August 2010
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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 12 August, 2010: Israeli forces desecrate 200 graves in Muslim cemetery; injure Sheikh with bulldozer
12 August, 2010 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Israeli forces desecrate 200 graves in Muslim cemetery; injure Sheikh with bulldozer IMEMC – 12 Aug 2010 – Thursday August 12, 2010 – 18:25, A Jerusalem Sheikh who tried to stand in the way of Israeli bulldozers demolishing a Muslim cemetery was injured Tuesday, Continue reading
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Evil Inequality In the Works for the Web
The Internet and telecom giants Verizon and Google have reportedly reached an agreement that sells out net neutrality. They make it sound like a victory for fairness — they’ll stand by equal access for everyone on the wired web. But the arrangement, not yet public and arrived at in closed door meetings between the behemoths,… Continue reading
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Black Agenda Report 12 August 2010: Time to Fight / Crumbling Empire / Digital Obama'Laid / Wyclef Pawn
12 August, 2010 — Black Agenda Report Make Jesse Jackson, Ben Jealous and Big Labor Own Up to Their Words by BAR executive editor Glen Ford Established Black and labor leaders are compelled by the spiraling economy to at least pretend to make demands on the First Black President. However, “the Obama administration has no Continue reading
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Information Clearing House 12 August, 2010: Is This Finally The Economic Collapse?
12 August, 2010 — Information Clearing House Manufacturing Consent For Attack On Iran? The Point of No Return By Jeffrey Goldberg As Washington and Jerusalem study each other intensely, here’s an inside look at the strategic calculations on both sides-and at how, if things remain on the current course, an Israeli air strike will unfold. Continue reading
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National Security Archive Update: THE TEST BAN CHALLENGE
The documents published today provide new details on how nonproliferation objectives informed support within the U.S. government for a test ban: Continue reading
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Wikileaks Afghanistan Stories 25 July – 8 August, 2010
8 August, 2010 — Wikileaks Afghanistan Stories I have gathered together all the stories Creative-i collected since the release of the Afghanistan emails covering the period 25 July – 8 August, 2010. 8/8/10 – Bradley Manning: An American Hero 6/8/10 – NYT Passes Along Anonymous Denial of Civilian Deaths 6/8/10 – WikiLeaks’ Revelations and their Continue reading
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Task Force 373 – Heroes or Villains? Wall of silence fuels talk of “death squads” By Matthew Nasuti
Task Force 373 is a secret American special operations unit tasked with killing or capturing more than 2,000 senior Taliban and al-Qaeda figures who are listed in the JPEL (Joint Prioritized Effects List). The concept of the unit is sound and consistent with the strategy previously implemented by General Stanley McChrystal, which is to target… Continue reading
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Hidden Intelligence Operation Behind the Wikileaks Release of “Secret” Documents? F. William Engdahl
The naming of Gul today as a key liaison to the Afghan ‘Taliban’ forms part of a larger pattern of US and British recent efforts to demonize the current Pakistan regime as a key part of the problems in Afghanistan. Such a demonization greatly boosts the position of recent US military ally, India. Furthermore, Pakistan… Continue reading
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Information Clearing House Newsletter 10 August, 2010: Political Prisoners in America
10 August, 2010 — Information Clearing House Eyes on the Skies Over Bushehr Nuclear Reactor By Marsha B. Cohen Once Bushehr’s nuclear fuel arrives from Russia, whatever military options against Iran that may be “on the table” that include Bushehr will have to come off. Israel and the U.S. have only a few weeks to Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 10 August, 2010: The “banality of evil” and Israel’s destruction of al-Araqib
10 August, 2010 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center WAFA: Hamas security forces harass Palestinian journalist in Gaza IMEMC – 10 Aug 2010 – Tuesday August 10, 2010 – 15:09, On the other hand, the WAFA news agency said that Hamas security forces in Gaza continue to summon Palestinian journalist to their headquarter Continue reading
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South Africa – Music Legends – Hugh Masekela 1
11 August, 2010 See the other Hugh Masekela Videos on Vodpod http://widgets.vodpod.com/w/video_embed/Video.4200416 South Africa – Music Legends – Hugh Masekela 1, posted with vodpod Continue reading
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The Quiet Revolution: Venezuelans experiment with participatory democracy By Andrew Kennis
In the past four years, hundreds of thousands of Venezuelans have been organizing tens of thousands of consejos comunales (communal councils). Each council is composed of about 150 families in urban areas, while in rural and indigenous areas, each council is composed of 20 and 10 families, respectively. The councils are involved in everything from… Continue reading
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Information Clearing House 11 August, 2010: US — Venezuela: The Empire Strikes Back (and Loses)
11 August, 2010 — Information Clearing House Saving Women and Preventing Genocide: The Real Reasons We’re in Afghanistan Now By Bretigne Shaffer So now the cheerleaders for war would have us believe that they are more concerned for the welfare of Afghan civilians than are those who wish to end the US occupation. www.informationclearinghouse.info/article26128.htm What Continue reading
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Information Clearing House Newsletter 9 August, 2010: US Nuclear Carriers on the Move
9 August, 2010 — Information Clearing House Nuclear Carriers on the Move By Arno J. Mayer Given the scale and reach of this projection of raw military power-reminiscent of the comparatively paltry gunboat diplomacy of a not-so-distant past-I was wondering, Mr. President, whether it wouldn’t be wise for you to give the American people, the Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 9 August, 2010: New guide puts Palestine history, debates in activists’ hands
9 August, 2010 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Israeli police destroys 3 more homes in the Negev IMEMC – 9 Aug 2010 – Monday August 09, 2010 – 20:14, Israeli authorities demolished three houses in the western Negev, southern Israel area on Monday, Palestinian media sources reported. Palestinian reclaims land from settlement Continue reading
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Diz the Whizz and Bill at the Mac
The computer for the rest of us? This is the very first drawing, wobbly lines ‘an all that I did on my new Macintosh back in 1984, recently unearthed from my stuff that has been packed away in a loft in Brooklyn for fifteen years. Printed out on the original Apple Imagewriter dot matrix printer Continue reading
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Israeli and Palestinian Women Find New Way to Challenge The Occupation
On Friday, July 23, we went on a trip – a dozen Jewish-Israeli women with a dozen West-Bank Palestinian women and four of their children, one of them a baby. We drove through the interior hill country (`Shfela’) and toured Tel Aviv and Yaffa together. We ate at a restaurant, bathed in the sea and… Continue reading
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MEDIA LENS ALERT: BOGUS PARALLELS – THE INDEPENDENT’S DONALD MACINTYRE RESPONDS
Does Macintyre really believe that our readers respond robotically to journalists without judging the arguments for themselves? Is it really lamentable for members of the public to take action in response to biased journalism when emboldened by the realisation that they are not alone in their concerns? Continue reading
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Atmospheric Geoengineering: Weather Manipulation, Contrails and Chemtrails A Review of the “Case Orange” report By Rady Ananda
At an international symposium held in Ghent, Belgium May 28-30, 2010, scientists asserted that “manipulation of climate through modification of Cirrus clouds is neither a hoax nor a conspiracy theory.” It is “fully operational” with a solid sixty-year history. Continue reading
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HLLN 9 August, 2010: Hollywood, Hip Hop and Haiti: Sean Penn on Haiti, his best & worst lines on the Charlie Rose show
Sean Penn on Charlie Rose – recycling unfounded charges against Pres. Aristide, showing his dearth of knowledge, but he does mention ngos are a business and cites Timothy Schwartz’ Travesty in Haiti Continue reading
The New Dark Age 