September 2009
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PANAMAX 2009 and Honduras: Did They or Didn't They Attend the Annual War Games?
In another blow against the prestige of the de facto government, ousted President Manuel Zelaya’s unexpected return to Honduras has complicated matters for interim President Roberto Micheletti, who helped plan the seizure of the government on June 28. As public demonstrations suggest, a growing number of Hondurans now appear to be aligning in support of… Continue reading
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The Field: Seven Million Hondurans Under House Arrest as Micheletti Writes of "Democracy" By Al Giordano
The Honduran coup regime’s 26-hour martial curfew upon the entire country effectively places 7.5 million Honduran citizens – men, women, children and elders – under house arrest. They are prohibited from going to work, to the store, or to walk down the street to visit a neighbor. Anybody on the street is subject to arrest,… Continue reading
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The Nile Water… When would water go after gas to the Zionist state? BY Ali Hattar
What is taking place regarding the Nile’s water is not a simple matter… Without exaggeration… It is as important as war itself… Lieberman, the foreign minister of the wrathful Zionist entity, is taking a tour around African countries that are connected with the Nile… and before time elapses, and before those who are in charge… Continue reading
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Dyke in BBC ‘conspiracy’ claim
The BBC is part of a ‘conspiracy’ preventing the ‘radical changes’ needed to UK democracy, the corporation’s former director general has said. Continue reading
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Video: Cuba ‘Peace without Borders’
Video: Thousands attend the “Peace without Borders” concert in Havana, Cuba, featuring Colombian singer Juanes and other international artists Continue reading
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Israeli Organ Harvesting – The New “Blood Libel”? By Alison Weir
Recently Sweden’s largest daily newspaper published an article containing shocking material: testimony and circumstantial evidence indicating that Israelis may have been harvesting internal organs from Palestinian prisoners without consent for many years. Worse yet, some of the information reported in the article suggests that in some instances Palestinians may have been captured with this macabre… Continue reading
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Media Lens: The Cockroach Test
News that philosopher Alain de Botton had been hired as Heathrow’s “writer in residence” generated minor ripples across the media pond, including occasional murmurs of disapproval. Journalists momentarily failed to repress their awareness that truth into corporate profit-maximising does not go, although without perceiving the implications for themselves. Continue reading
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Who’s Afraid of Sibel Edmonds? By Sibel Edmonds and Philip Giraldi
Sibel Edmonds has a story to tell. She went to work as a Turkish and Farsi translator for the FBI five days after 9/11. Part of her job was to translate and transcribe recordings of conversations between suspected Turkish intelligence agents and their American contacts. She was fired from the FBI in April 2002 after… Continue reading
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Upcoming Cover Story on Edmonds ‘Outs’ Video-taped, ‘Blackmailed’ Dem Congresswoman; Alleges State Dept. Mole at NYTimes; MUCH MORE… By Brad Friedman
‘American Conservative’ mag’s description of interview with previously-gagged FBI whistleblower Sibel Edmonds as ‘explosive’ may prove to be a gross understatement. Blackmail, bribery, infiltration, theft, and sale of nuke secrets by Turkey, Israel explained in clearer detail than ever before… Continue reading
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Flu Frenzy and Missile Defense Selected Articles
Global Research Flu Frenzy and Missile Defense Selected Articles 16-20 September, 2009 Continue reading
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Video: Blue Scholars – Bayani
From The Album Bayani Redux. I really like this group who hail from Seattle, WA. Conscious lyrics with a cool sense of humour and laid back, jazzy hip-hop beats. http://widgets.vodpod.com/w/video_embed/Groupvideo.3462335 more about “Blue Scholars – Bayani“, posted with vodpod Continue reading
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The YES MEN: Last chance to be BIG and STUPID tomorrow in NYC!
This is just a quick last-minute note to invite you to our BIG EVENT early tomorrow morning (22 September) – and to join us at the Age of Stupid premiere that evening. Continue reading
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Missile Defense: The Other Story
We are witnessing a flurry of emails and articles proclaiming victory after President Obama’s announcement that he was going to scrap George W. Bush’s plans to deploy missile defense interceptors in Poland and a Star Wars radar in the Czech Republic. But now that we’ve had a day to rejoice, the time has come for… Continue reading
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Hands off my camera! By Nathalie Rothschild
Since the Counter-Terrorism Act 2000 came into force, many amateur and professional photographers have found themselves questioned, manhandled and detained by police who have received extended stop and search rights. Under section 44, uniformed police officers can stop individuals ‘for the purposes of searching for articles of a kind which could be used in connection… Continue reading
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The Execution of a Palestinian Journalist
On Wednsday, August 26 2009, the criminal Israeli occupation forces shot the Palestinian journalist Ubayda Maher Al-Qudsi, aged 25, while he was walking on Al-Shuhada Street in the heart of the occupied city of Hebron. Continue reading
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Climate Justice: ‘A potent mix of 46 essays, talks and declarations’
This stimulating book features a potent mix of 46 essays, talks and declarations new, recent and old, from famous politicians and lesser-known activists alike, tackling the issue of Climate Change and Climate Justice, not from the usual, apolitical, mainstream environmentalist angle, but from a left/ecosocialist viewpoint, one which considers global warming an issue of systemic… Continue reading
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Israel Escalates Anti-UN Campaign; Its Most Important Diplomatic Battle in Years By Batoul Wehbe
A day after the release of the critical Goldstone Commission report over Israeli crimes in Gaza, Israel continued its Anti-UN campaign. “The Goldstone committee is a committee that was set up to find Israel guilty of crimes that were determined in advanced, and the committee’s members did not let the facts confuse them,” said Israeli… Continue reading
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U.S. Missile Shield Plans: Retreat Or Advance? By Rick Rozoff
On September 17 the White House and the Pentagon, Barack Obama and Robert Gates, announced that after a sixty-day review of the project, the U.S. is going to abandon plans to station ten ground-based interceptor missiles in Poland and a forward-based X-band missile radar installation in the Czech Republic. Continue reading
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A Criminal State that MUST be Isolated. Reading the Goldstone Report By Khalid Amayreh
Israel is unusually furious over the publication this week of the Goldstone commission report which accuses the apartheid regime of committing war crimes and crimes against humanity in the Gaza Strip during the bloody blitz against the coastal Palestinian territory nearly nine months ago. Continue reading
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US Special Ops operates psywar websites targeted at UK By Lewis Page
The secretive US Special Operations Command (SOCOM) has awarded arms globocorp General Dynamics a $10m contract to set up a network of psychological-warfare “influence websites” supporting the Global War On Terror. France and Britain are specifically included as “targeted regions”. Continue reading