April 2011
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First Flight by Belisarius
8 April 2011 — MRZine A tribute to Yuri Gagarin and his first human spaceflight, 12 April 1961. . . . Music by Zemlyane ("The Grass at Home"). Cf. <www.roscosmos.ru/main.php?id=87>, <english.ruvr.ru/tag_45875342/>, <ciudad-futura.net/2011/04/05/soyuz-gagarin-2/>, <www.yuriesfera.net>. Continue reading
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Towards the Conquest of Africa: The Pentagon's AFRICOM and the War against Libya By Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya
AFRICOM’s main objective is to secure the African continent for the U.S. and its allies. Its mission is to help secure a new colonial order in Africa that the U.S. and its allies are working to establish. In many ways this is what the military intervention in Libya is all about. The recent London Conference… Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 7 April, 2011: The Fiction of the Jewish History in Palestine
7 April, 2011 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Palestinian Factions In Gaza Declare Ceasefire IMEMC – Friday April 08, 2011 – 01:41, Palestinian factions in the Gaza Strip declared a ceasefire starting at 11 P.M on Thursday. The declaration came following a day of escalation that led to the death of five Continue reading
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Libya Newslinks 6-7 April 2011
7 April 2011 17:15 — creative-i.info 7 April 2011 FAIR: NYT Calls for Protecting Libyan Civilians by Escalating War–Like in Fallujah Links Int’l: The two wars in Libya ICH: We Are Not Being Told The Truth About Libya RT: Russian journalists seized by Libyan rebels The Independent: Video: Nato releases footage of Libya airstrike Stop Nato: Continue reading
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Part 3: 23 Things They Don’t Tell You About Capitalism
Ha-Joon Chang: Most people in rich countries are paid more than they should be Continue reading
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The Libyan Intervention: Humanitarian or an Aggression?
Hamid Dabashi and Nader Hashemi debate the US/NATO intervention in Libya Continue reading
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Libya: Arms, Duplicity and Front Line Foetuses By Felicity Arbuthnot
On 29th March, freshly back from a good will tour of the Middle East, with a bunch of arms salesmen in tow, as bombs rained down on Libya, Prime Minister David Cameron, welcomed Foreign Ministers from more than forty countries to a London Conference: ‘To help the Libyan people in their hour of need.’ Continue reading
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Ivory Coast and Bretton Woods: Soros’s spectre
Few around the world watching the drama unfolding in Ivory Coast rout for the incumbent President Laurent Gbagbo, who to his credit held reasonably fair elections last year, but then promptly ignored the results, suddenly claiming that those who voted for his rival Alassane Ouattara were not really citizens of Ivory Coast at all. With… Continue reading
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Information Clearing House Newsletter 6 April 2011: The Peasants Need Pitchforks
6 April, 2011 — Information Clearing House Is America Addicted to War? By Stephen M. Walt Here are my Top 5 Reasons Why America Keeps Fighting Foolish Wars: www.informationclearinghouse.info/article27840.htm Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 6 April, 2011: Mystery of Goldstone’s April Fool’s Message
6 April, 2011 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Palestinian police charge former fighter with murder of Israeli peacemaker IMEMC – Wednesday April 06, 2011 – 20:18, The police force of the Palestinian Authority in the West Bank arrested a man Tuesday who was identified by eyewitnesses as the masked man who shot Continue reading
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Stop Nato Updates on Libyan war: 7 April 2011
7 April 2011 — Stop NATO Libyan War Prepared For Months In Advance, Prelude To Larger War Report: NATO Air Strike Hits Major Libyan Oil Field Libyan War: Canada Adds Troops, Increases Bombing Raids NATO Steps Up Air Attacks; U.S., Italy Discuss Arming Libyan Rebels Turkey’s Role In Libyan War, NATO Missile Shield Linked: EU Continue reading
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Libyan War Prepared For Months In Advance, Prelude To Larger War
Interview with Giulietto Chiesa, former member of the European Parliament and Italian journalist covering international relations. Continue reading
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Stop Nato Updates on Libyan war: 7 April 2011
7 April 2011 — Stop NATO Libyan War Prepared For Months In Advance, Prelude To Larger War Report: NATO Air Strike Hits Major Libyan Oil Field Libyan War: Canada Adds Troops, Increases Bombing Raids NATO Steps Up Air Attacks; U.S., Italy Discuss Arming Libyan Rebels Turkey’s Role In Libyan War, NATO Missile Shield Linked: EU Continue reading
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Ignoring its imperial history licences the west to repeat it By Seumas Milne
The reporters who heard David Cameron tell Pakistani students this week that Britain was responsible for ‘many of the world’s problems … in the first place’ seemed to think he was joking. But it’s a measure of how far Britain is from facing up to its own imperial legacy that his remarks were greeted with… Continue reading
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Stop Nato Updates on Libyan war: 6 April, 2011
6 April 2011 — Stop NATO NATO’s New Humanitarian Intervention: Words And Pictures Libyan Rebel Commander: Weapons Supplied By “Allied Countries” NATO Shouldn’t Arm Libyan Insurgents: Russian Foreign Minister Deputy Commander: Libyan Rebels Shouldn’t Doubt NATO Support “Historic Time” For AFRICOM: Transferred Libyan War To NATO Africa Union Head Condemns Western Military Intervention In Libya, Continue reading
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Libya Newslinks 5-6 April 2011
6 April 2011 18:50:43 — creative-i.info 6 April 2011 Ex-Congressman in Libya for talks with Gaddafi Russia aloof from Libya fighting Libya: Distractions and Diversions: the ‘Rebels’ become the West’s ‘Democratic’ Torch-bearers VIDEO: America Considered Nuclear Strike on Libya Hypocrisy is all par for the course Nato: Libya using human shields Algiers: Prolonged war helps Continue reading
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And the king of all, Sir Duke By Chris Searle
Mike Westbrook is nothing less than a British jazz genius, an utter original and virtuoso of the big band as well as much smaller groups. Continue reading
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Mike Westbrook – ‘Metropolis 9’
Excellent British writer, arranger, producer. Westbrook’s led an innovative big band for a number of years, through the 60s and into the 70s. Continue reading
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Phil Ranelin Live in Paris
Phil Ranelin & Tribe “Livin’ In A New Day” Paris 2009 Kicking live performance http://www.dailymotion.com/swf/video/xav5kaCARL CRAIG & TRIBE "Livin' In A New Day" Paris… by NujazzSpirit Continue reading
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“Vibes from the Tribe” by Phil Ranelin and the Tribe
Great album! From the 1970s, Detroit. See Ranelin 40 years later here, live. Still kicking butt. Continue reading
The New Dark Age 