June 22, 2009
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The Amazon Rainforest: Worth the Fight of Brazil and the Rest of the World
As the rainforest is one of the largest natural resources, when properly functioning, it actually counteracts the global pollution. Presently, Brazil’s contribution to global pollution levels at this point stems almost entirely from the destruction of the rainforest, as 75 percent of Brazil’s contribution to global greenhouse emissions is a result of deforestation. Continue reading
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A Sunday With Vanunu By Eileen Fleming
It was Vanunu who inspired me to became a citizen journalist, and three weeks after my first trip to occupied east Jerusalem I established my website and have been reporting from day on Vanunu’s historic FREEDOM of SPEECH trial in the ‘democracy’ of Israel which began on January 25, 2006. Continue reading
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Video: Blue Scholars – No Rest For The Weary
Excellent Seattle-based hip-hop band. http://widgets.vodpod.com/w/video_embed/Groupvideo.2784792 more about “Blue Scholars – No Rest For The Weary“, posted with vodpod Continue reading
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Palestine: Work for Justice, Go to Jail? By David Shulman
Bad times bring out the best in some people. Most of us remain passive, even willfully blind, in the face of great crimes that we see perpetrated on others, whether they are strangers or our next-door neighbors. But there will always be someone, probably just an ordinary decent person, to whom this rule doesn’t apply… Continue reading
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Video: On the Real Off the Record- with Chuck D
Video: Legendary “Raptavist” Chuck D: We are living in times of weapons of mass distraction Continue reading
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Lingering White Supremacy In South Africa Sounds Much Like United States By Robert Jensen
‘During apartheid the racism of white people was up front, and we knew what we were dealing with. Now white people smile at us, but for most black people the unemployment and grinding poverty and dehumanizing conditions of everyday life haven’t changed,’ a black South African told me. ‘So, what kind of commitment to justice… Continue reading
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China, Copper, the Democratic Republic of Congo—and the IMF
In a classic example of the witless stenography that passes for Western reporting on Asian and African issues, the actual story – IMF threatens to withhold debt relief unless the Chinese deal is renegotiated – got a bit of a twist – as in Voice of America’s ‘Chinese Mineral Deal Blocking Congo’s IMF Debt Relief.’ Continue reading
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Charlie Skelton Our man at Bilderberg: ‘You are not allowed to take pictures of policemen!’
I need to go back a day and tell you exactly how I came to be in an Athens metro station at 8am, grappling with two strange men, struggling and yelling: ‘Help me somebody! Security! Please! Someone get security! Get the police!’ My voice still hurts. My brain is ready to explode. But that is… Continue reading
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Bolivia: New Political Constitution of the State – Foundations of the State
Given the pre-colonial existence of the indigenous originary farmer nations and people and their ancestral domain over their territories, their free determination is guaranteed within the frame of the unity of the State, which consists in their right to autonomy, to self-government, to their culture, to the recognition of their institutions and to the consolidation… Continue reading
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A world away, Palestinian seeks justice By Iain Marlow
First came the fence, which splintered the olive trees from Bil’in, the Palestinian village that tended them. Then came the tear gas canister that hit a local, well-liked man named Basem Abu Rahme in the chest, killing him. Continue reading
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Muhammad al-Arabi – A realist’s view of the protests in Iran
The ruling theocratic establishment is deeply divided, with Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamene’i and President Ahmadinejad on one side, and Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani and Mir Hussein Mousavi on the other. But there are also others occupying various positions in between, posturing, manoeuvring, politicking and hoping to ease themselves into power, one way or another Continue reading
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Iran: Friday Address, 19 June 2009 by Ali Khamenei
“The amateurish behavior of some people inside the country made them [the Western powers] greedy. They have mistaken Iran for Georgia. (Crowd laughing.) . . . The enemy’s problem is that they do not yet understand the Iranian nation.” Continue reading
The New Dark Age 