Vijay Prashad comments on the reactions to the Fort Hood massacre in the US, where more than a dozen people were shot dead by a US military man.
"Looking back at state repression of Black people and their movements in the USA"
An article by Siddharthya Roy.
Only two members of the Congressional Black Caucus mustered the courage to oppose a House Resolution in support of Israel's savage assault on Gaza, last week. An additional seven CBC members sought cover by voting "present." The remaining 30 Black lawmakers (the delegates from Washington, DC and the Virgin Islands cannot vote on the House floor) gave their assent to a statement that could have been written by the Israeli government - and probably was,writes Glen Ford.
The Blagojevich scandal is a reality check, a reminder of how widespread corruption has become in the United States,writes Vijay Prashad.
Philip Agee ,a former CIA covert operations officer,who now lives in Havana,writes about how United States imports subversion and civic unrest to overthrow Governments hostile to it.
Current developments in the three-way equations involving the United States, Pakistan and India highlight that for the foreseeable future, they would need to factor in a “sleeping partner” — Afghanistan. India, in particular, needs to be cognisant of this strange coupling. Retired Indian Foreign Service official MK Bhadrakumar writes in The Hindu.
Nearly 30 years after President Jimmy Carter signed the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW), the United States remains the only democracy that refuses to ratify the most significant treaty guaranteeing gender equality. One hundred eighty-five countries, including over 90 percent of members of the United Nations, have ratified CEDAW.
Paul Craig Roberts on US Imperialism and the Myth of Americans as an "Indispensable People"
The U.S. auto giants are an example of how things work in the age of unbridled corporate power. Of how the collapse of restraint on that power fractures economy and society. P.Sainath writes in The Hindu.
Eminent Marxist Aijaz Ahmad, in The Hindu ;writes on President-elect of the United States, Barack Obama -Will he be forced to scrap the trajectory he has been following and re-make himself into a latter-day FDR, as many are hoping?