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Liberty’s Easy Slide into Tyranny By Prof John Kozy
23 February, 2011 — Global Research
The best-laid schemes o’ mice an’ men
Gang aft agley,
An’ lea’e us nought but grief an’ pain,
For promis’d joy! — Robert Burns, 1785No matter how hard we try, no one can control the future, and we cannot assume the future will be like the present.
Woodrow Wilson signed the law that established the Federal Reserve. He later rightly lamented having done so. He writes, “I am a most unhappy man. I have unwittingly ruined my country. A great industrial nation is controlled by its system of credit. Our system of credit is concentrated. The growth of the nation, therefore, and all our activities are in the hands of a few men. We have come to be one of the worst ruled, one of the most completely controlled and dominated Governments in the civilized world no longer a Government by free opinion, no longer a Government by conviction and the vote of the majority, but a Government by the opinion and duress of a small group of dominant men.” Oh, how right he is, and oh, the mischief the FED has wrought! But establishing the FED must have seemed right to Wilson when he signed the law.
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Is Tripoli being set up for a civil war to justify U.S. and NATO military intervention in oil-rich Libya? By Mahdi Darius Nazemroay
25 February, 2011 — Global Research
Are the talks about sanctions a prelude to an Iraq-like intervention?
Something is Rotten in the so-called “Jamahiriya” of Libya
There is no question that Colonel Muammar Al-Gaddafi (Al-Qaddafi) is a dictator. He has been the dictator and so-called “qaid” of Libya for about 42 years. Yet, it appears that tensions are being ratcheted up and the flames of revolt are being fanned inside Libya. This includes earlier statements by the British Foreign Secretary William Hague that Colonel Qaddafi had fled Libya to Venezuela. [1] This statement served to electrify the revolt against Qaddafi and his regime in Libya.
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Happy Birthday Dexter Gordon February 27th
27 February, 2011 — Jazz on the Tube
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Tunisia Mostly Mainstream Newslinks for 27 February, 2011
27 February, 2011 — creative-i.info
N. Africa, Mideast unrest: Three killed as demonstrations turn deadly in Tunisia
CNN (blog)
[TUNISIA, 9:12 pm ET, 3:12 am local] Protests in Tunisia turned violent and deadly Saturday, just over six weeks after a popular uprising forced the president out of office, and lit a spark of desire for democratic reform in parts of Africa and the …
news.blogs.cnn.com/2011/02/26/n-africa-mideast-unrest-four-reported-killed-during-clashes-in-yemen/
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Bahrain Mostly Mainstream Newslinks for 27 February, 2011
27 February, 2011 — creative-i.info
Bahrain: A fissured future in a ‘fictitious democracy’
Toronto Star
The 22-year-old Bahraini was among the first throng of protesters to rush back into the landmark square on Feb. 19 after riot police retreated. But he hasn’t been able to sleep well since. “I keep worrying: What happens now?” he said softly. …
http://www.thestar.com/news/world/article/945404—bahrain-a-fissured-future-in-a-fictitious-democracy
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Tunisia Mostly Mainstream Newslinks for 26 February, 2011
26 February, 2011 — creative-i.info
Refugees flood into Tunisia
Los Angeles Times
Tunisian and UN officials scramble to avert a refugee crisis as people fleeing the Libyan unrest fill the roads out of the border crossing at Ras Ajdir. Many Tunisians help as volunteers. By Borzou Daragahi, Los Angeles Times At first it was dozens of …
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-tunisia-tent-city-20110226,0,6945796.story
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Bahrain Mostly Mainstream Newslinks for 26 February, 2011
26 February, 2011 — creative-i.info
Protesters march in Bahrain, Jordan, Yemen, and Egypt
Boston Globe
Huge crowds turned out in Egypt, Bahrain, Yemen, and Jordan, but with very different goals. In Egypt, where an 18-day uprising toppled President Hosni Mubarak on Feb. 11, tens of thousands jammed Cairo’s Tahrir Square to keep pressure on military …
http://www.boston.com/news/world/africa/articles/2011/02/26/protesters_march_in_bahrain_jordan_yemen_and_egypt/
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Libya Mostly Mainstream Newslinks for 26 February, 2011
26 February, 2011 — creative-i.info
Long Bread Lines and Open Revolt in Libya’s Capital
New York Times
By DAVID D. KIRKPATRICK TRIPOLI, Libya — A bold effort by Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi to prove that he was firmly in control of Libya appeared to backfire Saturday as foreign journalists he invited to the capital discovered blocks of the city in open …
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/27/world/africa/27libya.html?src=twrhp
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Silvia Cattori: An Interview with Gilad Atzmon-To Call A Spade A Spade
26 February, 2011 — Gilad Atzmon — Silvia Cattori
Gilad Atzmon is an outstandingly charming man. He is often described by music critics as one of the finest contemporary jazz saxophonists. But Atzmon is more than just a musician: for those who follow events in the Middle East, he is considered to be one of the most credible voices amongst Israeli opponents. In the last decade he has relentlessly exposed and denounced barbarian Israeli policies. Just before his departure on a European Spring Tour, “The Tide Has Changed “, with his band the Orient House Ensemble, he spoke to Silvia Cattori.
Silvia Cattori: As a jazz musician, what brought you to use your pen as a weapon against the country where you were born and against your people?
