Articles submitted through the open-publishing system for February 2012

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Feb 01 2012
Realities about Iran

The Empire Threatens War

Feb 01 2012
SET A GOOD EXAMPLE.-

Chapter 6 of THE WAY TO HAPPINESS, written by L. Ronald Hubbard, is a precept that helps us to contribute our grain of sand to change this society and direct us to a better world

Feb 01 2012
Scores of Volunteers Strike Back at Drug Abus

The abuse of illicit and prescription drugs endangers lives and families across America, but there are some who feel that it’s urgently important to strike back at the problem.

Feb 01 2012
Why Cocaine is Dangerous ?

a well-being sensation and a great sense of power and ability mixed with anxiety and inquietude, as the drug effect disappears, these temporal sensations of greatness turns into an immense intense depression, and consumers “collapses” , they get lethargic, silly, slow, and get semi-unconscious, in consequence they Cocaine is TREMENDOUSLY ADDICTIVE and cocaine effects ARE VERY MISLEADING.

Feb 01 2012
THE NEW DRUGS THAT YOUTHS ARE USING.


-Among Others: Ritalin, Concerta, Oxicotin, dicodin, soma and penta, analgesics that are presented as patches and sweets and are 100x stronger than morfine.

Feb 02 2012
The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo: Alternative

Predictable lamestream media reviewers had little to say about how The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo is rife with current political, sociological, technological and religious implications. The movie is about a 24-year-old, gothic-punk-looking, cyberspace hacker, with an issue with men who have histories or sexual or violent predation. She is on a mission to right the world of a few rapists and killers. This is not a standard movie review. Plenty reviews already exist on the Internet for you to get the gist of the story and its characters. This critique is strictly in regards to the movie and is more about interesting political and social commentary in relation to the movie and some of its reviews.

Feb 02 2012
Gains for Healthcare, Despite Obama

(Nurses Protest for Single-Payer Health Care, Photo: National Nurses United) The movement for single-payer achieved its first major victory in the United States in 2011 when the Governor of Vermont signed a single-payer bill into law. Under rules of the Obama-care bill, however, Vermont will not be able to enact the legislation until 2017, but Vermont is seeking waivers to enact the bill in 2014. Montana Governor Brian Schweitzer is also asking for a waiver from the federal government to set-up single payer health care in Montana.

Feb 02 2012
Youth for Human Rights of Florida: Keeping th

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. once said that “Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly. I can never be what I ought to be until you are what you ought to be,” and in this spirit, Youth for Human Rights of Florida is making available copies of “What are Human Rights?”

Feb 02 2012
LEARN YOUR 30 HUMAN RIGHTS AT THE FLORIDA STA

The Tuesday event is part of "Children's Capitol for a Day,” when thousands of children, parents, advocates, community leaders and policy makers from throughout the state gather for a day of educational and interactive events and activities in Tallahassee.

Feb 03 2012
The Shortwave Report 02/03/12 Listen Globally

A weekly 30 minute review of international news and opinion, recorded from a shortwave radio and the internet. With times, frequencies, and websites for listening at home. 3 files- Highest quality broadcast, regular broadcast, and slow-modem streaming. Free to rebroadcast. Spanish National Radio, Radio Havana Cuba, Radio Deutsche-Welle, and the Voice of Russia.

Feb 03 2012
SOPA, PIPA, ACTA, private property and intern

Private property: This is what it comes down to.

Feb 03 2012
RT-SP Rejects Intervention in Libya

Photo: Ghost town of Tawergha, Libya where 30,000 black Africans were The Revolutionary Tendency of the Socialist Party (RT-SP) Opposes the Decision of the Socialist Party National Committee to support the Left Parties of Germany and Sweden

Feb 04 2012
¡Rebelaos! Publicación por la autogestión

Una publicación masiva que inunde el transporte público, los centros de trabajo, los parques, los centros de consumo, mediante la distribución de 500.000 ejemplares gratuitos, actuando simultáneamente en todos lados y en ninguna parte.

