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painting by Jasper Johns. USA Flag. 1954-55.
Encaustic, oil, and collage on fabric mounted on plywood (three
panels)
42 1/4 x 60 5/8 (107.3 x 154 cm).
Original painting on exhibit at
The Museum of Modern Art, New
York, NY.
What the artist who produced this masterpiece of Contemporary American pop art has done, "is to at once love and question the US. And perhaps no artist ever did both quite so compactly as Jasper Johns when he painted an American flag."
Johnathan Jones, The Guardian, London, UK (April 22, 2003)We the People
Dirty Politics
The Public Imperative
(The New York Times, Roger Cohen, Op-Ed Columnist. October 05, 2009)Back from another trip to Europe, this time Germany, where the same dismay as in France prevails over the U.S. health care debate. Europeans don't get why Americans don't agree that universal health coverage is a fundamental contract to which the citizens of any developed society have a right.
It's Simple: Medicare for All
(The Washington Post, George S. McGovern, Opinion, September 13, 2009)(W)hat seems missing in the current battle is a single proposal that everyone can understand and that does not lend itself to demagoguery. If we want comprehensive health care for all our citizens, we can achieve it with a single sentence: Congress hereby extends Medicare to all Americans.
None dare say rationing:
ObamaCare just that, and costly
(Bostom Herald.com, July 27, 2009)Now let us consider how President Obama's health-care bill would work. An official body - staffed with government doctors, actuaries, economists and other experts - will determine which treatments, procedures and remedies are cost-effective and which are not. Then it will decide which ones will get paid for, and which won't. Democrats call this "cost-controls." But for the patient and the doctor, it's plain old rationing.
Former GOP vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin on the campaign trail (AP)
Palin repeats 'death panel' charge against Obama
(examiner.com, September 10, 2009)Writing in a Wall Street Journal editorial on Tuesday, Palin recounts Obama's request that Congress establish the Independent Medicare Advisory Council, which she characterizes as "an unelected, largely unaccountable group of experts charged with containing Medicare costs." Palin quotes the President in explaining that the Council will operate outside of "normal political channels" in cutting the health care costs associated with patients that are elderly and chronically ill.
Obama's New "Improved" Leech Therapy
(OPEN OpEd News, September 13, 2009)NOTHING about the way we pay for our health care today works, except maybe for medical mega-corporation CEOs reaping their obscene salaries and bonuses. For THEM it works just fine, and they want to keep it just like it is. For the rest of us it is an unmitigated disaster, a veritable Katrina for our whole economy, and nothing Obama said the other night was intended to change anything of substance about it.
Deaths from avoidable medical error more than double in past decade, investigation shows
(American Scientific, August 10, 2009)Preventable medical mistakes and infections are responsible for about 200,000 deaths in the U.S. each year, according to an investigation by the Hearst media corporation. The report comes 10 years after the Institute of Medicine's "To Err Is Human" analysis, which found that 44,000 to 98,000 people were dying annually due to these errors and called for the medical community and government to cut that number in half by 2004.
President Obama Address to Congress
The Dime Standard
(The New York Times, David Brooks, Op-Ed Columnist, September 10, 2009)President Obama rested the credibility of his presidency on the assurance that his health plan will not add a dime to the deficit.
For all Obama's talk of overhaul, the US has failed to wind in Wall Street
(guardian.co,uk, Joseph Stiglitz, 2001 Nobel Economics Prize Winner, Opinion, September 14)Lehmans was allowed to fail, we were told at the time, because its failure did not pose systemic risk. The systemic consequences its failure entailed, of course, were used as an excuse for the massive bailouts for the banks. Thus the Lehmans example became at best a scare tactic; at worst it became an excuse, a tool, to extract as much as possible for the banks and the bankers that brought the world to the brink of economic ruin.
We "Had" the Power to Begin the World Over Again
(WorldNews.com, Dallas Darling, September 20, 2009)
The leaders of the Group of 20 nations gathered at the first plenary session in Pittsburgh on Friday.
Jim Bourg/Reuters
Group of 20 Agrees on Far-Reaching Economic Plan
(The New York Times, September 26, 2009)The agreements, if carried out, would lead to much tighter regulation over financial institutions and executive pay.
A young girl holds a portrait of Aung San Suu Kyi at a rally in Bangkok, Thailand, on Tuesday. AFP/Getty Image
Condemnation over Suu Kyi sentence
(CNN.com/asia, August 11, 2009)The White House criticized the sentencing of Myanmar's opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi to 18 more months of house arrest Tuesday, joining a chorus of condemnation from figures ranging from the Dalai Lama to the U.N. secretary-general.
Front-runner: whereas in the past women's management style was disparaged as too soft, men are now encouraged to learn from it
How women are ahead in recession jobs race
(London Evening Standard, March 08, 2009)During previous recessions, the classic evacuation policy applied to job losses: women and children first, men last. The most disposable employees were seen as those with the least important jobs, which tended to be the young and the female.
In the past year, however, 80 per cent of the jobs lost in the United States have belonged to men, despite the fact that women now make up 50 per cent of the workforce. In the UK, the pattern is similar. The number of unemployed men has increased by 45 per cent in recent months, the number of women unemployed by a quarter.
Live Blogging the Sotomayor Hearings
Sonia Sotomayor, with her family seated behind her and with Senators Patrick Leahy and Jeff Sessions.
Walking Through the Firsts | 10:15 a.m. : Senator Leahy names Justice Thurgood Marshall, the first African-American, Justice Brandeis, the first Jewish justice, and others, in remarking how they had to undergo confirmation questioning that the senator called "embarrassing." For example, he said Marshall was asked "Are you prejudiced against the white people of the south?"
