Is There Life After Democracy?

On 7 July, 2009, in Current events, by joe

A Few Facts About the Honduran Military Coup
By Ken Silverstein
There’s very little truth to anything you’ve read about the coup in American newspapers.
http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22989.htm
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John Pilger on Honduras, Iran, Gaza, the Corporate Media, Obama’s Wars and Resisting the American Empire
By Democracy Now!
Award-winning investigative journalist and documentary filmmaker, John Pilger, joins us for a wide-ranging conversation on on Honduras, Iran, Gaza, the media, health care, and Obama’s wars in Afghanistan and Pakistan. Pilger has has written close to a dozen books and made over 50 documentaries on a range of subjects including struggles around the world for a more just and peaceful society and against Western military and economic intervention.
http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22986.htm
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Our IDF
By Gideon Levy
It’s a good thing we have Shayetet 13. Operating at the crack of dawn – or was it before nightfall? – the daring naval commandos fearlessly took control of a rusty, rickety, unarmed boat bobbing in the middle of the sea. That’s exactly why we have a naval commando force – to take control of ships offering humanitarian aid. Behold, the guardian of Israel neither slumbers nor sleeps.
http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22991.htm
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Its Not Just Our 21 Kidnapped Passengers.:
By Free Gaza
The kidnapping of 21 international human rights workers attempting to deliver needed aid to a besieged people is an outrage, but it is hardly an isolated one.
http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22990.htm
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Untold Truths About the American Revolution
By Howard Zinn
Why do we assume that we had to fight a bloody revolutionary war to get rid of England?
http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22987.htm
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Obama Takes Bush’s Plutocratic-Socialism to the Next Leve
By Chris Moore
As the federal government and the two-party regime running it have become ever more corrupt, the bubbles have become ever larger and more frequent. And it is these successively more frequent bubbles that have destroyed the American economy, bankrupted Americans, and simultaneously made these revolving-door federal government elite/plutocrat-socialists in both parties rich.
http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22982.htm
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Obamageddon is Coming!
4 minute video
Food riots, tax protests, strikes and high unemployment all will characterize our economic future according to Gerald Celente.
http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22992.htm
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Is There Life After Democracy?
By Arundhati Roy
What happens once democracy has been used up? When it has been hollowed out and emptied of meaning? What happens when each of its institutions has metastasised into something dangerous? What happens now that democracy and the Free Market have fused into a single predatory organism with a thin, constricted imagination that revolves almost entirely around the idea of maximising profit?
http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22994.htm
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The Crooks Get Cash While the Poor Get Screwed
By Chris Hedges
Tearyan Brown became a father when he was 16. He did what a lot of inner-city kids desperate to make money do. He sold drugs. He was arrested and sent to jail three years later for dealing marijuana and PCP on the streets of Trenton, N.J., mostly to white kids driving in from the suburbs. It was a job which saw him robbed at gunpoint and stabbed in the chest. But it made him about $1,400 a week.
http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22993.htm
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Happy Co-Dependence Day
By Cindy Sheehan
In our heart of hearts, do we really think that Obama is an agent of change for the people? Have we not been fooled, yet again? So, we lay all of our hopes and dreams for a better life on one person and allow the inevitable heartache of betrayal to wash over us and once again drown us in disappointment when that person turns out to be just another politician.
http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22984.htm
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Pres. Zelaya Calls for Non-Violent Demonstrations
Tanslation to English of the Statement of President Manuel Zelaya, issued July 4
Compañeros and compañeras, fellow Hondurans, your president, Manuel Zelaya Rosales, speaks to you. I want to tell you that my destiny is tied to the destiny of the Honduran people.
http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22983.htm
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No Evidence Iran Seeks Nuclear Arms: New IAEA Head
By Sylvia Westall
“I don’t see any evidence in IAEA official documents about this,” Yukiya Amano told Reuters in his first direct comment on Iran’s atomic program since his election, when asked whether he believed Tehran was seeking nuclear weapons capability.
http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22980.htm
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At least 140 dead in ethnic Chinese riots: state media:
The violence in the regional capital Urumqi on Sunday involved thousands of people, and the official Xinhua news agency said the death toll was likely to rise..
http://snipurl.com/m8kvx
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Somalia: African Union mandates troops to use force against Islamist insurgents:
The African union has agreed to change the mandate of its 4,300-strong troops in Somalia to allow them fight against al-Shabaab Islamist rebels trying to take over Somalia.
