Politics ~ Progressive

The litany of war crimes in the name of "liberation", "ridding the country of tyrants", spreading "democracy", has become the language of blackest satire.

For generations, Egypt and virtually all other countries in the Arab world have been ruled as if that same principle applied to every aspect of society: the people are bent on chaos and only the iron hand of a police state can impose order.

Bolivia's enthusiastic commitment to participatory democracy may well prove the summit's most important contribution … the end result was the most transformative and radical vision so far.

"In his 2010 State of the Union address, President Obama called for a "non-security" discretionary spending freeze to help bring down the deficit. "

"The result of the March 7 Iraq election has given the largest bloc of seats in the 325-member parliament to the Sunni-based and ostensibly secular Iraqiya coalition headed by Iyad Allawi, a former CIA asset and one-time US-installed prime minister."

"The impact of the economic crisis on housing in New York City has once again laid bare the nature of class relations that exist in America's largest city and the capital of global finance."

Detainees in a secret Baghdad detention facility were hung upside-down, deprived of air, kicked, whipped, beaten, given electric shocks, and sodomized, Human Rights Watch said today.

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The economic crisis and the resurgence of class conflict in the United States

US planned war in Afghanistan long before September 11

Narrated by Ed Asner.