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Middle East / North Africa Independent Media Newslinks 24-27 February, 2011
27 February, 2011 — creative-i.info
27 February, 2011
- Middle East: Protests shake-up status quo
- Bahrain: ‘The regime must fall’
- The Independent: The price of food is at the heart of this wave of revolutions
- Key Bahraini opposition figure returns home, protests continue
26 February, 2011
25 February, 2011
24 February, 2011
- ”US won’t allow democracy in Arab world”
- The Bullet: A Period of Revolutionary Fervour
- Unions join opposition alliance
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Egypt Independent Media Newslinks
27 February, 2011 — creative-i.info
27 February, 2011
- First Egypt, next Venezuela?
- Egypt: Food prices crisis helped fuel revolt
- Economic Revolution vs. Political Reform. The Clash of Classes in Egypt and the USA By Mary Lynn Cramer
- Egyptian Military Supports US Dominance In Region
- First Egypt, next Venezuela?
- Hossam el-Hamalawy, “Egypt: Mass Strikes and the Military Junta”
26 February, 2011
25 February, 2011
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Middle East / North Africa Independent Media Newslinks 24-27 February, 2011
27 February, 2011 — creative-i.info
27 February, 2011
- Middle East: Protests shake-up status quo
- Bahrain: ‘The regime must fall’
- The Independent: The price of food is at the heart of this wave of revolutions
- Key Bahraini opposition figure returns home, protests continue
26 February, 2011
25 February, 2011
24 February, 2011
- ”US won’t allow democracy in Arab world”
- The Bullet: A Period of Revolutionary Fervour
- Unions join opposition alliance
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Egypt Independent Media Newslinks
27 February, 2011 — creative-i.info
27 February, 2011
- First Egypt, next Venezuela?
- Egypt: Food prices crisis helped fuel revolt
- Economic Revolution vs. Political Reform. The Clash of Classes in Egypt and the USA By Mary Lynn Cramer
- Egyptian Military Supports US Dominance In Region
- First Egypt, next Venezuela?
- Hossam el-Hamalawy, “Egypt: Mass Strikes and the Military Junta”
26 February, 2011
25 February, 2011
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Libya Independent Media Newslinks for 26-27 February, 2011
27 February, 2011 — creative-i.info
27 February, 2011
- Noam Chomsky: Stability means obedience to US domination
- UN approves sanctions against Libya
- NATO Meets for Talks about Possible Military Intervention in Libya
- EU Weapons Exports to Libya
- Putin urges EU not to interfere in Libya’s “Internal Affairs”
- Al Jazeera Misinformation: The Truth About Libya’s Ambassador to Bangladesh A. H. Elimam
- UN Security Council votes for sanctioning Lybia’s Gaddafi
- Zionist Gaddafi & His Miserable Green Book
- The Independent – Revealed: Blair’s secret calls to Gaddafi
26 February, 2011
- Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, “PFLP Condemns the Gaddafi Regime’s Massacres against the Libyan People”
- Farid Marjai, “Musa Sadr in Libya?”
- No Imperialist Intervention in Libya
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Soundtrack to a revolution: interview with Asian Dub Foundation's Chandrasonic
23 February, 2011 — LINKS – International Journal of socialist Renewal
British-born South Asian punk-dance band Asian Dub Foundation (ADF) released their latest album A History of Now just as the revolution in Egypt was starting to build. Someone unknown to the band edited news footage of the revolt to the album’s title track and stuck it on YouTube (below).
The video, which set ADF’s brittle shards of guitar and searing eastern strings to images of hurled tear gas canisters and bloodied revolutionaries, built a following to rival the crowds in Cairo’s Tahrir Square. Green Left Weekly’s Mat Ward spoke to guitarist and band leader Steve Chandra Sevale — who is better known as Chandrasonic for his habit of detuning all his guitar strings to one note and playing the instrument with a knife. Here is the interview in full.
Interview follows:
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The Tide of Media Disinformation: First Egypt, next Venezuela? by Kiraz Janicke and Federico Fuentes
27 February, 2011 — Global Research — greenleft.org.au
As the wave of popular uprisings has spread across the Arab world, a flurry of articles have appeared suggesting Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez could be the next ‘dictator’ to be overthrown.
Such arguments follow a pattern in the corporate media of slandering the Chavez government and the revolutionary process it leads.
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Egyptian Military Supports US Dominance In Region
26 February, 2011 — The Real News Network
Gilbert Achcar: If intervention needed in Saudi Arabia or Arab countries, US could rely on Egyptian military
Bio
Gilbert Achcar grew up in Lebanon, and is currently Professor at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) of the University of London. His books include The Clash of Barbarisms: The Making of the New World Disorder, published in 13 languages, Perilous Power: The Middle East and U.S. Foreign Policy, co-authored with Noam Chomsky, and most recently the critically acclaimed The Arabs and the Holocaust: The Arab-Israeli War of Narratives.
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Waiting for Justice in Haiti: One Year Later Part 2
26 February, 2011 — The Real News Network
Gina Ulysse: Rushing to action is not the solution to Haiti’s problems. Talking is action and Haitians need to be included in the conversation.
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Waiting for Justice in Haiti: One Year Later Part 1
26 February, 2011 — The Real News Network
Danny Glover: Haiti’s history and Haiti’s relationship to today’s world
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