September 2010
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Ken Loach on the Russell Tribunal on Palestine
Film director Ken Loach explains why he supports the Russell Tribunal on Palestine Continue reading
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Venezuela's Choice By Michael Albert
Venezuelan election commentary is still in flux – reactions are still trickling in. Still, so far available analyses are mostly failing to address the election’s most important implications. Continue reading
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‘Not Red Ed’ – reinventing Labour, again and again… By William Bowles
So what is ‘Not Red Ed’ up to? I hazard the following guess: It must have been pretty obvious that Labour would lose the election and having already stated that they would ‘put off’ cuts in public spending for a coupla years, Ed has predictably attacked the Tory/Lib-Dem govt’s plans to scupper our public services. Continue reading
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Information Clearing House Newsletter: Why The US Doesn't Talk To Iran
29 September, 2010 — ICH Robert Gates: 'We're Not Ever Leaving' Afghanistan By Marcus Baram In a shocking indication of a split between the White House and the Pentagon over the war in Afghanistan, Defense Secretary Robert Gates believes that the U.S. military will never leave the war-torn country. www.informationclearinghouse.info/article26477.htm Statement By The Afghan Resistance Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 29 September, 2010: EU offers tax benefits for Israeli settlements
29 September, 2010 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Nobel Peace Laureate Still Detained By Israel IMEMC – 29 Sep 2010 – Thursday September 30, 2010 – 04:48, Nobel Peace Laureate, Mairead Maguire, is still imprisoned by Israel and awaiting deportation from the country. Man Wounded After Being Rammed By Settler’s Vehicle IMEMC Continue reading
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Black Agenda Report 30 September, 2010: News, Commentary & Analysis From the Black Left "No Knock Barack" –Stop the Raids at Home & Wars Abroad
30 September, 2010 — BAR President Barack “Midnight Raid” Obama: End Your Wars at Home and Abroad by BAR executive editor Glen Ford Last week’s FBI raids likely signal that the Obama regime has begun a major campaign to criminalize and crush the Left. Think COINTELPRO, 21st century-style. President Obama, the constitutional rights lawyer who claims Continue reading
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Turkey and Russia: Cleaning up the mess in the Middle East By Eric Walberg
The neocon plan to transform the Middle East and Central Asia into a pliant client of the US empire and its only-democracy-in-the-Middle-East is now facing a very different playing field. Not only are the wars against the Palestinians, Afghans and Iraqis floundering, but they have set in motion unforeseen moves by all the regional players. Continue reading
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BDS: Boycotting Apartheid By Eric Walberg
In July, in Rachel Corrie’s hometown of Olympia, Washington state, the popular Food Co-op announced that no Israeli products would be sold at its two grocery stores. Archbishop Desmond Tutu, a principal endorser of this new Israel Divestment Campaign, issued a statement endorsing the boycott. “The Olympia Food Co-op has joined a growing worldwide movement… Continue reading
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The Settlement Freeze and the Peace Process Freeze
Video: On or about Sept. 26 the Israeli government’s declared settlement moratorium came to an end. This has been identified as a major obstacle in the nascent peace talks. The moratorium has been incomplete and settlement construction has continued in many areas despite the so-called “freeze.” As settlers awaited the coming of this date to… Continue reading
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Resist the cuts!
Almost 200 people packed a Tower Hamlets meeting to resist the cuts. Continue reading
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Yonatan Shapira’s testimony from the Jewish Boat to Gaza
For some weeks already we have been making our way east, from the Greek island on which the yacht was bought, from north of the Peloponnese through the Corinthian Canal, the Cycladic islands. Already we have experienced just about every kind of mishap in the book: the engines overheated on us and died, the wheel… Continue reading
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National Security Archive Update, September 29, 2010: THE UNITED STATES VS. RITO ALEJO DEL RIO
The U.S. ambassador to Colombia reported in 1998 that the “systematic arming and equipping of aggressive regional paramilitaries” was “pivotal” to the military success of Gen. Rito Alejo del Río Rojas, now on trial for murder and collaboration with paramilitary death squads while commander of a key army unit in northern Colombia. Continue reading
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Indian farmers protest colonial practices of land acquisition
Thousands of farmers in India are against the government’s plans to build a new highway. With two-thirds of the country’s population dependent on agriculture, land acquisition turns out to be a sensitive issue. Continue reading
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Economism rules ok! By William Bowles
Currently, the only effective force in the country that can mount any kind of opposition to the attacks on our social capital is a much defanged trade union movement. But what are the chances of the organized labour movement leading a successful opposition to this, most likely the last gasp of a bankrupt capitalism before… Continue reading
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Tony Blair ‘knew of torture claims eight years ago’: His handwritten note was on secret letter By Jack Doyle
Tony Blair knew about allegations that British nationals held in U.S. custody were being tortured just months into the War on Terror, it was claimed last night. A previously secret document carries notes apparently in Mr Blair’s handwriting which refer to claims that detainees were being ill-treated. Continue reading
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FBI Raids Activists’ Homes in Sinister COINTELPRO Replay By Tom Burghardt
In a replay of the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s infamous COINTELPRO operations targeting the left during the 1960s and ’70s, America’s political police launched raids on the homes of antiwar and solidarity activists. Heavily-armed SWAT teams smashed down doors and agents armed with search warrants carried out simultaneous raids in Minneapolis and Chicago early morning… Continue reading
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Information Clearing House Newsletter 28 September, 2010: Will They Raid My Home For Writing This?
28 September, 2010 — ICH UN Fact-Finding Mission Says Israelis “Executed” US Citizen Furkan Dogan: By Gareth Porter Dogan had apparently been “lying on the deck in a conscious or semi-conscious, state for some time” before being shot in his face. www.informationclearinghouse.info/article26470.htm Sitting on the Evidence: Obama Administration Silent on Israeli Murder of 19-Year-Old American Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 28 September, 2010: Israel’s Political Firewall against the Truth
28 September, 2010 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Artery Of Life 5 Arrives in Istanbul IMEMC – 28 Sep 2010 – Wednesday September 29, 2010 – 02:29, The Artery Of Live 5 solidarity flotilla heading to the Gaza Strip arrived on Tuesday in Istanbul and its activists held a press conference at Continue reading
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South Africa’s Israel boycott By Ronnie Kasrils
The campaign for boycott, divestment and sanctions against Israel has now launched in South Africa. Trade unions in South Africa have publicly committed their support; most notably with the action by South African Transport and Allied Workers Union dockworkers early last year to refuse offloading Israeli goods at Durban harbour – a commitment that was… Continue reading
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