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• InI 20:41 on August 31, 2010 Permalink | Reply
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  CounterCurrents Newsletter 31 August, 2010: Lawsuit Challenges Obama Administration’s Targeted Assassination Policy 

  31 August, 2010 — CounterCurrents

  Press Release
  http://www.countercurrents.org/pressrelease.htm

  Action Alert
  http://www.countercurrents.org/actionalert.htm

  Global Youth Unemployment Reaches Record Levels
  By Jordan Shilton

  The International Labour Organisation (ILO) has issued a report documenting the severe impact of the global economic crisis on employment prospects for the world’s youth. The report, “Global Employment Trends for Youth”, presents detailed statistics on the growing number of 15-to-24-year-olds who find themselves out of work
  http://www.countercurrents.org/shilton310810.htm

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• The Editor 10:41 on August 31, 2010 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: Afghanistan ( 107 ), Israel ( 1,983 ), US ( 878 )   

  Information Clearing House Newsletter 30 August, 2010: U.S. Government Prepares for ‘Crisis’ 

  30 August, 2010 — Information Clearing House

  Abbas is a Man in Exile, Even Among His Own
  By Omar Karmi
  Mahmoud Abbas, the Palestinian president, faces a crisis of credibility among his own people as he heads into direct talks with Israel in Washington this week.
  http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article26270.htm

  Hamas, the I.R.A. and Us
  By ALI ABUNIMAH
  The resumption of peace talks without any Israeli commitment to freeze settlements is another significant victory for the Israel lobby and the Israeli government. It allows Israel to pose as a willing peacemaker while carrying on with business as usual.
  http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article26269.htm

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• InI 10:38 on August 31, 2010 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: Iraq ( 493 ), Israel ( 1,983 ), Tony Blair ( 67 )   

  URUK Net Newsletter 29 August, 2010: Tony Blair – Israel’s shameless mouthpiece 

  29 August, 2010 — URUK Net

  The Morning Star : Disputing Iraq Body Count Figures.
  Felicity Arbuthnot
  August 29, 2010 – Your lead article (”The Deaths that Chilcot Forgot”, 28th August*) regarding the Iraq Body Count statistics on Iraqi deaths since the 2003 invasion, makes the point that “… the true figure is expected to be much higher.” The IBC figure of 106,000 deaths, are, in fact, risible. At the upper end of Iraq mortality, resultant from the US/UK-led onslaught, is the 2006 Lancet study citing 655,000 deaths (2003-2006.) The World Health Organisation estimated an upper figure of 223,000 (March 2003-June 2006) stating a real possibility of underestimate, due to “high levels of insecurity” making some areas inaccessible, added to many people moving around to escape conflict. “… in the absence of comprehensive death registration and hospital reporting, household surveys are the best we can do”, stated co-author Mohamed Ali, a WHO statistician.The death toll, never the less, they recorded, was: “massive.” The revised ORB figure (Jan 2008) states (March 2003- August 2007) “ is likely to have been of the order of 1,033,000.” Allowing for a margin of error, upper figure “could be 1,120,000.”…

  Read the full article / Leggi l’articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.de/?p=69280

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• InI 10:33 on August 31, 2010 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: CIA ( 242 ), Israel ( 1,983 ), Kerala ( 2 ), War ( 306 )   

  CounterCurrents Newsletter, 30 August, 2010: Another Bubble Is About To Burst 

  30 August, 2010 — CounterCurrents

  Press Release
  http://www.countercurrents.org/pressrelease.htm

  Action Alert
  http://www.countercurrents.org/actionalert.htm

  Another Bubble Is About To Burst
  By Martin Borgs

  This is the story of the greatest financial crisis we will ever see… The one that is on the way. Filmmaker Martin Borgs takes a provocative look at the events leading up the Global Financial Crisis and asks if the attempts to avoid a ruinous collapse of banks and other major finance houses may set the world on the path to an even bigger meltdown
  http://www.countercurrents.org/borgs300810.htm

