April 16, 2010
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Strategic culture foundation online magazine latest publications 11-17 April, 2010
2010-04-15 Roman TOMBERG China Against Google: the War Keeps Raging “The relations between China and the US which grew colder during the past winter are showing no signs of thawing this spring… US President B. Obama triggered a new round of tensions between China and the US at the Ex-Im Bank conference on March 11 Continue reading
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PAMBAZUKA NEWS 477 16 April, 2010: LINKS & RESOURCES
CONTENTS: 1. Action alerts, 2. Announcements, 3. Zimbabwe update, 4. African Union Monitor, 5. Women & gender, 6. Human rights, 7. Refugees forced migration, 8. Social movements, 9. Africa labour news, 10. Emerging powers news, 11. Africom Watch, 12. Elections governance 13. Corruption, 14. Development, 15. Health & HIV/AIDS, 16. LGBTI, 17. Racism xenophobia, 18.… Continue reading
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Upcoming climate change summit could be decisive By Teo Ballve
An upcoming grassroots summit on climate change in Bolivia could mark a pivotal event in the fight against global warming. In response, Bolivia is hosting the World People’s Conference on Climate Change and the Rights of Mother Earth from April 19-22 in the city of Cochabamba. Around 15,000 people from across the globe are expected… Continue reading
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Haiti: There Is Aid, and Then There Is US Aid By Paco Arnau
Cuban health workers assisted 227,143 victims of the earthquake. The US assisted 871. Continue reading
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The Bank Loan That Could Break South Africa's Back By Patrick Bond
Notwithstanding South Africa’s existing $75 billion foreign debt, last Thursday the World Bank added a $3.75bn loan to Eskom for the primary purpose of building the world’s fourth-largest coal-fired power plant, at Medupi, which will spew 25 million tons of the climate pollutant carbon dioxide each year. Continue reading
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Goldstone banned from grandson’s bar-mitzvah in South Africa By Ran Greenstein
THE AFTER-SHOCKS of the Goldstone Commission into the Gaza conflict continue, this time reaching into the heart of a family simcha. Mr. Justice Richard Goldstone is effectively being barred from attending his grandson’s bar mitzvah, due to be held in Johannesburg early next month. Following negotiations between the South African Zionist Federation (SAZF) and the… Continue reading
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Did Banned Media Report Foretell of Gaza War Crimes? By Jonathan Cook
Shraga Elam, an award-winning Israeli reporter, said Mr Blau’s suppressed article might also have revealed the aims of a widely mentioned but unspecified “third phase” of the Gaza attack, following the initial air strikes and a limited ground invasion, that was not implemented. He suspected the plans involved pushing some of Gaza’s population into Egypt… Continue reading
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AFRICOM and the Recolonization of Africa By Itai Muchena
Before the Berlin Conference 80 percent of Africa and its natural resources had remained under traditional and local leadership but thereafter the new map of the continent was superimposed over the one thousand indigenous cultures and regions of Africa. Concurrently, Africa’s wealth — as pronounced by its vast human and natural resource base — was… Continue reading
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PAMBAZUKA NEWS 477 16 April, 2010: ZIMBABWE: DEMYSTIFYING SANCTIONS AND STRENGTHENING SOLIDARITY
The authoritative electronic weekly newsletter and platform for social justice in Africa. CONTENTS: 1. Features, 2. Comment & analysis, 3. Advocacy & campaigns, 4. Books & arts, 5. Letters & Opinions, 6. African Writers? Corner, 7. Blogging Africa, 8. Emerging powers in Africa Watch, 9. Highlights French edition Continue reading
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A Bailout For Arms Dealers: US Aid and the Israeli Budget By Rela Mazali and Jesse Bacon
The US Congress has shamefully abdicated its oversight role in US foreign policy and has become an apologist for the worst policies of the Israeli Government, all the while sending Israel billions of dollars in aid. Fortunately activists are not waiting for the US Congress to act. They are staging their own investigation, a first… Continue reading
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