April 6, 2009
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Morales about the IMF: “the wolf can not keep the flock”
Evo Morales has denounced Friday the injection of more than 1,000 billion dollars through the IMF against the global crisis, saying that countries at the root of the crisis can not solve it, or his words, that ‘the wolf can not keep the flock.’ Continue reading
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Democrats and War Escalation By Norman Solomon
In their eagerness to help the Obama presidency, many of its prominent liberal supporters — whatever their private views on the escalation — are willing to function as enablers of the expanded warfare. Continue reading
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Video Part One: Baghdad, City of Walls By Ghaith Abdul-Ahad and Teresa Smith
Ghaith Abdul-Ahad is an award-winning photographer and journalist from Iraq. He began documenting life on the streets of Baghdad in 2001 and, when the Iraq war started two years later, he reported for The Guardian newspaper on those parts of the Iraqi capital that were simply too dangerous for outsiders to cover. But growing violence Continue reading
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Video Part Two: Baghdad, City of Walls By Ghaith Abdul-Ahad and Teresa Smith
Ghaith Abdul-Ahad is an award-winning photographer and journalist from Iraq. He began documenting life on the streets of Baghdad in 2001 and, when the Iraq war started two years later, he reported for The Guardian newspaper on those parts of the Iraqi capital that were simply too dangerous for outsiders to cover. But growing violence Continue reading
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Video Part Three: Baghdad, City of Walls By Ghaith Abdul-Ahad and Teresa Smith
Ghaith Abdul-Ahad is an award-winning photographer and journalist from Iraq. He began documenting life on the streets of Baghdad in 2001 and, when the Iraq war started two years later, he reported for The Guardian newspaper on those parts of the Iraqi capital that were simply too dangerous for outsiders to cover. But growing violence Continue reading
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Video Part Four: Baghdad, City of Walls By Ghaith Abdul-Ahad and Teresa Smith
Ghaith Abdul-Ahad is an award-winning photographer and journalist from Iraq. He began documenting life on the streets of Baghdad in 2001 and, when the Iraq war started two years later, he reported for The Guardian newspaper on those parts of the Iraqi capital that were simply too dangerous for outsiders to cover. But growing violence Continue reading
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The Growing Storm | Dahr Jamail – Independent Reporting from Iraq and the Middle East
The US policy that has led to this recent violence has been long in the making, as it has only been a matter of time before the tenuous truce between the groups came unglued. Continue reading
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“Death of a Demonstrator in London Was Not So ‘Natural’: Police Provoked Confrontations” by YVKE Mundial with Pueblos Sin Fronteras
Activists interviewed by an alternative journalism collective Pueblos Sin Fronteras reported that the police provocation made the protests violent, penning demonstrators in separate corrals and preventing them from moving for hours, without access to water, food, or restrooms. This may explain the collapse of a citizen who died this Wednesday while the demonstrators were being… Continue reading
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"Chávez: The Empire of the Dollar Is Coming to an End"
President Chávez has proposed, at the summit of Arab and South American Countries held in Doha, Qatar, the creation of the ‘Petro’ as new common currency backed by the reserves of oil and gas states to combat the ravages of the global financial crisis. Continue reading
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Palestine: Silwan, The very eye of the storm By Akiva Eldar
According to the so-called Clinton initiative, presented during the 2000 Israeli-Palestinian negotiations, Silwan was supposed to become part of the future Palestinian capital. Continue reading
The New Dark Age 