March 2010
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Load those questions! By Harry Feldman
As part of a Middle Eastern peace agreement, should Israel be required to stop building new settlements in occupied Palestinian territory?’. At least on the face of it, as I read it, the question assumes that the agreement will countenance continued occupation of ‘Palestinian territory’ the West Bank and East Jerusalem, since the occupation of… Continue reading
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Global Research Selected Articles: Obama’s Health Plan and the Impoverishment of the Middle Class 22-30 March, 2010
29 March, 2010 — Global Research Western Civilization and the Economic Crisis: The Impoverishment of the Middle Class When Empire Hits Home, Part 2 – by Andrew Gavin Marshall – 2010-03-30 Continue reading
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Jerusalem Quartet London concert disrupted
Protesters disrupted a lunchtime performance by the Jerusalem Quartet in London today. The concert at the Wigmore Hall was being broadcast live by the BBC. The protesters drew attention to the Quartets strong links to the Israeli Army, Israels crimes against the Palestinians, particularly its illegal occupation of Palestinian land, its ethnic cleansing of East… Continue reading
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HLLN 30 March, 2010: Delatour, Clinton, Free Trade and the lost of over 830,000 rural jobs to wage slavery sweatshops/Haiti: Stuck in a Trap | What Bill Clinton's Mea Culpa Should Mean
The U.S.-promoted agricultural policies, such as forcing Haitian rice farmers to compete against U.S.-subsidized agribusiness, cost an estimated 830,000 rural jobs. Real jobs where the people of Haiti actually made more, relatively speaking than .38 cents an hour, owned more land, had better shelter and security in the countryside and ate food from the land… Continue reading
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HLLN: Quake Accentuated Chasm That Has Defined Haiti | Rich and very poor in Close Quarters in Haiti | Vodou practitioners bid farewell to departed souls (Video)
29 March, 2010 — HLLN Recommended HLLN Link: Video: Close Quarters in Haiti nyti.ms/cXQ3P8 Video- Vodou practitioners bid farewell to departed souls www.youtube.com/watch?v=u1N1p8cpBSs Photos: Ezili Dant Vodun Remembrance to Honor Quake Victims www.margueritelaurent.com/photogallery/JeteDlo/1.html Video: Haitian artist helps children with arts program bit.ly/8Mz4Z In this post Quake Accentuated Chasm That Has Defined Haiti By SIMON ROMERO, Continue reading
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Housmans Radical Books, London Newsletter of Events April 2010
Events: Broonland : The Last days of Gordon Brown with Christopher Harvie – Gender Matters in Global Politics with Cynthia Cockburn and Dibyesh Anand – ‘Animals Count’ campaign launch – No Sweat Forum: Workers Rights in Honduras – Women and Conscientious Objection with War Resisters International – Debate hosted by Red Pepper: If voting changes… Continue reading
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UK: CASE AGAINST GAZA PROTESTORS UNRAVELLING
The attempt to criminalise scores of people who demonstrated last January against the occupation of Gaza is running into trouble. Last week, the police effectively dropped charges against Jake Smith, one of many charged with violent disorder, admitting that the evidence was faulty. Continue reading
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Obama, Britain and the age of permanent war By John Pilger
In the coming election campaign in Britain, the candidates will refer to this war only to laud ‘our boys’. The candidates are almost identical political mummies, shrouded in the Union Jack and the Stars and Stripes. As Blair demonstrated a mite too eagerly, the British elite love America because America allows them to barrack and… Continue reading
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Ezili HLLN's Vodun Remembrance – Honoring quake victims | HLLN Delegation mobilizing Haiti-led Relief/Rebuilding with Minister Louis Farrakhan on Saviour's Day
“Over 300,000 Haitians gone in 33 seconds. Pour libation. Jete Dlo, jete dlo, jete dlo. Into the Ancestors’ hands we place our souls…” Continue reading
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WikiLeaks to release video of civilians, journalists being murdered in airstrike in Afghanistan
Whistleblower Web site WikiLeaks is planning to release a video that reveals what it’s calling a Pentagon “cover-up” of an incident in which numerous civilians and journalists were murdered in an airstrike, according to a recent media advisory. They also noted their members have recently been tailed by individuals under State Department diplomatic immunity, and… Continue reading
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Video: Myths of Progressive Zionism: Labour, Race, Gender and Colonialism
26 March 26, 2010 — Left Streamed Moderated by Herman Rosenfeld. Presentations by: * Katherine Nastovski – Graduate student, Social and Political Thought, York University; Labour for Palestine, Toronto * Dana Olwan – Assistant Professor of Gender Studies, Queen’s University; Solidarity for Palestinian Human Right (SPHR), Kingston. Organized by Not In Our Name (NION) Jewish Continue reading
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Proposed exhibiton of Israeli Medicine, Science and Technology in the Scottish Parliament
We are writing to express our concern at the planned exhibition of Israeli Medicine, Science and Technology to be held at the Scottish Parliament in late April. The parliament is not a private venue and this is not an exhibition of science that just happens to have been carried out by Israelis. The exhibits are… Continue reading
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A Bomber Jacket Doesn’t Cover the Blood By Norman Solomon
On Sunday, during his first presidential trip to Afghanistan, Obama stood before thousands of American troops to proclaim the sanctity of the war effort. He played the role deftly — a commander in chief, rallying the troops — while wearing a bomber jacket. Continue reading
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Making A Killing: The Untold Story Of Psychotropic Drugging Pt 5
Psychotropic drugs. It’s the story of big money-drugs that fuel a $330 billion psychiatric industry, without a single cure. And the death count keeps rising. Containing more than 175 interviews with lawyers, mental health experts, the families of victims and the survivors themselves, this riveting documentary rips the mask off psychotropic drugging and exposes a… Continue reading
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Israel Tries to Expel People For Their Beliefs By Noam Sheizaf
Two international activists, Ariadna Jove Marti (from Spain) and Bridgette Chappell (Australia), who are living in Bir Zeit in the West Bank (its near Ramallah, and well within the Palestinian Autonomy), were arrested by the IDF last month. The two were about to be expelled from Israel, and as it happens in most cases, they… Continue reading
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The Pentagon is using Haiti as a Training Ground for Afghanistan By Michel Chossudovsky
A recent report in Stars and Stripes reveals the nature of the US military operation in Haiti. Combat units from Iraq and Afghanistan have been deployed in Haiti under the banner of a humanitarian operation. Conversely, Haiti is also being used as a military training ground for forces without in-theater combat experience. Continue reading
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Militarisation of ‘creativity’ in Scotland: moral and ethical dilemmas concerning the integrity of creative practitioners
The project [‘Combating Terrorism by Countering Radicalisation’] “provoked a furious response from academics”, mainly anthropologists, “who claimed it was tantamount to asking researchers to act as spies for British intelligence” Continue reading
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