http://selvesandothers.org/ en SPIP - www.spip.net http://www.selvesandothers.org/article16520.html 2008-07-09T11:20:00Z text/html en Stephen Lendman <p>Washington is currently negotiating two accords with the al-Maliki government to take effect after expiration of the UN's military mandate on December 31. One agreement is for a long-term "strategic framework" to establish "cooperation in the political, economic, cultural and security fields." Or according to the administration - to defend Iraq's "sovereignty and integrity of its territories, waters, and airspace." (...)</p> - <a href="http://sjlendman.blogspot.com" rel="directory">sjlendman.blogspot.com</a> http://www.selvesandothers.org/article16517.html 2008-07-09T11:15:00Z text/html en Stephen Lendman <p>Pro-business Supreme Court rulings are nothing new, and it's likely most damaging one ever occurred in 1886. In Santa Clara County v. Southern Pacific Railway, the High Court granted corporations legal personhood. Ever since, they've had the same rights as people but not the responsibilities. Their limited liability status exempts them. They've profited hugely as a result and have continued to win favorable rulings since. Today more than ever from the Roberts Court. One observer described its first full (2006-07) term as a "blockbuster" with the Court's conservative wing prevailing in most key cases. It's much the same in 2007-08, and it shows in its pro-business rulings. (...)</p> - <a href="http://sjlendman.blogspot.com" rel="directory">sjlendman.blogspot.com</a> http://www.selvesandothers.org/article16516.html 2008-06-30T12:40:00Z text/html en Stephen Lendman <p>McChesney's book is a compilation of his best political economy of media work in the past two decades. It contains 23 separate offerings under three topic headings. In them he covers "enduring issues" and "emerging dilemmas." Part I of this review discussed some of them. More follow below. The entire book is must reading and contains new material never before published.</p> - <a href="http://sjlendman.blogspot.com" rel="directory">sjlendman.blogspot.com</a> http://www.selvesandothers.org/article16515.html 2008-06-30T12:35:00Z text/html en Stephen Lendman <p>Robert McChesney is a leading media scholar, critic, activist, and the nation's most prominent researcher and writer on US media history, its policy and practice. He's also University of Illinois Research Professor in the Institute of Communications Research and the Graduate School of Library and Information Science. UI is lucky to have him, and he says there's "no better university in the United States to do critical communication research." (...)</p> - <a href="http://sjlendman.blogspot.com" rel="directory">sjlendman.blogspot.com</a> http://www.selvesandothers.org/article16514.html 2008-06-30T12:30:00Z text/html en Stephen Lendman <p>Rupert Murdoch has a corrosive effect on whatever he touches, and this writer once tangled with him in an article called Lies, Damn Lies and the Murdoch Empire. Former Chicago columnist Mike Royko also did and remarked that "no self-respecting fish would (want to be) wrapped in a Murdock paper....His goal (isn't) quality journalism (it's) vast power, political power." (...)</p> - <a href="http://sjlendman.blogspot.com" rel="directory">sjlendman.blogspot.com</a> http://www.selvesandothers.org/article16513.html 2008-06-30T12:25:00Z text/html en Stephen Lendman <p>The title refers to the I-69/Trans-Texas Corridor (TTC) portion of the North American SuperCorridor Coalition (NASCO) project. The Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT) announced that, for now at least, it nixed this part of the $184 billion scheme calling for:</p> <p>(...)</p> - <a href="http://sjlendman.blogspot.com" rel="directory">sjlendman.blogspot.com</a> http://www.selvesandothers.org/article16512.html 2008-06-30T12:20:00Z text/html en Stephen Lendman <p>Dowd's book is an essential text for students and adults. It's a critical review of 500 years of history that brought us to today's unprecendented dangers. Part I covered four and one-half centuries through WW II. Part II continues the story to the present.</p> - <a href="http://sjlendman.blogspot.com" rel="directory">sjlendman.blogspot.com</a> http://www.selvesandothers.org/article16511.html 2008-06-30T12:15:00Z text/html en Stephen Lendman <p>At age 89, Doug Dowd is a wonder. He's still active, vibrant and thankfully so. He calls himself a "radical economist" in the best sense of the term, and for more than 50 years through the late 1990s, he was a distinguished interdisciplinary professor of economic history and more at Cornell, UC Berkelely and elsewhere. It went along with his activism, progressive thinking, honest concern for the least advantaged, and love of teaching young people. He's no different today, except that he's semi-retired, living full-time in Bolonga, Italy, nearing his 60th year teaching at nearby Modena University, and approaching his 10th decade. (...)