Yes it’s politically incorrect but race matters

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The Democrats must admit it: Obama would lose to McCain

By Anatole Kaletsky

homepage.jpgAmerican Presidential elections have been compared with reality TV series or game shows, in which a gaggle of jumped-up nonentities aspiring to be celebrities are ritually humiliated in public and offered entertaining opportunities to self-destruct, until only one survivor remains. But this time round, a much more elevated analogy is sadly apposite. The 2008 US election has all the makings of a Greek tragedy, in which noble heroes and heroines are forced to follow a course to catastrophe, divinely preordained as punishment for sins and blunders committed by their forefathers in the dim and distant past. In acting out their ineluctable doom, the eloquent protagonists do not just destroy themselves but also their cities, their nations and even their entire civilisations. If this description sounds too grandiose, consider yesterday’s results from the Pennsylvania primary. The outcome seemed to be precisely calibrated by the gods to maximise the agony of the Democrats. It gave Hillary Clinton just the support she needed to stay firmly in contention, but not quite enough to turn the tide in her favour.

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Fabric of Our Identity

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Note: Here is another piece of life together - Muslims and Mizrahis (Sephardis, real Jews) share so much in common. It also shows one more aspect of many of the monstrous Ashkenazo-Zionist efforts to falsify Judaism and history and to create confusion and alienation between the two communities.

By Anouar Majid *

Fabric of Our Identity

Not long ago, I came across a thought-provoking article by Jamal Boudouma about the history of Morocco’s flag and our national hymn. If you go back to Issue No. 262 of the Moroccan weekly TelQuel, you will find out that it was General Lyautey who, through a dahir (royal decree) promulgated on November 17, 1917, gave the Moroccan flag the shape and colors with which we are now familiar.

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The Politics of Food is Politics

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An Alternative Agriculture is Possible

By DE CLARKE and STAN GOFF

starved1.jpg In recent days, we have seen the rising price of oil and the devaluation of the dollar create two quantum shifts in the economy: the beginning of the collapse of the air travel industry and a global crisis of food-price inflation. These are related in ways that are crucial to understand — because we are seeing the outlines of an historic opportunity to change the terms of theory and practice for a politics of resistance. As air carriers have gone bankrupt, the knock-on effects on travel agents, airports, airport-colocated hotels, “package” vacation resorts, etc. are considerable.

This is how one cascade pours into another, as the manifold contradictions of our global system merge and co-amplify. Tourism, which was supposed to be a relatively benign, non-extractive industry for colonized nations — an alternative to brutal extraction and cash cropping — turns out to have been just as extractive all along due to the climate (and cultural) damage done by commodified air travel.

The end of cheap air tourism may seem like a good thing. And yet the collapse of tourism, in economies where the culture and scenery have become a last-ditch cash crop, can have effects just as disastrous as the collapse of any other external commodity market in a country that has been sucked into the undertow of global capitalism.

How much more devastating is the catastrophic cascade of food price inflation? (It’s also directly related, by the way, to the plateau of global oil production in the face of relentless expansion of “demand” — more on this below.) They’re intertwined; the downsizing of air tourism reduces money income for populations dependent on the global capitalist economy for staple foods, just at the moment when scarcity, uncertainty, and rampant speculation are causing staple food prices to spike.

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War on Hunga

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Note : Hunga is Texanese for Hunger.

By Anwaar Hussain

hunger.gifWhat is hunger?

When the glucose level of the liver falls below a threshold, a feeling is experienced that is called hunger, usually followed by a desire to eat. Although an average nourished human can survive for weeks without food intake, the sensation of hunger typically begins after a couple of hours without eating and is generally considered quite uncomfortable.

When hunger is allowed to persist untreated, it progresses into the next stage of hunger pangs in which contractions occur in the stomach. A single hunger contraction lasts about 30 seconds, and pangs continue for around 30-45 minutes, then hunger subsides for around 30-150 minutes. Hunger pangs usually do not begin until 12 to 24 hours after the last meal. However, if allowed to continue beyond 24 hours, these pangs progress to the next potentially debilitating stage of starvation.

Individuals experiencing starvation lose substantial fat and muscle mass as the body breaks down these tissues for energy in order to keep the vital systems, such as the nervous system and heart muscle, working. This process does not begin until there are no usable sources of energy coming into the body. Vitamin deficiency is also a common result of starvation, often resulting in anemia, beriberi, pellagra, and scurvy. These diseases collectively may cause diarrhea, skin rashes, and edema, ultimately leading to heart failure.

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Lingering in Jalozai Camp

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By Zaigham Khan, Thursday, April 24, 2008

jalo.jpgIt was like a tumour on the body of Peshawar, a cancer that had to be removed sooner or later. The surgeon’s knife is working swiftly to eliminate the last traces of the Jalozai Camp, a mini-Afghanistan, from the soil of Pakistan. Its graveyard, where the dead are buried in the order of the Afghan provinces, may be allowed to stay on. In today’s world, dead Afghans have some privileges that living Afghans do not enjoy.

Located about 20 miles southwest of Peshawar, Jalozai was set up in 1980 to receive refugees fleeing from Afghanistan. It was a time when Pakistan under Zia-ul-Haq was a champion of the free world’s struggle against the evil empire occupying Afghanistan. Dignity and human rights for Afghan people were high on the agenda of the Pakistani government even though Pakistanis were living in indignity and ignominy. Jalozai was a significant square on the huge chessboard laid out to give a bloody nose to the Soviet Union. It was the centre of Arab fighters, who flocked to it to participate in the holy struggle, and seven Afghan jihadi organisations, generously supported by the CIA. It was here that the foremost jihadi ideologue of our times, Abdullah Azzam, founded a Jihad University, which promoted a new and radical interpretation of the Islamic concept of jihad. Abdullah Azzam and a number of other prominent jihadi leaders now lie in peace at the Jalozai graveyard.

