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This evening's music features blues guitarist and longtime sideman of John Lee Hooker (1949-1962), Eddie Kirkland. Enjoy!
Eddie Kirkland & Wentus Blues Band live - Rainbow
It’s not pessimistic, brother, because this is the blues. We are blues people. The blues aren’t pessimistic. We’re prisoners of hope but we tell the truth and the truth is dark. That’s different.
-- Cornel West
News and Opinion
“I Can’t Breathe”: NYC March over Chokehold Death of Eric Garner Protests Police Violence Nationwide
“How Can You All Fix This?” Painful Questions in Ferguson After Another Police Shooting
As the night’s protests winded down, [Capt. Ron] Johnson found himself fielding questions from protesters rather than the press. Among them was 32-year-old, Anthony Pruit, an African American man from nearby Jennings, Missouri. Standing in the intersection of W Florissant and Ferguson Avenue, Pruit asked Johnson, who is also African American, why he thought he had been placed in charge of operations carried out by predominantly white officers.
“Because the governor chose to make a change,” Johnson said, referring to Nixon’s decision last week to put the State Highway Patrol in charge, a move that temporarily deescalated the tension between protesters and police. ... At that point Pruit, the demonstrator, broke down in tears. “We broken, sir. We broken,” he said. “We can’t trust them. We have no faith in them.” In a pained voice, Pruit brought up the killing of Kajieme Powell, a 25-year-old black man shot on Tuesday by St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department. “That’s how we think, that’s what we live with,” he said. “We hurt. We broken. And we ain’t all criminals.”
Referring to the white officers surrounding Johnson, Pruit added, “I can’t have a conversation with him. He won’t give me the time of day without pulling out his firearm on me first.”
“How can you all fix this?” Pruit asked, with tears rolling down his cheeks. “Because when this camera go, when you go, when you back on your highway, we still out here.”
Confronted with a sentiment that runs wide and cuts deep among residents of Ferguson and its surrounding communities, Johnson responded, “I understand.”
“It may take a while but we can fix broken,” the captain said. “I’ve seen broken, and I know it’s broken, and I’ve said it’s broken, and we gotta fix it. We’ve got to fix it.”
Talib Kweli & Rosa Clemente in Ferguson, "Ground Zero" for Police Brutality Struggle
Hat tip
bobswern:
Darren Wilson’s first job was on a troubled police force disbanded by authorities
FERGUSON, Mo. — The small city of Jennings, Mo., had a police department so troubled, and with so much tension between white officers and black residents, that the city council finally decided to disband it. Everyone in the Jennings police department was fired. New officers were brought in to create a credible department from scratch.
That was three years ago. One of the officers who worked in that department, and lost his job along with everyone else, was a young man named Darren Wilson.
Some of the Jennings officers reapplied for their jobs, but Wilson got a job in the police department in the nearby city of Ferguson.
On Aug. 9, Wilson, who is white, killed unarmed black teenager Michael Brown after Brown and a friend had been walking down the middle of a street.
All 4 eyewitness accounts of the MURDER of Mike Brown in Ferguson, Missouri
Michael Brown's father appeals for calm as Ferguson prepares for funeral
Thousands of mourners are expected at the funeral on Monday of Michael Brown, the African American teenager whose death at the hands of a white police officer set off days of confrontation on the streets of Ferguson, Missouri.
Brown’s father, also Michael, appealed at a peace rally on Sunday for a suspension of protests to show proper respect to his son during the burial at a St Louis baptist church.
“All I want is peace while my son is being laid to rest,” he said. “Can you please, please, take a day of silence so we can lay our son to rest? Please. It’s all I ask.”
The violent nightly showdowns between protesters demanding the arrest of the police officer, Darren Wilson, who shot the unarmed 18-year-old six times, have given way to more organised and orderly demonstrations. But anger over the racially-charged killing remains intense. ...
St Louis has divided over Brown’s killing, with many in Ferguson, where he was shot, remaining highly sceptical that the authorities are intent on pursuing justice.
