[LAAMN] Fw: Indian Investigators do not Suspect Iran in Israel Embassy Blast

[Romi Elnagar]

http://www.campaigniran.org/casmii/index.php?q=node/12173
 
 
Indian Investigators do not Suspect Iran in Israel Embassy Blast
by Juan Cole(source: Informed Comment) 
Tuesday, February 14, 2012
 
India has suffered from both Hindu and Muslim terrorist groups. So the attack 
on an automobile outside the Israeli embassy in New Delhi could easily have 
been carried out by an Indian group. Israel’s government, a master of spin and 
propaganda, immediately blamed the bombing on Iran and Hizbullah. But there is 
no evidence for this cynical allegation, which makes no sense. India is Iran’s 
economic lifeline, and Tehran would not likely risk such an operation at this 
time.
India gets 12% of its oil from Iran and sees an $8 billion annual export 
opportunity in filling the trade vacuum left by unilateral US and European 
boycotts of Iran. Contrary to a bad Reuters article, Indian officials denied 
Tuesday that the bombing would affect trade ties. (Logical because no evidence 
points to Iran.)
Indian investigators are first rate. Based on the modus operandi, their initial 
thesis is that the attack was the work of the “Indian Mujahidin” group. It had 
used a similar remote controlled sticky bomb, placed by a motorcyclist, in an 
attack on Taiwanese tourists outside the Jama Masjid cathedral mosque in 2010. 
IM is a Sunni group, not connected to Iran, and doesn’t like Shiite Muslims 
(Iranians are Shiites). IM like other Sunni radicals support the Palestinians 
and they are unhappy with increasingly close ties between India and Israel.
American media that just parrot notorious thug, Israeli Foreign Minister 
Avigdor Lieberman in this unlikely allegation are allowing themselves to be 
used for propaganda. Why not interview Indian authorities on this matter? They 
are on the ground and have excellent forensic (“CSI”) abilities. Stop being so 
lazy and blinkered; that isn’t journalism.
 
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[LAAMN] Obama, the Human Rights Hypocrite

[Romi Elnagar]

Who Will Liberate America?
Obama, the Human Rights Hypocrite
by PAUL CRAIG ROBERTS

http://www.counterpunch.org/2012/02/15/obama-the-human-rights-hypocrite/


Is Obama a hypocrite or merely insouciant?  Or is he an idiot?
According to news reports Obama’s White House meeting on Valentine’s 
day with China’s Vice President, Xi Jinping, provided an opportunity for Obama 
to raise “a sensitive human rights issue with the Chinese 
leader-in-waiting.”  The brave and forthright Obama didn’t let etiquette or 
decorum get in his way. Afterwards, Obama declared that Washington 
would “continue to emphasize what we believe is the importance of 
realizing the aspirations and rights of all people.”
Think about that for a minute. Washington is now in the second decade of 
murdering Muslim men, women, and children in six countries. 
Washington is so concerned with human rights that it drops bombs on 
schools, hospitals, weddings and funerals, all in order to uphold the 
human rights of Muslim people. You see, bombing liberates Muslim women 
from having to wear the burka and from male domination.
One hundred thousand, or one million, dead Iraqis, four million 
displaced Iraqis, a country with destroyed infrastructure, and entire 
cities, such as Fallujah, bombed and burnt with white phosphorus into 
cinders is the proper way to show concern for human rights.
Ditto for Afghanistan.  And Libya.
In Pakistan, Yemen, and Somalia Washington’s drones bring human rights to the 
people.
Abu Ghraib, Guantanamo, and secret CIA prison sites are other places 
to which Washington brings human rights. Obama, who has the power to 
murder American citizens without due process of law, is too powerless to close 
Guantanamo Prison.
He is powerless to prevent himself from supplying Israel with weapons with 
which to murder Palestinians and Lebanese citizens to whom Obama 
brings human rights by vetoing every UN resolution passed against Israel for 
its crimes against humanity.
Instead of following Washington’s human rights lead, the evil Chinese invest in 
other countries, buy things from them, and sell them goods.
Has any foreign dignitary ever raised “a sensitive human rights 
issue” with Obama or his predecessor?  How is the world so deranged that 
Washington can murder innocents for years on end and still profess to 
be the world’s defender of human rights?
How many people has China bombed, droned, and sanctioned into non-existence in 
the 21st century?
Will Syria and Iran be the next victims of Washington’s concern for human 
rights?
Nothing better illustrates the total unreality of life in the West 
than the fact that the entire Western world did not break out in riotous 
laughter over Obama’s expression of his human rights concern over 
China’s behavior.
Washington’s concern with human rights does not extend as far as 
airport security where little girls and grandmothers are sexually 
groped. Antiwar activists have their homes invaded, their personal 
possessions carried off, and a grand jury is summoned to frame them up 
on some terrorist charge. US soldier Bradley Manning is held for two 
years in violation of the US Constitution while the human rights 
government concocts fabricated charges to punish him for revealing a US 
war crime. WikiLeaks’ Julian Assange is harassed endlessly with the goal of 
bringing him into the human rights clutches of Washington. Critics 
of Washington’s inhumane policies are monitored and spied upon.
Washington is the worst violator of human rights in our era, and Washington has 
only begun.
Who will liberate Americans from Washington’s clutches?
PAUL CRAIG ROBERTS was an editor of the Wall Street Journal and an Assistant 
Secretary of the U.S. Treasury.  His latest book, HOW THE ECONOMY WAS LOST, has 
just been published by CounterPunch/AK Press. He can be reached through 
his website. 