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• InI 10:27 on August 31, 2010 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: Israel ( 1,983 )   

  VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 30 August, 2010: McCarthy in Israel 

  30 August, 2010 — VTJP

  News

  International Middle East Media Center

  East Jerusalem neighborhood attacked by Israeli soldiers; at least 4 detained
  IMEMC – 31 Aug 2010 – Monday August 30, 2010 – 17:35, The Silwan neighborhood, which has been the site of an Israeli municipal plan to rid the neighborhood of its Palestinian residents, came under fire once again on Monday when Israeli forces invaded to abduct Palestinians that they claim took part in clashes with settlers last Thursday.

  Israeli forces invade Rafah; clashes reported
  IMEMC – 31 Aug 2010 – Monday August 30, 2010 – 17:09, Late Sunday night, Israeli tanks, bulldozers and armored vehicles invaded the southern Gaza Strip, east of Rafah, and began bulldozing land in the An-Nahda neighborhood.

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• InI 10:17 on August 31, 2010 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: Climate Capitalism ( 3 ), Crisis ( 71 ), land ( 17 )   

  New at Climate and Capitalism 31 August, 2010: What next for ecosocialists? / Marxism and the environmental crisis / Agrofuel land grabs are undermining African farming 

  31 August, 2010 — Climate & Capitalism

  • What next for ecosocialists?
  • John Molyneux on Marxism and the environmental crisis
  • How agrofuel land grabs are undermining African farming

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• InI 09:56 on August 31, 2010 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: Direct Action ( 3 ), Fort Hood ( 9 )   

  Military Resistance 8H24 31 August, 2010: Clinched Fists 

  31 August, 2010 — Military Project

  Military Resistance 8H24.pdf

  

  “The Most Amazing Thing Was Troops In Buses Raising Clinched Fists As Buses Drove By The Protest. Solidarity!”
  Activists Stood On The U.S. Route 190 Overpass And Hung Banners That Read “Tell The Brass: ‘Kiss My Ass.’ Your Family Needs You More.” “Sick Of Fighting Your Wars”
  “They Gathered At Fort Hood In Killeen To Be A Part Of A Direct Action Against The Redeployment Of The First Group Of Soldiers”

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• InI 07:32 on August 31, 2010 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: CIA ( 242 ), Israel ( 1,983 )   

  URUK Net 30 August, 2010: Veterans’ group: CIA blocking lawsuit over experiments on troops 

  30 August, 2010 — URUK Net

  Reconstruct or Deconstruct Pakistan?
  Irshad Salim
  August 30, 2010 – NEW YORK: Former CIA agent Duane Clarridge, who was indicted in 1991 in connection with the Iran-Contra affair, has reemerged in Pakistan. Clarridge is now running one of many Pentagon-funded private contractors operating in Pakistan to provide intelligence to the US military. Only this time the feisty former intelligence officer, who left the agency more than 20 years ago, is back in the saddle as a private citizen in the ongoing covert war to “reconstruct or deconstruct” Pakistan. Pick your choice depending on which side of the philosophical plain of the so-called “war on terror” you are saddled on…

  Read the full article / Leggi l’articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.de/?p=69327

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• InI 19:14 on August 30, 2010 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: AP ( 10 )   

  Military Resistance 8H23 30 August, 2010: Deadline 

  30 August, 2010 — Military Project

  Please Keep The Message Alive

  MilitaryResistance8H23.pdf

  U.S. soldier, Beijia village, Iraq Feb. 4, 2008.  (AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo)

  ONLY 3 DAYS LEFT: HELP RESPECTFULLY REQUESTED NOW:
  The Military Resistance Summer Fund Raising Raffle

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• InI 15:55 on August 30, 2010 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: London ( 105 )   

  'CANTOS' based on Dante's Inferno (Trailer) 

  30 August, 2010

  
  