"I Can't Breathe"
Chris Hedges: How the Brutalized Become Brutal
The horrific pictures of the beheading of American reporter James Foley, the images of executions of alleged collaborators in Gaza and the bullet-ridden bodies left behind in Iraq by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant are the end of a story, not the beginning. They are the result of years, at times decades, of the random violence, brutal repression and collective humiliation the United States has inflicted on others.
Our terror is delivered to the wretched of the earth with industrial weapons. It is, to us, invisible. We do not stand over the decapitated and eviscerated bodies left behind on city and village streets by our missiles, drones and fighter jets. We do not listen to the wails and shrieks of parents embracing the shattered bodies of their children. We do not see the survivors of air attacks bury their mothers, fathers, brothers and sisters. We are not conscious of the long night of collective humiliation, repression and powerlessness that characterizes existence in Israel’s occupied territories, Iraq and Afghanistan. We do not see the boiling anger that war and injustice turn into a caldron of hate over time. We are not aware of the very natural lust for revenge against those who carry out or symbolize this oppression. We see only the final pyrotechnics of terror, the shocking moment when the rage erupts into an inchoate fury and the murder of innocents. And, willfully ignorant, we do not understand our own complicity. We self-righteously condemn the killers as subhuman savages who deserve more of the violence that created them. This is a recipe for endless terror.
The enemies on the modern battlefield seem elusive because death is usually delivered by industrial weapons such as aerial drones or fighter jets that are impersonal, or by insurgent forces that leave behind roadside bombs or booby traps or carry out hit-and-run ambushes. This elusiveness is the curse of modern warfare. The inability of Sunni fighters in Iraq to strike back at jets and drones has resulted in their striking a captured journalist and Shiite and Kurdish civilians. ...
Our failure to understand the psychological mechanisms involved means that the brutality we inflict, and that is inflicted upon us, will continue in a deadly and self-defeating cycle in the Middle East as well as within poor urban areas of the United States. To break this cycle we have to examine ourselves and halt the indiscriminant violence that sustains our occupations. But examining ourselves instead of choosing the easy route of nationalist self-exaltation is hard and painful. These killings will stop only when we accept that the killers who should terrify us most are ourselves.
Blowback: Vijay Prashad on How Islamic State Grew Out of U.S Invasion of Iraq, Destruction of Nation
Iraq: Bombs and Bullets vs. Political Process
A series of bombings and shootings left some 35 dead in Iraq on Saturday, following on a massacre of 68 worshipers Friday at a Sunni Mosque in mixed Diyala Province. This violence was strategic, not random. One side effect was a severe setback in the attempt of Haidar al-Abadi, the prime minister designate, to form a government of national unit that includes Shiites, Kurds and Sunni Arabs. ...
The IS tactic of car bombings of soft targets is and for many years is intended to foment civil war, since they focus on Shiite populations. Their hope is that they can convince hot-headed Shiite tribes and militias to strike back at Sunnis, thus helping mobilize Sunnis for IS in its fight against the Shiite-dominated government. Stalinists used to call this technique “sharpening the contradictions,” i.e., if class struggle were not happening they thought that sometimes you had to help it along with sabotage.
On Friday IS hit the jackpot, when a Shiite militia machine-gunned down 68 worshipers at the Mus`ab b. Umayr mosque in Diyala Province. ... The action sent a frisson of fear through the Sunni Arab community, afraid that it is being caught up in a war between extremist Shiites and the Salafi extremists of IS. Major Sunni Arab politicians that had been in talks with al-Abadi about forming a new government abruptly pulled out. ... The deaths and subsequent recriminations and their impact on parliamentary politics signal how hard it will be for al-Abadi to put the country back together.
ISIS expands: 6k new recruits, scores of captured jets, armored vehicles
Israel Leveling Gaza Apartment Blocks, Other Large Buildings
Having apparently run low on UN schools and power plants to hit in the Gaza Strip, the Israeli military is turning its sights on what few large buildings remain to be destroyed in the tiny enclave.
That means a refocus to targeting major apartment blocks and office complex, leveling huge residential and commercial sites. At least four have been razed to the ground in 24 hours.
Israeli military retracts claim that fatal mortar bomb was fired from UN school
The Israeli military has been forced to retract a statement claiming that the mortar shell that killed a four-year-old Israeli boy on Friday was fired from or near a United Nations school in Gaza.
