December 2008
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“Stop the Massacre in Gaza – Boycott Israel Now!”
Today, the Israeli occupation army committed a new massacre in Gaza, causing the death and injury of hundreds of Palestinian civilians, including a yet unknown number of school children who were headed home from school when the first Israeli military strikes started. Continue reading
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Massacres in Gaza, Demonstrations in the West Bank….
Please forward to media immediately and pick-up the phone and call media outlets immediately to condemn the atrocities being committed in Gaza (Using US taxpayer money and International and Arab Government Acquiescence). Demonstrations are ongoing throughout the West Bank. Continue reading
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AIC Condemns Deadly Attacks on Gaza, Calls for Civil Society Mobilization, International Sanctions
The Alternative Information Center (AIC) condemns today’s deadly attack by the Israeli Air Force on the Gaza Strip, which resulted in the killing of (at this moment) over 150 Palestinians. The AIC calls on social movements throughout the world to mobilize against these Israeli war crimes and demands that the international community implement sanctions against… Continue reading
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Barry Mason: Britain: New wave of human BSE/vCJD feared
News reports have raised the spectre of a second wave of deaths in Britain from variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease vCJD as a result of people, overwhelmingly young adults, having consumed meat or meat products from cattle infected with Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE), or Mad Cow Disease. Continue reading
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Israeli Air Strikes Continue To Pound Gaza Strip
This video may contain images depicting the reality and horror of war/violence and should only be viewed by a mature audience. Israel launches air strikes on Gaza. At least 195 people are reported to have been killed and more than 200 injured. http://widgets.vodpod.com/w/video_embed/Groupvideo.1906392 Posted with vodpod Continue reading
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International Witnesses speak out from Gaza
At the time of the attacks I was on Omar Mukhtar street and witnessed a last rocket hit the street 150 meters away where crowds had already gathered to try to extract the dead bodies. Ambulances, trucks, cars – anything that can move is bringing injured to the hospitals. Hospitals have had to evacuate sick… Continue reading
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Ali Abunimah: Gaza massacres must spur us to action
“I will play music and celebrate what the Israeli air force is doing.” Those were the words, spoken on Al Jazeera today by Ofer Shmerling, an Israeli civil defense official in the Sderot area adjacent to Gaza, as images of Israel’s latest massacres were broadcast around the world. Continue reading
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At least 195 Palestinians, including women and children, have been killed in an Israeli aerial bombardment of Gaza
Israeli defense minister says Gaza operation will widen as necessary…Israeli air attacks continue as night falls in Gaza…. Palestinian medical sources say Gaza toll has reached 205 people, including many women & children Continue reading
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Wikileaks: “Germany’s spy chief threatens Wikileaks prosecution”
The head of the BND, Germany’s equivalent to the CIA, has threatened Wikileaks with “immediate criminal prosecution” if it does not remove all “files or reports related to the BND” Continue reading
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Gilad Atzmon: The Wisdom of Edwin Montagu
I deny that Palestine is to-day associated with the Jews or properly to be regarded as a fit place for them to live in. The Ten Commandments were delivered to the Jews on Sinai. It is quite true that Palestine plays a large part in Jewish history, but so it does in modern Mahommendan history,… Continue reading
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A note from the Shministim
During this dark period of consecutive jail terms, military trials and attempts to break our beliefs, you were our light. Continue reading
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TVA Coal Ash Spill + 2.6 Million Cubic Yards of Toxic Coal Ash Slurry Released in TN Dike Burst
An environmental disaster of epic proportions has occurred in Tennessee. Monday night, 2.6 million cubic yards (the equivalent of 525.2 million gallons, 48 times more than the Exxon Valdez spill by volume) of coal ash sludge broke through a dike of a 40-acre holding pond at TVA’s Kingston coal-fired power plant covering 400 acres up… Continue reading
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The Real News Network – Gore Vidal on “The Emperor”
Part 2 “He smiled benignly at the oil wells” http://widgets.vodpod.com/w/video_embed/Groupvideo.1900384 Posted with vodpod Continue reading
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The Real News Network – Gore Vidal on the Cold War
Part one of a seven-part interview with Gore Vidal http://widgets.vodpod.com/w/video_embed/Groupvideo.1900351Posted with Vodpod Continue reading
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ACTION ALERT- Urgent call for Action on upgrade of the EU- Israel Association Agreement
24 December, 2008 CST *** KINDLY REPRINT AND SPREAD WIDELY *** The recent postponement of the vote in the European Parliament on the extension of existing EU programmes with Israel has been attributed to the great mass of letters received by MEPs, MPs and Ministers, showing the growing influence of civil society on attitudes towards Continue reading
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Wikileaks: Secret Gag Orders “UK undermines core Western values”
This month saw a secret UK court hearing, with secret participants, produce a secret order to secretly gag the population, the terms of which are secret and the revelation of which is punishable by upto 15 years of imprisonment. Continue reading
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The Real News Network – Bush Pushes Midnight Regulations, Many To Last
http://widgets.vodpod.com/w/video_embed/Groupvideo.1897134 Posted with vodpod Continue reading
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David Parker: Palestine: the Architecture of Apartheid
According to Weizman, the natural and built features of the landscape function as weapons and ammunition for the conflict. The Occupied Territories have become a series of layers and territories, each manipulated by the Israeli authorities. Borders are porous for Israelis but solid for Palestinians. Checkpoints are a source of humiliation. Continue reading
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Layla Anwar, An Arab Woman Blues: Jingle Bells and all that Stuff…
Meanwhile in Iraq, 5 million orphans have no stuff. They live in streets and run down orphanages. They are sold, bought, trafficked, molested, raped, turned into sex slaves and beggars… Continue reading
The New Dark Age 