World-News: 04 April 2011

Michael Honey, History News Network: 'People across the country today are protesting the Republican attempts to utterly destroy the unions. They are virtually the only group that still has the power to stand up against the power of organized money. King supported unions from his earliest college days and called them the 'first anti-poverty program.' Unions provided King with staunch allies and provided his greatest financial support in the Montgomery bus boycott, the Birmingham movement, the March on Washington, and other battles.'

http://truth-out.org/we-are-one-remembering-martin-luther-kings-struggle-labor-rights/1301900400

The Servant Problem: In Search of the Lost Battalion of Americas Unemployed

Lewis H. Lapham, TomDispatch: 'The nation's unemployment rate, officially pegged at 9.4% but probably nearer to 17%, in any event no fewer than 25 million Americans, a number more than equal to the entire population of North Korea, out of work or on the run. The metrics, so say President Obama, the Wall Street Journal, and A Prairie Home Companion, are not good. The stock markets may have weathered the storm of the recession, as have the country's corporate profit margins, but unless jobs can be found, we wave goodbye to America the Beautiful...

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/lewis-lapham/america-unemployment_b_844586.html

Dr. King s Memorial Is About the Reality, Not the 'Dream'

Dr. Wilmer J. Leon III, Truthout: 'If one studies Dr. King s speeches and writings and understands the context of their time, the reality is that Dr. King was not about politics; he was about policy. He was not about elected positions and presidents; he was about people. Dr. King was not about tax breaks for the wealthiest of us; he was about social programs for the least of us. He was not about a war in Iraq, Afghanistan, or Libya. He saw '... war as an enemy of the poor ...' and attacked it as such.'

http://www.truth-out.org/dr-kings-memorial-about-reality-not-dream/1314383761

From Truthout

http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Martin+Luther+King
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http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Iraq
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Afghanistan
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Libya
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=recession
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=stock+market
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=wealthy
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=poor
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http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=corporate+profit
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Labor+Rights
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=unions
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=unemploy
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Michael+Honey
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Lewis+H.+Lapham
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Wilmer+J.+Leon
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Starmail - 4. Apr, 22:48

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Swine Flu Vaccine Causes Boy To Lose Control Of His Body

http://groups.google.com/group/omeganews/t/4573be24a506e2b?hl=de

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http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=GlaxoSmithKline
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Pandemrix

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Starmail - 4. Apr, 18:02

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Next-up News Nr 1665

- NO COMMENT US NAVY ACTION JAPAN/JAPON (report)
http://www.cartoradiations.fr/US_Navy.php#1

http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Fukushima
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Authority!
by Timothy J Taylor

Five million dollars is pocket change to the U.S. government. If a million dollars in 100 dollar bills were dropped in the middle the House floor tomorrow, none of the Congressmen would bother stooping to pick any of it up. They no longer think seriously in terms of millions of dollars, or hundreds of millions. Now it?s billions, and hundreds of billions; even trillions...

http://tinyurl.com/4ynpf3r

Republican hypocrisy on budget cuts

Future of Freedom Foundation
by Laurence M. Vance

03/28/11

With the national debt fast approaching $15 trillion, no member of Congress of either party, and no American citizen of any political persuasion, would argue against the proposition that the federal budget needs to be cut, and cut drastically. The Congressional Budget Office is forecasting a $1.5 trillion budget deficit for fiscal year 2011, giving us the third straight year of trillion-dollar budget deficits...

http://www.fff.org/comment/com1103m.asp

Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=budget
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=debt
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Republican
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=hypocrisy
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Timothy+J+Taylor
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=/vance
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Starmail - 4. Apr, 10:06

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Obamas policies full of 'hope'

Freedom Politics
by Thomas J. Lucente Jr.

During the 2008 election, Barack Obama made more than 500 promises, if the website PolitiFact.com is to be believed. According to PolitiFact, which is a project of the St. Petersburg (Fla.) Times, Obama has broken 40 of his campaign promises, compromised on 41 others and 70 have stalled. He has kept 134, or 26 percent, of his promises. The rest are either in the works or not rated...

http://tinyurl.com/3pyp7pc

Defense and the deficit

The American Prospect
by Ben Adler

04/01/11

You might think that with the Iraq War thoroughly discredited and recent polls showing that a majority of the public favors reducing defense spending, cutting the Pentagons bloated budget would finally be on the table. Or at least you'd expect Democrats would propose cutting military spending instead of home-heating subsidies for the poor. But you'd be wrong...

http://prospect.org/cs/articles?article=defense_and_the_deficit

Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Obama
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Pentagon
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=what+change
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=budget
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=deficit
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=defense+spending
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Thomas+J.+Lucente
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Ben+Adler
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Ben+Adler
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Starmail - 4. Apr, 09:38

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You can pay your bills or you can be a global policeman, but you cant do both

Starmail - 4. Apr, 09:22

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How Milton Friedman and Chicago Economics Undermined America

http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/04/02-5

http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Milton+Friedman
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Russell+Mokhiber
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Starmail - 4. Apr, 09:05

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Killing Libya in Order to Save It: Gulf War Syndrome

http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/04/03

Do Western Strikes in Libya Betray Peaceful Revolt Everywhere?
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/04/03-1

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NATO to US: We need more strikes in Libya

ABC News

04/03/11

NATO has asked the United States to continue participating in airstrikes over Libya through late Monday, ABC News has learned. This was done to make up for the bad weather earlier in the week that had hampered targeting of Gadhafi forces and allowed them to push the rebels back to Ajdabiyah...

http://tinyurl.com/3faj7a2

The Arab Awakening, hijacked?

