October 2010
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Nine Months After the Quake – A Million Haitians Slowly Dying By Bill Quigley
The Associated Press reports only 2 percent of the rubble has been removed and only 13,000 temporary shelters have been constructed. Not a single cent of the US aid pledged for rebuilding has arrived in Haiti. In the last few days the US pledged it would put up 10% of the billion dollars in reconstruction… Continue reading
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Settler-style thugs operating inside Israel By Jesse Bacon
One after another, the parallels to fascism pile up in Israel, like the sticks (which is what the root of Fascism means) on a fire. Now a town in Israel has adopted perhaps the most visible feature of many a dictatorship: paramilitary police. The settlers have long functioned in this role in the Occupied Territories,… Continue reading
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“Blood on British Hands”: The Fate of Guantanamo Detainee 239 British National Shaker Aamer by Felicity Arbuthnot
So Shaker, now nearing nine years on, remains in helpless, voiceless, limbo. “The only time I have seen him emotional was over his family. I was able to get photographs of his youngest child into him, but that was very heartbreaking for him, in a way he didn’t want to see it. I saw him… Continue reading
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Information Clearing House Newsletter 14 October, 2010: Pakistan President Believed 'US Behind Taliban Attacks in Pakistan'
14 October, 2010 — Information Clearing House Statement By Afghan Resistance Baseless Claims and Futile Propaganda By Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan The enemy has never contacted the leaders of the Islamic Emirate, let a lone holding any kind of talks with them. Nor any effort has been made by the enemy directly or indirectly to Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 13 October, 2010: Groundwork laid for media narrative of failed peace talks: It’s the Palestinians’ fault
13 October, 2010 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Bishops Warn About the Flight of Christians from the Middle East IMEMC – 13 Oct 2010 – Wednesday October 13, 2010 – 17:00, Bishops summoned to a Vatican synod to discuss the flight of Christians from the Middle East have blamed the Israeli-Palestinian conflict Continue reading
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Obama/Donilon: Staring down the generals By Eric Walberg
In the past 10 days, 150 NATO-bound oil tankers were torched in Pakistan, mostly by Taliban but some apparently by their own drivers, who siphoned and sold the fuel and then destroyed the evidence of their theft. Win-win for locals, none of whom are naive enough to believe killing more of their brothers is a… Continue reading
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Information Clearing House Newsletter 13 October, 2010: US Colonel Alleges 9/11 Coverup
3 October, 2010 — Information Clearing House Coup Threat Reported as Iraq Government Deadlock Drags On By Bill Van Auken With the deadlock in forming a new Iraqi government now entering its eighth month-a world’s record-the Obama administration is intervening ever more openly and impatiently in pressuring rival political factions to cobble together a national Continue reading
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NO2ID Supporters’ Newsletter No. 159 – 11th October 2010
+ DOUBLE BILL + As the rest of the Newsletter shows, the database state is still far from dead. But the fight against it needs a new strategy to deal with the new situation. We have been taking advantage of the honeymoon period of the coalition to try and formulate the way forward, and are Continue reading
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Invasive Cyber Technologies and Internet Privacy: Big Brother is only a “Ping” or Mouse Click Away By Tom Burghardt
Increasingly, secret state agencies ranging from the CIA to the National Security Agency are pouring millions of dollars into data-mining firms which claim they have a handle on who you are or what you might do in the future. Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 12 October, 2010: ACRI Demands Clarification on Alleged Transfer Exercise
12 October, 2010 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Israeli Settlers Expanding A Settlement Near Nablus IMEMC – 12 Oct 2010 – Tuesday October 12, 2010 – 13:42, On Tuesday, Ghassan Doughlas, the Palestinian official in charge of monitoring Israeli settler and settlement issues in the northern West Bank, said that Israeli settlers Continue reading
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Global Research: US Elections, Global Banking, Nuclear Weapons and Democracy – Selected Articles 1-12 October, 2010
12 October, 2010 — Global Research America´s Shadow Class War and the 2010 Elections. The Rich are Getting Richer. – by E.J. Dionne Jr. – 2010-10-12 Inside the Global Banking Intelligence Complex, BCCI Operations Part II – by David DeGraw – 2010-10-12 No International Justice for Congo. UN Coverup of War Crimes – by Ann Continue reading
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Robert Wyatt on the Jazza Festival 2010
12 October, 2010 — Jazza Productions Robert Wyatt talks to Gilad Atzmon on Culture of resistance. Continue reading
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The Top Censored Stories From 2009-2010 by Project Censored
Not only does it cover the most under-reported stories the corporate media ignore, but this year’s Censored Deja Vu, Junk Food News and News Abuse, Signs of Health, and FAIR’s 10th anniversary of Fear and Favor in the News Room. A full Truth Emergency section debuts this year for “Censored 2011? to address State Crimes… Continue reading
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Israel Requires New ‘Oath of Allegiance’
Knesset will vote on new citizenship law requiring a loyalty oath to a “Jewish and democratic state” Continue reading
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Creating a Public Sphere By Dan Hind interviewed by Samuel Grove
At present the content of public opinion largely derives from the products of state-owned and commercial institutions. Our knowledge of the world, and our knowledge of others’ opinions – our knowledge of ourselves, even – all comes from institutions that have been demonstrably unreliable in recent years. And this unreliability stems from their structure; it… Continue reading
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The ‘Big Society’ and the strong state
12 October, 2010 — Lenin’s Tomb What is the ‘Big Society’ for? Is there any evidence that it is a response to popular sentiments, that it actually resonates with any underlying political feeling, for example? The polling would suggest not. Most people have not heard of it, and most don’t know what it means. There Continue reading
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Video: Looting the Holy Land
Since 1967 countless artifacts have been unearthed and removed from the occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip. Many are displayed in Israeli museums and private collections, while others are sold to tourists. Al Jazeera searches through the evidence, unearthing the facts and exposing a power struggle in which every stone has meaning. Continue reading
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The Ecuadorian Coup: Its Larger Meaning By James Petras
The abortive military-police coup in Ecuador, which took place on September 30, has raised numerous questions about the role of the US and its allies among the traditional oligarchy and the leftist social movements, Indian organizations and their political parties. Continue reading
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Video: The Sound of Science
7 October, 2010 — MRZine “With apologies to Simon and Garfunkel.” Hello, Darwin, my old friend, I’ve come to read from you again You comfort me when I grow weary Of people saying “it’s just a theory” . . . Video by benjjuk. Cf. Gerald Weissmann, “Teach Evolution, Learn Science: We’re Ahead of Turkey, But Continue reading
The New Dark Age 