January 2011
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Information Clearing House Newsletter 22 January, 2011: Weekend Edition – An Extremist for Love
22 January, 2011 — Information Clearing House Is America Too Corrupt to Keep Up? By David Sirota Patriotism may play well with voters on the campaign trail, but corporate cash ultimately rules the day in our nation’s capital. www.informationclearinghouse.info/article27321.htm Continue reading
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Tunisia and the IMF’s Diktats: How Macro-Economic Policy Triggers Worldwide Poverty and Unemployment By Michel Chossudovsky
The role of Ben Ali’s government was to enforce the IMF’s deadly economic medicine, which over a period of more than twenty years has served to destabilize the national economy and impoverish the Tunisian population. Continue reading
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Tunisia and the IMF's Diktats: How Macro-Economic Policy Triggers Worldwide Poverty and Unemployment By Michel Chossudovsky
The role of Ben Ali’s government was to enforce the IMF’s deadly economic medicine, which over a period of more than twenty years has served to destabilize the national economy and impoverish the Tunisian population. Continue reading
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Duke Ellington ‘Sophisticated Lady’
Duke Ellington and his orchestra in concert in Copenhagen (1965) – featuring Harry Carney on tenor saxaphone. Duke Ellington ‘Sophisticated Lady’ Follow my videos on vodpod Continue reading
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Information Clearing House Newsletter 21 January, 2011: How Can the Richest 1 Percent Be Winning?
21 January, 2011 — Information Clearing House Iraq Was Illegal Blair Acknowledges That Warning Ignored By Radio New Zealand Tony Blair has acknowledged that he ignored the warning of his then-Attorney General that attacking Iraq was illegal without United Nations approval. www.informationclearinghouse.info/article27311.htm Continue reading
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Bradley Manning Newslinks for 22 January, 2011
22 January, 2011 — creative-i.info Google vs. Groupon; mafia arrests; Bradley Manning on suicide watch Washington Post (blog) By Melissa Bell Photographs from Tunisia of protestors hugging the soliders they demonstrated against are absolutely stunning. Read more on the revolution … voices.washingtonpost.com/blog-post/2011/01/google_vs_groupon_mafia_arrest.html Continue reading
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Wikileaks Newslinks for 22 January, 2011
22 January, 2011 — creative-i.info There are three WikiLeaks projects in the works. When did this become the … Entertainment Weekly by Sandra Gonzalez Image Credit: Fabrice Coffrini/Getty ImagesEverybody’s hungry for a piece of the WikiLeaks pie, apparently. … popwatch.ew.com/2011/01/21/three-wikileaks-projects-in-the-works/ Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 21 January, 2011: Israel Acting to Destroy Bedouin Communities, Way of Life
21 January, 2011 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Anti-Wall demonstrations in four West Bank villages attacked by Israeli military IMEMC – Saturday January 22, 2011 – 04:38, At the non-violent anti-Wall protests which took place on Friday afternoon, Israeli troops fired CS gas and other so-called ‘non-lethal’ weapons at demonstrators in Bil’in, Continue reading
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John Coltrane ‘I Want to Talk About You’
22 January, 2011 — Jazz on the Tube John Coltrane Quartet; McCoy Tyner on piano, Jimmy Garrison on bass, and Elvin Jones on the drums. Recorded in Stockholm, 1962. John Coltrane ‘I Want to Talk About You’ Follow my videos on vodpod Continue reading
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Tunisia Newslinks for 22 January, 2011
22 January, 2011 — creative-i.info Twitter topples Tunisia? National Post When President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali fled Tunisia on Jan. 14, Tunisians declared victory and social-networking site Twitter went berserk with traffic. … www.nationalpost.com/news/world/Twitter+topples+Tunisia/4148834/story.html Continue reading
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WikiLeaks, the Internet and Democracy
