November 2009
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Ecuador: Dirty War in the Amazon By Christine Toomey
In the Ecuadorean Amazon basin our thirst for oil has triggered an eco-disaster: wholesale pollution and catastrophic cancer rates. And a bloody turf war has broken out. Ecuador is taking a survival plan to the Copenhagen Climate Change Conference. But will western governments listen? Continue reading
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Evo Morales: "There are only two ways: moving forward in support of change or going back to the past, going back to neoliberalism" By Arleen Rodríguez Derivet
Evo’s reelection is a fact not even contested by the right. Surveys give him a 34-point advantage over the closest of the other aspirants. In line with this figure, the most conservative result, the president will be returned with 52% and his nearest rival will barely reach 18%. Continue reading
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Afghanistan: The Hollow Politics of Escalation By Norman Solomon
An underlying conceit of the new spin about benchmarks and timetables for Afghanistan is the notion that pivotal events there can be choreographed from Washington. So, a day ahead of the president’s Tuesday night speech, the New York Times quoted an unnamed top administration official saying: “He wants to give a clear sense of both… Continue reading
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62nd Anniversary of Partition By Henry Lowi
As a result of Partition, only the Zionist state was formed in former Mandate Palestine. For the Zionists, Partition presented a “sh’at kosher” – an opportunity, a pretext – to carry out what was always inherent and implicit in the Zionist program – the ethnic cleansing of Palestine. Continue reading
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CentCom planners study massive move of equipment to Afghanistan
How do you marshal billions of dollars in equipment to escalate one war in Afghanistan while scaling back another in Iraq? Continue reading
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The real scandal in the hacked climate change e-mails controversy By Rupert Read
It is day six of the ‘scandal’ over the hacked emails from the Climatic Research Unit at the University of East Anglia’s School of Environmental Sciences, in which a thousand or so private email messages between climate scientists were hacked into and made public. According to the ostriches hoping that Copenhagen will fail, these emails… Continue reading
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Invitation to the 7th International meeting for Climate Justice Action
You are invited to the next international meeting of Climate Justice Action in Copenhagen, Denmark just prior to the UN Climate Conference (COP-15). Climate Justice Action meetings will also be held during the week of the UN meetings (Dec 11 onwards) in order to share information about actions and coordinate plans for the upcoming year… Continue reading
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‘Yes We Can’. ‘No We Won’t!’ By William Bowles
You don’t get to send 250,000 soldiers and materiel right up to the borders of Iraq and then send ’em all home again, any more than you get to become president of the United States without being already utterly and totally compromized on anything meaningful. Continue reading
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Iraq inquiry: Blair deal on regime change?
UK former ambassador to Washington tells Iraq inquiry he was excluded from Blair and Bush talks in 2002 Continue reading
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Help save the Palestinian village of Lifta from total destruction
Lifta, a most picturesque Palestinian village, lies on the slopes of West Jerusalem below the highway linking it to Tel-Aviv. It has been abandoned since the invading Hagana underground forces backed by the Stern Gang drove the last of its Palestinian inhabitants in 1948 during the ethnic cleansing of Palestine. Continue reading
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The Iraq War ‘Inquiry’: ‘Revelations’? What revelations? By William Bowles
I read with amazement the ‘revelations’ concerning war criminal Tony Blair’s visit to Camp Crawford in March 2002 where Bush/Blair decided that ‘regime change’ was the order of the day. But there’s nothing new about these ‘revelations’, indeed I and many others reported this meeting literally years ago. Continue reading
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America and Russia: Has the Cold War Really Ended? By Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya
The twentieth anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall is approaching, but has the Cold War really ended and is it really a historic relic of the not too distant past? The Soviet Union may no longer exist and the Warsaw Pact may have long been dissolved, but many of the remnants of the… Continue reading
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Iraq inquiry hears regime change claim
British Iraq inquiry hears Bush admin. discussed toppling Saddam two years before the 2003 Iraq invasion Continue reading
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Long-awaited UK Iraq war inquiry to start – 24 Nov 09
A long-awaited inquiry into Britain’s role in the Iraq war will begin in London on Tuesday Military chiefs, diplomats and government ministers are all expected to testify. Proceedings are expected to culminate with Tony Blair, the former UK prime minister, taking the stand. The inquiry’s chairman has said he is confident of producing a “full… Continue reading
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Former Soviet States: Battleground For Global Domination By Rick Rozoff
A Europe united under the EU and especially NATO is to be strong enough to contain, isolate and increasingly confront Russia as the central component of U.S. plans for control of Eurasia and the world, but cannot be allowed to conduct an independent foreign policy, particularly in regard to Russia and the Middle East. Continue reading
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Iraq Inquiry: The First Big Lie By Craig Murray
Sir John Chilcot was just ten minutes in to the first public session of the Iraq Inquiry when he told the first big lie – and a lie which, when examined, exposes the entire charade. Continue reading
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Climate change email claims ‘rubbish’
Skeptics claim leaked emails suggest Professor Phil Jones altered evidence about climate change Continue reading
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MEDIA LENS ALERT: DANCING ON A MASS GRAVE – OLIVER KAMM OF THE TIMES SMEARS MEDIA LENS
One of our most relentless critics is Oliver Kamm, leader writer and blogger at The Times. Kamm joined the paper in 2008 having been an investment banker and co-founder of a hedge fund. In a 2006 blog, Kamm described us as “a shrill group of malcontents”, an “aggressively simple-minded lobby” guilty of “unprofessional and often… Continue reading
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German government to give Israel warships for free: PROTEST DEMO
Israel, which has recently been condemned by the UN Human Rights Council because of their war crimes, asks Germany to build them two new warships – for free. Continue reading
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Sameh Brill – VIDEO: Looking at the Gaza War (if they let us): for “End the Siege on Gaza”
Sameh Brill is back! And he’s produced the first of a new series of videos for the European Campaign to End the Siege on Gaza. In this video we see news clips, but mostly… we see those who tell us that we weren’t allowed access to see ANYTHING. Those people include Richard Falk, George Galloway,… Continue reading
The New Dark Age 