http://en.afrik.com/article15877.html
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Israel denies Saudis gave IDF airspace clearance for Iran strike:
The Prime Minister’s office issued a statement in response Sunday morning, saying that “the Sunday Times report is fundamentally false and completely baseless.” According to The Sunday Times, Mossad chief Meir Dagan held secret meetings with Saudi officials, who gave their tacit approval to Israel’s use of the kingdom’s airspace.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1097882.html
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Iran vows ‘real and decisive’ response if attacked by Israel:
Iran is ready to take real and decisive action if Israel attacks its nuclear facilities, a senior Iranian parliamentary official said Monday.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1098142.html
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U.S. wants Iran to know it can be attacked:
After Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu adopted the “two states for two peoples” formula on the Palestinian issue, American recompense came in the form of Vice President Joe Biden’s statement that Israel, as a “sovereign nation,” will decide for itself how to deal with Iran.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1098037.html
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Hamas accuses Fatah of spying for Israel in Gaza:
The de-facto prime minister of Hamas in the Gaza Strip, Ismail Haniyeh, alleged Monday that his security forces had unveiled a spy network in the Gaza Strip that served Israel through the Ramallah- based administration of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1098186.html
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This is what is wrong with a “Jewish state”:
It’s up to a Jewish state to find a way to oppose a Hamas government without resorting to blocking shipments of humanitarian supplies to more than a million innocent people, or arresting peace activists – among them a former U.S. congresswoman and a Nobel Peace Prize laureate trying to bring those supplies to Gaza.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1098187.html
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Israel to deport former US congresswoman arrested for breaking Gaza blockade:
Israel is deporting a former US congresswoman, a Nobel peace prize laureate and other activists who were arrested trying to break the naval blockade of the Gaza Strip, a government spokeswoman said Monday.
http://www.gulfnews.com/region/Middle_East/10328991.html
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Viva Palestina to break Gaza siege again:
About 100 US activists with tons of medical supplies arrived in Egypt on Sunday on their way to Gaza, hoping to break the deadly Israeli-Egyptian blockade of the territory –home to 1.5 million Palestinians.
http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=99912&sectionid=351020202
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Honduras police, soldiers enforcing curfew:
Police and soldiers blanketed the streets of the capital early Monday – enforcing a sunset-to-sunrise curfew with batons and metal poles. Officials closed the country’s main airport to all flights for 24 hours starting Monday morning.
http://snipurl.com/m8lb4
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Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez accuses US of backing Honduras coup leaders:
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has said that he believes the generals and politicians now ruling Honduras have US backing, even if not from President Barack Obama.
http://snipurl.com/m8lc5
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Legal fight to stop US destroying torture images:
Former Guantánamo detainee Binyam Mohamed has launched an urgent legal attempt to prevent the US courts from destroying crucial evidence that he says proves he was abused while being held at the detention camp, the Guardian has learned.
http://snipurl.com/m8ldm
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As rumours swell that the government staged 7/7, victims’ relatives call for a proper inquiry:
Families of the dead victims and an increasing number of 7/7 survivors claim there are inconsistencies and basic mistakes in the official accounts that need explanation.
http://snipurl.com/m8lf8
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Egypt funeral for stabbing victim:
Sherbini was stabbed 18 times by a German man of Russian descent, formally identified only as Axel W, last week as she was about to give evidence against him as he appealled against his conviction for calling her a “terrorist” for her wearing the hijab.
http://english.aljazeera.net/news/middleeast/2009/07/20097612424648553.html
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Biden: `We misread how bad the economy was:
Vice President Joe Biden said the Obama administration “misread how bad the economy was” but stands by its stimulus package and believes the plan will create more jobs as the pace of its spending picks up.
http://apnews.myway.com/article/20090705/D9988KSG0.html
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Day of Reckoning for California and Ultimately for All of America:
Will our nation’s largest debtors meet their massive financial obligations? Or will many ultimately default?
http://www.marketoracle.co.uk/Article11818.html
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The Dossier
Shadow Secrets
Video
This new film looks at the origins and history of the Afghan Mujahedin & al-Qaeda and their associations with various intelligence agencies including the CIA, FBI, MI6 and those of Saudi Arabia & Pakistan.
http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22979.htm
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Honduras coup is just the tip of the iceberg, who is next? :
Now the question is: what effect will the behavior of the Honduran “illegal government” have on El Salvador, Nicaragua and Guatemala.
http://snipurl.com/m8lsv
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US must forgo Honduras coup: Ortega:
Ortega recalled that after two months as president, Barack Obama suspended all form of cooperation with the de facto government in Madagascar. The least we can expect of Obama is to act with the same firmness now, he pointed out.
http://www.dailynews.lk/2009/07/06/wld01.asp
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Israel won’t base submarines in Red Sea, says defense official:
Israel has no plan to station submarines in Eilat, a defence official said on Sunday, playing down speculation the Red Sea port could become a forward base for secret naval operations against Iran.
http://haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1097908.html
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