December 2007
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BBC NEWS | Americas | Chavez proposes oil barter scheme
BBC NEWS [Interesting little nugget here from the ‘inventors of spin’, the BBC, that I thought was worth sharing with you. The fact it’s reported at all and so directly, reveals just how central energy is to big capital’s activities and when a bunch off brown-skinned fellas start mucking about with it, there’s normally hell Continue reading
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The End Of Israel? By Hannah Mermelstein
The End Of Israel? By Hannah Mermelstein* 22 December, 2007 The Electronic Intifada I am feeling optimistic about Palestine. I know it sounds crazy. How can I use ‘optimistic’ and ‘Palestine’ in the same sentence when conditions on the ground only seem to get worse? Israeli settlements continue to expand on a daily basis, the Continue reading
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MEDIA LENS ALERT: MANUFACTURING THREATS – SUDAN, IRAN, AND THE WAR FOR CIVILISATION
MEDIA LENS: Correcting for the distorted vision of the corporate media December 18, 2007 News that British schoolteacher Gillian Gibbons had been jailed in Sudan after allowing her pupils to call a teddy bear Mohammed fed straight into the UK media’s hate factory and its “war for civilisation”. The Gibbons story was mentioned in a Continue reading
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Trying to Square the Climate Circle By William Bowles
16 December 2007 Sink or Swim – The ‘choice’ apparently, is yours, according to Hilary Benn, but only if you can breath under water and swim Here, in the UK we have a minister for the environment, Hilary Benn is his name, son of doyen of the ‘left’ of the Labour Party, Anthony Wedgwood-Benn, whose Continue reading
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RAWA.ORG: The US and Her Fundamentalist Stooges are the Main Human Rights Violators in Afghanistan (Dec.10, 2007)
RAWA.ORG: The US and Her Fundamentalist Stooges are the Main Human Rights Violators in Afghanistan (Dec.10, 2007) The US and her allies tried to legitimize their military occupation of Afghanistan under the banner of ‘bringing freedom and democracy for Afghan people’. But as we have experienced in the past three decades, in regard to the Continue reading
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Anti-Empire Report By William Blum, December 11, 2007
Anti-Empire Report, December 11, 2007: “The Anti-Empire Report Read this or George W. Bush will be president the rest of your life December 11, 2007 by William Blum www.killinghope.org Another peace scare. Boy, that was close. The US intelligence community’s new National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) — ‘Iran: Nuclear Intentions and Capabilities’ — makes a point Continue reading
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Media Lens: The Faceless and the Dead – The Guardian and Iraq’s Refugees
MEDIA LENS: Correcting for the distorted vision of the corporate media December 6, 2007 “See The World Through Their Eyes†For several months now, non-UK visitors accessing the Guardian website have been shown an endlessly revolving animation in three segments that would not look out of place on FAIR, ZNet, or indeed Media Lens. The Continue reading
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Empty Calories of Economic Growth and the Battle for Participatory Democracy—Latin America's New Middle Class – Council on Hemispheric Affairs
Empty Calories of Economic Growth and the Battle for Participatory Democracy—Latin America’s New Middle Class – Council on Hemispheric Affairs The past two decades have witnessed a series of political and economic rollercoaster rides all over Latin America. However, with economic ‘stability’ being used as a tagline for positive growth and suitable political fervor, a Continue reading
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Bolivia Rising: The Battle in Bolivia: 'New Left' President Evo Morales Faces Opposition to New Constitution
Source: Bolivia Rising: The Battle in Bolivia: ‘New Left’ President Evo Morales Faces Opposition to New Constitution Roger Burbach, Dec 01, 2007 While international attention is focusing on President Hugo Chavez and the Sunday referendum on the Venezuelan constitution, a conflict that is just as profound is shaking Bolivia. Evo Morales, the first Indian president Continue reading
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Which way is up? by William Bowles
3 December 2007 A major blight of the ‘Left’, at least in my experience, is that it spends more time in-fighting than out. Why this should be so I’ll leave up to the psychoanalysts (or perhaps anthropologists?) to explain but it is surely a legacy we could well do without. My feeling is that is Continue reading
The New Dark Age 