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Strengthening U.S.-Canada Security Interests in North America and Around the Globe
The
U.S. and Canada recently signed several bilateral agreements that will
further strengthen continental security and defense cooperation. Deeper
military integration between both countries is part of efforts to
establish a North American security perimeter and better address common
global threats.
Following the recent Permanent Joint Board on Defense (PJBD) meeting
which took place in Ottawa, the Commander of Canada Command, Lt.-Gen
Walter Semianiw and the Commander of North American Aerospace Defense
Command (NORAD) and United States Northern Command (USNORTHCOM), Gen.
Charles Jacoby, Jr. signed three military documents.
The first was the Combined Defense Plan which a backgrounder
described as a, “planning framework between Canada Command, its
counterpart USNORTHCOM, and NORAD for enhanced defense cooperation
between Canada and the U.S. should governments require each other’s
assistance.” The second is the Information Sharing Memorandum of
Understanding, “an arrangement between Canada Command, its counterpart
USNORTHCOM and NORAD to identify and provide for ease of sharing
information amongst the three organizations.” The Civil Assistance Plan,
which was originally signed in 2008 and allows the armed forces of one
nation to support the other during an emergency was also renewed for
two years.
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Ramarley Graham: NYPD Slays Unarmed Black Teen as Outrage over Targeting of People of Color Grows
by Democracy Now!
The New York Cit  y Police Department is under
mounting criticism after police shot dead an unarmed teenager inside his
own home. Eighteen-year-old Ramarley Graham was shot at close range in
his parents’ apartment in the Bronx after being chased into the house by
narcotics detectives. Police said they found marijuana in the home and
think Graham may have been trying to flush some down the toilet.
The NYPD
is coming under criticism not only for shooting Graham, but also for
its broader stop-and-frisk policy, which critics say disproportionately
targets people of color. On Monday, about 500 protesters rallied in the
Bronx to condemn the police treatment of black youth. We speak to Jamel
Mims, an organizer with the Stop Mass Incarceration Network, which is
working to end the practice of "stop and frisk," and Nicholas Peart, who
is serving as a witness in a federal class action lawsuit challenging
"stop and frisk" as racist and unconstitutional.
Guests: Nicholas Peart, wrote a piece in the New York Times
detailing his multiple experiences being stopped and frisked. Peart is a
member of the Brotherhood/Sister Sol, a community organization in
Harlem. He is also serving as a witness in a federal class action
lawsuit filed by the Center for Constitutional Rights against the New
York City Police Department to challenge the stop-and-frisk policy.
Jamel Mims,
organizer with the Stop Mass Incarceration Network, which is working to
end the New York City Police Department’s practice of "stop and frisk."
He was arrested last October for engaging in nonviolent civil
disobedience by blocking the entrance to a NYPD
precinct. Mims was again arrested in November in Queens for
nonviolently blocking the police precinct where Sean Bell was killed.
[includes rush
transcript]
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The Election We Should Be Following
For progressives and populists around the country who take an
interest in Congressional races there are always a few good challengers
we might hope to send to Washington. Incumbents, we assume, can take
care of themselves.
But in Northern Ohio, redistricting has thrown two incumbents into
one district. It's a heavily Democratic district created purposely to
guarantee a number of other districts to Republicans. The incumbents
are both Democrats, both white, both 65, and many imagine that they do
similar work in Washington. In fact, they could not be more different.
One of them does tremendous good for our national politics, working to
move our government in a better direction from inside it, just as the
rest of us do from the outside. We cannot afford to lose him. We would
be obliged to work for his reelection even if his opponent were far
above average. The record suggests something else.
A useful example to highlight the contrast between Congressman Dennis
Kucinich and Congresswoman Marcy Kaptur is found in the funding of
wars. Between 2001 and 2009, Congresswoman Kaptur voted for $545
billion in war funding, voting Yes over and over again for Bush's wars.
