April 2008


Almost fourteen years after South Africa’s first democratic elections and the fall of racial apartheid, John Pilger describes, in an address at Rhodes University, the dream and reality of the new South Africa and the responsibility of its new elite.

On my wall in London is a photograph I have never grown tired of looking at. Indeed, I always find it thrilling to behold. You might even say it helps keep me going. It is a picture of a lone woman standing between two armoured vehicles (more…)

Government is the largest employer

By Paul Craig Roberts Infromation Clearing House 4/09/08

According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the US economy lost 98,000 private sector jobs in March, half of which were in manufacturing. Today 13,643,000 Americans are employed in manufacturing, of which 9,849,000 are production workers. (more…)

ICH: “I will ask you this,” one of CNBC’s talking heads asks Mr. Rogers, “what would be the first two things you would do if you were in Mr. Bernanke’s seat tomorrow morning?” “I would abolish the Federal Reserve,” avers Rogers, “and I would resign,” a response that brings nervous laughter all around at the CNBC studios. (more…)

Our apologies, good friends, for the fracture of good order, the burning of paper instead of children, the angering of the orderlies in the front parlor of the charnel house. We could not, so help us God, do otherwise.

written by Dan Berrigan, S.J. [Dan Berrigan is a member of the Dr. Dhafir Support Committee Advisory Board.] (more…)

Irish Peace Activist Acquitted; Deported

By HARRY BROWNE Counterpunch 4/07/08

In 2006 an Irish jury decided that ex-seminarian Damien Moran was not guilty of criminal damage for his part in the ‘disarmament’ of a US Navy plane in February 2003.

But that acquittal wasn’t good enough for the good people providing ‘Homeland Security’ at Chicago’s O’Hare Airport (more…)

Democrats should treat Petraeus and his surge as irrelevant.

By Ira Chernus TomDispatch.com 4/06/08

It was supposed to be a “cakewalk.” General Petraeus would come to Congress, armed with his favorite charts showing that the “surge” had dramatically reduced violence in Iraq. He would earn universal acclaim for his plan to “pause” troop reductions from July until after the election in November – the same plan that John McCain counts on to help him win that election. (more…)

by Jeremy Scahill The Nation 4/07/08

For the first time since 1968, the Pentagon has charged a civilian contractor under military law. But the individual in question is not one of the Blackwater “shooters” alleged to have gunned down seventeen Iraqi civilians in Baghdad’s Nisour Square last September, nor is it the Blackwater contractor accused of shooting to death a bodyguard to the Iraqi vice president inside the Green Zone on Christmas Eve 2006. (more…)

by Don Mitchell Syracuse Peace Council Newsletter April 2008

The business of universities is chasing money. This has not always been the case. From the founding of the “modern” university in Germany in the middle of the 19th century until – perhaps – the early to mid 1960s, the business of universities was nation-building. (more…)

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