www.youtube.com\/watch?v=eOSRQ-c1XW0<\/a><\/p>\n Interview of Prabhat Patnaik on Marxist Theory<\/strong><\/p>\n SR: What according to your view are the distinguishing features of Marxist theory vis-a vis other liberal schools of thought or critical theories? World-Wide Protests vs Zionists’ <\/strong>Attacks on their Concentration Camps\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n Poverty Pimp Snitch Al Sharpton Get Heckled In Ferguson, MO for showing up \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n www.youtube.com\/watch?v=EXRmsOfS-YU<\/a><\/p>\n \u201cReverend Sharpton, the term \u2018Snitches Get Stitches\u2019 was spray painted on the burned out QuikTrip. Since you are a federal snitch, sir, do you fear for your life?\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cAl Sharpton: \u201cI\u2019m not a snitch. (Not true) But today I want to tell the feds about a cop that needs to go to jail.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cAdam Sharp: \u201cAre you in fear for your life being a federal informant and\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cSharpton: \u201cI want to inform on this policeman today.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cSharp: \u201cAre you here to snitch on the rioters?\u2026 Are you here to work with your FBI partners?\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cSharpton: (no response)<\/p>\n \u201cSharp: \u201cAre you here to work with your FBI partners\u2026since you are a federal informant, sir?\u201d \u00a0http:\/\/newsninja2012.com\/poverty-pimp-snitch-al-sharpton-get-heckled-in-ferguson-mo-for-showing-up\/<\/p>\n Al Sharpton’s Secret Work As FBI Informant<\/strong> \u00a0When friends and family members gathered recently at the White House for a private celebration of Michelle Obama\u2019s 50th birthday, one of the invited partygoers was a former paid FBI Mafia informant.<\/p>\n That same man attended February\u2019s state dinner in honor of French President Francois Hollande. He was seated with his girlfriend at a table adjacent to President Barack Obama, who is likely unaware that, according to federal agents, his guest once interacted with members of four of New York City\u2019s five organized crime families. He even secretly taped some of those wiseguys using a briefcase that FBI technicians outfitted with a recording device.<\/p>\n The high-profile Obama supporter was also on the dais atop the U.S. Capitol steps last year when the president was sworn in \u00a0http:\/\/www.thesmokinggun.com\/documents\/investigation\/al-sharpton-764312<\/p>\n The rally was part of coordinated gatherings across the U.S. for a moment of silence at 7 p.m. to honor Brown and others whose lives were cut short because of discrimination. About 500 people turned out.<\/p>\n Historians vs the Wars Petition <\/strong>Historians’ Letter to President Obama and Members of Congress<\/p>\n In the face of the ongoing carnage in Gaza, members of Historians Against the War are circulating the letter below, with an initial list of signatories. We encourage you to sign it and to quickly forward this message to fellow historians. As our numbers grow, we will seek opportunities to publicize and to forward to relevant officials.<\/p>\n We deplore the ongoing attacks against civilians in Gaza and in Israel. We also recognize the disproportionate harm that the Israeli military, which the United States has armed and supported for decades, is inflicting on the population of Gaza.<\/p>\n We are profoundly disturbed that Israeli forces are killing and wounding so many Palestinian children. Desperate conditions in Gaza resulting from Israeli policies have made effective evacuation of war zones virtually impossible. We regard as unacceptable the failure of United States elected officials to hold Israel accountable for such acts.<\/p>\n As we watch the death toll mount and observe the terror of the trapped inhabitants in Gaza, we call upon you to demand a cease-fire, the immediate withdrawal of Israeli troops from Gaza, and a permanent end to the blockade so that its people can resume some semblance of normal life. We urge you to suspend US military aid to Israel, until there is assurance that this aid will no longer be used for the commission of war crimes.<\/p>\n As historians, we recognize this as a moment of acute moral crisis in which it is vitally important that United States policy towards the Israeli-Palestinian conflict change direction.