June 2009
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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
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Deepa Kumar, “Obama’s Cairo Speech: A Rhetorical Shift in US Imperialism”
But if the speech marked a rhetorical shift, it did not chart new ground in terms of U.S. foreign policy. Instead, it signals the reemergence of liberal imperialism, packaged deftly and skillfully through the person of Barack Hussein Obama. Continue reading
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The blood pours: UN soldiers shoot at Haitian mourners outside church funeral of Father Jean Juste in Haiti by Marguerite “Ezili Danto” Laurent
In the fracas, the people immediately took the body of Father Jean Juste to protect it from being vandalized, because when mourners were coming out of the church, the U.N. started shooting. The people also picked up the body of a young man who was killed in front of the church by U.N. soldiers and… Continue reading
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Video: The Real News Network – Chuck D and DMC on hip hop and America Pt.6
Carlton Douglas Ridenhour (born August 1, 1960 in Roosevelt, New York), better known by his stage name, Chuck D, is an American rapper, author, and producer. He helped create politically and socially conscious rap music in the late 1980s as the leader of the rap group, Public Enemy. Continue reading
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Iran: What Can the Opposition Win? by Richard Seymour
The idea that Mousavi could be a Nelson Mandela or a Martin Luther King beggars belief. In fact, the more one learns about Mousavi, the more unsavory he seems, and the more it becomes clear that his candidacy is essentially an enterprise of the plutocratic Rafsanjani family. Continue reading
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Kaveh L Afrasiabi, "Iran: Mousavi States His Case"
The protest, which seeks fresh elections, is short on specifics and long on extraneous, election-unrelated complaints. The first two items relate to the televised debates that were held between the candidates, rather than anything germane to the vote count. Continue reading
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Beijing cautions US over Iran By M K Bhadrakumar
Beijing fears a confrontation looming and counsels Obama to keep the pledge in his Cairo speech not to repeat such errors in the US’s Middle East policy as the overthrow of the elected government of Mohammed Mosaddeq in Iran in 1953. Beijing also warns about letting the genie of popular unrest get out of the… Continue reading
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When Netanyahu Invalidated Camp David and Wadi Araba By Ahmad Barqawi
“The simple truth is that the root of the conflict has been and remains – the refusal to recognize the right of the Jewish People to its own state on its historical homeland”. Never have I heard the entire Arab-Israeli conflict summed up so concisely yet so deceptively. Continue reading
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Saree Makdisi – The language that absolves Israel
On Sunday night, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu delivered a speech that — by categorically ruling out the creation of a sovereign Palestinian state — ought to have been seen as a mortal blow to the quest for a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Continue reading
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Mourners at Father Gerard Jean-Juste's funeral accuse Catholic church, Haitian leaders of complicity in his death By Marguerite 'Ezili Dantò' Laurent
I listened to the men and women of Veye Yo recount their many bittersweet memories of Father Jean Juste. It was a sad and tragic telling of a life of struggle, suffering and untold persecutions by the church and the political powers, both in the U.S. and in Haiti. Amongst all the telling, two veterans… Continue reading
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Marchers accuse UN of shooting at Haiti funeral By JONATHAN M. KATZ
Marchers accused U.N. peacekeepers of killing the unidentified man during protests surrounding the funeral of the Rev. Gerard Jean-Juste, who was a close ally of exiled former president Jean-Bertrand Aristide. The protesters are incensed by the presence of foreign troops on Haitian soil. Continue reading
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The censored video: Max Blumenthal: Feeling the Hate In Jerusalem on Eve of Obama’s Cairo Address
Max Blumenthal writes: On the eve of President Barack Obama’s address to the Muslim world from Cairo, Egypt, I stepped out onto the streets of Jerusalem with my friend Joseph Dana to interview young Israelis and American Jews about their reaction to the speech. We encountered rowdy groups of beer sodden twenty-somethings, many from the… Continue reading
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Tell YouTube not to censor Max Blumenthal and Joseph Dana’s video
Blumenthal posted the video to YouTube called “Feeling the Hate in Jerusalem on Eve of Obama’s Cairo Address”. Then, without explanation, YouTube took down the video and has stonewalled all attempts to find out what happened. Continue reading
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Water for Sale: Thirst for Profit: Corporate Control of Water in Latin America
The People’s Water Forum, a global water justice movement which has referred to the World Water Forum as ‘false’ and ‘corporate driven,’ also gathered in Istanbul to protest the Fifth World Water Forum. In the People’s Water Forum Declaration, they sharply criticize the World Water Forum, stating that it is motivated by private interests and… Continue reading
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Video: Israeli troops humiliate Palestinians – and put it on YouTube
19 June, 2009 – Ha’aretz http://widgets.vodpod.com/w/video_embed/Groupvideo.2765705 Forty-three seconds: that’s the duration of a video clip uploaded to YouTube less than a year ago under the category of “Comedy.” For the “hero” of the clip, an unidentified young Arab, they were probably eternally long seconds and far from amusing. He was forced to slap himself and Continue reading
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The Real News Network – Iran's supreme leader appeals for calm
Khamenei gave his Friday prayer sermon in Tehran since last week’s election which sparked the biggest street protests in the Islamic Republic’s history. “Today the Iranian nation needs calm,” the supreme leader said. Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said Iran’s enemies were targeting the Islamic establishment by questioning the authenticity of this month’s election. “The enemies (of Continue reading
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Video: The Real News Network – Nuclear threats and double standards Pt.3
In the latest video, TRNN Senior Editor Paul Jay asked Gustavo Zlauvinen about the apparent hypocrisy of the IAEA’s pursuit in limiting Iranian nuclear armament. Jay asks that if the major nuclear powers were not disarming, and not signing the NPT, by what standard should countries like Iran limit their own nuclear programs. Continue reading
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Video: The Real News Network – Nuclear threats and double standards Pt.2
TRNN Senior Editor Paul Jay asked Gustavo Zlauvinen about the apparent hypocrisy of the IAEA’s pursuit in limiting Iranian nuclear armament. Jay asks that if the major nuclear powers were not disarming, and not signing the NPT, by what standard should countries like Iran limit their own nuclear programs. Continue reading
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MACHETERO WINS BIG IN THE UK TAKING AWARDS IN BOTH WALES AND ENGLAND
MACHETERO’s European Premiere in the Swansea Bay Film Festival in Wales took home the Award for Best Film – USA. The film is an exploration into the use of violence as a means towards liberation using the specific example of the island nation of Puerto Rico as springboard to delve into the broader and more… Continue reading
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Book Review: In praise of Engels By Michael Fitzpatrick
Hunt provides a comprehensive account of Engels’ life and work. He gives him full credit for his important contribution to the emergence of Marxism, from his collaboration with Marx in The Communist Manifesto of 1848 to his contributions to Capital (including the laborious tasks of editing and publishing Volumes 2 and 3 after Marx’s death)… Continue reading
The New Dark Age 