April 2010
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Strategic culture foundation online magazine latest publications from 25 April – 1 May, 2010: Terror, Petrodollar Warfare and Plan B for Iraq…
2010-04-25 Anatoly ALIFEROV Terror, Petrodollar Warfare and Plan B for Iraq “The death toll in Iraq is surging after more than 7 years of international occupation. The ballots cast during the March 7 parliamentary elections still have not been completely counted, and the tide of terror of some obscure origin in the country is raising Continue reading
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US military enforces attacks on Haitian unions Pt2 By Didier Dominique
Didier Dominique: Deliberate US policy weakened Haitian farming to create pool of cheap textile labor Continue reading
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Power2010: They didn’t think we could get this far
As the election draws closer, more and more people are crying out for change, but they don’t know what to do about it. To many, it seems inevitable that we will return to politics as usual after the election. But it’s not inevitable. That’s just what the politicians want us to believe – you know… Continue reading
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PAMBAZUKA AFRICA NEWS 479 29 April, 2010: MADAGASCAR’S HIDDEN CRISIS: WOMEN’S RIGHTS AND HUMAN RIGHTS ABUSES
Zo Randriamaro on Madagascar’s hidden crisis of women’s rights and human rights abuses – Khadija Sharife says carbon trading schemes value cash over sustainable development – Sudanese Group for Democracy and Elections and the Sudanese Network for Democratic Elections assess Sudan’s electoral process and elections – Beth Maina and Cenya Ciyendi on church leaders’ ‘dishonest’… Continue reading
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Roger Rashi, "Cochabamba Eyewitness: A Great Boost for Ecosocialism"
I attended the alternative Climate Conference in the Bolivian city of Cochabamba as part of an eight-person Quebec activist delegation. I came back convinced that we witnessed a turning point in the global Climate Justice movement. Continue reading
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Palestine Return Centre – Report on Israeli Mass Expulsion
Briefing on the Israeli Order regarding Prevention of Infiltration (Amendment No. 2) and the Order regarding Security Provisions (Amendment No. 112) passed on Tuesday April 26th 2010. Behind the euphemism ‘prevention of Infiltration’ lies a truth which Israeli officials are trying desperately to conceal. This simple truth has been cardinal throughout Israel’s existence and continues… Continue reading
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Haiti Newslinks 30 April, 2010: Food Aid Hurts Haiti's Farmers
30 April 2010 US Jewish communities building ties to Haiti Cleveland Jewish News By Larry Luxner PETIT-GOAVE, Haiti (JTA) — Not a single Jew lives among the 170000 inhabitants of Petit-Goâve, nor among the 20000 refugees from … www.clevelandjewishnews.com/articles/2010/04/30/news/nation_and_world/doc4bda01c02f17d202332392.txt Continue reading
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Arizonans React to New Immigration Law By Rachel Winch
On April 15, armed federal agents, some in black ski masks, set up checkpoints in the largely Latino neighborhood of South Tucson. The ICE and DEA agents carrying out Operation in Plain Sight, billed as the largest operation against human-smuggling networks, raided commercial transportation companies, sparking a panic in the community just two days after… Continue reading
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Obama's Militarized Status Quo in Latin America
Video: Panel Discussion From the 2010 Left Forum with Christy Thornton, Joseph Nevins, Suzanna Reiss, Mark Weisbrot Continue reading
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“The Future of Palestine: Righteous Jews vs. the New Afrikaners” with Professor John J. Mearsheimer
“Regrettably, the two-state solution is now a fantasy. Instead, those territories will be incorporated into a Greater Israel,which will be an apartheid state bearing a marked resemblance to white-ruled South Africa. Nevertheless, a Jewish apartheid state is not politically viable over the long term. In the end, it will become a democratic bi-national state, whose… Continue reading
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New on nacla.org 29 April, 2010: Arizonans React to New Immigration Law
On April 23 Arizona governor Jan Brewer signed into law what is being billed as the “broadest and strictest immigration measure in generations.” The law requires Arizona police to ask people for documentation based on a “reasonable suspicion” that they are in the country “unlawfully,” it targets day laborers and their employers, and sets up… Continue reading
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Cochabamba: Climate Justice Has a New Program and New Hope for Victory By Ian Angus
Following the failed climate negotiations in Copenhagen in December, where Barack Obama tried unsuccessfully to impose a toothless backroom deal, Bolivian President Evo Morales invited “the peoples of the world, social movements and Mother Earth’s defenders, … scientists, academics, lawyers and governments,” to attend a conference “to define strategies for action and mobilization to defend… Continue reading
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US military enforces attacks on Haitian unions By Didier Dominique
Didier Dominique: US military helping to repress organizing of textile worker’s unions in Haiti Continue reading
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National Security Archive Update, April 29, 2010: BREAKING DOWN SOVIET MILITARY SECRECY
Previously unpublished documents from inside the Kremlin shed new light on how Soviet and American scientists breached the walls of Soviet military secrecy in the final years of the Cold War… These glasnost tours punctured some of the myths and legends of both sides. They showed that the Reagan administration had exaggerated Soviet capabilities and… Continue reading
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HLLN 29 April, 2010: UPDATE: The Douglas Perlitz Case – Abandoned Children
29 April, 2010 — HLLN Recommended HLLN Links: The Douglas Perlitz Case – HLLN: Page 1 bit.ly/9nt0Oq Perlitz Case – HLLN: page 2 bit.ly/aWGmxx UN Peacekeepers and Humanitarian Aid Workers raping, molesting and abusing Haitian children bit.ly/3yJpcn In this post – Abandoned Children By: Chris Simmons, Fairfield Mirror, April 28, 2010 fairfieldmirror.com/2010/04/28/abandoned-children/ Continue reading
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HLLN 29 April, 2010: Dukens Raphael, Haiti Union Leader Interview: “We’re Looking for Solidarity. Charity We’re Not Interested In.”
29 April, 2010 — HLLN Recommended HLLN Link: HLLN’S To TELL THE TRUTH ABOUT HAITI FORUM Text- bit.ly/bqIRHp Photos – bit.ly/bgs8P4 | Agenda – bit.ly/duoSbh The Plantation called Haiti: Feudal Pillage Masking as Humanitarian Aid bit.ly/929NXS HLLN Photogallery – Djab la di l ap manje nou, se pa vre!…Sa a se blag Timoun yo, sa Continue reading