March 2008


A Bankrupt Superpower

By PAUL CRAIG ROBERTS Counterpunch 3/18/08

In his famous book, The Collapse of British Power (1972), Correlli Barnett reports that in the opening days of World War II Great Britain only had enough gold and foreign exchange to finance war expenditures for a few months. The British turned to the Americans to finance their ability to wage war. Barnett writes that this dependency signaled the end of British power. (more…)

Alternet: There probably isn’t a single American who would link an IRA bombing in Belfast with an abortion clinic bombing in Birmingham, despite the fact that both are the actions of Christian extremists who justify violence against civilians in the name of religious affinity. In the 1970s and 1980s, Europe had a dozen terrorist groups, all with vaguely similar grievances and with some minor contacts between them. Nobody ever suggested that those groups were parts of a cohesive entity that was waging a war on Western civilization. (more…)

Too Big to Bail

By PAM MARTENS Counterpunch 3/17/08

Americans learned two new truths last week from the Bush Administration’s version of Life’s Little Instruction Book: if you’re a Wall Street miscreant you’re thrown a lifeline; if you’re a Wall Street crime fighter you’re thrown a land mine. (more…)

March 29, 2008 3-7 pm Columbia University (NYC)

The inivitation to attend specially goes out to the famillies of those affected by nonsense prosecution. We are working to highlight the legal situation of Muslims that are being persecuted. We have on our panel Michael Ratner (Head of CCR, a leading advocate of Guantanamo detainees), Dr. Agha Saeed (Professor, head of the AMA), Maui Saalakhan (Activist from the DC area). More information at freefahad@gmail.com.

By Abdus Sattar Ghazali amperspective.com 3/14/08

Since March 3, 2008, Palestinian activist and a former professor of South Florida University, Dr. Sami Al-Arian, is on hunger strike again to protest continued government harassment. (more…)

by Ann Wright Commondreams 3/14/08

As a 29 year US Army/Army Reserves Colonel and a U.S. diplomat who resigned in March 2003 in opposition to the war on Iraq, I am very proud of the city of Berkeley, California. Berkeley and her citizenry have had the courage to stand on their peace convictions and declare that it does not want its youth recruited into the illegal Iraq war. (more…)

Martha Gies Street Roots, USA 12/14/07

Portland author Jules Boykoff sees dissent’s demise at the hands of big media

In November, A K Press published “Beyond Bullets: The Suppression of Dissent in the United States,” an important new book that shows us what we are up against if we hold dissenting political views. (more…)

By David Bacon Truthout 3/14/08

I was disappointed Daniel Day-Lewis won an Oscar for “There Will Be Blood,” not because he’s not a great actor (he is), but because the movie was such a betrayal of the book on which it was based. (more…)

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