Divide and Conquer

BIGOTRY, HATE GRAFITTI, ARRESTS, PROTESTS, COUNTER-PROTESTS, FREE SPEECH ISSUES, AND MORE AT UC - IRVINE....AND BEYOND
From the Oread Daily http://oreaddaily.blogspot.com/

It's not exactly "get along month" at the University of California Davis.

Let's see. Several swastikas have been found recently around the campus. The Gay and Lesbian Center has been vandalized. Eleven Muslim students were arrested protesting an Israeli ambassador's speech.

Jewish and Muslim students protested each ...other.

Published on Monday, February 15, 2010 by Al-Jazeera-English
Cuba's Aid to Haiti Ignored by the US Media?

by Tom Fawthrop

Among the many donor nations helping Haiti, Cuba and its medical teams have played a major role in treating earthquake victims.

[After the quake struck, Haiti's first medical aid came from Cuba. (Gallo/Getty)]After the quake struck, Haiti's first medical aid came from Cuba. (Gallo/Getty)
Public health experts say the Cubans were the first to set up medical facilities among the debris and to revamp hospitals immediately after the earthquake struck.

However, their pivotal work in the health sector has received scant media coverage.

Submitted by Bill Weinberg on Sun, 12/27/2009 - 21:37.

This is from ww4report.  -Rick

http://ww4report.com/

http://blip.tv/file/3006807

Thursday 03 September 2009

by: Lawrence S. Wittner, t r u t h o u t | Perspective

Dr. Wittner points out that there is a successful "public option" in place for fire and police protection. (Photo: Thomas Hawk / Flickr)

Currently, there is nothing more controversial in President Barack Obama's health care reform proposal than the "public option." Much of the controversy, of course, has been generated by private insurance companies, determined to safeguard their hefty profits, and by Republican politicians, eager to destroy anything that might redound to the benefit of the Democrats. Even so, a little clear thinking on the subject of public programs might illuminate their advantages and disadvantages.

June 22, 2009 Check out: http://www.counterpunch.org/  -Rick

By ESAM AL-AMIN

Since the June 12 Iranian presidential elections, Iran "experts” have mushroomed like bacteria in a Petri dish. So here is a quiz for all those instant experts. Which major country has elected more presidents than any in the world since 1980? Further, which nation is the only one that held ten presidential elections within thirty years of its revolution?

The answer to both questions, of course, is Iran. Since 1980, it has elected six presidents, while the U.S. is a close second with five, and France at three. In addition, the U.S. held four presidential elections within three decades of its revolution to Iran’s ten.

April 5, 2008 

CHEEKTOWAGA, N.Y. (WIVB ) - - The men and women who walked off their jobs at American Axle say they'll strike as long as they have to.

By IBRAHIM BARZAK, Associated Press Writer Dec. 11, 2007

KHAN YOUNIS, Gaza Strip - Israeli tanks and bulldozers backed by attack aircraft moved into the southern Gaza Strip on Tuesday, killing five militants in the widest operation in the territory since Islamic Hamas forces wrested control in June. Another died in an airstrike in northern Gaza.

CHINA AND THE MYANMAR [BURMA] SANCTIONS
Thomas Riggins

Recently I have heard and read a lot of criticism of China for not supporting the sanctions against the military dictatorship in Myanmar that the US tried to get the UN to impose. However, the real purpose of the sanctions was not to target Myanmar but to get at China.

The Chinese want a pipeline across Myanmar to bring oil overland to China so that they can bypass the Straits of Malacca which is presently the route for much of the oil on its way by ship to China. If the US should close the straits it could cripple the Chinese economy. The trans Myanmar pipeline is China's answer.

OBAMA ON NUCLEAR WEAPONS USE

Thomas Riggins

The Friday New York Times has a story, "Nuclear Weapons Comment Puts Obama on the Defensive" by Michael Luo (NYT 8/3/07).

It seems Obama is getting flack for saying he doesn't think using nuclear weapons against al-Qaeda is a good idea. "His remarks about removing nuclear weapons as an option in the region drew fresh attacks from Democratic rivals who had already questioned his foreign policy experience."

In reality his critics are the ones whose experience should be questioned. The US and every other country should have a no first use or first strike policy as the use of nuclear weapons would be in itself an unthinkable crime against humanity.

The Alabama Department of Homeland Security has taken down a webpage that listed environmental, anti-war, and gay rights groups as possible terrorists, according to a report from the Associated Press.

"The director of the department, Jim Walker, said his agency received a number of calls and e-mails from people who said they felt the site unfairly targeted certain people just because of their beliefs," the AP reported. "He said he plans to put the Web site back on the Internet, but will no longer identify specific types of groups."