Here's the link to Ian Fletcher's brilliant piece on "free trade": The numbers don't lie. But Get Thic: Mitch 'Let Them Eat Shit' McConnell says he won't vote 'Yes' for the agreements if they contain any assistance for American workers who will inevitably lose their jobs as a result of this odious legislation.
www.marketoracle.co.uk/Article29309.html
And while you're at it, call Representative Earl Blumenaur 503-231-2300 and ask him
And the 'Petition of the Day': The US campaign to end Israeli Occupation is here:
endtheoccupation.org/article.php
Last Friday an estimated 2,000 Palestinians and Israelis marched together through the streets of Jerusalem in support of Palestinian efforts to gain UN membership and additional statehood recognition when the UN meets this fall. The United States is trying furiously to restart the morally bankrupt "peace process," which perpetually fails because our government acts as "Israel's lawyer," in the words of former negotiator Aaron David Miller.By dangling before Palestinians the prospect of renewed, biased, and interminable negotiations in exchange for dropping their UN membership bid, the United States is hoping to avert the embarrassment of vetoing Palestine's application in the Security Council and thereby once again exposing itself as the guarantor of Israeli military occupation and apartheid.
And this just in, from Saed Bannoura at the International Middle east Media Center:
Israeli sources reported that the Israeli Navy stopped, on Tuesday, the Dignity solidarity ship that was heading to deliver humanitarian supplies to the Gaza Strip, no clashes were reported.
- KBOO