MRN Repulsed by Islamophobic Movie
Monday, 17 September 2012 The Muslim Community along with the Media Review Network is enraged and disgusted by the production… Read More »MRN Repulsed by Islamophobic Movie
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Our defense industry the great untouchable
By Eric Peters
(source: EricPetersAutos.com)
The (not “our”) government says it is broke; that it must cut back on essential services to citizens, including police and fire protection – and raise taxes. It is threatening/hinting that it will require average people to “sacrifice” in the form of decreased Social Security benefits (or higher retirement ages) and even that private pensions and 401ks will be subsumed into some form of “government annuity” – meaning, they take your property and in return you get a “chit” that entitles you (for as long as the government wishes to allow you to be entitled) to a fixed dole payment at some indeterminate point in the future…
Meanwhile, there is apparently plenty of money available to rebuild mosques in Egypt, to finance the Israeli military, to prop up our puppets in various countries… and of course, to fund a massive “defense” industry that consumes more resources than the entire GDPs of many Western European countries and is by itself – and by far – the single greatest consumer of U.S. GDP.
If it were “our” government, not one thin dime would be going to anything extraneous – that wasn’t a legitimate crucial element of our national defense, say. And all we need for that is our nuclear deterrent. We don’t need a single aircraft carrier; no million-man army, no fleet of billion-dollar-a-piece “stealth” aircraft. Just one nuclear submarine loaded with 20 ICBMs is sufficient, all by itself, to lay waste to most of the world and to utterly destroy any single country that attacked us.
Hillary clinton in tahrir square
By Bill Van Auken
(source: World Socialist Website)
US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s Middle East tour, capped by a stroll through Cairo’s Tahrir Square, presents an unparalleled profile in hypocrisy. It also underscores Washington’s determination to re-stabilize the US-backed dictatorships in Egypt and Tunisia and squelch the spread of revolutionary struggles elsewhere in the region.
Surrounded by a phalanx of US and Egyptian bodyguards, Clinton paraded briefly through the central Cairo plaza, where millions of Egyptians defied the regime for 18 days until Mubarak was forced out. Speaking to accompanying media, she declared, “To see where this revolution happened and all that it has meant to the world is extraordinary for me.” She added that it was “just thrilling to see where this happened.” Afterwards, she described her visit as “very exciting and moving.”
Clinton must believe that the Egyptian people suffer from severe short-term memory loss. It was only seven weeks earlier that she pronounced her fulsome support for Hosni Mubarak. The date was January 25, which marked the onset of the revolutionary struggles that forced the ouster of the hated US-backed dictator.
As tens of thousands of young Egyptians were confronting the armed violence of riot police and para-military troops in the center of Cairo, Clinton declared from Washington: “Our assessment is that the Egyptian government is stable and is looking for ways to respond to the legitimate needs and interests of the Egyptian people.
Ex minister judge support boycott of Isarael
By Anna Majavu
(source: Sowetan Newspaper Online – Tues,22/03/2011)
Western Cape high court judge Siraj Desai and former intelligence minister Ronnie Kasrils have come out in support of a Holocaust survivors’ South African campaign for a boycott of Israel. Speaking at a dinner in Cape Town on Sunday night, Hajo Meyer, an 86-year-old Jewish scientist and a survivor of Nazi Germany’s Auschwitz concentration camp, called for a concentrated cultural and academic boycott against Israel.
Desai said that the Israeli occupation of Palestine was “one of the longest continuing breaches of human rights in the world”. The judge last year joined a brigade of human rights activists who flew to Egypt and planned to march on Egypt’s border with the Gaza Strip, but were stopped by Egyptian security forces.
Desai said meeting Meyer and Jewish Holocaust survivor Hedy Epstein, who also supported the Palestinians, was a “life- changing experience”. Kasrils said the uprisings in the Middle East, which had spread to Libya and now included black Africans, were “an African revolution as well”.
Meyer was forced to flee Germany for the Netherlands alone at the age of 14 after the Nazis refused to admit Jews at schools. But even living under Nazi occupation in the Netherlands in 1943, Meyer had more freedom than the Palestinians have living under Israeli occupation today, he said.