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Time to Divest from Israel and the Companies who Profit from Oppression

June 3, 2010 by mike.

Israel has evolved into a rogue state. This is an amazing transition for a people who have been the victims of so many atrocities including the Holocaust to found a nation that has become a brutal oppressor of another people.

I understand the natural reaction, to be vigilant, to be committed to self-defense at this late date, but shouldn’t that commitment be leavened with some concern for the other?

We need to help Israel rejoin the world in a commitment to a just solution, to the establishment of an independent Palestine, to ending the occupation, the siege and the aggressive theft of Palestinian lands.
clipped from www.washingtonpost.com
U.S. urged Israel to use caution and restraint with aid boats heading to Gaza


The Obama administration said Wednesday that it had warned Israel’s government repeatedly to use “caution and restraint” with half a dozen aid boats bound for the Gaza Strip before Israeli commandos raided the flotilla this week in an operation that killed nine people.


“We communicated with Israel through multiple channels many times regarding the flotilla,” P.J. Crowley, a State Department spokesman, said in a statement issued in response to a question from The Washington Post. “We emphasized caution and restraint given the anticipated presence of civilians, including American citizens.”
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This Guy is Late to the Party

June 3, 2010 by mike.

But he has a bully pulpit, maybe an audacious Obama is going to emerge and fight for change. I am not holding my breath. I suspect that no Democrat the US can elect will cross the corporate guys who are really in charge and no Republican the US can elect has any impulse to cross the corporate persons.

It’s not clear to me how we overcome the corporate control of the US. King George was a pushover compared to Boeing, Raytheon, Halliburton et al.

We start with legislation that reinstates the “original intent” of the founding fathers that corporate charters are not meant to be treated as immortal persons, but are legal fictions that are granted for purposes of the public good.

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Obama hopes oil spill boosts support for climate bill

By Steven Mufson and Michael D. Shear

Washington Post Staff Writer
Thursday, June 3, 2010

President Obama tried Wednesday to channel public outrage about the Gulf of Mexico oil spill into support for a climate-change bill, seeking to redefine an issue that threatens to tarnish his presidency.

In a speech at Pittsburgh’s Carnegie Mellon University, Obama made one of his strongest pitches for comprehensive climate legislation, arguing that the case for breaking the nation’s addiction to fossil fuels has been made clearer by the environmental catastrophe in the gulf.

President Barack Obama speaks in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, Tuesday, June 1, 20010, after meeting with the BP Oil Spill Commission co-chairs. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

“I will make the case for a clean-energy future wherever I can, and I will work with anyone from either party to get this done. But we will get this done,” Obama said. “The next generation will not be held hostage to energy sources from the last century.”

Allies of the president have argued for weeks that the administration should stop talking about BP, the oil company responsible for the spill, and instead tap into the public attention to the catastrophe in hopes of giving it at least some redemptive value in the long term.

Can you say post-petroleum age? blog it

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