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[LAAMN] Greece in Flames - by Savas Michael-Matsas, Mind Blowing Charts

[Ed Pearl]

Hi. The Charts below the article were made by the Senate Budget committeee,
for their hearings on the US budget.  I placed them here as I don't have at
hand any such made for Europe, but they are, if not comparable, likely
worse.  I may use them again for my next dometic economy emailing but save
them as broad indicators of where the work economy is heading.
Ed 

From: Mitchel Cohen
Sent: Monday, February 13, 2012 3:10 PM

Greece in flames: the prelude of the European Revolution

by Savas Michael-Matsas ,

The worst fears of the ruling classes of Greece and Europe are becoming
true: an uncontrollable social explosion is under way in Greece.

When these lines are written, late in the night on February 12-13, 2012, the
violent clashes and street fights between demonstrators and the riot police,
in the center of Athens and in other cities all over the country, still
continue. The phony "majority" that just voted in Parliament the new package
of measures of social cannibalism imposed by the troika of the EU, the
European Central Bank, and the IMF cannot and will not stop the Greek social
wild fire to expand in the country and spread beyond Greece, all over Europe
and internationally.

The popular rally in Syntagma Square Sunday, February 12 was literally
gigantic: nearly a million people converged in the Square in front of the
Parliament from all the neighborhoods of the Greek capital, in a mass
mobilization that superseded in magnitude and fighting spirit every previous
one, including the huge rallies during the General Strikes of June and
October 2011.

Last week, already two General Strikes had taken place, on February 7 and on
February 10-11 but many factors -- lack of preparation, bureaucratic
opposition to a real mass mobilization, extremely bad weather conditions --
although significant, they had nothing in common with what happened on
February 12, when the masses flooded the streets in Athens and nearly all
other cities giving a nearly insurrectionary character to the mobilization.

The riot police, with a prepared plan, attacked the people in Syntagma from
the early moments of the rally, at 5.15 pm. When the well known composer
Theodorakis and the hero of the anti-Nazi resistance Manolis Glezos, both
nearly 90 years old, advanced to enter the Parliament to make a joint
statement of protest, the riot police attacked them and all the
demonstrators in the Square with tons of chemicals. From that moment the
center of Athens was transformed into a battlefield, while people continued
to come en masse from all directions. In front of the Parliament itself,
they have resisted and remained until 10.30 pm some contingents from the
EEK, ANTARSYA, and the youth of SYRIZA. But all the streets and avenues from
Omonia to Syntagma and even around Acropolis were packed by people resisting
the savage police brutality until late after midnight.

Barricades were erected in some of the streets. Banks, big shops, cinemas
etc., about 40 buildings, were set on fire. The police station in Exarchia
was attacked. A hundred citizens from all age groups were injured, some of
them seriously and brought to the hospital. Another hundred were arrested,
including the demonstrators who had occupied the Town Hall of Athens. The
center of Athens looks today like a bombarded city.

It is noteworthy the fact that the Stalinist KKE one more time held its own
independent rally in Omonia Square (they claim to have assembled 50 thousand
people) but they avoided to join the many hundreds of thousands of people in
and around Syntagma Square because of the clashes of the demonstrators with
the police, and they remained far way from the battle, finally dispersing
peacefully their contingents. According to the Stalinist mantra every
violent clash with police forces, and any form of direct action is "a State
provocation".

The popular rebellion is not limited to Athens. In other cities, all over
Greece, from Corfu in the North West and Thessalonica in the North to Patras
in the West and Creta in the South, were and are taking place mobilizations,
demonstrations, occupations of public buildings, town halls, prefectures
etc. Attacks by angry demonstrators against the political offices of
bourgeois members of parliament took place: in Corfu (North West, Ionian
Sea), Agrinion (Western Greece), Iraklion (Creta, South Aegean Sea) the
offices of all local deputies were destroyed.

The fury of the rapidly impoverished and ruined people was reflected even in
the Parliament, blowing up the bourgeois parliamentary political system as
it used to be the last 38 years, after the fall of the dictatorship.
Although, a two thirds majority of deputies voted for the barbaric
Memorandum imposed by the troika and the current Papadimos government, the
negative vote of an unprecedented large number of deputies was followed by
massive expulsions from the ruling parties supporting Papadimos -- 46
deputies, including founding members or parliamentary spokesmen of their
resp

[LAAMN] MECA Project Demolished in Silwan_Please act now!

[michael napp]

 

 

 

 

 

Watch the video and see the results of United States aid to apartheid Isreal.

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From: Middle East Children's Alliance 
[mailto:meca=mecaforpeace@mail2.us1.rsgsv.net] On Behalf Of Middle East 
Children's Alliance
Sent: Wednesday, February 15, 2012 12:15 PM
To: michael
Subject: MECA Project Demolished in Silwan_Please act now!

 




On Monday, Israeli forces bulldozed the community space MECA helped build in 
Silwan, East Jerusalem, known as the “cultural café.” 

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Dear Friend of the Children,

For the second time this week MECA must share with you news of an event that 
has a terrible impact on Palestinian children. On Monday, Israeli forces 
bulldozed the community space MECA helped build in Silwan,   

 East Jerusalem, known as the “cultural café.”

