DESPERATELY NEEDED: Jews Confront Zionism

BREAKTHROUGH ON A CRITICAL FRONT: JEWS CONFRONT ZIONISM Prominent rich American Jews like NYC’s mayor Bloomberg, or the scions to the Seagram’s fortune (the Bronfmans), constitute a tiny percentage of Jewish opinion, but it’s the only one receiving constant and ubiquitous attention throughout the corporate media (which many of them own outright, too, as is [...]

US House passes Obama administration’s carbon trading legislation

The new American Clean Energy Act: Exposing the fraudulence of centrist “solutions” to systemic problems. By Patrick O’Connor / The World Socialist Web Site29 June 2009 RELATED (SEE BELOW) Dennis Kucinich: “Why I voted No. Passing a weak bill today gives us weak environmental policy tomorrow”— Zionlib Henry A. Waxman (D-Calif.) serves as House Energy Committee [...]

AMAZING GRACE: The Animal Story

ONCE AGAIN, INSPIRATION FROM ANIMALS The inscrutable innocence of animals often gives us lessons in charity and acceptance. So it was with the remarkable “odd couple” formed by Owen and Mzee. (As readers may recall, in December 2004, a frightened young hippo, christened “Owen”, separated from his family by a devastating tsunami, bonded with an [...]

The Iran crucible: reckoning with the effects of stealth propaganda

GUEST EDITORIAL IRAN AND PUBLIC OPINION: AN ANSWER TO CRITICS (Prepared by the World Socialist Web Site*) EDITORS’ NOTE: Our coverage of Iran has sparked a multitude of responses, many irate, arguing (baselessly in our view) that we failed to understand the real issues being decided, that we failed to show enough respect or appreciation [...]

Sicko (Revisited) By Stephen Gowans

ANOTHER LOOK AT MICHAEL MOORE’S SiCKO Michael Moore by STEPHEN GOWANS Editor’s Note: This is a repost of an article penned in 2007.  We reproduce it here to help illuminate the current debate on healthcare, already almost hopelessly polluted by the lies and tergiversations issuing from the corporate stakeholders’ side, the media, US Congress, and [...]

GLEN FORD: Obama’s Emerging Legacy: Wars, Bankers and For-Profit Healthcare

S P E C I A L •  to  • C Y R A N O OBAMA’S EMERGING LEGACY: WARS, BANKERS, AND A FOR-PROFIT HEALTHCARE / by BAR executive editor Glen Ford. // The first Black president has racked up some impressive victories. Barack Obama has quarantined single-payer healthcare advocates, crushed dissent against the war [...]

Darfur vs. Ogaden, Mugabe vs. Meles

If the neutral left is really neutral, why does it keep coming down hard on the West’s official enemies while ignoring the West’s henchmen? By Stephen Gowans Zimbabwe’s president Robert Mugabe (L) is probably one of the most vilified figures in international politics, and has been in Washington’s crosshairs for quite some time. That alone [...]

LORI PRICE: Appalling US Hypocrisy Toward Iran

‘Hello, Pot? This is Kettle. You’re Green.’ –US Hypocrisy Toward Iran By Lori Price, www.legitgov.org The world’s biggest hypocrite and meddlesome nosy parker, the United States, has outdone itself with its reaction to the post-election events in Iran. At least five glaring ‘grand hypocrisy’ categories have emerged, with more likely on the way. What other country [...]

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