tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14982124532191152982024-02-07T21:25:00.660-08:00Anger is a Gift. Joy is a Choice."The frustrating thing about tennis is that you will never be as good as a wall."MKThttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02365827969935470037noreply@blogger.comBlogger810125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1498212453219115298.post-87192583872863455212013-11-04T07:36:00.001-08:002013-11-04T07:39:57.368-08:00An Obamacare migration?<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<strong><span class="caps">REV</span>. DR. <span class="caps">MARTIN</span> <span class="caps">LUTHER</span> <span class="caps">KING</span> JR.:</strong> I am convinced that if we are to get on the right side of the world revolution, we as a nation must undergo a radical revolution of values. We must rapidly begin—we must rapidly begin the shift from a thing-oriented society to a person-oriented society. When machines and computers, profit motives and property rights are considered more important than people, the giant triplets of racism, extreme materialism and militarism are incapable of being conquered.</div>
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A true revolution of values will soon cause us to question the fairness and justice of many of our past and present policies. On the one hand, we are called to play the Good Samaritan on life’s roadside, but that will be only an initial act. One day we must come to see that the whole Jericho road must be transformed so that men and women will not be constantly beaten and robbed as they make their journey on life’s highway. True compassion is more than flinging a coin to a beggar. It comes to see that an edifice which produces beggars needs restructuring.</div>
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A true revolution of values will soon look uneasily on the glaring contrast of poverty and wealth with righteous indignation. It will look across the seas and see individual capitalists of the West investing huge sums of money in Asia, Africa and South America, only to take the profits out with no concern for the social betterment of the countries, and say, "This is not just." It will look at our alliance with the landed gentry of South America and say, "This is not just." The Western arrogance of feeling that it has everything to teach others and nothing to learn from them is not just.</div>
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A true revolution of values will lay a hand on the world order and say of war, "This way of settling differences is not just." This business of burning human beings with napalm, of filling our nation’s homes with orphans and widows, of injecting poisonous drugs of hate into the veins of peoples normally humane, of sending men home from dark and bloody battlefields physically handicapped and psychologically deranged, cannot be reconciled with wisdom, justice and love. A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual death.</div>
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MKThttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02365827969935470037noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1498212453219115298.post-18903375460316592332013-01-22T09:56:00.000-08:002013-01-22T09:56:28.798-08:00Big Money Inauguration: Obama Kicks Off Second Term with Help of Unlimited Corporate Donations<iframe frameborder="0" height="225" src="http://www.democracynow.org/embed/story/2013/1/21/the_big_money_inauguration_obama_kicks" width="400"></iframe>MKThttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02365827969935470037noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1498212453219115298.post-70928442881085160082013-01-21T10:33:00.001-08:002013-01-21T10:33:27.124-08:00"Americans Kill People": Michael Moore on Newtown, Mass Shootings, and the U.S. Culture of Violence<iframe allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen" frameborder="0" height="253" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/JZzrpEpezL8" width="450"></iframe>MKThttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02365827969935470037noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1498212453219115298.post-66386724214264603602013-01-21T10:29:00.001-08:002013-01-21T10:29:48.933-08:00The Bribery Aisle: How Wal-Mart Used Payoffs to Bribe Its Way Through Expansion in Mexico<iframe allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen" frameborder="0" height="253" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/hmr6uHjoV8o" width="450"></iframe>MKThttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02365827969935470037noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1498212453219115298.post-18622626560382402552013-01-21T10:23:00.000-08:002013-01-21T10:23:24.705-08:00The Wilmington 10: North Carolina Urged to Pardon Civil Rights Activists Falsely Jailed 40 Years Ago<iframe allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen" frameborder="0" height="253" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/fzOEAeJg2U8" width="450"></iframe>MKThttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02365827969935470037noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1498212453219115298.post-59590448711868146022013-01-21T10:12:00.001-08:002013-01-21T10:12:02.138-08:00Heritics<br />
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Amidst the White House and congressional theatrics surrounding the so-called fiscal-cliff negotiations, a number of bills were signed into law by President Barack Obama that renew some of the worst excesses of the Bush years. Largely ignored by the media, these laws further entrench odious policies like indefinite detention, warrantless wiretapping and the continued operation of the U.S. gulag in Guantanamo. The deal to avert the fiscal cliff itself increases the likelihood that President Obama may yet scuttle an unprecedented cut in the Pentagon’s bloated budget. It’s not such a happy new year, after all.</div>
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On Sunday, Dec. 30, the White House press secretary’s office issued a terse release stating “The President signed into law H.R. 5949, the ‘FISA Amendments Act Reauthorization Act of 2012,’ which provides a five-year extension of Title <span class="caps">VII</span> of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act.” With that, the government’s controversial surveillance powers were renewed until the end of 2017. The American Civil Liberties Union called it the “heartbreak of another Senate vote in favor of dragnet collection of Americans’ communications.”</div>
