Here's yet another incredible story. I listened carefully, but I still don't get the motive. I'd like to see a few dozen subpoenas issued so that the American People and the Mexican People can get to the bottom of this idiocy.
Wadah Khanfar, who is the Director of Al Jazeera, believes that young people of the Middle East have brought a new reality to the region. Much of what they accomplished was done because they had the willingness to step out of their houses and raise their voices. And now, thanks to millions of simple yet brave acts, millions of people will be freed from corrupt dictatorships and allowed to dream of a peaceful and tolerant future. What role did Al Jazeera play in these revolutions? As he describes at 16:30, the protesters begged Al Jazeera to keep the cameras running, or else there would be genocide. Al Jazeera protected the protesters by telling their stories around the clock.
I saw this video late last night and then couldn't fall asleep for two hours. I lay awake in bed wondering what has happened to the America I thought I knew. Glenn Greenwald adds the commentary here. Waving an American flag is the furthest thing from my mind now that our formerly inclusive and honorable national symbol has been so thoroughly adopted by so many warmongers, and increasingly by abject bigots. I've personally heard several hideous broadbrush slams against Muslims over the past year, several times by people who (I thought) knew better. I'm afraid that it's getting much worse over the past year and the venom is aimed indiscriminately against all Muslims. Maybe someday the American flag will again widely symbolize unity and respect for individual rights.
Daily Show host John Stewart eviscerates those asking teachers and other unions to make sacrifices in the name of cutting the budget deficit, especially when those same people (literally!) did not ask the same from Wall Street bankers following the trillions of dollars of bailouts and easy money:
Indonesia invaded East Timor in 1975, after which followed decades of brutal repression and violence directed at the Timorese people. Hundreds of thousands of Timorese have died as a result of the conflict, whether killed outright or as a result of disease and hunger. In one incident alone, known as the Dili Massacre, hundreds of people agitating for independence for East Timor were massacred as Indonesian soldiers opened fire. There was no intervention by the United States, and in fact, we continued to sell weapons and train the Indonesian military. There are no known oil reserves credited to East Timor, according to the Energy Information Administration (EIA). Whatever resources do exist are mired in competing claims with Australia.