"We are not anti-American, we are anti-Imperialism"
Written by Cindy Sheehan
Tuesday, 09 March 2010 10:58
My request to interview President Hugo Chavez Frias of Venezuela was finally granted on March 2nd while we were down in Montevideo, Uruguay with President Chavez for the inauguration of the new left-ish president and freedom fighter, Jose Mujica.
The reasons I went down to Venezuela with my team of two cameramen were two-fold.
First of all, I just got tired of all the misinformation that is spread in the US about President Chavez and the people’s Bolivarian Revolution. In only one example, the National Endowment for Democracy (another Orwellian named agency that receives federal money to supplant democracy) spends millions of dollars every year in Venezuela trying to destabilize Chavez’s democratically elected government.
The other reason we went to Venezuela was to be inspired and energized by the revolution and try to inspire and energize others in the states to rise up against the oppressive ruling
A Media Revolution That Will Begin the World Again
Written by Kevin Gosztola
Tuesday, 09 March 2010 09:23
Robert W. McChesney, a communications professor from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and John Nichols, The Nation's Washington correspondent, stopped in Chicago at DePaul University and 57 th Street Books in Hyde Park to talk about their new book The Death and Life of American Journalism on the collapse of traditional newspapers, the decline of journalism in this country, and the solutions Americans might employ to save journalism and, in fact, save America's democratic society from complete ruin.
As a young person, I probably could have gained more from being in a room at DePaul University with many, many journalists who will graduate and be out of work. It would have probably done me some good to witness their demoralization, despair, or pessimism so that I could share their fears and frustrations with other students. However, I chose to head south from Columbia College Chicago's campus to see the two talk in a bookstore that I now know used to be a favorite store of Obama's.
The health insurance bill currently under consideration in Congress would forbid states from providing their residents with healthcare. An amendment correcting that problem was passed in committee last July and then quietly removed. A new campaign is asking the Democrats who voted for that amendment to withhold their votes on the bill until it is reinstated.
Several states' legislatures are close to enacting single-payer healthcare bills. This is a complete healthcare solution that eliminates the for-profit insurance industry, lowers the cost of pharmaceuticals, reduces bureaucracy, and provides universal coverage. As President Obama explains: "Now, the truth is that, unless you have a — what's called a single-payer system, in which everybody is automatically covered, then you're probably not going to reach every single individual."
We're not creating such a system in Washington. We're creating something far more limited and compromised, expensive and wasteful. The healthcare bill now in play in Congress may constitute a tremendous step forward, or a tiny one, or a public bailout of the sickness industry that will do more harm than good. The bill includes some good measures but
Bristol, England-based journalist Iqbal Tamimi has been nominated for a prestigious award by The Muslim News newspaper.
Ms Tamimi, Editor-in-Chief at Palestinian Mothers Network for Human Rights, a Progressive Partner of United Progressives and frequent contributor to our pages, is one of three finalists for the Ibn Battuta award for excellence in media.
The award is given to journalists who have demonstrated fair, accurate and balanced reporting on an issue involving Muslims nationally or internationally.
Educated at the University of the Westof England, and a member of the Bristol branch of the National Union of Journalists, Ms Tamimi is a volunteer at
Jamaat-e-Islami chief Syed Munawwar Hasan has warned that the US is conspiring to extend its never-ending war on terror to Punjab, Karachi and Quetta.
"The drones are now flying over Chaman and Quetta, and there is a possibility of attacks on Karachi in search of the so-called Taliban. Pakistan incurred losses worth 50 billion dollars in this American war, but Washington and the so-called Friends of Democratic Pakistan had not paid even a penny so far," The Dawn quoted him as saying.
He added that the US would surely quit Pakistan in a humiliating manner after having left Afghanistan and Iraq in a disastrous state. Jamaat-e-Islami, the oldest political party in Pakistan, is also considered the most democratic and opposes the U.S. war on
Any politician can cook up a run o' the mill recession, but it requires the GOP to revert an entire people to feudalism. Our status as vassal of China is the evidence and result of our feudal status. GOP policies from which a ruling elite of just one percent benefit are responsible; the results may be seen at the CIA's 'World Fact Book' which lists China at the very top with the World's largest positive Current Account Balance and the U.S. on bottom with the world's largest negative Current Account Balance. Related to this is China's support for the U.S. dollar, a situation that China tolerates so that American consumers can buy Chinese product at Wal-Mart. If China should find this arrangement inconvenient, as many have said it is becoming, then China may 'pull the plug' and the dollar will collapse.
The economic decline of America is behind and the result of U.S. imperialism, a path about which we were well warned by a man that I have called the 'last honest Republican' ---Dwight David Eisenhower.
Susan Harman, who by now deserves some kind of medal and who will be joining in a protest of John Yoo on March 19th , questioned Jay Bybee yesterday about his crimes. Here's her report:
"Yesterday Jay Bybee sat with the 9th Circuit as they modeled appellate court for 140 law students at the University of NV's law school in Las Vegas. I sent out a plea to PDA's Vegas list of edresses, and about 10 people responded. Of them, two showed up with signs and we handed out Impeach Bybee postcards and talked with the law students as they waited to get through security to go inside. I was appalled at their ignorance and/or lack of outrage. Two older students said he was a friend (he lives in Henderson, just outside Vegas), and a young one said his parents were friends of Bybee.
"We finally got inside, and listened quietly to the cases, as usual. We were ready to speak out at the end, but instead they announced they would hold a Q&A for the students. We moved down to the second row, and I asked the first question:
One of the greatest hardships facing America’s college students is student debt; the average student in the class of 2008 graduated with $23,000 of debt, “a figure 25 percent higher than what their older brothers and sisters owed when they graduated from college in 2004.”
To tackle this student debt crisis, last year the House [...]
Repeating conservative lies about reconciliation, Sen. Kit Bond (R-MO) told MSNBC’s Andrea Mitchell today that reconciliation for health care reform “procedurally cannot be done.” Claiming it was never used for major legislation without “overwhelming bipartisan support,” Bond predicted the Senate will ultimately not be able to pass the health care bill through the reconciliation process:
BOND: [...]
America’s Health Insurance Plans (AHIP), the lobbying juggernaut for the health insurance industry, hosted its annual conference at the Ritz Carlton this week. As a vote on health legislation nears, the industry announced yesterday that it is funding a new round of national ads aimed at killing reform. The insurance industry has attacked every version [...]
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You can't finally tell the truth through the mind, because the mental process is busy with damage control. But there are a few questions you can ask to support truth telling, and you can deeply examine and ruthlessly, often painfully, answer them.
The questions are, 'What is my life standing for?' What has it stood for?' 'What is the deepest call for my life to stand for?' All you have to do is be really willing to look very carefully and see." - Gangaji
My request to interview President Hugo Chavez Frias of Venezuela was finally granted on March 2nd while we were down in Montevideo, Uruguay with President Chavez for the inauguration of the new left-ish president and freedom fighter, Jose Mujica.
Robert W. McChesney, a communications professor from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and John Nichols, The Nation's Washington correspondent, stopped in Chicago at DePaul University and 57 th Street Books in Hyde Park to talk about their new book The Death and Life of American Journalism on the collapse of traditional newspapers, the decline of journalism in this country, and the solutions Americans might employ to save journalism and, in fact, save America's democratic society from complete ruin.
The health insurance bill currently under consideration in Congress would forbid states from providing their residents with healthcare. An amendment correcting that problem was passed in committee last July and then quietly removed. A new campaign is asking the Democrats who voted for that amendment to withhold their votes on the bill until it is reinstated. 
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