13, 2010

“He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetrate it.” – Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Mid-January means it’s time to commemorate the birthday of a true African-American peacemaker who was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for actual peacemaking work.   But once again, as they do every year, our politicians, our pundits, and our corporate media will narrow down Dr. King’s life and legacy to that of strictly black-white civil rights with convenient clichés such as “slain civil rights leader” and countless, predictable references to his “I Have A Dream” speech at the 1963 March on Washington, as though that was the only important speech he ever made.  That way, they can manage to make it seem as though his development as a world, not merely U.S., thinker and leader was frozen in that summer of ’63, and that his 1964 Nobel Peace Prize was the “capping off” of his public career. And the key word in the previous sentence is “manage,” as in managing or controlling.

Dennis Kucinich: Health Care Bill Is In Trouble If They Keep The Excise Tax In It

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MoxNewsDotCom
January 13, 2010

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January 13, 2010 MSNBC The ED Show

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Dennis Kucinich: This Just Signals The FED That It’s Business As Usual!

Dennis Kucinich to Introduce “Responsible Bankers Act”

Compulsory Private Health Insurance: Just Another Bailout for the Financial Sector? by Dr. Ellen Brown

Dennis Kucinich to Introduce “Responsible Bankers Act”

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by Congressman Dennis Kucinich
Washington D.C. (January 12, 2010)

Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) today introduced legislation to impose a 75% tax on the extraordinary bonuses that bankers are planning to pay themselves using windfall profits earned from massive taxpayer support of the financial services industry. The “Responsible Bankers Act” will not penalize banks for making a profit, but rather will tax the bonus pools that are set aside.

This is the follow up to announcement made by Kucinich on December 10, 2009.

Britain’s Short Term Economic Outlook by Michael C. Feltham

by Michael C. Feltham
Dandelion Salad
The Contrarian Analyst
13 January 2010

Smoke and Mirrors

Britain enters 2010 in a critical fiscal and financial position.

Much has been written, spoken and discussed about the strategy of stimulus via so-called Quantitative Easing or QE: now, most commentators glibly state this exercise is “Uncharted Territory” and no one knows how it will pan out.

I very much dispute such conclusion.

QE is simply creating money out of thin air, in the hope that piling supra-liquidity into financial markets will somehow act as a magical economic stimulus and return the economy to growth from recession.

Well, such could only work – to a limited degree – where the extra liquidity was immediately filtered down through the money markets and banks into direct business and commercial activities.

Afghanistan: NATO Intensifies Its First Asian War by Rick Rozoff

by Rick Rozoff
Featured Writer
Dandelion Salad
Stop NATO
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13 January, 2010

With former Joint Special Operations Command chief General Stanley McChrystal in charge of what will soon be over 150,000 U.S. and NATO troops in the Afghanistan-Pakistan war theater, Washington will conduct its largest counterinsurgency operations since those in Indochina in the 1960s and early 1970s.

NATO, established in 1949 supposedly to confront the Soviet Union and its allies in Central Europe, is waging its first land war almost 3,000 miles east of its former border with the Warsaw Pact.

The world’s sole military superpower…is extending its troop deployments, bases, missile shield components, warplanes and warships to all six inhabited continents, over the past decade to Afghanistan, Australia, Bulgaria, Colombia, Djibouti, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Kuwait, Kyrgyzstan, Mali, the Philippines, Poland, Romania and Seychelles.

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Common Ground Between Tea Parties and the Left

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GRITtv with Laura Flanders

Tea party protests and labor unions might not seem at first to have much in common, but both groups are angry about bailouts of massive banks and the struggles of working people to make ends meet while jobs disappear overseas. Is the dispute between the tea parties and the progressive left just one of the means to an end?

To discuss their differences and talk about finding common ground, Michael Johns, Tea Party organizer and Ed Ott, former executive director of the New York City Central Labor Council and Disinguished Lecturer at the Murphy Institute at CUNY, join us in studio.