After the death of Daniel Tragerman outside his home in a kibbutz near the Israel-Gaza border, a spokesman for the Israel Defence Forces (IDF) said the mortar was fired from or near a school run by UNRWA, the UN agency for Palestinian refugees, which was being used to shelter Palestinians who have fled their homes because of bombing and destruction. ...
UNRWA has become embroiled in the Israel-Hamas conflict after at least six of its schools being used as shelters were hit by Israeli air strikes or shelling, and Hamas arms caches were found at three disused schools.
In a statement UNRWA said it "deplores the killing of all children during this conflict, including the killing of the four-year-old Israeli child … and the hundreds of Palestinian children killed since the start of the current fighting. We call on all parties to ensure protection and care of children affected by armed conflict, in accordance with their obligations under international law."
Israeli Bombing Intensifies in Gaza as Does Push for ICC 'War Crimes' Inquiry
The push to engage the International Criminal Court in an investigation into possible war crimes by Israel for it military attacks on the civilian population of the Gaza Strip is gaining steam among Palestinian political factions as well as members of the international legal community.
On Friday, an international coalition of legal advocacy organizations wrote to the ICC's chief prosecutor, Fatou Bensouda, urging her to initiate an investigation into serious crimes committed by Israeli forces during it ongoing military operation against Palestinians living in Gaza, dubbed Operation Protective Edge.
And on Saturday—as Israeli airstrikes and bombing appeared to intensify once again—Hamas made it known that it will now support an effort by the Palestinian Authority to formally join the ICC.
The legal organizations which sent the letter on Friday—including the National Lawyers Guild (NLG), the Center for Constitutional Rights, the International Association of Democratic Lawyers, the Arab Lawyers Union, and the American Association of Jurists—argue that “Israel’s clearly disproportionate use of force against the 1.8 million residents of Gaza appears to have little to do with any claim of security, but seems to be calculated to exact revenge against Palestinian civilians." The groups also believe that the U.S. government and others that may have given military support or assistance to Israel throughout the operation should also be considered legitimate targets of the inquiry.
The Dahiya Doctrine: Evidence of Israel's Intentional Mass Slaughter in Gaza
Most of us probably have never heard of what Israeli generals call the Dahiya doctrine. I only know it because WikiLeaks exposed it in the cable, a United States State Department cable from 2008, that summarized an Israeli general's statement on approved war plans, the plans that were used in Lebanon in 2006 in the Israeli war against Lebanon and are to be used in the future. Dahiya, which is the name of the doctrine, refers to a civilian neighborhood of Beirut that was leveled, utterly destroyed by Israel in the Second Lebanon War in 2006. In Israel's war planning, the Dahiya doctrine refers to Israel's intentional and massive killing of civilians and destruction of civilian villages, the intentional disproportionate use of force constituting collective punishment of a population. Dahiya plan leaves no doubt, none, that it involves the knowing and intentional commission in carrying out of war crimes. The killing of civilians and destroying civilian infrastructure, whether in Lebanon then or Gaza today, is no mistake. It's on purpose, a purpose that is flagrantly illegal under the Geneva Conventions. Israeli soldiers, Israeli leaders, and Israeli generals could be tried for the crimes that the Germans were tried for in Nuremberg, for carrying out the intentional killing of civilians, destruction of civilian infrastructure. ...
The purpose, of course, of what Israel is doing is to try and end resistance to the occupation. You can see by the fact they've had to go to war every few years against the people of Gaza and other occupied territories that the resistance will not stop. What they're doing makes the resistance even stronger. But perhaps the hopes of Israel are to make Gaza uninhabitable over the years to drive the Gazans out.
Bankrupt Ukraine Announces $3 Billion Increase in Military Spending
Citing what he called the “constant military threat” the nation feels from Russia, Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko announced a $3 billion increase in Ukraine’s military spending today.
Where Ukraine is going to come up with an extra $3 billion is totally unclear, as the nation is constantly on the brink of bankruptcy, and just had to get a multi-billion dollar bailout to avoid a default.