<\/p>\n Please add your name to this letter. \u00a0http:\/\/historiansagainstwar.org\/gazapetition.html<\/p>\n CFP: International Conference on Race at Monmouth \u00a0<\/strong>Call for Proposals: Conference theme: The Criminalization of Race in History and Global Societies: Social Activism and Equal Justice This conference asks scholars from multiple disciplinary perspectives to explore race and criminal justice throughout history and across global societies with an emphasis on social activism and equal justice. \u00a0\u00a0https:\/\/networks.h-net.org\/node\/7753\/discussions\/37325\/cfp-international-conference-race-monmouth<\/p>\n Steven Salaita\u2019s Firing from UI Petition–More Than 275 Scholars Declare They Will Not Engage With University of Illinois \u00a0<\/strong>As members of history departments from around the world we are deeply concerned by the recent decision to prevent Steven Salaita from assuming his appointment to the Department of American Indian Studies at the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign. We believe that the university\u2019s revocation of an already accepted offer due to the tone and content of political statements on social media about recent events in Gaza is a violation of academic freedom and sets a very negative precedent for intellectual diversity in academia. Until such time as the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign decides to allow Dr. Salaita to take the position he was offered and accepted we refuse to participate in any events on its campus including academic conferences. Listed institutions are for identification purposes. The individual scholars signing this petition represent only their own personal views and not those of their employers. \u00a0If you are a historian and wish to sign it, please email Otto Pohl at jopohl@ug.edu.gh<\/a> or leave a comment on his blog post. (Soc and others see here\u00a0http:\/\/coreyrobin.com\/2014\/08\/13\/more-than-275-scholars-declare-they-will-not-engage-with-university-of-illinois\/)<\/p>\n The Little Red Schoolhouse<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n #1 Western Governor’s [sic] University Too Little not to Prosecute–Atlanta test cheating on trial (total accused 179) <\/strong>The trial of a dozen former Atlanta educators charged in one of the nation’s largest school test-cheating scandals began on Monday, a case receiving wide attention as similar cheating accusations blemish schools across the United States.<\/p>\n Lawyers say it could take several months to try the group of former teachers, principals and administrators, accused of conspiring to alter students’ standardized test scores after a state investigation uncovered cheating at 44 Atlanta public schools in 2009.<\/p>\n Investigators said the educators inflated test results to boost their bonuses in a data-driven environment.<\/p>\n The high-profile Atlanta case is one in a string of cheating cases affecting 39 states over the last five years, said Bob Schaeffer, education director at the National Center for Fair and Open Testing, known as FairTest, which seeks to end the misuse of standardized tests. \u00a0http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/2014\/08\/11\/us-usa-education-atlanta-idUSKBN0GB1EE20140811<\/p>\n Even Elite Education Creates Excellent Sheep\u00a0<\/strong>Are you a HYPSter? That\u2019s William Deresiewicz\u2019s term, in his new book, for Harvard, Yale, Princeton and Stanford, though it seems more idiomatic to apply that acronym to these schools\u2019 graduates. With HYPSters, and with the recent graduates of the tier of elite American colleges a rung or two below them, he is unimpressed.<\/p>\n Far too many are going into the same professions, notably finance or consulting. He detects a lack of curiosity, of interesting rebellion, of moral courage, of passionate weirdness. We\u2019ve spawned a generation of polite, striving, praise-addicted, grade-grubbing nonentities \u2014 a legion of, as his title puts it, \u201cExcellent Sheep.\u201d \u00a0http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2014\/08\/13\/books\/excellent-sheep-william-deresiewiczs-manifesto.html?smprod=nytcore-ipad&smid=nytcore-ipad-share&_r=0<\/p>\n In Detroit’s Failed capitalist schools, class size means Money \u00a0<\/strong>Many of us are shocked to learn that DPS plans to cut costs in the coming year by further increasing class sizes. Already at an unmanageable target of 38 per classroom in grades 6 through 12, Emergency Manager Jack Martin\u2019s fiscal year 2015 budget allows class sizes in those grades to expand to 43….<\/p>\n But the dramatic decline in funds for the classroom has not just come from upwardly creeping administrative costs. Classroom money has also been diverted to debt service. Whereas the elected board only needed to allocate 1.7 percent to meet its debt obligations, the fiscal 2015 budget raises spending on debt service to a new height of 7.8 percent.