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Tea Party groups plan strike on Obama inauguration

Democracy Now!: Haiti Devastated by Largest Earthquake in 200 Years, 1000’s Feared Dead

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Democracy Now!
Jan. 13, 2010

Haiti Devastated by Largest Earthquake in 200 Years, Thousands Feared Dead

Haiti has been devastated by a massive 7.0-magnitude earthquake, the largest to strike the Caribbean nation in more than two centuries. Buildings have collapsed. Fires rage in the streets. The extent of the disaster is still unknown, but there are fears thousands of people may have died and tens of thousands homeless. We get the latest on Haiti, a country rocked by natural as well as political crises. We speak with journalist Kim Ives of Haiti Liberté and Haitian American novelist Edwidge Danticat, her family at the epicenter of the quake.

Flight 253: Anatomy of a Cover-Up by Tom Burghardt

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by Tom Burghardt
Global Research, January 11, 2010
Antifascist Calling…

New revelations about the failed Christmas Day attack on Northwest Airlines Flight 253 continue to emerge as does evidence of a systematic cover-up.

With the White House in crisis mode since the attempted bombing, President Obama met for two hours January 5 with top security and intelligence officials. Obama said that secret state agencies “had sufficient information to uncover the terror plot … but that intelligence officials had ‘failed to connect those dots’,” The New York Times reports.

The latest iteration of the “dot theory” floated by the President, aided and abetted by a compliant media, claims “this was not a failure to collect intelligence” but rather, “a failure to integrate and understand the intelligence that we already had.”

“Mr. Obama’s stark assessment that the government failed to properly analyze and integrate intelligence served as a sharp rebuke of the country’s intelligence agencies,” declared the Times uncritically.

Rio: Olympic City

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Jan 12, 2010

An explosion of joy on the streets of Rio greeted the announcement that the city would be hosting the 2016 Olympic Games. Two weeks later, Rio saw an explosion of violence when a police helicopter was shot down by drug traffickers. The government’s reaction has been to intensify the crackdown on the city’s slums – or Favelas. A Human Rights Watch report in December accused Rio and Sao Paolo police of killing over 11,000 people since 2003. Many, the report claims, were executed by the police, shot at point blank range. Many were innocent. And on many occasions, the police tried to cover up the evidence.

This week, Fault Lines travels to Rio to look at the crackdown in Rio’s Favelas, and what it means for the people of the city.

The Death of Liberalism in the United States by Shamus Cooke

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by Shamus Cooke
www.globalresearch.ca/, January 12, 2010

It’s no exaggeration to say that President Obama was the Democrats’ last chance to maintain some level of political legitimacy in the eyes of working class Americans.  Now, after a year of solid pro-corporate policies, it’s obvious Obama has failed; and with him the Democratic Party.

Well-known “liberals” are beginning to denounce Obama’s polices, but not the Democrats as a whole. Instead, these esteemed liberals are promoting “real progressive Democrats,” i.e. the Democrats who are used as props by the leadership of the party, and completely ignored by the corporate media.   The Democrat-promoting liberals are a mixed bunch, ranging from university professors to television personalities.  Their ideology has moved distinctly to the right over the decades, to conform to the general rightward movement of the U.S. political/economic establishment.

President Obama to Request Another $33 Billion for Unpopular Wars

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rethinkafghanistan
January 12, 2010

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The Associated Press reports that President Obama “plans to ask Congress for an additional $33 billion to fight unpopular wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, on top of a record request for $708 billion for the Defense Department next year.”

This request comes in the middle of the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression, at a time when our country can least afford it. Economist Dean Baker recently pointed out that “in standard economic models, defense spending is a direct drain on the economy, reducing efficiency, slowing growth” and costing huge numbers jobs. These costs are so significant that President Obama felt the need to include mention of them when he announced his most recent decision to add more troops in Afghanistan.

‘Catastrophic quake’ rocks Haiti + 1000s feared dead as 7.0 magnitude quake hits Haiti

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Prayers and condolences to the people of Haiti.

Send donations immediately:

1-800-RED-CROSS;

http://www.unicefusa.org/

text ‘HAITI’ to 90999 and $10 goes to relief efforts.

Al Jazeera English
January 13, 2010

The Caribbean nation of Haiti has been hit by its strongest earthquake in 200 years, causing what is being described as “a catastrophe of major proportions”.

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