Ukraine troops battled Russian armoured column, claims Kiev
Ukraine's government has said its forces have clashed with an armoured column that crossed the border from Russia as Moscow ramped up tensions ahead of crunch talks by pledging to send in a new aid convoy.
The Ukrainian president, Petro Poroshenko, and his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, are under pressure to defuse the crisis when they meet for the first time in months alongside top EU officials in Minsk on Tuesday.
A Ukrainian military spokesman told AFP border guards were battling "several dozen" armoured vehicles that crossed the border and headed in the direction of the government-held city of Mariupol.
The Russian foreign minister, Sergei Lavrov, dismissed the report as disinformation by Ukrainian and western media, telling a Moscow news conference: "I haven't heard about it, but there has been more than enough disinformation about our invasion. No doubt some foreign newspaper will print that 'news' tomorrow."
If confirmed, the incursion could represent a dangerous push into territory in the Donetsk region under Ukrainian control after a brutal offensive by Kiev had led to government forces pinning back insurgents.
Israeli stealth drone downed at nuclear facility, Iran claims
Iran's Revolutionary Guards claimed on Sunday that an Israeli stealth drone had been brought down above the Natanz uranium enrichment site in the centre of the country.
The semi-official Fars news agency reported that Iran's elite forces had intercepted and brought down an unmanned aircraft belonging to "the Zionist regime". The news was announced in a statement published by the guards, but it was not clear when the incident, if true, happened.
"This mischievous act once again reveals the adventurist nature of the Zionist regime [of Israel] and added another black page to this fake and warmongering regime's file which is full of crimes," said the Revolutionary Guards' statement.
The state news agency ISNA reported that the aircraft was "of the stealth, radar-evasive type and it intended to penetrate the off-limits nuclear area in Natanz … but was targeted by a ground-to-air missile before it managed to enter the area."
A spokesman for the Revolutionary Guards later told Iranian television that parts of the aircraft had been retrieved.
France thrown into political turmoil after government dissolved
France has entered uncharted political waters after the prime minister, Manuel Valls, presented his government's resignation amid a political crisis triggered by his maverick economy minister who called for an end to austerity policies imposed by Germany.
The prime minister, a social democrat who has been compared to Tony Blair, acted with characteristic swiftness in a bid to reassert his authority. His aides had let it be known on Sunday that the economy minister, Arnaud Montebourg, had crossed a "yellow line" for his dual crime of criticising both the president of France and a valued ally.
Montebourg, 51, fired his first broadside in an interview with Le Monde on Saturday and followed up with a speech to a Socialist party rally the following day. In a veiled reference to President François Hollande, he said that conformism was an enemy and "my enemy is governing". "France is a free country which shouldn't be aligning itself with the obsessions of the German right," he said, urging a "just and sane resistance".
He was joined in his criticism by the education minister Benoit Hamon, who on Monday denied that he had been disloyal. A third minister, Aurélie Filipetti, also appeared in danger of losing her job after wishing a "good day" on Twitter to her two dissident colleagues.
Hollande, who is politically weakened with his approval rating at an all-time low of 17%, asked Valls to form a new government "consistent with the direction set for the country", which is expected to be announced on Tuesday. Valls has pledged to stick to a course in which deficits would be cut while the tax burden on businesses would be eased, bringing him into conflict with the left wing of the party represented by Montebourg. The changes have not yet been carried out, unemployment is at nearly 11% and growth in 2014 is forecast to be only 0.5%.
Homeowner help? Not from the states
The Justice Department’s $16.65bn settlement with Bank of America is the largest sum any individual company has agreed to pay to settle allegations of any kind by the federal government. ...
Homeowners, however, may be pardoned for not joining in the rejoicing. For many of them, the billions of dollars now being tossed around are simply impossibly large numbers – too big and far too late in the game to make a real difference in their lives.
To each of the thousands, or even millions, of households devastated by the subprime lending crisis, smaller sums, steered their way far more promptly, might have been of much greater value. They might have been much more helpful for the broader economy as well. ...
Billions of dollars of fines have finally begun flowing out of bank coffers and into those of state and government agencies or – crucially – been set aside to benefit consumers.
