The latest on Dandelion Salad Global Research RSS Feed26 August, 2010 — The Real News Network
Doug Henwood: As the far right calls for austerity, no one is thinking about a new economic model.
AUSTERITY IN THE FACE OF WEAKNESS, posted with vodpod
Bio
Doug Henwood is the founder and editor of the Left Business Review; a contributing editor to the U.S. weekly The Nation; and author of several books, including Wall Street and After the New Economy.
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26 August, 2010 — Creative-i
25 August, 2010 – Military Project
Fools Said It Was Over:
Coordinated Resistance Offensive Sweeps Through Iraq, Hitting 13 Cities And Towns:
“The Beginning Of The Storm”
“The Message The Insurgents Want To Deliver Is That We Exist, And We Choose The Time And Place”
“The Attacks Seemed To Sow Chaos And Confusion Among The Iraqi Police And Soldiers. Police Officers Brawled With Soldiers At The Scene”
“A Population That Seems As Angry As At Any Time Since The Invasion”
Moses Molelekwa, who died under tragic circumstances in 2001 was a brilliant young South African pianist that I had the pleasure of hearing quite a few times in Jozi. Enjoy.
SA Music Legends: Moses Taiwa Molelekwa #2, posted with vodpod
I think this was Paul Hanmer’s first solo album and it’s a masterpiece.
Paul Hanmer – Trains to Taung – ‘Prop Hat’, posted with vodpod
A superb South African pianist, composer, arranger and producer.
23 August, 2010 — Free Gaza
Two years ago today, 44 people from 17 countries were on the Mediterranean heading toward Gaza. We were in two dilapidated fishing boats, the seas were rough, most of us were seasick, and all of us were worried that Israeli military warships would prevent us from getting into the illegally blockaded port of Gaza.
Israel had blocked our communications equipment; our two captains, long-time seafarers were working off compass and pieces of paper. At 3:00 pm, we saw the shores of Gaza, and no Israeli war ship was there to prevent us from sailing in to the raucus shouts, applause and joy of 20,000 imprisoned Palestinians waiting on shore, covering every inch of standable ground.
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23 August, 2010 — TheOnlyDemocracy? – Didi Remez’s Coteret blog
Evidence is mounting that the Institute for Zionist Strategies (IZS) — an Israeli NGO at the forefront of an ongoing campaign to purge Israeli Universities of faculty and programs deemed “left-wing” — is a creature of The Hudson Institute, a major Washington based neoconservative think-tank, which played an active role in shaping the Bush administration’s Middle East policies.
Hudson is the primary financial backer of the IZS, providing at least half of the organization’s total reported multi-year funding, but the connection does not end there.
Max Singer, co-founder of the Hudson Institute, its former President and current Senior Fellow, is also the IZS’s Research Director. At least according to his bio on the Hudson website: The IZS site only identifies him as a member of the Advisory Committee. Its 2006 brochure (page 8), however, states that he is a member of the International Board of Governors and as one of the ex-officio members of the Projects Committee, which “as such, are invited to all deliberative sessions and events.” According to the IZS’s verbal report to the Israeli Registrar of Associations for 2008 (the last one filed), Singer’s wife, Suzanne, is one of three members of the NGO’s “Council”, the sovereign decision-making body under Israeli law.
Max Singer
24 August, 2010 — Military Project
23 August, 2010 — Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal
Ruth First with Joe Slovo (left).
Zwelinzima Vavi presents the 2010 Ruth First Memorial Lecture, Wits University, Johannesburg, August 17, 2010. Vavi is secretary general of the Congress of South African Trade Unions. Ruth First (May 4, 1925–August 17, 1982) was a South African anti-apartheid activist and communist born in Johannesburg, South Africa. She was killed by the apartheid regime with a parcel bomb in Mozambique in 1982, where she worked in exile from South Africa.
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I will always cherish this moment. It is such an honour to deliver the annual lecture in memory of Ruth First.
The theme is “How policy is affecting the marginalised and its impact on poverty”.
23 August, 2010 — Military Project
Keep The Message Strong!
U.S. soldier, Beijia village, Iraq Feb. 4, 2008. (AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo)ONLY 13 DAYS LEFT TO ENTER:
The Military Resistance Summer Fund Raising Raffle
22 August, 2010 — IPS-ipsnews.net
JOHANNESBURG, Aug 22, 2010 (IPS) – International media freedom watchdog Reporters Without Borders ranks South Africa’s press as among the freest on the continent. Two proposed new measures are drawing unfavourable comparisons to repressive laws in Zimbabwe and Ethiopia.
Nigeria and Zimbabwe have their Official Secrets Acts. In Kenya, it’s called the Communications Bill.
And in South Africa, it would be called the Protection of Information Act (POI).
Across Africa – and beyond – governments have sought to control the media, be it through stiff penalties for disclosing or possessing leaked documents or the imposition of tribunals to oversee the press.
