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Obama Can’t Undo His War Crimes with Legacy Politics

January 14, 2015 By Ali Salaam 4 Comments

President Obama has presided over policies that have resulted in horrific war crimes against civilians (mainly children), a corrupt corporatocracy, and a dragnet surveillance state. Yet in a last ditch effort to preserve his legacy, he is pursuing policies that will pacify the public’s view of his crimes, which are no different than most other presidents before him regardless of political party. We must realize that he will only pursue legacy policies up to the point it upsets his masters in the banking industry that installed him in office, just like most other presidents since Woodrow Wilson.

The argument given by Obama apologists leading up to the 2012 re-election was that if we re-elected him he would end the wars, the surveillance, the corporate/banking collusion, and the erosion of the Bill of Rights.

The line must be drawn at dead children. This is the commander in chief and he had every ability to stop these atrocities in a timely fashion. It is very important that we as a people distinguish between pragmatism and compromise. Being against the bombing of children is not being a purist; it is being human.

Filed Under: Elections, National News Tagged With: 9-11, Aaron Swartz, Afghanistan, Africa, AIPAC, al-Nusra, American imperialism, American Israel Public Affairs Committee, Anti-Defamation League, Assata Shakur, Bahrain, banks, Barack Obama, Benjamin Netanyahu, Bernie Sanders, Bill Kristol, CIA, Confessions of an Economic Hitman, Corporate America, Cuba, dead children, democracy, Democratic Party, drones, Edward Snowden, Egypt, election 2012, Elizabeth Warren, endless war, Evo Morales, famine, Federal Reserve, freedom of the press, Gaza, George W. Bush, GITMO, Guantanamo Bay, history, Hugo Chavez, Human Rights, hunger, imperialism, Iraq, ISIS, Islamic State, Israel, Jewish Voice for Peace, Joe Biden, John Kerry, John Perkins, journalism, Julian Assange, kill list, Latin America, legacy politics, Libya, Lindsey Graham, Lupe Fiasco, Malcolm X, Mali, MENA, Middle East, Mitt Romney, Monsanto, Monsanto Protection Act, Moses, New York Times, NSA, Obama Legacy, Occupy Wall St., Occupy Wall Street, oligarchy, Operation Cast Lead, OWS, Pakistan, PATRIOT Act, police, police militarization, Privacy, Protective Edge, Rand Paul, Republican Party, Saudi Arabia, September 11, September 11th, Sheldon Adelson, Somalia, surveillance, too big to fail, Torture Tuesdays, United States Bill of Rights, US State Department, Wall Street, whistleblowers, Wikileaks, Woodrow Wilson, Yemen, Zionism

Attack Of The Land-grabbers: Land Grabs Beyond Africa

December 30, 2014 By Burkely Hermann Leave a Comment

Before going further, it is important to recognize that land grabs are not only happening in Africa and, while there is a “global rush to lock up African farmland” by state-owned companies and private investors, different investors have different motives. [21] One group of investors are Arab investors, who have the appeal “that Islam has made significant inroads in Africa, creating cultural and religious links” in their land grabs.

Within this group are Saudi investors, who began a push, thanks to the support of the royal Saudi government and its dictator King Abdullah II in 2008, to “acquire cropland abroad and grow food for export to the homeland.”

Some of these land grabs include the acquisition of land in Ethiopia, in 2009, to grow rice and in Sudan to grow wheat, corn, and soybeans for export to Saudi Arabia. [26] For the land grab in Ethiopia, every day a group of 1,000 locals pick, pack, and load “hundreds of tons of fresh production onto waiting trucks. After reaching the capital, Addis Ababa, the product is flown to a handful of Middle Eastern cities, entirely bypassing Ethiopia, one of the hungriest places on the planet” as Nancy MacDonald describes it.

Filed Under: Civil Liberties, Foreign Affairs Tagged With: Abu Dhabi, Africa, agriculture, Bangalore, Bank of America, Beidahuang Land Cultivation Group, Benin, Black Earth Farming, Black River Asset Management, BlackRock, Brazil, Bulgaria, Cameroon, China, Credit Suisse, Daewoo Logistics, Democratic Republic of Congo, Derrick Jensen, Deustche Bank, Dow Chemical, Ethiopia, farming, farms, Human Rights, Hyundai, India, indigenous, industrial agriculture, Islam, Joel K. Bourne, Karaturi Global, Kenya, land, land grabs, land rights, Liberia, Madagascar, Mali, MENA, Michael Klare, Middle East, Minerals and Metals Trading Corporation, Moldova, Mozambique, Nancy MacDonald, New York City, Orion magazine, Paul Kantira, Philippines, Qatar, Rana Kapoor, rice, Romania, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, South Korea, soy, subsistence farming, Sudan, sugarcane, Susan Payne, Sweden, Switzerland, Tanzania, Uganda, Ukraine, United Arab Emirates, Venezuela, Zimbabwe

Attack Of The Land-grabbers: The Race For Land In Africa

December 23, 2014 By Burkely Hermann 1 Comment

This article aims to highlight stories which show the clash between small farmers and big, usually corporate or state-backed, agriculture. This clash is part of a fight that is occurring across the world, with some governments wanting control of land in order to feed their populations and others, usually in the business world, wanting to turn land into a commodity so they can gain increased profits.

Well over a majority of the world’s contributions to global warming comes from the actions of four industrialized states (United States, Japan, Canada and Australia) and one region (Europe), and those living in those states. The advent of a global climate catastrophe is key to buying land, since 40% of the world’s population may face a “serious drinking water shortage” within the next half-century, unless there is bold and quick action.

However, there are other factors to the fight over land across the world. One of the main battlegrounds is the African continent, where not only are many states dependent on only one resource or cash crop to gain money from exports, but numerous states were forced by the European colonizers to change from subsistence to cash crops, which caused parts of Africa to suffer from drought.

Filed Under: Foreign Affairs Tagged With: Africa, agriculture, Al Gore, Angola, Argentina, Australia, Bedford Biofuels, Bin Laden Group, Cameroon, Canada, Climate change, colonialism, Congo, Democratic Republic of Congo, Devlin Kayek, DRC, drinking water shortages, drought, Egypt, Emergent Asset Management, Ethiopia, Europe, farming, food, food supply, G4 Industries, Gabon, GRAIN, Gregory Myers, Hoyo Hoyo, Human Rights, imperialism, industrial agriculture, Japan, jatropha, Joel K. Bourne, Kenya, Lamine Ndiaye, land grabs, land use, Liberia, Libya, local food, Malawi, Malaysia, Mali, Malibya Project, MENA, Michael Klare, Middle East, Miguel Bosch, Mozambique, Muammar al-Qaddafi, National Geographic, Nigeria, Osama bin-Laden, Oxfam Sengal, poverty, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Senegal, Sime Darby, soybeans, Sub-Saharan Africa, subsistence farming, sugarcane, Susan Payne, Tana River Delta, Tanzania, Uganda, USAID, water, Zimbabwe, ZTE Corporation

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