21 May 2011
Un grito silencioso. Performance de Callao a Sol. 20 de mayo de 2011 / A quiet shout. Performance of Sun Pebble. 20 May 2011.
A mass protest in Spain involving hundreds of thousands of people against the austerity cuts and massive (45%) youth unemployment and all on the eve of local elections, when demonstrations are banned. It’s going to be a long, hot summer. A central square in Madrid has been renamed Placa Tahrir.
21 May 2011 — Stop NATO
9 May 2011 — The Greanville Post
The Spreading Euro Crisis is Eloquent
Spanish villa for sale: with the market softening, maybe a long wait.
When the current economic crisis hit Europe in 2008, small countries on the periphery were its first victims: Iceland, Ireland, and Latvia. Within a year it had spread to Greece and Portugal, though the GDP of both nations—respectively 11th and 12th in the European Union (EU)—are hardly central to the continent’s economic engine.
But now the contagion threatens to strike at the center of Europe. Spain, the fifth largest economy in the EU and 13th largest in the world, is staggering under a combination of debt and growth-killing austerity, and the balance books in Italy, the Union’s fourth largest economy, don’t look much better. Indeed, Italy’s national debt is higher than that of Greece, Ireland or Portugal, three countries that have been forced to apply for bailouts.
20 May 2011 — guardian.co.uk
Hossam el-Hamalawy is a prominent journalist, activist and blogger whose website covers Egypt’s current strikes
Hossam el-Hamalawy believes trade unions should play a prominent role in the next phase of Egypt's revolution. Photograph: Guardian
19 May 2011 — Information Clearing House
The police and the prostitute media have made it impossible for Dominique Strauss-Kahn to get a fair trial. From the moment of the announcement that he had been arrested on suspicion of sexually assaulting a hotel maid, and before he was ever indicted, the accounts given by the police were designed to create the impression that the director of the International Monetary Fund was guilty.
19 May 2011 — hcvanalysis.wordpress.com
US-Backed President Installed in Haiti
Michel Martelly, a former singer whose stage name was “Sweet Mickey,” was sworn in as Haiti’s president May 14. His inaugural speech promised major changes to rebuild a Haiti still devastated by the earthquake of Jan. 12, 2010.
Preparations for his inauguration cost “only” $4.5 million, and each of the three private banquets celebrating his inauguration charged “only” $500 a seat. (Miami Herald, May 13) The International Monetary Fund estimates that 80 percent of the Haitian people live on less than $2 a day.
21 May 2011 — williambowles.info
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Israeli Military On Alert After Friday Prayers
IMEMC – Friday May 20, 2011 – 14:49, According to Israeli media group, YNet, the Israeli military has been employed to the border with Syria in the Golan Heights and declared the area a restricted military zone. The action was taken in fear of a repeat of last Sunday’s Nakba demonstrations in which thousands of Palestinian refugees marched to the Israeli border in Lebanon and Syria demanding a right of return to their homes. YNet reports that the measure is in effect until midnight tonight.
20 May 2011 — Stop NATO
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20 May, 2011 — Information Clearing House
Russia Sabotaged Iran Nuclear Programme: Report
By AFP
Then Russian president Vladimir Putin ordered the sabotage of Iran’s nuclear programme in 2006, according to WikiLeaks documents. www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28147.htm
The New Dark Age 