April 2010
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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
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MEDIA LENS ALERT: THE ART OF LOOKING PRIME MINISTERIAL – THE 2010 UK GENERAL ELECTION
On April 15, news media broadcast the first of three live, 90-minute “prime ministerial debates” between Gordon Brown, David Cameron and Nick Clegg, the leaders, respectively, of the Labour, Conservative and Liberal Democrat parties. By the end of the second debate on April 22, the word ‘Iraq’ had been mentioned a total of five times… Continue reading
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Housmans Radical Books London, Newsletter of Events May 2010
NEWS 1. Meeting room available for up to 12 people 2. Political Junkies Election Special EVENTS 3. ‘The high tide of workers’ autonomy – the Workers’ Committee of Magneti Marelli, Milan, 1975-78’ 4. ‘London Zine Symposium’ 5. ‘Pressure Drop’ with Billy Bragg and Mick Gordon 6. ‘The Life and Times of a Revolutionary’ with Bill Continue reading
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For $10 Billion of "Promises" Haiti Surrenders its Sovereignty By Kim Ives
It was fitting that the Mar. 31 ‘International Donors Conference Towards a New Future for Haiti’ was held in the Trusteeship Council at the United Nations headquarters in New York. At the event, Haitian President René Préval in effect turned over the keys to Haiti to a consortium of foreign banks and governments, which will… Continue reading
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Keiser Report No.36: Markets! Finance! Scandal!
Max Keiser and co-host Stacy Herbert wonder why Iceland’s volcanic ash cloud spared the victims of banking fraud; they also look at the scandals behind the Fabulous Fab Tourre’s “monstrosities,” Gordon Brown’s “shock” at Goldman’s “moral bankruptcy,” and at the political markets shocking the currency markets. In the second half of the show, Max talks… Continue reading
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Keiser Report with very special Hollywood guest
Max Keiser and co-host Stacy Herbert look at a handful of the many Goldman Sachs fraud metaphors; the scandals of what the US bankers, regulators and government knew about Repo 105 before it helped take down Lehman Brothers, and of President Clinton’s big mistake on derivatives. In the second half of the show, Stacy interviews… Continue reading
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The Global Movement Spreads: New Wave of Protests in Hebron By Avital Aboody
On April 24, 2010 at around 15:45 a group of approximately 50 Palestinian, Israeli, and International activists gathered in Hebron next to the checkpoint gate separating Shuhada Street from the Casbah. The protest was organized by a Palestinian group in Hebron called “Youth Against Settlements” and the organizers hope to hold these protests every week… Continue reading
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Ending structural blackmail? By Gerald Epstein
Epstein: None of the measures being considered will end “too big to fail” Continue reading
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When will time run out for a two-state solution? By Yousef Munayyer
Time has been running out for a two-state solution since the beginning of Israel’s colonial enterprise in occupied Palestinian territory in 1967. Yet despite this reality, analyses of the situation continue to repeat this now-meaningless cliche year after year, decade after decade. It seems that, to many, time in the Middle East can be magically… Continue reading
The New Dark Age 