Feb 06 2012
No to US and Chinese expansionism

PHILIPPINES: Akbayan Party condemns plans for increased United States military presence in the country amid burgeoning Chinese military expansionism. We believe these acts by the two superpowers will inevitably destabilize the West Philippine Sea and Southeast Asian region.

Feb 07 2012
NO TO HUMAN TRAFFICKING.

The Church of Scientology has joined to the Blue hearth Campaign against the trafficking, released by the United Nations office against Drugs and crime

Feb 07 2012
NO TORTURE.

“No one shall be subjected to torture or to cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment”.

Feb 07 2012
Hedging Our Bets on the Black Bloc: the Impotence of Mere Liberalism

Chris Hedges has written some of the most insightful analysis of the U.S. war machine in recent years. His 2009 book “The Empire of Illusion” was an exploration of how exhibition has eclipsed truth and meaningful connection in American society. His acknowledgment of the ease in which one can buy into such spectacles is a small part of why it was so odd to read his article on Truthdig attacking both anarchists and black bloc tactics entitled “The Cancer in Occupy.”

Feb 08 2012
Activists Vow to Stop the 1%

It's time to put our bodies between our planet and the machine. We need a sustained, strategic campaign of nonviolent direct action, waged on a scale not seen since the Civil Rights movement.

Are you ready? Come hear more.

Feb 08 2012
HUMAN RIGHTS INTERNATIONAL LAW.

” Human Rights must be a reality not just an idealistic dream”.

Feb 09 2012
The Truth about Crystal Meth

The first experience with meth might involve some pleasure, but from the start, methamphetamine begins to destroy the user’s life.

Feb 09 2012
What can i do to help youths to keep away fro

USE THE TRUTH ABOUT DRUGS EDUCATION KIT, NOW IN INTERNET.

Feb 09 2012
DEATHS BY DRUG TAKING CONTINUE TO INCREASE

Citizen Commission on Human Rights has turned into an international level in the Human Rights abuses vigilance committee in the mental health field.

Feb 10 2012
The Shortwave Report 02/10/12 Listen Globally

A weekly 30 minute review of international news and opinion, recorded from a shortwave radio and the internet. With times, frequencies, and websites for listening at home. 3 files- Highest quality broadcast, regular broadcast, and slow-modem streaming. Free to rebroadcast. China Radio International, NHK World Radio Japan, Radio Havana Cuba, and the Voice of Russia.

Feb 11 2012
Foreclose on Wells Fargo: So Many Reasons to

This article that arises from the context of a divestment campaign in Bozeman, Montana, speaks more generally about the evils of Wells Fargo and all the many reasons - both well known and not so well known - why people should divest from big banks, particularly Wells Fargo.

Feb 12 2012
Wall Street Excess and Main Street Distress:

Apple’s march to market supremacy has been accomplished at tremendous cost to both American and Chinese workers

Feb 16 2012
Nizhny Novgorod anti-fascists need your solid

Friends and comrades!

We, the anti-fascists and anarchists of Nizhny Novgorod (Russia), appeal to concerned people around the world. The political police (the Center for Combating Extremism or Center “E”) have fabricated a criminal case against our comrades. Anti-fascism has been outlawed in our city. We need your solidarity and support!

Feb 16 2012
You Make Us Feel As If We've All Been Fools

Over roughly the past three years my country, America has had the opportunity to have President Barack Obama as our president. It is now 2012 and as we head into the election for those of us that voted for him, though we wish we could say differently in our hearts, there is a place that remains unsure and disappointed. There were so many promises and most of us that voted for him in 2008 knew there was no way to fulfill those all or even mostly. But it was the promise of the man that was not lived up to that was most disappointing and left us the most unsure about who he was - whether we admit it out loud or not. Regardless, this is a pivotal moment that could define where we go as a nation.