21 January, 2011 — Democracy Now! Panel moderated by Paul Jay including Daniel Ellsberg, Clay Shirky, Neville Roy Singham, Peter Thiel and Jonathan Zittrain http://www.youtube.com/e/zqPQp3no9Qo WikiLeaks, the Internet and Democracy Follow my videos on vodpod Continue reading
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Housmans Radical Books London – Events Newsletter for February 2011
21 January, 2011 — Housmans NEWS 1. Student article competition 2. Housmans sale continues into February IN-STORE EVENTS 3. ‘Ecology & Anarchism’ with Brian Morris 4. The Kettled Generation Speaks Out! 5. ‘Electric Eden: Unearthing Britain’s Visionary Music’ with Rob Young 6. The Short Film Movement 7. ‘Canada’s Genocide: One Man’s Journey to Uncover the Continue reading
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Statewatch News Online, 21 January 2011: UK: Statewatch analysis: Six months on: An update on the UK coalition government’s commitment to civil liberties
Statewatch publishes a follow-up to its June 2010 analysis of the coalition government’s commitment to civil liberties: Within weeks of its formation in May 2010, the coalition government announced with much fanfare its intention ‘to restore the rights of individuals in the face of encroaching state power.’ Continue reading
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Bradley Manning Newslinks for 21 January, 2011
21 January, 2011 — creative-i.info Lawyer for Bradley Manning, Army figure in WikiLeaks case, alleges prison … Washington Post By Ellen Nakashima The lawyer for alleged government secrets leaker Bradley Manning is accusing military authorities of using punitive measures against… www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/01/21/AR2011012101443.html Continue reading
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Wikileaks Newslinks for 21 January, 2011
21 January, 2011 — creative-i.info WikiLeaks: the latest developments The Guardian (blog) Defence lawyers for five former Guantanamo detainees have used WikiLeaks-published cables in court to argue for their acquittal. … www.guardian.co.uk/world/blog/2011/jan/21/wikileaks-latest-developments Continue reading
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Information Clearing House Newsletter 20 January, 2011: CIA Gave Iran Nuclear Blueprints?
20 January, 2011 — Information Clearing House How the Power of Myth Keeps Us Mired in War Why Are We Still in Afghanistan? By Ira Chernus If the U.S. loses in Afghanistan, the American public might abandon the myth that justifies the military establishment and its gargantuan budget. As a result, the generals prefer to Continue reading
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The Spectre Haunting Europe: Debt Defaults, Austerity, and Death of the “Social Europe” Model By Prof Michael Hudson and Prof. Jeffrey Sommers
Only a year ago it was recognized that decades of neoliberalism had crashed the U.S. and several European economies. Years of deregulation, speculation and lack of investment in the real economy had left them with rising inequality and little consumer demand, except for what was financed by running up debt. But the financial press and… Continue reading
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Tunisia Newslinks for 21 January, 2011
21 January, 2011 — creative-i.info Tunisia mourns fallen protesters Atlanta Journal Constitution AP TUNIS, Tunisia — Tunisians have lowered flags and state television is playing recitations of the Quran to mourn dozens who died in protests that drove … www.ajc.com/news/nation-world/tunisia-mourns-fallen-protesters-810622.html Continue reading
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NO2ID Supporters’ Newsletter No. 166 – 20th January 2011: SCOTLAND’S BACK-DOOR ID CARD BATTLE
20 January, 2011 — NO2ID SCOTLAND’S BACK-DOOR ID CARD BATTLE Among the most dedicated opponents of the Blair government’s Identity Cards Act were the SNP. However, as the government of Scotland they seem to have other ideas, as Geraint Bevan, coordinator of NO2ID Scotland, explains: UK ID cards are no longer valid, but National Entitlement Continue reading
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Snooks Eaglin ‘Baby Please’
21 January, 2011 — Jazz on the Tube Snooks Eaglin, the idiosyncratic New Orleans rhythm & blues guitarist with fleet-fingered dexterity and a boundless repertoire. 1st collector for Snooks Eaglin ‘Baby Please’ Follow my videos on vodpod Continue reading
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