<\/p>\n This means that debt service payments have gone from costing just $212 per pupil in 2008 to $1,109 today.<\/p>\n Why was this five-fold increase in debt service necessary? There is a direct relationship between the legacy deficit the district carries and its annual debt service obligations. EM Robert Bobb, imposed by the state to address the district\u2019s financial emergency, actually presided over the ballooning of the legacy deficit to a record $327 million.<\/p>\n Faced with the task of managing this legacy deficit, Gov. Snyder\u2019s newly appointed EM in 2011, Roy Roberts, undertook measures that quickly lowered the legacy deficit \u2014 but mostly through acquiring new long-term debt, rather than through cost savings or increased enrollment.<\/p>\n This and other new borrowing, overlooked by most press accounts, coupled with enrollment decline, have directly contributed to the increased loss of classroom dollars to debt service. And new deficit spending since then \u2014 which has raised the legacy deficit back to $125 million \u2014 has only compounded the financial misery.<\/p>\n As Robert Bobb argued correctly throughout his tenure, finances and academics are intimately related. If the district continued to bleed students because of poor academics, he argued, the financial picture would continue to grow bleaker. \u00a0\u00a0https:\/\/www.evernote.com\/shard\/s185\/sh\/2db8ddb4-602d-4616-b059-038baedfddfc\/c743ac2bfe87ba42b6e00c2971e872e8<\/p>\n Her new role appears aimed at focusing on Johnson\u2019s future. Rhee has provided counsel to Johnson on political and policy issues since he first ran for office in 2008, including writing key speeches and vetting appointments to the mayor\u2019s staff. At the same time, Johnson has played an active role with StudentsFirst, helping to launch the organization and open its headquarters in downtown Sacramento. \u00a0Read more here: www.sacbee.com\/2014\/08\/13\/6626720\/michelle-rhee-stepping-down-as.html#storylink=cpy<\/a><\/p>\n The Top Ten Lowest Paying College Majors (ed grads, you’re not number one)\u00a0http:\/\/www.freep.com\/article\/20140813\/BUSINESS07\/308130159\/lowest-paying-college-majors<\/strong><\/p>\n Skyy Fisher: Compton School Official Who Made Controversial Trayvon Martin Comments Charged With Sexual Assault \u00a0<\/strong>Skyy Fisher, the controversial Compton Unified school board member who called slain teenager Trayvon Martin a \u201cfa**ot Black dude\u201d and school Superintendent Karen Frison a \u201cb**ch\u201d in 2012, was arrested and charged Thursday in connection with the sexual assault of an unconscious victim, reports the LA Times.<\/p>\n RELATED: School Board Member Will Not Be Fired For Calling Trayvon a \u201cF**got\u201d<\/p>\n Fisher was arrested by the Pacific Southwest Regional Fugitive Task Force at the Los Angeles World Trade Center after a warrant was issued for his arrest.<\/p>\n He was held on $100,000 bail and released Thursday.<\/p>\n As previously reported by NewsOne, Fisher\u2019s homophobic remarks about Martin and misogynist statement about Frison led to colleagues and some in the community to call for his resignation.<\/p>\n Fisher\u2019s comments, which start at minute 7:22 in the video below, include: \u00a0http:\/\/newsone.com\/3041198\/skyy-fisher-compton-school-board-arrested-sexual-assault\/<\/p>\n With most students gone for the summer, the campus of Peking University is relatively quiet in August, save for the busloads of awe-struck adolescents on organized tours who hope to be among the 2,600 freshmen admitted each year to the Harvard of China, as it is widely known here.<\/p>\n But beneath the tranquillity is a brewing tempest that is pitting the administration against many of the university\u2019s students and a number of professors over plans to establish a gleaming new school intended largely for foreigners, most of whom will be taught in English, not Mandarin.<\/p>\n In recent months, opponents of Yenching Academy, as it is known, have been waging a noisy campaign against the one-year, all-expense-paid graduate program in Chinese studies. Although roughly a third of the incoming class of 100 students will be Chinese nationals, the academy is being heavily marketed overseas, which appears to have intensified the outcry.<\/p>\n The academy, which seeks to produce \u201can elite class of future leaders,\u201d is planned to be built around a grassy quad that once served as imperial gardens, a place that many consider the historic and symbolic heart of China\u2019s first modern university, founded in 1898.