Feb 16 2012
A Principled Stand on Diversity of Tactic

Martin Luther King, Jr. and Malcolm X: Solidarity ...as the cogs of corporate media seek to bewitch us with the specter of political gameplay, they also scheme to pacify the lonely rage of societies under fascist colonization by using an ancient tactic: divide and conquer. We are left to feed on one another like jackals. Our strength—as the surveillance state well knows—lies in our solidarity.

Feb 16 2012
St Pete Human Rights Festival – The Freedom o

The St Pete Human Rights Festival, dedicated to spreading the message of Human Rights to Tampa Bay is preparing for the biggest Freedom of Expression, Dance Contest ever — and the message of equal opportunity and freedom from oppression for all.

Feb 17 2012
The Shortwave Report 02/17/12 Listen Globally

A weekly 30 minute review of international news and opinion, recorded from a shortwave radio and the internet. With times, frequencies, and websites for listening at home. 3 files- Highest quality broadcast, regular broadcast, and slow-modem streaming. Free to rebroadcast. China Radio International, NHK World Radio Japan, Radio Deutsche-Welle, Radio Havana Cuba, and Spanish National Radio.

Feb 17 2012
Development from bottom-up not top-down

The following argues that New Zealand's top-down, bureaucratic neo-liberalism is threatening the Christchurch rebuild following devastating earhtquakes in the country's second largest city. Rather an ethical, bottom-up, human rights and development is required.

Feb 17 2012
Green Jailed by Corrupt Scottish courts

Robert has been a most robust and valued campaigner on behalf of Hollie Greig and her mother Anne, in seeking justice for the wrongs inflicted upon Hollie, exposing the lack of a duty of care from those in positions of trust, the perjury of Grampian Police and highlighting the nefarious nature of the legal system and the Establishment in both Scotland and England.

Feb 17 2012
THE EFFECTS OF LSD

Hallucinogenic compounds found in some plants and mushrooms (or their extracts) have been used—mostly during religious rituals—for centuries.

Feb 17 2012
DEATHS BY PRESCRIPTION DRUGS USE.

Proliferates the bad Diagnosis and drugging with psychostimulants.

Feb 18 2012
THE DRUG EFFECTS IN THE MIND.

Essentially, drugs are poison. The effect depends from the quantity someone takes in. a small quantity is stimulant (increases activity). A bigger quantity acts as a sedative (inhibits activity). A greater quantity acts as a poison and it can kill the individual.

Feb 18 2012
US military presence in the Philippines

PLM Statement on increased US military presence in the Philippines

Party of the Laboring Masses (PLM)

PLM Calls for an Independent Foreign Policy and a Non-Aligned ASEAN

The people are now being informed, through media reports, about the possibility of military agreements between the US and the Philippines that would increase US troop presence in the country. There has also been a flurry of diplomatic activities in the recent period: visits by a US delegation to the Philippines headed by right-wing Republican John McCain, and Philippine government delegations are currently negotiating in the US. We are being assured by the DFA, in what is really a red herring and an attempt to distract us with a false debate, that what is being discussed is a ‘rotation’ of troops and not ‘bases’ and so on. The ‘threat’ of China is being used as the justification, especially in relation to the competing claims to the seas surrounding the pieces of rock named the Spratly Islands – the West Philippine Sea, also known as the South China Sea.

There have always been ‘bogeymen’ used to justify US military intervention in the region and around the world. There was the ‘cold war’, against the threat of communism that resulted in the Vietnam War. This was then followed by ‘the war against terrorism” and the invasion of Iraq on the pretext of Saddam Hussein’s ‘weapons of mass destruction’. Now we have the ‘nuclear threat’ in Iran and the ‘China threat’ to ‘economic and security’ interests. The pro-US lobby in the Philippines has been working overtime in a campaign to project China as a threat.

This line comes straight out of the Pentagon to justify a newly updated US military strategy to secure US economic and national interests adapted to the current global context. This includes the withdrawal of US troops from Iraq, plans to wind down its forces in Afghanistan, as well as the most severe global economic crises since the 1930s Great Depression. The US military strategy now places a renewed focus on Asia and the Pacific, with China identified as presenting special concerns that the US must confront.

