November 2008
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Abu Kamel of the al-Kurd family has died two weeks after Israel forcibly evicted him from his home of 52 years
Abu Kamel of the Al-Kurd family, died two weeks after he was taken immediately to hospital following the night-time invasion and forcible eviction from his home of 52 years by Israeli forces. Continue reading
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SHRINKING CAPITAL: THE US IN THE MIDDLE EAST
The Bush administration entered office in 2000 determined to extend the global dominion of the United States into “a new American century.” Yet as President George W. Bush prepared to depart the White House, the National Intelligence Council released a report surmising that Washington “will have less power in a multipolar world than it has… Continue reading
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Tom Burghardt: Preemptive Policing & the National Security State: Repressing Dissent at the Republican National Convention
19 November 19, 2008 Global Research Antifascist Calling… With “preemptive policing” all the rage in Washington, the whistleblowing website Wikileaks has done it again, exposing how repressive trends in the U.S. had real world consequences for democracy during September’s Republican National Convention (RNC) in St. Paul, Minnesota. On November 15, the global whistleblowers published a Continue reading
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Gilad Atzmon in Valencia – And the Bush Burned
The concert, an hour and a half of intense musical emotions, was based on four themes taken from two important albums of the group, MusiK (2004) and Refuge (2007), in which Atzmon articulated and developed a line of reasoning and discourse that is explicitly dedicated to describing through chromatic scales the current Iraqi tragedy undertaken… Continue reading
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Mick Hume: It should not be an offence to belong to the BNP
This confirms the misplaced political obsession with the BNP, and the peculiar place that this small far-right party occupies in public life today. Many of those who were outraged by the authorities’ loss of disks containing personal data seem almost gleeful about the way that this leak has ‘exposed’ the BNP’s membership. Continue reading
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Hitler’s BNP membership gets leaked (video)
An angry Fuhrer learns his name’s on the leaked BNP membership list … http://widgets.vodpod.com/w/video_embed/Groupvideo.1785073 more about “Hitler’s BNP membership gets leaked“, posted with vodpod Continue reading
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WIKILEAKS: NOTABLE DOCUMENT RELEASE ON THE BRITISH NATIONAL PARTY
WIKILEAKS PRESS RELEASE (English) For Immediate Release. Fri Nov 21 09:11:21 2008 GMT “BNP leak rocks Britain” The leak of details on the 12,801 secret members and contacts of the far-right British National Party continues to rock British politics, with over 1,315 English press articles appearing since Tuesday: news.google.ca/news?ie=UTF-8&tab=bn&ncl=1271913659&hl=en In the 24 hour period between Continue reading
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Sameh Habeeb – Gaza: a Dire Life Zone Still Clings to Hope
Afterwards, Israel started a new phase of collective punishment and began more violent prevocational measures against 1.5 million people. Continue reading
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Nuclear weapons use more likely in future: US intelligence
The use of nuclear weapons will grow increasingly likely by 2025, US intelligence predicted Thursday in a report on global trends that forecasts a tense, unstable world shadowed by war. Continue reading
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GazaFriends: Human Rights Observers Start Hunger Strike in Israel
Three Human Rights Observers (HRO) with the International Solidarity Movement will begin a hunger strike tomorrow in protest over their illegal detention by Israel. Continue reading
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GazaFriends: A Plea for Funds for Legal Support
Under tremendous pressure, the Israeli government, released the 15 fishermen but are so far refusing to return the most precious possessions these men own – their boats. Continue reading
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Unofficial Translation of U.S.-Iraq Troop Agreement from the Arabic Text
19 November, 2008 An Agreement between the Republic of Iraq and the United States of America regarding the Withdrawal of the American Forces from Iraq and Regulating their Activities During their Temporary Presence in it PREFACE The United States of America and the Republic of Iraq – which will hereafter be referred to as the Continue reading
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Vanished – How the BBC disappears the news By William Bowles
The devil lives in the details when the BBC reports on the actions of the Israeli occupiers. Illegal becomes ‘not recognized’. And the illegal occupation of land gets transformed by the BBC into “efforts to settle the Israeli-occupied east of the city”. Continue reading
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GazaFriends Update on the three internationals abducted by Israel
Then they came for me and forced me into the Zodiac at the point of a gun. They said, “You are in Israeli territory.” even though is was obvious that all three boats were in Palestinian territory. They kidnapped me and Andrew and Vik and all of the Palestinian fishermen.” Continue reading
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David McKnight: Rupert Murdoch has been one of the world’s most effective supporters of conservative ideas
Most businessmen avoid discussing politics publicly and media owners all the more so, since their businesses are the vehicles for the national conversation about politics. Not so Rupert. Murdoch and his media outlets have been at the forefront of the philosophical and political revolution constituted by free-market thinking. Continue reading
The New Dark Age 