Left With Nothing

Published on Counter Information/J. PEREZ’ blog, by Michael Sallah, Debbie Cenziper, Steven Rich, Sept. 8, 2013.

(Photo) … This man owed $ 134 in property taxes. The district sold the liden to an investor who foreclosed on his $ 197’000 house and sold it. He and many other homeowners like him were LEFT WITH NOTHING.

… On the day Bennie Coleman lost his house, the day armed U.S. marshals came to his door and ordered him off the property, he slumped in a folding chair across the street and watched the vestiges of his 76 years hauled to the curb.   Continuer la lecture de « Left With Nothing »

Samir Amin reflects on Egypt

Interview with Samir Amin published on Pambazuka News, by Beifang/China, Sept 5, 2013.

On 15 July 2013 Samir Amin was interviewed by Beifang, China. He expressed his views that the action of the army was not a coup d’etat as well as the tasks facing the popular movement in Egypt.

The Muslim Brotherhood rule lasted just over a year, why did the collapse come so soon?

  • AMIN: The fall of Morsi and of the rule of Muslim Brothers came as expected. Firstly, the government of the Muslim Brothers has been pursuing the same neoliberal policies as that of Mubarak, and even worse. It could not solve any problem faced by the Egyptian people.   Continuer la lecture de « Samir Amin reflects on Egypt »

John Kerry sells a war that Americans aren't buying

Published on OpEdNews OEN, by Medea Benjamin, Sept 5, 2013.

It was September 19, 2002, and US Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld was scheduled to address the Senate Armed Services Committee about why it was necessary to invade a country that never attacked us: Iraq.

I was so concerned about the pending war that I flew to Washington DC from my home in San Francisco. It was the first congressional hearing I had ever witnessed.  Continuer la lecture de « John Kerry sells a war that Americans aren't buying »

G20 Syria divide

The leaders of World’s largest nations speak out against US-led strike, on RT, Sept 6, 2013: As leaders of countries making up half of the world’s population firmly opposed military action against Syria without a UN mandate, the US kept pushing for a strike, claiming that many countries represented at the G20 summit were “comfortable” with it … (full text with short statement of each BRICS-leader, with photo * and graph **).   Continuer la lecture de « G20 Syria divide »