Congressman Dennis Kucinich voted for a total of $17 billion. (See the
chart below.)
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Is America a Police State?
by Sherwood Ross
You know you live in a police state when the president allows the
military to continuously harass a prisoner against whom no crime has
been proven by interrupting him every five minutes of the day to ask
him, “Are you okay?” and forces him to stand to attention naked at roll
call. What it can do to one man it can do to every man.
You know you live in a police state when said prisoner is barred from
exercising in his cell and told where he may and may not put his hands
when he goes to sleep at night. Only a police state would dictate how an
individual can sleep.
You know you live in a police state when the government punishes,
rather than honors, whistle-blowers who reveal its crimes such as the
U.S. massacre of civilians in Baghdad that PFC Bradley Manning exposed.
You know you live in a police state when wardens force pregnant women
prisoners to deliver their babies while in chains. (Not exactly “the
new birth of freedom” of which Abraham Lincoln spoke.)
You know you live in a police state when the president orders the
assassination (i.e., murder) of American citizens without bothering to
arrest them and bring them to trial.
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Confidential federal tar sands strategy targets aboriginal and green
groups
25 January 2012 (Toronto) – As controversy
increases over the Harper government’s attacks on environmental groups,
Greenpeace Canada today released internal
government documents obtained
under Access to Information legislation showing that the Harper government has
explicitly identified environmental and aboriginal groups as “adversaries” in
its strategy to increase tar sands
exports.
“This government established a list of enemies nine months ago and
has since launched a public attack on environmental and aboriginal groups that
are raising concerns about the environmental and social impacts of the tar
sands,” said Keith Stewart, coordinator of Greenpeace Canada’s Climate and
Energy campaign.
“Rather than dealing the devastating impacts of the tar sands,
the Harper government is working with the oil industry to silence their
critics.”
The March 2011 “Pan-European Oil Sands Advocacy Strategy” prepared by
the federal government to undermine support in the EU for cleaner fuels
legislation lists “National and European level Politicians (especially from the
ruling and influential parties)” as a primary
target.
The strategy document, obtained by the Climate Action Network under
Access to Information legislation, identifies the government’s “adversaries” as
Canadian NGOs and environmental organizations, Aboriginal groups, competing
industries and media in Europe (although the type of media seen as an adversary
is redacted).
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Israel Vying for War: Attacking Iran Will Not Repeat History
by Ramzy Baroud l PalestineChronicle.com
On April 10, 2002, then British Prime Minister Tony Blair
told the House of Commons, “Saddam Hussein's regime is…developing weapons of
mass destruction, and we cannot leave him doing so unchecked.”
A year later, Blair, enthusiastically joined a US-led coalition
that launched an illegal war against Iraq. Their hunt for weapons of mass
destruction was futile because no such weapons actually existed. The Iraq
Survey Group, a 1,400 strong member organization set up by the CIA and the
Pentagon, made every attempt to prove otherwise, but only came back
empty-handed.
In its final Duelfer Report, released in September 2004, the
group “found no evidence of concerted efforts to restart the [nuclear] program.”
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Super Savage Sunday: Obama Tightens the Screws on Iran
Arthur Silber follows up the post we linked to yesterday with
some more specifics on how an effective campaign against the war with
Iran might look: " The First Ad: Who Are the Nazis Now?"
Ads like these would be a devastating Zen slap in the head to the
stunted American consciousness.
Get on over there and read it now.
Meanwhile,
the Peace Laureate is tightening the screws on Iran even further.
Barack Obama took a few minutes away from the big game on Super Bowl
Sunday and imposed still more sanctions on Tehran
-- to punish them for legally pursuing a peaceful nuclear energy
program under close international supervision. (The pure, unmitigated
evil of these Persians, eh?)
