July 2010
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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
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UPDATE FROM THE ELECTRONIC INTIFADA 19 July, 2010 – Cynthia McKinney | Passports denied | “Israel imprisoned my father” | And more …
19 July, 2010 — Electronic Intifada US VOTERS CAN DEMAND PALESTINE’S FREEDOM By Cynthia McKinney, The Electronic Intifada, 19 July 2010 It is only a matter of time before voters of conscience make it clear that elected policy-makers who collaborate in America’s unconditional partnership with Israel will be exposed as shameful; and make it clear… Continue reading
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Statewatch News Online, 19 July 2010: Council of Europe anti-torture Committee report
Statewatch: Monitoring the state and civil liberties in Europe Continue reading
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Israeli Occupation Archive has posted 6 new items 19 July, 2010
19 July, 2010 — Israeli Occupation Archive Israel eyes ‘legal’ takeover of abandoned East Jerusalem properties Netanyahu: “At that moment I actually stopped the Oslo accord” (video) Jonathan Cook: Netanyahu admits on video he deceived US to destroy Oslo accord Israeli doctors in Congo to aid burn victims get slammed for occupation Gideon Levy: Tricky… Continue reading
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Netanyahu admits on video he deceived US to destroy Oslo accord By Jonathan Cook
Seated on a sofa in the house, Netanyahu tells the family that he deceived the US president of the time, Bill Clinton, into believing he was helping implement the Oslo accords, the US-sponsored peace process between Israel and the Palestinians, by making minor withdrawals from the West Bank while actually entrenching the occupation. He boasts… Continue reading
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ColdType JULY 2010 Issue
Photo-essay on the G20 protests in Canada by Richard Gottardo; words by Tony Sutton. PLUS – Brothers-in-Arms (David Cromwell), the Other World Cup Winners (Nima Shirazi), Police & Bankers Exempt From Austerity (Linda McQuaig), The Wankers Want Their Dividend (Michael I. Niman), Echoing the Pentagon Papers (Colleen Rowley & David Parry), Some Thoughts on Patriotism… Continue reading
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The Source of Our Despair in the Gulf By Dahr Jamail and Erika Blumenfeld
The scope and scale of this disaster are impossible to communicate. While flying in giant, arcing circles around the source, I saw nothing but oil in every direction. Jonathan Henderson works for the Gulf Restoration Network. While looking out at the literal sea of oil beneath us, he reminded us that, at the moment, 75,000… Continue reading
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Haiti, Six Months After the Earthquake By Amy Goodman
July 12 marked the six-month anniversary of the devastating earthquake here in Haiti that killed as many as 300,000 people and left much of the country in ruins. Up to 1.8 million people are living in squalid tent cities, with inadequate sanitation, if any, no electricity and little security, or any respite from the intense… Continue reading
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Misery and Despair Plague Haitians By Stephen Lendman
Torrential afternoon rains leave “lake-sized puddles in which mosquitoes breed, then spread malaria. Deep, raspy coughs can be heard everywhere. Scabies and other infections transform children’s soft skin into irritating red bumpy rashes. Bellies are swelling and hair turning orange from malnutrition. Vomiting and diarrhea are as common as flies.” Continue reading
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HLLN 16 July, 2010: Two percent to Haiti not enough | Hackers clone French Foreign Ministry website
16 July, 2010 — HLLN Recommended HLLN Link: Fake Website Says France will pay back Haiti Independence Debt by Ezili Dantò bit.ly/bNGy44 and at bit.ly/aLUy9G Sarkozy, Haiti, Independence Debt and Sovereignty bit.ly/9XMEAl In this post – Commentary: Two percent to Haiti not enough By Sir Ronald Sanders, Friday, July 16, 2010 | Caribbean News www.caribbeannetnews.com/news-23967—6-6—.html… Continue reading
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NO2ID Supporters’ Newsletter No. 153 – 15th July 2010: Unfinished Business
+ UNFINISHED BUSINESS + The Identity Documents Bill – the legislation to repeal the Identity Cards Act 2006 – will shortly move to ‘Report and Third Reading’ in the House of Commons. For those of you who haven’t followed the progress of the various Bills that NO2ID has fought over the past 6 years, this… Continue reading
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Fake Website says France will pay Haiti back Independence Debt it extorted at gun-point | France threatens to sue | Ezili Danto analysis: What if it wasn't a hoax?
Since we’re looking at this hypothetically as if France had made an admission of error, we ask when will the US pay its part of the Independence Debt paid by Haiti from 1914 to 1947? Compensate Haiti farmers for the lost of our agriculture per Clinton’s apology? Compensate Haiti farmers for USAID’s destruction of Haiti’s… Continue reading
The New Dark Age 