You and hundreds of other MECA supporters helped provide the funds to build the 
café and the sports field in front of it. This was a  

 unique project to provide a much-needed space for children to play and for 
youth and adults to gather. Its purpose was also to protect the land from being 
stolen by violent Israeli settlers or turned into a parking lot by the 
Jerusalem Municipality.

The community and the staff of Madaa Center are determined to rebuild the café. 
With your help, we can support the residents of Silwan in demanding their right 
to live and build on their land. Their goal is to complete a new café in time 
for a Mothers' Day Celebration on March 21, 2012 (Mothers' Day is celebrated 
across Arab countries on this date).

MECA has made a commitment to raise $15,000 for this project by February 29, 
2012. With your  

 emergency contribution now, we can meet that goal. And please, make your voice 
heard by  

 sending a letter to Israeli officials responsible for this demolition. Our 
partner in Silwan tells us it is important that official bodies know there is 
support and vigilance from the international community.

Many thanks for your commitment to the children,
MECA Staff
 
More information about the demolition:

*

 Statement from Madaa Silwan Creative Center
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 Media Advisory: US-funded project in East Jerusalem demolished
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 Slideshow of imag 

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 Blog post from MECA Program Director after visiting Silwan




  

 

 

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are standing with them: 

1.  

 Sign a letter to Israeli officials letting them know that you are concerned 
about the plight of children in Silwan and oppose the destruction of an 
important community space   

2.  

 Make a donation to help the community rebuild in time for their Mothers' Day 
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[LAAMN] Greece in Flames: Prelude to European Revolution?

[Romi Elnagar]

A friend in another group posted this lengthy article, and while some of it is 
a little hard to follow, I am sure it is correct, as I have heard before that 
Goldman Sachs is responsible for the Greek economic crisis.

Also, I note that Mitchell Cohen, the author, is on the board of WBAI, which is 
a good thing IMHO.

Hajja Romi



http://www.mitchelcohen.com/?p=2084


GREECE IN FLAMES: PRELUDE TO EUROPEAN REVOLUTION?  A DEBATE WITHIN THE LEFT. 
Posted on February 13, 2012 by MITCHEL COHEN
by Savas Michael-Matsas
The worst fears of the ruling classes of Greece and Europe are 
becoming true: an uncontrollable social explosion is under way in 
Greece.
When these lines are written, late in the night on February 12-13, 
2012, the violent clashes and street fights between demonstrators and 
the riot police, in the center of Athens and in other cities all over 
the country, still continue. The phony “majority” that just voted in 
Parliament the new package of measures of social cannibalism imposed by 
the troika of the EU, the European Central Bank, and the IMF cannot and 
will not stop the Greek social wild fire to expand in the country and 
spread beyond Greece, all over Europe and internationally.
The popular rally in Syntagma Square Sunday, February 12 was 
literally gigantic: nearly a million people converged in the Square in 
front of the Parliament from all the neighborhoods of the Greek capital, in a 
mass mobilization that superseded in magnitude and fighting spirit every 
previous one, including the huge rallies during the General 
Strikes of June and October 2011.
Last week, already two General Strikes had taken place, on February 7 and on 
February 10-11 but many factors — lack of preparation, 
bureaucratic opposition to a real mass mobilization, extremely bad 
weather conditions — although significant, they had nothing in common 
with what happened on February 12, when the masses flooded the streets 
in Athens and nearly all other cities giving a nearly insurrectionary 
character to the mobilization.
The riot police, with a prepared plan, attacked the people in 
Syntagma from the early moments of the rally, at 5.15 pm. When the well 
known composer Theodorakis and the hero of the anti-Nazi resistance 
Manolis Glezos, both nearly 90 years old, advanced to enter the 
Parliament to make a joint statement of protest, the riot police 
attacked them and all the demonstrators in the Square with tons of 
chemicals. From that moment the center of Athens was transformed into a 
battlefield, while people continued to come en masse from all 
directions. In front of the Parliament itself, they have resisted and 
remained until 10.30 pm some contingents from the EEK, ANTARSYA, and the youth 
of SYRIZA. But all the streets and avenues from Omonia to 
Syntagma and even around Acropolis were packed by people resisting the 
savage police brutality until late after midnight.
Barricades were erected in some of the streets. Banks, big shops, 
cinemas etc., about 40 buildings, were set on fire. The police station 
in Exarchia was attacked. A hundred citizens from all age groups were 
injured, some of them seriously and brought to the hospital. Another 
hundred were arrested, including the demonstrators who had occupied the 
Town Hall of Athens. The center of Athens looks today like a bombarded 
city.
It is noteworthy the fact that the Stalinist KKE one more time held 
its own independent rally in Omonia Square (they claim to have assembled 50 
thousand people) but they avoided to join the many hundreds of 
thousands of people in and around Syntagma Square because of the clashes of the 
demonstrators with the police, and they remained far way from 
the battle, finally dispersing peacefully their contingents. According 
to the Stalinist mantra every violent clash with police forces, and any 
form of direct action is “a State provocation”.
The popular rebellion is not limited to Athens. In other cities, all 
over Greece, from Corfu in the North West and Thessalonica in the North 
to Patras in the West and Creta in the South, were and are taking place 
mobilizations, demonstrations, occupations of public buildings, town 
halls, prefectures etc. Attacks by angry demonstrators against the 
political offices of bourgeois members of parliament took place: in 
Corfu (North West, Ionian Sea), Agrinion (Western Greece), Iraklion 
(Creta, South Aegean Sea) the offices of all local deputies were 
destroyed.
The fury of the rapidly impoverished and ruined people was reflected 
even in the Parliament, blowing up the bourgeois parliamentary political system 
as it used to be the last 38 years, after the fall of the 
dictatorship. Although, a two thirds majority of deputies voted for the 
barbaric Memorandum imposed by the troika and the current Papadimos 
government, the negative vote of an unprecedented large number of 
deputies was followed by massive expulsions from the ruling parties 
supporting Papadimos — 46 deputies, including f

