I Hate National Security Democrats

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Sunday June 26, 2005 · 3:10 PM PDT

2005/06/26 · 15:10

A joke about Hillary Rodham Clinton is making the rounds on the Net:

Senator Hillary Clinton was invited to address a major gathering of the American Indian Nation two weeks ago in upper New York State. She spoke for almost an hour on her future plan for increasing every Native American's standard of living, should she one day become the first female President. She referred to her career as a New York Senator, how she had signed "YES" for every Indian issue that came to her desk for approval. Although the Senator was vague on the details of her plan, she seemed most enthusiastic about her ideas for helping her "red sisters and brothers." At the conclusion of her speech, the Tribes presented the Senator with a plaque inscribed with her new Indian name: Walking Eagle. The proud Senator then departed in her motorcade, waving to the crowds.

A news reporter later queried the group of chiefs about how they came to select the new name given to the Senator. They explained that Walking Eagle is the name given to a bird so full of shit it can no longer fly.

Yoshie

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Sunday June 26, 2005 · 1:45 PM PDT

2005/06/26 · 13:45

Why are so many Humvees still unarmored? It turns out that a small Ohio company, O'Gara-Hess & Eisenhardt, is zealously defending its legal rights to the armor design, seeking to hold onto its exclusive deal with the Pentagon.

Soldiers' lives are evidently less important than intellectual property rights that confer monopoly profits on capitalists. The Iraq War is the best crash course in the ABC of capitalism.

Yoshie

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Monday April 18, 2005 · 3:56 AM PDT

2005/04/18 · 03:56

While it is clear that the US and coalition forces have been killing more civilians than combatants and that more civilians have been killed by the US and coalition forces than by guerrillas, questions stilll remain.

First of all, do Iraqi guerrillas themselves in fact attack more civilians than combatants, as the corporate media regularly suggests? Read More

Debtors of the World, Unite!

Yoshie

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Friday April 15, 2005 · 6:50 PM PDT

2005/04/15 · 18:50

The "bankruptcy reform" bill "passed the House on a 302-126 vote on Thursday, a month after the Senate voted 74-25" (Marcy Gordon/Associated Press, "Congress Passes Bankruptcy Reform Bill," The Guardian 15 Apr. 2005).

It is time for the American wing of the global justice movement, which has been struggling to force the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank to drop the debt under which peasants and workers of the global South groan, to take on the finance and credit industry that oppresses US workers by usury.

Yoshie

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Friday April 15, 2005 · 12:36 AM PDT

2005/04/15 · 00:36

Grassroots opposition to Tokyo's bid for a permanent seat on the United Nations Security Council is spreading like wildfire on the Net and spilling over into the streets in China, Korea, and elsewhere, fueled by Tokyo's denial of its historical responsibility for Japanese imperialism, its service as Washington's junior partner over issues like Taiwan, its own petty territorial aggrandizement (e.g., exploring "a disputed area of the East China Sea for natural gas" [Mari Yamaguchi/Associated Press, "Japan Approves Drilling in Disputed Sea," 13 Apr. 2005), and Japanese capitalists' exploitation of Chinese workers: John Chan, "Anti-Japanese Protests Erupt in China" (WSWS.org 8 Apr. 2005); and Bruce Wallace, "Anti-Japan Fury Spreads through China's Streets" (Los Angeles Times, 11 Apr. 2005). Read More

Wall Street: How It Works and for Whom

Yoshie

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Friday April 08, 2005 · 5:28 PM PDT

2005/04/08 · 17:28

Doug Henwood's Wall Street: How It Works and for Whom (Verso, 1997) is now available for free download.

It's an excellent book, a must-read for activists under late capitalism, who need to understand the power of finance capital over the fate of workers of the world.

FULL TEXT: http://montages.blogspot.com/2005/04/wall-street-how-it-works-and-for-whom.html. Read More

Wal-Mart Sells the Marine Corps

Yoshie

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Wednesday April 06, 2005 · 6:39 PM PDT

2005/04/06 · 18:39

The Marine Corps is now on sale at Wal-Mart. This is the first time that the Marine Corps has used an in-store television network for recruitment pitches.

"Bill G. Harmon, a Virginia native, stops to watch the U. S. Marine Corps' 'Family Photos' public service announcement at Wal-Mart's home theater section in Stafford, Va. The commercial features the original footage of the Marines and Navy Corpsman who raised the American flag atop Mt. Suribachi on Iwo Jima, an island in the Pacific Ocean, Feb. 23, 1945" (Photo by Staff Sgt. Marc Ayalin).