  ‘CANTOS’ based on Dante’s Inferno (Trailer), posted with vodpod

  “CANTOS started out as a call to SE London filmmakers to collaborate on a project called ‘INFERNO’ initially to travel & later on be Vj’d by Scanner and musician Laurie Anderson, with a narration by Colin Redgrave. This is one of several that we made on no-budget using a P170 with brilliant lighting cameraman Miguel Amortegui along with executive producer Christy Symington, ARBS and producer/director Tontxi Vazquez. Much came about in only one room and a couple of exterior locations around Deptford,London; home to Christopher Marlowe, Pepy’s, Sir Walter Raleigh, and the original Cross Bones of St. Nicholas Church mixed with allegorical references to love, loss and chiaroscuro feelings of low light and Dante’s voyage with Virgil. This is one of the tomes that is less abstract than the others in this continuous work still in progress. It also inspired “Elysian Kaffe” a UK foreign language -London based feature script by Tontxi Vazquez currently in pre-production w/ Dop Miguel Amortegui attached. With overtones to Inception, Altered States, L’Innocente, Anti-Christ and the writings during the Inquisition.

  All Rights Reserved to the Music & Recording Company”

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• InI 15:18 on August 30, 2010 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: NHS ( 8 ), privatization ( 19 )   

  More back-door privatization of the National Health Service proposed 

  30 August, 2010 — williambowles.info

  NHS Direct, perhaps the only effective addition to the Health Service the Labour government contributed, is to be axed under new proposals being put forward by the Tory/Lib-Dem government in spite of all the pre-election promises to ‘ring-fence’ the NHS.

  NHS Direct saves the NHS £213 million a year by directing patients to the correct treatment, but now the service is to be ‘outsourced’ to private and non-nursing staff, allegedly to make the service more ‘accessible’ and ‘simpler to use’.

  But if it ain’t broke, why fix it? In the grand tradition of what passes for British politics, once again the Tories pick up where Labour left off, who picked up where the Tories left off…and so it goes…

  10,000 people have already signed a petition calling on the government to halt the privatization deal. Add your name at:

  http://www.gopetition.com/petitions/save-nhs-direct.html

  Apparently, Cameron promised a Commons debate on issues if he gets more than 100,000 signatures. We’ll see.

  The unions involved are taking to the streets on 23 October.

  See the full story in the Morning Star.

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• InI 10:24 on August 30, 2010 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: credit card ( 4 ), Danny Schechter ( 24 ), MEDIA ( 82 ), Wall Street ( 111 )   

  Media Complicity in Financial Crimes By Danny Schechter 

  30 August, 2010 — News Dissector

  Q: Why are media outlets doing such a bad job covering Wall Street?

  A: Could it be, because they are owned by Wall Street?

  When you connect the dots in your writing or look for deeper explanations behind the decisions of policymakers, market makers and media-makers, it’s easy to be dismissed as a conspiracy nut.

  But forgive me for believing that those who serve interests have more clout than those that just speak out on issues. There are hidden relationships that sometimes predetermine what stories get media attention and which do not.

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• InI 08:44 on August 30, 2010 Permalink | Reply  

  Statewatch News Online, 30 August 2010 (15/10): Statewatch Special: DRAFT EU-US AGREEMENT ON THE EXCHANGE OF PERSONAL INFORMATION 

  30 August, 2010

  Home page: http://www.statewatch.org/
  Statewatch European Documentation Centre (SEMDOC): http://www.statewatch.org/semdoc/
  Sitemap: http://www.statewatch.org/sitemap.htm

