UN Security Council Passes Flawed Cease-Fire Resolution 14-0: U.S. Abstains

by Scott Creighton It is 10pm EST, Thursday January 8th 2009. Less than an hour ago, the United Nations Security Council voted 14 – 0 with one abstention, for Res. 1860, calling for an immediate “durable” cease-fire in Gaza and for allowing humanitarian aid into the area to care for the people of Gaza. The [...]

John Perry; The Hijacking of Gaza

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Michael Madigan’s Committee Moves To Impeach Blagojevich Without Any Articles of Impeachment

by Scott Creighton Impeachment is a form of indictment. Once the “indictment” is passed, it then goes to the other legislative body, the senate, for the actual “trial”. Impeachment does not necessarily result in removal from office, but rather is only a legal statement of charges, parallel to an indictment in criminal law. Wiki The [...]

Obama prepares sweeping cuts in social programs

Obama’s remarks on Wednesday shed light on the basic character of his stimulus plan, which is tailored to the demands of the financial and corporate elite and will provide hundreds of billions in additional public funds to prop up corporate profits, while doing little to provide relief for tens of millions of working people facing [...]

Holocaust Denied; The Lying Silence of Those Who Know

When the truth is replaced by silence,” the Soviet dissident Yevgeny Yevtushenko said, “the silence is a lie.”… …Something uncannily similar happened on 5 November last, when Israeli special forces attacked Gaza, killing six people. Once again, they got their propaganda “trigger.” A ceasefire initiated and sustained by the Hamas government – which had imprisoned [...]

UN General Assembly to Convene Special Session on Gaza

The decision to convene the general assembly is expected to be announced on Thursday by Miguel d’Escoto Brockmann, its current president and former foreign minister of Nicaragua, Al Jazeera’s Ghida Fakhry said in New York on Wednesday. [read the rest of the article here]

Israel Fires on UN Convoy

At least one Palestinian has been killed after a UN relief agency convoy came under fire from Israeli forces in the Gaza Strip, officials say. [read the rest here.]

Obama™ Is Bush III

by Scott Creighton Barack Obama™ is slated to give a prime-time sales pitch for his nearly 1 trillion dollar “stimulus package” and judging from the talking points released in advance to members of the media, it is going to sound an awful lot like the one his predecessor gave for the Paulson Bailout Plan.  Full [...]

Rioting Starting in Oakland

SFGate A protest over the fatal shooting by a BART police officer of an unarmed man mushroomed into a violent confrontation tonight, as a faction of protesters smashed a police car and storefronts, set several cars on fire and blocked streets in downtown Oakland. . . . .