December 2009
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MEDIA LENS ALERT: CHILCOT INQUIRY – THE ESTABLISHMENT GOES TO WORK – PART 1
The use of military and economic force to control and exploit the world is non-negotiable for these interests. We are free to vote for the Labour party to attack ‘threatening’, but in fact defenceless, Third World countries, or we can vote for the Conservative party to do the same. We can buy the Guardian that… Continue reading
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Book Review: Yankee Doodle Ecologist: Tom Friedman and the Green Revolution By Jerry Harris
The book’s title, Hot, Flat, and Crowded is a good indicator as to how Friedman understands environmental problems. Underline that word crowded because the book takes us on a Malthusian ride through the Third World. It’s overpopulation, not capitalism and its need for every expanding accumulation that is destroying the world’s environment. Continue reading
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A Million Hits on Gaza – A Promotional Film about Gaza Launches New Book’s Worldwide Awareness Campaign
The short film, carrying the name of the book, is being released on YouTube, in both English and Arabic versions. The film will also be broadcast on a number of TV stations around the world. The filmmakers and book author are calling on readers and activists around the world to ensure the widest possible dissemination of Gaza’s… Continue reading
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Russia, NATO and Afghanistan: High stakes Great Game By Eric Walberg
Explaining the willingness of Euro leaders to ignore their constituents, former US ambassador to NATO and RAND adviser Robert Hunter told the Council of Foreign Relations (CFR): “In terms of motivation, very few European countries believe that winning in Afghanistan — that is, dismantling, defeating, and destroying Al-Qaeda and Taliban — is necessary for their… Continue reading
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Copenhagen spoof shames Canada; Climate Debt No Joke
What at first looked like the flip-flop of the century has been revealed as a sophisticated ruse by a coalition of African, North American, and European activists. The purpose: to highlight the most powerful nations’ obstruction of meaningful progress in Copenhagen, to push for just climate debt reparations, and to call out Canada in particular… Continue reading
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Undermining the American People’s Right to Privacy: The Secret State’s Surveillance Machine By Tom Burghardt
Hoping to forestall public suspicions of how things actually work in Washington, the administration has declared that “it will continue to block the release of additional documents, including communications within the Executive Branch and records reflecting the identities of telecoms involved in lobbying for immunity,” according to EFF’s Senior Staff Attorney Kurt Opsahl. Continue reading
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The problem with politics By Jim Jepps
As a class [politicians have] not helped themselves. When the previous speaker of the house resigned it was not simply because he had failed to tackle the expenses regime – he was making vigorous use of it and was taken down in the very scandal he should have prevented in possibly one of the first… Continue reading
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Veterans Group Calls on Soldiers to Refuse Orders to Deploy to Afghanistan and Iraq By Dahr Jamail
In response to President Barack Obama’s announcement on December 1 to deploy 30,000 additional troops to the occupation of Afghanistan, the organization March Forward!, with comprising both veterans and active-duty members of the US military, has called on all soldiers to refuse their orders to deploy. Continue reading
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Interview with Bolivia’s Climate Change Ambassador By Robert Eshelman
Pablo Erick Solón Romero Oroza: For the capitalist system everything, nature – even other humans – is considered an object that you can use to obtain a profit. What we are seeing is the consequence of this vision Continue reading
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Copenhagen eyewitness: The rising tide of climate justice By Lauren Carroll Harris
One hundred thousand protesters braved near freezing temperatures and took over the Danish capital, Copenhagen, on December 12 to crank up the heat on world leaders at the United Nations Climate Summit (COP15) and demand climate justice. Continue reading
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My Father Was a Freedom Fighter: Gaza’s Untold Story By Ramzi Baroud
Told from the perspectives of the refugees, My Father Was a Freedom Fighter: Gaza’s Untold Story is a comprehensive chronicle of the tumultuous history and the struggles of the people of Gaza. Continue reading
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The Peace Prize goes to the commander-in-chief of invading armies in Afghanistan and Iraq BY MOZHGAN SAVABIEASFAHANI
No doubt Palestinian, Lebanese, and Afghan mothers have similar sentiments about this peculiar word that is on the lips of every invading army and colonialist power. But those who live under the brutal occupations of the U.S. and Israel, or those of us still unoccupied (Iranians, Pakistanis, etc) still suffer the political and economic brutality… Continue reading
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Copenhagen and capitalism
Video: Minqi Li: No legally binding agreement the result of elites seeking short term profits first Continue reading
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The “Obama Doctrine”: Eternal War For Imperfect Mankind “For make no mistake: Evil does exist in the world.” By Rick Rozoff
With obligatory references to Martin Luther King, Jr. and Mohandas Gandhi (the second referred to only by his surname) but to no other American presidents than Ronald Reagan, Richard Nixon and John F. Kennedy – fellow peace prize recipients Theodore Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson and Jimmy Carter weren’t mentioned – the U.S. head of state spoke… Continue reading
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William Blum: Anti-Empire Report, Number 76 Yeswecanistan
We should never forget that Iraqi society has been destroyed. The people of that unhappy land have lost everything — their homes, their schools, their neighborhoods, their mosques, their jobs, their careers, their professionals, their health care, their legal system, their women’s rights, their religious tolerance, their security, their friends, their families, their past, their… Continue reading
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COP-15 Guía de Acciones /Le Guide d’Action /Guida all’azione /Protestleitfaden /Action Guide
11 December, 2009 — https://lists.riseup.net/www/info/copenhagen2009info Espanol Guía de Acciones para el COP15 Mapa de Acciones… Version ‘en línea’ de este mapa: tinyurl.com/ycqolgo Francais Le Guide d’Action pour la COP15 La Carte des Actions… Voir la carte en ligne: tinyurl.com/y85p4op Italiano Guida all’azione per il COP15 Mappa delle azioni… Versione online qui: tinyurl.com/yeb9ewh English Action Guide Continue reading
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A Message from CCR on Human Rights Day
10 December, 2009 — Center for Constitutional Rights Each year the world celebrates Human Rights Day on December 10, the anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR), adopted by the United Nations 61 years ago today. Through the UDHR, the international community set out for the first time the rights that all human Continue reading
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One year on…Join the vigil outside the Israeli Embassy Remember Gaza on 27 December, 2009
On 27 December 2008, Israel launched ‘Operation Cast Lead’: raining bombs, white phosphorus and other horrific weapons upon the population of Gaza. The Israeli army killed over 1400 Palestinians and injured over 5000. Continue reading
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AFRICOM: Not the Peace Corps by Mark P. Fancher
The U.S. military’s AFRICOM forces pretend their mission on the continent is humanitarian. In reality, AFRICOM is the sharp edge of U.S. imperialism, a killing force eager to impose American dominance. The military command ‘locks Africa into a state of dependency and maintains favorable political and social conditions for U.S.-based corporations that exploit Africa’s natural… Continue reading
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Will the Last “Progressive for Obama” Please Turn Out the Lights?
9 December, 2009 — Black Agenda Report Will the Last “Progressive for Obama” Please Turn Out the Lights? by BAR executive editor Glen Ford Black Agenda Report heartily endorses this Saturday’s Emergency Anti-Escalation Rally in front of the White House. Having said that, we turn to the subject of the legions of Obama-smitten activists that Continue reading
The New Dark Age 