January 26, 2010
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Rep. Alan Grayson on the Christian Right’s Pact with the Devil
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January 26, 2010
This is Rep. Alan Grayson discussing Pat Robertson’s comments about Haiti.
Chris Hedges: No Tyranny in History has Crushed the Human Capacity For Love
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Jan. 26, 2010
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January 26, 2010
Chris Hedges reads from his book “Empire of Illusion” at the Ottawa International Writers Festival.
Fixing A Bad Supreme Court Decision by Joel S. Hirschhorn
by Joel S. Hirschhorn
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Jan. 26, 2010
Sensible, intelligent Americans are furious over the recent Supreme Court 5-to-4-decision referred to as Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission that struck down limits on corporate spending in presidential and congressional elections. Those of us who wail against the corpocracy with its corruption of government could hardly believe that this decision could in any way be justified. A major reaction has been a number of groups calling for a constitutional amendment to fix the problem.
It helps to know that three current constitutional amendments resulted because of Supreme Court decisions that needed remedial action: the Eleventh Amendment (shoring up states’ legal immunity), the Sixteenth Amendment (authorizing a federal income tax), and the Twenty-sixth Amendment (assuring eighteen-year-olds the right to vote).
Supremes Murder the First Amendment: Whaddaya Gonna Do? By Gary Corseri
By Gary Corseri
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January 26, 2010
They did it in broad daylight. “Money … speech—what’s the diff?” they cackled, sucking a corporate tit. Then they wrung Liberty’s neck—cracked it like a chicken’s.
That same day the bank foreclosed on my home. I offered a speech to the broad-brim hatted sheriff. “Money … speech—what’s the diff?” I asked.
His deputies kicked my kids right down the road.
“If money is the same as speech, surely speech is the same as money!” I averred, but … he failed to acknowledge my logic.
I went to my cousin, Vincenzo. “Whadda we gonna do? What the hell can we do?”
“I’m gonna make them an offer they can’t refuse,” he said, chomping a Cuban stogie.
Bases, Missiles, Wars: U.S. Consolidates Global Military Network by Rick Rozoff
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Stop NATO
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26 January, 2010
Over the past decade the United States has steadily (though to much of the world imperceptibly) extended its military reach to most all parts of the world. From subordinating almost all of Europe to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization through the latter’s expansion into Eastern Europe, including the former Soviet Union, to arbitrarily setting up a regional command that takes in the African continent (and all but one of its 53 nations). From invading and establishing military bases in the Middle East and Central and South Asia to operating a satellite surveillance base in Australia and taking charge of seven military installations in South America. In the vacuum left in much of the world by the demise of the Cold War and the former bipolar world, the U.S. rushed in to insert its military in various parts of the world that had been off limits to it before.
And this while Washington cannot even credibly pretend that it is threatened by any other nation on earth.
Michael Moore on Haiti, the Supreme Court Decision on Corporate Campaign Financing, and Why He Calls the Democrats “Disgusting”
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Democracy Now!
Jan 26, 2010
Filmmaker Michael Moore joins us for a wide-ranging interview about Haiti, the Supreme Court decision on corporate campaign financing, President Obama’s first year in office, the Democrats, and much more. “The Democrats] don’t have the guts. They don’t have the courage of their own convictions. They’re disgusting. I’m embarrassed,” Moore says. “I want really nothing to do with them. And if they don’t find their spine, well, they’re in for a huge surprise in November.” [includes rush transcript]
(starts at 10:03)
The Destabilization of Haiti: Anatomy of a Military Coup d’Etat by Michel Chossudovsky (2004)
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by Michel Chossudovsky
Global Research, January 25, 2010
“Washington seeks to reinstate Haiti as a full-fledged US colony, with all the appearances of a functioning democracy. The objective is to impose a puppet regime in Port-au-Prince and establish a permanent US military presence in Haiti.
The US Administration ultimately seeks to militarize the Caribbean basin.
The island of Hispaniola is a gateway to the Caribbean basin, strategically located between Cuba to the North West and Venezuela to the South. The militarization of the island, with the establishment of US military bases, is not only intended to put political pressure on Cuba and Venezuela, it is also geared towards the protection of the multibillion dollar narcotics transshipment trade through Haiti, from production sites in Colombia, Peru and Bolivia.” (Michel Chossudovsky, The Destabilization of Haiti, Global Research, February 28, 2004)
State of the Union Junk Economics, 2010 Part I by Prof Michael Hudson
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by Prof Michael Hudson
Global Research, January 26, 2010
How Much More “Debt Recovery” can the Economy Take?
It’s make or break time for Democrats since the January 19 defeat in Massachusetts. At stake is Mr. Obama’s credibility as an agent for change. Exit polls show that voters see his main change to be favoritism to Wall Street, to a degree that the “old Democrats” would not have let a Republican administration get away with. Rivalry over just what party is more Wall Street friendly prompted Jay Leno to joke that Mr. Obama has done the impossible: resurrected the seemingly dying Republican Party and given it the coveted label of the “Party of Change” running against Wall Street.
Dennis Kucinich proposal: Open jobs by helping older workers retire
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1/25/2010
CLEVELAND — Congressman Dennis Kucinich is proposing a plan he claims could open up at least one million jobs fast.
He is borrowing a concept already used by the United Auto Workers union. He thinks it makes sense in this slow-recovering economy where jobs have been lost 24 months in a row.
He wants the federal government to help workers 60-62 years old who are already thinking about retirement to be able to afford it.
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Truth over delusion: Hugo Chavez did not accuse the U.S. of causing the Haitian earthquake
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The Anti Press
2010-01-22
On January 19, Spanish newspaper ABC, a newspaper of record in Spain, published a story entitled Chavez accuses US of causing earthquake in Haiti.
The story was quickly picked up by websites around the globe – most quoting Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez as saying the U.S. used a new tectonic weapon to induce the Haitian earthquake. This was, according to Chavez – “only a drill, and the final target is destroying and taking over Iran”.
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Waiting for “Barack the Battler,” like waiting for Godot By Robert S. Becker
By Robert S. Becker
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rbecker@cal.net
January 26, 2010
Mr. President: in your Friday Town Hall speech, you tried to reinvent yourself by going in the wrong direction – backwards. In this corner, we have Barack the Battler, getting in shape by repeating “fight” ten times:
So long as I’m President, I’ll never stop fighting for policies that will help restore home values, to redeem the investment that folks have made. I’ll never stop fighting to give our kids the best education possible; to take the tens of billions of dollars we pay banks to act as middlemen on student loans and invest that money in the students who need it. I’ll never stop fighting to give every American a fair shake.
Michael Parenti: Against Empire: U.S. Intervention in the Modern World (1995)
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Jan. 26, 2010
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January 02, 2010
Network X – 12/08/95 – Guest Michael Parenti author of “inventing Reality: The Politics of News Media”, “The Sword and the Dollar: Imperialism Revolution and the Arms Race” and “Against Empire”.
Michael Ratner: Obama’s human rights record
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One year later, Michael Ratner assesses President Obama’s human rights record
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