January 19, 2011
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“30,000 March in Tel Aviv against McCarthyism in Israel”
30,000 activists, Jews and Arabs, from left-wing parties, movements, and human rights organizations marched in Tel Aviv on Saturday, 15 January 2011, in protest of the Knesset’s decision to set up a committee of inquiry to probe the funding sources of organizations that rightists allege ‘participate in delegitimization campaigns against Israel Defense Forces soldiers.’ Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 18 January, 2011: Zionist Left Writes Its Own Obituary
18 January, 2011 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center For The First Time, PLO Mission In DC Raises Palestinian Flag IMEMC – Wednesday January 19, 2011 – 02:00, In a symbolic move towards the recognition of an independent Palestinian State, the Palestinian mission in Washington raised the Palestinian flag outside its office building. Continue reading
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Tunisia Newslinks for 19 January, 2011
19 January, 2011 — creative-i.info Moody’s Downgrades Tunisia Amid Upheaval Wall Street Journal By LEILA HATOUM DUBAI—Moody’s Investor Service Inc. downgraded Tunisia’s sovereign rating by one notch Wednesday and changed the country’s outlook to … online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704590704576091222603717338.html Continue reading
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Bradley Manning Newslinks for 19 January, 2011
19 January, 2011 — creative-i.info Protesters Rally in Support of Manning, Targeted Activists Democracy Now Kevin Zeese: “If we had real leadership in this country rather than holding Bradley Manning in confinement, solitary confinement, for the last five months, … www.democracynow.org/2011/1/18/headlines/protesters_rally_in_support_fo_manning_targeted_activists Continue reading
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Information Clearing House Newsletter 18 January, 2011: Seymour Hersh: US Changing Mosques into Cathedrals
18 January, 2011 — Information Clearing House Blair ‘Misled MPs on Legality of War’ : Law Chief By Tim Shipman and Ian Drury Tony Blair misled Parliament and the public about the legality of the Iraq War, according to explosive documents released last night. www.informationclearinghouse.info/article27281.htm Continue reading
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Wikileaks Newslinks for 19 January, 2011
19 January, 2011 — creative-i.info Nigeria: Wikileaks Set to Name the Country’s Treasury Looters AllAfrica.com Rudolf Elmer confirmed that he handed two discs to WikiLeaks founder, Julian Assange, in London, and that WikiLeaks could release the details in “a matter … allafrica.com/stories/201101190407.html Continue reading
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The Media in America: Selling Views, Calling it News By Prof. John Kozy
America’s journalists are not “newshounds.” They are nothing more than sales clerks, hocking the products their employers want to sell. The pretty faces that now function as most television news anchors are no different than the pretty models used to sell other products. Continue reading
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Tunisia: For a Constitutional Assembly to Lay the Foundations of a Democratic Republic By Hamma Hammami
Democratic change cannot spring from the same party, figures, institutions, apparatuses, and legislations that maintained the dictatorship and deprived the people of basic rights for more than half a century, 23 years of which under Ben Ali. Continue reading
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Tunisia: A Revolution That Goes All the Way? By Dyab Abou Jahjah
The regime is playing its last card today in Tunisia. That last Card is the RCD (the party of the former dictator). After the formation of a so-called “National Unity Government ” yesterday, and after the UGTT (the largest trade union in the country) supported and even participated in it with three ministers, alongside three… Continue reading
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Tunisia: The Struggle for Legitimacy By Dyab Abou Jahjah
In Tunisia, a new government is being formed under the leadership of the RCD (the party of the fallen dictator) and with the participation of some legalized opposition parties. All parties that were illegal under the old regimes are being excluded, however, and this is stirring up a lot of controversy among parts of the… Continue reading
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The Lesson of the Tunisian Revolution By Hassan Nasrallah
I’d like to take this occasion to congratulate the Tunisian people for their historic revolution as well as praise their bravery. But we must draw a lesson from that revolution. The lesson, above all, is this: the Ben Ali regime and its entourage have always served the interests of France, the United States, and the… Continue reading
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Tunisia: The Logic of Revolution By Dyab Abou Jahjah
The Tunisian revolution continues to dictate its own logic on all levels. . . . After attempts by regime leftovers to spread chaos by several techniques (cars driving through the streets shooting at people and houses randomly, destroying infrastructure, etc.), the Tunisian people organized itself in committees that spread all across the country, in every… Continue reading
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Charlie Haden Quartet ‘Here’s Looking at you’
Charlie Haden’s Quartet West at Jazz Baltica, Salzhau June 2000 Ernie Watts (tenor) Alan Broadbent (piano) Charlie Haden (bass) Lawrence Marable (drums) 1st collector for Charlie Haden Quartet ‘Here’s Looking at you’ Follow my videos on vodpod Continue reading
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The Political Economy of 'Democracy Promotion' By Jamie Stern-Weiner
Thus far, a month into the massive demonstrations rocking Tunisia, the Washington Post editorial page has published exactly zero editorials about Tunisia. For that matter, the Weekly Standard, another magazine which frequently claims the mantle of Arab democracy and attacks Obama for failing on it, has thus far published exactly zero articles about Tunisia. Continue reading
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Caution: This Common Device Can Double Your Risk of Getting a Brain Tumor
http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=17266941&server=vimeo.com&show_title=1&show_byline=1&show_portrait=1&color=00ADEF&fullscreen=1&autoplay=0&loop=0 1st collector for Caution: This Common Device Can Double Your Ris…Follow my videos on vodpod Unless you reduce your usage of this handy device, you may double your risk of getting a brain tumor within 10 years. And within 6 years, you’ll increase your risk (by 60%) of getting a tumor which can damage Continue reading
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Notes on the Tunisian Revolution By Dyab Abou Jahjah
From day one it was clear this was a revolution that was not about bread only, it was also against dictatorship and corruption. The revolution was supported by all segments of society. Poor, middle class, and even upper middle class. Especially the middle class showed its claws in the last days in Tunis. Continue reading
The New Dark Age 