FULL TEXT: http://montages.blogspot.com/2005/04/wal-mart-sells-marine-corps.html. Read More

Conservatives: Underrepresented in Academia?

Yoshie

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Saturday April 02, 2005 · 6:01 PM PST

2005/04/02 · 18:01

While the Right exaggerates the proportion of liberals and leftists in academia, it is true that liberals (though not leftists) traditionally outnumber conservatives in the humanities and social sciences, particularly at research institutions that require a doctoral degree as a condition of employment. What should be conservatives' response to that? I submit that conservatives ought to congratulate themselves. Thinking like the proverbial Rational Economic Man weighing opportunity costs and maximizing utility, many conservatives made the economically correct choice of staying out of Ph.D. programs, especially academic sweatshops in the humanities and social sciences.

http://montages.blogspot.com/2005/04/conservatives-underrepresented-in.html. Read More

Where Did the 8 Million Iraqi Voter Turnout Figure Come From?

Yoshie

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Tuesday February 01, 2005 · 9:10 AM PST

2005/02/01 · 09:10

The best commentary that sums up the essence of the Iraqi elections is Steve Bell's cartoon below:

Steve Bell (2005)

As for the turnout, where did the Independent [sic] Election Commission of Iraq get the figure of 8 million voters?

FULL TEXT: http://montages.blogspot.com/2005/01/voter-turnout-in-iraqi-elections.html. Read More

Gates Betting against the Dollar: Deficits, the Dollar, and IEDs

Yoshie

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Sunday January 30, 2005 · 2:56 PM PST

2005/01/30 · 14:56

Bill Gates, the world's richest man, is now betting against the dollar. "I'm short the dollar," says Gates. "The ol' dollar, it's gonna go down." Will the dollar be one day the target of attacks by hedge funds? Recently the dollar rallied a bit, but short-term fluctuations aside, the dollar has nowhere to go but down. Gradually or suddenly and precipitously? It may be possible to engineer gradual devaluation of the dollar and stimulate US export, shrinking the US trade deficit, but it turns out that "the US does not have adequate manufacturing capacity to eliminate the external deficit," according to David Hale in a Financial Times article (January 26, 2005). Read More

Sadr's Subtle Defiance of Demonstration Elections in Iraq

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Saturday January 29, 2005 · 4:28 PM PST

2005/01/29 · 16:28

The January 30, 2005 elections in Iraq are the textbook definition of "demonstration elections." Unlike Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, who issued "a fatwa saying all Shiia men and women have an obligation to vote in the upcoming election," the Moktada al-Sadr faction "uttered not a single word about the vote" at Friday Prayers, according to the New York Times, foreshadowing "a less than overwhelming voter turnout in many parts of Iraq" (Dexter Filkins, "Shiite Faction Ready to Shun Sunday's Election in Iraq," January 29, 2005). The Times insinuates that the Sadr faction are against democracy itself, solely by virtue of their quiet refusal to browbeat their vast following into embracing the elections tomorrow. Needless to say, the idea that it is people's right to evaluate whether or not an election is free, fair, and democratic and that boycotting an unfree, unfair, and undemocratic election is a time-honored tactic of democrats everywhere is unspeakable in the corporate media.

FULL TEXT: http://montages.blogspot.com/2005/01/sadrs-subtle-defiance-of-demonstration.html.

Yoshie

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Saturday January 29, 2005 · 12:47 PM PST

2005/01/29 · 12:47

Among countless counter-inaugural actions held nationwide on January 20, 2005, the feistiest one took place in Seattle. Look at the photograph of Seattle Central Community College students forcing Army recruiters off campus:

Sgt. 1st Class Jeff Due, right, a U.S. Army recruiter, is surrounded by protesters at Seattle Central Community College, Thursday, Jan. 20, 2005, in Seattle. After about a 10-minute standoff during which protesters tore up U.S Army literature, the protesters were successful in getting Due and another recruiter to leave their table under escort by campus security officers. Several hundred students walked out of classes at several Seattle colleges and universities to protest the inauguration of President Bush. (Ted S. Warren/AP)

Naturally, no national media carried the photograph except Yahoo! News.

What makes this action especially promising? The class and race of the students who organized it.

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Conservatives: Underrepresented in Academia?

Where Did the 8 Million Iraqi Voter Turnout Figure Come From?

Gates Betting against the Dollar: Deficits, the Dollar, and IEDs

Sadr's Subtle Defiance of Demonstration Elections in Iraq

Seattle Central Community College Students Force Army Recruiters off Campus