November 2010
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PLEASE JOIN – Award to MORDECHAI VANUNU
The International League for Human Rights has awarded MORDECHAI VANUNU with the CARL VON OSSIETZKY MEDAL 2010 for his courageous dedication to nuclear disarmament as well as to civil and human rights. Please join this international campaign to help get Mordechai Vanunu out of Israel in order to accept the Carl von Ossietzky Medal in… Continue reading
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Michael E. Mann: A scientist in the crosshairs of climate-change denial
The Penn State climate scientist who helped author the ‘hockey stick’ global warming temperature graph describes the campaign to discredit him following the theft of emails, including some he wrote, from servers at England’s University of East Anglia. Climate-change denial groups said the emails showed unethical conduct, but scientific organizations and academic panels said this… Continue reading
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South London Bin Veolia Campaign
MERTON PSC are running a ‘Bin Veolia’ campaign to prevent South London Waste Partnership – covering London Boroughs of Merton, Sutton, Croydon and Kingston upon Thames – from awarding a 25-30 year contract worth £990 million to develop a waste treatment infrastructure to Veolia, a company identified by PSC as a ‘complicit’ firm. Complicit in… Continue reading
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Identity and the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict By Tom Segev
Video: Israel: A refuge or a colonial project? Pt.5 Israeli historian Tom Segev Continue reading
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Global Research 7-17 November, 2010 – Selected Articles: Big Brother Security Measures, Austerity Program, and Endless War in Afghanistan and Iraq
17 November, 2010 — Global Research THE GLOBAL ECONOMIC CRISIS. The Great Depression of the XXI Century – by Michel Chossudovsky, Andrew Gavin Marshall – 2010-11-20 George Galloway in Montreal : Palestine. Afghanistan 17 November 2010 – 2010-11-16 American Hypocrisy: Destruction of the Constitution, Collapse of the Rule of Law – by Paul Craig Roberts Continue reading
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Stars come out for Palestine Solidarity Campaign’s Winter Concert
Television and West End stars will be coming together in December to perform for the Palestine Solidarity Campaign (PSC) in a fundraising Winter Concert. PSC’s Winter Concert is on Tuesday 7 December at the Polish Centre, King Street, Hammersmith. Continue reading
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What happened at Millbank? By Laurie Penny
A huge demonstration of students and their supporters in London last week–twice as large as organizers had hoped for–rocked British politics as the new Conservative-Liberal Democrat coalition government faced the strongest act of defiance yet against its program of austerity. Continue reading
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The Cruelty and Stupidity of the Government’s Welfare Reforms By Andy Worthington
Journalists like to portray Iain Duncan Smith, the work and pensions secretary, as a caring, decent man, but while this may be true in his personal life, politically he is a ruthless ideologue, whose white paper on welfare reform, unveiled yesterday, reveals that he is, to be blunt, monstrously cruel and stupid. In the Daily… Continue reading
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Seumas Milne: The Palestinians of Israel are poised to take centre stage
In a quiet street in the Sheikh Jarrah district of occupied East Jerusalem 88-year-old Rifka al-Kurd is explaining how she came to live in the house she and her husband built as Palestinian refugees in the 1950s. As she speaks, three young ultra-orthodox Jewish settlers swagger in to stake their claim to the front part… Continue reading
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Conversations with Fidel Castro: The Dangers of a Nuclear War By Fidel Castro Ruz and Michel Chossudovsky
From October 12 to 15, 2010, I had extensive and detailed discussions with Fidel Castro in Havana, pertaining to the dangers of nuclear war, the global economic crisis and the nature of the New World Order. These meetings resulted in a wide-ranging and fruitful interview. Continue reading
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Celerity – Charlie Parker
Rare studio footage of Charlie Parker with his rhythm section; Hank Jones-piano, Ray Brown-bass, and Buddy Rich-drums. 1st collector for Celerity – Charlie Parker Follow my videos on vodpod Continue reading
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Pro-Israeli lobbyists desperate to silence anti-Apartheid icon in South Africa By Iqbal Jassat
‘It’s a pattern that seems to have become more pronounced following Israel’s destructive war on Gaza. Lobbyists behaving as aggressively as war criminals to shield Israel from public censure and while raising false innuendos to deflect from the horrors that live visuals brought home, seemed to lose all sense of humanity…. Continue reading
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Hoax bomb plots engineered ahead of US elections – journalist
Reports surfaced recently questioning the authenticity of the bombs, which officials claimed were addressed to Chicago synagogues. These reports suggest the bombs could have been part of a PR stunt, which Madsen says may have been “engineered” ahead of the election campaign. Continue reading
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Remembrance Day: Reversing the Tide of War. Say No to Nuclear War By Michel Chossudovsky
When a US sponsored nuclear war becomes an “instrument of peace”, condoned and accepted by the World’s institutions and the highest authority including the United Nations, there is no turning back: human society has indelibly been precipitated headlong onto the path of self-destruction. Continue reading
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STOP THE WAR COALITION UPDATE 11 November 2010
11 November, 2010 — Stop the War Coalition UPDATE: 1) DEFENDING THE RIGHT TO PROTEST ON 20 NOVEMBER 2) HOW TO JOIN OR SUBSCRIBE TO STOP THE WAR’S FACEBOOK 3) AFGHANISTAN: REASONS TO DEMONSTRATE VIDEOS 1) DEFENDING THE RIGHT TO PROTEST ON 20 NOVEMBER We asked our supporters to complain by email to the Hyde Continue reading
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IF THIS IS NOT APARTHEID, THEN WHAT IS? By Allan Boesak and Farid Esack*
In the opening lines of an open letter to Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu, Rabbi Warren Goldstein, leader of the South Africa’s Orthodox Jews, makes a plea that: ”Without truth there can be no justice, and without justice there can be no peace.” If ever there was a case of a single swallow not heralding summer, alas, this… Continue reading
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STOP THE WAR COALITION Newsletter No.1177: CUT WAR NOT PUBLIC SERVICES
11 November 2010 — STOP THE WAR COALITION IN THIS NEWSLETTER: 1) CUT WAR NOT PUBLIC SERVICES 2) WE WILL DEFY THE BAN ON OUR DEMONSTRATION 3) AS IF WE DON’T KNOW THEY LIE TO US 4) SOLDIER JOE GLENTON HANDS HIS MEDALS TO CAMERON 5) FACEBOOK, YOUTUBE AND TWITTER 1) CUT WAR NOT PUBLIC Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 10 November, 2010: New plans part of Judaising Occupied East Jerusalem
10 November, 2010 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Two Officers Feared Dead As Israeli Jet Crashes In The Negev IMEMC – 10 Nov 2010 – Thursday November 11, 2010 – 03:21, Israeli sources reported Wednesday that rescue teams are now searching for an Israeli Air Force pilot and his navigator after their Continue reading
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Israel halts missile shield deployment (it don’t work)
Israel’s military says it will put its much-touted Iron Dome air-defense system in storage and deploy it only if Hezbollah or Hamas unleash major rocket bombardments. On the face of it, that suggests that the weapon built by state-run Rafael Advanced Defense Systems may not be all that it’s been made out to be, as… Continue reading
The New Dark Age 