August 2010
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Information Clearing House Newsletter 5 August, 2010 The Lunatic's Manual
5 August, 2010 — Information Clearing House The US Isn’t Leaving Iraq, It’s Rebranding the Occupation By Seumas Milne Obama says withdrawal is on schedule, but renaming or outsourcing combat troops won’t give Iraqis back their country. www.informationclearinghouse.info/article26092.htm US-led Raid Killed 39 Civilians By Press TV President Hamid Karzai’s office said late on Wednesday the Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 5 August, 2010: A Country in Fragments: The Subjective Atlas of Palestine
5 August, 2010 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Sheikh Salah Denied Access To Jerusalem For Additional Three Months IMEMC – 5 Aug 2010 – Thursday August 05, 2010 – 22:25, The Islamic Movement reported Thursday that the commander of the so-called “Israeli Front Command” of the army, issued a new decision preventing Continue reading
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Strategic culture foundation online magazine latest publications from 25-31 July, 2010
31 July, 2010 — Strategic Culture Foundation 2010-07-26 Alexander MEZYAEV UN Court and Kosovo: International Law Amputated “On July 22, 2010 the International Court of Justice issued an advisory opinion on the legality of the unilateral declaration of independence by «the Kosovo administration»… The amputation which the ICJ has performed on international law will generate Continue reading
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WHY IS THE US IN AFGHANISTAN – RUSSIA AND CHINA? Wikileaks: The Pakistan connection Pt.3
So now we’re going to catch up sort of into the current period. What is what we are now calling Taliban? ‘Cause as you said in the last episode, you can’t you know, it’s an easy phrase to throw around, but it’s like saying “the Americans”. I mean, “the Taliban” mean many different things, doesn’t… Continue reading
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CIA AND ISI NURTURED MUJAHIDEEN AND TALIBAN: Wikileaks: The Pakistan connection Pt.2
I think you really have to go back to the early 1970s, when Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, who we already mentioned, has been an active Afghan fighter, who really started, in the early ’70s, separating from Afghanistan. He ended up in trouble, ended up killing another Afghan over political issues at Kabul University, ended up in jail,… Continue reading
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WIKILEAKS: THE PAKISTAN CONNECTION Part 1: CIA AND ISI NURTURED MUJAHIDEEN AND TALIBAN
Gould, Fitzgerald, authors of “Afghanistan’s Untold Story” discuss WikiLeaks Pakistan Taliban connection Continue reading
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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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