April 2009
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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
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Palestine: Shooting and Crying – Nothing New Since 1948 … Or is it? Anis Hamadeh
The Jewish state will collapse, like the Aryan state has collapsed, because both have the seed of self-destruction in them. Both are clearly racist, violent and expansionist in nature. This time it hits Arabs and Muslims instead of Jews. Continue reading
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COHA: The G20 and Latin America: A “Rendezvous With Destiny” or a False Start?
The debilitating ramifications of the crisis are not geographically localized, and therefore, any solution requires a global response that includes not only the most developed nations, but also the emerging market economies of the world. Continue reading
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William Blum: Anti-Empire Report, Number 68, 4 April, 2009 Some thoughts about socialism
Wall Street has not only an army of lawyers and accountants, but a horde of mathematicians with advanced degrees searching for the perfect equations to separate people from their money. Continue reading
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‘Is anti-Zionism hate?’ By Stephen Lendman
Supporting Zionism is repugnant, indefensible, and equivalent to defending cancer, a malignancy relentlessly destroying its host. It must be exposed, denounced, and once and for all expunged from the body politic. Continue reading
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Active Thermitic Material Discovered in Dust from the 9/11 World Trade Center Catastrophe
Although the authors do not address the broader issue of the 9/11 attacks, their findings have a direct bearing on the likely causes of the collapse of the WTC buildings on September 11, 2001. The findings also question the validity of the official report of the 911 Commission. Continue reading
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Gorbachev blasts NATO eastward expansion
Gorbachev said in an interview with Germany’s Bild newspaper published on Thursday that Western Germany, the United States and other powers had pledged after Germany’s reunification in 1990 that “NATO would not move a centimeter to the east.” Continue reading
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Baton charges and kettling: police’s G20 crowd control tactics under fire
Police tactics of containing thousands of people for several hours at the Bank of England protests and using batons against climate camp protesters were condemned yesterday as an infringement of the right to demonstrate. Continue reading
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Indymedia London: Video of police attack on G20 climate camp
This short film shows the campers calling out “this is not a riot” and holding their arms in the air, while riot police surge forward wielding batons and shields in an unprovoked attack. Bikes, tents and personal belongings were damaged and lost in the attack. Continue reading
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Why Is the Center for American Progress Cavorting with Neocons? Oh, Right, Because They Are on the Same Team By Jeremy Scahill
On April 3, CAP is hosting a little release party for the report in the form of a public discussion arrogantly titled, “A New Way Forward in Afghanistan,” which includes a leading neoconservative activist, Frederick Kagan, one of the lead proponents of the “surge” in Iraq. Continue reading
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Military Escalation and Obama’s “War on Terrorism”: US Officials “Rediscover” ISI-Taliban Nexus By Tom Burghardt
While an open secret in Washington, Obama’s new product roll-out in the form of an ill-conceived plan to “disrupt, dismantle and defeat” al-Qaeda and the Taliban has everything to do with the construction of the $7.6 billion dollar “Turkmenistan-Afghanistan-Pakistan-India (TAPI) pipeline Continue reading
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PCHR: Aftermath (7) ‘I know every inch of this land…’
Land Day was launched in 1976, as a commemoration of the deaths of six Palestinian citizens of northern Israel killed by the Israeli military as they demonstrated against expropriation of their land. Continue reading
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COHA: Time to Debate a Change in Washington’s Failed Latin American Drug Policies
Despite 37 years of universal cooperation pursuant to the United Nations General Assembly resolution 39/141, which has been the basis of U.S. anti-drug policy ever since; it is a statute which regularly has proven to be ineffective. Continue reading
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COHA: Camilo Torres: Prayer Can’t Solve Poverty Alone
Camilo Torres proposed a political, social and economic paradigm shift, which in 1965 served to inspire the emergence of the National Liberation Army (ELN), a Colombian left-wing guerrilla group. Soon after the ELN was founded, Torres joined it and became its political face. Continue reading
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Sudan/Darfur is Test Case for Obama’s “Humanitarian” Aggression By Glen Ford
“Obama has not broken the American mold, but rather, appears to be fine-tuning a ‘humanitarian’ interventionist doctrine.” Continue reading
The New Dark Age 