"We're in a different era," he said, and scolded those who would create a caricature of Judge Sotomayor. "Let no one demean, let no one demean, this extraordinary woman, her success, her understanding of the constitutional duties she has performed for the last 17 years."
Senator Leahy closed by noting that carved in marble from Vermont (his home state) at the Supreme Court building is
"Equal Justice Under the Law."EDITOR'S NOTE: Senator, Lindsay Graham (R-SC), grilled Judge Sonia Sotomayor Tuesday about her temperment. Graham suggested it was "striking" some lawyers were angry that Judge Sotomayor asked tought questions. Time enough someone was asking lawyers tough questions! Does that make Judge Sotomayor a bully? Nina Totenberg nails the story on NPR, July 15, 2009. On Tuesday, July 28, the Senate Judiciary Committee voted to approve Sonia Sotomayor as the first Hispanic Supreme Court justice over nearly solid Republican opposition, paving the way for a historic confirmation vote. Six Republican senators quickly announced their intention to support Sotomayor, making confirmation by the Democratic-controlled Senate a virtual certainty. Sure enought, voting largely along party lines, on Thursday, August 6, 2009, the Senate confirmed Judge Sonia Sotomayor, and on Saturday, August 8, Justice Sonia Sotomayor took the judicial oath, becoming the first Hispanic and third woman to serve on the Supreme Court in United States history, reported The New York Times.
The Myths of Justice
The perfect judge fears nothing .... he could go front to front
before God,
Before the perfect judge all shall stand back .... life and death shall
stand back .... heaven and hell shall stand back.Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, "Great Are the Myths"
Sequence 4: "Great is Justice" 142, 144-145 (Original ed. 1855)
(Penguin ed. 1959)
EDITOR'S NOTE: It is very important when a judge recognizes that you have to "stay impartial," as Justice Sotomayor emphasizes in her biographical sketch shown on YouTube. Justice Sotomayor self-identifies as a "Nuyorican"; her parents came from Puerto Rico. The existing situation in Puerto Rico has destroyed the dream of democracy and justice, especially for poor people and indigent litigants, who are plagued by Courts of Robbery and Despotism, and a corrupt monopoly of lawyers. This writer has a deep personal partisan interest in these matters, spanning over a lifetime. Let's hope citizens of Puerto Rico and their leaders, particularly in the Judiciary, are inspired by the words and life of Justice Sotomayor. All must now recommit themselves to transforming the disastrous existing situation, perhaps, with the assistance of a trusted outsider, who can violate existing norms and rules with impunity.
A celebration at the White House, Wednesday, August 12, 2009, of the inauguration of Justice Sotomayor, brings the nation "another step to the more perfect union that we all seek" President Obama stated. Yes, this is true! We can now anticipate the day when the courts are conducted as true instruments of democracy advancing a more perfect union, no longer serving as a forum for rich litigants robbing poor litigants of their fundamental liberty and property interests, supported by a corrupt monopoly of lawyers.
THE NEW FACES OF JUSTICE IN PUERTO RICO
The words of God do not justify cruelty to women
The Elders have decided to draw particular attention to the responsibility of religious and traditional leaders in ensuring equality and human rights. We have recently published a statement that declares: "The justification of discrimination against women and girls on grounds of religion or tradition, as if it were prescribed by a Higher Authority, is unacceptable."
We are calling on all leaders to challenge and change the harmful teachings and practices, no matter how ingrained, which justify discrimination against women. We ask, in particular, that leaders of all religions have the courage to acknowledge and emphasise the positive messages of dignity and equality that all the world's major faiths share.
Laura Ling and Euna Lee
North Korea pardons US reporters
N. Korea Releases U.S. Journalists:
Pardon Issued After Bill Clinton Meets With Kim Jong Il
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KCNA Detailed Report on Truth about Crimes Committed by American Journalists
Gen. Stanley McChrystal, right, at Camp Leatherneck in Afghanistan on Wednesday. He is expected to formally announce new combat rules for troops within days
General: U.S. troops must protect Afghans
(AP/MSNBC, June 24, 2009)
US Gen Stanley McChrystal said Nato troops must make a "cultural shift" away from being a force designed for high intensity combat and instead make protecting Afghan civilians their first priority.
The newly arrived four-star commander said he hopes to install a new military mindset by drilling into troops the need to reduce the number of Afghan civilians killed in combat.
Office of the Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, via Associated Press
As Crackdown Goes On, Ahmadinejad Assails Obama
"What has been going on since 2005 is the shift of the center of power from the clergy to the Pasdaran," or the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps, said a political analyst with years of experience in Iran who feared retribution if identified. "In a way one could say that Iran is no longer a theocracy, but a government headed by military chiefs."
Zahra Rahnavard, Mir Hossein Mousavi's wife, has called for the immediate release of detained opposition politicians. Photograph: Ahmed Jadallah/Reuters
Tehran 'like a war zone' as ayatollah
refuses to back down on election
Bloody clashes broke out in Tehran today as Iran's supreme leader said he would not yield to pressure over the disputed election. The renewed confrontation took place in Baharestan Square, near parliament, where hundreds of protesters faced off against several thousand riot police and other security personnel.
Witnesses likened the scene to a war zone, with helicopters hovering overhead, many arrests and the police beating demonstrators.
One woman told CNN that hundreds of unidentified men armed with clubs had emerged from a mosque to confront the protesters.
