May 9, 2010
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BP: The Worst Safety and Environmental Record of All Oil Companies Operating in the United States By Tyson Slocum
BP is a London-based oil company with the worst safety and environmental record of any oil company operating in America. In just the last few years, BP has pled guilty to two crimes and paid over $730 million in fines and settlements to the US government, state governments, and civil lawsuit judgments for environmental crimes,… Continue reading
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Spill Here, Spill Now by Firedoglake
“It turns out, by the way, that oil rigs today generally don’t cause spills. They are technologically very advanced. Even during Katrina, the spills didn’t come from the oil rigs, they came from the refineries onshore.” — Barack Obama Continue reading
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10th New York International Latino Film Festival
9 May, 2010 — 10th New York International Latino Film Festival http://widgets.vodpod.com/w/video_embed/Groupvideo.5598123 more about “New York International Latino Film Fe…“, posted with vodpod Continue reading
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Joseph Massad – The Language of Zionism
“Colonialism is peace; anti-colonialism is war.” This is the unalterable equation that successive Israeli governments insist must determine the basis of all current and future relations between Israeli Jews and the Palestinians. Indeed, the deployment of the rhetoric of peace between Palestinians and Israeli Jews since the 1970s has been contingent on whether the Palestinians… Continue reading
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General ‘tried to cover up truth about death of Rachel Corrie’ By Ben Lynfield
Seven years after the American activist Rachel Corrie was killed by an Israeli army bulldozer in Gaza, evidence has emerged which appears to implicate Israel’s Gaza commander at the time, in an attempt to obstruct the official investigation into her death. Continue reading
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Dead end for New Labour By Leo Panitch
Leo Panitch: Labour Party will have to split before it can be renewed Continue reading
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The plantation called Haiti: Feudal pillage masking as humanitarian aid By Marguerite 'Ezili Danto' Laurent
The champagne bottles were popping at the U.N. for the pledging session’s success – $5 billion, $10 billion pledged for the future. Whose future? What Haitians in Haiti need is a hoe, a tractor, some lifting equipment, so they might not have to use their bare hands to dig out the corpses still under the… Continue reading
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PAMBAZUKA AFRICA NEWS 480 8 May, 2010: LINKS & RESOURCES
The authoritative electronic weekly newsletter and platform for social justice in Africa Pambazuka News (English edition): ISSN 1753-6839 CONTENTS: 1. Action alerts, 2. Announcements, 3. Zimbabwe update, 4. Women & gender, 5. Human rights, 6. Refugees & forced migration, 7. Social movements, 8. Africa labour news, 9. Emerging powers news, 10. Elections & governance, 11. Continue reading
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Strategic Culture Foundation online magazine latest publications from 2-8 May, 2010
2010-05-02 Rafe MAIR (Canada) As Tehran and Jerusalem Exchange Pleasantries “As we remember, in January 2013, the US invaded Canada to divert to themselves oil destined to go by pipeline from the Tar Sands to the BC coast thence to China. In the fall of this year you’ll also recall that Mexico, under a coalition Continue reading
The New Dark Age 