PRAGOTI

On November 27 the Iraqi parliament voted by a large majority in favor of a security agreement with the US under which the 150,000 American troops in Iraq will withdraw from cities, towns and villages by June 30, 2009 and from all of Iraq by December 31, 2011. The Iraqi government will take over military responsibility for the Green Zone in Baghdad, the heart of American power in Iraq, in a few weeks time. Private security companies will lose their legal immunity. US military operations and the arrest of Iraqis will only be carried out with Iraqi consent. There will be no US military bases left behind when the last US troops leave in three years time and the US military is banned in the interim from carrying out attacks on other countries from Iraq. Writes Patrick Cockburn

 "...Our principles are the same as those of Baraguá. The empire should know that our Homeland can be turned to dust but the sovereign rights of the Cuban people are not negotiable."

Fidel Castro comments on Team Obama.

Pragoti supports the demand for the immediate release of the General Secretary of the Popular Front for The Liberation of Palestine - Ahmad Sa'adat, a political prisoner held by Israel. Pragoti urges readers to sign the petition demanding Sa'adat's release published by Fight Back News Service.

Paul Craig Roberts on US Imperialism and the Myth of Americans as an "Indispensable People"

On the Terms of the Powerful

The language of US propaganda is indeed a foreign tongue to anyone who takes seriously the factual historical record, the nature of powerful institutions, and fundamental human decency with respect for human rights.

Courtesy: Information Liberation

While there are hopes and expectations, the past track record of US imperialism renders all such hopes to remain as illusions.

Sitaram Yechury writes in the Indian Express.

During the United States election campaign, racists and pro-Israel hardliners tried to make an issue out of President-elect Barack Obama's middle name, Hussein. Such people might take comfort in another middle name, that of Obama's pick for White House Chief of Staff: Rahm Israel Emanuel.

Barack Obama says his victory is proof that America can change. But can Obama change America enough to make a difference to the world?

America will remain embattled and threatened and buffeted by economic crisis as long as the world on which it wants to shine a beacon remains a violent and unjust place.

Siddharth Varadarajan writes in his blog

Pragoti presents a collection of articles from anti-imperialist perspectives that examine the portents of the mandate for Barack Obama.