The Face of War (Don’t Look!), 1 in 5 homeless people are veterans, Canada’s Evangelical Christian Problem & more

• The Face of War (Don’t Look!): “You’d think that people always seeking “lessons” from war would draw one from our latest wonder weapon, which fights our wars for us without an American in sight.  I’m talking, of course, about the drone aircraft that have, in recent years, become a signature form of American war-making.  They represent truly advanced technology, with ever newer generations of them in production and on the drawing boards, ones that might some distant day be able to fight actual Terminator wars more or less on their own.”

• Seattle Demands President Obama Stop Repression of Anti-War Activists

• How Can The Unions Be The Reason Why Jobs Are Being Outsourced When They Make Up Such A Small Percentage of the Work Force?: “In 1995, American union membership had declined from its peak of 35% of the work force in 1955 to 18%. Fifteen years later, it has further declined to 12%, of which only 6% are in the private sector.”

• American Corporation Taking Stand For Human Rights in NOT allowing it’s products to be used as Tools of Destruction: “The Israeli press is reporting that Caterpillar is withholding the delivery of tens of D9 bulldozers-valued at $50 million-to the Israeli military.These are weaponized bulldozers that are used to illegally destroy homes and orchards of Palestinian families. And they are the very same bulldozers as the one that killed a 23-year-old American Citizen Rachel Corrie seven years ago when she tried to protect the home of the Nasrallah family in Gaza.”

• 2010 midterms, and Twelfth Amendment, could decide 2012 presidential race – literally

• Washington’s Wars and Occupations: U.S. Shadow Wars: Surveillance,  Subpoenas & State Secrets: “Shadow wars assault life, liberty and privacy under a fog of state deception.  Like the shape-shifting U.S. military, they do their dirty work in many ways. Take just this month: The FBI raids peace activists’ homes and offices. Government agents infiltrate mosques.  CIA drones kill civilians in Pakistan and patrol the U.S.-Mexico border. A torture victim is denied his day in court because truthful testimony would “threaten national security”.

• To homeless veterans, retiring Dallas VA psychiatrist is a hero: “For Dr. Joel Feiner, homeless veterans are “not details” as some politicians say, they’re human beings. Over the years, as many as 200 homeless veterans visited Dr. Joel Feiner’s cluttered office at the Dallas Veterans Affairs Medical Center -They came from cardboard boxes under bridges and from shelters. They suffered from severe depression, bipolar disorder, post-traumatic stress disorder and addictions. One in five homeless people is a veteran, according to a count by the Metro Dallas Homeless Alliance.” (RELATED: Republicans Object To Bill For Homeless Veterans http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/06/29/republicans-object-to-bil_n_629332.html)

• BOOK REVIEW: ‘Marx at the Margins’ (2010) by Kevin Anderson: “Marx was increasingly interested in understanding the ways in which movements of opposition to colonialism might make a direct contribution to the renewal of revolutionary movements in the capitalist metropolises and the ways in which the workers’ movements might advance the cause of freedom from national oppression.”

• Coroner will hear evidence about the death of a man shortly after he was Tasered 28 times by police last year

• Fraudulent Voting Re-emerges as a Partisan Issue: “In 2006, conservative activists repeatedly claimed that the problem of people casting fraudulent votes was so widespread that it was corrupting the political process and possibly costing their candidates victories. The accusations turned out to be largely false, but they led to a heated debate, with voting rights groups claiming that the accusations were crippling voter registration drives and reducing turnout. That debate is flaring anew. Tea Party members have started challenging voter registration applications and have announced plans to question individual voters at the polls whom they suspect of being ineligible.”

• Evangelical Christians, Zionist Jews and the Harper government: “In what is supposed to be a secular democracy, with a clear separation of church and state, one has to wonder how a Canadian evangelical Christian leader named Charles McVety has come to have such influence with the Harper government.”

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