According to a Pentagon document entitled ‘Sustaining U.S. Global Leadership: Priorities for 21st Century Defence’ released this January, US economic and security interests “will have to necessarily rebalance towards the Asia Pacific region”. The document also targets China stating that “Over the long term, China's emergence as a regional power will have the potential to affect the U.S. economy and our security in a variety of ways...The U.S. will continue to make a variety of investments to ensure that we maintain regional access and the ability to operate freely.” These ‘investments’ include beefing up its military alliances with countries considered to be its traditional allies in the region, such as the countries in ASEAN, and drawing them in to an anti-China alliance.

This is a region where the US has a savage history of colonial conquests and has historically maintained a strategic presence. Some 22,000 US troops have been permanently based in Korea and around 35,000 in Japan. Nearly half of U.S. Air Force F-22 jet fighters have been based in the Asia Pacific region. Two U.S. aircraft carriers have always been around in the region. US historic allies in the region, junior partners such as Australia, are also beefing up their military agreements with the US. The new Australia-US deal announced in 2011 will allow for 250 US marines to be stationed in Darwin this year, increasing to 2,500 by 2016. Darwin, a city situated on the northern tip of the Australian continent, provides strategic access to the South East Asia region.

Though US officials keep on harping about the China threat, they still have to concede that the country is nowhere near achieving any kind of parity in military capabilities with the US. For example, while there are several hundred US military bases around the world, China has none outside of its territory. Although the US military budget had been trimmed, US military spending would still continue to remain higher than the combined military budgets of the next 14 biggest militaries in the world.

China, on the other hand, was brutally colonized by several imperialist powers, which only ended with the victory of the Chinese revolution. The initial gains of the Chinese revolution, however, have been undermined in the wake of post-1978 modernization and a lot is to be desired when one judges China by the yard stick of socialism. Nevertheless, its domestic economic advancements are remarkable and its growing role as a counter-weight to unipolar imperialist domination is an important factor in global realignments.

The keyword in Chinese foreign policy parlance has not been superpower but multipolarity, as opposed to a unipolar world. In its quest for a multipolar world, China is seeking closer strategic cooperation with Russia and the Central Asian republics within the framework of Shanghai Cooperation Organisation, and closer bilateral and multilateral economic cooperation with major developing countries like India and Brazil. China has also come up with the idea of ending the US dollar's prolonged reign as the universal currency of international exchange. China has suggested that as a medium of international transaction, the US dollar should be replaced by a supranational currency basket like the Special Drawing Rights (SDR) used by the IMF.

Around the Spratly Islands dispute however, despite its claims that it stands for a regional political settlement, China has displayed an aggressive nationalism, flexing its military muscle against Vietnam and to a lesser extent the Philippines.

China has responded strongly in its defence, stressing that it stands for peaceful development and for a negotiated regional settlement to the disputed claims surrounding the Spratlys. The People's Liberation Army Daily has accused the U.S. of targeting China, by bolstering its military alliances in the Asia Pacific region, while also seeking more entry rights for military bases around China. The state-owned Xinhua news agency advised the Obama administration to abstain from flexing its muscles. There have also been calls from within China to place economic sanctions against countries supporting the US anti-China alliance. The state-owned China Daily published an editorial piece calling for the Chinese government to pursue economic sanctions against the Philippines.

So how should smaller nations defend their national interests in this context? The Partido Lakas ng Masa (PLM) believes that the Philippines government best serves its national interests by pursuing an independent foreign policy, in keeping with the Philippine constitution. To line up with the US in an anti-China alliance will seriously undermine our position in the region as an independent nation, with unforeseen consequences, possibly for decades to come. It reinforces the former colonial relationship and Philippines subservience to the US, precisely at a conjuncture of a rapidly changing world, where a policy of independence and non-alignment is necessary. Major developing countries are emerging with greater economic and strategic clout, pro-people’s governments are creating new regional blocs and alignments, such as in Latin America, and peoples’ movements in the Middle East are challenging the old pro-imperialist status quo. In simply lining up with the US, the Philippine government has demonstrated its lack of foresight and absence of leadership in crafting an independent vision and path for the country.