"They beat a woman so savagely that she was drenched in blood and her husband fainted. They were beating people like hell. It was a massacre," she said.
Supporters of defeated opposition candidate Mir-Hossein Mousavi battled with the police in Tehran yesterday (June 20, 2009).
Protesters cry: 'Death to Khamenei'
Iranian security forces used water cannon, batons and tear gas in clashes with protesters in Tehran yesterday after crowds demanding fresh presidential elections gathered in defiance of government and police warnings. Eyewitnesses described fierce clashes near Revolution Square in central Tehran after some 3,000 protesters chanted "Death to the dictator!" and "Death to Khamenei".
De-Dollarization:
Dismantling America's Financial-Military Empire
The city of Yakaterinburg, Russia's largest east of the Urals, may become known not only as the death place of the tsars but of American hegemony too - and not only where US U-2 pilot Gary Powers was shot down in 1960, but where the US-centered international financial order was brought to ground.
Challenging America will be the prime focus of extended meetings in Yekaterinburg, Russia (formerly Sverdlovsk) today and tomorrow (June 15-16) for Chinese President Hu Jintao, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev and other top officials of the six-nation Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO). The alliance is comprised of Russia, China, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Kyrghyzstan and Uzbekistan, with observer status for Iran, India, Pakistan and Mongolia. It will be joined on Tuesday by Brazil for trade discussions among the BRIC nations (Brazil, Russia, India and China).
Russian Prime Ministyer Vladimir Putin attends a meeting of the Eurasian Economic Community in Moscow, Tuesday, June 9, 2009 (photo AP/RIA-Novesh, Alexei Nikolsky, Pool).
Russia ready for nuclear-free world,
Putin says
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said on Wednesday he was in favour of a world free of nuclear weapons if other countries were willing to pursue the same goal.
Speaking at a joint news conference with German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier, Putin said: "Why do we need nuclear weapons? If other nuclear states are ready for (a nuclear-weapons-free world), we are too."
U.S. President Barack Obama set out his vision for ridding the world of nuclear arms in April, declaring the United States was ready to lead steps by all states with atomic weapons to reduce their arsenals.
Global Peace Index 2009.
Note: The index's supporters include Nobel Laureates Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu, Prof Joseph Stiglitz and former United Nations secretary-general Kofi Annan, and businessman Richard Branson
World Became Less Peaceful in 2008: 3rd Annual Global Peace Index Points to Economic Crisis as Main Cause of Decline in Peacefulness --
New Zealand World's Most Peaceful Country, United States Climbs Six Spots to 83rd Place Bosnia & Herzegovina Most Improved; Moves Up 23 Places Madagascar Sees Biggest Fall; Drops 30 Spots An Estimated US$4.8 Trillion Could be Added to Global Economy if World Became More Peaceful The global economic recession and an increase in violent conflict and political instability around the planet have taken a toll on world peacefulness in 2008, according to the 2009 Global Peace Index (GPI) released today in events in Washington and London, including an event at Washington's Center for Strategic and International Studies.
Principle Authors of the American Creed
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Every man, every woman, and every child of democracy can understand what "a government of the people, by the people, for the people," is all about, as our greatest leaders have said in defining the American creed on more than one occasion, in different times, and in different words: Mr. Jefferson in his Declaration of Independence, President Lincoln in his Gettysburg Address, and Reverend King, Jr. in his I Have a Dream, speech.
Now comes this generattion of Americans to discover and realize the way forward
Obama Power - Striving for "A More Perfect Union"
Changing the Values and Structures of Democracy in America
I believe with every fiber of my being that in the long run we also cannot keep this country safe unless we enlist the power of our most fundamental values. The documents that we hold in this very hall - the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, the Bill of Rights -are not simply words written into aging parchment. They are the foundation of liberty and justice in this country, and a light that shines for all who seek freedom, fairness, equality and dignity in the world.
I stand here today as someone whose own life was made possible by these documents. My father came to our shores in search of the promise that they offered. My mother made me rise before dawn to learn of their truth when I lived as a child in a foreign land. My own American journey was paved by generations of citizens who gave meaning to those simple words - "to form a more perfect union." I have studied the Constitution as a student; I have taught it as a teacher; I have been bound by it as a lawyer and legislator. I took an oath to preserve, protect and defend the Constitution as Commander-in-Chief, and as a citizen, I know that we must never - ever - turn our back on its enduring principles for expedience sake.
The Real Path to Security
(The New York Times, Editorial May 22, 2009)
The President's Speech in Cairo: A New Beginning
The Trouble With Democrats: Reclaiming the Economy for the People
Senator Dick Durbin (D-IL) told a hometown radio interviewer: "Hard to believe in a time when we're facing a banking crisis that many of the banks created--they are still the most powerful lobby on Capitol Hill. And frankly, they own the place."
EDITIOR'S NOTE: I have a Washington Mutual (*WaMU") credit card that was taken over by JP Morgan Chase. Previously, in 2001, I had a Chase credit card that expired in 2003 with a balance of about $1000.00. That debt is now barred by the applicable three-year statute of limitations. After Chase took over WaMu they notified me they would not renew my WaMu account (a $500 credit with outstanding balance of $319.62, never late) unless I paid the barred Chase account. An attempt to collect on a debt that does not exist is considered "unfair and unconscionable" under consumer credit law. No matter, our pernicious American banks simply disregard the law with impunity. Immediately following the recent credit card reform bill (described by William Greider as "reform lite") Chase notified me they were unilaterally changing the terms of my WaMu credit card they now own. Effective July 1, 2009, they will charge me 21.99% above the Prime Rate, currently 25.24%. The annual percentage rate for my WaMu account was 6.74% above the Prime Rate.
