March 2010
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The Disappearing Male: From Virility to Sterility
The Disappearing Male takes a close and disturbing look at what many doctors and researchers now suspect are responsible for many of these problems: a class of common chemicals that are ubiquitous in our world. Continue reading
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Has The Washington Post gone too far?
By hiring former Bush administration speechwriter Marc Thiessen — the second former Bush speechwriter to whom it has given a regular column — The Washington Post has crossed the line. Thiessen is a serial misinformer. And he shouldn’t be rewarded with the audience or credibility that a regular column provides. Continue reading
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NACLA Update 3/11/10 New NACLA Report – Honduras: Whitewashing the Coup
12 March, 2010 — North American Congress on Latin America Available Now! Honduras: Whitewashing the Coup March/April 2010: Since the June 28 military coup in Honduras, the country’s de facto authorities have maintained a by now well-established track record of attempting to conceal their anti-democratic, violent disposition. This edition of the NACLA Report examines this… Continue reading
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Billionaires and Mega-Corporations Behind Immense Land Grab in Africa By John Vidal
Ethiopia is one of the hungriest countries in the world with more than 13-million people needing food aid, but paradoxically the government is offering at least 7.5 million acres of its most fertile land to rich countries and some of the world’s most wealthy individuals to export food for their own populations. Continue reading
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2010 Rosemary Award for Worst Open Government Performance Goes to Federal Chief Information Officers’ Council
National Security Archive cites CIO Council for “lifetime failure” To address crisis in government e-mail preservation Continue reading
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Video: Settlers pouring cement into spring
A group of Israeli settlers destroy a spring by the village of Qarawat Bani Hassan in the Salfit district of the occupied West Bank. Palestinian villagers were forced to watch helplessly as settlers poured sand and cement into the spring, guarded by five armed members of the Israeli military. Continue reading
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Leaked Zionist strategy Paper to counter BDS – MUST READ!
Here is a leaked copy of the Zionist plan to attack the Boycott and Divestment Campaign Against Israel’s Occupation and to strategy to shut down the debate on the Palestinian issue and to shift it discussion of anti-Semitism and not Israel’s illegal Occuption and illegal settlements and human rights violations. Continue reading
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On the day Yafa’s refugees return – zochrot 2010
Zochrot [“Remembering”] is a group of Israeli citizens working to raise awareness of the Nakba, the Palestinian catastrophe of 1948. Continue reading
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Presentations given during Barcelona session of Russell Tribunal on Palestine
11 March, 2010 Some of the presentations made by experts-witnesses in Barcelona are now available online. In English: http://www.facebook.com/l/3e2d0;www.russelltribunalonpalestine.org/ext/http://www.russelltribunalonpalestine.net/ In French: http://www.facebook.com/l/3e2d0;www.russelltribunalonpalestine.org/article-presentations-experts-session-de-barcelone-du-trp-46478085.html Continue reading
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Study exposes massive outsourcing of emissions by rich countries By Bryan Walsh
A new study published in the March 8 edition of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) shows that the carbon equation isn’t as straightforward as we might think. Scientists at the Carnegie Institution of Washington at Stanford University synthesized carbon emissions and trade patterns and found that more than one-third of CO2 emissions… Continue reading
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Haiti and the Aid Racket: How NGOs are Profiting Off a Grave Situation By ASHLEY SMITH
So far, the relief effort has only managed to provide 270,000 people with basic shelters like tents. More than 1 million people still have little access to food and water and have to scrape by to find sustenance. Even worse, because the relief operation is so inefficient, Haitians report that some of the food spends… Continue reading
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Palestinian & International Campaign – End the Siege & Lift Blockade of Gaza
Two Corporate Watchers will be digging the corporate dirt in Palestine over the next few months. Corporate Watch has set up a new blog (corporateoccupation.wordpress.com) to track companies profiting from the Israeli occupation of and apartheid policies in Palestine. In addition to research blogs, the site also includes all Corporate Watch’s recent articles on Israel/Palestine. Continue reading
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National Security Archive Update, March 9, 2010: Archival Evidence of Mexico’s Human Rights Crimes: The Case of Aleida Gallangos
The National Security Archive today posted a selection of U.S. and Mexican records containing evidence of human rights crimes committed during Mexico’s brutal “dirty war” against leftists in the 1970s. Continue reading
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Amir, ten years old, abducted by Israeli soldiers from his bed By Nora Barrows-Friedman
Israeli soldiers broke into the house, snatch ten-year old Amir from his bed, threatened his parents with death by gunfire if they tried to protect him, and took him downstairs under the stairwell. They would beat him so badly that he would bleed internally into his abdomen, necessitating overnight hospitalization. In complete shock and distress,… Continue reading
The New Dark Age 