October 2009
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Joao Bosco e Gonzalo Rubalcaba
Formidable Cuban pianist Gonzalo Rubalcaba http://widgets.vodpod.com/w/video_embed/Groupvideo.3770705 more about “Joao Bosco e Gonzalo Rubalcaba“, posted with vodpod Continue reading
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‘Rumba Para Monk’ Jerry Gonzalez and the Fort Apache Band
Fabulous New York-based band led by the brothers Andy & Jerry Gonzalez http://widgets.vodpod.com/w/video_embed/Groupvideo.3770660 more about “Rumba Para Monk Jerry Gonzalez and th…“, posted with vodpod Continue reading
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Olive Morris: Forgotten activist hero By Lizzie Cocker
In an age when xenophobia and Islamophobia are being stoked by illegal wars and immigration myths, the need to wrench hidden realities from history in order to see today’s truths has never been more urgent. And thanks to the Remembering Olive Collective (ROC) founded by artist Ana Laura Lopez de la Torre in 2007, a… Continue reading
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Ashley Smith, “A War of Terror in Pakistan: Interview with Saadia Toor”
The Pakistani Intelligence, with the full knowledge of the U.S., helped create and sustain the Taliban for years. Only after al-Qaeda’s attack on September 11 did the U.S. begin to oppose the Taliban, and once it did, this upset the longstanding relationship between the Pakistani state and the Taliban. Continue reading
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US drone strikes may break international law: UN official
US drone strikes against suspected terrorists in Afghanistan and Pakistan could be breaking international laws against summary executions, the UN’s top investigator of such crimes said Tuesday. Continue reading
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War Is a Hate Crime By Chris Hedges
Violence against lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people is wrong. So is violence against people in Afghanistan and Iraq. But in the bizarre culture of identity politics, there are no alliances among the oppressed. The Matthew Shepard and James Byrd Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act, the first major federal civil rights law protecting lesbian, gay,… Continue reading
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Student Palestine Solidarity Campaign Conference London 31 October, 2009
The Palestine Solidarity Campaign’s Student Conference will be a brilliant opportunity for students from across the country to meet and discuss what can be done to support peace and justice for Palestine. Continue reading
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A History of Failed Press Coverage of Afghanistan By Paul Fitzgerald and Elizabeth Gould, Nieman Watchdog
For decades, the American news media by and large have been simplistic and misleading in reporting U.S. relations toward Afghanistan, write Paul Fitzgerald and Elizabeth Gould. From 1981 on, they say, the press has kept vital information away from the American people. For almost 30 years – ever since we got a close-in view of… Continue reading
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Steve Williams: Organizing for the poor Pt.1
Video: Williams: For over two decades poor people in the US have been criminalized and vilified. Continue reading
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NATO vs CSTO: The Fogh of war By Eric Walberg
NATO’s reputation as the guardian of peace on Earth is in tatters these days. Once avowedly an alliance of North America and Western Europe to fight the communist hordes of Eurasia, it morphed into something quite difference with the collapse of the socialist bloc two decades ago. It now pretends to unite all of Europe… Continue reading
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The Military-Industrial-Congressional Complex Pt3
28 October, 2009 — The Real News Network Lawrence Wilkerson: Will the empire end with good leadership or blood? This talk by Larry Wilkerson was the keynote speech given at an event sponsored by the Sam Adams Associates for Integrity in Intelligence, American University History Department, American University’s Nuclear Studies Institute on Oct 21,2009 at Continue reading
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It’s official, they not only forgot, they don’t give a damn By William Bowles
The report on the explosion that blew an RAF Nimrod out of the sky over Helmand Province on 2 September, 2006 in which fourteen people died, was released today and it confirms my view of British military ‘adventures’ that I expressed in ‘Lest we forget?’. The report even names names of extremely high ranking officers… Continue reading
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Nuke Gaza By Jeff Gates
Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman may have tipped his Masada hand when he reportedly told Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan that Israel may use nuclear weapons against Gaza. The threat to Israel is not the 1.5 million Gazans who reside in the world’s largest open-air prison. The threat is the fast-growing global outrage at the… Continue reading
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Fahrenheit 2010: World Cup South Africa, 2010
International heavyweights like Archbishop Desmond Tutu, construction workers, FIFA’s Communications Director, street traders, politicians, and sports celebrities wade into the debate. National pride, corruption and even murder feature in this astonishingly candid film which peels back the glossy media veneer to expose the real concerns of ordinary South Africans: hopes about jobs, the eviction of… Continue reading
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Music video: Darcy James Argue’s Secret Society
I came across this album on my one and only Internet ‘radio’ station, Rootdownfm.com and was blown away by it. I don’t think since the likes of Gil Evans/Miles Davis have I heard such an original sound, combining ‘classical’ big band sound with well, he self describes his work as “steampunk big band”. Unique and… Continue reading
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Bring ALL British Troops Home By William Gladys
Although Prince Harry failed to march with the Anti-War Majority on the streets of London recently, a fearless Peace Seeking Lance Corporal bravely hoisted a Flag of Peace to the mast for the entire world to see. To observe a serving soldier marching in opposition to the Queen’s foreign policy in the Middle-East was heartening… Continue reading
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Pranksters Fixing the World By Mark Engler
21 October, 2009 — Foreign Policy In Focus Over the past 10 years, the Yes Men have emerged as an infamously daring and creative duo of anti-corporate pranksters. In their new movie, The Yes Men Fix the World, Andy Bichlbaum and Mike Bonanno (known in their non-activist lives as Jacques Servin and Igor Vamos) explain Continue reading
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The Military-Industrial-Congressional Complex Pt2
27 October, 2009 — The Real News Network Wilkerson: From US debt to the geopolitics of oil, the US empire will come to an end Bio Lawrence Wilkerson is a retired United States Army soldier and former chief of staff to United States Secretary of State Colin Powell. Wilkerson is an adjunct professor at the Continue reading
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Obama: Manufacturing A Savior A Case Study In Social Engineering – Fabricating Myths, Mantras, Consent and Dissent, for Imperial Mobilization By Zahir Ebrahim
Why does the newly elected President of the United States representing the most fanatically militarized and barbaric sole-superpower as its Commander in Chief – a dysfunctional nation on perpetual aggressive war-footings which has decimated both Iraq and Afghanistan over the past eight years in the quest for its own ‘preeminence’, and which continues to threaten… Continue reading
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Insanity and the Nobel Peace Prize: Obama and the Rule of Law By Felicity Arbuthnot
The ‘folly bordering on insanity’ of the Afghan invasion has entered it’s body-littered eighth year. The gulag that is Bagram (and its counterparts dotted around the globe) remain. The uncharged, condemned, rotting in Guantanamo, may be moved to rot in prisons in the US. Will the world know if any go missing to be spirited… Continue reading
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