Analysis: The implications of failure
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This just in. More news and analysis to follow, most likely.

–As was reported yesterday, the International Monetary Fund does not see a rapid conclusion to the finance capital crisis. We all end up paying for it (we not including those that seem to have brought it about).

–More on the liberal (in)action to the food crisis.

–Even liberal NGOs think that the Doha round is going to lead to more starvation.

–Rick Salutin writes about the call for more intel in the fight in Afghanistan. The Rand Corporation also released a new report to change the strategy from the “War on Terror” to “Counter-Terrorism”. Now, I am not sure if this is admitting that the “War on Terror” is the opposite of being against terror (that is the War on Terror is all for it), but it come damn close. The reality is that extremism tends to be a reaction to extremism (not necessarily in action, but certainly in support that leads to most acts) and the way to stop the cycle is to stop imperialism destroying people’s lives. It started as a question of economics, but lately it has turned into what could be mistaken as an ideological battle between two ideologies neither of which the people want.

–The latest attacks on Venezuela from the US government. Apparently, Venezuela has not been “fully cooperating” with the US. I have to say that is not something that the majority of the world would think is a problem.

–More infrastructure for Venezuela.

–While I caution readers about the promises of SEIU, we must continue to support the Justice for Janitors campaign. Janitors must build their unions in a democratic way.

–The second part of the interview The Real News has with Jim Stanford.

–One wonders what kind of justice can be found in a military court.

–This has been going on for months, even as the G8 are meeting, and yet nothing is done to help the people of Haiti. We must demand that the international community give money and resources to this government, not as loans but as grants, to pay for infrastructure and food. The State must step-in and feed its people, otherwise, what is the point of the State? Canada owes the country reparations for causing much of this suffering, as does the US and France.

After the end of World War I, most of the Ottoman Empire was carved up into “spheres of influence,” controlled mostly by the British and French. The remaining territories became the modern state of Turkey in 1923 — after a five-year struggle by Turkish nationalists against Western domination.

With little regard for cultural, historical, religious, and demographic considerations, the West sponsored the creation of several new nations: Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Palestine, Jordan and Saudi Arabia. Thus, a “tinderbox” was built from Western greed, igniting a multitude of wars, revolts, coups, and military occupations that truly have made the defeat of the Ottoman Empire little more than a hollow victory.

Years of corporate tax cuts have succeeded in making Canada one of the lowest tax countries for doing business, a new study says.

International accounting firm KPMG says its comparison of 10 countries found Canada with the third lowest business taxes, behind Mexico and the Netherlands, but ahead of its main trading partner, the U.S. [Read more...]

“The latest plan is to initially build 20 new homes at Maskiot which will be occupied by religious Jewish families who had previously withdrawn from Gaza.”

Israel’s religious-fundamentalists continue to be the driving force in the country’s politics.

–Yee writes about the current fight for women’s rights around health and the latest move by the Canadian Federation of Students to put a focus on abortion rights once again.

–They are in Canada as well.

–Cameron talks about the Cooperative Commonwealth Federation’s Regina Manifesto. The document is still relevant and should still be seen as the progressive past that the NDP should go back to.

–Amnesty (and a host of unions and others) calls for ensuring Indigenous Peoples’ rights be upheld in Ontario.

–It will only “Survive” because the referendum is non-binding, not because the people are supportive of the new reforms.

–A little snippet from the YouTube on Noam Chomsky talking about pornography. It is a classic economic analysis of exploitation — if you want to end the exploitation then end the economic system that does not provide alternatives.

–Too bad that when the monopoly agro companies do well we all seem to lose.

–The Independent of London takes a look at the Cameron Tories all this week it an attempt to highlight their policies (what little they have outlined). As Bevan said, if you haven’t got a programme, a bogeyman will do. Apparently, nowadays the NeoLabour Party is the bogeyman.