May 2010
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Interview: Hervé Junior Bijou – Haiti's needs are still desperate
Hervé Junior Bijou returned to Haiti on April 21 for the first time since the earthquake struck in January. He is from the town of Jérémie, where he graduated from law school in 2006. While studying, he co-founded an organization to provide legal assistance to detainees who could not afford an attorney—Haiti has no public… Continue reading
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Report-back from Cochabamba: World Peoples Conference on Climate Change and the Rights of Mother Earth
7 May, 2010 — LeftStreamed http://blip.tv/play/AYHdwkYC View part 1 on Blip.tv website Part 1: with delegates to the Cochabamba climate conference: performance by Red Slam collective Kimia Ghomeshi, Campaign Director, Canadian Youth Climate Coalition (transcript) Ben Powless, Mohawk from Six Nations in Ontario, member of the Indigenous Environmental Network http://blip.tv/play/AYHd5wwC View part 2 on Blip.tv… Continue reading
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Training makes killing civilians acceptable Pt2
Josh Stieber: They put us through psychological tests to see if we were willing to shoot civilians Pt2 Continue reading
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Israel: The not-so-new Fascism – Palestinians, the not-so-new Unter-Menschen By William Bowles
For decades the Zionist entity has played the victim card, even appropriating the term ‘Holocaust’ as its own, this in spite of the fact that millions of Roma, Slavs, Russians, Homosexuals, the ‘mentally feeble’ and other ‘undesirables’ (‘Unter-Menschen’ or under-people) were exterminated in Nazi concentration camps. In fact collectively, a far greater number than that… Continue reading
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New weapons experimented in Gaza: population risks genetic mutations
Toxic and carcinogenic metals, able to produce genetic mutations, have been found in the tissues of people wounded in Gaza during Israeli military operations of 2006 and 2009. The research has been carried out on wounds provoked by weapons that did not leave fragments in the bodies of the victims, a peculiarity that was pointed… Continue reading
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Black Agenda Report 12 May, 2010: The Supreme Court? Is This Why We Vote For Democrats?
We vote for Democrats, the argument goes, because sending a Republican to the White House means sending racist conservative neanderthals to the Supreme Court. A clinching argument right? What would John McCain do? But is that the right question to ask? And much more… Continue reading
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Police arrest photographer for displaying Cameron “wanker” poster
David Hoffman said five police burst into his terrace home in Bow after a neighbour complained about the Class War poster in his ground-floor window. He said the officers told him he had broken the Public Order Act and threatened to return and arrest him if he displayed it again. Continue reading
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Police arrest photographer for displaying Cameron “wanker” poster
David Hoffman said five police burst into his terrace home in Bow after a neighbour complained about the Class War poster in his ground-floor window. He said the officers told him he had broken the Public Order Act and threatened to return and arrest him if he displayed it again. Continue reading
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Vanunu Returns To Prison And The End Of Israel’s Nuclear Ambiguity By Eileen Fleming
On May 11, 2010, the Israeli Supreme Court ruled that Mordechai Vanunu, will “serve a three-month jail sentence handed to him by Jerusalem District Court and not community service. “ The ‘justices’ refused Vanunu’s offer to do community service in occupied east Jerusalem, because they do not view that side of town to be a… Continue reading
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Training that makes killing civilians acceptable
Josh Stieber: In boot camp we trained with songs that joked about killing women and children Continue reading
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Love Police ruins Conservative Party Press Statement
Brilliant voiceover as George Osborne enters No.10 Continue reading
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Joe Bageant: Lost on the Fearless Plain
The investing class has put thousands of billions into movies, TV and other media to keep the hologram lit up over the past six decades. Which is to say, keep the public in an entertained stupor, awed, mislead, and most importantly, distracted. But the payoff probably runs in the trillions. Continue reading
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GazaFriends: Israel bans the basics of life
As we get ready to launch our cargo ship and Israel rattles its sabers threatening to violently stop our 8-boat flotilla, the 1.5 million Palestinians of Gaza cannot be forgotten. It is they who pay the price for the inaction of governments, particularly in the EU and the US. Continue reading
The New Dark Age 