Antiwar.com Antiwar.com
by Justin Raimondo

04/04/11

Western attempts to hijack the Arab Awakening are necessarily limited to those countries -- few in number -- where Washington isnt allied with the local tyrant. From the steppes of Central Asia, where US-supported potentates sit atop a growing proportion of the worlds oil supply, to the mouth of the Mediterranean, the American eagle has sheltered dozens of emirs, kings, and presidents-for-life under its overstretched wings. If the US winds up trading Egypt, Tunisia, Morocco, Jordan, and some of the Gulf states for Libya and possibly Syria, thats a net loss by any accounting...

http://tinyurl.com/44je4nu

Libya, the un-humanitarian intervention

Fox News Forum
by Rich Lowry

04/02/11

If President Obama's pro-Libyan War advisers wanted to create a precedent for future U.N.-sanctioned humanitarian interventions, they should have found some other war. First, for all the talk of an Obama doctrine, Obamas rationale for the war is so narrowly tailored, it basically only applies to Libya in these particular circumstances. If were going to intervene only when we can get overwhelming international support, respond quickly and with relative impunity, and notionally hand over operations to someone else immediately, thats going to mean most every conflict fails to meet the Obama test...

http://tinyurl.com/3vaz74j

Yet another war we have seen before

Las Vegas Review Journal
by Vin Suprynowicz

04/03/11

The president went on TV Monday evening and explained to the American people why we had to bomb Libya to keep Mohamyar Quadhaffy (editor: check this week's AP spelling style, please) from using military force against his own people, the same way Libya bombed the h... out of Texas in the spring of 1993 to keep Janet Reno from using National Guard helicopters to strafe those civilian Branch Davidian Christians in their church near Waco. ... No, no, that's not right...

http://tinyurl.com/3ugz79f

Occupying the world

CounterPunch
by Paul Craig Roberts

04/02/11

What we are observing in Libya is the rebirth of colonialism. Only this time it is not individual European governments competing for empires and resources. The new colonialism operates under the cover of 'the world community,' which means NATO and those countries that cooperate with it. NATO, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, was once a defense alliance against a possible Soviet invasion of Western Europe. Today NATO provides European troops in behalf of American hegemony...

http://counterpunch.org/roberts04012011.html

Libya poses dangerous delusion

Cato Institute Cato Institute
by Christopher Preble

04/01/11

The conundrums associated with being the worlds sole superpower have been on vivid display over the past two weeks. By launching a war of choice against Libya, President Barack Obama perpetuates the unrealistic expectation that U.S. troops will be deployed on missions that have no plausible connection to national security interests...

http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=12934

'The Matrix' as ruling class

Liberale et Libertaire
by dL

03/31/11

From a purely economic standpoint, class theory and 'Ruling Class' lack coherence. But from an institutional standpoint, there is coherence. We can borrow from popular culture to denote this model as 'The Matrix.' And to recast Orwell, 'the Matrix' is composed of a ruling class whose objective is not necessarily wealth, but domination and a persistence of a world-view, a persistence of the hierarchical structures of the ruling class (it doesn?t matter who wields the power; as long as the institutions, the hierarchies remain unchanged)...

http://tinyurl.com/3s4oqqj

Button pushing or abdication: Which?

WendyMcElroy. com
by Carl Watner

Since LeFevre and voluntaryists hold that aggression is wrong they realize it is a wrong means which will never lead towards individual freedom. We cannot use the weapons of tyranny; for freedom and reason are our only tools. One should never have to labor towards compelling others to accept freedom. One need only exert self-control, so as to not interfere with the freedom of others...

http://www.wendymcelroy.com/news.php?extend.3866

Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Obama
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=bipartisan
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Libya
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http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Egypt
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Tunisia
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Syria
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Waco
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=ruling+class
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http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Gulf+War+Syndrome
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Conn+Hallinan
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Michelle+Chen
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=raimondo
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Rich+Lowry
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Vin+Suprynowicz
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Paul+Craig+Roberts
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Christopher+Preble
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Carl+Watner

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Starmail - 4. Apr, 09:01

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Conclusions About Nuclear Reactors: Look at the Facts and Say No

http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/04/03-2

The FDA and Fukushima Fallout
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/04/02-3

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'No more Fukushima'. Global Call for Solidarity Actions against Nuclear Plants

'We took big risk depending on nuclear energy in exchange for creating unlimited prosperity. Then we are now facing assumed danger. Human being seems to take wrong choice. We have to make sure. No more nuclear plants. We individuals living in Tokyo are planning an demonstration against nuclear plants on 10th April in Koenji, Tokyo. We also would like to call for global solidarity actions on the same day. We believe that the global response and action will be significant support for all disaster victims and movements against the current nuclear policy in general.' April 10th 'Stop the Nuclear Power Plant! Global Action Day' - Aktionsseite http://410nonuke.tumblr.com/

Aus: LabourNet, 4. April 2011

http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=nuclear+power
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http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Robert+Alvarez
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Starmail - 4. Apr, 08:58

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