July 12, 2010
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The Siege against Gaza: America’s Ongoing Support of Israeli Military and Intelligence Operations By Prof. Michel Chossudovsky
The raids on the Gaza Freedom Flotilla, bear the mark of previous Israeli operations directed against unarmed civilians. It is a well established modus operandi of Israeli military-intelligence operations, which is tacitly supported by the US administration. The killing of civilians is intended to trigger a response by Palestinian resistance forces, which in turn justifies… Continue reading
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Michael Arrington: journalists have a right to express their opinions
Michael Arrington, writing for TechCrunch, argues that journalists should openly express their opinions and biases, despite the longstanding idea that journalists should hide their political biases. This argument by Arrington comes on the heels of CNN’s firing of Octavia Nasr because of a controversial tweet and the forced resignation of Helen Thomas because of her… Continue reading
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HLLN 7 July, 2010: Flashpoint interview – latest news direct from Haiti | Open letter on Haitian agriculture to CEO of Monsanto | Bill Clinton’s Heavy Hand on Haiti’s Vulnerable Agricultural Economy: The American Rice Scandal
Bill Clinton recently apologized before the U.S. Senate for the U.S. trade and aid policies that led to the destruction of Haiti’s capacity to feed itself. Monsanto is a charter member of the industrial-agricultural complex that has long driven those policies in the U.S. government and international institutions, exploiting every opening to break down local… Continue reading
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HLLN 7 July, 2010: Emmanuel Dred Wilmè, Haiti's warrior assassinated by UN/US occupiers on July 6, 2005 | “There will always be more Dred Wilmés as long as there is misery and exclusion imposed on Haiti” says participants at Wilme's funeral
“…The Haitian resistance against the Western bicentennial re-colonization of Haiti lives on. Below, we bring again the voice of Drèd Wilme, speaking a few days after the Apaid-hired-gun, Labanye, was killed and the UN occupation troops themselves had entered Site Soleil to continue the Haitian extermination campaign begun when the U.S. Marines kidnapped President Aristide… Continue reading
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Oil Deposits in the Carribean basin – largest deposit ever discovered, under some of the poorest countries
“There is ample evidence that the oil reserves under the Caribbean Basin are on the same scale as those of the Persian Gulf, the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden combined, and that they contain three thousand more times natural gas than oil. Energy reserves of that magnitude will change the geopolitical balance of… Continue reading
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Pentagon Provokes New Crisis With China By Rick Rozoff
Three news features appearing earlier this week highlight tensions between the United States and the People’s Republic of China that, at least in relation to the language used to describe them, would have seemed unimaginable even a few months ago and are evocative more of the Korean War era than of any time since the… Continue reading
The New Dark Age 