  1.   Statewatch Special: DRAFT EU-US AGREEMENT ON THE EXCHANGE OF PERSONAL INFORMATION
  2.   EU: Statewatch Briefing: ID Cards in the EU: Current state of play
  3.   G8 SUMMIT: Muskoka, Canada, 26 June 2010: G-8 Leaders Statement on Countering Terrorism
  4.   EU: FRANCE-ROMA POLICY
  5.   UK: More than 200 public sector staff caught snooping on citizen records
  6.   EU: Council: Report to COSI: The Joint Report Internal Security in the EU
  7.   UK: Factsheet and FAQ on Expulsion of homeless EEA Nationals
  8.   EU-USA: Agreement on Mutual Legal Assistance comes into force
  9.   EU: Article 29 Working Party on data protection: Opinion on RFID Applications
  10. Countering Terror or Counter-Productive? Comparing Irish and British Muslim Experiences
  11. EU: SCHENGEN EVALUATION
  12. UK: Understanding surveillance statistics by Tony Bunyan
  13. EU: Council of the European Union: FRONTEX POWERS: Update
  14. UK-IOM: Home Office funding of International Organisation for Migration (IOM)

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• The Editor 08:41 on August 30, 2010 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: Afghanistan ( 107 ), America ( 94 ), Asia ( 25 ), Central Asia ( 8 ), Information Clearing House ( 93 )   

  Information Clearing House 29 August, 2010: Weekend Update – America’s Corruption Racket in Central Asia 

  29 August, 2010 — Information Clearing House

  America’s Corruption Racket in Central Asia
  By Scott Horton
  This is the third time this summer that the United States has been slammed with credible charges of corrupting foreign governments in Central Asia.
  http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article26266.htm

  Afghanistan
  PowerPoints ‘R’ Us
  By Lawrence Sellin, Ph.D., is a colonel in the U.S. Army Reserve
  I have been assigned as a staff officer to a headquarters in Afghanistan for about two months. During that time, I have not done anything productive. Fortunately little of substance is really done here, but that is a task we do well.
  http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article26263.htm

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• InI 08:36 on August 30, 2010 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: India ( 156 ), Pakistan ( 285 ), Pirates ( 4 )   

  CounterCurrents Newsletter 29 August, 2010: ClimateStoryTellers.org Launched 

  29 August, 2010 — CounterCurrents

  Press Release
  http://www.countercurrents.org/pressrelease.htm

  Action Alert
  http://www.countercurrents.org/actionalert.htm

  ClimateStoryTellers.org Launched
  By Subhankar Banerjee

  ClimateStoryTellers.org, a gathering place for stories on all things global warming has just been launched. We have wonderful activist groups like 350.org and others, we have great sites like Grist, ENN, and others for environmental news and opinions, no one place dedicated to climate stories. The objective is not to present just a story as a short news or opinion, but “in-depth”, which means all stories will have a central focus perhaps a local issue, but it’ll also explore the issues connection to regional, national and global relevance
  http://www.countercurrents.org/banerjee290810.htm

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• InI 08:32 on August 30, 2010 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: Afghanistan ( 107 ), Iraq ( 493 ), Pakistan ( 285 ), US ( 878 ), Yemen ( 134 )   

  URUK Net Newsletter 28 August, 2010: Pakistan flood: US rains down death as villagers starve 

  28 August, 2010 — URUK Net

  Obama to escalate slaughter in Yemen
  Bill Van Auken
  August 28, 2010 – With the opening of a new front in Yemen for the CIA’s drone “targeted killing” program, the Obama administration is steadily escalating the role played by both the covert agency and secretive US military Special Operations forces as a global Murder Incorporated. “The White House, in an effort to turn up the heat against Al Qaida’s branch in Yemen, is considering adding the CIA’s armed Predator drones to the fight,” reported the Associated Press on Thursday, citing senior Washington officials. “The US military’s Special Operation Forces and the CIA have been positioning surveillance equipment, drones and personnel in Yemen, Djibouti, Kenya and Ethiopia” in preparation for the stepped-up killing spree, the Wall Street Journal reported Wednesday…

  Read the full article / Leggi l’articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.de/?p=69252

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• InI 08:29 on August 30, 2010 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: NATO ( 873 ), Petraeus ( 8 )   

