November 2008
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GazaFriends Update: All is well
The boat arrived this morning at 7:30, schussing through the water, white caps on either side. Osama, Mary and I were at the dock to greet the returnees, again thrilled to see them on deck. This time, 29 people returned, either of them Palestinians from Gaza. Dr. Mona was on board on her way to Continue reading
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Wikileaks: “Malaysia Today editor freed”
WIKILEAKS PRESS RELEASE For immediate release. Mon Nov 10 22:43:37 GMT 2008 On Friday Malaysia’s Shah Alam High Court freed blogger and Malaysia Today editor Raja Petra Kamarudin from the Kamuting detention center, where he had been held under Malaysia’s notorious Internal Security Act. Raja Petra, 58, was detained on September 12, two and a Continue reading
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Wikileaks accepts $2.1M journalism competition
WIKILEAKS PRESS RELEASE For immediate release. Tue Nov 11 03:59:05 GMT 2008 “News Challenge” As of November 1st Wikileaks has accepted the Knight Foundation News Challenge 2009 and applied for $2.1M funding. As the Challenge has received over 2,000 submissions, Wikileaks is asking its supporters to draw Knight’s attention to the importance of the Wikileaks Continue reading
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OSCE Report: A damning admission on the Georgian war
The OSCE concluded that the conflict began on August 7 when US-trained Georgian troops shelled Russian peacekeepers and civilians in the capital of Georgia’s breakaway province of South Ossetia, Tskhinvali. Continue reading
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Keynes with a neo-liberal twist? By William Bowles
10 November 2008 “Just imagine saying, “production for use leads to stagnation; production for death leads to exchange value and profits.” Now don’t jump on me! Wait, I have to go into capital expansion and its being “the breath of capitalism” and, as yet, no forseeable future opportunities for capital reproduction to the magnitude needed Continue reading
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Nikita Petrov: US Wants To Resume Nuke Testing To Retain Bomb Making Skills
The arguments the Pentagon chief used to justify the resumption of tests are not new and are slightly cunning. He said the country ceased developing nuclear weapons in the 1980s and stopped producing nuclear munitions in the 1990s. With weapons developers and engineers gone, he said, the United States suffered a brain drain. Continue reading
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GazaFriends: Dignitaries Depart with Dignity
“The siege of Gaza is an illegal and immoral act of collective punishment imposed on the civilian population of the Gaza Strip for the ‘crime’ of voting in internationally supervised elections for a party not supported by the Western powers,” said Ms. Short, the former British Secretary of State for International Development from 1997 to… Continue reading
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GazaFriends: European Parliamentarians Admonish Israel & Egypt for Border Closures to Gaza
A group of 11 European parliamentarians from England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales, Italy and Switzerland today visited the Rafah border crossing between the Gaza Strip and Egypt, calling for an end to the ongoing blockade. Continue reading
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WHICH WAS IT?
“U.S. President-elect Barack Obama has not given a commitment to go ahead with plans to build part of a U.S. missile defence system in Poland.” Continue reading
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GazaFriends Update: Israeli Chemical Warfare on Palestinian Fishermen
9:15 am. From a small Palestinian fishing boat, David Schermerhorn watched as Israeli sailors aboard a large Navy Gunboat put on Hazmat suits and masks. Five minutes later, the fishermen and internationals were blasted by water from a cannon mounted atop the gunboat. The water was filthy, with an appalling chemical smell to it. Continue reading
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GazaFriends: URGENT ALERT – Fishermen under attack!
Vik is yelling at the Israeli gunboat, telling them that three internationals are on board and they are all unarmed and they just want to go fishing. The pleas were met by water cannon so strong that all of the people on board went into the cabin for protection. David is trying to get water… Continue reading
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Christopher Parsons: Britain’s Digital Surveillance: Hiding from Her Majesty’s ‘Black Boxes’
I want to address that deficiency, calling attention to the Deep Packet Inspection (DPI) technologies that will presumably be responsible for examining, categorizing, and heuristically evaluating the data flowing across British ISPs’ networks. Continue reading
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10 Surprising Stories About Election ‘08
FairVote’s Election Analyses & Prescriptions for the Future Dear Friend of Fair Elections, We thought we’d share our view of this historic election through ten surprising stories about Election ’08. They are: Electoral Reform on the Ballot – New Victories and Implementations for Instant Runoff Voting The 2008 Spoiler Effect – Key Non-Majority Winners (and Continue reading
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Uri Blau: IDF asks police, Shin Bet for info on left-wing figures active in W. Bank
The Israel Defense Forces has asked the Shin Bet security service and the police to provide it with information on left-wing figures active in the West Bank so it will be easier to issue restraining orders against them, Haaretz has learned. Continue reading
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Update from GazaFriends: DIGNITY to Israeli gunboat “Feel Free to Make a Donation”
For Immediate Release November 8, 2008 Contact: Mary Hughes, Cyprus +357 96 75 00 59 Greta Berlin, Cyprus: +357 99 08 17 67 Osama Qashoo, +44 78 33 38 16 60 Angela Godfrey Goldstein, Jerusalem: +972 547 366 393 Larnaca: The DIGNITY pulled into Gaza at 9:15 a.m. Gaza time after an uneventful trip from Continue reading
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Prof. Peter Erlinder : U.S./U.K. Allies Grab Congo Riches and Millions Die
Once again, the suffering of African people caught up in a war that makes little sense to non-Africans has made the front pages in western media, as more than a million people have been displaced in the past week by renewed fighting in the Eastern Congo. Continue reading
The New Dark Age 