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US, Saudis and Russia Vie for Influence in Post-Assad Syria
by TRNN
In
Syria, the situation intensifies. The foreign minister of Russia is
there for talks. The Gulf Cooperation Council countries have not only
withdrawn their own ambassadors, but have kicked out Syrian ambassadors
from their countries. Other, European countries have withdrawn their
representation. Now joining us from New York City to talk about all of
this is Hamid Dabashi. Hamid teaches at Columbia University. Thanks for
joining us, Hamid.
Hamid Dabashi: Russian position more reasoned but share US interest in maintaining Syrian military dictatorship without Assad
[Includes rush transcript]
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Anti-Tar Sands Pipeline Demonstration at Chinese Consulate
by Wilderness Committee
As Prime Minister Harper visits China with a
delegation of oil executives, environmentalist, First Nations and other
concerned Canadians will be at the Chinese Consulate in Vancouver with a
message for the people of China that Prime Minister Harper doesn't
speak for all of us and that tar sands pipelines and oil tankers are a
bad investment.
Statements by Ben West, Healthy Communities Campaigner for the Wilderness Committee, as well as other oil pipeline opponents to the media will take place out front of the Chinese
Consulate in order to bring attention to the opposition in Canada to tar
sands pipelines and oil exports through the west coast.
Wednesday, February 8th at 12 Noon
Outside the Consulate General of the
People's Republic of China in Vancouver
"We want to speak to the people of China
directly so that we can work together to ensure that our governments do
the right thing for both our countries and for everyone else worldwide.
The proposed gateway pipeline and other tar sands infrastructure
expansion projects are a gateway to global warming," said West.
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Alan Dershowitz on Tuba
“ Dershowitz is not only a remarkable liar and slanderer, but also an extreme opponent of elementary civil rights” Noam Chomsky
The following is an analytical yet amusing glimpse into the deceitful
and psychological nature of Zionist propaganda as manifested by arch
Zionist Alan Dershowitz.
Dershowitz wrote last week, “in a recent post, Atzmon said that he would be willing to play alongside David Duke. What a duet!”
This little insignificant anecdote brought a smile to my face because in my text
I was actually positively considering joining a new healing musical
adventure along together with Alan Dershowitz on tuba and David Duke on
trumpet.
Here are my words;
“I really do not understand why Alan Dershowitz
believes himself to be morally superior to Duke. Dershowitz is a
Zionist Jewish supremacist, he is a world leading advocate of a racist
and expansionist ideology, namely Zionism. And yet, I wouldn’t say NO to
an invitation for a musical gathering along together with Dershowitz on
tuba and Duke playing the trumpet, just because I believe that music
brings people together.”
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African Babies As Guinea Pigs? Malaria, Bill Gate$, Big Drug$ and Big Buck$
by Thomas C. Mountain
When
it comes to the new malaria vaccine developed by Glaxo, Smith and Kline
(GSK) now being tested on infants in the east African country of
Tanzania I will let the words of an industry insider tell it best..
"There
is not much profit to be made by big pharma from a highly effective
malaria vaccine of practical use for African sufferers...they [Big
Drug$) are fiendishly clever at exploiting any and all opportunities to
reap big benefits."
"The
poorly performing malaria vaccine RTS,S, created by GSK with a healthy
infusion of funds from the Gates Foundation, is being tested in Phase
III trials in Africa now. Including many thousands of African
infants."
"will not profit from RTS,S. However, RTS,S is injected along with a new GSK adjuvant called AS01."
"will make vast sums from the new adjuvant, the testing of which is
being piggybacked on their altruistic malaria vaccine (which,
incidentally, is virtually entirely ineffective without AS01)."
"Interestingly,
RTS,S (or should I say, AS01) testing in African infants began before
AS01 trials in children were permitted in the United States."
"physician-scientists also held positions of significance in the Gates
Foundation...conflict-of-interest issues not withstanding."
So
the Gate$ Foundation is giving Big Buck$ ($400 million and counting) to
Big Drug$/G$K to develop a vaccine against Africa’s number one killer,
malaria.
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