</p> - <a href="http://sjlendman.blogspot.com" rel="directory">sjlendman.blogspot.com</a> http://www.selvesandothers.org/article16510.html 2008-06-30T12:10:00Z text/html en Stephen Lendman <p>In its near 86 year history, BBC has a long, unbroken and dubious distinction. Today it's little different from its corporate-run counterparts in America, Britain and throughout the world. In fact, on its tailored for a US BBC America audience, what passes for news matches stride for stride what people here see every day - mind-numbing commercialism, shoddy reporting, pseudo-journalism, celebrity and sports features, and other diverting and distracting non-news that should embarrass correspondents and presenters delivering it. It offends viewers and treats them like mushrooms - well-watered, in the dark, and uninformed about the most important world and national issues affecting their lives and welfare. (...)</p> - <a href="http://sjlendman.blogspot.com" rel="directory">sjlendman.blogspot.com</a> http://www.selvesandothers.org/article16509.html 2008-06-30T12:05:00Z text/html en Stephen Lendman <p>Information for this article comes from long-time business, finance and political writer and analyst Bob Chapman who publishes the bi-weekly International Forecaster. It's power-packed with key information and a valued source for this writer. He obtained voluminous material directly from its source. People need to know it. Read on. (...)</p> - <a href="http://sjlendman.blogspot.com" rel="directory">sjlendman.blogspot.com</a> http://www.selvesandothers.org/article16508.html 2008-06-30T12:00:00Z text/html en Stephen Lendman <p>Over the weekend, Chavez showed his mettle as a democratic leader. He acknowledged "errors" in the newly enacted Law on Intelligence and Counterintelligence and will fix them to assure it fully complies with Venezuela's Constitution. (...)</p> - <a href="http://sjlendman.blogspot.com" rel="directory">sjlendman.blogspot.com</a> http://www.selvesandothers.org/article16507.html 2008-06-30T11:55:00Z text/html en Stephen Lendman <p>Walter "John" Williams thinks out of the box. He makes disquieting reading, but you won't find him in the mainstream. At least not often. He runs a "Shadow Government Statistics" site with an electronic by-subscription newsletter. Anyone can access some of his data and occasional special reports. They can also assess his reasoning. In his judgment, government data are manipulated, corrupted and unreliable. He's not alone thinking that. (...)</p> - <a href="http://sjlendman.blogspot.com" rel="directory">sjlendman.blogspot.com</a> http://www.selvesandothers.org/article16506.html 2008-06-30T11:50:00Z text/html en Stephen Lendman <p>Reports keep surfacing about new threats against Hugo Chavez. Given past ones, they can't be taken lightly. Chavez is alerted and reacts accordingly. Case in point: revamping Venezuela's decades old intelligence services. It's long overdue and urgently needed given the Bush administration's tenure winding down and its determination in its remaining months to end the Bolivarian project and crush its participatory democracy. (...)</p> - <a href="http://sjlendman.blogspot.com" rel="directory">sjlendman.blogspot.com</a> http://www.selvesandothers.org/article16505.html 2008-06-30T11:40:00Z text/html en Stephen Lendman <p>Each election cycle, hope springs eternal. Candidates promise change and voters buy it. Intelligent ones. People who know better or should. The current campaign highlights it. A surge is building for Obama, not for what he is. For what people think or hope he is - a populist, progressive, man of the people, a new course for America. (...)</p> - <a href="http://sjlendman.blogspot.com" rel="directory">sjlendman.blogspot.com</a> http://www.selvesandothers.org/article16504.html 2008-06-30T11:35:00Z text/html en Stephen Lendman <p>Yassin Aref is an Iraqi Kurd and political prisoner in Police State America. A full account of his ordeal can be found at the following link:</p> <p><a href='http://sjlendman.blogspot.com/2008/03/yassin-arefs-struggle-for-justice-in.html' class='spip_out'>http://sjlendman.blogspot.com/2008/...</a>.</p> <p>In the post-9/11 climate of fear, Aref was targeted for his faith and ethnicity and victimized by a willful FBI frame. It began as a sting to entrap him. Charges against him were baseless. No evidence supports them. Yet he was falsely arrested, accused, indicted, tried and convicted in October 2006. It was on 10 of 30 fraudulent counts in a kangaroo court proceeding. They included money laundering, conspiracy to provide material support for a terrorist plot, terrorism, and making false statements in February 2002 and August 2004.</p> - <a href="http://sjlendman.blogspot.com" rel="directory">sjlendman.blogspot.com</a>