January 2010
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Guardian editor hits back at paywalls
Delivering the 2010 Hugh Cudlipp lecture at London College of Communication today, Rusbridger said that universal charging for newspaper content on the internet would remove the industry from a digital revolution which is allowing news organisations to engage with their readers more than ever before. Continue reading
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Russia, Turkey and the Great Game: Changing teams By Eric Walberg
For all intents and purposes, Turkey has given up on the European Union, recognising it as a bastion of Islamophobia and captive to US diktat. As Switzerland bans minarets and France moves to outlaw the niqab, the popular Islamist government in Istanbul moves in the opposite direction — supporting the freedom to wear headscarfs, boldly… Continue reading
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Hugo Chavez Did Not Accuse the U.S. of Causing the Haitian Earthquake by The Anti Press
Within the actual story, ABC noted that the information came from an obscure opinion post on the website of a Venezuelan state television channel, VIVE Television. The post referenced a supposed Russian military report on American seismic weapons. All quotes subsequently attributed to Chavez regarding Haiti and earthquake weapons were in fact direct quotes from… Continue reading
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Haiti Newslinks 25-26 January, 2010
A compilation of links, with descriptions to news and analysis on the crisis in Haiti. Continue reading
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Haiti’s agony
Peter Lavelle asks his guests why the US first sent troops to Haiti instead of water and food. Continue reading
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Afghanistan: Bring the boys back home
The United Kingdom should stop fighting distant wars and meddling in global military matters. That’s the view of Kim Howells, who until last year was the minister responsible for Afghanistan. He says the recent succession of deaths there have been a turning point. They show it’s time for the UK to stop engaging at the… Continue reading
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DEFEND THE RIGHT TO PROTEST ON BLAIR INQUIRY DAY
The police are aiming to keep protesters out of sight this Friday when Tony Blair appears at the Iraq Inquiry. This contradicts a statement by Scotland Yard yesterday that they aim to “facilitate the protest as best we can”. Continue reading
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Dangerous Crossroads: U.S. Moves Missiles And Troops To Russian Border Nuclear and Conventional Arms Pacts Stalled By Rick Rozoff
For the past thirty years each successive American president has unveiled an ostensible plan to eliminate nuclear weapons, if none before now has received the Nobel Peace Prize while in office. Each in turn then escalated reckless arms buildups and armed aggression abroad in an effort to achieve global military dominance. The current U.S. commander-in-chief… Continue reading
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Haiti and the Devil’s Curse
Mainstream news attributes Haitian poverty to the supernatural, avoiding history of foreign intervention Continue reading
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Haiti and the Devil's Curse
Mainstream news attributes Haitian poverty to the supernatural, avoiding history of foreign intervention Continue reading
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Why is the BBC’s Haiti coverage so appalling? By William Bowles
I’ve been scanning through the BBC News website almost every day to see what our ‘impartial’ and ‘objective’ state-controlled news organization has to say on the subject. So first I searched through my BBC RSS feed from the 15 January to today, 25 January, using Haiti as the keyword. Only one out of twenty-six stories… Continue reading
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Haiti's suffering is a result of calculated impoverishment By Seumas Milne
Most scandalously, US commanders have repeatedly turned away flights bringing medical equipment and emergency supplies from organisations such as the World Food Programme and Médecins Sans Frontières, in order to give priority to landing troops. Despite the remarkable patience and solidarity on the streets and the relatively small scale of looting, the aim is said… Continue reading
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Haiti Newslinks 23-25 January, 2010
A compilation of links, with descriptions to news and analysis on the crisis in Haiti. Continue reading
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Securing Disaster in Haiti By Peter Hallward
Nine days after the devastating earthquake that struck Haiti on 12 January 2010, it’s now clear that the initial phase of the U.S.-led relief operation has conformed to the three fundamental tendencies that have shaped the more general course of the island’s recent history. It has adopted military priorities and strategies. It has sidelined Haiti’s… Continue reading
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“Gaza Freedom Marcher Missing” By Max Ajl
Today I spoke with Kristen Coughlin Carr, the aunt of one of our dear GFMers, Shannon Hughes (who was staying at Select Hotel). She informed me that Shannon is missing in Egypt. It has been reported to the US embassy, and they have declared her ‘missing or abducted’ and described the situation as ‘dire’. Here’s… Continue reading
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Haiti Newslinks 23-24 January, 2010
A compilation of links, with descriptions to news and analysis on the crisis in Haiti. Continue reading
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Russian Report: Did U.S. weapon against Iran cause Haiti earthquake? By Andrew Moran
According to an unconfirmed report by the Russian Northern Fleets, the tragic earthquake in Haiti was caused by a US navy earthquake weapon that went ‘horribly wrong,’ reports Press TV. The weapons test was originally supposed to be used against Iran but caused the cataclysmic earthquake in the Caribbean country. Continue reading
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MERCY-NARY: My appearance January 21 on The Rachel Maddow Show By Jeremy Scahill
My appearance January 21 on The Rachel Maddow Show, discussing how US mercenary companies are looking to cash in on the earthquake in Haiti. Continue reading
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Disaster Capitalism in Haiti By Stephen Lendman
In her book, ‘The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism,’ Naomi Klein explores the myth of free market democracy, explaining how neoliberalism dominates the world with America its main exponent exploiting security threats, terror attacks, economic meltdowns, competing ideologies, tectonic political or economic shifts, and natural disasters to impose its will everywhere. Continue reading
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Haiti needs emergency relief, not military intervention — add your name to open letter
We, the undersigned, are outraged by the scandalous delays in distributing essential aid to victims of the earthquake in Haiti. Since the US Air Force seized unilateral control of the airport in Port-au-Prince, it has privileged military over civilian humanitarian flights. As a result, untold numbers of people have died needlessly in the rubble of… Continue reading
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