April 2009
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Craig Murray: Lies and Innuendo in the Ian Tomlinson Case
You cannot separate this brutalisation of power from the illegal war that killed hundreds of thousands of Iraqis, and thousands of our own soldiers, on the basis of a lie but really to secure oil. Continue reading
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Video: Who will stand up to the Bully Boys in Blue?
This is a video of the way Kent police treated climate protesters at the Kingsnorth Climate Camp in August 2008. Continue reading
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An Open Letter to Ban Ki-Moon: Why Haiti Can’t Forget Its Past By RICHARD MORSE
If you’re preaching democracy in the Haitian economy, I’ll support you, but if you’re preaching the Gang of Eleven gets richer and every one else gets poorer then I wouldn’t even know how to support you. The Haitian people vote the governments in and the gang of Eleven buys them. Continue reading
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Ingredients for a Disaster: NATO, Strasbourg and the Black Block By DIANA JOHNSTONE
In this cycle of provocation, there is no doubt who started it: NATO. The lavish celebration of NATO’s 60th anniversary, held in the Rhineland cities of Strasbourg, Kehl and Baden Baden over the weekend, was an insult to the citizens. Continue reading
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Pirates’ Strike a U.S. Ship Owned by a Pentagon Contractor, But Is the Media Telling the Whole Story? By Jeremy Scahill
The Somali pirates who took control of the 17,000-ton ‘Maersk Alabama’ cargo-ship in the early hours of Wednesday morning probably were unaware that the ship they were boarding belonged to a U.S. Department of Defense contractor with ‘top security clearance,’ which does a half-billion dollars in annual business with the Pentagon, primarily the Navy Continue reading
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Another ‘War on Terrorism’ Victim: Daniel McGowan By Stephen Lendman
Fronting for corporate America, right wing groups like the Center for the Defense of Free Enterprise, Wise Use, the Competitive Enterprise Institute, and their lobbyists and PR flacks claim otherwise in their relentless war on the greens, backed by federal and state authorities calling saving the earth `eco-terrorism` and managing to get activists like Daniel… Continue reading
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Video – Zinn on class in America Pt.2
Howard Zinn: In the United States we are brought up to think there’s only one class Part Two Continue reading
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Up Is Down: The Military Budget By David Swanson
My point is not just that the military should be cut and that non-military investment produces more and better paying jobs. My immediate point is that we are not getting the news Continue reading
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Stanford laundered and siphoned money from wealthy Latin Americans to fund anti-leftist rebellions By Wayne Madsen
Stanford, with the knowledge of the Jewish investors, was laundering and forwarding their money to groups planning the overthrow of elected progressive leaders such as Hugo Chavez in Venezuela, Evo Morales in Bolivia, Rafael Correa in Ecuador, Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner in Argentina, and Daniel Ortega in Nicaragua. Continue reading
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BBC NEWS | World | Americas | US politicians meet ‘fit’ Castro
A seven-strong team of congressional Democrats is currently in Cuba, looking into ways to improve US-Cuban relations, but only three of them attended the meeting with Mr Castro. Continue reading
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Video – Zinn on class in America Pt. 1
Howard Zinn: In the United States we are brought up to think there’s only one class Continue reading
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Bernanke’s Financial Rescue Plan: The growing prospect of a U.S. default by Mike Whitney
There are myriad problems with Bernanke’s lending facilities which are nothing more than a crafty way of transferring wealth from the Fed to private industry via low interest loans. Continue reading
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Dima Omar – So what did we learn about anti-Semitism?
So why did the Oxford Literary Festival invite Atzmon? After all, he’s the “proud self-hating Jew” who wonders how America has allowed its foreign policies to be shaped by “ruthless Zionists”. He’s the one who insists that the burning of synagogues is illegitimate, yet he believes the motivations behind such actions are political rather than… Continue reading
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Video: Reel Bad Arabs
Hollywood’s villification of Arabs Continue reading
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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
The New Dark Age 