[LAAMN] Who is Capriles Radonski, opposition candidate against President Chavez

[Williams Camacaro]

 

Tuesday 14 February 2012

Venezuela: a good look Capriles
Radonski, opposition candidate(read: thug and terrorist) against President
Chavez

 

by Jean-Guy Allard (special to ARGENPRESS.info)

 

The right-wing leader Henrique Capriles Radonski, who, amidst the coup
d’etat against President Hugo Chávez in April  2002 , led the assault on
the Cuban Embassy in Caracas along with Cuban-Venezuelan terrorists, and who
was unmasked by Wikileaks as a collaborator of the USA Embassy in Caracas, will
be the candidate for the presidency that will confront President Hugo Chavez in
next October elections.

 

As was anticipated in view of the alliances between candidates, Capriles
won the majority of the votes in the election carried out last Sunday  by
the so called Democratic Unity Table (Mesa de la Unidad Democrática) or 
MUD. According to observers, its campaign commanders were characterized by
voting delinquencies such as illegal party propaganda near the voting centres
and the buying of votes.

 

Capriles is the leader of the party Primero Justicia and was born on 11
July 1972, in Caracas to one of the most privileged families in
Venezuela.  His mother,  Mónica Cristina Radonski Bochenek, of Jewish
(Russian-Polish) origin, is the owner of a well-known cinema chain.  His
father, Henrique Capriles García is from a Jewish-Dutch family from Curacao.

 

Both families have interests in the media, own various industries,
services and real estate. Capriles Radonsky  graduated from the
conservative Catholic University Andrés Bello (UCAB) in Caracas, and also
studied  at Columbia University, New York.

 

KNOWN COLLABORATOR OF THE USA EMBASSY

 

In reports published by the USA State Department on Venezuela and
published by Wikileaks, Capriles was linked to the assault on the Cuban Embassy
in Caracas, and as a suspect in the assassination of the Venezuelan Prosecutor,
Danilo Anderson.

 

The documents demonstrate the complacency of the USA Embassy in Caracas
towards this leader of the Primero Justicia Party of fascist bent  and
whose role in the assault to the Cuban Embassy and other illicit
activities  has been censured in the text.

 

These documents show that the USA Embassy not only recognizes
 Capriles, who is now the governor of the state of Miranda, but also
offers him cooperation and the many paragraphs that are blacked out by the
censors in Washington reveal collaborations that is beyond what they are
prepared to confess.

 

On April 12, 2002, during the most tense hours of the coup d’etat, the
Embassy of the Republic of Cuba was assaulted by a group of extreme right
demonstrators that were led by two individuals identified in Venezuela to
terrorist acts against Cuba, they are Salvador Romaní  and  Ricardo
Koesling. These two were soon after joined by Capriles  and the former
commissar of the DISIP (former secret police), the assassin,  Henry López
Sisco.

 

They cut the electricity and water supply to the diplomatic headquarters,
they destroyed the vehicles of the diplomats and they surrounded the embassy so
that no one could leave it. Capriles Radonsky was caught on film by the
Venezuelan TV stations climbing a ladder and jumping over the embassy
fence,  then enter the embassy and  threatening the Ambassador of Cuba
in Venezuela,  Germán Sánchez Otero, with more violence if he did not give
up the Venezuelan officials whom they thought were hidden in the Embassy.

 

On that same day, April 12, Capriles  -who was then mayor of the
municipality of  Baruta  where the Cuban Embassy was located- 
not only refused to take measures  to stop acts of violence, but
witnessing on site the violence, insisted on “inspecting” the Embassy,
something completely against international conventions, and then made
provocative statements.

 

Capriles Radonski was also an accomplice in the arbitrary detention of
Ramón Rodríguez Chacín, then Minister of Justice and the Interior and took part
in the illegal sacking of his home.

 

THE ASSASINATION OF PROSECUTOR DANILO ANDERSON

 

After many lies and spins of the right concerning the circumstances of
the assault, on March 16 2004, the prosecutor Danilo Anderson, in charge
of  more than 400 cases of people suspected in the coup d’etat of April
2002, issued an order of arrest against Capriles, accusing him of violating the
fundamental principles of international law, violating private property and of
abuse of power.  While these proceedings were going on, Capriles was kept
in detention until September.

 

 

On November 18, the young prosecutor died when his car exploded,
destroyed by a bomb that contained the explosives C-4, a powerful artifact the
type that has been  used en in numerous occasions by Cuban-American
terrorists.

 

A list was published of the intellectual authors of the assassination,
among whom was Salvador Romaní, a Cuban lawyer, along with the financial
swindler Nelson Mezerhane, shareholder of the private TV station Globovisión,
the journal

[LAAMN] Fw: Need medicine? It's up to your boss's religion.

