August 5, 2010
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Blair must be arrested! By John Pilger
Now consider the Proceeds of Crime Act. Blair conspired in and executed an unprovoked war of aggression against a defenceless country, of a kind the Nuremberg judges in 1946 described as the ‘paramount war crime’. This has caused, according to scholarly studies, the deaths of more than a million people, a figure that exceeds the… Continue reading
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MIMO – A socio-economic model for the 21st century? By William Bowles & Michael Jensen
MIMO is a ‘work in progress’, that starts from the point where use value is transformed into cultural capital and, over time (as with the evolution of money from being a portable form of barter, to being a commodity) establishes a mechanism for measuring value generation that has meaning in the real world, insofar as… Continue reading
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How to build a real Web Economy – a socialist one By William Bowles
Flattr is a social micropayment platform that lets you show love for the things you like – Help support the people you like and enable them to continue with what they do. Well that’s how the blurb goes. Continue reading
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Haiti's colonial overlord By Ashley Smith
To the U.S. media, Clinton is a compassionate statesmen, with only the best interests of the Haitian people at heart. Ordinary Haitians have a different view. They remember Clinton as the man who, while president, demanded Haiti follow the ‘Plan of Death’–the neoliberal prescriptions of the IMF and World Bank that ‘structurally adjusted’ the Haitian… Continue reading
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Israel needs green light from US to assault Iran – Chossudovsky
A group of former CIA and military officials have written to President Obama to say they believe Israel is preparing to attack Iran this month. Continue reading
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Housmans Radical Books London, Newsletter of Events in August 2010
1 August, 2010 — Housmans NEWS 1. Paul Russell’s UK Street Photography Exhibition 2. What is wrong with using Amazon? EVENTS 3. ‘Soho Noir’ with Cathi Unsworth and Paul Willetts 4. ‘Fighting Fascism in London’ with David Renton 5. ‘How to Live Free in London’ with Katharine Hibbert 6. ‘The Short Film Movement’ 7. ‘Dan Continue reading
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Al Quds day annual demonstration and rally, London 4 September, 2010
Saturday 4th September 2010 at 2 pm, Marble Arch, London Continue reading
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Child confronts Israeli forces over father’s detention By Zuheir Al-Shaer
Video footage of a four-year-old child begging Israeli forces to release his father from detention on Monday has circulated the globe. Badran Jaber, the child’s grandfather, told Ma’an his son-in-law was detained after objecting to Israeli bulldozers overturning fields planted with vegetables near the illegal Kiryat Arba settlement. Continue reading
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The Flattr Micropayment System
Flattr is a social micropayment platform that lets you show love for the things you like – Help support the people you like and enable them to continue with what they do. Continue reading
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OBAMA REBRANDS IRAQ WITHDRAWAL?
5 August, 2010 — The Real News Network Gareth Porter: Obama backtracks on commitment to withdraw combat troops from Iraq. http://widgets.vodpod.com/w/video_embed/ExternalVideo.961944 OBAMA REBRANDS IRAQ WITHDRAWAL?, posted with vodpod Bio Gareth Porter is a historian and investigative journalist on US foreign and military policy analyst. He writes regularly for Inter Press Service on US policy towards Continue reading
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UN Human Rights Committee concludes that Israel violates the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights
As such, with respect to the findings of the UN Fact-finding Mission on the Gaza Conflict, the Committee regretted that Israel “has not yet conducted independent and credible investigations into the serious violations of international human rights law, such as direct targeting of civilians and civilian objects, including infrastructure such as waste water plants and… Continue reading
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9/11 Truth Truth By Joel S. Hirschhorn
Months, years and then decades slip by. Despite an avalanche of information burying me everyday I had not read or heard anything about 9/11 truth for many, many months. Sometimes movements become so marginalized that they no longer have enough vitality to stay within the consciousness of very many people. Continue reading
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GazaFriends: Freedom Flotilla Coalition Meets in Stockholm Next Flotilla on its Way Back to Gaza
It has been over two months since Israel’s 31 May 2010 deadly assault on the Freedom Flotilla and little to nothing has been done to hold Israel accountable for its savage attack that led to the killing of nine of our colleagues, or to end Israel’s continued violations against the Palestinian people, especially the 1.5… Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 4 August, 2010: Israeli group spotlights sham of Israeli construction freeze
4 August, 2010 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Customs Department Officers Close Nablus TV Channel and Attack Staff Members IMEMC – 4 Aug 2010 – Wednesday August 04, 2010 – 22:44, The Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR) condemns the recent raid on a Nablus TV channel, which included the beating of Continue reading
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Narratives Under Siege (5): There’s Something in the Water: The Poisoning of Life in the Gaza Strip
The Palestinian Center for Human Rights (PCHR) is pleased to announce the resumption of the Narratives Under Siege series, which aims to provide a human voice to the suffering caused by the illegal Israeli-imposed closure, applied continuously since 14 June 2007 and in various forms for over a decade. The Narratives series provides a glimpse… Continue reading
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Information Clearing House Newsletter 4 August, 2010: Church to Burn Copies of Koran to Mark 9/11
4 August, 2010 — Information Clearing House Obama Warned Israel May Bomb Iran By Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity We write to alert you to the likelihood that Israel will attack Iran as early as this month. This would likely lead to a wider war. www.informationclearinghouse.info/article26077.htm Israel-Lebanon Tensions Flare After Skirmish Leaves Four Dead By Continue reading
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FAIR: Does the NY Times Factcheck Op-Eds?
On August 2, the New York Times published an op-ed arguing that Arabs do not care much about Palestinians–and that this is a good thing, especially for Palestinians. But the argument relied on a “poll” of the Arab world that does not exist. Continue reading
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The Anti-Empire Report 4 August, 2010 by William Blum
When facts are inconvenient, when international law, human rights and history get in the way, when war crimes can’t easily be justified or explained away, when logic doesn’t help much, the current crop of American political leaders turns to what is now the old reliable: 9/11. We have to fight in Afghanistan because … somehow… Continue reading
The New Dark Age 