Image via WikipediaPeople will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel. - Maya Angelou
False Idols
by digby
Finally: Four members affiliated with the religious group Faith In Public Life held a brief press conference during FFC’s afternoon intermission to denounce the GOP’s adherence to the philosophies of anti-government, anti-religion author Ayn Rand. The leaders — Rev. Jennifer Butler, Jim Wallis, Rev. Derrick Harkins, and Father Clete Kiley — asserted that the GOP efforts to cut funding from many anti-poverty programs while balancing the budget on the backs of the poorest Americans were not in line with Christian values
Ghosts of Guatemala’s Past
By STEPHEN SCHLESINGER
Published: June 3, 2011 New York Times
IN 1954, the American government committed one of the most reprehensible acts in its history when it authorized the C.I.A. to overthrow the democratically elected leader of Guatemala, President Jacobo Arbenz. It did so secretly but later rationalized the coup on the ground that the country was about to fall into communist hands.Guatemalan society has only recently recovered from the suffering that this intervention caused, including brutal military dictatorships and a genocidal civil war against its Indian population, which led to the deaths of an estimated 200,000 people. Only in the 1980s, when a peace process commenced, did democratic governance resume. But a silence about the Arbenz era continued.
Now, after 25 years of increasingly vibrant democratic rule, Guatemalans feel confident enough to honor the memory
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An Environmental Horror Story
A Former Spy Chief Questions the Judgment of Israeli Leaders
celebrate the "reunion of Jerusalem" 1.6.2011
Canada’s Israel Lobby
Payton Last Final
This article is an update of a study of the Canada Israel
Committee (CIC) published in the Journal of Canadian
Cover of Michael Moore
Studies, 1992-3.
Cover of Michael MooreHow The Lobby Chills Middle East Debate
Charming pit-bull to open foreign doors
Known as Rusty to his friends, does John Baird have the skills and personality to succeed as foreign minister?Even before Ottawa journalists got their hands on the list with Stephen Harper's new Cabinet, Canadian Chamber of Commerce president Perrin Beatty had sent Rusty a note of congratulations.
News reports indicated Rusty—or John Baird to most Canadians—was about to become Canada's next foreign minister, a position Mr. Beatty himself had held during Kim Campbell's short-lived government in 1993, before the Progressive Conservatives were reduced to two seats. Ironically, Rusty had been a young staffer in Mr. Beatty's office during that time.
Harper's stand on Israel's 1967 borders seen crossing several lines
Position at G8 creates ambiguity, risks upsetting Obama, experts say.Portugal uses Canada's UN seat to condemn Israel, trumpet climate change
After five months on the Security Council, Portugal is doing much of what Canada was blamed for not doing.Links between Ottawa and Libyan rebels blossoming
Flotilla, the US Offer and Turkish Elections
Turkish daily Hürriyet was the first to publish the news of an American proposition that offers a major role in peace talks to Turkey in exchange for Turkish government to prevent the second flotilla and restore the strained ties between Turkey and Israel. Amid all the discussions and arguments on how and possibly why Turkey would act one way or another to this offer, maybe the single-most important factor is often overlooked: upcoming elections in Turkey.General elections that will be held in June 12 is happening in an overly polarised social setting, in which the ruling party has been observed to move further to the religious right
Kurdish minority has often been supportive of the Palestinian cause as well, y
Image via Wikipediaou have a public that would regard any leader who would broker a deal in exchange for what they would see as the “blood of their martyrs” – yes, the flotilla victims are called “martyrs” in Turkey. Especially Erdoğan, whose party seems to be looking good for a new term according to polls, would not dare to answer positively to the US offer as it would not only anger the majority of the public but also go straight against his whole re-election campaign.
Image via Wikipedia( No mention of the embarrassment of Israel - not a NATO signatory - violating international codes of law by assassinating activists in international waters aboard a Turkish vessel entitled to NATO support )
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