[Romi Elnagar]

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Republicans want to give "moral" control over your healthcare to your employer. 
DON'T LET THEM.

   Dear Romi, 

Republicans are trying to attach an amendment to the highway funding bill this 
week that could deny countless women and men access to all sorts of lifesaving 
healthcare, simply based on the stated beliefs of their employers. 

The Right is claiming to stand up for the religious liberty of employers, but 
this attack is really meant to unravel healthcare reform from within. They want 
to give employers the power to impose their own religious beliefs on their 
employees, getting in between Americans and their doctors and taking life and 
death decisions away from the people who should be making them. 

The vote in the Senate this week is just the start. Republican leaders in both 
the Senate and the House have signaled that this is an election year fight they 
want to have, and they will be pushing for such utterly extreme legislation 
repeatedly. 

Tell them, "NO." Join our emergency petition now to stop far-right congressmen 
from giving your employer the power to deny you important healthcare. 

Imagine your employer could deny you access to healthcare altogether on the 
grounds that their religion was opposed to modern medicine and they believed 
prayer was the best medicine. No exaggeration -- that's how far this amendment 
by Sen. Roy Blunt (R-MO) goes. 

The Obama administration announced a reasonable accommodation on this issue, 
providing that in the Affordable Care Act mandate for contraception coverage, 
religiously affiliated institutions that object to contraception as a matter of 
religious doctrine did not have to pay for that coverage for their employees -- 
instead, insurance companies would cover the cost. That compromise satisfied 
the majority of those critical of the mandate before it included that 
exemption, and has been widely hailed as striking the right balance between 
religious liberty and women's access to important healthcare. 

The GOP and its Religious Right allies have not only moved the goal post with 
their new overreaching proposal, they have abandoned any pretense that their 
concern was ever really "religious liberty." This is about the Right's ongoing 
war on women's health ... about primarily male lawmakers and institutions 
making decisions for women about their bodies ... about giving employers undue 
power over their employees' lives ... about granting special privileges to the 
Religious Right that says the rules shouldn't apply to them ... and it's about 
trying to destroy healthcare reform. 

Tell Republicans you aren't buying their phony "religious liberty" argument. 
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[LAAMN] Tariq Ali - ‘Assad must go to save Syria from intervention’

[Cort Greene]

 *Above: What Assad got for Valentine’s*
 *Below: What Assad gave his people on Valentine’s *
 


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RT -11 minute video interview here where he discusses and criticizes the
role of Western Imperialism and the disaster of intervention,
Iran, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, the Syrian Muslim Brotherhood, the Assad
regimes and more:

http://rt.com/s/swf/player5.4.swf?file=http://rt.com/files/news/syria-assad-ali-resign-361/i750b66952ea29bb36ebc970854fbac9f_tariq-ali.flv&image=http://rt.com/files/news/syria-assad-ali-resign-361/syrian-tanks-city-bab.n.jpg&skin=http://rt.com/s/css/player_skin.zip&provider=http&abouttext=Russia%20Today&aboutlink=http://rt.com&autostart=false



http://rt.com/news/syria-assad-ali-resign-361/


‘Assad must go to save Syria from intervention’

Published: 15 February, 2012, 13:03
Edited: 15 February, 2012, 13:03

 Syrian President Bashar Assad should resign if he doesn’t want to repeat
the fate of Iraq’s Saddam Hussein and Libya’s Muammar Gaddafi, while Russia
and China should help him to do so, the Middle East expert Tariq Ali told
RT.

­British historian and journalist Ali considers it unlikely that Syrian
president will step down on his own accord.

*“He has to be pushed out,” *Tariq Ali insists, for which *“the Syrian
people are doing their best”.*

Pressure is being mounted outside Syria by Turkey and NATO for intervention
– that would be disastrous and bring enormous bloodshed, like in Libya,
believes Tariq Ali.

The expert says both Assad and his father have spilled enough Syrian blood
and that “this family is unacceptable”.

*“Syria needs a non-sectarian national government to prepare a new
constitution,"* Tariq Ali stressed.

He expressed hope that all the most influential parties, like Russia,
China, Iran and even Hezbollah must realize that it is time for President
Assad to go and to do so, no peacekeeping force is needed.

Tariq Ali agrees that mounting international pressure on Bashar Assad is
needed because simple economic sanctions will not bring the desired
results. Countries like Iran and China would not abide them, so it is time
for Russia and China to realize they need Assad no more.

He believes that once Assad falls, the new government will keep good
relations with Iran, because this will be in the interest of the new
democratic government.

*“If the Assad clan refuses to relinquish their stronghold on the country,
sooner or later something disastrous will happen,”* Tariq Ali predicts,
threatening a foreign intervention and recalling the inglorious deaths of
Saddam Hussein and Muammar Gaddafi lynched by mobs inspired by the west.

*“That is the future that stares them in the face, there is no other
future,”* Tariq Ali said.

*“The fact is that the overwhelming majority of people in Syria want the
Assad family out – and that is the key thing that we have to understand and
he [Assad] should understand,”* Tariq Ali claims.

He also warns about letting Islamists of the Muslim Brotherhood take
control of the Syrian government. Even if it becomes a moderate one,
religious minorities will most probably be targeted to divert attention
from economic and social problems.

