Propeller.com Stories submitted by hyperbola

Zimbabwe and the new Cowardly Colonialism

hyperbola — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 18:24:16 EDT

Western intervention against Robert Mugabe's 'evil regime' put Zimbabwe into an economic straitjacket and disempowered its people. The Bush administration played a major role in creating the disaster in Zimbabwe.

Channel: Politics Tags: US Bush colonialism imperialism

Bush, McCain, Colombia & Narco-Politics

hyperbola — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 18:11:33 EDT

George W. Bush's strategy of countering Venezuela's leftist president Hugo ChÃ;Â¡vez by strengthening ties to Colombia's rightist government has been undercut by fresh evidence of high-level drug corruption and human rights violations implicating President Alvaro Uribe's inner circle. McCain wants to continue the corruption.

Channel: Politics Tags: Bush McCain Columbia narcotrafficking human rights violations

The right's game-playing with "anti-Semitism" accusations

hyperbola — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 18:12:48 EDT

As our political establishment takes new and disturbing steps towards confrontation with Iran, the effort to stomp out any discussion of the role Israel plays in that policy with cries of "anti-semitism" has once again intensified - even as right wingers explicitly call on American jews to put Israel ahead of American interests.

Channel: Politics Tags: israel zionism racism corruption crimes against humanity

Does the US have a free press and a healthy democracy?

hyperbola — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 17:58:02 EDT

71% of Americans oppose the US taking sides in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Will you see this on ABC, CBS, Fox, ... and in banner newspaper headlines tomorrow? Will Barak Obama and John McCain show they are interested in the views of the American people more than they are in pleasing AIPAC

Channel: Politics Tags: isreal zionism racism corruption propaganda

IMF Finally Knocks on Uncle Sam's Door

hyperbola — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 08:34:20 EDT

The fact that the IMF is knocking on the very doors of its parents and waving legal papers about who lost the house, the car and the kids will, if the past is anything to go by, be buried in the US by pom-pom waving on CNBC telling all what a great time it is to buy. The US Fed has now lost its last vestige of credibility.

Channel: Money Tags: Bush corruption IMF investigation

Citizenship law makes Israel an apartheid state

hyperbola — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 18:35:16 EDT

We do not need to replicate exactly South African apartheid within discriminatory practices in civil rights in Israel to call Israel an apartheid state. The amendment to the Citizenship Law is exactly such a practice - it is best we not try to evade the truth: Its existence in our law books turns Israel into an apartheid state.

Channel: Religion Tags: zionism israel racism corruption crimes against humanity

Zionism's Dead End

hyperbola — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 18:29:31 EDT

The Zionist worldview departs starkly from international law and also from the values upheld by most societies and ideologies. The nature of Zionist ambitions is ever harder to conceal, as is evident from the tide of opinion polls showing that Western publics, if not their governments, believe Israel to be one of the biggest threats to world order.

Channel: Do No Evil Tags: zionism israel racism corruption crimes against humanity

Conservatives and Their Carnival of Fraud

hyperbola — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 18:19:06 EDT

Did Adam Smith-tied evangelists of "limited government" have any idea they were greasing the skids for 22-year-old arms dealers? How could a kid barely able to buy beer secure a nearly $300 million defense contract? When they finally put their theory into practice, conservatives contrived one of the most wasteful systems ever seen.

Channel: Politics Tags: conservatives fraud corruption

The Urge to Surge in Iraq

hyperbola — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 17:48:03 EDT

Skip the "good news" part. The "improvement" represents divide and conquer in a colonial fashion; it's barely held together by baling wire and reliant on the destruction of ever more Iraqi neighborhoods. This cannot end well. Not for Washington. Not for the U.S. military. Not for Americans. And, above all, not for Iraqis.