Is this style of conduct to maximize profit without moral sensitivity sustainable or merely an expression of delusion founded upon greed awaiting yet another capitalist collapse? I do not have to accept this exceedingly abusive credit card account. So I asked Chase what the minimum payment should be to pay them off before the date for card renewal (October 2010). This is how the big pissers responded:
Dear Vigdor, We appreciate this opportunity to respond to your inquiry regarding your minimum payments. Please be advised that we are unable to determine your monthly minimum payments until October 2010. Your minimum monthly payment will be the highest amount of the following to ensure that 1% of the minimum payment is applied to the principle balance: - The amount of the balance if it is less than $10.00 - 2% of the balance - The sum of 1% of the balance plus total finance charges billed, plus any late/overlimit fees, plus any past due/overlimit balance. If you have any further questions, please reply using the Secure Message Center. Thank you, Jacinta Lobo E-mail Customer Service Representative
Why America is a bank-owned state
Remaking Financial Regulations
of the governing systems at the top of the hierarchy of control, are not shaped by lower-level regulatory schemes. It is the higher level control system, which has the real power of control. That's why there now appears "a joker in the deck of the Obama proposal" in that "it relies heavily on the Federal Reserve, which on the regional level is fully controlled by the very financial industry firms that it is expected to monitor."EDITORS COMMENT: Without value-driven systems of governance, regulation of public service, did not work, it was the industry that controlled the regulatory agencies. Deregulation, did not work, this scheme drove the whole global economy and ecology of the world, over the cliff. Reregulation will not work either if the driving values of the regulating agencies remain unchanged. All these failures occur for the same reason: the driving values
This is a stacked deck, engineered by Larry Summers and Tim Geithner, the very persons most responsible for the terrible current crisis. This is a very profitable stacked deck, enriching the finance industry by looting the US Treasury, and robbing the American people blind. There is the promise of financial reform
, of course, but as Paul Krugman writes in the New York Times, June 19, 2009, "President Obama's plan for financial reform basically punts on the question of how to keep what went wrong from happening again." The insider reform strategy is bereft of the driving values that are indispensable for any real transformation. The Summers and Geithner financial reform package simply guarantees continuation of bank control over their own furure and the future of American citizens. These machinations explain why America is a bank owned state, supported by the Courts of Robbery and Despotism, and by the Legislative Assembly of state and national governments, which are owned by the finance industry, as my own personal experience in the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, for example, confirms.Is there a viable rescue plan? There are no solutions, as such, what is needed is a transformation of the whole value system of the nation, which can occur only within the deep engagement of society in a new meta-mission. Thomas L. Friedman, Hot, Flat, and Crowded: Why We Need A Green Revolution (2008)). This radical change of direction can inspire everyone to struggle for their country, build a new clean energy system, take on the responsibility of global climate control, and conserve biodiversity and the special heritage of the Planet Earth. Without this deep change of national systems, driven by a transformation of values, we are stuck in the devastating corruptions of capitalist finance, communications, irresponsible democratic institutions, and insider greed, which comprise The Frankenstein Civilization, on a role straight to hell.
Banking time bombs
Governments are trying to find solutions to this problem that are dictated by the interests of the banking and financial sectors.
But when did the interests of the financial sector become the interest of the country?
Particularly when unemployment in the US is estimated to go over ten per cent. Has anyone asked a person who is losing their home how they feel about this?
Simon Johnson, a former IMF chief economist, recently said: "Throughout the crisis, the government has taken extreme care not to upset the interests of the the financial institutions or to question the basic outlines of the system that got us here.
EDITORS COMMENT: This "trickle down" economic policy clearly does not serve the national interest, it is both dangerous and a betrayal of the explicit campaign promise given by Presidential Candidate Obama: "Prosperity is not just going to trickle down" Senator Obama emphasized in Debate II. Moreover, President Obama has been accused of "The Abandonment of Democracy" and rightly so, by Jashua Murauchik, a fellow at the Foreign Policy Institute of the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies, published in The Wall Street Journal, June 29, 2009. The takeover of American government and destruction of American democracy by Big Money, must be put down right now. This is an intolerable abuse of power.
In search of dignity
Americans still admire dignity. But the word has become unmoored from any larger set of rules or ethical system.
But it's not right to end on a note of cultural pessimism because there is the fact of President Obama. Whatever policy differences people may have with him, we can all agree that he exemplifies reticence, dispassion and the other traits associated with dignity. The cultural effects of his presidency are not yet clear, but they may surpass his policy impact. He may revitalize the concept of dignity for a new generation and embody a new set of rules for self-mastery.
Bush Truth Commission
There is a renewed public call for accountability at BushTruthCommission.com, and many congressional leaders -- like Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi and Senator Chris Dodd -- have now thrown their support behind our proposed truth commission, too.
Hundreds of people wait in line to get into a job fair presented by Jobs and Careers Newspaper and Job Fairs in San Mateo, Calif., Wednesday, Feb. 25, 2009 (photo: AP/ Paul Sakoma).
Global recession worst since World War II
"This looks like the most synchronized recession in world history: We are all going down together," said David Wyss, chief economist of Standard and Poor's.
