The House just passed the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), including a provision to authorize worldwide war, which has no expiration date and will allow this president — and any future president — to go to war anywhere in the world, at any time, without further congressional authorization. The new authorization wouldn’t even require the president to show any threat to the national security of the United States. The American military could become the world’s cop, and could be sent into harm’s way almost anywhere and everywhere around the globe.

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By Teymoor Nabili

I was presenting the news on Al Jazeera English on Tuesday, as Binyamin Netanyahu was speaking to the US congress in Washington, DC.

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By Hiyam Noir

Thursday May 26 2011

In the new mode of transition, towards democratization, the new Egyptian government is moving forward, in a large step to further process genuine democracy, the principles of human rights and social equality (majority rule).

Tags: Egypt | Palestine | Palestine news | Human Rights | blockade | Israeli terror | Mubarak

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By Teymoor Nabili

The New York Times columnist Paul Krugman once remarked:

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Response to “Some Final Thoughts on the Death of Osama bin Laden ...a letter from Michael Moore”

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=439x1089678

Even though I disagree with some of his background analysis, he really makes the most vital, important points that should be made about the assassination of bin Laden.  Michael Moore is our last great prophet crying in a political, social, intellectual and spiritual wilderness more profound and enduring than Eliot’s Wasteland.  He cries out for a restoration of an America that never really was. He and the bones of the dead cry for justice in an America that has forever abandoned even the old pretence of justice.  Like our now lost earthly environment and all the creatures we have extincted, Justice in America can never be restored.  All we will ever know between now and the end will be vengeance, power, violence and death.  That is all the demonstrators in front of the White House that Sunday night were celebrating.  That was the message of all the nationalistic hysteria (a combination of sports victory and Nuremberg rally) that took place at Ground Zero.


In Peace, Love & Rage,

Bob Boldt

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by William A. Cook
 
What silent communion this scene holds,
Of a life lived and one yet to unfold;
What forlorn love those encircling arms portend,
That would protect against the evils that descend
From unseen missiles yet to come with unlived years,
Where hopes and dreams dissolve into unforeseen fears
That falls like a funeral pall upon this child,
Who sits so quiet, so pensive, so mild
Beneath those crescent arms as they reach to shield
This innocent lost in this barren field.

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I am willing to grudgingly admit that Obama “got his man.”  Of course, I still stick to my motto, “Never believe anything our government says until it has been officially denied.”  What I objected to primarily was the part of his statement referring to the death photo of Osama, “That’s not who we are…You know, we don’t trot out this stuff as trophies.” 

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By Imran Garda

"1010 Wisconsin Avenue please," I said, as I shuffled into the back seat of my taxi, snappily pronouncing the digits as "ten-ten".

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Once again Philadelphia raised the bar for an End the Fed rally with Fedstock II. Jordan Page played his great music. Yours truly was the first speaker followed by a great line up, Scott Davis, Ernest Hancock, and Adam Kokesh. A big thanks to Mike Salvi, Rob Pepe, the sponsors, and everyone else that worked hard to make Fedstock happen.

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It was a great honor to be allowed to address the liberty minded activists at Fedstock II in Philadelphia, PA. On April 23, 2011 we again hit the streets to educate everyone of the dangers of central banking. A big thanks to the organizers, the other speakers, and participants.

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I am beginning to get a different take on the old clichés concerning the desirability of hope. It all began for me with Greek writer, Nikos Kazantzakis’ epitaph, “I fear nothing, I hope for nothing, I am free.” Of course its appearance on his tomb gives it perhaps an ironic, unintended meaning, not unlike the mocking inscription on the base of Ozymandias’ statue in Shelly’s famous sonnet. Of course, Kazantzakis wrote his famous epigram while still alive and kicking.

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It became more difficult for Russia to negotiate with Uzbekistan on supply of energy carriers recently. New stumbling blocks connected with ambitions of high-ranking officials of this country had appeared.

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Nowadays, a lot of transport and commercial constructions are demolished or under reconstruction in the capital of Uzbekistan. Nobody lets know owners beforehand and there are no talks about compensation. The local and urban officials are ordering them to demolish buildings and leave.

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The trials of Jewish-American political scientist Norman Finkelstein.

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By Anthony Gregory

The Obama administration has detained the alleged Wikileaks whistleblower under tortuous conditions—for almost a year, has has been subjected to solitary confinement in a windowless 6×12 cell for 23 hours a day, under constant surveillance, prevented from exercising, lacking a pillow or sheets. For the remaining hour every day, he is allowed to walk in circles in a somewhat larger cell, still without any human company. Every give minutes he is asked, “Are you OK?” and must answer yes. Now he is being forced to sleep naked. Put together, his treatment constitutes cruel and unusual punishment without trial, protest 250 legal scholars, including preemenent liberal law professor Laurence Tribe, a man who taught Obama constitutional law, supported his 2008 campaign, and until recently worked as a Justice Department legal adviser. The letter draws scathing conclusions about his treatment, as well as about Obama’s personal culpability in this mockery of justice:

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It has almost been like carpet bombing – the media hype during the recent International Cricket Council (ICC) Cricket World Cup of one-day internationals that was recently played out in the Indian sub-continent. The “bombing” was intensified just before the India-Pakistan semi-final played at Mohali, near Chandigarh.

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The concert of Filipp Kirkorov “the king of Russian pops and remakes” took place in the capital of Uzbekistan on the other day. The concert hall was choked up with admirers of his talent, though the President Islam Karimov forbids “his nation” to watch and listen to pernicious russian variety art, classic and jazz. The cost of ticket to the concert of Kirkorov in Tashkent was close to two monthly salary of average resident of city.

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At the end of January this year Islam Karimov’s family members went to Fergana city for the event of funeral repast in memory of Tatyana Karimova’s deceased mother. The following people attended in the Church service held in a local church: Tatyana Karimova, Tamara Sabirova (Tatyana Karimova’s sister) with her daughter, and Gulnara Karimova.

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Obama at Georgetown today:

"Unfortunately, some folks want to (shortchange) the resources necessary even to promptly issue new permits for offshore drilling...(and) we're going to incorporate conclusions and lessons from Japan in design and the building of the next generation of plants. But we can't simply take it off the table."

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