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Bahrain, Syria (and Beyond) Live Coverage: The Momentum of Protest, Part 1
Wednesday, February 15, 2012 at 3:49
James Miller in Bahrain, EA Middle East and Turkey, Middle East and Iran,
Syria, arrest, humanitarian cooridors

2110 GMT: Just when it didn't look like the international community could
be more divided on Syria, Syrian President Bashar al Assad has called for a
Constitutional 
referendumthat
would, in theory, end singe-party rule:

The proposed charter drops Article 8, which declared the ruling Baath Party
as the "leader of the state and society", allowing for a multi-party
system, state television said on Wednesday.

The president, who must be a Muslim man, can serve a maximum of two
seven-year terms, although it is unclear if this would apply to Assad, who
is already in his second term.

Russia has praised the move, the US called it "laughable," and the
posturing continues. For EA, the question of reform can be boiled down into
two points: is the regime serious, and does it matter either way?

Reform - Syria was under an emergency rule between 1963 and last April, but
violence has been steadily, or exponentially, increasing every month since
that emergency law was lifted. Other agreements made by the Assad regime,
for instance with the Arab League, have been broken almost immediately.
This regime does not have a gre

[LAAMN] Pakistan: The Muslim League(s) by Lal Khan

[Cort Greene]

http://www.marxist.com/pakistan-muslim-leagues.htm

  Pakistan: The Muslim
League(s)
Written by Lal Khan Wednesday, 15 February 2012
[image: Print] 

*The innumerable Muslim Leagues that traverse the spectrum of Pakistan’s
dominating political establishment in a number of ways reflect the disarray
and the pathetic conditions of the ruling classes and society they try to
scathe and exploit. Like Pakistan, their putrescence lies in their origins.*

The Muslim League was created in 1906 by a number of Muslim aristocrats to
present their servitude to the Raj in order to gain economic and political
benefits from the imperialist masters. The first letter sent to the Viceroy
Lord Minto from the leadership of this “new” party narrated these desires
of the Muslim elite of India. But the real evolution of this force and its
unpopularity even amongst the oppressed Muslims was written in one of the
last letters by Sir Allama Mohammad Iqbal to whom is attributed the
Two-Nation ideology.

In a letter to Mohammad Ali Jinnah dated May 28, 1937, a few months before
his death, Iqbal wrote, “I have no doubt that you fully realise the gravity
of the situation as far as Muslim India is concerned. The (Muslim) League
will have to finally decide whether it will remain a body representing the
upper classes of the Indian Muslims or the Muslim masses, who have so far,
with good reason, taken no interest in it. Personally, I believe that a
political organisation, which gives no promise of improving the lot of the
ordinary Muslim, cannot attract our masses. Under the new constitution the
higher posts go to the sons of upper classes; the smaller ones go to the
relatives of ministers. Our political institutions have never thought of
improving the lot of Muslims generally. The problem of bread is becoming
more and more acute.”

In the ensuing decades, the various Muslim Leagues have hardly ever heeded
the concerns of their professed ideologue. However, the concocted history
of the creation of the Pakistani state, even being linked to the Indus
Valley Civilisation, would not have come into being if all had gone
according to the decisions of Jinnah and the Muslim League. In early May
1946, the Cabinet Mission arrived in India. According to the Cabinet
Mission Plan published on May 16, “partition” as an option was dismissed
and there was to be a united India where the central government would
control defence, foreign affairs and communications. The subcontinent would
be divided into three confederated units A, B and C. The Muslim League
Council deliberated for three days before coming to a decision. On the
final day, Jinnah announced the acceptance of the Cabinet Mission Plan. The
Council voted unanimously in its favour. This in reality meant the
refutation of the so-called 1940 “Pakistan Resolution” and a retreat from
the idea of partition. The sacrifices and the struggle of the “veterans” of
the Pakistan movement had been for what? The millions who perished in the
massacres and mayhem came as a result of this bloody partition and not for
its cause.

Paradoxically, it was Nehru’s provocative press conference, at the behest
of Edwina Mountbatten and the conservative sections of the British elite,
in Bombay on July 10, that forced Jinnah and the Muslim League to retract
from the Cabinet Mission Plan and re-embark on the discourse of partition.
Maulana Abul Kalam Azad, veteran leader of the Indian National Congress,
wrote in his renowned book, *India Wins Freedom*: “Now a situation had
arisen where we were becoming greater supporters of partition than Jinnah.
I warned Jawaharlal that history would never forgive us if we agreed to
partition. The verdict would be that India was divided not by the Muslim
League but by Congress.”

In 64 years of Pakistan’s existence the role of all arrays of the Muslim
League have been to gain political power for the benefit of the different
factions of the ruling classes who needed the state to enhance their rates
of profit and primitive accumulation through corruption and criminal
methods. This ruling class was historically belated and economically too
weak and therefore could not develop a modern industrialised society. Their
relentless lust for plunder created frictions and conflicts between
different sections of the Pakistani bourgeoisie and feudal aristocracy.
This severe crisis was reflected in the political arena, leading to
bickering and conflicts amongst the elite and hence various Muslim Leagues
representing different interests of the ruling class. In adverse
situations, the military stepped in to rule directly. To assume a political
role, every dictator embarked on a path of acquiring a concubine in the
shape of the Muslim League and used it as an instrument of political
usurpation. The only time the Muslim Leagues were ejected from the
corridors of power was after the revolutionary upheaval

[LAAMN] KPFK COMMUNITY ADVISORY BOARD MEETING ~ SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 19th, 1:15 PM ~ At Mercado La Paloma - 3655 South Grand Avenue, L.A. ~ Located Near USC

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KPFK would like to invite you to our next Community Advisory Board meeting
on Sunday, February 19th at Mercado La Paloma. Our CAB meeting is a great
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[LAAMN] Black History Month Film Showing: Freedom on My Mind, Friday, February 24, 7:00 pm

[Freedom Socialist Party LA]

Black History Month Film Showing

 

Award Winning Documentary—

Freedom on My Mind

 

Friday, February 24, 7:00 p.m.

