It will take you more than quoting verses from the Quran to change Muslims’ views on the US

I invite you to read an excellent analysis written by Comarade Dalal about Obama's speach in Cairo on the 4th of January. Comrade Dalal goes through Obama's words and rhetoric in a very critical manner, thus undressing it from it's fancy liberating dress. Great work Comarade!

To read the article click on this!

The Counter NATO Summit-->The Mobilization begins!

The NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization) will celebrate its 60th anniversary in Strasbourg (France) from the 1st to the 5th of April. Many Presidents will be present, amongst them will be Sarkozy and Obama...Well it doesn't seem that they will have a pleasent party! at least we should not let them!

Today I participated in a meeting called upon by the Collectif-Sud in Tolbiac university in Paris, its purpose is to mobilize people in order to go to Strasbourg and protest against the celebration of a disastor brought to humanity, and to organize a counter NATO summit in order to voice their vision of an alternative world. It was the first meeting that was held in the Parisian universities, the organizers were students and placed this event in the context of the anti LRU movement going on in France. They insert the movement in an overarching vision of society, an alternative to the neo-liberal way that Sarkozy advances, they claim their movement as a real society project which englobes the anti-war slogans, hence the protestation against the NATO summit.

The NATO is a military alliance created initially to face the Soviet bloc in Eastern Europe during the cold war. After the end of the cold war, the NATO countries refused to dissolve the organization and continued to be the mecanism by which the USA and its occidental allies impose their hegemony on the world and wage wars (Kosov

o and Afghanistan), and menacing many countries like Russia through the employment of a missile system near its European borders. A military organization cannot claim preserving peace! And the NATO cannot continue to exist by creating a ficitionnal enemy like terrorism, Iran or Russia, because the possibility of war exists only because the NATO country are profesizing it! The NATO has been only a danger to peace, and a threat to human lives and democracy. Moreover when a country joins the organization, it is supposed to be at a certain military and technological level, hence the Eastern European countries had to pay billions of dollars in order to be up to the level while social inequalities are staggering, and economic difficulties are hardly being handled. Many militants from around Europe are expected to march to Strasbourg, and many demonstrations are expected to take place around the world in order to protest against NATO, t

he occupation of Iraq and Afghanistan. The French and European authorities are expected to take extreme security measures which migh be the following: more than 15000 security men are to be deployed, the closing of the Schengen area, the creation of at least two security zones in the city, the closing of schools and the market, in short there will be no space for a democratic protest unless it is 10km away from the NATO meeting!

Facing those fierce security measures there will be an international peace conference held by the militants in Strasbourg, an alternative village will be co

nstructed, and an international demonstration on the 4th of April.

Each individual is concerned! wherever you are organize collectives to demonstrate and protest in you countries against this imperialist organization! If you were in Europe then come to Strasbourg to show those war-presidents a nightmare!

The world is facing a dangerous financial and economic crisis, millions are going to be unemployed: while social budgets are shrinking, military and defence budgets are constantly rising! While people are starving and being impoverished, governments are spending tons of money to buy arms and missiles to use them on defenseless population and to commit mass murders!

Join the movement in Strasbourg and elsewhere in the world to sabbotage the NATO warlords summit and show the world that an alternative is possible!

In order to be informed about the mobilizations and how can you participate and go to Strasbourg: 

http://www.non-otan-strasbourg.eu/

http://www.appelotanafghanistan.org/

http://www.no-to-nato.org/

http://www.block-nato.org/index_en.htm 

U.S. Military to immigrants: Be part of the oppression to be a part of the dream!

Be part of the American oppression, and we will let you be part of the American dream! This is the message conveyed by the U.S. Military to all those immigrants who seek the U.S. nationality. The army will start recruiting skilled immigrants with a temporary visa, offering them citizenship within 6 months starting from the beginning of their service.
Once again, like in Vietnam and after September 11 the U.S. military-political establishment is taking advantage of the vulnerabilities of immigrants who leave their countries looking for a better future. This future absent from their own countries because of the international economic system imposed upon them by our modern time imperialism led by the U.S. and the industrialized countries in general. Even if we want to disregard this staggering fact, the measure still is perverse and twisted!
The simple fact of bribing these immigrants into entering an oppressive establishment as the military is by itself condemnable. The practice is not new, but it has taken a modern shape by recruiting only high skilled immigrants to be medics, translators or in the intelligence. This list may be extended in the future to recruit fighting soldiers, what is stopping them?
Moreover, this new measure stipulates that if the immigrant do not complete there service "honorably" (whatever that means) could loose their citizenship! which is a form of blackmailing adding to the perversion of this old-new army practice.
Finally, the veterans and the army will make sure that the allegiance of the immigrants will be stronger to the army than to the home country. One wonders how could that be verified?what methods will be employed? One thing could come to mind, the army will make sure to dissuade by all means (and why not terror and intimidation)the recruited immigrants into being more aligned with them than there original country. This might be done in order to prevent the infiltration of "spies and terrorists" into the army, as the veterans fear! Which reveals a discriminating mind of the establishment who sees every immigrant as a potential threat!
The U.S. government is taking advantage of the immigrants to push them into an oppressing establishment as the army under the pretext of integration and living the American dream! We could wonder whether these immigrants could have integrated the alleged dream through other means or through other places and positions in the society and public or private sectors?
Instead of recruiting immigrants into the army because of a shortage in skilled labor in order to operate in foreign countries, maybe the U.S. government should stop its imperialistic practices of waging wars, oppressing and invading other countries!