Rethinking America’s Fourth of July as Outdependen
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Rethinking America’s Fourth of July as Outdependence Day
Editorial
By Ben Tanosborn
Friday, 03 July 2009
Malpracticers of Economic and Foreign Policy
About this time every year I grow a bit philosophical, and melancholic, as we celebrate what this country should be… but isn’t. Last year, my written words called for a second American revolution, and the year before I underlined the belated realization that the US is not us (the people).
Power is typically approached as a question of dominance and submission. Power is marked by the ability to impose or the ability to resist that imposition. This is what some have called “power-over,” [1] which assumes a zero-sum game in which individuals are always in competition for that power—someone dominates and someone submits. In such a world, one can use this kind of power with varying levels of responsibility to others, but in such a world it is inevitable that power routinely will be used unjustly.
Marjorie Cohn and Kathleen Gilberd's 'Rules of Disengagement'
Book Review
By Stephen Lendman
Friday, 03 July 2009
Marjorie Cohn is a Distinguished Law Professor at Thomas Jefferson School of Law in San Diego where she's taught since 1991 and is the current President of the National Lawyers Guild. She's also been a criminal defense attorney at the trial and appellate levels, is an author, and writes many articles for professional journals, other publications, and numerous popular web sites.
The Department of Offense has awarded a 1.05 billion-dollar contract to the Oshkosh Corporation of Wisconsin. Oshkosh is associated with Plasan North America, which operates a manufacturing site in Bennington, Vermont. The parent company of Plasan NA is Plasan Sasa. It is located in Israel.
Obama Has No Legal Authority to Escalate Afghan War
Political Views
By Sherwood Ross
Friday, 03 July 2009
President Obama has no legal authority either from the United Nations or the U.S. Congress under the War Powers Resolution (WPR) to escalate the war in Afghanistan, a distinguished professor of international law says.
Iranians have spoken, with defiant demonstrations in the hundreds of thousands, and in rallies elsewhere, including one last weekend near Paris of 90,000, in protest against widespread election fraud and the fist of a regime unleashing terror.
Fifteen suspected militants have been killed and 30 wounded in an attack by unmanned US drone aircraft on Taliban targets near Pakistan's border with Afghanistan, Pakistan officials have said.
European Union nations are considering recalling their ambassadors to Iran after it was suggested that local British embassy staff would face trial over their alleged role in protests over the disputed presidential election.
Vladimir Putin, the Russian prime minister, has hit back at a claim by Barack Obama, the US president, that he has one foot stuck in the two nations' Cold War past.
Days of heavy rainfall has caused flooding and mudslide in parts of southern China, forcing more than 11,000 people to flee their homes in one province alone.
Saddam Hussein, the former Iraqi president, allowed the world to believe his country had weapons of mass destruction in an attempt to deter an Iranian invasion, an FBI file has revealed.
The US vice-president has travelled to Baghdad to meet Iraqi leaders and US military commanders, following the pullback of US troops from towns and cities across the country.
About 467,000 people in the US lost their jobs in June, raising the national unemployment rate to a 26-year-high of 9.5 per cent, data from the US labour department has shown.
The Air France passenger jet that crashed into the Atlantic Ocean last month en route from Brazil to France hit the water intact and at high speed, French investigators say.
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The Air France passenger jet that crashed into the Atlantic Ocean last month en route from Brazil to France hit the water intact and at high speed, French investigators say.