An anti-China alliance also entails the risk of the Philippines becoming a target for China’s trade and economic retaliation. Strong cooperation with China serves our economic interests. In keeping with this, the Philippines government must also push for a policy of non-alignment, within ASEAN, and lead the way in uniting the smaller countries in the region around a platform of non-alignment in dealing with major military and economic powers. Such a policy will place the Philippines in the best position to stand up to China’s bullying tactics in relation to the Spratlys and pursue a negotiated settlement, along with our ASEAN neighbours.

PLM also calls for the democratisation of all foreign policy negotiations and dealings by the Philippine government. Foreign policy is a continuation of domestic policy and has important ramifications for people’s welfare. Therefore we condemn all secret negotiations, as has been the case to date, and call for transparency and public accountability from the government.

We have a proud history of struggle against imperialism of all varieties: Spain, Japan and the United States. The peoples movement in this country succeeded in closing down the US bases in Clarke and Subic in 1991 and 1992, putting an end to the US military presence in the Philippines. We will never forget the terrible consequences of the US military presence. The US bases were used as a springboard of US surveillance and attack against the anti-dictatorship movement, including in counter-insurgency operations against the NPA in Central Luzon, prompting the NPAs to retaliate by organizing a number of punitive actions against US soldiers on the prowl in the bars and brothels in Angeles and Olongapo cities. We remember the terrible social consequences of these bases which exploited our people, prostituted women, along with our country’s national sovereignty.

However, under the Visiting Forces Agreement of 1999 a policy of reintroducing US troop presence by ‘stealth’ was put in place. The main focus of the VFA has been ‘counter-insurgency’ operations that are fuelled by the legitimate grievances of the Filipino people and the Bangsa Moro people. We suspect that the recent negotiations are aimed at bolstering the VFA. And despite the DFA claims that there will be no permanent US bases, we also understand that Subic is a fully-fledged basing facility that can be occupied at any time. Such plans can only be foiled to the extent that the people’s movement mobilizes and resists these manoeuvres.

No to US Military Presence in the Philippines! Scrap the VFA! China Must Stop the Bullying! For an Independent Foreign Policy! For a Non-Aligned ASEAN!

International Department, PLM
Party of the Laboring Masses (PLM)
Partido Lakas ng Masa (PLM)

 http://www.masa.ph/


Feb 19 2012
Blood Sports Appeal from Ireland

The …Appeal… Ireland’s Parliament to vote on Ban Hare Coursing Bill…
…Please ask Ireland’s Prime Minister and Deputy Prime Minister to support the Bill and allow a FREE VOTE!

Feb 21 2012
Opre Roma!

Remember! Dear friends,

The four year old Robika Csorba and his father, Robert Csorba were brutally killed for their ethnicity in Tatárszentgyörgy, on 23rd February 2009. at 4 am in the morning Robika Csorba is the child victim of the racist serial-killings shocking the whole of the Hungarian Roma communities. This date will remain the plague spot of Hungarian history for ever.

Feb 22 2012
For NC folks: No on Amendment One!

Please sign this petition against Amendment One, which conservatives are trying to pass to ban gay marriage and other benefits for gay couples in NC, thank you!

Feb 22 2012
It's German wage cuts, not "lazy" Greeks

European monetary fables tell a story, but for whom?

Feb 22 2012
Precept 6.- SET A GOOD EXAMPLE.-

WHAT IS A PRECEPT?
A Precept is a rule or declaration that advices or establish a principle or principles;

Feb 22 2012
St. Petersburg Human Rights Festival 2012

This is a perfect time for people of all faiths, creeds, ages and ethnic backgrounds to join and educate ourselves and our youth in basic human rights.

