April 29, 2010
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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Previously unpublished documents from inside the Kremlin shed new light on how Soviet and American scientists breached the walls of Soviet military secrecy in the final years of the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
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Democracy Now Interviews Danny Schechter on His New Film “Plunder”
We speak with investigative journalist, filmmaker, and author Danny Schechter, ‘the News Dissector.’ His latest film features interviews with industry insiders to reveal how the financial crisis was built on a foundation of criminal activity. It’s called “Plunder: The Crime Of Our Time.” Continue reading
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Statewatch News Online – 29 April 2010: UK: Home Office: Police powers and procedures 2008/9 report. Including stop and search figures
Home page: www.statewatch.org/ Statewatch European Documentation Centre (SEMDOC): www.statewatch.org/semdoc/ Sitemap: www.statewatch.org/sitemap.htm 1. EU: EUROPOL: TE-SAT 2010: EU Terrorism Situation and Trend Report 2. UK: Home Office: Police powers and procedures 2008/9 report. Including stop and search figures 3. EU countries trading in tools of torture: Amnesty International and Omega Research Foundation 4. EDPS: E-waste and Continue reading
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Statewatch News Online – 29 April 2010: Statewatch Analysis: The right to protest: “Troublemakers” to be recorded on database and targeted
Home page: www.statewatch.org/ Statewatch European Documentation Centre (SEMDOC): www.statewatch.org/semdoc/ Sitemap: www.statewatch.org/sitemap.htm 1. UK: Metropolitan Police and the killing of Blair Peach in 1979: 2. ITALY: COE: Committee on Torture concern at detention regime for terrorism suspects 3. EU: Council of the European Union:Justice and Home Affairs Council 4. EU: Justice and Home Affairs Council, 23 Continue reading
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Palestinian village inspires popular movement
Every Friday for five years, Palestinian, Israeli, and international activists protest the annexation of the lands of the Bil’in village by Israel’s segregation wall. Their grassroots effort won them a major victory in Israeli courts in 2007. Now, at the fifth Bil’in conference, Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad and representatives of all the major political… Continue reading
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Paltry Humanitarian Priorities By Felicity Arbuthnot
Canada’s contribution to Afghanistan’s death toll, in the ironically named: “Operation Enduring Freedom” (7th October 2001-3rd June 2003) resulted in eternity’s “enduring freedom” for up to 23,600 fellow beings, young, old. Even the unborn in their mothers’ wombs. The “Coaltion” mass murders, at checkpoints, in vehicles, schools, homes, markets, communities, continue unabated. US Defence Secretary… Continue reading
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GazaFriends: The Freedom Flotilla Sails to Gaza in May
On May 24, 2010, the Freedom Flotilla sets sail for Gaza determined to, once again, challenge Israel’s blockade of 1.5 million Palestinians trapped in an open-air prison. Under the coordination of the Free Gaza Movement, numerous human rights organizations, including the Turkish Relief Foundation (IHH), the Perdana Global Peace Organization from Malaysia, the European Campaign… Continue reading
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Demonstrators Stop the Wall, Teenager Pepper-sprayed and Arrested
Palestinian, Israeli and international demonstrators managed to stop the construction of the Wall in the village of al-Walaje, south of Jerusalem, for the second time this week. If completed, the path of the Wall in the area will surround the village completely, isolating it from all its lands, the cities of Bethlehem and Jerusalem and… Continue reading
The New Dark Age 