July 7, 2009
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Canada and Honduras By Yves Engler
Along with three Latin American heads of states, Zelaya tried to return to Honduras on Sunday. But the military blocked his plane from landing and kept a 100,000 plus crowd of supporters at bay. In doing so the military killed two protesters and wounded at least 30. On CTV Kent blamed Zelaya for the violence. Continue reading
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Video: Honduran coup resistance growing By Sandra Cuffe
Military resorts to killing protesters as increasing numbers take to the streets http://widgets.vodpod.com/w/video_embed/Groupvideo.2897816 more about “Honduran coup resistance growing“, posted with vodpod Continue reading
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The Raids on the Resistances Bookstore Zionist Fanatics Practice Serial Vandalism in Paris By DIANA JOHNSTONE
In the early afternoon of Friday, July 3, five men, mostly masked, stormed into the “Resistances” bookstore located in a quiet residential neighborhood of the 17th arrondissement in northwest Paris. To the startled women working in the shop, as well as two customers, they announcing that they were from the Jewish Defense League and began… Continue reading
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Media Lens: Hired Hands – Part 1: Iran, Obama, Gaza, And MPs’ Expenses
Inevitably, then, corporations do not restrict themselves merely to the arena of economics. Rather, as John Dewey observed, “politics is the shadow cast on society by big business”. Over decades, corporations have worked together to ensure that the choices offered by ‘representative democracy’ all represent their greed for maximised profits. Continue reading
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Palestine: Letter from an Israeli Jail By Cynthia McKinney
During Operation Cast Lead, U.S.-supplied F-16’s rained hellfire on a trapped people. Ethnic cleansing became full scale outright genocide. U.S.-supplied white phosphorus, depleted uranium, robotic technology, DIME weapons, and cluster bombs – new weapons creating injuries never treated before by Jordanian and Norwegian doctors. I was later told by doctors who were there in Gaza… Continue reading
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Israel Calls on Jewish Fanatics to ‘Save’ Galilee Nefesh B’Nefesh announced a programme to offer financial incentives to new immigrants By Jonathan Cook – Nazareth
Ariel Atias said he considered it a ‘national mission’ to bring ultra-Orthodox Jews — or Haredim, distinctive for their formal black and white clothing — into Arab areas, and announced that he would also create the north’s first exclusively Haredi town. The new settlement drive, according to Mr Atias, is intended to revive previous failed… Continue reading
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U.S. Occupation of Iraq Continues Unabated By Dahr Jamail
The SOFA is a sieve, and the number of US military personnel in Iraq is remaining largely intact for now. Add to the 134,000 US soldiers almost the exact number of military contractors (132,610 and increasing), 36,061 of which, according to a recent Department of Defense report, are US citizens. While the military and most… Continue reading
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MERIP: PAKISTAN UNDER PRESSURE
To outside observers, Pakistan has been “a problem” since its inception in 1947 — because its generals are enemies of Western-friendly India, because its frontiers are uncontrolled by the capital, because its nuclear arsenal is controlled by a coup-prone state. The summer 2009 issue of Middle East Report, “Pakistan Under Pressure,” peels back the clichés… Continue reading
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Michael Deibert interviews Haitian Prime Minister MICHÈLE PIERRE-LOUIS
Since her installation as Prime Minister, Pierre-Louis has presided over a stabilising of the security situation in this often politically unstable country, weathered the fallout and relief efforts after a trio of hurricanes killed at least 600 people last year and traveled both within Haiti and internationally to plead her government’s case. Continue reading
The New Dark Age 