February 2009
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Joe Bageant: Skinny Dipping in Reality
For the first time in years, my life in that small town was very enjoyable. In fact Winchester soon spawned its own small psychedelic scene, one among thousands in heartland America at the time. Continue reading
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Video: US Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation
Watch the 30-second commercial we produced about the U.S. role in Israel’s recent war on the Gaza Strip, which was censored by DIRECTV. http://widgets.vodpod.com/w/video_embed/Groupvideo.2104748 Posted with vodpod Continue reading
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“Operation ‘Cast lead’: News Control as a Military Objective By Reporters Without Borders.
News was another casualty of this war. The sealing off of the Gaza Strip, which was the full responsibility of the Israeli authorities, is unacceptable and disturbing. Continue reading
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Media Lens: Putting Out The People’s Eyes – Machiavelli And The Press Complaints Commission
The results of the PCC’s work speak for themselves: if a member of the public makes a complaint against the press, he or she has about a 250:1 chance of getting an adjudication in his or her favour. Moore describes these as “pretty terrible odds” Continue reading
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Shawn Hattingh, South Africa and the "The Disease of Privatization"
The South African Department of Health was not willing to go any further and discuss the underlying reasons why, fifteen years after apartheid, people still don’t have toilets or clean drinking water. Continue reading
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Israel ready to launch a military offensive against Iran By Lech Biegalski
A SENIOR Israeli diplomat has warned that Israel is ready to launch a military offensive against Iran to prevent it from developing nuclear weapons. Continue reading
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Venezuela’s Referendum: Media’s Double Standards Steve Rendall & Isabel Macdonald
When Colombian President Álvaro Uribe’s efforts to lift term limits succeeded in 2005, the U.S. media took little notice, and Uribe’s reputation as the U.S.’s favorite ‘democrat’ in the region remained intact. Continue reading
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Venezuela’s Referendum: Media’s Double Standards Steve Rendall & Isabel Macdonald
When Colombian President Álvaro Uribe’s efforts to lift term limits succeeded in 2005, the U.S. media took little notice, and Uribe’s reputation as the U.S.’s favorite ‘democrat’ in the region remained intact. Continue reading
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Venezuela: Luis Bilbao — Reasons to be on alert after the referendum victory
A string of provocations in the days leading up to the constitutional amendment referendum points to the employment of a disturbance plan that could well be followed up with destabilisations attempts after the poll. Continue reading
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Gilad Atzmon With the Cyprus Symphony Orchestra
Gilad Atzmon with the Cyprus Symphony Orchestra. Soloists: Gilad Atzmon (alto saxophone) and Charis Ioanoou (tenor saxophone). Music direction: Krzesimir Debski. http://widgets.vodpod.com/w/video_embed/Groupvideo.2099018 Posted with vodpod Continue reading
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Video: The Free Gaza Movement, February 2009
The Free Gaza Movement is a human rights group that in August 2008 sent the first international boats to land in the port of Gaza in 41 years. We want to break the siege of Gaza. Continue reading
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Wikileaks slams arrest; releases latest Afghan death data
The report shows a dramatic escalation of the war and civil disorder. Coalition deaths increased by 35%, assassinations and kidnappings by 50% and attacks on the Kabul based Government of Hamid Karzai also more than doubled, rising a massive 119%. Continue reading
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Palestinian Center for Human Rights: Aftermath (2) Gaza’s forgotten elderly
In this new series of personal testimonies, PCHR looks at the aftermath of Israel’s 22 day offensive on the Gaza Strip, and the ongoing impact it is having on the civilian population. Continue reading
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The Eastern Partnership: The West's Final Assault On the Former Soviet Union By Rick Rozoff
The ultimate intent of the Eastern Partnership is to wean away all the other ex-Soviet states from economic, trade, political, security and military ties with Russia Continue reading
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COHA: A Decade in Power: An Assessment of Hugo Chávez’s Bolivarian Revolution
Regardless of what critics may report, most of the population has reaped some of the many rewards that nationalization has provided in the form of governmental surplus. Continue reading
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Welcome to the crony capitalist convention where New Labour got into bed with the bankers but we were the ones who got screwed
14 February 2009 The cry goes up, ‘wha’ happened?’ The former boss of HBOS, Sir James Crosby became head of the Financial Services Authority allegedly the ‘watchdog’ of the financial sector and then it emerges that Crosby was one of the architects of what Michael Hudson describes as: “The commercial banks…us[ing] their credit-creating power not Continue reading
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Harry Feldman: Israel, A shift even further to the right?
One way or the other, a party of the ultra right will be in a position to veto any initiative by threatening to leave the coalition and bring down the government. Continue reading
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Video: Arab Israelis see no hope in Israeli elections
Representatives of the Arab Israeli community on the 2009 Israeli elections http://widgets.vodpod.com/w/video_embed/Groupvideo.2074632 Posted with vodpod Continue reading
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Reform or Revolution? By William Bowles
These are extremely dangerous times, the capitalist system is teetering on the edge of collapse and as it has done in the past, it will resort to whatever measures it needs to protect the interests of capital including the establishment of a police state. Continue reading
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