23 August, 2010 — The B u l l e t Socialist Project • E-Bulletin No. 405
The two major civil service unions on strike against the South African (SA) government vow to intensify pressure in coming days, in a struggle pitting a million members of the middle and lower ranks of society against a confident government leadership fresh from hosting the FIFA World Cup.
Along with smaller public sector unions, teachers from the SA Democratic Teachers Union (SADTU) and nurses from the National Health and Allied Workers Union (NEHAWU) continued picketing at schools, clinics and hospitals, leading to widespread shutdowns starting on August 18. Skeleton teams of doctors and military personnel were compelled to send non-emergency cases home.
In several confrontations with police at town centres, clinics and schools late last week, workers were shot with rubber bullets and water cannons. On Saturday the courts enjoined workers to return to jobs considered to be emergency services. In dozens of hospitals and clinics, military healthworkers took over.
President Jacob Zuma threatened mass firings and attacked labour movement activists who successfully disrupted health and education facilities: “Even during the campaigns against the apartheid government we did not prevent nurses from going to work.” The South African Communist Party (SACP) issued a statement defending the strikers but requesting the labour movement and ruling African National Congress (ANC) to desist “flinging irritable insults at each other, while the private sector and anti-worker elements sit back and laugh.”
22 August, 2010 — The Real News Network
Snehal Shingavi: US has blamed Pakistan for failed policies in region
Bio
Snehal Shingavi is an assistant professor of South Asian literature at the University of Texas in Austin, where he is also working on a book-length manuscript on contemporary Pakistani fiction in English. Snehal has written extensively about India and Pakistan for such publications as Counter Punch, Z Net, the International Socialist Review, and Left Hook.
22 August, 2010 — The Real News Network
“BEWARE OF COMING POLICE STATE” PT.2 Clayton Ruby: No effective way to enforce charter of rights
Bio
Clayton C. Ruby is one of Canada’s leading lawyers specializing in criminal, constitutional, administrative and civil rights law. He currently practices law with the firm of Ruby & Shiller in Toronto
19 August, 2010 — URUK Net
Obama’s “Mission Accomplished”
Bill Van Auken
August 20, 2010 – The White House and the Pentagon, assisted by a servile media, have hyped Thursday’s exit of a single Stryker brigade from Iraq as the end of the “combat mission” in that country, echoing the ill-fated claim made by George W. Bush seven years ago. Obama is more skillful in packaging false propaganda than Bush, and no doubt has learned something from the glaring mistakes of his predecessor. Bush landed on the deck of the US aircraft carrier Abraham Lincoln on May 1, 2003 to proclaim—under a banner reading “Mission Accomplished”—that “major combat operations” in Iraq were over. A captive audience of naval enlisted personnel was assembled on deck as cheering extras…
Read the full article / Leggi l’articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.de/?p=69001
Israel’s Bogus Construction Moratorium
by Stephen Lendman
August 20, 2010 – Promises made, then broken. Promise peace. Wage war and daily violence throughout the Territories. Announce a settlement construction halt. Keep building, the promised pause (not a freeze) never observed despite Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s December 8 announced moratorium saying: “I hope that this decision will help launch meaningful negotiations to reach a historic peace agreement that would finally end the conflict between Israel and the Palestinians,” what he relentlessly pursues, spurning resolution for an equitable, just peace, wanting surrender, not conciliation on equal terms, what he’ll never agree to or accept. Despite announcing “a suspension of new permits and new construction in Judea and Samaria (the West Bank) for a period of ten months,” construction never stopped…
Read the full article / Leggi l’articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.de/?p=69002
20 August, 2010 – Global Research
Edmund Burke’s statement, “Those who don’t know history are destined to repeat it” is frequently cited, but in truth, even history’s obvious lessons are unrecognized by many who know history very well.
There was a time when every school child could recite the Gettysburg Address from memory, especially its famous peroration: “we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain, that this nation shall have a new birth of freedom, and that government of the people, by the people, for the people shall not perish from the earth.” But that resolution has largely gone unfulfilled. So exactly what did the Civil War accomplish?
23 August, 2010 — Information Clearing House – ICH Archives 12 February, 2010 to the present - ICH Archives March 2003 – March 2010
What You Will Not Hear About Iraq
By Adil E. Shamoo
Iraq has between 25 and 50 percent unemployment, a dysfunctional parliament, rampant disease, an epidemic of mental illness, and sprawling slums. The killing of innocent people has become part of daily life. What a havoc the United States has wreaked in Iraq.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article26225.htm
U.S. Taxpayers -Funding Terrorist, Mafia-Like Activity
By Sam Stein
Afghanistan’s embattled president Hamid Karzai said on Sunday that U.S. taxpayers were indirectly funding “mafia-like groups” and terrorist activities with the American government’s support of private contractors inside his country.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article26224.htm
23 August, 2010 — Creative-i
