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by Dave Lindorff, thiscantbehappening.net | 11.21.2008

When Barack Obama makes that dramatic walk from his Inauguration Day speech at the Capitol building to the White House, the streets need to be lined with protestors holding up signs calling for an immediate end to the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Oh yeah...Remembering the War and Other National and Global Crises

By Dave Lindorff

The ongoing and deepening global economic crisis, to which Barack Obama owes his presidential election victory, is no small thing, to be sure. It also presents us on the left with a lot of openings to press for progressive change.

by Johanna Berrigan | 11.18.2008

Among the many horrors of the tragedy of this war, destroyed, displaced, scattered families are a sad reality. There are an estimated 2.7 million people displaced within Iraq, and more than 2 million more living in neighboring countries, primarily Jordan and Syria. Most, if not all, refugees left Iraq because of the violence; some have received direct threats, others have had family members, friends, and neighbors kidnapped or killed. Whether the Iraqi people have “resettled” in this country, are waiting in Jordan or Syria for resettlement in another country, or are displaced inside Iraq, all of them have experienced terrible trauma, loss, and continue to face many difficulties.

The Iraq Refugee Crisis

Scattered Families

By JOHANNA BERRIGAN

“Without the human stories that bring people and their suffering so vividly to life…there is little chance of public opinion reengaging with the biggest political calamity of our time.”

by Dave Lindorff, thiscantbehappening.net | 11.13.2008

Philadelphia journalist Dave Lindorff has written three new essays:

'Too Big to Fail' Has an Easy Answer: Anti-Trust or Public Control: "If our money is going to be used to bail out these corrupt and horrifically managed enterprises, we the people need to have a controlling interest in running them, so that they are run in our interest."

Obama's First Big Mistake on the Job: Rescuing Sen. Joe Lieberman: "Joe Lieberman is a wretched example of a man without principle—a back-stabbing slimeball of a politician whose only allegience, apparently, besides to himself, is to Israel."

One-Sided Propaganda `Journalism' About a Destabilizing Boondoggle: If media coverage of the proposed anti-missile program was better "the billions of dollars that have annually been wasted in pursuing this Pentagon fantasy [could] be put to better use, perhaps building schools or developing electric cars to replace the gas guzzlers nobody wants to buy anymore."

One-Sided Propaganda `Journalism' About a Destabilizing Boondoggle

By Dave Lindorff

A CBS/Associated Press story yesterday reported that the man who runs the Pentagon’s anti-missile program, Lt. Gen. Henry Obering III, had warned incoming President-elect Barack Obama that any reversal of Bush/Cheney administration plans to install anti-ballistic missile missiles in Poland would “severely hurt” American interests.

by Cheryl Biren-Wright | 11.11.2008

On Monday, the day before Veterans day, 14 members of the ‘Hempstead 15' were arraigned on charges of disorderly conduct. The charges stem from a protest outside of the final presidential debate at Hofstra University on October 15.

The protest was organized by Iraq Veterans Against the War (IVAW) who wanted the issue of poor veterans’ healthcare and support of war resisters to be addressed by the candidates. What began as an orderly and peaceful gathering escalated into an aggressive use of force by the Nassau County Police Department leaving one Iraq war veteran, Nick Morgan, with a fractured eye orbit.

RELATED: This morning's Democracy Now! show: On Veterans Day, 15 Vets of Iraq and Afghanistan Face Trial for Antiwar Protest II Previous PhillyIMC coverage (1, 2)

On Monday, the day before Veterans day, 14 members of the ‘Hempstead 15' were arraigned on charges of disorderly conduct. The charges stem from a protest outside of the final presidential debate at Hofstra University on October 15.

