July 2009
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Nicaragua: An unfinished revolution – 17 July, 2009 – Part 3
Al Jazeera’s Lucia Newman visits Nicaragua and speaks with former combatants and leaders in the country’s civil conflict and to ordinary citizens about how their lives have been impacted by 30 years of broken promises from across the political spectrum. Part Three Continue reading
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Nicaragua: An unfinished revolution – 17 July, 2009 – Part 2
Al Jazeera’s Lucia Newman visits Nicaragua and speaks with former combatants and leaders in the country’s civil conflict and to ordfinary citizens about how their lives have been impacted by 30 years of broken promises from across the political spectrum. Part Two Continue reading
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Nicaragua: An unfinished revolution – 17 July, 2009 – Part 1
Al Jazeera’s Lucia Newman visits Nicaragua and speaks with former combatants and leaders in the country’s civil conflict and to ordfinary citizens about how their lives have been impacted by 30 years of broken promises from across the political spectrum. Part One Continue reading
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Felipe Stuart Cournoyer, "Honduras: The Hour of the Grassroots "
For Washington and the coup high command, Zelaya’s return to Honduras may represent the only way to avoid an armed popular uprising. But, for the Honduran masses, his return, even under onerous conditions, would mean that the illegality and disastrous impact of the military takeover had been admitted. Zelaya’s return could thus fuel mass resistance… Continue reading
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“My Hell in an Israeli Jail”: Israel Prison Population 90 Percent Black Africans By Voice Online, UK
It should come as no surprise that a settler state based on the rule of one ethnic group would be steeped in racist public policies. But the sheer scope of Israel’s institutional oppression of Africans shocked human rights activists imprisoned for attempting to deliver humanitarian assistance to Palestinians in Gaza. ‘The first day I was… Continue reading
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22 July, 2009 Video Free Gaza News Hedy Epstein
This Free Gaza video is an interview with a great woman, Hedy Epstein, just turned 85. She has dedicated her life to working for peace and human rights. In June she was going to sail to Gaza with the other 21 volunteers on board the Spirit of Humanity. But she was attacked just days before… Continue reading
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Obama Lies on Two Continents, is Denounced in New York By Glen Ford
Barack Obama may be the most effective propagandist for U.S. imperialism in a very long time. But his narrative to Africans is built on blatant falsehoods, and his spiel to Black America is fundamentally dishonest and evasive. Demonstrators in Manhattan declared: ‘We will no longer tolerate a message from within our community, that the policies… Continue reading
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Video: Cynthia McKinney on Running the Gaza Blockade, and Black Solidarity With Palestine
Video: TThe accomplished filmmakers at SleptOn.Com sat down with former Georgia congresswoman Cynthia McKinney after her release from an Israeli prison. Continue reading
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Iraq: Release Hassan Ahmad and grant him asylum in the UK
Hassan is an active member of the International Federation of Iraqi Refugees. He is currently detained in Doncaster IRC and awaiting deportation also Hassan has been a member of the Worker Communist Party of Iraq since 1993. The Worker Communist Party of Iraq is a banned organisation in Iraq and Kurdistan. Its members both at… Continue reading
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Arafat Assassination Allegations: The Plot Thickens By TOUFIC HADDAD
Qaddoumi heads the PLO politburo and Fateh’s Central Committee. Last week he released a document that implicated current PA president Abu Mazen and his henchman Mohammed Dahlan in Israeli intentions to poison former PA president Yasser Arafat. The damning allegations were a frontal attack on the legitimacy of Abu Mazen and Dahlan, who remains a… Continue reading
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“Be Bold” By Dahr Jamail
US Army Specialist Victor Agosto, who publicly refused to deploy with his unit to Afghanistan, was to receive the harshest court-martial possible for his decision – one that would land him in jail for up to one year, followed by a dishonorable discharge. However, within hours of the publication of a Truthout report about his… Continue reading
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UQ Wire: 9/11 FEMA Videographer Goes Public
As official videographer for the U.S. government, Kurt Sonnenfeld was detailed to Ground Zero on September 11, 2001, where he spent one month filming 29 tapes: “What I saw at certain moments and in certain places… is very disturbing!” He never handed them over to the authorities and has been persecuted ever since. Kurt Sonnenfeld… Continue reading
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Video: The Honduran Battle for Washington
Video: As talks for a peaceful resolution fail, a fierce battle is on to win over the US government Continue reading
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Honduras: Anti-Chavez ‘free speech’ warriors linked to coup By Federico Fuentes
18 July, 2009 — Green Left Caracas – The Inter American Press Association (IAPA) is well-known for its mission to expose the Venezuelan government of President Hugo Chavez as a threat to free speech ‘all over the continent’. These brave free speech warriors made a big deal this year about how they ‘dared’ to hold Continue reading
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Iran: the new elite By Vladimir YURTAYEV
The whole thing [the election] boils down to the following: part of the old revolutionary elite that’s taken possession of economic profits gave way to the new elite following M. Ahmadinejad’s win in 2005, an elite that’s emerged on the basis of the Army and that’s relying on the other part of the old revolutionary… Continue reading
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Future of Russian Strategic Nuclear Forces In the Wake of Obama's Moscow Visit By General Leonid Ivashov
As the US Administration is fully aware of the state of Russia’s strategic nuclear forces and the outlook for them, its consent to the proposed parameters of the arms reduction was not hard to extract. Speaking precisely, Washington simply tailored the parameters of the proposed cuts to its own military programs whose underlying strategy is… Continue reading
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Government Gone Mad By Joel S. Hirschhorn
The whole Obama story and the Democratic control of Congress are a disgrace. Progressives who eagerly supported Obama should be ashamed of themselves. They should be leading a revolution, not make excuses for Obama and the Democrats. Continue reading
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Dick Cheney’s “Executive Assassination Ring”. Was British Weapons Expert Dr. David Kelly a Target? By Tom Burghardt
Revelations that the Central Intelligence Agency launched a world-wide assassination program, and then concealed its existence from the U.S. Congress and the American people for eight years, carries an implication that death squads may have been employed against political opponents. Continue reading
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Video: British Media Report on Gaza, the `Killing Zone` Murder of Citizens in Israel
The Israeli military guns down civilians in cold blood, including Americans and British. This documentary shows the evidence and what life is like for civilians in Gaza, Israeli occupied Palestine. Continue reading
The New Dark Age 