January 20, 2010
-
Obama administration supports forces that commit atrocities – Allan Nairn
“In the words of the American Founding Fathers, ‘alter or abolish’ the current system, because it is not enforcing the murder laws and it is allowing about a billion people worldwide to starve when they could be fed for the price of Washington’s bailout of Citibank,” Nairn says. Continue reading
-
I Am Yusuf And This Is My Brother
Direct from a tour of Palestinian villages in Israel and the West Bank, a powerful story of life in 1948 at the moment of ‘the catastrophe’. From the frontline, a poetic exploration of loyalty and love by the director of Alive from Palestine Continue reading
-
Black Agenda Report 20 January, 2010: Haiti / Obama / NAACP / NYC
Stories on Obama, Haiti, Pat Robertson, NAACP, by Glen Ford, Cynthia McKinney, John Maxwell and others Continue reading
-
Guest Media Lens Alert: How Alternative Media Provide the Crucial Critique of the Mainstream – Richard Keeble Responds to Tim Luckhurst
On January 4, Tim Luckhurst, former BBC journalist and current Professor of Journalism at the University of Kent, wrote an article in the Independent with the dramatic title, ‘Demise of news barons is just a Marxist fantasy.’ Luckhurst argued that leftist critics are gleefully predicting the end of corporate journalism. According to Luckhurst “there is… Continue reading
-
Aftershock hits Haiti
Many earthquake victims and relief workers were jolted awake just after 6 a.m. Wednesday by a strong tremor that shook the already ravaged earthquake zone. Initial reports said the latest quake measured 6.1 on the Richter scale — one of the strongest aftershocks since the 7.0-magnitude quake crippled this city eight days ago. Continue reading
-
The Silencing of An Auschwitz Survivor – By the state’s Holocaust Memorial Trust
Hajo Meyer is an Auschwitz survivor, but it would seem that his message is not one that you wish to hear, because he draws parallels between the racism and dehumanisation which he experienced and that which Palestinians suffer today. The parallels may not be exact, there may not be extermination camps in Israel, but comparisons… Continue reading
-
Blues for brother George Jackson
From Archie Shepp’s Attica Blues Blues for brother George Jackson and: Goodby Sweet Pops Continue reading
-
Haiti Newslinks 19-20 January, 2010
A compilation of links, with descriptions to news and analysis on the crisis in Haiti. Continue reading
The New Dark Age 