Social Justice Magazine
Nowhere in his discussion of how General David Petraeus will fare when he takes over the CIA in August does Washington Post columnist David Ignatius challenge the basic operation of the Agency itself.His article of July 8th asks what sort of agenda Petraeus will pursue and concludes, “America needs a great intelligence service, and it will soon have a director whose ambition matches the … [Read more...]
Humanism has little place in U.S. global affairs these days when government acts as the enforcement arm of capitalism-run-amok.Especially since WWII, Washington has habitually aligned itself with the goals of U.S. corporations to dominate. In Latin America and elsewhere, it has funded armies of goons that harass, batter, jail, and murder labor leaders and their allies. In Colombia, labor … [Read more...]
Four cheers for the U.S. Conference of Mayors! It has just voted up a resolution calling on Washington to transfer $126-billion in annual spending from its Middle East wars to America's cities! This vote represents an historic, antiwar breakthrough, one perhaps analogous to CBS anchor Walter Cronkite's commentary on February 27, 1968, that the U.S. could get no better than a stalemate in … [Read more...]
Not that the White House will listen, but the U.S. Conference of Mayors today may actually conclude its proceedings in Baltimore with an historic vote affirming a resolution to spend at home the $125-billion now being lavished annually on the Middle East wars. “That we would build bridges in Baghdad and Kandahar and not Baltimore and Kansas City, absolutely boggles the mind,” the AP quotes … [Read more...]
It's been estimated the Iraq war, besides making that country pretty much unlivable, will flush $3 trillion in U.S. taxpayer dollars down the Pentagon drain.Nobel Prize economist Joseph Stiglitz, who made that cost estimate, wrote with co-author Linda Bilmes in The Washington Post March 9, 2008, “The Iraq adventure has seriously weakened the U.S. Economy...you can't spend $3 … [Read more...]
Monday's Supreme Court decision ordering California to reduce its overcrowded prisons by 30,000 inmates is as welcome as a ray of sunlight streaming through prison bars.State officials have known for decades of the horrific, if not criminal, neglect of prisoners. Five years ago, then Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger called their plight an “emergency.” Some “emergency!”Justice Anthony … [Read more...]
Depression for Blacks, Recession for Whites In case you didn't know it, what's called a “recession” in White America is called a “depression” in Black America. During much of last year white unemployment held steady at around 8.8 percent. Down the block, though, it was about 12 per cent for Latinos and in Black neighborhoods across town it averaged 16 per cent. And as unemployment spiked … [Read more...]
Human Population Growth a Threat to Humankind Humans may believe we live in enlightened times but future historians, (if there are any) will look back at our era as “dirty, crowded, superstitious, dangerous, and primitive” as the Dark Ages, ecologist Carl Safina, president of Blue Ocean Institute, says. To avert imminent catastrophe, he calls for replacing “the no-accounting, throwaway, … [Read more...]
U.S. Sets Up Special Prisons for Muslim and Arab Prisoners If you think the U.S. Bureau of Prisons (BOP) couldn't possibly make its prisons more inhumane no matter how hard it tried, you are wrong. It has created CMUs, or Communications Management Units, where the “management” part consists of denying inmates virtually all communication with their families and the outside world. In its Terre … [Read more...]
The United States of America is in the process of slowly and deliberately destroying a human being before the eyes of the world. All of President Obama's posturing about the conduct of dictator Colonel Muammar el-Qaddafi of Libya will not expunge his own calculated cruelty in allowing his Pentagon to continue the degrading and dehumanizing punishments being inflicted on PFC Bradley Manning, the … [Read more...]
The corrosive, solitary confinement being inflicted upon PFC Bradley Manning in the Quantico, Virginia, brig is no exceptional torture devised exclusively for him. Across the length and breadth of the Great American Prison State, the world's largest, with its 2.4-million captives stuffed into 5,000 overcrowded lock-ups, some 25,000 other inmates are suffering a like fate of sadistic isolation in … [Read more...]
In what must rank as one of the most dubious magazine interviews ever published, AARP's “The Magazine,” circulation 24-million, devotes its January/February cover to a propaganda makeover in behalf of ex-president George W. Bush.Next to the happy, smiling face of this clueless warmonger are the words: “What he regrets, what he wants next (grandkids!)”---as if Bush is some typical … [Read more...]
China's “SECRET WAR PLAN” (Be amazed!) has leaked out and fallen into the hands of none other than Popular Mechanics magazine, which plastered it on the cover of its December issue. How this TOP SECRET info got into the hands of the intrepid editors at Hearst Publishing in New York on west 57th Street in Manhattan is not disclosed. But it reveals the sophisticated new technology of “China's … [Read more...]
Two writers with close ties to U.S. intelligence agencies published a shocking article December 23rd in The Miami Herald asserting that WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is “a narcissistic nut” with “blood on his hands” and President Obama should do “whatever it takes to shut down WikiLeaks.”Without giving a single example of how Assange's disclosures caused blood to flow, … [Read more...]
As the U.S. is now an international aggressor, do Americans still owe it allegiance? If a citizen releases information about crimes the U.S. commits, can he or she be legally punished? These questions arise in connection with the arrests of Australian Julian Assange and PFC Bradley Manning, a U.S. Army intelligence analyst believed to be the source of the secret government cables published by … [Read more...]
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