27 July 2011 — WSWS
US diplomatic cables released by WikiLeaks expose some of the real reasons and diplomatic tensions behind NATO’s ongoing bombardment of Libya. Far from initiating a ‘humanitarian’ intervention to protect civilians against Muammar Gaddafi’s government, Washington backed the NATO intervention for one reason only—the installation of a regime that better serves the strategic interests of the US, as well as the operations of the giant oil and gas companies.
27 July 2011 — Pambazuka News 541: Forced migration: Rethinking ‘governance’ and justice (Pambazuka Editor)
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27 July 2011 — Pambazuka News 541: Forced migration: Rethinking ‘governance’ and justice (Pambazuka Editor)
The authoritative electronic weekly newsletter and platform for social justice in Africa
Pambazuka News (English edition): ISSN 1753-6839
27 July 2011 — — williambowles.info
WikiLeaks documents shed light on US-backed intervention in Libya
World Socialist Web Site Today at 19:06
Washington has had only one objective—the installation of a regime that better serves the interests of the US and international oil and gas companies.
27 July 2011 — williambowles.info
Antisec goes after Paypal
Inquirer
The payment firm has already been targeted for stopping payments to Wikileaks, and in a separate and apparently random attack, had its Twitter feed taken over in the UK, but this latest attack – for want of another word, aims to hit it right at its …
http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/2097078/antisec-goes-paypal
27 July 2011
There are a last few tickets left for the Rebellious Media Conference, taking place on the weekend of the 8th and 9th October. Speakers confirmed so far include:
• Noam Chomsky (Manufacturing Consent etc.)
• Michael Albert, coordinator of one of the world’s largest radical websites, ZNet
• Matthew Alford (Reel Power: Hollywood Cinema and American Supremacy)
• Jessica Azulay (New Standard News)
• Mark Barto (London Video Activist Network)
• Zoe Broughton (Campaign Filmmaker)
• Johann Hari (Independent)
• Dan Hind (The Return of the Public)
• Emily James (Just Do It)
• Robert McChesney (Our Media, Not Theirs)
• Laurie Penny (Penny Red)
• John Pilger (The War You Don’t See)
Plus speakers from Black Activists Rising Against Cuts (tbc), CopySouth, Corporate Watch, the Glasgow Media Group, GreenNet, iContact Video, The Manchester Mule, The New Economics Foundation, Nottingham Indymedia, the Open Rights Group, Platform, Reel News, SchNews, Spinwatch, UK Uncut and many more.
For tickets and more info please visit http://rebelliousmediaconference.org/
27 July 2011 — Housmans
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IN-STORE EVENTS
‘2-Tone London’ with Pauline Black
‘Chavs: The Demonization of the Working Class’ with Owen Jones
‘The Glorious Times of the Situationist International’ with McKenzie Wark
OTHER EVENTS
Rebellious Media Conference
27 July, 2011 — The Real News Network
Richard Wolff reports on the mass movements against austerity policies in Europe
27 July 2011 — www.coldtype.net
In this month’s 64-page COLDTYPE MAGAZINE
Cover story this month is Jonathan Cook’s article about Israeli government actions that are stripping away freedoms of expression from its increasingly-polarised citizens. You won’t want to miss Trevor Grundy’s account of four elderly Kenyans who are causing severe embarrassment to the British government with their allegations of torture, including castration, during the Mau Mau rebellion against British rule in their country during the 1950s. We’ve also got a couple of essays, by John Pilger and William Rivers Pitt, on the crisis facing Rupert Murdoch’s media empire after revelations of phone-tapping at his biggest-selling British newspaper; plus the story of an invasion of jellyfish that is threatening fish stocks – and nuclear power plants, an interview with an eco-warrior; what, we hope, are the final words on Sarah Palin, and much more .
PLUS
1. SLOW BOAT TO GAZA: Read Ray McGovern’s 28-page diary, filled with photographs, of the latest attempt, this time by a group of peace activists aboard the ‘Audacity of Hope’, to break Israel’s blockade of Gaza.
2. SOUTH AFRICA REVISITED: Danny Schechter spent a month in South Africa examining the progress made by the country in the 21 years since the release of nelson Mandela. Don’t miss his 15-page report consisting of four essays.