Feb 24 2012
The Shortwave Report 02/24/12 Listen Globally

A weekly 30 minute review of international news and opinion, recorded from a shortwave radio and the internet. With times, frequencies, and websites for listening at home. 3 files- Highest quality broadcast, regular broadcast, and slow-modem streaming. Free to rebroadcast. NHK World Radio Japan, China Radio International, Radio Havana Cuba, Spanish National Radio, and Radio Deutsche-Welle.

Feb 24 2012
ACTA 2.0

free expression

Feb 24 2012
the Obama plan slips out

maxine waters let the plan slip

Feb 24 2012
2012 Mountain Justice Summer Action Camp

Come to Appalachia and become part of the movement to end MTR Coal Mining, protect communities and the environment, and build a sustainable new economy.

Feb 26 2012
What the Azeris Don't Want to Admit

Deconstructing the Azeri Propaganda War Against the Indigenous Armenian Republic of Artsakh (Nagorno-Karabagh)

Feb 26 2012
Lies lies lies

Perjury in court is a severe crime.
Yet the employee of a child social service gets away with this.
 http://vimeo.com/37465611

Feb 26 2012
Are Some "Persons" Better Than Others?

If history holds true, corporations will continue to get their tax reductions and their write-offs. And "close the loopholes" hoopla can be saved for the next election.

Feb 27 2012
Estado Sheriff Arpaio de la Policía de Arizon

Arpaio Police State Estado Sheriff Arpaio de la Policía de Arizona.

Opresivos constitucionales y de derechos humanos violaciónes.

Feb 28 2012
Open Letter to Suzanne Khardalian, Filmmaker

Grandma Khanum, the subject of the documentary film, The whole world, not just Armenians, is asking Turkey, "Why?"

Feb 29 2012
Psychiatrist in jail

2 PSYCHIATRISTS WERE SENTENCED TO A FULL YEAR OF PRISON AND 880.000 EUROS OF PENALTY.

Feb 29 2012
Socialists protest exclusion from California

When California Secretary of State Debra Bowen released the names of
presidential candidates to be listed on the ballot, she omitted two of four candidates submitted by the Peace and Freedom Party (PFP) electoral coalition: Stephen Durham of the Freedom Socialist Party (FSP) and Peta Lindsay of the Party for Socialism and
Liberation (PSL).

Feb 29 2012
Other Civil War: Capitalism's Uncivil Peace

Gaunt figures wander like the dead through streets and alleyways, worn clothing hanging from emaciated bodies, their rough faces frozen in an image of utter desolation. Foodstuffs are sold at exorbitantly high rates by monopoly agro-business; those who can’t afford to buy food starve almost immediately, while those who can scrape together the funds succumb to slow death from the poisons within. Old folks, little children, widows, and former national heroes—all these are thrown from their homes while those houses are left to rot, shiny new locks gleaming on the door. The entire time, plutocrats sleep in virtual fortresses, hidden in gated communities while people starve in the streets. This is the nature of the other Civil War. This is capitalism’s uncivil peace.

Feb 29 2012
"One simple demand"

"One simple demand"
- Critical Reply to "Adbusters Tactical Briefing #26 - Anarchic Swarms"
 http://www.adbusters.org/blogs/adbusters-blog/adbusters-tactical-briefing-26.html


it's all fair enough, and the tactical idea of "anarchic swarming" sounds
like a step forward in addition to occupying central squares. but what in
the world do you need "one simple demand"? it's fairly unlikely that his
will be fulfilled anyways, but even if: it wouldn't change the balance of
power one substantial bit.

Mar 01 2012
THE COCAINE ADDICTION

THE COCAINE ADDICTION, is something so serious that destroys lifes and homes completely.

Mar 01 2012
Illicit Drug  Trade:A Shared Problem.        

Drug trafficking, drug abuse, violence, crime all are problems and have been around for a long time, and has caused disaster in every country of the world.

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