<\/p>\n \u201cYenching Academy will provide its students and teachers a great number of privileges, something that\u2019s clearly unfair to other Peking University students,\u201d said Gao Fengfeng, dean of the English department, who has been one of the project\u2019s most adamant critics. \u00a0http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2014\/08\/11\/world\/asia\/an-academy-for-the-elite-stirs-a-culture-clash.html?_r=2<\/p>\n The International Hot War of the Rich on the Poor<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n The history of\u00a0U.S. \u201cHumanitarian\u201d Bombing of Iraq: A Redundant Presidential Ritual \u00a0https:\/\/firstlook.org\/theintercept\/2014\/08\/08\/us-bombing-iraq-redundant-presidential-ritual\/<\/strong><\/p>\n Shocker! More Boots on the Ground in Iraq \u00a0<\/strong>About 130 more American troops have arrived in Iraq to help with its humanitarian crisis in the north, but administration officials insist they\u2019re not there for combat and the American mission remains \u201climited.\u201d<\/p>\n Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel said the new detachment arrived Tuesday in the Kurdish capital of Erbil, where it will help develop options to rescue a large group of civilians besieged by the Sunni terrorists of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant. \u00a0Read more: www.politico.com\/story\/2014\/08\/chuck-hagel-military-assessors-arrive-in-erbil-109966.html#ixzz3AEP8RT89<\/a><\/p>\n Pentagon says U.S. airstrikes won\u2019t break Islamic State\u2019s ability to wage war \u00a0<\/strong>The United States\u2019 senior military officer in charge of operations said\u3000Monday that U.S. airstrikes in Iraq have not affected the overall military effectiveness of the Islamic State and aren\u2019t likely to, as long as protecting American lives and rescuing a trapped minority sect are the primary U.S. missions there.<\/p>\n Army Lt. Gen. William Mayville Jr., the director of operations for the Joint Staff, said the United States has mounted 17 U.S. airstrikes over four days. But he used words such as \u201ctemporary effect\u201d and \u201cslowed\u201d to describe the impact of those strikes.<\/p>\n \u201cThese strikes are unlikely to affect ISIL\u2019s overall capabilities or its operations in other areas of\u3000Iraq and Syria,\u201d Mayville said, using the government\u2019s preferred acronym for the Islamic State, which also is called the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant or the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria. \u201cIn the immediate areas where we have focused our strikes, we\u2019ve had a very temporary effect and we may have blunted some tactical decisions to move in those directions, further east to Irbil.\u201d Read more here: www.mcclatchydc.com\/2014\/08\/11\/236005\/pentagon-says-us-airstrikes-wont.html#emlnl=Morning_Newsletter#storylink=cpy<\/a><\/p>\n Republican critics and others have faulted Obama for doing too little to support Syrians who rose up against President Bashar al-Assad. Syria has been torn apart by a civil war for three years, with Assad staying in power and Islamic militants among the opposition gaining strength.<\/p>\n \u201cThe failure to help build up a credible fighting force of the people who were the originators of the protests against Assad \u2013 there were Islamists, there were secularists, there was everything in the middle \u2013 the failure to do that left a big vacuum, which the jihadists have now filled,\u201d Clinton said in an interview with The Atlantic.<\/p>\n Clinton was Obama\u2019s secretary of state during his first term as president, stepping down in early 2013, so she was part of the administration during the start of the Syria uprising. Seen as a possible strong contender for the 2016 Democratic presidential nomination, she ran unsuccessfully against Obama for the party\u2019s nomination in 2008.<\/p>\n Asked about Obama\u2019s slogan of \u201cDon\u2019t do stupid stuff\u201d to describe his foreign policy thinking, Clinton said: \u201cGreat nations need organizing principles, and \u2018Don\u2019t do stupid stuff\u2019 is not an organising principle.\u201d<\/p>\n In the interview, Clinton also offered strong support for Israel and for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who has a tense relationship with Obama. \u00a0http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2014\/aug\/10\/hillary-clinton-barack-obama-policy-syria-israel<\/p>\n NYT Discovers Ukraine\u2019s Neo-Nazis at Wa<\/strong>r \u00a0hroughout the Ukraine crisis, the U.S. State Department and mainstream media have downplayed the role of neo-Nazis in the U.S.