  URUK Net Newsletter 27 August, 2010: Why Gen. Petraeus’ Assassination Inc. Threatens Us All 

  27 August, 2010 — URUK Net

  Lies About Iraq are the Focus of U.S. Strategy
  Rekondo Txente, Rebelión
  August 27, 2010 -…The desperate search of the occupants for a picture of victory, a picture that from the beginning of the occupation resists them, makes them present “another” reality of Iraq, in line with the script designed from Washington. Nevertheless, Iraq shows another reality. After three wars, thirteen years after the criminal embargo with the bombing of the U.S. and Britain and the last seven years of foreign occupation, we find a failed state, unable to provide the people with necessary services and run by a political lobby that uses the umbrella of so-called “security” to hide all their miseries and shortcomings. And if the recent occupation has been the final push that has put Iraq on the brink of the abyss, we should not forget that the previous steps (embargo and seizures) have been keys to destroying the country. Well beyond the current situation, genocide against the Iraqi people is the direct result of implementing these strategies…

  Read the full article / Leggi l’articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.de/?p=69248

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• InI 08:25 on August 30, 2010 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: London ( 105 )   

  Housmans Radical Books, London – Events Newsletter September 2010 

  28 August, 2010 — Housmans

  NEWS
  1. Peace Diary 2011
  2. Volunteer and Internship Opportunities

  EVENTS
  3. ‘Violent London’ with Clive Bloom
  4. ‘Roughler’s London’ with Ray Roughler-Jones
  5. ‘Walking the Siege of Sidney Street’ with Clive Bloom
  6. ‘Resisting the cuts – past and present’ with Janine Booth and Jon Rogers
  7. Future Events

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• InI 08:21 on August 30, 2010 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: Hurricane Katrina ( 4 ), land ( 17 ), New Orleans ( 21 ), US ( 878 )   

  CounterCurrents Newsletter, 28 August, 2010: New Work Centers And High-Tech Self-Providing 

  28 August, 2010 — CounterCurrents

  Press Release
  http://www.countercurrents.org/pressrelease.htm

  Action Alert
  http://www.countercurrents.org/actionalert.htm

  Checkpoint:A Video Documentary
  By Yoav Shamir
  Israeli filmmaker Yoav Shamir once served his army reserve duty as a checkpoint guard, which was what inspired him to make this documentary, Checkpoint. For 80 minutes, Shamir simply shows us videotape of what happens at the various checkpoints that the Israeli government operates, which are in place to regulate the travel of Palestinians, purportedly in an effort to combat terrorism
  http://www.countercurrents.org/shamir280810.htm

  Another 500,000 Flee Indus Breaches Taliban Threaten Aid Workers; Global Warming Implicated
  By Juan Cole
  The raging, swollen Indus River abruptly breached an embankment in the Thatta district in Sindh, Pakistan, on Wednesday evening, unexpectedly sending flood waters toward the town of Thatta and several others in the district. Panicked residents tried to flee in the thousands
  http://www.countercurrents.org/cole280810.htm

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• InI 08:18 on August 30, 2010 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: Israel ( 1,983 )   

  VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 29 August, 2010: Rabbi Yusef Wishes Death To The Palestinians 

  29 August, 2010 — VTJP

  News

  International Middle East Media Center

  Israeli universities condemn ‘witch hunt’ by right-wing groups
  IMEMC – 29 Aug 2010 – Sunday August 29, 2010 – 16:09, In a joint statement released by Israel’s largest and most prominent universities, the academic leadership challenged a foreign-funded campaign to undermine academic freedom in the name of Zionism, led by radical Israeli rightists and Christian fundamentalists.

  Two Palestinian workers wounded by Israeli gunfire in Gaza
  IMEMC – 29 Aug 2010 – Sunday August 29, 2010 – 14:15, According to local sources, a group of men who were gathering rubble to make cement in northern Gaza on Saturday were fired upon by Israeli forces at the Gaza-Israel border, injuring two.

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