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Negotiable or not, the American Way of Life must be extinguished….

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(As inspired by a conversation with Derrick Jensen)

By Jason Miller

“There’s got to be just more to it than this;

Or tell me why do we exist?”

-Iron Maiden

consumption.jpg Is the Western consumerist culture that we inflict upon the rest of the world truly the pinnacle of our evolution? If it is, I resign my membership in the human race. Though I don’t fear that I’ll be compelled to tender my resignation any time soon because our so-called “non-negotiable American Way of Life” is a piece of shit, for myriad reasons.

We in the Western “developed” nations, particularly in the United States, are an utter disgrace to our species. Our myopic, self-centered, jejune, hubristic, and benighted ways of examining and interacting with the rest of the world, including other human animals, non-human animals, and Mother Earth herself, are reprehensible to the point of nausea and beyond.

And why wouldn’t they be? We carry perceived entitlement to such pathological lengths that we actually believe that the world and all of its inhabitants are resources we can objectify and use to enhance and ensure our “prosperity,” “security,” and “the growth of our economy.” We are conditioned to believe ahistorical, manipulative and grossly distorted sound-bites streamed into our shriveled, atrophied cerebrums by well-coiffed, polished talking head sycophants who owe their careerist souls to a system that is destroying the world.

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‘Perfect storm’ food crisis grips globe

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By Marc Lacey in Port-au-Prince, Haiti

fork.jpgHUNGER smashed in the front gate of Haiti’s presidential palace. Hunger poured on to the streets, burning tyres and taking on soldiers and the police. Hunger sent the country’s prime minister packing.

Haiti’s hunger, that has become fiercer than ever in recent days as global food prices spiral out of reach, rising by as much as 45% since the end of 2006 and turning staples such as beans, corn and rice into closely guarded treasures.

Saint Louis Meriska’s children ate two spoonfuls of rice apiece as their only meal and then went without any food the following day. His eyes downcast, his own stomach empty, the unemployed father said: “They look at me and say ‘Papa, I’m hungry’, and I have to look away. It’s humiliating and it makes you angry.”

That anger is palpable across the globe. The food crisis is not only being felt among the poor but is also eroding the gains of the working and middle classes, sowing volatile levels of discontent and putting new pressures on fragile governments.

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Bush or bin Laden: Who is More Evil?

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By Ryan Yeomans Conneticut, Central State University Recorder Online

bush_undercover.jpgIt is the time of the year once again for Americans to mourn the loss of friends, family members and co-workers and to remember all who died on September 11, 2007. But while most of us hold the anniversary as a reminder of those who have passed and of the dangers that still exist everyday, Osama bin Laden has been spending his time grooming his beard and reading up on current events so that he can release a new video to the public. This year, bin Laden was nice enough to distribute two videos within a week, which together contain over an hour of new material.

The first video, which was released on the Thursday before September 11, contains 47 minutes of Osama speaking about everything from the holocaust to global warming. He praises the 9/11 hijackers and, as usual, suggests that Islam is the only option for savior. He continues by bashing George Bush and lists many interesting statements regarding the world’s current situation.

While I cannot support bin Laden’s opinion that all Americans should be killed and that Islam is the only way to be saved, it is hard to overlook the statements that he makes about the Bush administration.

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Stoning of the Songbirds

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By Anwaar Hussain

The story below has been inspired by the news of a recent stoning of a man and a woman in Northern Pakistan. It is a work of fiction.

songbirds.jpgThe first stone whizzed way above her head missing her exposed torso by a wide margin. She was half buried into a hole dug the previous day. Wrapped in a white shroud with her hands tied to her sides, only her face was uncovered. She was able to see the throng of devout people who would stone her till death. She was hysterical with fear and it showed on her beautiful face.

The next one found its mark. She was struck on her chin. It was a medium sized, sharp stone thrown by the lead mullah, the man who had passed the verdict on them. Pain shot through her body forcing a whimper of agony from her dry lips. With that, she started crying uncontrollably. Crimson drops of blood started to drip on to the white cotton shroud on her chest. “God is great!” shouted the mullah and waved on his followers with a renewed fervor. The crowd reached for the stones lying in heaps in front of them. Collected a day earlier, it was made sure that these would be of just the right size; neither too small as to be ineffective, nor too large as to finish the person with just a few hits. The barrage would start soon.

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Jesus knows a camel when he sees one: We are NOT passing through the eye of that needle, America….

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By Jason Miller

Dedicated to Bobbie L.

jesus-christ-son-of-god-salvation-eternal-life-heaven-01lg.gifIn the sermon just minutes before his death, Archbishop Oscar Romero (a man who truly practiced the teachings of Christ) reminded his congregation of the parable of the wheat. “Those who surrender to the service of the poor through love of Christ, will live like the grains of wheat that dies. It only apparently dies. If it were not to die, it would remain a solitary grain. The harvest comes because of the grain that dies We know that every effort to improve society, above all when society is so full of injustice and sin, is an effort that God blesses; that God wants; that God demands of us. I am bound, as a pastor, by divine command to give my life for those whom I love, and that is all Salvadoreans, even those who are going to kill me.”

These words appeared in a newspaper just two weeks before Archbishop Romero was shot (by a filthy Right Wing Death Squad supported by the US) while celebrating Holy Communion in the hospital which had been his home since his enthronement in 1977.

“You could piss off Jesus Christ himself!”

—Russ Miller

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Anwaar’s articles appear simultaneously here at Truth Spring and at Soul Vibes in The Pakistan Tribune.


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