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problem. “Nobody on either side is talking about the military budget” or
“serious taxation of billionaires; in fact, both sides are talking about
cutting corporate taxes,” said David Swanson, publisher of the influential
website War Is a Crime. “You don’t really have opposition between these
two parties, you have agreement,” he said.
Arne Duncan Must Go
Black and progressive educators should push for Secretary of
Education Arne Duncan to be replaced early in Obama’s second term, said
Dr. Sam Anderson, of New York City’s Independent Commission on
Public Education. The concept of education as a “human right is
historically rooted in our struggle to be free in this country, as Black
people,” said Anderson.
Bill Clinton Most to Blame for Congo “Holocaust”
Millions of Congolese have died since 1996 due to policies set in
motion by President Bill Clinton, said Prof. Yaa Lengi, of the Congo
Coalition. Neighboring Uganda and Rwanda “are always coming up with
schemes to foment chaos in eastern Congo” in order to exploit the region’s
mineral resources. “Cell phones, lap tops, flat screen TVs – all those
gadgets need the minerals of the Congo,” said coalition organizer William
Misezuel.
More Bad News for Congo: Oil
“Of late there’s been a major oil discovery in Congo, which makes it
even more attractive” to outsiders, said Dr. Gerald Horne, professor of
history and African American Studies at the University of Houston. “The
United States needs to put more pressure on the Rwandan and Ugandan
regimes,” since Washington “is the puppeteer” of the relationship. Dr.
Horne spoke on Regent Radio’s Saturday Morning Show, in Toronto,
Canada.
UN Fails Haiti on Rights
A report by the Paris-based Federation of Human Rights charges the
United Nations with failing to take responsibility for causing the cholera
epidemic in Haiti, and with inflicting other human rights violations on the
occupied nation. In addition to spreading cholera, UN troops have
“violated Haitians’ rights in various ways, from rapes to extrajudicial