Palestinian Suffering and the Democratic Party

The Gaza Blockade 101, Palestinian suffering and the Democratic Party. Conservatives dominate Sotomayor hearings while passive visionless Dems lay low when they could be pushing her on civil liberties, corporate dominance and populist election reform. Sonar killing whales. Ocean acidification. Goldman Sachs bandits resume looting you.

Guest is Phyllis Bennis, Director of the New Internationalism Project of the Institute for Policy Studies in Washington, D.C. explaining the Israeli-Egyptian blockade of Gaza, which is a deliberate policy of enforced hunger, poverty and suffering on Gaza’s population in an attempt to overthrow the 2006 Palestinian elections.

Shocking! Florida Congresswoman Debbie Schultz goes on TO to side with Netanyahu, not Obama, on no-two states and more settlements in recent White House meeting.

How To Win an Argument on Afghanistan

Warmonger: The Taliban oppress women so we have to fight them.
You: Malalai Joya, the Afghan women's rights leader, says the main reason for the oppression of women now is the Northern Alliance fundamentalists, who are mentally the same as the Taliban but physically different, who have come to power.

The Saudi Arabian dictatorship prohibits women from driving and requires them to get the permission of their male possessor to work. Sudan publicly flogs women who wear pants. When did you say were you enlisting to invade and overthrow these two dictatorships?

Warmonger: The Taliban are brutal thugs. They publicly flog women who violate their strict religious morality. They murder girls who go to school or throw acid in their faces.
You: These are relatively isolated incidents by extremist factions and criminal rogue individuals in the Taliban. Many Taliban condemn these excesses and support the right of women to education. You distort and exaggerate incidents like these to mislead people and justify your own killing of Afghans. Shame on you.

The Northern Alliance fundamentalists are U.S. "allies" and part of the new Aghan government. The group is responsible for murdering about 2000 Taliban prisoners of war they captured in 2001 by suffocating them in airtight shipping containers and firing bullets into them. Saudi Arabia beheads people. Singapore whips people in multiple sessions with canes soaked in water for maximum effect, often to the point of unconsciousness. So you are calling for invasions of Saudi Arabia and Singapore?

Warmonger: If we don't destroy the Pakistani Taliban, they're going to take over the country and get control of the nukes.
You: The Taliban control less than five percent of Pakistan territory, in the traditionally independent Pashtun tribal areas of western Pakistan. They have virtually no support in the rest of the country which is not Pashtun, not fundamentalist and is even secular. The chances of the Taliban taking over the country are just another disingenuous paranoid scare tactic you use to justify your destructive wars. Shame on you for misleading people.

Worse, your attacks in Pakistan are creating hatred of the United States and threatening to divide the Pakistani army into pro-Taliban and anti-Taliban camps, which would seriously destabilize the country. While the Taliban aren't going to take over the central government, other factions might. You are creating the nightmare you claim to avoid. You are endangering the security of the United States homeland and the future of my children with your policies. Stop it.

Biden Greenlights Israeli Bombing of Iran; Left Revolt Brewing in Democratic Party

Biden green lights Israeli bombing of Iran in major step toward Iran War; Mullen says it would "destabilize"; feckless Obama must say NO to Israeli extremists but instead is encouraging them. Also, Al Qaeda in Mahgreb ups Africa attacks and threatens attacks in European countries sending troops to Afghanistan. Environmentalists and Hip Hoppers souring on Obama, joining anti-war movement and gays as left revolt brews in Democratic Party. History repeats with Fort Worth gay bar brown shirt raid on anniversary of Stonewall raid.

Exiled in My Own Country on America's 233rd Birthday

Patriotic 4th of July extravaganza! Why I have become an exile in my own country and am unable to "celebrate" today. America at 233, a nation in decline and evolving into a police state with the highest incarceration rate in the world, dominated by military and financial oligarchies who now wage endless wars of aggression against foreign peoples and manipulate government regulation, avoid taxation and use taxpayer funds to enrich themselves while their reckless greed has thrown 6.5 million people out of work and a lackey president and a rotted complicit Democratic Party facilitate it all while falsely posturing as an opposition party. Original description: Celebrate the 16.5% unemployment rate and the 50 million uninsured. Celebrate Obama's assault on South Afghanistan and the death, maiming and destruction the good ole USA reigns down today -- the worst since Bush firebombed Fallujah in '04. Celebrate the 3 million refugees Obama's driven from their homes in Pakistan. Celebrate the Wall Street oligarchy's domination of the economy: special report on how Goldman Sachs Democrat-Republicans control the U.S. government and how they're going to get rich off cap and trade while you pay them with higher energy prices.