Thievery Under the TARP
We are being robbed big-time, but you can't say we haven't been warned. Not after the release Tuesday of a scathing report by the Treasury Department's special inspector general, who charged that the aptly named Troubled Asset Relief Fund bailout program is rife with mismanagement and potential for fraud. The IG's office already has opened 20 criminal fraud investigations into the $700 billion program, which is now well on its way to a $3 trillion obligation, and the IG predicts many more are coming.
SPECIAL INSPECTOR GENERAL
TROUBLED ASSSET RELIEF PROGRAM
QUARTERLY REPORT TO CONGRESS I
(US Treasury Department, Apr. 21, 2009)
Raul Castro
Castro ready to put 'everything' on table in US talks
"There are a range of steps that could be taken on the part of the Cuban government," Mr Obama added. "My guidepost in US-Cuba policy is going to be how can we encourage Cuba to be respectful of the rights of its people."
Cuba's membership of the Organisation of American States was suspended in 1962, and Mr Castro himself was not at the Port of Spain summit. But, within hours of Mr Obama's remarks, Mr Castro, who was attending meetings of leftist leaders in Venezuela, returned the ball with rhetorical challenges of his own.
"We've told the North American government that we are prepared to discuss everything -- human rights, freedom of the press, political prisoners -- everything, everything, everything," he said. He went on, however, to underline that the Cuba will enter such dialogue only if the US "respects" the right of self-determination for the island.
The New Class And The Workers
"When the oppressed man can find justice in no other way, then he calmly reaches up into the sky and pulls down his eternal rights that hang there, inalienable and, like the stars, imperishable. When no other means remains, then he must needs take up the sword." (Friedrich Schiller, William Tell)
Crisis Altering Wall Street as Big Banks Lose Top Talent
There is an air of exodus on Wall Street -- and not just among those being fired. As Washington cracks down on compensation and tightens regulation of banks, a brain drain is occurring at some of the biggest ones. They are some of the same banks blamed for setting off the worst downturn since the Depression.
US watchdog calls for bank executives to be sacked
Elizabeth Warren, chief watchdog of America's $700bn (472bn pounds) bank bailout plan, will this week call for the removal of top executives Citigroup, AIG and other institutions that have received government funds in a damning report that will question the administration's approach to saving the financial system from collapse.
Obama's Ersatz Capitalism
What the Obama administration is doing with the banks is far worse than nationalization: it is the privatizing of gains and the socializing of losses.
America the Tarnished
The financial crisis has had many costs. And one of those costs is the damage to America's reputation, an asset we've lost just when we, and the world, need it most.
Why the Bank Bailout is Unconstitutional
WASHINGTON -- It is high time Americans heard an argument that might turn a vague national uneasiness into a vivid awareness of something going very wrong. The argument is that the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008 (EESA) is unconstitutional.
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The Supreme Court has said: "That Congress cannot delegate legislative power to the president is a principle universally recognized as vital to the integrity and maintenance of the system of government ordained by the Constitution." And the court has said that properly delegated discretion must come with "an intelligible principle" and must "clearly delineate" a policy that limits the discretion. EESA flunks that test.
All Gone
A desirable future that is viable obviously cannot be predicated upon the values that produced the current disaster. The bailout of the finance industry that embraces those disastrous values is ludicrous... The old value system must be buried to make way for serious commitment to the new.
An Overreaction to A.I.G. Bonuses?
As the anger of average Americans at the greed of the Wall Street elite boils over, President Obama calmly says that his goal is to "channel our anger in a constructive way."
He might, however, learn from President Franklin D. Roosevelt how to exploit and mobilize that anger rather than simply react to it.
"Government by organized money," Roosevelt exclaimed to a roaring Madison Square Garden crowd in the fall of 1936, "is just as dangerous as government by organized mob." The reckless bankers and financiers, he continued, "are unanimous in their hate for me - and I welcome their hatred!"
Wall Street's Dangerous Refusal to Learn
Like it or not, we're all in this together now. It's cooperation and compromise, not the usual every-man-for-himself competition, that is going to get us out of this mess. And the sooner people on Wall Street embrace that reality, the better it will be for everyone.
AIG Execs Should Quit or "Commit Suicide"
Perp Walks Instead of Bonuses
Too Big Not To Fail
... current bailouts--a remarkable $7.8 trillion in equity, loans, and guarantees so far--may merely perpetuate a fundamentally flawed status quo. So far, at least, we are simply rebuilding the same edifice that just collapsed.
Bad News From America's Top Spy
Hints of our brave new world seeped out Thursday when Washington's new director of national intelligence, retired Adm. Dennis Blair, testified before the Senate Intelligence Committee. He warned that the deepening economic crisis posed perhaps our gravest threat to stability and national security.
It turns out that Wall Street, rather than Islamic jihad, has produced our most dangerous terrorists.... The corporate thieves, those who insisted they be paid tens of millions of dollars because they were the best and the brightest, have been exposed as con artists. Our elected officials, along with the press, have been exposed as corrupt and spineless corporate lackeys. Our business schools and intellectual elite have been exposed as frauds. The age of the West has ended. Look to China. Laissez-faire capitalism has destroyed itself. It is time to dust off your copies of Marx.
Biracial Miss France 2009, 19-year old. Chloe Mortaud. The Root/Getty Images.
Miss France and the New Black
Blackness is fast moving to the center of the world's psyche. For proof, look no further than last month's crowning of a binational and biracial Miss France 2009.
Obama Promises Massive Public Works Program
WASHINGTON -- President-elect Barack Obama committed Saturday to the largest public works building program since the creation of the interstate highway system a half century ago as he seeks to put together a plan to resuscitate the reeling economy.
