politics for the 99%

Update: Theresa May to hand out more jobs in first cabinet, on BBC, July 14, 2016: Prime Minister Theresa May will continue to form her new government later – as she begins her first full day in Downing Street; more on Google Web-search, Google News-search, and on YouTube-search;
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Published on Dissident Voice, by Ramzy Baroud, July 12, 2016.

Last year, I wrote an article that made many readers unhappy. As soon as it was published, I began receiving messages of abuse and angry, threatening calls.  

I hesitated about reporting the threats to the local police in Washington State and, in the end, I resolved to file the unpleasant experience under a burgeoning folder of ‘controversies’ caused by my writings. The title of the article was: I Can’t Breathe: Racism and War in America and Beyond. As a Palestinian columnist and a book author over the past 20 years, it has not been entirely easy working in the United States. Nor has it been possible to be embraced by the mainstream while raging against mainstream ideas, constant appetite for war and unthinking support of Apartheid Israel … //

… The truth is, I was not trying to score cheap political points by espousing justice for 12-year-old Tamir Rice, or Eric Garner or, more recently, Alton Sterling and Philando Castile. These, among hundreds of other who are killed every year in the ongoing drama of police violence, come from the most economically and socially disadvantaged segments of American society. They hold little political influence and are rarely known for their powerful lobbies in Washington DC.

Yet, siding with them, however strategically useless such a move may appear to some, is the only moral path to be taken. I, like millions of Palestinians, know precisely what racism is, what oppression feels like, how being economically underprivileged and politically disadvantaged are often the inception of anger – and even counter-violence.

My people have been living that vicious cycle for a century and, for me, not to take a moral stance in solidarity with any oppressed group anywhere in the world is denying the very foundation of my being, the collective drive that keeps millions of Palestinians standing strong and moving forward.

There is an unmistakable sense of being permanently exiled * that is shared by many Palestinians, regardless of their political background … //

… (full text).

(Dr. Ramzy Baroud is an author and a journalist. He is athor of The Second Palestinian Intifada: A Chronicle of a People’s Struggle and his latest My Father Was a Freedom Fighter: Gaza’s Untold Story. He can be reached here. Read other articles by Ramzy, or visit Ramzy’s website).

* (being permanently exiled: this feeling applies also to so called first world people, for example:
when doing differently in daily life,
genies (mainly children versus their family / mother’s notions),
repressed homos,
school-children persecuted by class mates – still a taboo in many countries,
… and so on. Not so hard because they are civil situations? Ask children) – Heidi).

Links:

Full Show 7/12/16: Bernie’s With Her, 59.29 min, uploaded by The Big Picture RT, July 12, 2016 … tonight’s Politics Panel discusses Bernie’s endorsement of Hillary Clinton, the bizarre GOP platform which endorses things like gay conversion therapy, and Trump’s tax plan for the rich. Thom discusses how federal officials approved massive fracking in the Gulf of Mexico starting in 2010 with the Center for Biological Diversity’s Patrick Sullivan and in tonight’s Daily Take Thom details how Democrats are trying to stop the climate from melting down while Republicans are having a meltdown over pornography;

Zimbabwe: changement de régime en cours, dans Reseau International.net, le 12 juillet 2016;

We Have Met the Alien and He Is Us, on Tom Dispatch, by William Astore, July 12, 2016: Iiagine a secret government facility buried deep in the bowels of a mountain; a deluxe bomb shelter — encased within dense, almost fissure-less rock — for top government officials to ride out doomsday …;

Baton Rouge: Put Those Damn Weapons Down!, on Dissident Voice, by Bill Quigley, July 1h, 2016:
… that was the first command of one of Louisiana’s most revered figures, General Russell Honore, when he arrived in New Orleans in 2005 to direct the military recovery after Hurricane Katrina. The General’s directions have not been followed in
Baton Rouge …;

Alerte… Guccifer, le hacker roumain qui a piraté les e-mails Clinton a « été suicidé » dans sa cellule, dans Reseau International.net, le 11 juillet 2016;

L’effondrement US en mode turbo, dans Reseau International.net, le 9 juillet 2016: … Guccifer, également connu sous le nom Marcel Lazar Lehel, avait été extradé aux États-Unis pour répondre aux accusations portées contre lui, après qu’il ait ouvertement reconnu avoir piraté, à plusieurs reprises, le serveur de messagerie de Hillary Clinton …;

Civil Defense Doomsday Hideaway, on TIME, by Ted Gup Berryville, June 24, 2016;

Workers Walk Out for $15 at Dozens of Quebec Nursing Homes, on Labor Notes.org, by Sonia Singh, June 22, 2016;

Mount Weather Emergency Operations Center on en.wikipedia; … is a civilian command facility in the U.S. Commonwealth of Virginia, used as the center of operations for the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA). Also known as the High Point Special Facility (HPSF), its preferred designation since 1991 is “SF”.[1] The facility is a major relocation site for the highest level of civilian and military officials in case of national disaster, playing a major role in U.S. continuity of government (per the Continuity of Operations Plan)[2] …;
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(Wer schweigt, stimmt nicht immer zu, er hat nur manchmal keine Lust, mit Idioten zu diskutieren – Albert Einstein).