August 2010
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Strategic culture foundation online magazine latest publications from 22-28 August, 2010
28 August, 2010 — Strategic culture foundation 2010-08-22 Elena PUSTOVOITOVA The Rising Star of Gen. Hamid Gul “The former General holds that the longer the US forces stay in the region – in Iraq and Afghanistan (or in Pakistan, if they choose to move into the country) – the more they will antagonize the respective Continue reading
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Major Israeli Theaters Embrace The Settlements + Big Update
Ariel lies 20km inside the West Bank, deeper than any other sizable settlement. The divided highway leading to it – the best road in the West Bank – is open to Israelis only, *and* lacks any signs naming the numerous Palestinian towns and villages flanking the road. According to Peace Now’s 2006 settlement land report,… Continue reading
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The NS Interview: Haneen Zoabi By Samira Shackle
“I was not elected to keep silent or to sit at the table and clap” – Haneen Zoabi, Palestinian member of the Israeli Knesset. Israel did everything it could to make us forget our history: controlling education and the media, putting us in a ghetto, preventing us from having normal relations with the Arab world… Continue reading
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Information Clearing House Newsletter 26 August, 2010: CIA wants to cover up US war crimes in Yemen
26 August, 2010 — Information Clearing House An Exciting New Muslim Country To Attack By Glenn Greenwald There is anti-Americanism and radicalism in Yemen; therefore, to solve that problem, we’re going to bomb them more with flying killer robots, because nothing helps reduce anti-American sentiments like slaughtering civilians and dropping cluster bombs from the sky. Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 26 August, 2010: Haniyya: “Direct Talks Have No Chances Of Success”
26 August, 2010 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Israeli education ministry approves new ‘whites-only’ settlement school IMEMC – 26 Aug 2010 – Thursday August 26, 2010 – 03:38, Several months ago, a religious school in the illegal Israeli settlement of Immanuel was criticized for segregating white Jewish students from non-white Jewish students Continue reading
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The Latest Wikileaks Afghanistan Stories 25-26 August, 2010
26 August, 2010 — Creative-i 26/8/10 – WikiLeaks: CIA Red Cell Memorandum on United States Exporting Terrorism 26/8/10 – CIA shrugs off WikiLeaks “exporter of terrorism” release 26/8/10 – Wikileaks Posts Classified CIA Memo 26/8/10 – Wikileaks publishes ‘red cell’ CIA paper 25/8/10 – WikiLeaks leak lame, alleged CIA assassin accidently shoots self 25/8/10 – Continue reading
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SA Music Legends: Moses Taiwa Molelekwa #2
Moses Molelekwa, who died under tragic circumstances in 2001 was a brilliant young South African pianist that I had the pleasure of hearing quite a few times in Jozi. Enjoy. http://widgets.vodpod.com/w/video_embed/Video.4297073 SA Music Legends: Moses Taiwa Molelekwa #2, posted with vodpod Continue reading
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Moses Taiwa Molelekwa – jazz genius
Another Moses Molelekwa piece. http://widgets.vodpod.com/w/video_embed/Video.25158 Moses Taiwa Molelekwa – jazz genius, posted with vodpod Continue reading
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Paul Hanmer – Trains to Taung – ‘Prop Hat’
I think this was Paul Hanmer’s first solo album and it’s a masterpiece. http://widgets.vodpod.com/w/video_embed/Video.4297000 Paul Hanmer – Trains to Taung – ‘Prop Hat’, posted with vodpod Continue reading
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SA Classic Jazz – Paul Hamner
A superb South African pianist, composer, arranger and producer. http://widgets.vodpod.com/w/video_embed/Video.4296994 Continue reading
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Happy Birthday, Free Gaza
23 August, 2010 — Free Gaza Two years ago today, 44 people from 17 countries were on the Mediterranean heading toward Gaza. We were in two dilapidated fishing boats, the seas were rough, most of us were seasick, and all of us were worried that Israeli military warships would prevent us from getting into the Continue reading
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Hudson’s co-founder, the Israeli academic purge and the subversion of US Middle East policy
Evidence is mounting that the Institute for Zionist Strategies (IZS) — an Israeli NGO at the forefront of an ongoing campaign to purge Israeli Universities of faculty and programs deemed “left-wing” — is a creature of The Hudson Institute, a major Washington based neoconservative think-tank, which played an active role in shaping the Bush administration’s… Continue reading
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Fears for South Africa's Press Freedom By Chris Stein
‘The broad language of the POI Bill would criminalise information-gathering methods essential to investigative journalism,’ Ayesha Kajee, executive director of the Freedom of Expression Institute (FXI), told IPS. ‘It would chill the practice of this field of journalism essential to keeping the government accountable to the public.’ Continue reading
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South African Public Sector Strike Highlights Society’s Contradictions By Patrick Bond
The two major civil service unions on strike against the South African (SA) government vow to intensify pressure in coming days, in a struggle pitting a million members of the middle and lower ranks of society against a confident government leadership fresh from hosting the FIFA World Cup. Continue reading
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WHY ISN’T THE WORLD RUSHING TO RESCUE PAKISTAN?
Snehal Shingavi: US has blamed Pakistan for failed policies in region Continue reading
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Wikileaks News 21-23 August, 2010
Stories on Wikileaks-Afghanistan 21-23 August, 2010 Continue reading
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