But there’s a block in the funnel of money: neither states nor the banks have rushed to put money into the hands of homeowners. ...
Arizona spent about half of its $98m share to balance its state budget, as tracked by the National Conference of State Legislatures. Texas spent nearly the entire $135m amount it received on non-housing activities, while Nebraska put aside its $8m allotment into its rainy day fund for any purpose at all. The states weren’t required to use the money for housing help, but the contrast with Colorado – where $22m out of $26m went to emergency mortgage assistance – was telling.
Microsoft Admits Keeping $92 Billion Offshore to Avoid Paying $29 Billion in U.S. Taxes
Microsoft Corp. is currently sitting on almost $29.6 billion it would owe in U.S. taxes if it repatriated the $92.9 billion of earnings it is keeping offshore, according to disclosures in the company’s most recent annual filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The amount of money that Microsoft is keeping offshore represents a significant spike from prior years, and the levies the company would owe amount to almost the entire two-year operating budget of the company’s home state of Washington.
The company says it has "not provided deferred U.S. income taxes" because it says the earnings were generated from its "non-U.S. subsidiaries” and then "reinvested outside the U.S.” Tax experts, however, say that details of the filing suggest the company is using tax shelters to dodge the taxes it owes as a company domiciled in the United States.
This is a great interview by Tom Frank of Cornel West regarding the Obama presidency, it's worth clicking the link to read the whole thing:
Cornel West: “He posed as a progressive and turned out to be counterfeit. We ended up with a Wall Street presidency, a drone presidency”
Tom Frank: [H]ow do you feel things have worked out since then, both with the economy and with this president? That was a huge turning point, that moment in 2008, and my own feeling is that we didn’t turn.
Cornel West: No, the thing is he posed as a progressive and turned out to be counterfeit. We ended up with a Wall Street presidency, a drone presidency, a national security presidency. The torturers go free. The Wall Street executives go free. The war crimes in the Middle East, especially now in Gaza, the war criminals go free. And yet, you know, he acted as if he was both a progressive and as if he was concerned about the issues of serious injustice and inequality and it turned out that he’s just another neoliberal centrist with a smile and with a nice rhetorical flair. And that’s a very sad moment in the history of the nation because we are—we’re an empire in decline. Our culture is in increasing decay. Our school systems are in deep trouble. Our political system is dysfunctional. Our leaders are more and more bought off with legalized bribery and normalized corruption in Congress and too much of our civil life. You would think that we needed somebody—a Lincoln-like figure who could revive some democratic spirit and democratic possibility. ...
Tom Frank: What on earth ails the man? Why can’t he fight the Republicans? Why does he need to seek a grand bargain?
Cornel West: I think Obama, his modus operandi going all the way back to when he was head of the [Harvard] Law Review, first editor of the Law Review and didn’t have a piece in the Law Review. He was chosen because he always occupied the middle ground. He doesn’t realize that a great leader, a statesperson, doesn’t just occupy middle ground. They occupy higher ground or the moral ground or even sometimes the holy ground. But the middle ground is not the place to go if you’re going to show courage and vision. And I think that’s his modus operandi. He always moves to the middle ground. It turned out that historically, this was not a moment for a middle-ground politician. We needed a high-ground statesperson and it’s clear now he’s not the one.
And so what did he do? Every time you’re headed toward middle ground what do you do? You go straight to the establishment and reassure them that you’re not too radical, and try to convince them that you are very much one of them so you end up with a John Brennan, architect of torture [as CIA Director]. Torturers go free but they’re real patriots so we can let them go free. The rule of law doesn’t mean anything.
Cornel West on Missouri: "Obama reeks of political calculation not moral conviction" - Newsnight
The Evening Greens
Global warming slowdown answer lies in depths of Atlantic, study finds
The key to the slowdown in global warming in recent years could lie in the depths of the Atlantic and Southern Oceans where excess heat is being stored – not the Pacific Ocean as has previously been suggested, according to new research.
But the finding suggests that a naturally occurring ocean cycle burying the heat will flip in around 15 years’ time, causing global temperature rises to accelerate again.
