May 2009
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Iqbal Jassat – ‘Terror’ Channels Face Freedom Threat
The current move to ‘cleanse’ the airwaves involves pro-Israeli members of the congress who are in the process of submitting a bill that seeks to target satellite stations as “terrorist organizations”. Continue reading
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Hisham Zreiq’s film Sons of Eilaboun: introduction by Gilad Atzmon
Sons of Eilaboun is a story of one small village in the Galilee, one village amongst many. It is a story of one massacre, one massacre amongst many. It is a story of a small community that is tormented and traumatised for generations. Sons of Eilaboun is in fact the story of Palestine. Continue reading
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Media Lens 18 May, 2009: Beholden To The Big Powers: Israel, Gaza And The UN
For the corporate media, then, there is no need for forensic analysis of this latest cynical sidelining of the UN, a body set up to promote world peace after all. There has been no rottweiler unearthing of this UN capitulation which, once again, effectively covers up major atrocities committed by Israel with heavy backing from… Continue reading
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Obama’s Animal Farm: Bigger, Bloodier Wars Equal Peace and Justice By Prof James Petras
McChrystal’s rise to leadership is marked by his central role in directing special operations teams engaged in extrajudicial assassinations, systematic torture, bombing of civilian communities and search and destroy missions. He is the very embodiment of the brutality and gore that accompanies military-driven empire building. Continue reading
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M. Junaid Levesque-Alam, “Pakistan at the Precipice”
After some searching, I realized that Pakistan’s existential crisis should not be seen as a shock but rather as an expected disappointment. The train of the Pakistani state did not jump the tracks; it merely arrived at the destination announced long ago by a series of indifferent conductors. Continue reading
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The A H1N1 Pandemic: Pig to Human Transmission of the Swine Flu? By Michel Chossudovsky
Are the cases of H1N1, reported in different countries, the consequence of a process of international transmission of the swine flu virus, or are they the result of a pre-existing situation? Or are the consequence of incorrect or misleading recording of the data. In other words, were these various “recorded cases” corroborated by lab testing… Continue reading
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Video: EuroPalestine, “Action Boycott Israel in Montigny, Paris Region”
http://widgets.vodpod.com/w/video_embed/ExternalVideo.824575 This action was led by the Anti-Capitalist Party (NPA), especially Omar Slaouti, who heads the NPA list in Ille-de-France, as well as by Senator Alima Boumediene-Thiery (Greens), conducted in a clear, educational fashion, with the participation of many local politicians. The NPA walks the walk, demonstrating that the call for the boycott of Israel, Continue reading
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Video: John Bellamy Foster, “One World Ecology”
John Bellamy Foster: There’s no way you can separate peace and ecology. Continue reading
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On TV: Israeli siege kills baby aged 2
Another Palestinian child died in a very dramatic scene documented on T.V. A baby aged 2 died today from a heart defect made worse by lack of medical care due to the Israeli imposed siege. Continue reading
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Reham Alhelsi — 61 Years of On-Going Nakba: the Old Still Live through Us and the Young Never Forgot
The greatest threat to Israel is our existence, and as long as we are steadfast in Palestine, they can’t take Palestine away from us. The destroyed homes will be rebuilt one day, and the empty villages will be refilled one day and all those ethnically cleansed will return one day. This is no wishful thinking,… Continue reading
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Pentagon Preparing For War With The Enemy: Russia By Rick Rozoff
The US plans to deploy ground-, sea-, air- and space-based anti-missile systems primarily around and against Russia (Poland, the Czech Republic, Norway, Britain, Japan and Alaska to date), the Pentagon will hold in reserve nuclear warheads for activation without a monitoring mechanism provided to Russian inspectors and arms reduction negotiators. Continue reading
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Video: WHY YOU SHOULD DEMONSTRATE ON 16 MAY
Every day from 27 December to 19 January this year Israel bombarded the Gaza Strip, home to 1.5 million Palestinians, from the land, sea and air. Nearly 1400 people were killed, 314 of them children, and thousands were wounded. Israel is seeking to justify its actions by broadcasting massive misinformation about the history of Gaza,… Continue reading
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Video: NATO exercise provoke Russia By F. William Engdahl
Engdahl: NATO exercises in Georgia are a provocative move against Russia by the Pentagon Continue reading
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Of Swine and Scapegoats: Reflections on Racism and Right-Wing Nuttery By Tim Wise
From Michelle Malkin to Neal Boortz to the perpetually unhinged and borderline-psychotic Michael Savage, the right was spewing the line that the outbreak of H1N1 flu was yet more reason to close the border with Mexico. To hear these folks tell it, ‘illegal aliens’ were flooding the nation, perhaps intentionally, with the goal of making… Continue reading
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Pathway To Darkness, Part 1: “The Easter Bombers”
Since the suspects are ODA a serious threat to the national security of Great Britain, their deportation hearings will take place in secret. So whatever evidence the authorities may have against them which is not admissible in open court will apparently be presented behind closed doors, if at all. Continue reading
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Fidel Ordered Chavez ‘Rescue’ By Fidel Castro and Ignacio Ramonet
Castro states that he phoned Miraflores Palace before Chávez surrendered and told him: “Don’t kill yourself, Hugo. Don’t do like Allende, who was a man alone. You have most of the Army on your side. Don’t quit, don’t resign. Continue reading
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Unfit for Combat By Dahr Jamail
The shocking story of a soldier killing five of his comrades does not come as a surprise when we consider that the military has, for years now, been sending troops with untreated PTSD back into the US occupation of Iraq. Continue reading
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Israel Knows That Peace Doesn’t Pay By Amira Hass
The Oslo process – negotiations that were never meant to end – allowed Israel to shake off its status as occupying power (obligated to the welfare of the occupied people) and treat the Palestinian territories as independent entities. Continue reading
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Video: Osama bin Laden was US operator: President Asif Ali Zardari
Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari has alleged that elusive Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden was a US operator who had tried to destabilise his late wife Benazir Bhutto’s government back in 1989. Continue reading
The New Dark Age 