Channel: Politics Tags: Iraq surge failure crimes against humanity

Why Are Those Wacky Koreans Dissin' Our Beef?

hyperbola — Sun, 22 Jun 2008 18:59:38 EDT

South Koreans have brought Seoul to a standstill and may topple their government over importation of unsafe US meat. South Korea testes every cow for "mad-cow" disease, but US tests less than 1% - even though there are indications of up to 1 million infected cows. Worse, the Bush administration blocks Americans wanting to test their own c

Channel: Do No Evil Tags: bush corruption crimes

The World Begins to Investigate 9/11

hyperbola — Sun, 22 Jun 2008 18:53:49 EDT

More and more foreign leaders are unconvinced by US government characterization of the events of 9/11. They are beginning their own investigations into what really happened.

Channel: Politics Tags: bush 9 11 world doubt investigation

America's Irrational Defense of Israel

hyperbola — Sun, 22 Jun 2008 18:21:36 EDT

Does our "non-negotiable" support for Israel make us more secure, or is it a MAD policy akin to the insane Cold War strategy of "mutual assured destruction?" Such a strategy may result in the mutual assured destruction of both the United States and Israel.

Channel: Politics Tags: israel zionism racism corruption crimes against humanity

Can You Pass The Israel-Palestine Quiz?

hyperbola — Sun, 22 Jun 2008 17:40:22 EDT

The Israel-Palestine conflict resonates deeply. Opinions are sharply divided and generally unchangeable. However, as a member of a mainstream Israeli peace group, I often encounter opinionated people who are ignorant of many basic facts. I have designed the quiz below, which may lead some to reexamine their misconceived opinions.

Channel: Do No Evil Tags: israel zionism racism corruption crimes against humanity

Radioactive DÃ;Â©jÃ;Â Vu in the American West

hyperbola — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 17:56:45 EDT

The newest uranium frenzy has opened with a PR campaign to convince a wary public that nuclear power should be an acceptable, if desperate, last-ditch option to stem the build-up of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere. Americans in western states have seen this catastrophe before.

Channel: Politics Tags: nuclear power corruption contamination failure

Debunking McCain McMyths: Flipflopper, Not a Maverick

hyperbola — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 17:35:57 EDT

There has been considerable chipping away at the McCain mythologies lately, much of which has been coming from an unexpected source: the candidate himself. In fact, John McCain has done more to expose the reality behind the fabulations that he is a straight-talking maverick than his political enemies ever could.

Channel: Politics Tags: McCain failure corrupt liar

Increasing Signs of GOP Desperation

hyperbola — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 17:25:35 EDT

Dire economy, endemic corruption, never-ending war in Iraq, extremist snooping on ordinary Americans, failure in emergencies, torture as state policy, etc. McCain is heading for an ignominious defeat unless major GOP policy shifts move it back closer to the middle. So far, the desperate GOP seems to have only stale smear campaigns.

Channel: Politics Tags: GOP failure corruption desperation smears

Addressing America's "Deeper Malignancies"

hyperbola — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 17:13:45 EDT

Condoleezza Rice's "The New American Realism," published in the July/August 2008 issue of Foreign Affairs shows the failure of US foreign policy. Why publish the words of a liar and alleged war criminal? Who takes her seriously? Was her article accepted because of her position in thoroughly discredited and morally bankrupt Bush administra

Channel: Politics Tags: Bush Rice failure corruption foreign policy

Guantanamo detainees were tortured, medical exams show

hyperbola — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 17:04:15 EDT

Medical examinations of suspected militants formerly held by the U.S. military at the Guantanamo Bay detention centre in Cuba showed evidence of torture and that resulted in serious injuries and mental disorders, according to Physicians for Human Rights. The US human rights organization says it found evidence of U.S. torture and war crimes.

Channel: News Tags: bush torture war crimes

Taliban offensive feared in Kabul

hyperbola — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 16:58:09 EDT

Afghan intelligence agencies believe Taliban and al Qaeda forces are preparing a major offensive against Kabul, moving into positions as little as 12 miles from the capital and sending recruits from the U.S. and Britain into the city to collect information needed to kidnap Westerners and prepare for spectacular suicide attacks.

