May 23, 2011 at 2:23 PM — Dandelion Salad
PressTV GlobalNews on May 22, 2011
An emergency appeals court in Bahrain has upheld the death sentences of two men accused of running over two police officers during anti-government protests. Interview with Nabeel Rajab, president of the Bahrain Center for Human Rights.
23 May 2011 — Jazz on the Tube
23 May, 2011 — Global Research
UPDATE Monday 23 May At 8.33am EDT (14.33pm local time)
The Spirit of Rachel Corrie lifted anchor and started sailing towards Gaza.
UPDATE: 9:53pm EDT, Egypt time 3:53pm
“The Egyptian Navy is forcing us out of their territorial waters and has asked us to go to international waters. One Egyptian patrol boat is coming very fast from behind with a gun pointing at us.” Everyone is calm and steady. We are okay.”
23 May 2011 — Global Network Against Weapons & Nuclear Power in Space
I have decided to begin an open-ended fast today in solidarity with Yang Yoon-Mo and the other eight leaders recently arrested for trying to stop the Navy base construction in the Gangjeong village on Jeju Island. By my calculations, professor Yang is now on his 49th day of his hunger strike.
23 May 2011 — The Guardian
A controversial book concludes the Corporation still fails to present a fair and balanced picture of conflict
British broadcasters’ coverage of the Arab awakening over recent months has been brave and honest. These are difficult and dangerous stories. But the BBC – and in this article I am going to concentrate on the BBC, because it is the broadcaster we are taxed to enable and sets worldwide standards of fairness – and its teams have made every effort to report with balance and application.
23 May 2011 — Stop NATO
23 May 2011
Miko Peled is an Israeli peace activist, and the son of the late Israeli war hero, General Matti Peled. Miko expresses his views very clearly
23 May 2011
Video footage of Hasan Hijazi, a Palestine refugee who came in from Syria, being interviewed on Israeli TV while sightseeing in Yafa
23 May 2011
Video footage of Palestine refugees crossing from Syria into the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights
21 May, 2011 — Global Research
The declassification of official secrets is often seen as either a challenge or a prerequisite for obtaining accurate data on the history of political and economic events. Yet at the same time high government intelligence officials have said that their policy is one of ‘plausible deniability’. Official US government policy for example is never to acknowledge or deny the presence of nuclear weapons anywhere its forces are deployed, especially its naval forces. The British have their ‘Official Secrets’ Act. When the Wikileaks site was launched in 2007 and attained notoriety for publication of infamous actions by US forces in Iraq and Afghanistan, this platform was heralded and condemned for its disclosures and exposures.
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22 May 2011 — williambowles.info
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23 May 2011 — The Bullet – Socialist Project E-Bulletin No.505
The Tunisian revolution has been the detonator of the wave of protests and uprisings which have spread across North Africa and the Middle East since January, 2011. Sparked by the self-immolation of Mohamed Bouazizi on December 17, 2010, the Tunisian revolution quickly spread from the towns in the central mining and agricultural regions of the country to the coastal cities, including the capital Tunis. Mass demonstrations, riots and strikes compelled President Ben Ali to flee the country on January 14. The ultimate outcome of the still fluid revolutionary process remains undetermined. So far popular mobilization and the forces activated by them – a series of parties, associations, unions, and intellectuals now organized in a loose coordinating committee (Le comité de salut public à la tunisienne) – have succeeded in forcing the retreat and partial dissolution of the networks of repression of the Ben Ali regime, changing the composition of the interim government a number of times and implementing their demand for a constituent assembly, from which Ben Ali’s old ruling party, Le Rassemblement constitutionnel démocratique (RCD) will be excluded for ten years. Governed by a new electoral law passed on April 11, elections for this assembly are scheduled for July 24.
Sadri Khiari is a Tunisian dissident now living in France, where he is a leading intellectual of Le Parti des Indigènes de la République (PIR), an anti-racist political party founded in 2010. He has published a number of books on Tunisia – Tunisie, le délitement de la cité – coercition, consentement, résistances (Paris: Karthala, 2003) and on the post-colonial situation in France [Pour une politique de la racaille (Paris: Textuel, 2006); La contre-révolution coloniale en France (Paris: La Fabrique, 2008), and Sainte Caroline contre Tariq Ramadan (Paris: La Revanche, 2011)].
22 May, 2011 — Stop NATO
22 May, 2011 — Information Clearing House
Obama’s Speech to AIPAC
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America’s commitment to Israel’s security also flows from a deeper place -and that’s the values we share.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28163.htm
22 May, 2011 — VTJP
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International Middle East Media Center
Israeli settlers dump sewage in Palestinian town
IMEMC – Sunday May 22, 2011 – 19:07, Sewage and wastewater from the Israeli settlement of Ariel, the largest settlement in the West Bank, has polluted the Palestinian village of Bruqin, which sits adjacent to the settlement.
20 May 2011 — The Raw Story – AFP
MADRID — Thousands of protesters in Madrid furious over soaring unemployment staged a silent protest and then erupted in cheers of joy as a 48-hour ban on their demonstration took effect on Saturday.
‘Now we are all illegal’ and ‘the people united will never be defeated,’ were among the chants of the protesters who crammed Madrid’s Puerta del Sol square and spilled onto side streets.
21 May 2011 — WSWS
Previously classified documents released into the public domain reveal that Britain’s MI6 planned a coup against then Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein, just months after 9/11. This was despite official acknowledgement that there was no connection between the Hussein regime and Al Qaeda. The documents also confirm that the quest to secure stable oil supplies was central to plans for the invasion of Iraq.
21 May 2011 — Quilombosphere
‘On 15th May 2011, around 150,000 people took to the streets in 60 Spanish towns and cities to demand ‘Real Democracy Now’, marching under the slogan ‘We are not commodities in the hands of bankers and politicians’. The protest was organised through web-based social networks without the involvement of any major unions or political parties.
1 September 2010 — International Socialist Review
From Duvalier Dynasty to military coups and intervention
To anticipate what lies ahead in Haiti, it is important to understand the origins of the popular movement for democracy and social justice that has shaped the last 25 years. The movement’s resilience is a legacy of the astonishing and successful war for slave liberation and independence of 1791–1804, an event that continues to reverberate in Haitians’ consciousness and world history.
22 May 2011 — RT
As the last group of British Royal Navy training staff pulls out of Iraq on Sunday marking the end of the UK military operation in the country, British MP Paul Flynn told RT the war in Iraq was not really worth it.
‘With 179 British lives lost and ten billion pounds spent, there will be no celebrations, no parades or marches or flags out to mark the end of the war. And all we seem to have achieved is we have replaced one rotten government with another rotten government,’ stated Flynn.
According to the MP, the whole country understood it was the wrong war to get involved into.
The New Dark Age 
