Making the State Irrelevant

Kevin Carson at the Center for a Stateless Society on relevant social action over irrelevant political action.

Joya: Surge Only Magnifies Crime Against Afghanistan

Malalai Joya on the Obama Administration’s coming Afghan Surge to escalate the U.S.-led occupation.

Iran’s Uranium Enrichment Condemned, U.S.-Israel Threats of Force Ignored (Video)

Prof. Seyyed Mohammad Marandi on Iran’s announcement to build ten more uranium enrichment plants as the U.S. and Israel continue unlawful threats of force at Russia Today.

Emergency 12/12 Anti-Afghan Surge Rally in D.C.

Under Obama-Pelosi-Reid, the US has already sent about 35,000 more troops into the Afghanistan graveyard of empires. Now, Obama is considering another round of re-enforcements—an Afghan surge expected to number about 40,000 additional GIs. But there is a real faction fight in the administration about whether to escalate. Obama is getting plenty of advice from the war party—from Petraeus, McChrystal, and Mullen. It is time Obama, Pelosi, and Reid heard a clear message from a resurgent antiwar movement demanding no escalation and an immediate pullout of all US forces from Afghanistan and Iraq, plus an immediate halt to Predator drone attacks and CIA operations in the region.

‘Keiser Report’: Wall Street Theft, The Fed and Obama’s Afghan Surge (Video)

‘This week, Max Keiser and co-host Stacy Herbert look at the headlines behind the populist outrage building up in America. The cosy relationship of fraud between Wall Street and Washington sees Goldman Sachs under fire, while Congressmen call for Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner to be fired. Keiser also talks to Jane Hamsher of Firedoglake about the Paul-Grayson amendment to audit the Fed. And, as Obama contemplates sending more troops, Max speaks to Der Spiegel journalist Ullrich Fichtner about Afghanistan, Iraq and A.I.G.’

The Case Against Global Warming

Melting Watergate—Some facts and figures that oppose the prevailing hysteria about global warming/climate change.

The Drug War’s a Dead Letter Without the Police State

Kevin Carson on the perpetual tyranny necessary for a ‘war on drugs’.

Mutualism: An Interview With Kevin Carson

The Isocracy Network interviews Mr. Carson on the theory and practice of mutualism, worker self-management, anarchist thinkers and his critics.

The Pentagon’s Bases in Colombia

How U.S. intervention in Colombia escalating its conflict with Venezuela.

U.K. Inquiry Into Iraq War: Soldiers Allegedly Raped Teenage Boy (Video)

Report from CNN.

Jeramy Scahill on Blackwater’s Covert War in Pakistan (Video)

Jeremy Scahill, leading journalist on Blackwater/Xe, broke the story at The Nation. He discussed it at Democracy Now! and on “Morning Joe” at msnbc this morning (8:05):

Robert Fisk on Stones and Semantics in the Occupied Territories (Video)

Today, at Strike the Root, I posted an article by Jonathan Cook at The Electronic Intifada of an Israeli judge’s “historic ruling… when he decided that an Arab teenager needed ‘protection’ from the justice system and ordered that he not be convicted despite being found guilty of throwing stones at a police car during a protest against Israel’s attack last winter on Gaza”. Judge Yuval Shadmi wrote in the verdict: “I will say that the state is not authorized to caress with one hand the Jewish ‘ideological’ felons, and flog with its other hand the Arab ‘ideological’ felons.” Robert Fisk, in a recent lecture, discussed the propaganda efforts in the West that refute the e-mails I’ve received from those outraged by the judge’s ruling.

Report: C.I.A. Secret ‘Torture Prison’ Found in Lithuania

Brian Ross and Matthew Cole broke the story last night on the ABC News website. Their report on “Good Morning America” from Thursday morning.

Robert Fisk: Obama’s ‘Weak, Impotent’, ‘Governments are About Power’ (Video)

Robert Fisk discusses why he continues to cover the ‘great human tragedy’ of the Middle East from Beirut, the ‘irrelevance’ of Osama bin Laden, President Obama’s ‘impotence’ being worse for the Middle East than George W. Bush and his Nobel Peace Prize.

‘Keiser Report’ – 19 Nov 09 (Video)

Max Keiser, in the premier of his new show on Russia Today, comments on the U.S. funding the Taliban, President Barack Obama’s Asian tour proving U.S. economic desperation, global ‘de-dollarization’ and (of course) Wall Street crooks with Danny Schechter.