July 20, 2010
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Defend the Rights of Palestinian Citizens in Israel
The meeting will be a unique opportunity to hear about the serious attacks on the democratic rights of Palestinian citizens of Israel, following the decision last week to remove parliamentary privileges of Haneen Zoubi for her participation in the flotilla taking humanitarian aid to Gaza. Continue reading
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Spades, Human Rights and Undemocratizing Israel
Boaz Okon, former Israeli judge and current legal affairs editor for the right-leaning and largest Israeli newspaper, Yedioth Aharonoth, has called a spade a spade using both the forbidden words; apartheid and fascism. In his article, “Draw Me a Monster,” translated into English by the Coteret website, he described a long and still-growing list of… Continue reading
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MEDIA LENS ALERT: “PEACE ENVOY” BLAIR GETS AN EASY RIDE IN THE INDEPENDENT
The whole tone of the Independent interview was uncritical and respectful; a bland and meek summation of the sincere and well-intentioned thoughts of a man with the blood of untold numbers of victims on his hands: men, women and children in Iraq, Afghanistan, the former Yugoslavia and, indeed, in Palestine itself. Continue reading
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Jonathan Cook, “Netanyahu: America Won’t Get in Our Way”
u: I know what America is. America is something that can easily be moved. Moved to the right direction. . . . 80% of the Americans support us. It’s absurd. Continue reading
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Fernando Nabais, “Umberto Digital Haiku No. 2”
An interactive cinematic experiment that reinterprets a shot from the film Umberto D by Vittorio de Sica, manipulating it in response to the attention that the viewer devotes to it. Umberto D depicts Italy in 1952 in the middle of a deep recession, a mirror of the current economic crisis. Continue reading
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Buying Venezuela’s Press With U.S. Tax Dollars By Jeremy Bigwood
Until now, the State Department has hidden its role in funding the Venezuelan news media, one of the opposition’s most powerful weapons against President Hugo Chávez and his Bolivarian movement. The PADF, serving as an intermediary, effectively removed the government’s fingerprints from the money. Yet, as noted in a State Department document titled “Bureau/Program Specific… Continue reading
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Information Clearing House Newsletter 19 July, 2010: Top Secret America – A Hidden World
UK Official – Troops out of Afghanistan by 2014 By Jonathan Owen and Brian Brady A communiqué containing a blueprint for British troops to pull out from Afghanistan in four years’ time has been leaked ahead of a major international conference this week www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25959.htm Hopes and Prospects, By Noam Chomsky By Johann Hari Chomsky is Continue reading
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Haiti: Six Months On Video Report By Al Jazeera
Six months after the earthquake that killed up to 300,000 people, the dust is starting to settle over Port-au-Prince. As it does, the deep wounds that fracture this country are re-emerging, more gaping than even before. One-and-a-half million people remain displaced, many living under tents and tarps. Rubble removal is slow, and rebuilding has yet… Continue reading
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THE RISING NON-VIOLENT MOVEMENT IN PALESTINE
I think it’s my duty to present to you the reality of the situation in Palestine, because I believe you have the right to know the truth. It is especially important to do that, given the fact that, unfortunately, most of the media outlets do not present to you the reality as they should, and… Continue reading
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New York Times refused to post Ezili Danto's comment on the hoax
“First let me say there are two mistakes in this New York Times blog, one the writer or his editor make themselves, the other is in the statement made by the hoaxers. The title of this piece is France Will Not Repay Haiti Reparations. It’s wrong because the debt is not about reparations but restitution. Continue reading
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Stealing La Navassa Island – add it to the list of what's owed to Haiti
20 July, 2010 — HLLN Ezili Danto’s Note: For the third straight time this week, Haitians have requested, that HLLN does not forget La Navassa when we are listing what is illegally taken, by force from Haiti. So I herein, revised this sentenced to the piece HLLN just sent out (http://bit.ly/cmycRv) on “The Ezili Danto Continue reading
The New Dark Age 