December 2009
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Only a Few Days Left to Donate to the Gaza Convoy – Find Out How You Can Help
3 December, 2009 — Palestine Solidarity Campaign CONVOY TO GAZA With the convoy to Gaza leaving in three days for its three week journey to Gaza, there are still ways YOU can help. AID: For a list of what is desperately needed please visit: http://www.palestinecampaign.org/Index5bwide.asp?m_id=1&l1_id=79&l2_id=84 If you live in London and would like to drop Continue reading
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Pepe Escobar, "Luladinejad"
Brazil enriches uranium for its own nuclear energy program. No one is accusing Brazil of building a nuclear bomb. Brazil has been strongly against unilateral sanctions on Iran. In Lula’s own words, and again I quote: “It’s simple. What we advocate for us, we advocate for others as well.” Continue reading
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Victor Grossman, “SPD — Buridan’s Ass?”
It recalled ancient Greek tragedies. The Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD), founded in the 19th Century, is the country’s oldest party, and now its saddest one. On September 27th it suffered its worst election defeat since 1897, losing six million former voters and ending up with only 23 percent of the vote. It had… Continue reading
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"China, America, and the Economic Crisis: Minqi Li Interviewed by Paul Jay"
The point is that China right now is still depending on the export markets, depending on export to the US. So, that gives the US a little bit of leverage. But on the other hand, the US cannot expect to hold that leverage forever, because the US will not be able to return to the… Continue reading
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Global Warming: "Fixing the Climate Data around the Policy" By Michel Chossudovsky
The Copenhagen Summit not only serves powerful corporate interests, which have a stake in the global multibillion dollar carbon trading scheme, it also serves to divert public attention from the devastation resulting from the “real crisis” underlying the process of economic globalization and a profit driven war without borders, which the Pentagon calls “the long… Continue reading
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Climategate and Climate Change: Blowing hot and cold By William Bowles
2 December, 2009 The leaked emails from the University of East Anglia seem to have put the proverbial cat in with the climatic pigeons. So what to make of it? Firstly, there’s an awful lot of information to wade through, some of which I find extremely confusing eg, Climate Change: This is the Worst Scientific Continue reading
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Have Israeli spies infiltrated international airports? By Jonathan Cook
South Africa deported an Israeli airline official last week following allegations that Israel’s secret police, the Shin Bet, had infiltrated Johannesburg international airport in an effort to gather information on South African citizens, particularly black and Muslim travellers. Continue reading
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Video: The Story of Cap and Trade
Host Annie Leonard introduces the energy traders and Wall Street financiers at the heart of this scheme and reveals the “devils in the details” in current cap and trade proposals …. Continue reading
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Obama: Say One Term Is Enough Joel S. Hirschhorn
Here are some of the main reasons that Obama should cut his ties to corporate and political elites, announce that he will not run for reelection and, instead, become the populist, reformist president the nation desperately needs Continue reading
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Geopolitical Crossroads: Pentagon and NATO Complete Their Conquest of The Balkans By Rick Rozoff
Bosnia and Montenegro being incorporated as full NATO members and Macedonia following suit would expand the world’s only military bloc to 31 nations, almost twice that of ten years ago when it first began its drive into Eastern Europe. And with Serbia and Kosovo, which even before becoming a member is the world’s first NATO… Continue reading
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Smoking gun evidence that Blair knew Iraq war was illegal By Simon Walters
The Mail on Sunday has disclosed that Attorney General Lord Goldsmith wrote the letter to Mr Blair in July 2002 – a full eight months before the war – telling him that deposing Saddam Hussein was a blatant breach of international law. It was intended to make Mr Blair call off the invasion, but he… Continue reading
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Video: Uri Gopher – Istikbal (English & Hebrew Subtitles)
A personal perspective on what it feels to raise a child in Israel, for a Jewish-Israeli who does not buy into his country’s Ethos and who wants no part in the continued self-defeating denial of reponsibility to the tragic fate of the Palestinian people. Inspired by the work of “Zochrot” activists. You’re welcome to share… Continue reading
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Rupert Murdoch: Genius or dummy and should we care? By William Bowles
The bulk of News Corp’s content starts life in print, radio and video, some of which makes it online either edited or ‘massaged’ in some way. This is called ‘refreezing’ the product, so essentially the same content can be used over and over again. This is what ‘convergence’ is really all about from the business… Continue reading
The New Dark Age 