 

This feature length film brings to life the 1960-1965 Mississippi Voter 
Registration 
Project.  The documentary tells the story of local sharecroppers—led by women 
like Fannie Lou Hamer—and young civil rights organizers, Black and white, who 
worked together to challenge the apartheid system in Mississippi.  The betrayal 
of their demands for equality and political power at the 1964 Democratic Party 
Convention was a watershed event in the modern civil rights movement.

 

Today, racist and xenophobic “voter ID” laws threaten ‘60s civil rights gains 
with  a gateway to Jim Crow.  An open mic will follow the film on how to regain 
and extend all human and civil rights.

 

 A Chili and Cornbread supper, with vegetarian, option will be served at 6:30 
p.m.  Film donation $3-$5, supper donation $8, (work exchanges available for 
low income).  The program will be held at Solidarity Hall, 2122 W. Jefferson 
Bl., Los Angeles, off the 10 freeway at Arlington, on bus lines 38 and 209.  
Disabled accessible.

 

Co-sponsored by the Freedom Socialist Party and Radical Women.

For more information call 323-732-6416, email fs...@earthlink.net or visit 
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[LAAMN] Bilal Ali Occupy the Hood Arrested and Incarcerated

[John A Imani]

Bilal Ali aka Wayne Henderson

Just got a call at 10:35.  He is in the Metropolitan Detention Center.  MDC
(next to Parker Center).

Had been engaged in 'sleep-in' action downtown.

Arrested for 41.18d - Sleeping on sidewalk.

Bail is $250 he told me though Sheriff's website lists it at $5000.

I got $25 on it.

JAI
RAC-LA

Booking No.: * 2964366 *   Last Name: * HENDERSON *   First
Name: *WAYNE
*   Middle Name: * *

Sex: *M*   Race: *B*   Date Of Birth: *04/21/1952*   Age:
*59*  Hair:
*BLK*   Eyes: *BRO*   Height: *511*   Weight: *175*

  Charge Level: *M   (Misdemeanor)*
ARRESTArrest Date: *11/30/2011*   Arrest Time: *0330*
Arrest Agency: *4201*   Agency Description: *LAPD-CENTRAL DIVISION*

Date Booked: *11/30/2011*   Time Booked: *1541*   Booking Location:
*4273*   Location Description: *LAPD - JAIL DIVISION*
BAILTotal Bail Amount: * 5,000.00*   Total Hold Bail Amount: *
0.00*   Grand Total: *5,000.00*
HOUSING LOCATIONHousing Location: * - *

Permanent Housing Assigned Date: *12/01/2011*   Assigned Time:
*1045*  Visitor Status:
*N*

Facility: **
Address: **   City: **

 Public Visiting Guidelines

* For County facility visiting hours, Please call (213) 473-6080 at Inmate
Information Center. *
COURTNext Court Code: * *   Next Court Date: **   Next
Court Time: **   Next Court Case: * *

Court Name: **
Court Address: **   Court City: **
RELEASEActual Release Date: *12/01/2011*   Release Time:
*1813*
  CASE INFORMATION   Case No. Court Name Court Address Court City Bail
Amt. Fine
Amt. Court Date Sent. Date Sent. Day(s) Disp Code
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[LAAMN] Fw: BREAKING

[Romi Elnagar]

Greenpeace 
 
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Romi, I just wanted to give you an update on our activities in North Carolina. 
Just minutes ago, activists greeted employees at Duke headquarters with a 
message: We’re not going away until you clean up your act. Duke & its CEO Jim 
Rogers keep claiming they support using 
renewable energy, and yet they’re spending their time and money by 
investing in more dirty coal. 

We need to get 50,000 letters to Duke by tonight and we’re almost there. 
Send your message to Jim Rogers right now and tell him to dump dirty 
coal! 
Thanks, Robert

If you can't access this link, go to
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Activists have taken a stand at a coal plant in North Carolina to send a 
message: Dirty energy is not the answer. 



Help back up these activists by sending the same message yourself to Duke 
Energy CEO Jim Rogers right now.
  
Just moments ago activists took a stand at a coal-fired power plant in North 
Carolina.

Duke Energy is looking to acquire the company that owns the plant, Progress 
Energy. If the deal goes down, Duke will not only be the largest utility in the 
country but also one of the dirtiest. That’s because both companies rely on 
destructive practices like mountaintop 
removal for getting their coal and neither is making very much progress 
toward renewable energy.  

These
 activists are there to send a clear message to Duke: Dirty energy is 
not the answer. But you don’t have to be at a coal plant to send the 
same message yourself. 

Help back up the activists and help us reach our goal of 50,000 letters to 
Duke CEO Jim Rogers in the next 48 hours by sending the same message 
yourself right now. 

