February 2009
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The conflict in the Congo is a resource war waged by U.S. and British allies By Kambale Musavuli
Herman Cohen’s ‘Can Africa Trade Its Way to Peace?’ in the New York Times reflects the disastrous policies that favor profits over people. In his article, the former lobbyist for Mobutu and Kabila’s government in the United States and former assistant secretary of state for Africa from 1989 to 1993 argues, ‘Having controlled the Kivu… Continue reading
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Tessa Jowell Should Be Charged With Money Laundering By Craig Murray
Tessa Jowell participated as a full partner in the three time remortgaging of her home, paying off the mortgage with cash and then remortgaging. Continue reading
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Video: Israeli Military Shoot Gaza Farmer – 18th February 2009
On Tuesday 27th January 2009, in Al Faraheen, Israeli forces shot at several farmers, killing 27 year old farm worker, Anwar al-Breem, Mohammed’s cousin. On Wednesday, February 18, Israeli forces shot a twenty year-old Palestinian farmer as he worked his land in the village of Al-Faraheen, east of Khan Younis in the Gaza Strip. International Continue reading
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Sign the Petition against new (UK) Home Office restrictions on non-EU artists and academics visiting the UK for talks, exhibitions, concerts or artists’ residencies
Visitors now have to submit to a series of arduous and expensive procedures to get their visa, and then more bureaucratic controls when they are in the UK. Continue reading
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Black Sea: Pentagon's Gateway to Three Continents and the Middle East By Rick Rozoff
Prior to the breakup of the Warsaw Pact in 1989 and the Soviet Union two years later the Black Sea was mainly off limits to the West in general and to the Pentagon and NATO in particular. Continue reading
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Iraqi Doctors in Hiding Treat as They Can By Dahr Jamail
In early 2008, the Iraqi Health Ministry said that 628 medical personnel have been killed since 2003. Many believe the real figure is far higher, and that there is additionally a very large number of doctors who have been kidnapped and tortured. Continue reading
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AS NEW SCAMMERS EMERGE, IS IT JAILOUT TIME YET? By Danny Schechter
As we watch an economy in free fall, there seems to a lot less agitation for a serious investigation of those responsible for this collapse Continue reading
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Video: Viva Palestina aid convoy reaches Morocco – 19 Feb 2009
PressTv Correspondent Hasan Ghani reporting from Morocco http://widgets.vodpod.com/w/video_embed/Groupvideo.2118121 Posted with vodpod Continue reading
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Video: Gaza – Reflections of War – 14 Feb 09 – Part 4
Part 3 | Part 2 | Part 1 Continue reading
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Video: Gaza – Reflections of War – 14 Feb 09 – Part 3
On December 27, 2008, Israel’s already crippling siege on the neighbouring Gaza Strip escalated into a brutal war. Al Jazeera was the only global news network reporting from both inside Gaza and Israel for the entirety of the conflict. Throughout Ayman Mohyeldin and Sherine Tadros brought news of the human tragedy unfolding to living rooms Continue reading
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Video: Gaza – Reflections of War – 14 Feb 09 – Part 2
On December 27, 2008, Israel’s already crippling siege on the neighbouring Gaza Strip escalated into a brutal war. Al Jazeera was the only global news network reporting from both inside Gaza and Israel for the entirety of the conflict. Throughout Ayman Mohyeldin and Sherine Tadros brought news of the human tragedy unfolding to living rooms Continue reading
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How Ireland Went Bust By Harry Browne
The unemployment rolls in the Republic of Ireland are growing by more than 30,000 per month. It might not sound like a lot, but on a straight per-capita comparison, in a state of some four million people, that’s more than three times worse than what’s been afflicting the US. Continue reading
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Justifying Israeli War Crimes By Reem Salahi
Having left Gaza now, I am trying to come to terms with what I saw, what I heard and honestly, what I don’t think I will ever understand – the justification. Continue reading
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A Camp Follower Who Aims to Please: How Anthony Cordesman Proved that Israel Fought a Clean War By Norman G. Finkelstein
This preposterous, barely literate ‘analysis’ Cordesman cobbled together after his junket is unlikely to fool anyone, although in fairness to camp follower Cordesman it must be said that he plainly did his best to please and the American Jewish Committee plainly got its money’s worth from him. Continue reading
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Video: Reporting from Gaza: Reflections of War Part 1
Throughout Ayman Mohyeldin and Sherine Tadros brought news of the human tragedy unfolding to living rooms throughout the English speaking world. They found themselves as vulnerable as the civilians of Gaza and now they give their full accounts of what it was really like to report that war. Continue reading
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Music of Resistance – Seun Kuti – Part 2
Only 14 when his father, Fela Kuti died, did his son Seun has decided to carry on his legacy. Music of Resistance went to meet him. Continue reading
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Video: Music of Resistance – Seun Kuti – Part 1
Fela Kuti is one of the most significant musicians to ever come out of Sub-Sharan Africa. Through his music he confronted government corruption, multi-national corporations, and police brutality in Nigeria. Only 14 when his father died, his son Seun has decided to carry on his legacy. Music of Resistance went to meet him. Continue reading
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Palestinian Centre for Human Rights: Weekly Report: On Israeli Human Rights Violations in the Occupied Palestinian Territory No. 07/2009, 12- 18 Feb. 2009
Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) Continue Systematic Attacks against Palestinian Civilians and Property in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (OPT) and Continue to Impose a Total Siege on the Gaza Strip Continue reading
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Sasan Fayazmanesh, "The Iranian Revolution and the US Policy of Dual Containment"
Much of the double talk or military threat was posturing and engaging in psychological warfare. A military attack against Iran is difficult and could have long-term consequences. Therefore, such an attack has never been the first-choice option of the US-Israel. Continue reading
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Pinochet, the Friedman Boys & Thatcher By Andy Beckett
When General Pinochet came to power in Chile after a military coup in 1973, he unleashed a wave of radical free-market policies that thrilled rightwing observers in Britain. Continue reading
The New Dark Age 