October 2010
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Joseph Halevi, "Beijing's Europe"
The widening of the conflict over exchange rates means that major capitalist countries are now trying to ‘solve’ the crisis by grabbing slices of each other’s markets through exports. For the US, though, the official issue is how to reduce the dependence upon the external deficit given that the crisis has highlighted the damage done… Continue reading
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Fareeda by Laal
“When the Taliban attacked the shrines of Rahman Baba, Data Sahib, and Abdullah Ghazi Shah, slaughtering hundreds who had gathered for alms or to pray, Laal felt obligated to not only defend the progressive aspects of sufi thought but to discover them for ourselves. We see sufis as the rebels, the revolutionaries of their period.” Continue reading
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Nuclear whistleblower denied basic freedoms by Israel
The whistleblower who revealed details of Israel’s nuclear programme in the 1980s is at the centre of another court case. Lawyers for Mordechai Vanunu are demanding he be allowed to live outside of Israel. Continue reading
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UK unions and greens demand one million climate jobs
The economic crisis threatens to destroy the livelihoods of hundreds of thousands of workers. Already, in towns and cities across Britain there are too few available jobs for those looking for work…This jobs – in renewable energy, refitting buildings, public transport, industry and education are the key to drastically reducing emissions of Greenhouse gases and… Continue reading
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Information Clearing House Newsletter 12 October, 2010: US Rescue Team Killed British Aid Worker?
12 October, 2010 — Information Clearing House US Rescue Team Killed British Aid Worker? By The Independent An investigation was launched today into the death of a British aid worker in Afghanistan after it emerged that she may have been killed by a grenade thrown by US special forces trying to rescue her. www.informationclearinghouse.info/article26560.htm The Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 11 October, 2010: Israel’s ethnic cleansing drill a result of nationalists adopting the two-state solution
11 October, 2010 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Asad Slams Israel’s New Citizenship Law IMEMC – 11 Oct 2010 – Tuesday October 12, 2010 – 01:41, Syrian President, Bashar Asad, strongly denounced on Monday the new Israeli citizenship law requiring all non-Jews in the country to pledge allegiance to Israel as a Continue reading
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Afghanistan: Global NATO’s First Ground War In Its Tenth Year by Rick Rozoff
The military alliance that 61 years ago identified its core mission as to “promote stability and well-being in the North Atlantic area” is now embroiled in the tenth year of a war in Afghanistan launched by its dominant member, the United States. South Asia is as far removed from the North Atlantic Ocean as possible… Continue reading
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“We will not be citizens of a fascist state purporting to be Israel” say hundreds of Israeli academics and public figures.
A protest rally against the government’s “Loyalty Oath Bill” was held outside the Tel Aviv house where Ben-Gurion read the 1948 the Declaration of Independence. There, today, the “Declaration of Independence from Fascism” was signed. Continue reading
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No positive evidence supporting accusations against Ameer Makhoul By Rela Mazali
On May 8th, Jewish Peace News posted news of the arrest or, more precisely, abduction, of human rights defender Ameer Makhoul, “Director of Ittijah – The Union of Arab Community-Based Associations – … in the dead of night, while he and his family slept in their home in Haifa.” The arrest of this “Israeli citizen… Continue reading
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Music and Tones Rise for Gaza By Lauren Booth
9 October 2010 — Pal Telegraph Until now, it’ been a real source of pride amongst Israel’s support network that big name musicians have felt ‘safe’ to appear at Zionist fund raisers. Even whilst Israel commits ever more stomach churning war crimes in Palestine and -as we saw in May with the attack on the Continue reading
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Ecuador: The Day the President Disappeared
When the news of an attempted coup d’état was released to the world, many immediately began to point fingers and look for the conspiracy. After all, the President was attacked by the police and being held in the police hospital surrounded by officers for up to ten hours. Continue reading
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Information Clearing House Newsletter 11 October, 2010: S&P: 60% of Countries Will Be Bankrupt Within 50 Years
11 October, 2010 — Information Clearing House In the Crosshairs of US Drones By Kamal Hyder Residents live under a constant fear of being hit as dozens of unmanned drones buzz the skies over North and South Waziristan. The drones frighten children and women who sometimes become the victims, especially if the intended targets are Continue reading
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Free Gaza’s investigation has shown the following….
Regarding the attack on the flotilla, below is what we have found out. In addition, we are providing a link to the attack on the Irene from the ‘most moral army in the world.’ Continue reading
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Tell Me Again, Who Made The Desert Bloom? By Lawrence of Cyberia
In December 1945 and January 1946, the British Mandate authorities carried out an extensive survey of Palestine, in support of the work of the United Nations Special Committee on Palestine. The results were published in the Survey of Palestine, which has been scanned and made available online by Palestine Remembered; all 1300 pages can be… Continue reading
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Video: Settler Attacks on Wheels By Yousef
A well-known leader of an Israeli settlement in Jerusalem, who generally works to get rid of Palestinians by expanding his settlement onto Palestinian land, took his actions a step – or a step on the accelerator – further this morning. Gruesome photos emerged of the Israeli settler leader driving over Palestinian boys demonstrating in Silwan. Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 10 October, 2010: Israeli Settler Runs over Palestinian Kids, Escapes
10 October, 2010 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Lieberman To European Counterparts: “Go And Solve Your Problems First” IMEMC – 10 Oct 2010 – Monday October 11, 2010 – 04:07, Israeli Foreign Minister of the fundamentalist right-wing Yisrael Beiteinu party, told his French and Spanish counterparts that Europe should first solve its Continue reading
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Media Disinformation: Washington's "Regime Change Hit List": Iran versus Honduras Part 1 by Edward S. Herman and David Peterson
It would be hard to find a better test of the integrity of the establishment U.S. media than in their comparative treatment of Iran and Honduras over the past couple of years (2009-2010). Continue reading
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Media Disinformation: Washington’s “Regime Change Hit List”: Iran versus Honduras Part 1 by Edward S. Herman and David Peterson
It would be hard to find a better test of the integrity of the establishment U.S. media than in their comparative treatment of Iran and Honduras over the past couple of years (2009-2010). Continue reading
The New Dark Age 