Congress, Standing Against Public Majority, Votes for More War in Afghanistan

May 19, 2012

By a vote of 303-113, the US House of Representatives rejected an amendment by California’s Barbara Lee (D-Oakland) on Thursday that would have swiftly ended combat operations in Afghanistan by limiting funds only to the “safe and orderly withdrawal of U.S. troops and military contractors from Afghanistan.” Congresswoman Lee (D-CA) discussing her amendment to end [...]

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US Iran Hawks in Congress in Some Disarray

May 19, 2012

WASHINGTON – Hopes by Iran hawks here to get the U.S. Congress to wield the threat of a U.S. military attack on the Islamic Republic on the eve of next week’s critical negotiations on Tehran’s nuclear program appear to have fallen unexpectedly short. While the House of Representatives voted overwhelmingly Thursday to reject “any U.S. [...]

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Obama’s ‘Poverty-Relieving’ Plan for Africa a Profit Boon for Giant Agribusiness

May 19, 2012

President Obama’s announcement today of $3 billion in private investments in a poverty- and hunger-relieving plan for Africa is set to be a boon for giant agribusiness, a move critics say leaves small-scale farmers and agro-ecological methods in the dust. “The rhetoric is all about small-scale producers, but they haven’t yet been a part of [...]

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G8 Protest: Peoples’ Summit Confronts World Leaders at Camp David, Urging Action on Poverty, Hunger

May 19, 2012

World leaders are convening at the heavily guarded Camp David in Maryland today for the G8 Summit. Leading nonprofits such as Save the Children and Oxfam are urging G8 leaders to live up to a 2009 pledge of $22 billion towards food security in developing nations of which only a quarter has been met. Activists [...]

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[uruknet.info] In the Name of My Father Requiem and renewal in the shadow of Wall Street, in the light of a Georgia spring

May 19, 2012

May 18, 2012 On May 1, after a day of May Day activities on the streets and avenues of Manhattan, my wife and I and a troop of other OWS celebrants marched into Zuccotti Park to jubilant exhortations of “welcome home” from a throng of fellow occupiers. The next day, my wife and I boarded [...]

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[uruknet.info] U.S. Secret Drug War in Honduras: Botched DEA Raid Leaves 2 Pregnant Women, 2 Men Dead

May 19, 2012

May 18, 2012 The U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency has confirmed its agents were on board a U.S.-owned helicopter with Honduran police officers when four people were shot and killed on a boat earlier this week. Two of the victims were said to be pregnant women. The deadly incident has highlighted the centrality of Honduras in [...]

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[uruknet.info] The United States Gives Israel an Immediate $70 million for "Iron Dome" Systems

May 19, 2012

Image ARAB48 May 18, 2012 The Arab 48 News Agency reported today that US Secretary of Defense, Leon Panetta, announced on Thursday that the United States will provide Israel with $70 million in immediate aid for the purchase of additional Iron Dome rocket defense batteries. This was needed for Israel to meet its fiscal requirements [...]

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[uruknet.info] The Nakba: 2012

May 19, 2012

May 18, 2012 The recent parallel hunger strikes in Israeli prisons reignited the political imagination of Palestinians around the world, strengthening bonds of ‘solidarity and reinforcing the trend toward grassroots reliance on nonviolent resistance Israeli abuses. The crisis produced by these strikes made this years observance of Nakba Day a moral imperative for all those [...]

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