October 2009
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Mexico 'opens its arms' to immigrants
Video: Mexico has taken steps to allow foreigners whether legally or illegally, to apply for citizenship Continue reading
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Alexander MEZYAEV Karadzic Trial Opened
The trial of President of the Serb Republic in Bosnia Radovan Karadzic started on October 26. Karadzic was not present he refused to attend, and this was due to serious reasons. Though the prosecution started putting the indictment together 14 years ago, it kept tailoring the document throughout the term. The most recent changes were… Continue reading
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Goldstone challenges US over Gaza report Pt 2
Al Jazeera’s Shihab Rattansi talks to Judge Richard Goldstone about the investigation into the Gaza war. He travelled to the United Nations in New York to find out if the war on Gaza has transformed Richard Goldstone from a sober jurist into a man on a mission to discredit Israel on an international stage. Continue reading
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Did Richard Goldstone hide more sinister crimes in Gaza? – Part 1: White Phosphorus and Flechettes By Peter Eyre
There was much praise for the UN investigations into war crimes committed in Gaza, led by Richard Goldstone. However, I feel that this report did not go far enough to investigate some other more serious allegations that were made. Continue reading
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Goldstone’s Detailed Response to the Berman- Ros-Lehtinen Resolution Criticizing the Report
I fully respect the right of the US Congress to examine and judge my mission and the resulting report, as well as to make its recommendations to the US Executive branch of government. However, I have strong reservations about the text of the resolution in question – text that includes serious factual inaccuracies and instances… Continue reading
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Chomsky on Palestine and the region in the Obama era: the emerging framework
The Imperial College Political Philosophy Society, in association with Palestine societies at UCL, SOAS, Goldsmiths, LSE, Imperial and Kings, proudly present one of the greatest political philosophers of all time: MIT Professor Emeritus Noam Chomsky, for what could be his last trip to London. Continue reading
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Negative spacemen By Alan Simpson MP
Nick Griffin has become Labour’s negative space. He occupies the political ground that Labour has abandoned and fills it with a different emptiness. Continue reading
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Obama Administration Launches Deceptive Swine Flu Propaganda Blitz To Counter Growing Criticism from Scientific and Medical Community By Richard Gale and Dr. Gary Null
President Obama and his top health officials are engaging in a major public relations effort to divert attention away from whether its swine flu vaccine is effective and safe – to whether there is enough of it to go around. And the media, as always, is cooperating fully. This echoes the way media debate was… Continue reading
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Organizing for the poor Pt.2
Williams: Articulating demands and needs of working class people is what’s required from the movement Continue reading
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Organizing for the poor Pt.3
Williams: Over the last several years the left has been suffering from demoralization and demobilization Continue reading
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The clock is ticking in Honduras By Al Giordano
30 October, 2009— Real News Network Al Giordano: A month before elections, coup regime that once sought to kill time is now running out of it Continue reading
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HOUSMANS Radical Books, London – Newsletter of events November 2009
NEWS 1. Peace House 50th Anniversary Celebration and Benefit 2. Housmans Peace Diary 2010 3. End of the decade sale! EVENTS 4. ‘What is Psychogeography Today?’ with Rich Cochrane 5. ‘Bob Dylan & Babylon: Together through Life’ with John Gibbens 6. ‘People Power: Unarmed Resistance and Global Solidarity’ with Howard Clark 7. ‘Songs of the Continue reading
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Former CIA Detainee Moazzem Begg Testifies at War Crimes Tribunal
After years of isolation and unjust imprisonment in Afghanistan and Guantanemo by the U.S. and British intelligence agencies and military, the testimony of Muazzam Begg, a young British Asian Muslim, is almost a miracle, given his sanity and eloquence after his ordeals, which is a testimony to his strength of character and faith. Continue reading
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UK/USA made use of Uzbek torture Craig Murray
Former Brit ambassador Craig Murray says UK and USA sent prisoners to Uzbek to be tortured http://widgets.vodpod.com/w/video_embed/Groupvideo.3780714 Watch Part 2 Here more about “UK/USA made use of Uzbek torture“, posted with vodpod Continue reading
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Are you listening yet, Mr Crozier? By Paul Haste on the picket line
Standing in solidarity with striking post workers on the picket line at central London’s huge Mount Pleasant mail centre, Mr Ward explained that ‘post workers have already lost 60,000 jobs and another 60,000 are at risk, while the remaining full-time workers fear being forced to accept part-time positions.’ Continue reading
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Cuba’s Sugarcane Ethanol Potential: Cuba, Raul Castro, and the Return of King Sugar to the Island
As the result of a precipitous contraction in the Cuban economy, Cubans have recently experienced crippling energy cutbacks and other shortfalls that are reminiscent of the devastating hardships of the “Special Period,” and industries have continued to falter due to the evaporation of credit and investment flows which largely dried up after the break-up of… Continue reading
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The Iron Cheer of Empire: No free tortillas in the Workhouse Republic By Joe Bageant
It may be my bias, or my imagination, or my distaste for toil, but from here [in Ajijic, Mexico] America looks like one big workhouse, “under God, indivisible, with time off to shit, shower and shop.” A country whose citizens have been reduced to “human assets” of a vast and relentless economic machine, moving human… Continue reading
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Honduras 100 Days of Resistance Pt1
28 October, 2009 Fault Lines’ Avi Lewis reports on polarization and power in the Americas Continue reading
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ABC Of West’s Global Military Network: Afghanistan, Baltics, Caucasus By Rick Rozoff
The century’s longest war continues to rage in South Asia with no sign of abating. Instead, the invasion of Afghanistan on October 7, 2001 has exploded into endless armed hostilities that have spread across the length and breadth of the nation, with U.S. and NATO military forces fighting an intensified counterinsurgency conflict in the north,… Continue reading
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WHATS THE WORD IN JOHANNESBURG AS FINANCIAL CRISIS ROCKS “THE RAINBOW NATION” HOPES FOR PROGRESS? By Danny Schechter
Johannesburg: There was lots of skepticism when I came to South Africa two years ago to show my film IN DEBT WE TRUST. While my critique of consumer debt resonated, the film’s forecast of a financial crisis didn’t. Their economy seemed to be doing well and it was hard to tell a society that tends… Continue reading
The New Dark Age 