October 2009
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VIDEO: Fighting against water privatisation in South Africa
12 October, 2009 — LeftClick Water is Ours (Amanzi Ngawethu) 10 mins (Medium 20MB) Authorship: Coalition Against Water Privatisation, Centre for Applied Legal Studies, Anti-Privatisation Forum, Friction Films, Unitarian Universalist Service Committee. http://widgets.vodpod.com/w/video_embed/ExternalVideo.885984 more about “LeftClick: VIDEO Fighting against wat…“, posted with vodpod Continue reading
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Spying on Americans: The Bipartisan National Security State – Telecoms Lobby US Congress By Tom Burghardt
The bipartisan consensus that encourages unaccountable secret state agencies to illegally spy on the American people under color of a limitless, and highly profitable, “war on terror” was dealt a (minor) blow October 13. Federal District Court Judge Jeffrey White denied a motion by the Obama administration that the court issue a 30-day stay to… Continue reading
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The Real News Network – Peruvian protesters detained, allegedly tortured
The Real News Network – Peruvian protesters detained, allegedly tortured Continue reading
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Diego Garcia: A thorn in the side of Africa's nuclear-weapon-free 'zone By Peter H. Sand
More than 13 years after its signature, the Pelindaba Treaty, which establishes Africa as a nuclear-weapon-free zone, officially came into force this summer. However, conflicting British and African interpretations of an oblique footnote about Diego Garcia threaten to put one signatory, Mauritius, in breach of the treaty. For Africa to truly be considered nuclear-weapon-free, this… Continue reading
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Geo-Strategic Chessboard: War Between India and China? By Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya
Since 1947, India has not fully pledged itself to any camp or global pole during the Cold War and as a result was a founding member of the Non-Aligned Movement (N.A.M.). Since the post-Cold War era that position has eroded. New Delhi has been gradually moving away from its traditional position, relationships, and policies in… Continue reading
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Whose democracy? By William Bowles
It’s really time I started writing more about the country I live in, the country of my birth, the UK, a country that has the oldest, the most cunning, the most duplicitous (not to mention the most mendacious) of all ruling classes, after all they’ve been at it for five hundred years, finally being forced… Continue reading
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MEDIA LENS ALERT: THE BALANCE OF POWER – EXCHANGES WITH BBC JOURNALISTS – PART 2
19 October, 2009 — MEDIA LENS: Correcting for the distorted vision of the corporate media A Gale Of Spring Air – Barbara Plett And The President On September 24, we wrote to the BBC’s Barbara Plett: Dear Barbara Plett It’s hard to believe your article, ‘Debuts and diatribes at the UN’, was written by a Continue reading
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Global Research Imperial Strategies and the Global War Theater Selected Articles 12-18 October, 2009
18 October, 2009 — Global Research Don Guttenplan, Quentin Young, Cindy Sheehan, Rick Rozoff, Robert Abele on The Global Research News Hour – 2009-10-23 Britain: Government anti-terrorism strategy ‘spies’ on innocent Data on politics, sexual activity and religion gathered by UK government – by Vikram Dodd – 2009-10-18 Geo-Strategic Chessboard: War Between India and China? Continue reading
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Letter from South Africa By Cynthia McKinney
Much is at stake today in South Africa at a time when criminal charges have been brought against the South African National Police Commissioner and those charges have implications for the country’s leading political party; in addition, there are ongoing investigations into arms deals that could lead all the way to top ANC leaders; information… Continue reading
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Britain: Government anti-terrorism strategy ‘spies’ on innocent By Vikram Dodd
16 October, 2009 — The Guardian The government programme aimed at preventing Muslims from being lured into violent extremism is being used to gather intelligence about innocent people who are not suspected of involvement in terrorism, the Guardian has learned. The information the authorities are trying to find out includes political and religious views, information Continue reading
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Israeli High Court of Justice against Bassam Aramin
On Wednesday we – members of the Combatants for Peace movement, women of Mahsom [Heb. checkpoint] Watch, members of the Forum of Bereaved Families for Peace and writer David Grossman – attended a hearing at the High Court of Justice on the matter of the closing, due to lack of evidence, of the investigatory file… Continue reading
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“Royal Mail secret plot with ‘the Shareholder’ (ie. the Labour government)
17 October, 2009 — Red Postie BBC Newsnight on Thursday revealed a leaked confidential document spilling the beans on a Royal Mail plan to impose cuts, provoke a strike and smash the union. This blows a hole in their spin over the past couple of weeks about an uncooperative union! The document, marked ‘in strictest Continue reading
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US Military Fuel Use for Operations in Iraq and Afghanistan
we don’t know the real amount and cost of fuel consumed during the Operation Iraqi Freedom and Operation Enduring Freedom. What we more or less know is the amount and cost of fuel consumed in Iraq and Afghanistan by the US military forces. And my guess is that what we know is only the tip… Continue reading
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Honduras: National Front of Resistance against the Coup d'État, "Communiqué No. 28"
13 October, 2009 — MRZine – Monthly Review The National Front of Resistance against the Coup d’État, in view of the latest developments at the table of dialogue established at the behest of the Organization of American States (OAS) announces that: We withdrew our compañero Juan Barahona from the so-called Guaymuras dialogue. Comrade Barahona served Continue reading
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A NATO for the Middle East? Israel and Frontline Arab States Join Hands By Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya
After the Anglo-American invasion of Iraq the U.S. and British governments gave up their excuses about bringing democracy to the people of the Middle East and started slowly talking about their strategic interests in the region. Fighting terrorism and bringing democracy were mere pretexts for military assaults. The Anglo-American game plan exposed itself in the summer of 2006… Continue reading
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Real News Network: New 9/11 inquiry squashed
More than eight years after the 9/11 attacks some in the U.S are not convinced they’ve been told the whole truth about that day. Around eighty thousand campaigners have called for a referendum on a new investigation into the tragedy, but America’s Supreme Court has ruled it out. Continue reading
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The Real News Network – Iraq Fallout: The Poisonous Legacy of War Pt 1
15 October, 2009 — Real News Network Author Abdulhaq Al-Ani on Uranium in Iraq from US military equipment and the dire effects on Iraqis Iraqis living to the south of Baghdad have blamed depleted uranium from US military equipment for causing a rise in the number of cancer cases. These cancer cases have spread fears Continue reading
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How Much Longer Will You Remain Passive? By David DeGraw
I work for two news websites and spend 12 hours a day, six days a week analyzing the news. My eyes are strained and bloodshot, I fight through constant headaches, and the icing on the cake, I now work more hours while making less money then I ever have. Such is life in the online… Continue reading
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Escalation of US NATO War in Afghanistan: The Risks of Regional Conflagration By Rick Rozoff
The conflict has indeed proven to be much broader than Afghanistan. It has already reached throughout South and Central Asia, dragging in troops from all parts of the planet and crisscrossing much of Eurasia and the Middle East with the transit of soldiers, arms, military cargo planes and armored vehicles. It has become a battleground… Continue reading
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