January 2011
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Housmans Radical Books, London Events Newsletter for January 2011
4 January, 2011 – Housmans NEWS 1. Supporters Cards are here! 2. Massive January Sale 3. Free ‘Peace Not War’ double CD with every Peace Diary or peace book IN-STORE EVENTS 4. ‘Hobson’s Imperialism’ presented by Jeremy Corbyn MP, Alex Callinicos and Nathaniel Mehr 5. ‘Restless Revolutionaries’ with Clive Bloom 6. ‘Ecology & Anarchism’ with Continue reading
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Information Clearing House Newsletter 4 January, 2011: WikiLeaks' Most Terrifying Revelation
4 January, 2011 — Information Clearing House Noam Chomsky: Breaking the Israel-Palestine Deadlock By Noam Chomsky While intensively engaged in illegal settlement expansion, the government of Israel is also seeking to deal with two problems: a global campaign of what it perceives as “delegitimation” – that is, objections to its crimes and withdrawal of participation Continue reading
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Mobile Prison Guard Towers Coming to a Walmart near You! Unbelievable.
5 January, 2010 These things are purchased with Obama Stimulus funds. Stimulate the economy by turning it into a prison yard? Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 4 January, 2011: Rabbi Bans Jewish Women from Driving
4 January, 2011 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Israeli Detainees Released After Protest Against Jawaher’s Death IMEMC – 4 Jan 2011 – Tuesday January 04, 2011 – 19:59, The Israeli group “Anarchists Against the Wall” announced on Tuesday evening that Israeli activists, who were detained late on Saturday evening for protesting outside Continue reading
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Book Review: Britain’s dangerous double games By Tapani Lausti
Curtis’s latest book opens up a weird world where British national interests are promoted by collusion with forces which at first sight have nothing to do with those interests. This is how Curtis sums it all up: ‘Islamist groups have long performed a variety of key functions for British foreign policy, as we have seen… Continue reading
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Portugal: The Prospect of a Full Bailout And More Austerity Looms in 2011
A full financial bailout of Portugal involving the European Central Bank (ECB) and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) looks set to happen in the first half of 2011. This will involve severe austerity conditions being imposed on the Portuguese people by the ECB and IMF. Continue reading
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Guest Media Lens Alert – Tilting Towards Israel By Jonathan Cook
Towards the end of last year, we sent out two media alerts – Put The Palestinians On A Diet and Too Toxic To Handle? – about the corporate media’s failure to report the release of documents detailing Israel’s deliberate policy of near-starvation for Gaza. “The idea”, explained a senior Israeli official, “is to put the… Continue reading
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Bebop Metropole Dizzy Gillespie
5 January, 2011 — Jazz on Youtube 1st collector for Bebop Metropole Dizzy GillespieFollow my videos on vodpod Continue reading
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Bradley Manning Daily News Roundup 4 January, 2010
4 January, 2010 — creative-i.info Psychologists protest ‘inhumane, harmful’ treatment of Bradley Manning Raw Story In a letter dated Monday, Psychologists for Social Responsibility (PsySR) argued that PFC Bradley Manning, who has been held in solitary confinement at the … www.rawstory.com/rs/2011/01/psychologists-protest-treatment-bradley-manning/ Continue reading
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Wikileaks Daily News Roundup 4 January, 2011
4 January, 2011 — creative-i.info WikiLeaks: US Wanted Trade War Over GM Crops CBS News … a trade war against European Union nations over their resistance to genetically modified crops, according to diplomatic cables released by WikiLeaks. … www.cbsnews.com/stories/2011/01/04/world/main7211185.shtml Continue reading
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Information Clearing House Newsletter 3 January, 2011: End of the Recession? Who's Kidding Whom?
3 January, 2011 — Information Clearing House US Killed 2,043 People, Mostly Civilians, in Pakistan: Report By ANI Regarding civilian causalities and attacks on women and children, the report said: “People in the tribal belt usually carry guns and ammunition as a tradition. US drone will identify anyone carrying a gun as a militant and Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 3 January, 2011: Israel further institutionalizes racism toward Palestinian citizens
3 January, 2011 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center MKs Call for Boycott of Israeli Rawabi Companies IMEMC – 3 Jan 2011 – Monday January 03, 2011 – 15:49, Forty-eight Knesset members have signed a petition calling for the boycott of Israeli companies involved in building the new Palestinian city of Rawabi, Israeli Continue reading
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New Year To Mark Intensification Of West’s War In Afghanistan And Pakistan By Rick Rozoff
The air and cruise missile attacks that commenced on October 7, 2001 and the insertion of U.S. and British ground troops that followed have been succeeded by a 48-nation, 152,000-troop occupation and counterinsurgency campaign that is also conducting almost daily deadly drone missile strikes and helicopter gunship raids into neighboring Pakistan. Continue reading
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Miles Davis ‘Tutu’
4 January, 2010 — Jazz on the Tube Continue reading
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Glaspie Memo Revealed: US Dealings With Iraq Ahead of 1990 Invasion of Kuwait Detailed By Jason Ditz
Glaspie assured Saddam of Bush’s friendship and expressed support for the negotiations being set up by Hosni Mubarak for the weekend of July 28-30. She also explicitly said the United States took no position on the border dispute between Iraq and Kuwait. Hussein assured that no action would be taken against Kuwait if the negotiations… Continue reading
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Bradley Manning Daily News Roundup 3 January, 2011
3 January, 2011 — creative-i.info Unfair treatment of alleged leaker Concord Monitor By For the Monitor For more than seven months, PFC Bradley Manning has been held in solitary confinement for his alleged role in leaking classified … www.concordmonitor.com/article/232001/unfair-treatment-of-alleged-leaker Continue reading
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Wikileaks Daily News Roundup 3 January, 2011
3 January, 2011 — creative-i.info Facing WikiLeaks Threat, Bank Plays Defense New York Times 29, the director of WikiLeaks, Julian Assange, said in an interview that he intended to “take down” a major American bank and reveal an “ecosystem of … dealbook.nytimes.com/2011/01/03/facing-wikileaks-threat-bank-plays-defense/ Continue reading
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A Complaint to the Police Internal Investigation Department
3 January, 2011 — mahsanmilim.com The Police Internal Investigation Department’s answer: We don’t take care of such things… Harassing the little beggars. It happened in 2005, again in 2006, and 2007, and 2008, and 2009 and 2010 and it is happening now, and again and again, in broad daylight, by law and norm: the various Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 2 January, 2011: Nonviolent Protestor Killed After Being Asphyxiated by Tear Gas in Bil’in
2 January, 2011 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Palestinian Killed by Army Fire At A Roadblock In The Jordan Valley IMEMC – 2 Jan 2011 – Sunday January 02, 2011 – 09:44, Palestinian medical sources reported on Sunday morning, that Israeli soldiers stationed at the Al Hamra roadblock in the Jordan valley, Continue reading
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Maidhc Ó Cathail: Anti-Semitism — Zionism’s Indispensable Alibi
Although Zionism typically represents itself as the solution to anti-Semitism, the truth is less flattering. In fact, hostility toward Jews is indispensable to the cause of Jewish nationalism. If anti-Semitism didn’t exist, Zionists would have to invent it. Continue reading
The New Dark Age 