September 2010
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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 25 September, 2010: Clegg now singing off Zionist hymn-sheet
25 September, 2010 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Following The Killing of Jerusalem Infant, Clashes Renew Leading To Dozens Of Injuries IMEMC – 25 Sep 2010 – Sunday September 26, 2010 – 00:51, After an infant from Al Esawiyya in East Jerusalem died due to teargas inhalation on Friday, clashes were reported Continue reading
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Why does the pernicious BS about ‘peak oil’ persist on the left? By William Bowles
Peak Oil? Why not Peak Water, after all, water is much more crucial to life than oil ever will be and it’s being consumed in vast quantities by the same economic system that chows oil? Continue reading
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Information Clearing House Newsletter 24 September, 2010: How the CIA ran a secret army of 3,000 assassins
24 September, 2010 — ICH “The Dead Were Completely Unrecognisable” Interview With Family Devastated by US Drone Attack By Asim Qureshi I am shocked that the US can come to attack Pakistan in this way and Pakistan does not even have the authority to question them on the deaths they are causing. The civilians in Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 24 September, 2010: Obama at UN today: It’s two states now or one state later
24 September, 2010 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center PCHR Weekly Report: 2 Palestinians Killed; 6 Wounded By Israeli Forces This Week IMEMC – 24 Sep 2010 – Friday September 24, 2010 – 10:45, In its Weekly Report On Israeli Human Rights Violations in the Occupied Palestinian Territory for the week of 16-22 Continue reading
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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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Video of Clashes in Silwan, East Jerusalem
The streets of Silwan were on fire Wednesday (22 September), as residents of the East Jerusalem neighborhood expressed their anger in light of the shooting death of a member of their community. 30-year-old Palestinian man Samir Solhan was shot and killed by an Israeli settler guard at approximately 4:30 a.m. Wednesday. Silwan residents clashed with… Continue reading
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Black Agenda Report 22 September, 2010: The Beloved Black Spy / Color of Change vs. Black Caucus
22 September, 2010 — BAR Freedom Rider: Ernest Withers the Informant by BAR editor and senior Margaret Kimberley The trusted “movement” photographer was a spy for J. Edgar Hoover. Ernest Withers apparently cashed in on his close relationship with unsuspecting Black Sixties activists, including Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Withers is dead, but not forgiven. Continue reading
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Israel hides behind ‘armed conflict’ By Julia Romasevych
The Israeli military failed to investigate the killings of hundreds of Palestinian civilians in the occupied territories between 2006 and 2009, according to a report by an Israeli human rights group. Continue reading
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The fight is not over
Over the past year we have achieved some major victories. We annihilated the BNP in Barking & Dagenham and Stoke-on-Trent. We defeated 26 of its 28 councillors up for re-election, removing the BNP from council chambers across the country. More recently, in seeing off an English Defence League march in Bradford, we built such a… Continue reading
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Palestinians and the ‘Jewish state’ By Lamis Andoni
If Palestinians recognised Israel as a Jewish state they would be effectively legitimising their own dispossession. Continue reading
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