July 26, 2010
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Frontline Club, London: Afghan leak: Wikileaks Julian Assange tells all
Following the release of more than 90,000 classified military documents on the Wikileaks whistle-blowing site the Frontline Club is delighted to announce that the site’s founder Julian Assange will be taking part in a special event at the Frontline Club this Tuesday evening. Continue reading
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Afghan leak: Wikileaks Julian Assange tells all
It is one of the biggest security breaches in US military history. As 200,000 secret US military documents go public, Channel 4 News speaks exclusively to founder of Wikileaks Julian Assange about the Afghan war logs. Continue reading
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Secret files: Wikileaks reveals ‘unseen war’
The extraordinary leak made public by whistleblowers’ website Wikileaks has lifted the lid on more than 90,000 US military documents involving classified information direct from the battlefield in Afghanistan. It is the US army’s secret war diary – 200,000 pages of it – written by soldiers on the frontline. Continue reading
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Beware of Jewish Slappers
Last week the married father of two from east Jerusalem was sentenced to 18 months in jail for the ‘rape by deception’ of a Jewish woman who claimed she would not have had sex with him had she known he was an Arab. What might have been a tawdry episode – casting neither Kushour nor… Continue reading
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PLUNDER: THE CRIME OF OUR TIME By Danny Schechter
Video: Danny Schechter on the financial crisis and Wall Street as a crime narrative Continue reading
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U.S.-backed War in Somalia Comes to Uganda, Threatens to Set Whole Region Aflame A Black Agenda Radio commentary by Glen Ford
The bombs that exploded in Kampala earlier this month, killing 76 people and unleashing a wave of arrests and deportations by the Ugandan regime, are chickens coming home to roost from the U.S.-sponsored war in Somalia. U.S. corporate media routinely fail to note that the Ugandan military and other U.S. African allies are all that… Continue reading
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LIVE IN LONDON? THIS IS NOW A MUST GO EVENT 26 July, 2010
SPEAKERS: Lance Corporal JOE GLENTON, just released from prison following court martial for refusing to fight in Afghanistan, CAROLINE LUCAS MP, JEREMY CORBYN MP, MARK STEEL, comedian and columnist, LINDSEY GERMAN, Stop the War Coalition, YASMIN KHAN, War On Want. Continue reading
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UN Promises Delivery of Freedom Flotilla Cargo to Gaza
Six weeks after the Freedom Flotilla ships were forcibly boarded in international waters, their passengers illegally jailed and the cargo impounded by the Israeli authorities, the office of the United Nations Special Co-ordinator for the Middle East (UNSCO) has promised to deliver the full humanitarian aid cargo to UN. agencies in Gaza. Continue reading
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Leaked Afghan war archive paints bleak picture
The internet transparency group Wikileaks released a trove of over 91,000 leaked government and military documents painting a bleak picture of the last six years of the US-led occupation of Afghanistan. Continue reading
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Palestine: Another Well and Another Goat
Here is the unlikely battlefield. You have a mountain slope, baked dry, thousands of sun-bleached rocks, millions of thorns. It issues into an even drier wadi, on the other side of which another slope of rocks and thorns rises up only to descend into the next wadi, and so it goes from ridge to ridge… Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 25 July, 2010: Israel’s Friends at Westminster: Protecting Vilest Criminals
News Ma’an News Police: Israel detains man at border 7/25/2010 – Hebron – Ma’an – Palestinian Authority police said Sunday that a Palestinian resident of Tulkarem refugee camp was detained at the Allenby Bridge as he returned from Jordan over the weekend. Police said Muhammad Ahmad Issa, 50, was detained as he attempted to cross Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 24 July, 2010: Who’s aiding Judaisation?
News International Middle East Media Center A UN Fact-finding Mission To Probe Flotilla Attack IMEMC – 24 Jul 2010 – Saturday July 24, 2010 – 16:56, The United Nations Human Rights Council appointed a team to probe the Israeli deadly attack against the Freedom Flotilla on May 31, which claimed the lives of 9 passengers Continue reading