2011 September | American Pendulum

Report: Palestinian killed in West Bank clashes with Israeli forces

Posted by admin World Friday, September 23rd, 2011

Palestinians report 35-year-old man killed near Nablus by IDF fire; clashes erupt in East Jerusalem when masked youths hurl rocks at Israeli security forces.
By Anshel Pfeffer, Chaim Levinson and Reuters

Abbas submits Palestine statehood bid to UN

Posted by admin Top Stories Friday, September 23rd, 2011

Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas has handed over a historic request to UN chief Ban Ki-moon asking the United Nations to admit the state of Palestine as a full member. The Palestinian leader won huge applause and a standing ovation on Friday from some of the assembly as he entered the hall before beginning his speech.

S. Korea bank chief found dead in apparent suicide

Posted by admin World Friday, September 23rd, 2011

Jeong Gu-Haeng, president of Seoul’s Jeil 2 Savings Bank, appeared to have jumped from his office on the sixth floor of the bank’s Seoul headquarters, a police officer told AFP.

Expect new crashes unless occupywallstreet demands met

Posted by admin Featured Media Friday, September 23rd, 2011

Fears have increased over a second wave of worldwide economic recession, as Asian markets opened with a slump, after an arduous session on Wall Street. It’s the second straight day of bad trading, after Thursday’s global markets had their worst drop for a month. Max Kaiser, host of ‘The Keiser Report’, says banks are to blame…

Leading with Integrity: Ethics in Action and the Importance of the Whistleblowers Whose Loyalty Is To the Truth

Posted by admin National News/Opinion Friday, September 23rd, 2011

By Bunnatine Hayes Greenhouse – I was removed as the Procurement Executive after holding that position for eight years, not for impropriety but for being unwilling to continue the improper practices of clubby contracting, without compliance to the Law.

American Political Passivity, Anti-Authoritarianism, and Building a Base

Posted by admin Top Stories Friday, September 23rd, 2011

Bruce E. Levine-
Collective self-confidence simply means that a group believes that it can win, that it can succeed in overcoming oppression and exploitation.It was clear to me that these are two important building blocks that had been lost in America, and that we had to recover them in order to create democratic movements…Anti-authoritarianism is not only intellectually vital for democracy, it is emotionally vital for democratic movements as it creates enormous energy. That is why an authoritarian society tries to crush it.

Fobbit Humor

Posted by admin Top Stories Friday, September 23rd, 2011

For $63 billion, by Van Buren’s count, give or take a giant stack of bills or two, the “reconstruction” of Iraq in which he “served” amounted to a giant exercise in reckless insincere waste and futility. Van Buren may grasp that this fact stems from the status of civilian efforts in Iraq as a minor appendage to a military occupation. Yet, it’s not clear he wouldn’t “serve” in another war if you paid him enough.

Troika Tanks & Junta Bots

Posted by admin Top Stories Thursday, September 22nd, 2011

Max Keiser and co-host Stacy Herbert discuss Vince Cable’s “economic equivalent of war.” They also notice politicians talking tanks and scapegoats for Greece and Christine Lagarde, the “junta-bot”, meeting with other unelected officials. In the second half of the show, Max talks to Reggie Middleton.

Troy Davis and Our Pro-Life Government

Posted by admin National News/Opinion Thursday, September 22nd, 2011

David Swanson-Davis was again told he would be killed. He was again told that he might not be. He was again told that he would be killed. And finally, he was killed by chemical injection while strapped down to prevent writhing…Meanwhile, large numbers of people are killed in our wars, wars our President announced Wednesday morning are waged on behalf of peace. Where is Amnesty International?

FED Announces $400 Billion Stimulus Program

Posted by admin Top Stories Wednesday, September 21st, 2011

The Fed will sell short-term notes to buy longer-term securities in what is now being dubbed “Operation Twist”, a plan to sell short-term notes and buy long-term Treasuries. …Read full Fed Statement