Companies
 like Duke know they can do better and have invested a lot of money in 
convincing the public they are. Jim Rogers himself recently acknowledged
 that his company and other utilities are in a “unique position...to 
deploy solutions, to raise the capital and not raise the national debt, 
to do it at scale...” 

Unfortunately,
 their behavior doesn't match that rhetoric. Duke continues to rely on 
dirty old coal plants like the one these activists are at today in North
 Carolina. Polluting the air, destroying mountains, poisoning the water 
and killing the climate in the process. 

And
 Duke’s planned merger with Progress Energy seems to only be leading 
them down more dead ends -- more dangerous nuclear plants, more dirty 
biomass, and more coal-fired power plants. In other words, more global warming.

Duke
 can make a different choice if they want to. But that will only happen 
if we call them out. That’s why activists have taken a stand today at a 
coal plant in North Carolina today to get the message across, and it’s 
why you should take a minute to deliver the same message yourself right 
now. 

Quit Coal,

Robert Gardner
Greenpeace Coal Campaigner  
       
Click here to forward this message.
Greenpeace 
702 H Street, NW, Suite 300, Washington, DC 20001 |
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[LAAMN] Moyers/Winship: Money Throws Democracy Overboard, Harry Truman: A Type America Will Never See Again

[Ed Pearl]

 
From: Anthony Saidy [mailto:saidych...@sbcglobal.net] 
Sent: Tuesday, February 14, 2012 11:28 PM

 
  To the below I would add Truman's part in launching the Cold War, which
might not have occurred if FDR had not dumped Henry Wallace as VP.

Sent: Tue, February 14, 2012 5:02:48 PM
Subject: HARRY & BESS

Forgiving Truman for his unconscionable use of the atom bomb of two Japanese
cities has always left me unable to deal with any good qualities he may have
had. 
That said the following demonstrates an unrecognizable aspect in our
political attitudes of today. 
-Cindy Asner


On Feb 14, 2012, at 9:51 AM, Michael Fish wrote:




HARRY & BESS



Harry Truman was a different kind of President. He probably made as many, or
more, important decisions regarding our nation's history as any of the other
42 Presidents preceding him. However, a measure of his greatness may rest on
what he did after he left the White House.

The only asset he had when he died was the house he lived in, which was in
Independence Missouri . His wife had inherited the house from her mother and
father and other than their years in the White House, they lived their
entire lives there.

When he retired from office in 1952, his income was a U.S. Army pension
reported to have been $13,507.72 a year. Congress, noting that he was paying
for his stamps and personally licking them, granted him an 'allowance' and,
later, a retroactive pension of $25,000 per year.

After President Eisenhower was inaugurated, Harry and Bess drove home to
Missouri by themselves. There was no Secret Service following them.

When offered corporate positions at large salaries, he declined, stating,
"You don't want me. You want the office of the President, and that doesn't
belong to me. It belongs to the American people and it's not for sale.."

Even later, on May 6, 1971, when Congress was preparing to award him the
Medal of Honor on his 87th birthday, he refused to accept it, writing, "I
don't consider that I have done anything which should be the reason for any
award, Congressional or otherwise."

As president he paid for all of his own travel expenses and food.

Modern politicians have found a new level of success in cashing in on the
Presidency, resulting in untold wealth. Today, many in Congress also have
found a way to become quite wealthy while enjoying the fruits of their
offices. Political offices are now for sale. 

Good old Harry Truman was correct when he observed, "My choices in life were
either to be a piano player in a whorehouse or a politician. And to tell the
truth, there's hardly any difference!

I say dig him up and clone him!! 

 * * *
 
 
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/02/14-4

Money Throws Democracy Overboard

by Bill Moyers   and Michael
Winship  
Common Dreams: February 14, 2012

Watching what's happening to our democracy is like watching the cruise ship
Costa Concordia founder and sink slowly into the sea off the coast of Italy,
as the passengers, shorn of life vests, scramble for safety as best they
can, while the captain trips and falls conveniently into a waiting life
boat.

We are drowning here, with gaping holes torn into the hull of the ship of
state from charges detonated by the owners and manipulators of capital.
Their wealth has become a demonic force in politics. Nothing can stop them.
Not the law, which has been written to accommodate them. Not scrutiny --
they have no shame. Not a decent respect for the welfare of others -- the
people without means, their safety net shredded, left helpless before events
beyond their control.

The obstacles facing the millennial generation didn't just happen. Take an
economy skewed to the top, low wages and missing jobs, predatory interest
rates on college loans: these are politically engineered consequences of
government of, by, and for the one percent. So, too, is our tax code the
product of money and politics, influence and favoritism, lobbyists and the
laws they draft for rented politicians to enact.

Here's what we're up against. Read it and weep: "America's Plutocrats Play
the Political Ponies." That's a headline in "Too Much," an Internet
publication from the Institute for Policy Studies that describes itself as
"an online weekly on excess and inequality."

Yes, the results are in and our elections have replaced horse racing as the
sport of kings. Only these kings aren't your everyday poobahs and
potentates. These kings are multi-billionaire, corporate moguls who by the
divine right, not of God, but the United States Supreme Court and its
Citizens United decision, are now buying politicians like so much pricey
horseflesh. All that money pouring into super PACs, much of it from secret
sources: merely an investment, should their horse pay off in November, in
the best government money can buy.

They're shelling out fortunes' worth of contributio