September 2008
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Iqbal Tamimi – Would you trust the BBC?
Are you seeking employment with BBC? Look in the mirror carefully and ask yourself two very important questions, am I white enough? And am I passive enough and there is no record of me on the internet being ‘media or human rights troublesome’? If the answer is NO but you still insist on trying your Continue reading
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Housman’s Books Events for October
October 2008 Diary of Events at Housmans, London: (Book event/talk) ‘Understanding Stalin’s Soviet Union 1929-1941’ with Paul Flewers (Book event/talk) ‘Radical Barcelona’with Michael Eaude (Book event/talk) ‘Dark Streets and Shady Places: writers and the East End’ with Ken Worpole (Book event/talk) ‘The Truth About Work and the Myth of ‘Work-Life Balance’’ with Sheila Cohe (Book Continue reading
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Adolfo Gilly: Racism, Domination and Revolution in Bolivia
The Bolivian right-wing, the old and not-so-old elites, the owners of land and of lives, were defeated by the immense indigenous and popular uprising that began with the Water Wars in the year 2000, culminated with the rebellion of El Alto in October 2003, and concluded with Evo Morales’ entry into the presidency in January… Continue reading
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Dr. Vickramabahu Karunarathne: Postmodernism, Liberal Democracy and the War in Iraq For Meditation on Hajji Festival Day
A speech delivered April 25, 2003 by Dr. Vickramabahu Karunarathne at a seminar organized by the Centre for Islamic studies at BMICH in Colombo, Sri Lanka. Dear friends and comrades, We have tried to understand the motive behind this aggression (against Iraq). This aggression has violated every aspect of international law, all conventions of human Continue reading
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UN ‘Peacekeeping’ Forces in Haiti
Source: Counterpunch 26 September, 2008 Since their arrival, the U.N. “peacekeeping“ forces, known as MINUSTAH, have “killed, raped, ransacked“ the shantytowns, according to a grassroots Lavalas leader. by Judith Scherr (Counter Punch) Antonine Bienaimé was doing what she does every day, selling single candies, cigarettes, cookies and crackers from trays she sets up in front Continue reading
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The Methane Time Bomb By Steve Connor
24 September, 2008 The Independent The first evidence that millions of tons of a greenhouse gas 20 times more potent than carbon dioxide is being released into the atmosphere from beneath the Arctic seabed has been discovered by scientists. The Independent has been passed details of preliminary findings suggesting that massive deposits of sub-sea methane Continue reading
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Are they REALLY Oil Wars? By ISMAEL HOSSEIN-ZADEH
A most widely-cited factor behind the recent U.S. wars of choice is said to be oil. “No Blood for Oil” has been a rallying cry for most of the opponents of the war. While some of these opponents argue that the war is driven by the U.S. desire for cheap oil, others claim that it Continue reading
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Former Venezuelan Vice President Testifies on Recent Coup Plot By James Suggett
Former Vice-President José Vicente Rangel, currently works as an investigative journalist, identified the Venezuelan opposition, the Colombian government, the domestic and international media, and the U.S. government as the four principal agents involved in the coup planning. Continue reading
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U.S. reaps what it sows in Bolivia
While it appears too late for this White House to roll back the present tide of anti-U.S. sentiment in the region, the next U.S. president must embrace the irreversible changes that have taken hold among our neighbors to the south. Continue reading
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The media’s moola madness By William Bowles
22 September, 2008 What does it take for the corporate media to speak the truth about the economic meltdown? Take the BBC Website for example: It has a page titled ‘Q&A: Financial crisis and you’ where you would expect to find an explanation of this, the latest crisis of capital. Dream on folks, dream on. Continue reading
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Peace in Iraq IS an option – sign the Le Feyt Declaration!
The undersigned, friends of Iraq from France, Belgium, the United Kingdom, Italy, Spain, Portugal, the United States of America, Egypt, Sweden and Iraq, organized in the International Anti-Occupation Network (IAON) and gathered in Le Feyt, France, from 25 to 27 August 2008, have adopted the following position and declaration reflecting our commitment to a true Continue reading
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It takes a flight to UK to read the other version of the newspaper and examine the ethics of media By Iqbal Tamimi
British media is not the saint I used to believe carried the truth in every single word. I found out lots of bias, most of the time the content is treated as a business only, a machine that has to yield the biggest revenue possible, regardless of how balanced or fair it might be. Most… Continue reading
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Immanuel Wallerstein, “The New World Geopolitical Order: End of Act I”
I call this the end of Act I because it has sealed the reality of a true multilateral geopolitical arena. Of course, there are still further acts to come. And any faithful playgoer know that Act I merely establishes who are the actors. It is in Act II that we see what really happens. And… Continue reading
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When slaves defeated an empire ‘The Black Jacobins’ By Brian Kwoba
A Trinidad-born writer and socialist, C.L.R. James became a leading intellectual and theoretician within the Pan-African milieu. His book on the Haitian revolution is a Marxist classic. With sweeping literary drama, biting sarcasm and passionate political conviction, The Black Jacobins tells the story of a tremendous historical epoch in brilliant colors. Continue reading
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A Closer Look at Recent Violence in Bolivia – Council on Hemispheric Affairs
Council on Hemispheric Affairs Recent clashes between President Evo Morales’ constitutional government and the pro-autonomy opposition in Bolivia’s eastern provinces have left 15 people dead, 35 injured and 100 missing, according to official reports. The government has accused the prefect of Bolivia’s northern Pando province, Leopoldo Fernandez, of hiring professional assassins to ‘massacre’ pro-Morales campesinos. Continue reading
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The United States and Bolivia By Stephen Zunes
With much of Bolivia’s natural gas wealth located in the east, and taking advantage of the endemic racism of its largely white and mestizo population against the country’s indigenous majority, now in positions of political power for the first time, these right-wing forces appear ready to either bring down Morales or secede from the country.… Continue reading
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Haiti's Lingering Agony By Bill Fletcher, Jr.
Haiti’s lingering agony should be acknowledged as also our agony. The USA has never allowed Haiti to develop itself on an independent basis. From the time of Haitian independence in 1804 through the coup against President Aristide in 2004 on through today, the US government has been regularly interfering in the internal affairs of the… Continue reading
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‘Plunder: Investigating Our Economic Calamity and the Subprime Scandal’
Source: Global Research A Review of Danny Schechter’s book ‘Plunder: Investigating Our Economic Calamity and the Subprime Scandal’ by Stephen Lendman Global Research, September 18, 2008 Danny Schechter is a media activist, critic, independent filmmaker, TV producer as well as an author of 10 books and lecturer on media issues. Some call him ‘The News Continue reading
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Venezuela’s Military in the Hugo Chávez Era
Council on Hemispheric Affairs In recent years President Hugo Chávez has become Washington’s ultimate Latin American nemesis, with the Venezuelan leader striving to bedevil the U.S. at every possible opportunity. While his rhetoric and flamboyant attitude might otherwise go unnoticed, Venezuela is an oil rich country and Chávez has used his ‘petro-dollars’ to upgrade his Continue reading
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Russia And The Next Phase Of Nuclear Doctrine Part One By Nikita Petrov
‘We don’t see any threats to Russia coming from Poland,’ he said at a news conference after his talks with Sikorski. ‘But we cannot ignore the fact that an inalienable element of the U.S. strategic systems will be deployed close to our border. – Lavrov Continue reading
The New Dark Age 