April 2009
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Luis Bilbao: The grand duel — At the Fifth Summit of the Americas, a crucial battle is to be waged By Luis Bilbao
The time has arrived: to align with the North to engage in the futile business of saving capitalism, or define positions and accelerate towards South American unity, the complementary solidarity of the region’s economies and authentic sovereignty towards the good life for all. That is the option for which there is no possible postponement. Continue reading
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ADBUSTERS Win Legal Victory Against Canada’s Media Giants – Legal Action in the US Next
This is an inspiring idea for media activists and could pave the way for further legal victories down the road not only on the TV airwaves, but in cyberspace as well. Continue reading
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Lavrov says Georgia conflict proves dangers of NATO expansion
It is enough just to imagine what would have happened if Georgia had been a NATO member, as Russia would have still had no other option but to act as it did last August,’ Continue reading
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Israeli Scholar Disputes Founding Myth By Morgan Strong
The Zionists also invented the idea that Jews living in exile were obligated to return to the Promised Land, a concept that had been foreign to Judaism, Sand states. Continue reading
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Iraq in Fragments by Dahr Jamail
Upon returning home, I experienced the disconnect between that reality, lived by roughly 25 million Iraqis, and the surreal experience of living in the United States — where most media pretend the occupation of Iraq is either not happening, or uses the yardstick of decreased U.S. military personnel deaths in Iraq as a measure of… Continue reading
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Will Obama Vacate Iraq? By Nasir Khan
The United States should be held accountable to pay reparations for the damage it caused and pay compensation to the victims of aggression. We should demand that the International Criminal Court takes steps to indict the alleged war criminals. Continue reading
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Video: Stand By Me
Video of musicians in global linkup, from New Orleans to South Africa. Continue reading
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Jorge Majfud, "Eduardo Galeano: The Open Eyes of Latin America"
The texts are accompanied with illustrations in the manner of little vignettes reminiscent of the careful art of book publishing in the Renaissance, in addition to the author’s drawings as a young man. Continue reading
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Jorge Majfud, “Eduardo Galeano: The Open Eyes of Latin America”
The texts are accompanied with illustrations in the manner of little vignettes reminiscent of the careful art of book publishing in the Renaissance, in addition to the author’s drawings as a young man. Continue reading
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UN attempts to force sweatshop production on Haiti
Ban Ki-moon’s suggestion that the Haitian government prioritises garment assembly FTZs at the forthcoming donors’ conference is, says the HSG’s Charles Arthur, ‘a slap in the face’ for President Rene Preval and Prime Minister Michele Pierre-Louis who, following last year’s food riots and hurricane disasters, have repeatedly stressed the importance of national production, in particular,… Continue reading
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Andrei KONUROV: NATO uses Afghanistan to turn into a global organization
Although the participants of the G20 summit managed to avoid debates, the agreement they had achieved appears to be very unreliable and as the crisis will go deeper, no signs of cooperation will remain. And the crisis will surely go stronger since all the measures the allies had agreed on, are actually in no way… Continue reading
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United Europe Represses the Right to Protest Against NATO By Ivan Drury
On April 4th the leaders of the NATO member countries met on the French-German border in Strasbourg France for the 60th anniversary of NATO. A major demonstration was organized to oppose this meeting, the occupation of Afghanistan, and to call for the dismantling of NATO. Continue reading
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THE WINTER OF OMAR BASHIR’S DISCONTENT Keith Harmon Snow
The ICC can now be viewed as a tool of hegemonic U.S. foreign policy, where the weapons deployed by the U.S. and its allies include the accusations of, and indictments for, human rights violations, war crimes and crimes against humanity. Continue reading
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Inside the AT&T – NSA ‘Secret’ Relationship
Here’s an AT&T engineer explaining just what NSA wants to keep from American citizens: that the NSA is engaged in the warrantless surveillance of all communications (whether telephone conversations, emails, IMs or in other forms) involving AT&T customers. Continue reading
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“Demonstration in Baghdad against US Occupation”
Thousands of supporters of Shi’i leader Muqtada al-Sadr demonstrated in Baghdad to demand an end to the ‘US occupation,’ on the sixth anniversary of the fall of Saddam Hussein’s regime. Continue reading
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The Case Against Shell: Landmark Human Rights Trial (Wiwa v. Shell)
In the early 1990s, following decades of Shell’s environmental devastation in the Niger Delta in Nigeria, the Ogoni people of the region organized a non-violent movement against the oil company. Shell’s response? They armed, financed, and otherwise colluded with the Nigerian military regime to repress the non-violent movement — leading to the torture and shootings… Continue reading
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Serb Demonization as Propaganda Coup By Edward S. Herman
With Yugoslavia no longer useful as an ally after the fall of the Soviet Union, and actually an obstacle as an independent state with a still social democratic bent, the NATO powers aimed at its dismantlement, and they actively supported the secession of Slovenia, Croatia, the Bosnian Muslims, and the Kosovo Albanians. Continue reading
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Michael Franti & Spearhead – Soulshine
Michael Franti & Spearhead – Soulshine Continue reading
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UK: “Police TSG has Violent and Racist ‘form”
TSG Police officers in abuse case accused of 60 other assaults Met reveals four were subject of dozens of allegations by black or Asian men. Continue reading
The New Dark Age 