"We need action -- and action now," he said in an address taped for broadcast Saturday morning on radio and YouTube.
Brennan Cavanaugh
Jimmy Roberts, who collects money for the homeless, and the writer Gay Talese, whose idea for a new sign -- including the words "Obama's Stimulus Plan" -- encourages passers-by to give.
City Room: When Panhandlers Need a Wordsmith's Touch
(The New York Times, Feb. 17, 2008)Gay Talese, a nonfiction author and former Times reporter, had an idea to make pleas for donations to panhandlers more eye-catching -- a stimulus package, of sorts, for them.
Ideas for Obama
(The New York Times, Paul Krugman Op-Ed, Jan. 11, 2009)The Case for Bigger Government
(Time/CNN, Jeffrey Sachs Commentary, Jan. 8, 2009)Robots, Not Roads: The Obama stimulus package should be spent on transformative investments, not bridges and buildings.
(Slate, Eliot Spitzer, former Governor of New York, Jan. 5, 2009)The Next Really Cool Thing
(The New York Times, Thomas L. Friedman, Op-Ed Column, March 15, 2009)
This year is the bicentennial of the birth of Charles Darwin, and the 150th anniversary of the publication of On the Origin of Species -- Out of Darwin's expressions came Robert Assagioli's articulation of the action within us of the morally driven "superconscious," and the drive of "the will" in moral agency.
"When danger threatens us," he tells us in a passage evoking the horror and outrage Darwin expressed regarding the treatment of slaves, as well as moral agency ranging from Darwin's monkey who rescues his keeper to Assagioii's own controntation with the fascists, "suddenly, from the mysterious depths of our being, surges an unsuspected strength ... Before the threatening attitude of an unfair superior or when facing an excited mob, when personal reasons would induce us to yield, the will gives us the power to say resolutely: 'No! At all costs I stand by my convictions, I will perform what I take to be right.'" D. Loye, Darwin's Lost Theory 298 (2007), quoting R. Assagioli, The Act of Will 8 (1973).
Unbreakable resistance of the Palestinioan people and protest against Israli genecide sweeping the world, reported here, is this not another expression of the morally driven "superconscious," and the drive of "the will" in moral agency that Darwin predicted?
All attempts to colonize the global people through a materialistic world-view associated with modern science, enforced by a philosophy of fear and weapons of mass destruction, are self-destructive. Capitalism, itself, the materialist religion, has fallen on the rocks of the Chaos Monster. Revival of this failed scheme is doomed. No amount of subsidy of such a narrow and destructive organization of human civilization can ever again gain credibility or viability. We must look to the Global Noosphere, and the Global Sounding Moral Code to guide the evolution of the mind of humankind, relying upon our innate moral sensitivity and love, as Darwin envisioned, to inspire a better future. A new model of social organization is needed for that purpose, to employ citizens in an enterprise scheme that is focused on the liberating action of doing good in the world, a basic human motivation, and not merely making profit guided by a self-destructive ethic of greed. Call it The Darwin School.
Darwin's year
(guardian.co.uk, Jan 5, 2009)
The anniversary of the scientist's birth will stoke the flames of a fierce debate, but there will be dialogue too.
Darwinism Must Die So That Evolution May Live
Equating evolution with Charles Darwin ignores 150 years of discoveries, including most of what scientists understand about evolution.
The Ghost at the Birthday Party
What might the ghosts of Darwin and Abraham Lincoln have to say if called on for a few words in the midst of this their great birthday party year?
The majesty of their lives, works, and actions plainly tell us that paramount for both of them were the love, moral sensitivity, and education that Darwin-very much alive, no ghost yet-insisted were the prime drivers for human evolution in the long ignored completion for his theory.
Isn't it about time that here in America and worldwide we hear them-and do something drastic about it?
Adam and Eve by Lucas Cranach the Elder. Photograph: The Bridgeman art library/Getty
Defying Darwin
(guardian.co.uk, Feb. 17, 2009)
The Darwin School
Fatah's Ahmed Qurei (l) and Hamas' Mussa Abu Marzug speak during their meeting in Cairo, 26 Feb 2009.
photo: AP/Amir Nabil
Palestinians agree on unity government
(Agence France-Presse/The Australian ,
Feb. 27, 2009)
Former peace negotiators urge world to engage with Hamas
Israelis told to fight 'holy war' in Gaza, soldier says
Palestinian unity talks in Cairo end with no deal
Churchill's Children: Guardian reading for Caryl Churchill's Gaza play
Seven Jewish Children divided critics. The Guardian's Michael Billington praised its "remarkably condensed poetic form" which showed "theatre's power to heighten consciousness and articulate moral outrage". In the Sunday Times Christopher Hart called it "a ludicrous, dishonest and grossly anti-Israeli rant".
SEVEN JEWISH CHILDREN: a play for Gaza
(guardian.co.uk, Caryl Churchill, Apr. 25, 2009)
New Amnesty report calls for comprehensive
arms embargo on Israel and Hamas
The Case Against Israel's "Right To Exist"
Israel has been more or less continuously at war with its neighbors as well as the indigenous population since its inception. It has made no serious attempt to resolve the conflict other than through force, stonewalling and subversion (Oslo, Annapolis and Camp David were all charades), only a steady, seemingly inexorable process of bringing to fruition the Zionist dream of Greater Israel - either the more grandiose version that would encompass all the land between the Nile and the Euphrates, or the relatively modest one, from the Jordan River to the sea. Through financial and political arm-twisting, relentless hasbara that has established the fanciful Zionist narrative as "history" in the popular mind, and using the Holocaust to guilt-trip the craven and gullible Western world, the secular fascist ideology of Zionism and its quasi-religious sibling, the Holocult, have, in a very real sense, also conquered the West. An extraordinarily successful campaign one might say, the ultimate real estate scam, but one that is doomed, as it is based only on lies and greed, violence, bribery and extortion.
