December 2009
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Assassinated CIA agents worked for "contractor" active in Venezuela… By Eva Golinger
At least eight US citizens were killed on a CIA operations base in Afghanistan on Wednesday … a suicide bomber infiltrated Forward Operating Base (FOL) Chapman located in the eastern province of Khost, which was a CIA center of operations and surveillance. Official sources in Washington have confirmed that the eight dead were all civilian… Continue reading
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Bilderbergs of the world unite! By William Bowles
31 December 2009 “In Post-War Iraq, Use Military Forces to Secure Vital U.S. Interests, Not for Nation-Building” — The Heritage Foundation And just in case you still haven’t got the point, the same Heritage Foundation document, dated 25 September, 2002 went on to tell us, “Protect Iraq’s energy infrastructure against internal sabotage or foreign attack Continue reading
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Kiyes nou ye? | Jean Jacques Dessalines, Haiti’s liberator and his three ideals | Paying Homage to Father Gerard Jean Juste: Yon Gwo Mapou Tonbe
These links and pages are posted on the occasion of the 206th anniversary of Haiti’s Independence. We remember we are a BLACK nation with a Vodun culture from mother Africa. We remember Jean Jacques Dessalines, Haiti’s liberator and his three ideals. We remember Dessalines’ Law and that Blacks were the original peoples on the planet,… Continue reading
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Obama bombs Yemen again, as he claims to stand “with those who seek their universal rights.” By Mozhgan Savabieasfahani
You would never guess that Yemen was occupied from 1839 to 1967 by Great Britain or that Israel and the U.S. deployed their air forces, and their air bases, to crush Yemen’s drive for independence. From the 1960’s until today, Yemen has had its sovereignty shattered by U.S. military interventions, both covert and overt. So,… Continue reading
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Escalating War in Afghanistan Apt to Hurt Fragile U.S. Economy By Sherwood Ross
If Iraq war spending helped plunge the U.S. economy into its worst slump since the Depression, what does President Obama think his escalation of the Afghan war will do it? Continue reading
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Junkyard Empire Live From Havana – “Rock El Imperio” Trailer
This is a trailer of a documentary that is currently in production of the band’s journey to cuba. Enjoy! Continue reading
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Haiti Newslinks for 30 December, 2009
This is a new departure for Creative-i. Formerly I used InI to network these daily compilations of newslinks, so we’ll see whether it’s worth the daily effort to do it here. I’m starting with Haiti as it’s a grossly under-reported country and yet another forgotten disaster of the Empire’s making. Continue reading
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Haiti Report for December 30, 2009
The Haiti Report is a compilation and summary of events as described in Haiti and international media prepared by Konbit Pou Ayiti/KONPAY. Continue reading
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Viva Palestina Update 30 December, 2009
The problem has been this: On first arriving we had a legal ban placed on us. Europeans have organised on a basis where we do not take any notice of the law. Codepink have used those activities to put pressure on the Egyptian authorities. Continue reading
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Bolivia: We Must Support a Universal Declaration of the Rights of Mother Earth By Pablo Solón and Comrac Cullinan
For Bolivia, December marked an important and historic step forward in climate change politics. We are of course not referring to Brokenhagen, where we saw the worst of intransigent, undemocratic and cynical tactics from the world’s largest emitters of carbon dioxide. The interesting action happened in a completely unreported event in New York when on… Continue reading
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Viva Palestina rebuts Egyptian ‘bungle’ allegations
The Egyptian Foreign Minister Ahmed Aboul Gheit claimed at a press conference on Tuesday (December 29) that his country was willing to assist the Viva Palestina convoy’s entry into Gaza. He cited two letters sent by the Egyptian embassy in London on November 10 and December 10. What he does not say is that the… Continue reading
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GAZA FREEDOM MARCH Only 100 people allowed into Gaza; sounds like a lot of marchers are angry
Haidar Eid, the coordinator of the Gaza Freedom March Steering Committee in Gaza talked with one of the GFM coordinators Tighe Barry and said that he understood that it would not be 1300 delegates, but was elated to hear that there will be 100 people coming tomorrow to represent the over 40 countries. Their group… Continue reading
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Gaza, We’ll Never Forget – a video by Haitham Sabbah
It only lasted 23 days, but following several years’ blockade, the affect was devastating to the Palestinians penned into Gaza, part of Occupied Palestine. The total destruction meted out by the Israeli Army, with the backing of citizens of the Jewish State and the approval of their international friends and supporters, including the USA and… Continue reading
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Egypt Approves Gaza Freedom March Passage, Viva Palestina Blunders Paperwork and Blames Egypt By Haitham Sabbah
In a press conference conducted earlier this evening, the Egyptian foreign minister, Ahmed Aboul Gheit announced some threats, warnings, surprises as well as some good news. The press conference that aired on Egyptian official TV a few hours ago was boiling with Aboul Gheit’s very firm and angry answers to the journalists’ questions who did… Continue reading
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U.S. Citizens attacked by Egyptian Riot Police in Cairo in front of U.S. Embassy By Cindy Sheehan
One of my friends, Joshua Smith, just texted me from Cairo and said that some U.S. citizens of the Gaza Freedom March went to the U.S. Embassy today there to try and implore the staff there to intercede on behalf of the March to help get them into Gaza—they were not so warmly welcomed. Continue reading
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Gaza Freedom Marchers walled in behind police barricade in front of UN office in Cairo
Cairo – Hundreds of activists staged a sit-in outside the United Nations building in Cairo demanding that the world body intervene to facilitate their entry into Gaza. Continue reading
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Viva Palestina convoy re-routed through Syria By Saed Bannoura
A humanitarian aid convoy on its way to the Gaza Strip has been re-routed through Syria after it was turned away at the Gulf of Aqaba. Continue reading
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Gaza London Demonstration 27 December 2009
A video in two parts by journalist James Penn on the Free Gaza demo in London, outside the Israeli Embassy in Kensington High Street on 27 December, 2009. Continue reading
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Viva Palestina Update: Gaza aid convoy to change course
Organisers of Viva Palestina aid convoy, which is trying to reach the Gaza Strip, have now agreed to go via Syria en route for Egypt. Continue reading
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Viva Palestina members start hunger strike
She said the hunger strike began at 11:25 on Sunday, marking the first bombs Israel dropped on the besieged population of Gaza on December 27, 2008. “Volunteers on the convoy are on a hunger strike and will only take fluids until the Egyptian side gives them the nod,” said the convoy’s press officer, Alice Howard. Continue reading
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