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A champion of progressive causes in the U.S. House of Representatives, Dennis Kucinich of Ohio, is leaving Congress after 16 years, after his Cleveland district was eliminated due to Republican-controlled redistricting following the 2010 census. Days before his departure from Congress, I asked him about the <span class="caps">FISA</span>reauthorization.</div>
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“The <span class="caps">FISA</span> bill is just one example,” Kucinich replied, “We’re entering into a brave new world, which involves not only the government apparatus being able to look in massive databases and extract information to try to profile people who might be considered threats to the prevailing status quo. But we also are looking at drones, which are increasingly miniaturized, that will give the governments, at every level, more of an ability to look into people’s private conduct. This is a nightmare.”</div>
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Add to that, the nightmare of indefinite detention without charge or trial. Just over a year ago, President Obama signed the National Defense Authorization Act for 2012, also known as the annual <span class="caps">NDAA</span>. That 2012 version of the sprawling <span class="caps">NDAA</span> contained a controversial new provision granting the U.S. military far-reaching powers to indefinitely detain people–not only those identified as enemies on a battlefield, but others perceived by the military as having “supported” the enemy. Chris Hedges, a former foreign correspondent for The New York Times who was part of a team of reporters awarded a Pulitzer Prize in 2002 for the paper’s coverage of global terrorism, sued the Obama administration because, in his reporting, he regularly encounters those the U.S. government defines as terrorists: “I, as a foreign correspondent, had had direct contact with 17 organizations that are on that list, from al-Qaida to Hamas to Hezbollah to the <span class="caps">PKK</span>, and there’s no provision within that particular section [of the <span class="caps">NDAA</span>] to exempt journalists.”</div>
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A federal judge agreed and ordered a stay, preventing that section of the <span class="caps">NDAA</span> from being enforced. The Obama administration appealed, and the case is still before the U.S. Court of Appeals. In the meantime, the court-imposed stay was overturned. With the renewal of the <span class="caps">NDAA</span> for 2013, with the indefinite detention provisions intact, Hedges told me, “The appellate court is all that separates us and a state that is no different than any other military dictatorship.”</div>
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Couched in the same 2013 <span class="caps">NDAA</span> is a section prohibiting the Obama administration from spending any of the bill’s $633 billion in construction or alteration of any facility for the transfer of prisoners from Guantanamo Bay. This effectively ties President Obama’s hands, despite his 2009 executive order to close the prison complex, and his more recent reiteration of the goal. Of 166 prisoners still held there, 86 have been cleared for release, but remain imprisoned nevertheless. The legal group Human Rights First has just issued a blueprint, detailing how President Obama could close Guantanamo, despite congressional roadblocks.</div>
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The president’s second term will publicly begin on Jan. 21, the hard-fought-for holiday celebrating Martin Luther King Jr.‘s birthday. “The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice,” King said. If President Obama aspires to do more than perpetuate an unjust status quo, he must start now.</div>
MKThttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02365827969935470037noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1498212453219115298.post-91138413961022828862013-01-21T09:21:00.001-08:002013-01-21T09:21:24.384-08:00Kids for Cash<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Sheikh Ali Salman: "Demonstrations will continue following this type of ruling in the courts. And this kind of ruling will further build the strength for the people who are seeking democracy. We hope that a political solution emerges that gives priority to democracy, human rights and freedom, that will benefit everyone in Bahrain."
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A former adviser to Obama on security issues has forcefully come out against drone warfare, saying it is encouraging arms proliferation worldwide while causing unknown civilian casualties. Writing in this month’s issue of International Affairs, La Salle University’s Michael Boyle, an adviser on the Obama campaign’s counterterrorism expert group in 2007 and 2008, writes: "[Obama] has been just as ruthless and indifferent to the rule of law as his predecessor. ... The consequences can be seen in the targeting of mosques or funeral processions that kill non-combatants and tear at the social fabric of the regions where they occur. No one really knows the number of deaths caused by drones in these distant, sometimes ungoverned, lands."MKThttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02365827969935470037noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1498212453219115298.post-51390058796154876732013-01-09T06:48:00.002-08:002013-01-09T06:48:59.110-08:00McChrystal, Ex-Commander of U.S. Forces in Afghanistan, Questions Drone WarfareSpeaking to Reuters, the former commander of U.S. troops in Afghanistan, retired General Stanley McChrystal, became one of the highest-ranking former military officials to publicly question the drone attacks, saying: "The resentment created by American use of unmanned strikes ... is much greater than the average American appreciates. They are hated on a visceral level, even by people who’ve never seen one or seen the effects of one."
(Democracy Now)MKThttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02365827969935470037noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1498212453219115298.post-1857905215418563082012-11-02T10:14:00.001-07:002012-11-02T10:14:50.044-07:00Zack De La Rocha - <iframe width="400" height="300" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/zKdDVsp_NXc" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>MKThttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02365827969935470037noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1498212453219115298.post-49165353420167949762012-11-02T08:16:00.001-07:002012-11-02T08:16:00.398-07:00Chomsky Music Video?<iframe width="500" height="281" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/lJtHNEDnrnY" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>MKThttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02365827969935470037noreply@blogger.com0