Boycott Israel
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The artist Emily Jacir on Palestine, on her upcoming exhibit at the Guggenheim and on learning to fire a weapon.
Looking Backward Looking Forward
Accountability is the bedrock foundation of democracy. Democracy alone has the key to genuine progressive change. Not by political rhetoric but when ordinary citizens together with their public officials form a Union, we shall have "change you can believe in."
The Politics of Silence on Gaza
The Obama Bubble Bursting in Gaza. With regard to the raging conflict in Gaza between Palestinians and Israel we do not speak about the apartheid ghetos of Gaza imposed by the murderous Israeli seige, because there is only "one president at a time" but we do dramatically emphasize the need to stop the Palestinian defense, "sending rockets into my house where my two daughters sleep at night." What about the bombed out houses where the starving Palestinian children try to sleep at night, with their dead parents close by, cut off from humanitarian assistance by the murderous Israeli seige? Silence!
Obama 'is no Martin Luther King'
It is true that there could have been no Obama presidency had Dr King and the movement he sprang from not existed, but that simple fact of history does not amount to a King benediction from the grave for Obama's moral character and political policies.
Indeed, Dr King's life and words are indelible evidence that he and Obama represent opposing moral and political camps.
Joyous Inaugural or Global Hypnosis?
Video: Barack Obama seeks to mend US ties with Muslim world
Americans are not your enemy, president tells Arabic cable TV network al-Arabiya
The Power of Listening
So far, Obama's missed the point on Gaza...
George Mitchell named special envoy for the Middle East
Did Obama Set-Up Mitchell
To Fail In The Middle East?
As articulated well by President Jimmy Carter, it is wrong to frame this conflict simply as "democratic Israel" facing "terrorist groups like Hamas" and it is wrong to continue to fund Israeli wars while claiming to be an "honest broker." It is analogous to describing the struggles in South Africa in the 1980s as "democratic South Africa" facing off against "terrorist groups like the ANC" (actually that was President Reagan's framing in his first term in office as he supported Apartheid). Yes, some members of the ANC did use terror (including "necklacing" or burning their rivals alive) but that was miniscule compared to the state terrorism and apartheid they faced. The US cannot be an honest broker so long as the US government continues to:
Give billions in military aid to Israel that is used to commit war crimes and crimes against humanity (see human rights reports on the recent Gaza aggression including use of White Phosphorus and DIME weapons).
Use its veto power and diplomatic muscle to shield Israel from International Law and Human Rights obligations.
Demand that Hamas accepts Israel's right to exist, renounce violence, and abide by previous agreements (that they did not sign) while they US refuses to demand the same from Israel. Why not insist that Israel recognize Palestine's right to exist (or at least Palestinian right to true independence on the land that Israel has been stealing since 1947 partition resolution). Why not ask Israel to renounce violence and why not demand it abide by the signed agreements (e.g. freezing settlement activities, opening borders, allowing freedom of movement etc.).
Talking about talking to Hamas
While Gaza's rubble was still smouldering, one of Israel's most celebrated writers, David Grossman, seized the front-page of the left-leaning daily newspaper Haaretz to pen an impassioned entreaty for dialogue.
"We must speak to the Palestinians -- We must speak also to those who do not recognise our right to exist here," wrote Grossman, author of See under: Love and a veteran peace campaigner who lost a soldier son in Israel's last war, in Lebanon in 2006. "Instead of ignoring Hamas -- we would do better to take advantage of the new reality that has been created by beginning a dialogue with them immediately."
"We must speak, even if dialogue seems hopeless from the start," he wrote. "We must speak out of understanding, born as we look out at the horrible devastation, as we grasp that the harm we are capable of inflicting on each other -- is so enormous and so destructive and so utterly senseless, that if we surrender to it and accept its logic, it will end up destroying us all."
Mitchell heads to Middle East to initiate dialogue between Israel and Hamas
President Barack Obama's special envoy to the Middle East, George Mitchell, is expected tomorrow to explore the chances of the Palestinian group Hamas being brought into a peace dialogue with Israel.
Carter says Hamas must be included
HINTS OF A ONE-STATE SOLUTION TO ISRAELI CONFLICT
Can Mitchell broker Belfast-style pact in Mideast?
Five minutes to midnight on a two-state solution
New U.S. Administration Disappoints Israel
At a protest Tuesday in Deir-Al-Balah, Gaza Strip, Hamas members carried Islamic flags and a banner portraying three Israeli leaders. The banner read, in multiple languages, "The killers of children."
Hamas celebrates 'victory' amid rubble from
Israeli assault on Gaza
(McClatchy Newspapers/KansasCity.com, Jan. 20, 2009)
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip -- Hamas officials emerged from weeks in hiding Tuesday for a defiant "victory celebration" with their supporters outside the gutted Parliament building.
It was the latest sign that Israel's three-week assault neither broke the militant Islamist group nor weakened its control of the Gaza Strip.
Children seeking refugee in a UN school in Gaza. (Aljazeera)
Gaza: Terribly Bloodied, Still Breathing
(The Palestinian Chronicle, Caoimhe Butterly Essay, Jan. 16, 2009)
Today's death toll was over 75, one of the bloodiest days since the start of this carnage. Over 1,110 Palestinians have been killed in the past 21 days. 367 of those have been children. The humanitarian infrastructure of Gaza is on its knees- already devastated by years of comprehensive siege. There has been a deliberate, systematic destruction of all places of refuge. There are no safe places here, for anyone.