-backed Kiev regime, an inconvenient truth that is surfacing again as right-wing storm troopers fly neo-Nazi banners as they attack in the east, Robert Parry reports.<\/p>\n The New York Times reported almost in passing on Sunday that the Ukrainian government\u2019s offensive against ethnic Russian rebels in the east has unleashed far-right paramilitary militias that have even raised a neo-Nazi banner over the conquered town of Marinka, just west of the rebel stronghold of Donetsk.<\/p>\n That might seem like a big story \u2013 a U.S.-backed military operation, which has inflicted thousands of mostly civilian casualties, is being spearheaded by neo-Nazis. But the consistent pattern of the mainstream U.S. news media has been \u2013 since the start of the Ukraine crisis \u2013 to white-out the role of Ukraine\u2019s brown-shirts. \u00a0http:\/\/consortiumnews.com\/2014\/08\/10\/nyt-discovers-ukraines-neo-nazis-at-war\/<\/p>\n
\nPP: To me what is central is Marx\u2019s discovery that capitalism constitutes a \u201cspontaneous\u201d system which is subject to immanent tendencies of its own independent of human will and consciousness. The system of course works through the actions of individual human beings, but these individuals lack authentic \u201cagency\u201d. They act in particular ways because if they did not do so, then they would lose their place within the system. Even the capitalists are engaged in a Darwinian struggle among themselves and are coerced into accumulating capital. Marx in fact referred to the capitalist as \u201ccapital personified\u201d underscoring the fact that even the capitalists lacked \u201cagency\u201d.
\nThe \u201cspontaneity\u201d of the system does not get negated by a change in the balance of class forces. What happens at the most in certain conjunctures is a shift in the point of origin from where it begins to operate. The immediate post-war period for instance was one such conjuncture in my view.
\nCapitalism in short is not just an anarchic system; it is not just an exploitative system; it is in addition a \u201cspontaneous\u201d system, where every participant is unfree and alienated. Human freedom therefore is impossible without transcending capitalism, not just in the sense that nobody can be genuinely free if someone else is unfree, i.e. if exploitation persists, but in the even stronger sense that everybody is unfree under capitalism, and hence nobody can be free without transcending the system.
\nThe quest for freedom is an essential characteristic of human beings. In this quest therefore there is no escape from Marxism.<\/em> This quest moreover acquires particular urgency in the contemporary epoch since capitalism rapidly commoditizes all aspects of life and brings mankind to an impossible historical denouement which again is an expression of its immanent tendency. The choice before mankind therefore is either to continue to suffer this denouement at incalculable cost to itself, or to break out of it by making use of Marx\u2019s discovery.<\/p>\n![\"prabhat](\"http:\/\/www.richgibson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/prabhat-patnaik.jpg\")
<\/a>SR: The working class is often mystified by the \u2018phantom of objectivity\u2019 and a large section of the middle class has become votaries of neo-liberalism. How do you envisage the future of the Left in India?
\nPP: Significant sections of the middle class in India have been beneficiaries of neo-liberalism. And precisely for this reason those of the middle class who have been excluded till now nurture illusions about it. With neo-liberalism in a crisis, I believe that it is a matter of time before middle class disenchantment turns into anti-neo-liberal radicalism, as it has done in Latin America.
\nThere is however a danger here. In several countries at this moment, such as Ukraine, Thailand, and Venezuela there are right-wing urban middle class movements which are out to destroy democratic institutions. Many of them, notably the one in Venezuela, are financed and supported by U.S. imperialism; some of them are openly led by fascists like in Ukraine; some like in Thailand are anti-peasant. And a lot of them use \u201ccorruption\u201d as the peg on which they hang heir right-wing ideologies. Neo-liberalism breeds \u201ccorruption\u201d; but \u201ccorruption\u201d itself is made an excuse for strengthening neo-liberalism and pushing the State in a fascist direction with support from the corporate-financial elite and U.S. imperialism.
