March 2010
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Movie: Jaffa the orange’s clockwork by Eyal Sivan
The film is a political essay excavating the entwined visual and political history of that famous citrus fruit originating in Palestine and known worldwide as the ‘Jaffa Orange’. Continue reading
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Poison Bullets: Birth defects in Fallujah ‘on the rise since U.S. operation’
Poison Bullets follows doctors and experts as they voice their opposing views in the DU controversy and travels to the US, Great Britain, Jordan, Iraq and Spain, where we meet many of those who are victims of both DU-related diseases and the indifference of government officials. Continue reading
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Army Intel ACORNing WikiLeaks? Web Publisher Under Attack By Michael Collins
U.S. Army Counterterrorism issued a report that said WikiLeaks is a threat to U.S. security, particularly in Afghanistan. The report says that the organization should be destroyed and offered a plan. Does the government really think it can destroy WikiLeaks or is the leaked report part of a plan to smear the organization so badly,… Continue reading
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Black Agenda Report 31 March, 2010: MLK's TV Challenge to Obama / Former ATL Mayor Fronts for Telecoms
Since the onset of the Obama phenomenon, Dr. Martin Luther King’s birth and death days have been polluted by false and ahistorical comparisons between Obama and MLK. The two men represent opposite political poles: one, a radical opponent of imperial war and concentrated economic power, the other, an ally of Wall Street and commander-in-chief of… Continue reading
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Talal Shihadeh – Palestinian Land Day
On 30th March each year, the Palestinian people commemorate the anniversary of Land Day, the day in March 1976 on which the Zionist occupation government confiscated thousands of dunums* of Palestinian land in the Galilee, leading to the displacement of the Palestinian people living inside the 1948 occupied territories (so-called Israel). A general strike and… Continue reading
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Another worthless UN donor pledging session set for March 31st in New York
Another worthless UN donor pledging session set for March 31st in New York | Changing Haiti’s Paradigm : Haitians must rebuild Haiti not the failed Internationals (UN/USAID/Clinton/IFIs/NGO poverty pimp industry in Haiti) Continue reading
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Solidarity Economy's Role in Haiti's Survival By Beverly Bell
“If it weren’t for solidarity, Haiti wouldn’t be alive today,” is an expression commonly heard here since the earthquake of January 12. Haiti’s history is based on sharing and cooperation—expressed with gifts and solidarity toward those surviving on the margins. These displays usually go unnamed and unnoticed. Continue reading
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Free Gaza Movement to Launch Cargo Ship from Ireland
Free Gaza’s ships will take part in an international flotilla taking humanitarian aid to the besieged Gaza strip this May. Passenger and cargo ships are also being organised by the Turkish humanitarian organisation I.H.H., and by groups in Greece, Sweden, Malaysia and Belgium. Continue reading
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The crisis of neoliberalism Pt.2
31 March, 2010 — The Real News Network Duménil: Neoliberal trends setting up a terrible future of inequality and exploitation for the workers View Part 1 Here http://therealnews.com/permalinkedembed/mediaplayer.swf Bio Dr. Dumnil is one of the worlds foremost theorists of neoliberalism and economic crisis and is the author of numerous influential books, many of which have Continue reading
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Re: Jerusalem Quartet – Update – ‘But it’s not political’
Focuses on an argument which was prevalent at the time of the Anti-Apartheid Boycott (South Africa version) and is going to be heard increasingly from faint-hearted liberals who would like any struggle to be conducted within the bounds of normal, polite discourse (i.e. don’t mention the Arabs). I have therefore dug around a little regarding… Continue reading
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Statewatch News Online – 31 March 2010 (06/10)
Home page: www.statewatch.org/ Statewatch European Documentation Centre (SEMDOC): www.statewatch.org/semdoc/ Sitemap: www.statewatch.org/sitemap.htm 1. EP: Surveillance of the sea external borders with the involvement of Frontex 2. MALTA: Grupp29: Stop the criminalisation of art Maltese authors and artists 3. EU: Council: rights to interpretation and to translation in criminal proceedings 4. EU-ISRAEL: Should the EU subsidise Israeli Continue reading
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US-Russian START treaty: A comprehensive flicker By Eric Walberg
Russian security experts fondly recall that Cold War-era arms control began with the 1972 Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty, which curtailed further work on defensive weapons. The logic of the subsequent SALT and START agreements was based on the certainty that neither side could defend itself from a nuclear attack and therefore had no choice but to… Continue reading
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National Security Archive Update, March 30, 2010: Uraguay – BORDABERRY CONDEMNED FOR 1973 COUP
For the first time in Latin America, a judge has sent a former head of state to prison for the crime of an “Attack against the Constitution.” In an unprecedented ruling last month in Montevideo, former Uruguayan President Juan María Bordaberry was sentenced to serve 30 years for undermining Uruguay’s constitution through an auto-coup on… Continue reading
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The crisis of neoliberalism By GERARD DUMENIL
When we speak of neoliberalism, we speak of contemporary capitalism. Neoliberalism, it’s a new stage of capitalism which began around 1980. It began in big countries like United Kingdom and the United States. Then it was implemented in Europe, and later in Japan, and later around the world in general. So this is a new… Continue reading
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Haiti versus Chile: Earthquake Olympics by John Feffer
Chilean citizens enjoy an average income 10 times that of Haitians. Fully 80 percent of Haitians live below the poverty line, compared to fewer than 20 percent of Chileans. Is Chile’s economic development a result of its unabashed embrace of capitalism? In 1970, Chile’s gross national income per capita was also 10 times that of… Continue reading
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Media Mutes General’s Afghan Admission
‘We have shot an amazing number of people, but to my knowledge, none has ever proven to be a threat,’ McChrystal said during a recent video-conference to answer questions from troops in the field about civilian casualties. Continue reading
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Media Disinformation regarding America’s Afghan War By Prof. Marc Herold
In the U.S. mainstream media, complete silence reigned once again. Chagoti Ghar (Chergotah) simply does not exist. The deaths of an Afghan woman, an 8-yr old Afghan girl and a teenaged couple are unworthy of mention in America. Another immaculate deception, or conception in which a teenaged couple was first transformed into two Taliban sub-commanders.… Continue reading
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MEDIA LENS ALERT: VICTORY FOR THE OVERLORDS – OBAMA’S HEALTHCARE REFORM
In November 2008, the historic importance of Barack Obama’s presidential victory was a relentless theme across the media spectrum. Even the pretence of a mainstream commitment to balanced reporting vanished from sight in deference to the self-evident Truth. Continue reading
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Israel has Breached Peremptory Norms of Humanitarian Law By Kawther Salam
Phil Shiner, Supervisor of Public Interest Lawyers, United Kingdom, said during the panel discussion on the Seminar on Assistance to the Palestinian People that the Advisory Opinion was extremely helpful as it had identified three different pre-empting norms Israel had breached, explaining that peremptory norms or jus cogens norms were actions recognized in international law… Continue reading
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