Channel: News Tags: Afghanistan bush failure taliban

American Politicians and the Nuclear Blackmarket

hyperbola — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 18:05:10 EDT

Parts of the US government are intimately involved in the nuclear blackmarket and the people involved make millions of dollars from their participation. Investigations into those involved are being stifled by gag orders by the Bush administration.

Channel: Politics Tags: Bush nukes black market corruption

Taliban take over villages near Kandahar

hyperbola — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 09:58:48 EDT

The Taliban assault on the outskirts of Kandahar is the latest display of prowess by the militants despite a record number of U.S. and NATO troops in the country.

Channel: News Tags: Afghanistan taliban failure

Israelis ignore weak US regime

hyperbola — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 09:46:11 EDT

ISRAELI politicians have brushed off Condoleezza Rice's weekend criticism of its settlement expansion program, with some claiming the outgoing regime of George W. Bush is wielding ever-less influence in the ailing peace process.

Channel: Politics Tags: bush zionism racism failure crimes against humanity

America's great mistake was to make too much of al Qa'eda

hyperbola — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 09:40:23 EDT

The growing realisation that far more has been made of al Qa'eda in US foreign policy than is wise coincides with a moment in which the US strategic position in the Middle East is weaker than at any point in the past half century in the face of nationalist-Islamist challenges.

Channel: Politics Tags: bush neo cons al qaeda failure mideast

The death of U.S. strategy in Iraq

hyperbola — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 09:31:42 EDT

Which of these plausible outcomes is a worthy political objective that could justify even a reduced level of American deaths, further damage to US global standing, and continued deferral of attention to other pressing challenges?

Channel: Politics Tags: US iraq failure withdrawal

Scarcity in an age of plenty

hyperbola — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 18:50:23 EDT

As food and fuel prices continue to increase the world must look to new patterns of consumption and production. The methods attempted by the Bush administration have been a clear failure.

Channel: Politics Tags: bush economics failure

The 2008 Elections - Of Whales and Worms

hyperbola — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 14:39:14 EDT

How can the same Democratic Party, and same specific individuals, who have co-operated in, permitted and/or legalized the Bush regime's atrocities - now tell us that the candidate that they endorse is the solution to the horrid things that this system and these individuals have themselves facilitated and colluded in?

Channel: Politics Tags: Obama imperialism

Obama and the Fall Into Tyranny

hyperbola — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 14:11:20 EDT

Where is the hope when Obama endorses a foreign policy that benefits only Israeli territorial expansion and an economic policy that benefits only multimillionaires and billionaires? As bad as Obama is on important issues, his election will signal rejection of the tyranny to which the Republicans are committed.

Channel: Politics Tags: Obama failure

Democratic Zionists try to involve US in Lebanon War

hyperbola — Sun, 15 Jun 2008 18:07:29 EDT

Democratic Zionists in the House of Representatives have sponsored resolutions likely to involve the US in war in Lebanon.

Channel: Politics Tags: zionism racism corruption crimes against humanity

A Setback for the State of Exception

hyperbola — Sat, 14 Jun 2008 18:18:54 EDT

For the dwindling but stout-hearted band of Bush loyalists, the creation of concentration camps and introduction of torture techniques never presented much of a problemÃ¢â;¬"morally or legally. Yesterday, the Supreme Court delivered a sweeping decision which rebukes the Bush Administration over its expansive views of

Channel: Do No Evil Tags: bush fascism constitution supreme court

Indian oil firms to invest $3 bn in Iran

hyperbola — Sat, 14 Jun 2008 18:07:42 EDT

NEW DELHI: A consortium of public sector oil companies Ã¢â;¬" ONGC Videsh (OVL), Indian Oil Corporation (IOC) and Oil India (OIL) Ã¢â;¬" proposes to invest $3 billion to develop Farsi block in Iran where they have found 12.8 trillion cubic feet (tcf) of gas.

