July 3, 2009
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Video: Alireza Ronaghi, "Al Jazeera Returns to Streets of Tehran"
1 July, 2009 – MRZine – Monthly Review “About 4 kilometers behind me, there is a square in Tehran called Enqelab Square, which means revolution. A couple of hundreds of meters that way is the famous monument of Azadi Square, which means freedom. The road between Revolution and Freedom Squares has been the scene of Continue reading
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Western Exceptionalism and the Iran Election Fraud Stunt BY NOTSILVIA NIGHT
Western support and the extremely violent behavior of some armed post-election demonstrators have probably had a damaging effect on the efforts of Iranian women-rights- and other reform-movements. Their efforts might have been discredited so much, that a backslide of Iran into earlier hard-line positions in the matters of women´s rights might occur. Hopefully it won´t. Continue reading
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The Launching of U.S. Cyber Command (CYBERCOM). Offensive Operations in Cyberspace By Tom Burghardt
Ostensibly launched to protect military networks against malicious cyberattacks, the command’s offensive nature is underlined by its role as STRATCOM’s operational cyber wing. In addition to a defensive brief to “harden” the “dot-mil” domain, the Pentagon plan calls for an offensive capacity, one that will deploy cyber weapons against imperialism’s adversaries. Continue reading
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Video: Angel Palacios, "Honduras Resists"
3 July, 2009 – MRZine – Monthly Review Honduran women and men were called upon by President Manuel Zelaya Rosales to participate in a popular referendum on 28 June 2009 in order to convene a National Constituent Assembly. In the morning of the day of the referendum, the president was abducted and removed from the Continue reading
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Video: Cynthia McKinney calls WBAIX from Israeli prison
Cynthia and 20 others were detained after being seized by Israeli Navy while in international waters. They were attempting to deliver humanitarian aid to Gaza. For More Propaganda Countering News Goto Dprogram.net – http://dprogram.net http://widgets.vodpod.com/w/video_embed/Groupvideo.2868571 more about “Cynthia McKinney calls WBAIX from Isr…“, posted with vodpod Continue reading
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“For Once, the Yes Men Say No” and withdraw their movie from the Jerusalem Film Festival
In the 1980s, there was a call from the people of South Africa to artists and others to boycott that regime, and it helped end apartheid there. Today, there is a clear call for a boycott from Palestinian civil society. Obeying it is our only hope, as filmmakers and activists, of helping put pressure on… Continue reading