Whatever the actual turnout, there is undoubtedly widespread alienation and dissatisfaction over the lack of basic democratic rights, skyrocketting inflation and high levels of unemployment. Ahmadinejad won the 2005 presidential election by making populist promises to help the poor and pledging to take a tough stance against the Bush administration’s menacing threats over Iran’s nuclear programs. He was able to capitalise on disaffection with his predecessor, the reformist Mohammed Khatami, who had failed to implement democratic reforms in the face of hard-line opposition and presided over declining living standards produced by his free market policies.--Peter Symonds
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The Virgins and the Grapes: the Christian Origins of the KoranFrom: worldproutassembly.org
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A German scholar of ancient languages takes a new look at the sacred book of Islam. He maintains that it was created by Syro-Aramaic speaking Christians, in order to evangelize the Arabs. And he translates it in a new way.--Sandro Magister ...
more Calamity ComesFrom: worldproutassembly.org
Post Date: 2008-03-05 12:17:18
I cannot find words to describe the role of the capitalists. Both the priests and the capitalists exploit society, but the priest exploiters are not as terrible as the capitalist exploiters. The capitalists are like a deadly parasite on the tree of society which tries to kill the tree by sucking dry all its vital sap. But if the tree dies, the parasite will also die. The capitalist parasites understand this and therefore try to ensure the survival of society by making some donations; they buil...
more Speculative Onslaught. Crisis of the World Financial System: The Financial Predators had a BallFrom: worldproutassembly.org
Post Date: 2008-03-05 12:07:40
As hundreds of thousands of Americans over the coming months find their monthly mortgage payments dramatically reset according to their Adjustable Rate Mortgage terms, another $690 billion in home mortgage debt will become prime candidates for default. That in turn will lead to a snowball effect in terms of job losses, credit card defaults and another wave of securitization crisis in the huge market for securitized credit card debt. The remarkable thing about this crisis is that so much of the ...
more A hundred dead gharials and the Gaia effectFrom: worldproutassembly.org
Post Date: 2008-03-05 12:03:57
Over 100 gharials mysteriously died in the Chambal river recently, possibly poisoned by toxins. This points to the fact that wildlife conservation will simply not survive if we concentrate only on a few islands called ‘protected’ areas, writes Ashish Kothari... In the case of the gharial, it will be crucial to look at the Chambal and the Yamuna as a whole, and at their catchments. If there are industries throwing their effluents into these rivers (or their tributaries), or farmers s...
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