Editorial

Enough is enough. This nation has gone so far beyond the rule of law and reason that it is almost impossible to know where to start to bring in order to right all of the terrible wrongs we have perpetrated in the last fifty years. We have seen the American military machine wreck havoc in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Read more: We are All Accountable

The Greatest Calamity The World Has Ever Known

The year is 2010 and to anyone not in denial, the industrialized nations have entered the greatest calamity the world has ever known:

• 35 Million Americans on Food Stamps: 12 Percent of U.S. Population on Food Stamps Highest Since Records Kept in 1969, and that’s before the Obama administration announced a planned three-year budget freeze on government discretionary spending. (My Budget 360)
• 18 Million empty houses in the United States and 39 million Americans who are no longer working or looking for work, and that’s before Federal Reserve finishes rewriting the rules of American “capitalism” as US Housing, the Automobile Industry and the American Dream are dismantled. (The 31-Year-Old in Charge of Dismantling G.M., David E. Sanger)

Read more: 2008 Financial Collapse

Netanyahu’s late decision to add the Islamic Ibrahimi Mosque in Al-Khalil (Hebron) and Bilal Mosque in Bethlehem to the so-called “Israeli list of national heritage sites” seems to be re-igniting the spark of religious war between Jewish-Israelis on one side and the Moslem-Palestinians and the Islamic World on the other side. 

Read more: Netanyahu Re-igniting Religious War in the Holy Land

Iraq’s election results will confirm, but not bestow power
 
Polls have closed in Iraq as I start to write this column early Sunday morning, Pacific Time in the US.  As many as 10 million Iraqis are estimated to have cast their vote, showing their indomitable character – threats and all, adding to the vote of yet another 600,000 expatriates and refugees abroad, as well as the nation’s military, which had already done so this past week amid turmoil orchestrated by Iraq’s branch of Al Qaeda. 

Read more: Obama Could Be Biggest Winner

Prime Minister Gordon Brown has announced plans today to stop the issue of arrest warrants for foreign officials such as Tzipi Livni, Ehud Barak and other Israeli war criminals who were forced to cancel planned trips to London after arrest warrants were issued against them. Under Brown’s proposals, the Crown Prosecution Service will take over responsibility for prosecuting war crimes and other violations of international law. Currently magistrates have to consider the case for an arrest warrant to be issued.

Read more: Bowing to Jewish Pressure