"Well, ahem," muses the UN Third Committee Member from the US, "of course, if we support the 'right to food,' we can't very well support Israel's 'right' to starve the citizens of Gaza to the point of eating grass or any of a number of similar 'unfortunate situations' ... and we don't want to appear hypocritical ... rather a delicate situation we have here ... ahem ... Let's just state we're not signing it based on a technicality in the wording based on lack of 'enforcement' power. Yes, yes, that's it. Of course, the other 180 nations don't have any issue with that technicality, but at least we'll have something to say we objected to so we won't have to just admit we don't really believe that all people have a right to food. Yes, I think that will work..."
by Michael Parenti
December 7, 2008
GlobalResearch.com
Author's website: www.michaelparenti.org.
Barack Obama is on record as advocating a military escalation in Afghanistan. Before sinking any deeper into that quagmire, we might do well to learn something about recent...
By Jeremy Scahill
November 20, 2008
http://www.alternet.org/story/107666/
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U.S. policy is not about one individual, and no matter how much faith people place in President-elect Barack Obama, the policies...
by Mickey Huff, Associate Director of Project Censored
Project Censored, the media research group at Sonoma State University (SSU), has just released it's annual report on the top stories that didn't make the...
Recently I published two articles pointing to suggestive similarities between the recurring deep events in recent American history -- those events which, because of their intelligence aspects, are ignored, misrepresented, or covered up in...
