September 24, 2010
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NO ONE WAS SAFE: UN INQUIRY INTO ISRAEL’S FLOTILLA RAID
No one was safe,’ once Israeli soldiers began using live ammunition on board the Mavi Marmara, says an authoritative UN investigation team into the Israeli attacks on the Gaza aid flotilla. Continue reading
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Venezuela: Voices on the Struggle By Jeffery R. Webber and Susan Spronk
In mid-June 2010, we caught up with three revolutionary socialist activists, Gonzalo Gómez, Stalin Pérez Borges, and Luis Primo in Caracas, Venezuela to discuss their views on the contradictions and prospects of the Bolivarian process. Continue reading
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“Manufacturing Dissent”: the Anti-globalization Movement is Funded by the Corporate Elites By Michel Chossudovsky
Under contemporary capitalism, the illusion of democracy must prevail. It is in the interest of the corporate elites to accept dissent and protest as a feature of the system inasmuch as they do not threaten the established social order. The purpose is not to repress dissent, but, on the contrary, to shape and mould the… Continue reading
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Information Clearing House Newsletter 23 September, 2010: Israel Used 'Incredible Violence' Against Gaza Aid Flotilla: UN
23 September, 2010 — ICH CIA Killed U.S. Citizens in Pakistan By Jeff Stein CIA drones killed “many Westerners, including some U.S. passport holders” in Pakistan’s tribal area during the George W. Bush administration, the new book by Bob Woodward says. www.informationclearinghouse.info/article26436.htm “In the Interests of Israel” Why Russia will not sell the S-300 Air Continue reading
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Information Clearing House Newsletter 22 September, 2010: CIA Directs and Funds Terrorism In Pakistan
22 September, 2010 — Information Clearing House CIA Directs and Funds Terrorism In Pakistan CIA’s Afghan Kill Teams Expand U.S. War in Pakistan By Spencer Ackerman The teams are practically brigade-sized: a “paramilitary army” of 3000 Afghans, said to be “elite, well-trained” and capable of quietly crossing over in the Pakistani extremist safe havens where Continue reading
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‘Redneck’: Tea Party just a Spectacle By Joe Bageant
More than 43 million people are living below the poverty line, but who are these people? For some reason, in this country, there’s always been an assumption that the poor, or the underclass, are the non-white people that live in this country, and the fact that there has always been a white underclass has become… Continue reading
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Video review of ‘Plunder – the crime of our time’ By William Bowles
The question to ask of Plunder is: without recognizing the fundamental contradictions of capitalism, that regardless of whatever ‘safeguards’ are put in place, or removed for that matter, does Plunder convince viewers that capitalism is a broke-down system that needs to be replaced? Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 23 September, 2010: Police release the Jewish settler who shot a Palestinian in Silwan
23 September, 2010 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Obama Urges Israel To Extend Settlement Freeze IMEMC – 23 Sep 2010 – Thursday September 23, 2010 – 20:49, American president, Barack Obama, urged Israel to extend the freeze on settlement activities in the occupied West Bank, and stated that Palestinian-Israeli peace talks must Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 22 September, 2010: Israel Makes Meeting Another Arab a Crime
22 September, 2010 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Abbas, Settlement Resumption Doesn’t Necessarily Mean End Of Talks IMEMC – 22 Sep 2010 – Wednesday September 22, 2010 – 17:42, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas signalled, on Wednesday, that renewed settlement construction would not end talks. Abbas’s comments came during a dinner with Jewish Continue reading
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