- The World Social Forum is currently underway in Nairobi, Kenya.
...the World Social Forum is, to use a Kiswahili word, a global Jukwaa, in other words, an international PLATFORM, to quote from the Porto Alegre Charter “an open meeting place where groups and movements of civil society opposed to neo-liberalism and a world dominated by capital or by any form of imperialism, but engaged in building a planetary society centred on the human person, come together to pursue their thinking, to debate ideas democratically, formulate proposals, share their experiences freely and network for effective action.”
- Alexander Cockburn at Counterpunch: First Bomb Carter; Then Nuke Iran! The Israel Lobby Trips and Tilts
The trouble with the lobby and the Christian zealots who act as its echo chamber is that they believe their own propaganda about Israel’s equitable social arrangements and immaculate political and legal record in its relations with the Palestinians. Use the word apartheid and they howl with indignation. The shock is about thirty years out of date. Israeli writers have used the word apartheid to describe arrangements in the occupied territories for years. Hundreds of prominent South African Jews issued a statement six years ago making the same link.
- Jonathan Cook has more on the Israeli/Palestinian situation.
- Trying to get rid of Afghanistan's poppy crops, again.
- From Bob Geiger's blog: It's True: Bush Proclaims Sunday "National Sanctity of Human Life Day". Yes. The word 'hypocrite' appears prominently.
- The Citizens' Hearing on the Legality of the War in Iraq (The Case of Lt. Ehren Watada) is being held this weekend in Tacoma, Washington. Related: Army Attempts to Redefine Free Speech.
- Newsweek poll. Can it possibly get any worse for Bush and the Republicans? Yes, and I'm sure it will.
...the latest NEWSWEEK poll finds that Bush’s call for a “surge” in troops is opposed by two-thirds (68 percent) of Americans and supported by only a quarter (26 percent). Almost half of all respondents (46 percent) want to see American troops pulled out “as soon as possible.”
Bush’s Iraq plan isn’t doing anything for his personal approval rating either; it’s again stuck at its lowest point in the history of the poll (31 percent). Meanwhile, the new Democratic-controlled Congress is getting relatively high marks. And 55 percent actually trust Congressional Dems on U.S. policy in Iraq, far more than the 32 percent who trust their commander in chief.
While Democrats and Republicans have roundly criticized Bush’s proposal, the president—who received his lowest ratings so far for his handling of the war (24 percent) and terrorism (41 percent)—told a group of U.S. television stations this week that "I believe it will work.”
Ya. We already knew how deluded he is. It's comforting that even more people are catching on now though.
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