The protest was organized by Iraq Veterans Against the War (IVAW) who wanted the issue of poor veterans’ healthcare and support of war resisters to be addressed by the candidates.

by Edward S. Herman | 11.02.2008

In this Kafkaesque age everything is stood on its head. The champion violator of international law and sovereignty and the territorial integrity of states is gung ho for respecting state sovereignty and territorial integrity (of Georgia, but not Pakistan); primary terrorist and ethnic cleansing states (the United States and Israel) invade, bomb, and torture, but wax indignant at retail terrorism that flows largely in response to their wholesale terror; and these same two states, brimming over with nuclear arms and increasingly threatening to use them, are aghast that Iran might want and someday be able to make a nuclear weapon.

See Also by Herman: Inky Notes, November 3, 2008 and Poor Marlise: Her Old Allies Are Now Attacking the Tribunal and Even Portraying the Serbs as Victims, where he writes: "Perhaps most painful was the disclosure that in 1999 the Kosovo Albanian KLA sent as many as 300 captive Serbs to Albanian to be killed and their internal organs 'harvested' for sale abroad, a matter barely mentioned in the New York Times."

EMBEDDED VIDEO: Truth Game, by John Pilger

EMBEDDED VIDEO: Truth Game, by John Pilger

by Alex Kane, NYC Indymedia | 11.02.2008

Recently released photographs and video from the Iraq Veterans Against the War (IVAW) protest outside the final presidential debate in Hempstead, NY on Oct. 15 clearly shows IVAW member Nick Morgan getting trampled on by Nassau County police on horseback.

Members of the “Hempstead 15″ are calling for supporters to show their support by packing the courthouse Nov. 10, at 8 AM, located at 99 Main St. in Hempstead. They are facing charges of “disorderly conduct” and “failure to obey a lawful order.”

RELATED: Previous PhillyIMC coverage

Recently released photographs and video from the Iraq Veterans Against the War (IVAW) protest outside the final presidential debate in Hempstead, NY on Oct.

by Dave Lindorff, thiscantbehappening.net | 10.30.2008

The reality is that if Obama is elected president, and if Democrats end up gaining solid control of Congress, it will be critically important for progressives to organize powerfully to press this new government to do the right things—promptly ending the two wars in the Middle East, taking strong and far-reaching action to tackle global warming, restoring some basic equity to the economic and tax system, making health care affordable and available to all, restoring the Constitution and the Bill of Rights, demanding punishment for those in the current administration who have committed crimes, and so on.

The End is at Hand (to Leftist Conspiracy Theories)

 

By Dave Lindorff

by Edward S. Herman | 10.30.2008

Marlise Simons, the New York Times's main reporter on the Milosevic trial and International Criminal Trial for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY), has had a difficult year. Perhaps most painful was the disclosure that in 1999 the Kosovo Albanian KLA sent as many as 300 captive Serbs to Albanian to be killed and their internal organs "harvested" for sale abroad, a matter barely mentioned in the New York Times (see below).

by William Blum | 10.29.2008

In his 2001 memoir, “Fugitive Days,” Bill Ayers writes: “I don’t regret setting bombs. I feel we didn’t do enough.” This is something very few Americans can accept, and I wouldn't even make the attempt to persuade them. But I personally didn't blame the Weathermen then, and I don't blame them now. The Vietnam War was in its eighth year of barbarity. I and the rest of the army of the powerless needed a few points up there on the scoreboard against the lords of the national-security corporate state. A bombing, with a suitably war-criminal target – like the State Department or the Pentagon – and taking care to prevent any casualties, told the bastards that we were still out there, that their impunity was not total, that this is how it feels to be bombed. Armed propaganda.

The Anti-Empire Report

Read this or George W. Bush will be president the rest of your life
October 30, 2008
by William Blum

by Joe Mowrey | 10.20.2008

Okay, that title is a cheap sensationalist tactic to get you to read this article.... [But]

Powell is the guy who, as a bright young 31 year old Army Major, did his level best to keep information about the My Lai Massacre in Vietnam from becoming public. Specifically, he was charged with investigating a letter from a whistle-blowing soldier giving detailed accounts of many of the atrocities committed by U.S. military personnel in Vietnam under the auspices of the Phoenix Program.

Hitler Endorses Obama

by Joe Mowrey / October 20th, 2008

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