Putting Out The Call!
Archive for July, 2009
Video: Myth America
Jul 13th
10 Greatest Myths of the Robber Class and the Case for Revolution
By Cindy Sheehan / Information Clearing House
It’s time to break the sick relationship that we have with the Robber Class and do something about it! They can only rob us, if we allow them to.
# Myth One: America: Greatest Nation in the Universe!
# Myth Two: Elections Matter
# Myth Three: There’s a huge Difference Between Dems and Repubs
# Myth Four: It is Noble to Die in Robber Class Wars
# Myth Five: The Federal Reserve Cares About You
# Myth Six: It’s a Privilege to pay Income Taxes to the Robber Class
# Myth Seven: Housing, Health Care and Education are Privileges, too
# Myth Eight: America has a Free Press
# Myth Nine: The Environment, Who Needs it?
# Myth Ten: 19 Muslims with box cutters were responsible for 9/11
Part One of Six
Continue On: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oYK3LP7_8xM
1MC Spotlight: John Forte’
Jul 12th
John Forte’ is a Grammy-nominated singer, songwriter and producer from Brooklyn, New York. A graduate of Phillips Exeter Academy, Forte’ is a classically-trained violinist who is known for his work with the multi-platinum group The Fugees. On November 24, 2008, Forte’ was granted a commutation by President George W. Bush after having served more than seven years of a fourteen-year federal prison sentence. Those who campaigned on his behalf include famed singer/songwriter Carly Simon and Senator Orrin Hatch (R) of Utah. Prior to his incarceration Forte’ released two solo albums, PolySci (Columbia) and I, John (Transparent). On December 22, 2008, Forte’ walked out of Fort Dix Correctional Institution to resume his life and tell his story through music, film and prose. In addition to working on his album, Forte’ is a contributor to The Daily Beast and is working with at-risk youth through organizations such as In Arms Reach, a community-based arts, counseling and mentoring program for the children of incarcerated parents. ~Myspace Bio
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Bury the Never Ending Myth
Jul 11th
…of Jackson as Child Molester
July 10, 2009 by Davey D
As I?m reading this article by Earl Ofari Hutchinson, I had to add a few thoughts. When ever this topic gets brought up I?ve always noted the most glaring omission to this whole ?child molester? myth. It?s quite simple-Show me the kids and show me the parents. The emphasis is on the plural ?s?. Almost all experts on this topic have noted that a molester doesn?t stop at one victim, they have lots of them. Such would?ve been the case with Michael Jackson who routinely hosted hundreds if not thousands of kids at his Neverland Ranch. There would?ve been more than the one or two victims who accused him.
This leads to my second point, show me the parents. Out of all the kids supposedly molested, not one parent ran off to get Mike? Not one? There was no parent who looked at their innocent 6,7, or 8 year old and said to themselves; ?WTF? This 45 year old man violated my child? My seed? My loved one? ? Hell No-Michael Jackson gotta die?? ?
Think about that for a minute. What parent sits by and doesn?t try and snatch the head off the person who harmed their precious loved one? I know my parents would been in jail if anything like that happened. Hell moms was ready to call it a day when she heard about teachers acting foul toward me or my sister. Pops beat the crap out of man right there in Macy?s for pushing me out of the way and calling me a little nigger when I was about 7. He knocked this man over a Christmas tree and would not stop until pulled off. He kept pummeling the man and yelling ?No one touches my kid-No one? Could you imagine if I had been molested?
Mourn On The 4th of July
Jul 9th
Liberals say that the United States is once again a “nation of moral ideals”, but behind the fa?ade little has changed. With his government of warmongers, Wall Street cronies and polluters from the Bush and Clinton eras, Barack Obama is merely upholding the myths of a divine America
By John Pilger
July 09, 2009 “Information Clearing House” — The monsoon had woven thick skeins of mist over the central highlands of Vietnam. I was a young war correspondent, bivouacked in the village of Tuylon with a unit of US marines whose orders were to win hearts and minds. “We are here not to kill,” said the sergeant, “we are here to impart the American Way of Liberty as stated in the Pacification Handbook. This is designed to win the hearts and minds of folks, as stated on page 86.”
Page 86 was headed WHAM. The sergeant’s unit was called a combined action company, which meant, he explained, “we attack these folks on Mondays and we win their hearts and minds on Tuesdays”. He was joking, though not quite. Standing in a jeep on the edge of a paddy, he had announced through a loudhailer: “Come on out, everybody. We got rice and candy and toothbrushes to give you.”
Silence. Not a shadow moved.
