12/16/09

US Silent About Taliban Guarantee Offer on al Qaeda
By: Gareth Porter
The Barack Obama administration is refusing to acknowledge an offer by the leadership of the Taliban in early December to give "legal guarantees" that it will not allow Afghanistan to be used for attacks on other countries.


Abbas to Haaretz: Peace possible in 6 months if Israel freezes all settlements
By Avi Issacharoff
If Israel completely halts construction in the settlements, negotiations with the Palestinians on a final-status agreement can be completed within six months, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas told Haaretz Tuesday, adding that Israel needn't declare the freeze, just carry it out.

12/09/09

Liberals, I Do Despise
by Adolph Reed
Nov. 12, 1996
Sometime early in Ronald Reagan's first term, I decided to forget everything I'd always disliked about liberals. I took pains to subordinate what put me off about them to the larger objective of unity against the rightwing onslaught, I decided to overlook their capacity for high-minded fervor for the emptiest and sappiest platitudes.....

‘Wake up, gentlemen’, world’s top bankers warned by former Fed chairman Volcker
Patrick Hosking and Suzy Jagger
“I wish someone would give me one shred of neutral evidence that financial innovation has led to economic growth — one shred of evidence,” said Mr Volcker, who ran the Fed from 1979 to 1987 and is now chairman of President Obama’s Economic Recovery Advisory Board.

Liberals Are Useless
By Chris Hedges
Liberals are a useless lot. They talk about peace and do nothing to challenge our permanent war economy. They claim to support the working class, and vote for candidates that glibly defend the North American Free Trade Agreement. They insist they believe in welfare, the right to organize, universal health care and a host of other socially progressive causes, and will not risk stepping out of the mainstream to fight for them.

Israel has made settlers of all its citizens
By Amira Hass
Would any of the settlers who opposed the Civil Administration inspectors this week be living in the territories had the governments of Israel not established and encouraged them? Would the Gush Katif evacuees have moved to mobile homes in Ariel in the expectation of spacious permanent housing had the government clearly declared that this was forbidden - because the settlements will be evacuated in the near future for a peace agreement - and that evacuation-compensation money would not be paid to anyone who moves to the West Bank?

Great cartoon

Congress is just filled with pieces of shit.

It turns out that there is some talk about conditioning the aid for Gaza, announced by Hillary, with the release of the prisoner, Gilad Shalit, the soldier captured by Hamas. So it is okay for Israel to kidnap non-military personnel to use as "bargaining chips" but not okay for the other side to capture a soldier. From where I sit, it seems as if the detention of thousands of non-military related Palestinians is a far greater crime than the capture of an enemy soldier. Maybe I am missing something here but I really am unsure what it is.

Oligarchy?

If memory serves me right, Socrates said that the next step from a democracy was an oligarchy. I believe, it has been a while, his reasoning was that the rich would eventually dominate and control democracy through their power and take over the reins. Of course, it has been quite some time since I last read the Republic but I think they were on to something. It is amazing to think that Socrates was around 500 years before Jesus. It kind of makes Jesus look like a moron.

Ahh Youtube

THis is shameful.

Then there is this.

Whoo whoo New President

Finally our nightmare is over and the least qualified man in history has left the Presidency. The fact that 1/2 the American population defended him for eight years says quite a bit about the intellect of Americans. Though my happiness at having a new President doesn’t end there. Now finally all the idiots who reflexively attacked Bush, with very little knowledge, will fade away and the real critics of American power will no longer be grouped in with those people.
I so look forward to attacking Obama’s administration as I did Bush’s. And from what it seems that shouldn’t be too difficult. The fact alone that he has surrounded himself with Clintonistas should automatically generate critique. Just imagine what terrible things Hillary is going to say about the Palestinian civilians. Then there is Larry Summers, I mean, cmon, this shit is going to write itself.
Now I just need to get back to posting regularly and from the looks of it, it shouldn’t be hard.