December 2008
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Tim Black: An intolerable attack on all of us, the people
The arrest of Damian Green is an historic insult against parliamentary sovereignty, and ultimately against us, the people. The police should retreat immediately. And parliament should seek to rediscover the sense of democratic purpose that once saw it clash with kings and lords in its defence of the people’s rights. Continue reading
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Blowing Away Palestinians with Remote Control Guns
The Israel Defense Forces has found a way to target Gaza Strip terrorists from kilometers away, with just three pushes of a button. It may look like a video game, but it’s actually a new system called “The Seer Shoots,” which has entered operation in recent days on the Gaza Strip border. Continue reading
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MEDIA LENS: CAN THIS BE TRUE? GEORGE MONBIOT CHALLENGES MEDIA LENS ON HYPOCRISY
How casually Monbiot has chosen to confront us with this damning public criticism. This, of course, is how internet-based media with essentially no resources are often treated by corporate journalism. If Monbiot had been targeting a powerful think tank or political party, he would perhaps have checked if the posting was “correct” Continue reading
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Odetta Live in concert 2005, “House of the Rising Sun”
Odetta Holmes 1930-2008 I remember seeing her perform in one of those small gardens alongside some towering skyscraper in Manhattan with a waterfall at her back and her saying to the small audience that she’d have to retune her guitar so it didn’t collide with the noise the water made. http://widgets.vodpod.com/w/video_embed/Groupvideo.1825138 more about “Odetta Live Continue reading
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URGENT APPEAL FROM MENEZES FAMILY TO SUPPORTERS
I would like to thank you from the bottom of my heart for all the support you have given our family over the last 3 ½ years. We have been humbled by your support and on days like today, knowing that you are behind us, gives us the strength to carry on. Today was an… Continue reading
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Were the voting machines rigged?
1 December, 2008 WASHINGTON, Dec 01, 2008 /PRNewswire-USNewswire via COMTEX/ — In an exclusive interview with Velvet Revolution (”VR”), a DC based non-profit dedicated to a clean and accountable government, a former Diebold vote machine contractor who was in charge of preparing the 2002 election between Saxby Chambliss and Max Cleland has stated that the Continue reading
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Bruce Dixon: I Remember Fred Hampton
Fred was a big man whose inexhaustible energy, keen insight and passionate commitment to the struggle made him seem even larger still. We called him Chairman Fred. Chairman Fred was murdered by the FBI and Chicago Police Department in the pre-dawn hours of December 4, 1969. He was just 21 years old. Continue reading
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Mike Whitney: Somalia: Another CIA-backed coup blows up
The United States has lost the ground war in Somalia, but that doesn’t mean its geopolitical objectives have changed one iota. The US intends to stay in the region for years to come and use its naval power to control the critical shipping lanes from the Gulf of Aden. Continue reading
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Judge rules that the jury in the Charles de Menezes murder cannot consider the killing as unlawful
Coroner at the inquest into the police shooting of Jean Charles de Menezes has ruled that the jury cannot consider the verdict of unlawful killing. Instead he has ruled that they can only return a verdict of lawful or open. Continue reading
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Africa Bound By William Bowles
The irony of Dowden’s many misleading notions about Africa are that they could just as easily apply to Europe or indeed anywhere on Earth, perhaps in different forms due to different circumstances and at different times, but always reflecting the nature of who holds real political and economic power. That Dowden chooses to make a… Continue reading
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Journalist Amira Haas Arrested entering Israel
Hass, the child of Holocaust survivors, became the first and only Israeli journalist to be ever based in Gaza, moving there in 1993 to live and work. Today, she is still the only Israeli journalist to based in the Occupied Palestinian Territories moving to Ramallah in 1997. Continue reading
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BBC: Brown ‘psychologically insecure’
Psychotherapist Lucy Beresford tells Daily Politics Gordon Brown is ‘deeply insecure’ and bringing Peter Mandelson back was “Freudian” bordering on “self-mutilating behaviour”. http://widgets.vodpod.com/w/video_embed/Groupvideo.1818568 more about "BBC: Brown ‘psychologically insecure’", posted with vodpod Continue reading
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Kobi Ben Simon: God’s Little Acre
Israel inside the Green Line may be the new frontier for extremist Zionist settlement. Apparently, the West Bank settlement project is considered secure enough to move on to more challenging pastures. As the Rabbi himself notes in the article, “we had carried out a great project in the settlements for the past 30 years, but… Continue reading
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Evo Morales on Climate Change: Save the Planet from Capitalism!
‘Humankind is capable of saving the Earth if we recover the principles of solidarity, complementarity and harmony with nature in contraposition to the reign of competition, profits and rampant consumption of natural resources’ Continue reading
The New Dark Age 