October 2009
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Cuban Fiesta: Dia de la Cultura Cubana London, 24 October 2009
Come and celebrate Cuba’s National Day of Culture with London’s Cuban community, 24 October, 2009 Continue reading
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AFRICOM Year Two: Taking The Helm Of The Entire World By Rick Rozoff
Africom’s creation signalled several important milestones in plans by the United States and its North Atlantic Treaty Organization allies to expand into all corners of the earth and to achieve military, political and economic hegemony in the Southern as well as the Northern Hemisphere. Continue reading
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Firuzeh Shokooh Valle, “Puerto Rico: Reflections on the National Strike”
22 October, 2009 — MRZine – Monthly Review On October 15, thousands of people in Puerto Rico flooded the streets to protest the government’s decision to lay off around 17,000 government employees (in total there have been around 25,000 lay-offs this year). Workers and members of trade unions, women, environmentalists, religious groups, students, teachers, professors, Continue reading
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Criminals shouldn’t be allowed to investigate themselves By Khalid Amayreh
In its rabid efforts to whitewash the Goldstone report, Israel is likely to carry out another disingenuous probe into its genocidal onslaught against the Gaza Strip nearly ten months ago. Continue reading
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Palestinian Protester to Blair: You are a Terrorist
“You are a terrorist, you are not welcome in the land of Palestine”. A Palestinian from the Hamdan family shouted these words in the face of Tony Blair, Quartet Representative for ‘Peace’ in the Middle East, when he arrived at the Iron Cage at the entrance of the Ibrahimi Mosque in Hebron. A bodyguard of… Continue reading
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Whose democracy continued… By William Bowles
23 October 2009 It’s not fair to leave you hanging like that (see Whose Democracy?), we really need to know why the left in the so-called developed world has failed so miserably to carry out its allotted task, a task laid down by our ancestors who spilt much blood, sweat and tears. It occurs to Continue reading
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Video: ATS News With Johnny Anonymous, Edition 02 – CIA Invests In Spying On You
In this edition Johnny leads off with startling coverage of the CIA’s efforts to invest in a small software firm that specializes in “social network monitoring” in their effort to spy on everything we do online. Through their venture capital firm, the CIA has shown their interest in the development of technology to track and… Continue reading
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Learn from Cuba says New Orleans mayor By Tom Mellen
New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin praised Cuba’s disaster response system on Tuesday, acknowledging that the islands’s socialist authorities ‘do a much better job than we do.’ Continue reading
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The Pharmaceutical Industrial Complex: A Deadly Fairy Tale By Dr. Doug Henderson and Dr. Gary Null
When we speak of the pharmaceutical industry complex, it does not refer solely to private drug manufacturers. The complex, like a Matrix that holds captive the health of the nation in medical slavery by its own design and manipulation, is a consortium, a spiders’ web woven with financial attachments throughout the medical profession. Continue reading
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The Real News Network – Attack on Syria cover up
Erlich: The US massacre at Al-Sukkariya, Syria in 2008 was a clear violation of international law Continue reading
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Latest Chapter in the Case of the Cuban Five: U.S. Justice as a Political Weapon By Michael Collins
The decision by a Miami court on Tuesday October 13 to reduce Antonio Guererro’s life sentence to 22 years imprisonment is the latest chapter in the ongoing legal battle to free a group of men known as the Cuban Five. Largely anonymous in the United States yet celebrities in their native Cuba, their conviction symbolizes… Continue reading
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The Plot Thickens: Honduran Coup Regime and Landowning Elites Enlist the Support of Foreign Paramilitaries By Reed M. Kurtz
Even more evidence has come to light regarding the desperation and disregard for human rights of the Honduran coup regime and its elite backers. On Friday, October 9 a United Nations human rights panel issued a warning concerning the presence of contracted foreign paramilitary forces operating inside the troubled country. According to the UN Working… Continue reading
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A Postal Strike In Britain Is The War At Home By John Pilger
The postal workers’ struggle is as vital for democracy as any national event in recent years. The campaign against them is part of a historic shift from the last vestiges of political democracy in Britain to a corporate world of insecurity and war. If the privateers running the Post Office are allowed to win, the… Continue reading
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PCHR Release English Version of ‘Targeted Civilians: A PCHR Report on the Israeli Military Offensive against the Gaza Strip (27 December 2008 – 18 January 2009)’
This report comprehensively documents the Israeli attacks on the Gaza Strip, in which more than 1,400 Palestinians were killed, and over 5,300 injured. The overwhelming majority of those killed and injured were civilians. Attention is also paid to the extensive destruction of civilian object, including homes, and the damage inflicted on industry, agriculture, and the… Continue reading
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Medical Aid for Palestine Annual Review 2008-09
Looking back over the events of the past year one cannot help but focus on the continuing humanitarian disaster in Gaza, exacerbated by the military incursion, which caused so much death and destruction. The timing was extremely poignant for MAP, since it coincided with the start of our 25th anniversary. It is indeed a sad… Continue reading
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Today is the Anniversary of the Maiden Voyage of THE DIGNITY By Greta Berlin
A year ago, our boat, the DIGNITY, made her first voyage to Gaza. She was a beautiful white and silver yacht, donated by people who believed in the Free Gaza movement after our first successful voyage in August. On board were dignitaries such as Mairead Maquire, the 1976 Nobel Peace Prize winner from Ireland and… Continue reading
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The JFK Assassination: New York Times Acknowledges CIA Deceptions By Peter Dale Scott
The New York Times, on October 17, published a page-one story by Scott Shane about the CIA’s defiance of a court order to release documents pertaining to the John F. Kennedy assassination, in its so-called Joannides file. George Joannides was the CIA case officer for a Cuban exile group that made headlines in 1963 by… Continue reading
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BLAIR PRESIDENT OF EUROPE? NO, A WAR CRIMINAL
Noam Chomsky, Bruce Kent, Baroness Jenny Tonge, Naji Haraj , John Pilger, Haifa Zangana and 3,346 other citizens have today on Thursday 22 October 2009 asked the United Nations General Assembly to uphold the United Nations Charter, The Geneva and Hague Conventions, and The Rome Statute of International Criminal Court and to charge Anthony Charles… Continue reading
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Iraq: The Road to Tyrannicide By Felicity Arbuthnot
As the U.K. Enquiry by Sir John Chilcot into the Iraq invasion seeks testimony from those affected, Iraq Solidarity Campaign founder, Hussein Al-Alak, writer on Middle East issues, veteran campaigner, gives a revealing glimpse into some of the enormous duplicity which led to the 2003 and subsequent tyrannicide. Continue reading
The New Dark Age 