We all saw the pictures coming out of Mariupol today. I won’t re-post them here. Simple people trying to stop a gang of heavily armed thugs who fancy themselves as some kind of “special forces” but whose “specialty” seems to be in shooting unarmed – or very poorly armed – civilians.It would be wrong to compare these Ukie thugs to the SS, as some have done. For all their wrongs,
Okay, not all of them quite to the same degree. If ALBA and UNASUR clearly and unconditionally backed Ecuador, the OAS passed only a vague, lukewarm and non-specific resolution. So what? Everybody knows that the OAS is Anglo-controlled. But even though the USA opposed the meeting, it had to agree to the resolution passed on the condition that it made no specific reference to the UK. Fair enough – that
Amazing news all over the Internet: Latin America is about to dump the dollar, and so are Iran and Russia, and even China and some Gulf Arab states (also read Robert Fisk’s commentary about all this here). Remember when Saddam did the same thing? He got himself invaded ASAP. There are clear signs that the regime in Washington is preparing to fight in a few more regions of the world:
Here are some of the figures which Michael Moore gave to Amy Goodman today on Democracy Now: This is the way it is now in this country. The wealthiest one percent right have more financial wealth than the bottom 95 percent combined. When you have a situation like that, where the one percent essentially not only own all the wealth, but own Congress, call the shots, are we really telling