The Man Who Crashed the World
Jul 9th
Almost a year after A.I.G.’s collapse, despite a tidal wave of outrage, there still has been no clear explanation of what toppled the insurance giant. The author decides to ask the people involved-the silent, shell-shocked traders of the A.I.G. Financial Products unit-and finds that the story may have a villain, whose reign of terror over 400 employees brought the company, the U.S. economy, and the global financial system to their knees.
By Michael Lewis
July 08, 2009 “Vanity Fair” — Saturday 01 August 2009 — Six months ago, I received an odd phone call from a man named Jake DeSantis at A.I.G. Financial Products?the infamous unit of the doomed insurance company, staffed by expensively educated, highly paid traders, whose financial ineptitude is widely suspected of costing the U.S. taxpayer $182.5 billion and counting. At the time A.I.G. F.P.?s losses were reported, it became known that a handful of traders in this curious unit had sold trillions of dollars of credit-default swaps (essentially unregulated insurance policies) on piles of U.S. subprime mortgages, but its employees hadn?t yet become the leading examples of Wall Street greed. And so this was before Jake DeSantis and his colleagues found themselves suburban-Connecticut outcasts, before their first death threats, before the House of Representatives passed a bill because of them (taxing 90 percent of their large bonuses), before New York attorney general Andrew Cuomo announced he was going after their paychecks, and before Iowa senator Charles Grassley said that A.I.G.?s leaders should follow the Japanese example and ?either do one of two things, resign or go commit suicide.?
The Honduras Coup
Jul 9th
Is Obama Innocent?
By Michael Parenti
July 08, 2009 “Information Clearing House” — Is President Obama innocent of the events occurring in Honduras, specifically the coup launched by the Honduran military resulting in the abduction and forced deportation of democratically elected President Manuel Zelaya? Obama has denounced the coup and demanded that the rules of democracy be honored. Still, several troubling questions remain.
First, almost all the senior Honduran military officers active in the coup are graduates of the Pentagon’s School of the Americas (known to many of us as “School of the Assassins”). The Honduran military is trained, advised, equipped, indoctrinated, and financed by the United States national security state. The generals would never have dared to move without tacit consent from the White House or the Pentagon and CIA.
Are Afghan Lives Worth Anything?
Jul 7th
Mourning Michael Jackson, Ignoring the Afghan Dead
by Tom Engelhardt
Published on Tuesday, July 7, 2009 by TomDispatch.com
It was a blast. I’m talking about my daughter’s wedding. You don’t often see a child of yours quite that happy. I’m no party animal, but I danced my 64-year-old legs off. And I can’t claim that, as I walked my daughter to the ceremony, or ate, or talked with friends, or simply sat back and watched the young and energetic enjoy themselves, I thought about those Afghan wedding celebrations where the “blast” isn’t metaphorical, where the bride, the groom, the partygoers in the midst of revelry die.
In the two weeks since, however, that’s been on my mind — or rather the lack of interest our world shows in dead civilians from a distant imperial war — and all because of a passage I stumbled upon in a striking article by journalist Anand Gopal. In “Uprooting an Afghan Village” in the June issue of the Progressive magazine, he writes about Garloch, an Afghan village he visited in the eastern province of Laghman. After destructive American raids, Gopal tells us, many of its desperate inhabitants simply packed up and left for exile in Afghan or Pakistani refugee camps.
One early dawn in August 2008, writes Gopal, American helicopters first descended on Garloch for a six-hour raid:
“The Americans claim there were gunshots as they left. The villagers deny it. Regardless, American bombers swooped by the village just after the soldiers left and dropped a payload on one house. It belonged to Haiji Qadir, a pole-thin, wizened old man who was hosting more than forty relatives for a wedding party. The bomb split the house in two, killing sixteen, including twelve from Qadir’s family, and wounding scores more… The malek [chief] went to the province’s governor and delivered a stern warning: protect our villagers or we will turn against the Americans.”
US Assault to Seize Taleban Heartland
Jul 2nd
by Tom Coghlan
Thousands of US Marines stormed into an Afghan river valley by helicopter and land early today, launching the first major military offensive of Barack Obama’s presidency with an assault deep into Taleban-held territory.
Operation Khanjar, which the Marines call simply “the decisive op”, is intended to seize virtually the entire lower Helmand River valley, a heartland of the Taleban insurgency and the world’s biggest heroin producing region.
It is the biggest operation launched by the US Marines Corps since the retaking of Fallujah in 2004 and seeks to break the grinding stalemate between Nato forces and the Taleban in the province.
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