The slowdown of average surface temperature rises in the last 15 years after decades of rapid warming has been seized on by climate change sceptics and has puzzled scientists, who have hypothesised that everything from volcanic eruptions and sulphur from Chinese power stations to heat being trapped deep in the oceans could be the cause. Several studies have focused on the Pacific as potentially playing a major role.
The new study, published in the journal Science on Thursday, concludes that the Pacific alone cannot explain the warming “hiatus” and that much of the heat being trapped by greenhouse gases at record levels in the atmosphere is being sunk hundreds of metres down in the Atlantic and Southern Oceans. ...
A shift in the salinity of the north Atlantic triggered the effect around the turn of the century, the study says, as surface water there became saltier and more dense, sinking and taking surface heat down to depths of more than 300 metres.
In Defiant Action, Pipeline Protesters Lock Themselves to Trucks
Demanding a halt to pipeline corporation Enbridge's continued expansion of Line 6B—which ruptured in 2010, spilling over one million gallons of tar sands oil and diluting chemicals into a tributary of the Kalamazoo River—two activists Monday morning locked themselves to a pipeline construction truck leaving Precision Pipeline storage yard in Oxford, Michigan. The action caused a back-up of trucks leaving the facility.
Twenty-year-old Duncan Tarr and 22-year-old Dylan Ochala-Gorka, both Michigan residents and organizers with the Michigan Coalition Against Tar Sands (MICATS), used bike locks to secure themselves to the truck around 7:30 am. They were extracted by law enforcement officials using bolt cutters and rescue tools around 9 am. Both have been taken into custody at the Oakland County Jail. ...
The action comes one month after the four-year anniversary of the Kalamazoo spill. Approximately $1 billion has been spent to clean up that disaster, but experts say 20 percent of the diluted bitumen remains at the bottom of the river. But Enbridge says its clean up work is nearly finished.
Protecting the Amazon Includes Defending Indigenous Rights
Elevated Rates of Thyroid Cancer Found in Fukushima Youth
The number of Fukushima youth diagnosed with definitive or suspected thyroid gland cancer now reaches 104, according to a Japanese newspaper's analysis of government data.
There were 300,000 total youth in the Fukushima prefecture who were aged 18 or younger at the time of the 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster. Of the 104 children whose government-administered thyroid gland tests showed positive results, 57 have been diagnosed with a definitive case of the disease, which is frequently linked to radiation exposure, Asahi Shimbun reported Sunday.
Government officials deny any link between the diagnoses and the nuclear accident. However, when compared with thyroid cancer rates at nearby prefectures, the Fukushima average of more than 30 people per population of 100,000 ranks "much higher." For example, the development rate of thyroid cancer among late teens in the Miyagi Prefecture is only 1.7 people per 100,000.
Blog Posts of Interest
Here are diaries and selected blog posts of interest on DailyKos and other blogs.
What's Happenin' Is On Hiatus
Ray McGovern: Russia’s Humanitarian ‘Invasion’
GMOs, Monsanto, and the Galileo Syndrome
‘Free Riders’ Undermine Climate Treaty Hopes
Some Numbers for the 'Entitlement' Bashers
Next two links, Hat tip don midwest:
The whale that swallowed New Zealand's election campaign
Dirty politics: New Zealand's own House of Cards is collapsing
A Little Night Music
Eddie Kirkland & Wentus Blues Band & Sven Z - Pick Up The Pieces
Eddie Kirkland - Train Done Gone
Little Eddie Kirkland w/John Lee Hooker - It's Time for lovin' to be done
Eddie Kirkland - I love you
Eddie Kirkland - Good, Good Day
Eddie Kirkland & His Houserockers - I Must've Have Done Something Wrong
Eddie Kirkland - Democrat Blues
Eddie Kirkland - Have Mercy On Me
Eddie Kirkland - Chill Me Baby
Eddie Kirk - The Hawg
Eddie Kirk - Hog killin time
Eddie Kirk - Monkey Tonight/Let me walk with you
Eddie Kirkland - No Shoes
Eddie Kirkland - All I've Got To Offer
Eddie Kirkland - Write My Baby A Letter
Eddie Kirkland - Love Don't Love Nobody
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