\nSomething of this sort is happening in India as well.<\/p>\n![\"Israel](\"http:\/\/www.richgibson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Israel-Attacks-9-2014.png\")
<\/a>above, NYC<\/p>\n![\"Israel](\"http:\/\/www.richgibson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Israel-attacks-2.jpg\")
<\/a>above, Chicago—and many, many more here\u00a0http:\/\/mondoweiss.net\/2014\/07\/worldwide-protest-israeli.html<\/p>\n![\"sharptonwithobamavz1\"](\"http:\/\/www.richgibson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/sharptonwithobamavz1.jpg\")
<\/a>Hundreds rally downtown to honor Michael Brown, others<\/strong> \u00a0Hundreds of people gathered at Hart Plaza in downtown Detroit to pay tribute to Michael Brown, an unarmed teenager who was shot to death by police in Ferguson, Missouri.<\/p>\n![\"Detroit](\"http:\/\/www.richgibson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Detroit-Mike-Brown-Protest.jpg\")
<\/a>steve nearing photo<\/p>\n
\nFourth Biennial Interdisciplinary International Conference on Race
\nThursday, April 16 – Saturday, April 18, 2015
\nMonmouth University, West Long Branch, NJ<\/p>\n
\nThe criminalization of race, mass incarceration, and the emergence of the prison industrial complex have been significant occurrences in modern world history. The U.S. has incarcerated more people (primarily men of color) than any other society in history with a current prison population of 2.3 million. The increase in the prison population in places such as the U.S., Brazil, and China has made mass incarceration a global social crisis.<\/p>\n![\"littlered-rosa\"](\"http:\/\/www.richgibson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/littlered-rosa.jpg\")
<\/a>Susan Ohanian on Combat-Ready Kiddies <\/strong>The Mission: Readiness Military Leaders for Kids website features the National Council on Teacher Quality ranking of top teacher education institutions–with the admonition No service member can enter the battlefield without extensive training, and while schools are not combat zones, no teacher should enter the classroom without a great education.<\/p>\n
\n#2 Lipscomb University (Tennessee)
\n#3 Fort Hays State University
\n#4 College of William and Mary
\n#5 TIE: Furman University, Henderson State
\nUniversity and Miami University of Ohio (more here\u00a0http:\/\/susanohanian.org\/core.php?id=735)<\/p>\n![\"Atlanta](\"http:\/\/www.richgibson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Atlanta-cheater-BookingPhotos-300x228.gif\")
<\/a>above, Atlanta booking photos of alleged cheaters. Beverly Hall, Sptdt, (center) excused from trial: “illness.”\u00a0http:\/\/www.amren.com\/news\/2013\/04\/booking-photos-atlanta-superintendent-and-teachers-indicted-in-school-cheating-scandal\/<\/p>\n![\"Detroit](\"http:\/\/www.richgibson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Detroit-School-No-Homework.jpeg\")
<\/a>Detroit school with Rouger Bill Boyer and Blue Dog–writing says “No Homework–Ever”<\/p>\n![\"Rhee](\"http:\/\/www.richgibson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Rhee-obama.gif\")
<\/a>DC’s Corrupt former Boss Runs off From Students First to Hustle her Husband <\/strong>Michelle Rhee, the prominent and controversial education figure who is the wife of Mayor Kevin Johnson, revealed in a statement to The Sacramento Bee on Wednesday that she is stepping down from her post as chief executive of StudentsFirst, the national advocacy organization she founded in 2010.<\/p>\n![\"Mao](\"http:\/\/www.richgibson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Mao-Little-Red-Book.jpeg\")
<\/a>Big Fish Battle Little Fish in China’s Capitalist Schools–An Academy for the Elite Stirs a Culture Clash<\/strong><\/p>\n![\"Tortured](\"http:\/\/www.richgibson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Tortured-Folks.jpg\")
<\/a><\/p>\n![\"hillary_clinton\"](\"http:\/\/www.richgibson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/hillary_clinton.jpg\")
<\/a>HillBillary: “I am a much better fascist than Obamagogue” <\/strong>Distancing herself from President Barack Obama\u2019s foreign policy, potential 2016 presidential candidate Hillary Clinton said in an interview published on Sunday that the US decision not to intervene early in the Syrian civil war was a \u201cfailure\u201d.<\/p>\n
![\"Egypt](\"http:\/\/www.richgibson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Egypt-internet.jpg\")
<\/a>US Ally in Egypt: Mass Murderers (Human Rights Watch might point the scope to home) \u00a0<\/strong>Egyptian authorities refused to allow Human Rights Watch Executive Director Kenneth Roth and Middle East and North Africa Director Sarah Leah Whitson to enter Egypt on August 10, 2014. Roth and Whitson were to brief diplomats and journalists in Cairo on a 188-page Human Rights Watch report on the mass killings in Egypt in July and August 2013.<\/p>\n