Nigel Parry
10 October 2009

From: Hans Bennett/Mumia NYC — Remember to check out Pam Africa tomorrow (Monday) from 8-9AM at WWW.900AMWURD.COM

We have been saying that there is a strong possibility that the US Supreme Court will reinstate the Death Penalty for Mumia.  This while the leading candidate running to replace Lynne Abraham as Attorney General is calling for Mumia’s execution and a new hit piece film by Tigre Hill “The Barrel of a Gun” is scheduled to be released around December 9th, the 28th anniversary of Mumia’s arrest and the beginning of the subsequent conspiracy to have him executed.  Now this article.  Please pay close attention and stay tuned for our messages.

— Suzanne Ross, for the Free Mumia Abu-Jamal Coalition

This is most alarming news:

Shannon P. Duffy: Ohio Death Penalty Case Might Determine Abu-Jamal’s Fate

Reflections from Comrade Fidel
9 October 2009

The Empire has ruled the world through economy and deceit rather than force. At the end of WWII, it had attained the privilege of minting the convertible hard currency, the monopoly over the nuclear weapon and the possession of most of the gold in the world while it was the only large-scale producer of manufactured equipment, consumer goods, food and services worldwide. However, there was a limit to the printing of paper money: the gold standard at a regular price of 35 dollars a troy ounce. This was the situation for over 25 years, until August 15, 1971, when an executive order issued by President Richard Nixon led the United States to unilaterally call off that international arrangement thus defrauding the world. I’ll never tire out of repeating it. That was how it threw on the world economy its military buildup and war adventure expenses, especially the Vietnam War, which according to conservative estimates cost no less than 200 billion dollars and the lives of over 45 thousand American youths.

More bombs were dropped on that small Third World nation than were used in the latest world war. Millions of people were killed or maimed. The suspension of the gold standard turned the US dollar into a hard currency that could be printed at will by the US government without the backing of a regular value.

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Rev Jeremiah Wright (introduced by Robert McChesney) at Monthly Review’s 60th Anniversary from Monthly Review on Vimeo.

Americas Program Coverage of the Coup in Honduras

Honduras De Facto Regime Opens Fire in Poor Neighborhoods

Youth and union members targeted by coup violence

In this Special Report, Tegucigalpa reporter Dick Emanuelsson and photographer Mirian Huezo Emanuelsson chronicle the terror and repression unleashed by the coup to maintain power. Despite promises to lift the executive decree that imposed a state of siege, the violence continues. These are firsthand accounts from the victims of the strategy of force being employed by the coup. All were wounded by security forces since the return of Zelaya on Sept. 21. This strategy has only intensified, despite talk of an official dialogue, largely frustrated during the recent visit of the Organization of American States (OAS). Even as the OAS ministers and other dignitaries were meeting on Oct. 7 in Tegucigalpa to promote dialogue, the coup and armed forces again attacked peaceful demonstrators in the streets.

[Read the report]