May 6, 2010
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Take Back Parliament!
6 May, 2010 — Take Back Parliament Hi, Just minutes ago, we found out – to no one’s great surprise – that our broken system has stolen our election. We held up our end of the bargain today – we voted. But tonight’s result is a Parliament that simply doesn’t represent the ballots we cast. Continue reading
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MEDIA LENS ALERT: BREAK THE SILENT SPRING – A MEDIA LENS APPEAL FOR YOUR SUPPORT
We witnessed in the lead up to the invasion of Iraq how the sheer weight of media propaganda could make an invented, non-existent threat seem real. The same media have now made the choice between three corporate drones offering the same form of “friendly fascism” appear meaningful. The front page of the BBC’s news website… Continue reading
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The “Evil Guys List”? “Free Journalism” in the Service of US Foreign Policy: The Role of Reporters without Borders By F. William Engdahl
An organization calling itself Reporters Without Borders (RWB; French: Reporters sans frontières, or RSF) has just named Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, China’s President Hu Jintao, Iran’s Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Kazakhstan’s Nursultan Nazarbayev and Belarus President Aleksandr Lukashenko to their list of Forty Worst Predators of Press Freedom for 2010. Most significant about their list of… Continue reading
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Irish Parliamentarians call for “Veto” against Israel OECD membership By Omar Barghouti
Irish Senators and Members of Parliament (TDs in Irish) are leading the way in explicitly calling on the Irish government to VETO Israel’s membership in the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), an exclusive club of 30 of the richest industrialized states. Continue reading
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It’s political, not personal – Hossam el-Hamalawy interviews Charles Glass
Hossam el-Hamalawy meets up with renowned journalist Charles Glass in Cairo Continue reading
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Black Agenda Report 5 May, 2010: Environmental Racism / Obama's Oil Slick / Black-Latino Divide
Black Agenda Report 5 May, 2010 Putting Nukes In A Poor Black GA Town: If A Black President Does It, Is It Still Environmental Racism? by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon In the weeks since President Obama announced $8.3 billion in loan guarantees to build new nuclear reactors next to an existing pair of Continue reading
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Did Ahmadinejad Actually Say, Israel Needs To Be Wiped Off The Map?
5 May, 2010 — Information Clearing House Ahmadinejad Interview With Russian Television – 5 May, 2010 Part 1 Part 2 President Ahmadinejad: Bin Laden Is In Washington May 5, 2010 George Stephanopoulos Interviews Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad Continue reading
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BREAKING: BNP candidate attacks young man in street
Hours ago, BNP candidate Bob Bailey – the party’s top official in London – viciously attacked a young man in the street. Continue reading
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BREAKING: BNP candidate attacks young man in street
Hours ago, BNP candidate Bob Bailey – the party’s top official in London – viciously attacked a young man in the street. Continue reading