The State Department’s Shannon
Committed Latin Americanists relished the unceremonious departure of right-wing ideologue Roger Noriega as assistant secretary of state for Western Hemispheric affairs and welcomed, by default, the promotion of Thomas A. Shannon Jr. to the post in October.
Iraqi viewpoint- Dirty Means, Genocide and Mass Destruction: Dedicated to the UN, UNSC and the Intel
Heaps and heaps of destroyed houses, shops, offices, the only bridge, hospitals and medical care centers, walls covered with bullets shots, and election posters...empty faces with bleak looks wandering in the streets. This is the picture of Al-Qa’im after the “Steel Curtain” military operation which began on November 5, 2005 with 3,000 American and Iraqi troops participating in it.
Book Review: Dance of the Dialectic
If the accomplishments of this book could be summarized in a single statement, it would be that Ollman successfully presents Marx’s thought as a coherent unity by systematically explaining the apparent difficulties, contradictions, and various emphases in his work that have long puzzled, perplexed and even divided Marxist thinkers.
Revolution from Below: The Communist Party and the Bolivarian Revolution
At this time, Communists in Venezuela were persecuted, and many were murdered. So the Party went to underground again. In the 1980s, Party work involved building Party clubs in the various communities. The clubs recruited individuals to the Party and worked in opposition to the oppressive capitalist government of the time.
Censure and Impeachment
Congressman John Conyers has introduced a bill to censure Bush, another to censure Cheney, and a third to create a select committee to investigate and make recommendations on grounds for possible impeachment. The reaction I'm hearing seems to be three-quarters enthusiasm and one-quarter concern that censuring Bush and Cheney will hurt the chances of impeaching them.
Tibet and China: A Review of Michael Parenti’s “Friendly Feudalism: The Myth of Tibet” article
Two years ago the website “Dissident Voice” carried the above named article by Michael Parenti...It is an important article that should be brought to the attention of all PA aficionados as it sheds a lot of light on a controversial issue on the left.That issue is, of course, the so-called Chinese takeover of Tibet and the demand for Tibetan independence.
AFL-CIO Announces its Opposition to Nomination of Judge Alito to U.S. Supreme Court
As a member of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, according to a letter sent this morning from AFL-CIO President John Sweeney to the full U.S. Senate, Judge Alito handed down decisions and offered dissents that reveal “a disturbing tendency to take an extremely narrow and restrictive view of laws that protect workers’ rights...
ETHIOPIA: Birds test negative for avian flu
Scientists had flown in from Egypt to carry out the tests on more than a dozen samples because Ethiopia does not have the proper equipment to check for avian flu.The tests revealed that the birds had died from Newcastle disease...It does not pose an immediate danger to humans.
The Pentagon is Spying on You; Don't Worry It's for Your Own Good
This past week, Bush admitted to giving a 2002 order to the National Security Agency (NSA), a super-secret, subsidiary of the Pentagon believed to be even larger than the CIA, to spy on Americans by wiretapping international phone calls and reading e-mails without warrants.
God, Credit, and Social Welfare: Capitalism Gone Mad
Governments that aid corporations and private wealth while at the same time undermining or dismantling programs, including research based programs that provide general education and public services are in effect robbing the people to subsidize the capitalist class.
