Posted by seumasach on January 31, 2009
30th January, 2009
This op-ed, by Yossi Sarid, appeared on the Haaretz English-language website earlier today. It doesn’t seem to be on their main page any more, so here it is in its entirely, in case you missed it.
(Recall, among other things, that Yisrael Beiteinu is proposing a measure to strip “disloyal” Arab citizens of their citizenship, something that has as its model a 1935 Nazi law).
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Posted by seumasach on January 31, 2009
Former US envoy to the UN John Bolton says Washington has lost its battle with Iran.
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31st January, 2009
Former US envoy to the UN John Bolton says Washington has suffered a humiliating defeat in its drive against Iran’s nuclear activities.
In a Friday interview with BBC Persian, Bolton said Washington’s efforts to curb Tehran’s nuclear achievements have come to naught as Tehran has successfully managed to defend its national interests.
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Posted by smeddum on January 31, 2009
These two articles are sending mixed signals. It was a strange introduction in that I read both of them just before
I came across this New York times article: that set the tone
retrospectively.http://www.socialistworker.co.uk/art.php?id=16951
http://tvnz.co.nz/business-news/long-slump-in-aust-because-marx-ignored-2457506
“Banks were among the institutions that bought the debts but they were also involved in speculating on the value of them.
As it became clear that the debts were a riskier investment than previously believed, fear gripped the financial sector.”
Professor Steve Keen quotes Marx.
“The credit system, which has its focus in the so-called national banks and the big-money lenders and usurers surrounding them, constitutes enormous centralisation, and gives this class of parasites the fabulous power, not only to periodically despoil industrial capitalists, but also to interfere in actual production in a most dangerous manner – and this gang knows nothing about production and has nothing to do with it,” Marx’s words published 11 years after his death said.”
This “fear gripped financial sector” versus “this class of parasites with fabulous power”.
Is this a shift of emphasis or is it that the SWP have decriminalized institutions? And is this mistake born in the aftermath of 9/11. An event that said more about “fabulous power” than the luck of a one off terrorist cell.
There was none of the old swagger at Citigroup headquarters on Friday. The bonus checks had landed — and some of the bankers were grumbling.
Many of those walking to work on Wall Street in Manhattan are walking away with less bonus pay because of outside pressure.
After a year of yawning losses at the company, employees lamented that times were getting lean. The giant bank, the recipient of two multibillion-dollar rescues from Washington, had paid out only about $4 billion in bonuses. Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by seumasach on January 30, 2009
27th January, 2009
The short, eye-opening eBook linked below is titled Aluminum in Vaccines — a Neurological Gamble, by Neil Miller, director of the Thinktwice Global Vaccine Institute. It documents the hazards associated with aluminum-laden vaccines. Children are receiving high concentrations of aluminum in their shots. This well-documented neurotoxin may be more dangerous than mercury.
Vaccines containing high concentrations of neurotoxic aluminum were added to the child immunization schedule when several vaccines containing mercury were removed. Two-month old babies now receive 1,225 mcg of aluminum from their vaccines — 50 times higher than safety levels! Although the FDA, CDC and World Health Organization are aware of the dangers, they expect parents to play Russian roulette with their children.
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Posted by seumasach on January 30, 2009
30th January, 2009
EU officials have announced that Iceland’s application for EU membership could be expedited in an effort to save the nation from financial ruin. In a process that normally takes years or even decades, Iceland could become the 29th member of the EU as early as 2011.
EU Central Bank, Frankfurt, Germany. Copyright: Icelandic Photo Agency.
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Posted by seumasach on January 29, 2009
25th January, 2009
One of the purposes of this blog is to reconnect my readers with our heritage of British radical thought. These ideas were very much part of the intellectual mainstream, but in my lifetime that mainstream has been drastically narrowed by the control of media and of education by the very interests and methods that will be described in this entry.
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Posted by seumasach on January 29, 2009
28th January, 2009
See also:
Israel stymies French push to lift European boycott of Hamas
The French Foreign Ministry summoned Israeli ambassador Daniel Shek today over an incident in which a convoy of French diplomats, including the nation’s consul general were blocked from crossing the Gaza border for over six hours and shot at by Israeli troops.
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Posted by seumasach on January 29, 2009
Larry Pinkney
29th January, 2009
Now that the spectacle of the Barack Obama coronation as the “American” Empire’s first African-American emperor has run its course, and many, many millions of dollars have been spent on self-adulation by the power elite of this nation, the huddled masses will necessarily be compelled to return to a system of no universal, single-payer health care, increasing joblessness, insatiable corporate / military greed, homelessness, de facto racial disparity & discord, police brutality, a burgeoning U.S. prison population, and endless U.S. wars abroad. For yet again, this nation will have done what it all too often does: perverted its promise, including the dream of the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., into a hypocritical nightmare of gigantic and historic proportions.
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Posted by smeddum on January 29, 2009
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Posted by seumasach on January 29, 2009
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Posted by smeddum on January 29, 2009
date: 27 January 2009
Thursday 29 January 2009
The TUC is today (Thursday) calling on the Government to make the banks in which it has shares or who are receiving assistance from the Bank of England fully reveal their tax haven activities. Read the rest of this entry »
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In These New Times 