3. OBAMA”S BUSH LEAGUE WORLD: Thought George W. Bush’s foreign policies were a disaster? Tom Engelhardt takes a long look at those of President Obama and can’t see much difference.
4. YATRA: Celebrating With The Pilgrims of India: a 12-page photoessay that captures the action at India’s annual Yatra celebrations, when millions of devoted Hindu pilgrims travel thousands of miles by foot, bike, car and train to the banks of the River Ganges at Varanasi, the holiest city of world Hinduism.
Hope you enjoy; if not please contact me at editor@coldtyepe.net
Tony Sutton, Editor
27 July 2011 — williambowles.info
27 July 2011
Murdochs were given secret defence briefings
The Independent – Media RSS Feed Today at Midnight
The extraordinary access that Cabinet ministers granted Rupert Murdoch and his children was revealed for the first time yesterday, with more than two dozen private meetings between the family and senior members of the Government in the 15 months since David Cameron entered Downing Street.
26 July 2011 — News Dissector
Move over Osama bin Laden—-I know you already have had in the physical sense —-because you now have an emulator who borrows your tactics and inverts your ideology.
27 July 2011 — http://paltagefreiburg2011.blogspot.com/
September 10-11, 2011 Freiburg, Germany
Freedom of speech and expression are recognised by many as primary human rights. However, when it comes to discussion on topics concerning Palestine, Israel and Germany we often face rigid and concrete boundaries that clearly suppress free and creative discourse. We somehow grasp what we are allowed to say but are also conscious of a variety of thoughts we better keep unsaid.
27 July 2011
Soldiers have stormed the Freedom Theatre of Jenin, whose co-founder Juliano Mer-Khamis was slain earlier this year.
URGENT PRESS RELEASE From The Freedom Theater Foundation, Jenin, Palestine
Special Forces of the Israeli Army attacked the Freedom Theater in Jenin Refugee Camp at approximately 03:30 this morning. Ahmad Nasser Matahen, a night guard and technician student at the theater woken up by heavy blocks of stone hurled at the entrance of the theater. As he opened the door he found masked and heavily armed Israeli Special Forces around the theater.
26 July , 2011 — VTJP
News
International Middle East Media Center
Miles of Smiles 4 Heading To Gaza Soon
IMEMC – Wednesday July 27, 2011 – 04:01, The Miles of Smiles 4 humanitarian convoy will be heading to the Gaza Strip in the coming few days carrying medical and humanitarian supplies to the besieged residents on the coastal region.
26 July 2011 — williambowles.info
Where is Libyan Leader Muammar al-Qaddafi?
Fox News
By Tadek Markowski AP TRIPOLI, Libya — – Libyan leader Muammar al-Qaddafi isn’t going anywhere and his leadership is not up for negotiation, the prime minister said on Tuesday. Prime Minister Al-Baghdadi Ali Al-Mahmoudi, speaking at a news conference …
http://www.foxnews.com/world/2011/07/26/where-is-libyan-leader-muammar-al-qaddafi/
26 July, 2011 — Information Clearing House
InI Comment: Tom, the editor of ICH has to go into hospital for a few days to get patched up. I wish him well as I’m sure all of his readers do and a speedy recovery.
I Saw Many Killed Under Torture: Guantanamo Torture Survivor
By RT
“I was one of those who survived those kinds of torture. They used electroshocks on me because I would not sign papers.”
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28691.htm
27 July 2011 — Stop NATO
8 July 2011 — Strategic Culture Foundation
Since the collapse of the Warsaw Pact, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) has made no secret of its goal to expand to the east, as well as into North and sub-Saharan Africa. After the fall of the Berlin Wall and the dissolution of the Soviet bloc, many observers believed that NATO’s raison d’etre had ceased to exist and that the collective ‘defensive’ organization would join the Warsaw Pact in historical oblivion. Continue reading
8 July 2011 — Strategic Culture Foundation
Since the collapse of the Warsaw Pact, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) has made no secret of its goal to expand to the east, as well as into North and sub-Saharan Africa. After the fall of the Berlin Wall and the dissolution of the Soviet bloc, many observers believed that NATO’s raison d’etre had ceased to exist and that the collective ‘defensive’ organization would join the Warsaw Pact in historical oblivion. Continue reading
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