Witnesses and victims describe the aftermath of Trafigura’s dumping of lethal toxic waste in the Ivory Coast. In Dutch with English subtitles.
Day: December 1, 2010
VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 30 November, 2010: Poll: Most Jews would deny Arabs say over future of Israel
30 November, 2010 — VTJP
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International Middle East Media Center
Humanitarian Groups Appeal for End of Gaza Siege
IMEMC – 30 Nov 2010 – Tuesday November 30, 2010 – 18:15, A coalition of 21 international human rights organizations called for end to ‘cruel and illegal’ Gaza blockade, arguing that the partial lifting agreed by Israel has made a limited impact in improving life of Gaza civilians, sources reported on Tuesday.
Poll: Only 51% of Israeli Jews Believe in Equal Rights for Arabs and Jews
IMEMC – 30 Nov 2010 – Tuesday November 30, 2010 – 17:01, According to a report released on Tuesday, conducted by the Israel Democratic Institute, almost half of Israeli Jews refuse the coexistence between Arab and Jews communities in Israel. Only 51 percent of those polled said that Israeli Arabs and Jews should have equal rights.
Wikileaks News Roundup 1 December, 2010
1 December, 2010 — creative-i.info
- Ho Hum: More Wikileaks “Chickenfeed”
- Interpol issues arrest warrant for WikiLeaks founder
- American Racism on Display in Wikileaks Iran Cable
- Whose Core Interest Is It Anyway?
- VIDEO: Top Canadian Advisor Calls for Assassination of Wikileaks Director
- Why Might a Saudi King Want the US to Attack Iran?
- The folly of the Israeli AND Arab approach to Iran
- Bank of America shares fall amid leak rumours
- Clinton ‘should resign’, says website founder
- The fugitive – Assange needs new safe haven
- Kenya fumes over cable branding it a ‘swamp of corruption’
- The fugitive – Assange needs new safe haven
- Assange: Fugitive who is running out of safe havens
- Noam Chomsky on the Economy, US Midterm Elections, Climate Change, and Haiti Part 2
- Venezuela’s Chavez Praises Wikileaks’ “Courage” and Calls for Clinton Resignation
- Cuban spies ‘rife in Venezuela’
- Larry Wilkerson: Why Might a Saudi King Want the US to Attack Iran?
- Aurobinda M?HAPATRA: Cablegate and South Asia Politics
- Interpol issues alert for Assange
- Newspaper review
- Please Sign Petition Asking Eric Holder to Release Fayiz Al-Kandari, a Kuwaiti Aid Worker in Guantá
- PM rebuffs ‘Thatcher child’ jibe
- WikiLeaks Cables Reveal U.S. Tried to Thwart Spanish Probes of Gitmo Torture and CIA Rendition
- Headlines for December 1, 2010
- Obama Administration Seeks to Criminalize WikiLeaks
- Wikileaks and Latin America: Same Old Imperious U.S. Diplomats
- Wikileaks founder Julian Assange placed on Interpol wanted list
- Censors block WikiLeaks website; Interpol issues arrest order; Canada demands Assange be killed
- WikiLeaks Hasn’t ‘Leaked’ Anything
- FRINFORMSUM: wikileaks
- WikiLeaks: America spies on UN
- WikiLeaks` harsh lesson on imperial hubris
- Wikileaks focus on senior Tories
- Pakistan dismisses Wikileak fears
Why Might a Saudi King Want the US to Attack Iran?
1 December, 2010 — The Real News Network
Lawrence Wilkerson: It’s not about Iran as a regional threat, it’s about rival elites defending oil wealth and power
Mainstream media has been quick to highlight WikiLeaks’ cable reporting a statement from King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia that the U.S. should attack Iran, because it is a danger to the region. Larry Wilkerson, the former Chief of Staff to Secretary of State Colin Powell, gives The Real News a series of reasons why such information requires questioning. He questions the media’s willingness to treat the cables as the gospel truth, as well as pointing out that a Saudi King would have reasons beyond security to want an attack on Iran. Namely it would hinder an oil competitor and financier of groups like Hamas and Hezbollah which Saudi Arabia opposes, while also causing the price of oil to sky rocket.
Why Might a Saudi King Want the US to Attack Iran?
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