And yet, in the face of so much desecration, this community has remained intact. The social solidarity and support between people is inspiring, and the steadfastness of Gaza continues to humble and inspire all those who witness it. Their level of sacrifice demands our collective response- and recognition that demonstrations are not enough. Gaza, Palestine and its people continue to live, breathe, resist and remain intact and this refusal to be broken is a call and challenge to us all.
Video: War on Gaza - the aftermath
Residents of Jabaliya refugee camp, north of Gaza City, pick up the pieces of their lives from the rubble of Israeli bombing.
Attacks scar Gaza's children
Counselors and aid workers fear that Gaza's children, who make up 56 percent of the 1.4 million people here, will grow up hating Israel and become easier prey for extremists.
In pummeled Gaza, Hamas Recoups
Israel settlers trying to prevent peace deal
Ed. Devastating report of Israeli apartheid regime of oppression against Palestinians.
Saudi Arabia to donate $1 billion to rebuild Gaza
Jewish group shuts Israeli Consulate in Los Angeles to stop slaughter in Gaza. Photo: Robert Lowden
Jews in solidarity with Palestine
(WORKERS WORLD, Jan. 21, 2009)
An open letter from Jewish people to Israeli soldiers is circulating worldwide. It characterizes Israel's operation in Gaza as a war crime and calls on the soldiers to refuse orders to take part.
Another letter, signed by 78 Jewish people, primarily academics, in England, says, "The time for appeasing Israel is long past," and demands, "Britain must withdraw the British ambassador to Israel and, as with apartheid South Africa, embark on a program of boycott, divestment and sanctions."
We are facing a genocidal war
The most immediate thing right now is to promote a boycott of Israel. We saw the Turkish example, perhaps the most effective way of advocacy: they have forbidden Israeli sports teams to play in their country, and they have boycotted Dead Sea products. We need a popular boycott: several thousand people who don't buy any Israeli products, who prevent any Israeli football player from playing abroad. In order to boycott, even in Italy, you don't have to let Israeli singers sing or players play. Israel does what it does not in vain, we are in the throes of neoconservative ideology: although they use democratic tools, their beliefs are antidemocratic... The popular movement in this moment has the role to mobilize, to boycott, to file legal complaints, to not allow their governments to continue being an accomplice to Israel.
ANC lawmakers rip Israel
African National Congress lawmakers said Israeli abuses against Palestinians "make apartheid look like a Sunday school picnic."
Hitler Yesterday Israel Today
THE GRANDCHILDREN OF HOLOCAUST SURVIVORS FROM WORLD WAR II ARE DOING TO THE PALESTINIANS EXACTLY WHAT WAS DONE TO THEM BY NAZI GERMANY
Jewish leaders object to Nazi imagery at rallies
The use of Nazi imagery at recent anti-Israel demonstrations across Europe has fanned the flames of anti-Semitism and incited violence against Jews, the head of Israel's Holocaust memorial said Monday.
Israel an apartheid nation?
YES
For first time, U.S. professors call for academic and cultural boycott of Israel
To Boycott or Not to Boycott,
That Is the Question
Support for Israel must stop
Moral vacuity in boycott against Israel
S. African dock workers won't unload Israeli goods
World Zionist Congress conference concludes: Gaza war legitimized equating Jews with Nazis
Gaza is no Warsaw Ghetto
Why Israel won't survive
Gaza will likely be seen as the turning point when Israeli propaganda lost its power to mystify, silence and intimidate as it has for so long. Even the Nazi Holocaust, long deployed by Zionists to silence Israel's critics, is becoming a liability; once unimaginable comparisons are now routinely heard. Jewish and Palestinian academics likened Israel's actions in Gaza to the Nazi massacre in the Warsaw Ghetto. A Vatican cardinal referred to Gaza as a "giant concentration camp." UK Member of Parliament Gerald Kaufman, once a staunch Zionist, told the House of Commons, "My grandmother was ill in bed when the Nazis came to her home town of Staszow, [Poland]. A German soldier shot her dead in her bed." Kaufman continued, "my grandmother did not die to provide cover for Israeli soldiers murdering Palestinian grandmothers in Gaza." He denounced the Israeli military spokesperson's justifications as the words "of a Nazi."
Hamas offers conditional ceasefire
Gaza truce takes hold; Israeli pullout begins
War is Politics: The Israeli Invasion of Gaza
Israelis Are Beginning to See the Power of BDS
Boycotts hurt Israeli produce industry
'This is apartheid'
Public urged to boycott Israeli produce
Consumers association boycotts Israeli, US goods
Turkish PM: Israel should be barred from UN
British Jews Call for Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions against Israel
Dublin protest calls for boycott of Israel
An Unnecessary War
Israel: Boycott, Divest, Sanction
Mahathir calls for boycott of US products
KUALA LUMPUR: Former Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad on Monday called for a global boycott of the US dollar and US-made products, including Coca-Cola, in protest over Washington's backing of Israel.
Mahathir, who during his two decades in power was a leading voice in the Muslim world, said people had to take action against the United States over its support for Israel, which is conducting a military offensive in Gaza.
"If you stop accepting US currency, the US can't trade and can't make any money, it will become very poor and it will have to stop the production of more and more weapons in order to kill people," he told a press conference.
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