August 2010
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Information Clearing House Newsletter 30 August, 2010: U.S. Government Prepares for 'Crisis'
30 August, 2010 — Information Clearing House Abbas is a Man in Exile, Even Among His Own By Omar Karmi Mahmoud Abbas, the Palestinian president, faces a crisis of credibility among his own people as he heads into direct talks with Israel in Washington this week. www.informationclearinghouse.info/article26270.htm Hamas, the I.R.A. and Us By ALI ABUNIMAH Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 30 August, 2010: McCarthy in Israel
30 August, 2010 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center East Jerusalem neighborhood attacked by Israeli soldiers; at least 4 detained IMEMC – 31 Aug 2010 – Monday August 30, 2010 – 17:35, The Silwan neighborhood, which has been the site of an Israeli municipal plan to rid the neighborhood of its Palestinian residents, Continue reading
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‘CANTOS’ based on Dante’s Inferno (Trailer)
Much came about in only one room and a couple of exterior locations around Deptford,London; home to Christopher Marlowe, Pepy’s, Sir Walter Raleigh, and the original Cross Bones of St. Nicholas Church mixed with allegorical references to love, loss and chiaroscuro feelings of low light and Dante’s voyage with Virgil. Continue reading
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More back-door privatization of the National Health Service proposed
NHS Direct, perhaps the only effective addition to the Health Service the Labour government contributed, is to be axed under new proposals being put forward by the Tory/Lib-Dem government in spite of all the pre-election promises to ‘ring-fence’ the NHS. Continue reading
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Media Complicity in Financial Crimes By Danny Schechter
When I discovered that dodgy lenders and credit card companies pumped more than $3 billion into media advertising, which inflated the housing bubble between 2002 and 2007, I thought I had my answer. Yet, even I, as savvy as I thought I was, missed an important link which was hidden in plain sight — who… Continue reading
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Statewatch News Online, 30 August 2010 (15/10): Statewatch Special: DRAFT EU-US AGREEMENT ON THE EXCHANGE OF PERSONAL INFORMATION
30 August, 2010 Home page: www.statewatch.org/ Statewatch European Documentation Centre (SEMDOC): www.statewatch.org/semdoc/ Sitemap: www.statewatch.org/sitemap.htm 1. Statewatch Special: DRAFT EU-US AGREEMENT ON THE EXCHANGE OF PERSONAL INFORMATION 2. EU: Statewatch Briefing: ID Cards in the EU: Current state of play 3. G8 SUMMIT: Muskoka, Canada, 26 June 2010: G-8 Leaders Statement on Countering Terrorism 4. EU: Continue reading
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Information Clearing House 29 August, 2010: Weekend Update – America's Corruption Racket in Central Asia
29 August, 2010 — Information Clearing House America’s Corruption Racket in Central Asia By Scott Horton This is the third time this summer that the United States has been slammed with credible charges of corrupting foreign governments in Central Asia. www.informationclearinghouse.info/article26266.htm Afghanistan PowerPoints ‘R’ Us By Lawrence Sellin, Ph.D., is a colonel in the U.S. Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 29 August, 2010: Rabbi Yusef Wishes Death To The Palestinians
29 August, 2010 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Israeli universities condemn ‘witch hunt’ by right-wing groups IMEMC – 29 Aug 2010 – Sunday August 29, 2010 – 16:09, In a joint statement released by Israel’s largest and most prominent universities, the academic leadership challenged a foreign-funded campaign to undermine academic freedom in Continue reading
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Doug Henwood: Austerity in the face of weakness Pt.3 – Wages and the Crisis
28 August, 2010 — The Real News Network Henwood: Aside from a period of four or five years in the late 1990s, real wages have been either flat or down for most of the last 3, 3.5 decades. That’s not good http://widgets.vodpod.com/w/video_embed/Video.4326056 WAGES AND THE CRISIS, posted with vodpod Bio Doug Henwood is the founder Continue reading
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Bernanke’s “Nuclear Option”: “Monetary Shock and Awe”: The Fed Prepared to Launch Most Radical Intervention in History By Mike Whitney
This week, the markets were blindsided by two days of dismal housing news, grim durable goods orders, a slowdown in manufacturing, and modest gains in employment. 4 years later, and housing is still mired in a depression. When does it end? Households and consumers are buried under a mountain of debt; personal bankruptcies, delinquencies, defaults… Continue reading
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Israelis Risk Jail to Smuggle Palestinians – 600 sign up for campaign of disobedience By Jonathan Cook
Nearly 600 Israelis have signed up for a campaign of civil disobedience, vowing to risk jail to smuggle Palestinian women and children into Israel for a brief taste of life outside the occupied West Bank. Continue reading
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Checkpoint: A Video Documentary By Yoav Shamir
An ambulance is stopped, and the sick people inside brought out to explain their ailments. A mother is separated from her very young children. Young Palestinians laugh and throw snowballs at Israeli soldiers, who jovially respond in kind. One Israeli soldier harasses a pretty Palestinian girl. Another refers to the Arabs as “animals,” and suggests… Continue reading
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Paul Hanmer – Window to Elsewhere – ‘Oxtinato’
A track from ‘Window to Elsewhere’, a later release demonstrating Paul’s imaginative use of different instrumental settings. Continue reading
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SOUTH AFRICA – McCoy Mrubata – Abukho
McCoy is virtually unknown outside South Africa and well worth checking out. http://widgets.vodpod.com/w/video_embed/Video.4297051 SOUTH AFRICA – McCoy Mrubata – Abukho, posted with vodpod Continue reading
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Jazz South Africa – Paul Hamner
Paul Hamner is, in my opinion one of the best, the most imaginative musicians working in South Africa today. http://widgets.vodpod.com/w/video_embed/Video.4296994 SA Classic Jazz – Paul Hamner, posted with vodpod Continue reading
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NO2ID Supporters’ Newsletter No. 156 – 26th August 2010: Party Games
26 August, 2010 — NO2ID + PARTY GAMES + As we move into party conference season, it is time for NO2ID to see who in politics has really grasped our message – and to look forward. Have the Coalition’s fine words about rolling back the database state been fulfilled as action? Will the new Labour Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 27 August, 2010: ‘Israel ready to destroy Lebanese Army in four hours’
27 August, 2010 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Red Crescent Members Arrested at Weekly Protest, Ni’lin IMEMC – 27 Aug 2010 – Friday August 27, 2010 – 13:40, Israeli writer and film maker Joseph Dana has reported, via his twitter account, that the Israeli military has conducted a number of arrests in Continue reading
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GazaFriends] In celebration…and anticipation
28 August, 2010 — Gaza Friends When we wrote the text for Happy Birthday, Free Gaza, our wonderful video producer, Paola, asked if she could design a video tribute to Free Gaza. It is here. Many of you have also sent birthday wishes to us as we get ready to sail again in the fall. Continue reading
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Doug Henwood: Austerity in the face of weakness Pt.2
27 August, 2010 — The Real News Network The Limits of Stimulus http://widgets.vodpod.com/w/video_embed/Video.4319079 THE LIMITS OF STIMULUS, posted with vodpod Part One Bio Doug Henwood is the founder and editor of the Left Business Review; a contributing editor to the U.S. weekly The Nation; and author of several books, including Wall Street and After the Continue reading
The New Dark Age 