BookMarx for 2009-01-14
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A fascinating and important post on American food, white culture, and racism.
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Now I know why I've always hated those Peanuts cartoon specials!
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"The BART police officer who fatally shot an unarmed man on an Oakland train platform and then refused to explain his actions to investigators was arrested Tuesday in Nevada on suspicion of murder, authorities said.
Johannes Mehserle, 27, of Lafayette was taken into custody in Douglas County, Nev., said Deputy Steve Velez of the Douglas County sheriff's office. The arrest was also confirmed by David Chai, chief of staff to Oakland Mayor Ron Dellums."
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"The International Committee of the Red Cross on Thursday accused Israel of delaying ambulance access to the Gaza Strip and demanded it grant safe access for Palestinian Red Crescent ambulances to return to evacuate more wounded.
Relief workers said they found four starving children sitting next to their dead mothers and other corpses in a house in a part of Gaza City bombed by Israeli forces, the Red Cross said on Thursday. "
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"Maybe I'm being picky, but knowing the power an image on the front page can have on the perception of events, I'd like to open a discussion on editorial responsibility: Why would a newspaper choose to represent a conflict of these proportions with this romantic image?"
via Hossam http://arabist.net/arabawy/
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"With an eye toward federal elections in September, Chancellor Angela Merkel managed to give something to almost everybody Tuesday in announcing a two-year spending program worth a total of €82 billion that she said would benefit industry, local governments, employers and taxpayers."
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"Two days ago, the same day we discussed violence, the ineffable Condoleezza Rice, a US official, declared that what was happening in Gaza was the Palestinians' fault, due to their violent nature.
The underground rivers that crisscross the world can change their geography, but they sing the same song.
And the one we hear now is one of war and pain."
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Not sure how I feel about this; we need to support resistance and proclamations that encompass a Western White Marxian meta-narrative tend to ignore concrete realities as well as fall into the trap of the white man telling the Third World how to resist.
"Those on the "left" who argue the need to support the Islamic fundamentalists, in general, and the IRI regime, in particular, fall into three categories. Firstly, there are confused so-called lefts…Secondly, there are governments, that although in their own countries have carried out important radical reforms, such as Venezuela, or have even carried out radical social transformations, such as Cuba, have established diplomatic and economic ties with the IRI and Hezbollah seeking some kind of third front, an "anti-imperialist" alliance; Thirdly, there some so-called Trotskyists and their allies (e.g., the Socialist Workers Party "SWP" and Respect in Britain) who have a flawed analysis about Islamic fundamentalism."
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"As US president-elect Barack Obama prepares for his inauguration next Tuesday the impact of the recession on the US grows more severe by the day.
Some 2.6 million Americans were thrown out of work last year – the highest number to lose their jobs in a year since 1945. And unemployment growth is accelerating. In December alone half a million Americans lost their jobs.
It is in this context that Barack Obama is launching his $775 billion “stimulus plan” for the US economy – which he claims will create up to four million jobs by the end of 2010."
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"While the depth and breadth of pain of the ongoing Zionist massacre against the Palestinian people is immeasurable, victory for the Palestinian people has never been closer. Although the past 18 days of pure fascistic Zionist murder spree have to date killed more than 971 Palestinians and have injured over 4,400, the resulting local, national, regional, and international conditions are all pointing towards a political crisis of monumental scale for the tripartite axis. Composed of the US, the Zionist Israeli polity, and various Arab regimes, this tripartite axis of colonial and neo-colonial conquest is now facing a dead-end spanning geopolitics, demographics, and economy."
The Mustard Seed 
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