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Saturday, January 6, 2007 |
Forward: "Although few tears were shed in Israel over Saddam Hussein's death last week, a small but growing chorus - including government officials, academics and Iraqi émigrés - is warning that Israel could find itself in more danger with him gone, and that it might even regret having welcomed his toppling."
The trouble is that the Bush aggression has not only deteriorated the Middle East situation, but is also ruining the Western economies and their moral authority.
ICH: "Lies have consequences. All those who helped President George W. Bush launch a war of aggression - termed by Nuremberg 'the supreme international crime' - have blood on their hands and must be held accountable. This includes corrupt intelligence officials. Otherwise, look for them to perform the same service in facilitating war on Iran."
WashingtonPost: "Sen. Joseph R. Biden Jr. (D-Del.), chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, said yesterday that he believes top officials in the Bush administration have privately concluded they have lost Iraq and are simply trying to postpone disaster so the next president will 'be the guy landing helicopters inside the Green Zone, taking people off the roof', in a chaotic withdrawal reminiscent of Vietnam."
Guardian: "... suspicions were recently hardened when the airport's former director confirmed that numerous alleged CIA flights touched down at Szymany, where they were met by military vehicles from Stare Kiejkuty. The evidence from Mariola Przewlocka, who was sacked from her job last year for 'political reasons', prompted MEPs to make the first official claim that terror suspects may have been detained on EU soil."
As long as Tweedledum and Tweedledee are in power in Poland they will subvert European policies.
FAS: "Declaring that the need to protect government secrets overrides all other considerations, a federal court yesterday dismissed a lawsuit against the Central Intelligence Agency filed by family members of a former CIA clandestine officer who alleged injuries that are largely classified."
Lawlessness and arbitrariness (signing laws then write a 'signing statement' that nullifies the law) are characteristics of fascist governments.
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AlterNet: "In his new book Capitalism 3.0, Peter Barnes writes that the costs of our current capitalist system are clear: inequality, stressful lives and a dwindling financial safety net. But how do we revise such a complex system?
We need a new set of operating instructions, Barnes argues, that will usher in and guide the creation of Capitalism 3.0. In a remarkably brief 166 pages, Peter addresses and rather astonishingly, largely answers his question, 'How do you revise a system as vast and complex as capitalism? And how do you do it gracefully, with a minimum of pain and disruption?'
'I'm a businessman. I believe society should reward successful initiative with profit. At the same time, I know that profit-seeking activities have unhealthy side effects. They cause pollution, waste, inequality, anxiety and no small amount of confusion about the purpose of life.'
Barnes' key solution to the unhealthy side effects of profit-seeking behavior is to revive the idea of - and reclaim the value - of the Commons.
The Commons, Barnes insists, should no longer be viewed simply as a pasture where animals graze, but rather as a generic term, comparable to the terms 'market' or 'state'. The Commons is the gifts we inherit or create together.
Think of the Commons as a broad river fed by three principal tributaries: nature, community, and culture. This river precedes and surrounds capitalism and adds immense value to it, and to us."
Comment on the book.
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