Channel: Politics Tags: India Iran oil investment

Condoleezza Rice's Neo-colonial Manifesto in Iraq

hyperbola — Sat, 14 Jun 2008 18:03:33 EDT

Instead of Ms. Rice's "solid geopolitical foundations," Washington would be far better advised to withdraw from Iraq, engage diplomatically with Iran, and devote itself to resolving the Arab-Israeli conflict before that suppurating sore, which has poisoned every relationship in the region, explodes in its face.

Channel: Politics Tags: Bush Rice Iraq colonialism

John McCain: War Hero or North Vietnam's Go-To Collaborator?

hyperbola — Sat, 14 Jun 2008 14:50:03 EDT

Army Colonel Earl Hopper says the US lost sixty percent more aircraft and in 1968, "called off the bombing of North Vietnam, because of the information McCain had given to them. McCain was a model helper of the North Vietnamese - even making radio broadcasts for them denouncing American troops.

Channel: Politics Tags: McCain traitor corrupt

Obama And McCain: Two Sides Of The Same Coin

hyperbola — Sat, 14 Jun 2008 14:42:40 EDT

The Democratic Party is about as much an "opposition party" as Eli Lilly is to Searle. They are just different brands of the same product. The product is the Military-C... that owns America, owns the media, owns the banking system and owns just about every main-stream politician in this whole damn country.

Channel: Politics Tags: US corporate corruption politics

Obama's Chicago Boys

hyperbola — Sat, 14 Jun 2008 14:39:00 EDT

Obama has appointed "Chicago Boys" who support neo-liberal economic policies as his economic advisers. Now is the time to worry about their commitment to fending off serious attempts at regulation. Before Obama can purge Washington of the scourge of Friedmanism, he has some ideological housecleaning of his own to do.

Channel: Money Tags: Obama economics failure

U.S. Ranks Dead Last Among 19 Nations in Preventive Medicine

hyperbola — Sat, 14 Jun 2008 14:28:43 EDT

The United States ranks worst among developed nations in the number of preventable deaths, according to a study conducted by researchers from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. As the United States falls even farther behind, other countries are reducing these preventable deaths, yet spending far less.

Channel: Politics Tags: US medicine failure

Britain and US 'complicit in war crimes by Ethiopian military'

hyperbola — Sat, 14 Jun 2008 14:22:57 EDT

The British and US governments are complicit in war crimes and crimes against humanity committed by the Ethiopian army in the Ogaden region of the Horn of Africa accoreding to Human Rights Watch.

Channel: Do No Evil Tags: buah somalia war crimes

Bush Pledges on Iraq Bases Pact Were Lies

hyperbola — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 18:33:42 EDT

Two key pledges made by the George W. Bush administration on military bases in its negotiations with the government of Iraq have now been revealed as carefully-worded ruses aimed at concealing U.S. negotiating aims from both U.S. citizens and Iraqis who would object to them if they were made clear.

Channel: Politics Tags: bush iraq lies failure crimes against humanity

The dream of Afghan democracy is dead

hyperbola — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 18:20:11 EDT

In public, defeat in Afghanistan is unthinkable for western governments. In private, for many it already seems inevitable.

Channel: Politics Tags: Afghanistan bush failure

The Jewish Experience

hyperbola — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 12:05:22 EDT

Study of 'Jewish Experience' may help save millions of lives of Palestinians, Iraqis, Syrians and Iranians. It is Jewish interest to understand the nature of Jewish experience and politics. It is Jewish politics (not religion) that may demonise Jews for the next millennia. It is Jewish interest to stop the political beast before it is too late.

Channel: Do No Evil Tags: israel zionism racism corruption crimes against humanity

Nancy Pelosi Pulled Iran Bill On Request of Israel

hyperbola — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 11:51:15 EDT

In a speech given on 06 June 2008, congressman Ron Paul, tells how speaker of the house, Nancy Pelosi, acting on behalf of israel and AIPAC, 'deliberately' pulled a supplemental bill requiring congressional approval for attacking Iran.

Channel: Politics Tags: israel zionism racism corruption crimes against humanity