28 December, 2011 — Information Clearing House
Day: December 28, 2011
The Top Ten Revolutionary Videos of 2011
27 December 2011 — Dissident Voice
At the end of the year, news agencies around the world, including the BBC, report the ten most popular YouTube videos of the past year. The lists inevitably contain some of the most banal, irritating, or mildly amusing videos of the past year, but rarely do we see the BBC and their ilk reminding us of the startlingly powerful images of resistance and revolution. So, in honour of those who were maimed or killed in 2011 in service of a better world, here are ten of the most memorable moments of revolt in 2011:
Guided By Our Grandchildren By Jane Miller
28 December 2011 — In These Times
Paternoster Square, in the heart of London, is the grim and newish development owned by Mitsubishi. It contains the Stock Exchange, Goldman Sachs, Merrill Lynch and a wing of the London School of Economics (once the nursery of left politics, now a bastion of the right). It was there that the Occupy protestors planned to pitch their tents, but the police stepped in, and this ugly and unloved spot is now impenetrable to the public. The tents are now set up around the corner at St. Paul’s Cathedral; and if some feel that the squabbles behind those vast ecclesiastical doors have distracted from the protest itself, many are grateful for them.
Black Agenda Report 28 December 2011: The Democratic Wasteland / Mass Black Incarceration / Preventive Detention
28 December 2011 — Black Agenda Report • News, commentary and analysis from the black left
This is BAR’s Limited Holiday Radio Edition. Our normal schedule resumes next Wednesday, January 4.
Happy New Year!
The March to War: Iran and the Strategic Encirclement of Syria and Lebanon By Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya
24 December, 2011 — Global Research – Strategic Culture Foundation– 2011-12-02
The encirclement of Syria and Lebanon has long been in the works. Since 2001, Washington and NATO have started the process of cordoning off Lebanon and Syria. The permanent NATO presence in the Eastern Mediterranean and the Syrian Accountability Act are part of this initiative. It appears that this roadmap is based on a 1996 Israeli document aimed at controlling Syria. The document’s name is A Clean Break: A New Strategy for Securing the Realm.
Iran Newslinks 25-28 December 2011
28 December 2011 — williambowles.info
28 December 2011
Iran signs fuel deal with Afghanistan: Iran to export oil to Afghanistan
GlobalResearch.ca Today at 13:04
For more details, please click on the link to read the article.
Stop NATO news: December 28, 2011
28 December 2011 — Stop NATO
- Japan: NATO’s Gateway Into Asia-Pacific Region
- Interceptor Missiles, Stealth Warplanes: Boost To U.S.-Japan Alliance
- India-Japan-Australia: U.S. Forges Asian NATO
- ‘Reshape The International System’: India-Japan-U.S. Military Triad
- Australia Buys $950 Million Worth Of Military Planes From U.S.
- Philippines Deploys New U.S.-Provided Warship
- December: Sixteen NATO Soldiers Killed In Afghanistan By Christmas
- Pakistan: Human Rights Commission Rejects NATO Report On Attack
- Missile Radar: Turkey Arrests Anti-NATO Protesters
- NATO Summit To Boost Integration Of Ukraine: Official
Stop NATO News: December 27, 2011
27 December 2011 — Stop NATO
- U.S. Buildup In Central Asia To Counter Russia, China
- Royal Canadian Air Force Mulls Major Arctic Base Expansion
- Georgia Defense Delegation Returns From Consultations In U.S.
- Raytheon Wins MDA Contract For Standard Missile Interceptors
- Azerbaijan-Turkey Pipeline Supplants Russia In Southeast Europe
Syrian NGOs: A dual-use technology? — RT
28 December 2011 — Syrian NGOs: A dual-use technology? — RT
Syrian NGOs have often been the sole source of information for the Western media when it comes to reporting alleged atrocities within the country. Why is it then that so many of these NGO are either funded or based entirely in the West?
Spinning the News from “Reliable” NGO Sources: London-based “Syrian Observatory” Consorting Directly With British Government By Tony Cartalucci
27 December 2011 — Global Research – landdestroyer.blogspot.com
The coverage by the corporate-owned Western media exclusively relies on “activists inside and outside the country,” the London-based “Syrian Human Rights Monitoring Centre” which apparently has no web presence, the Damascus Center for Human Rights which boasts memberships with the National Endowment for Democracy and Tides Foundation-funded International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) and the Coalition for the International Criminal Court, funded by the European Union, the Ford Foundation, the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, the Open Society Institute, the Sigrid Rausing Trust, and Humanity United.
Preparing to Attack Iran with Nuclear Weapons: "No Option can be taken off the Table" By Michel Chossudovsky
26 December, 2011 — Global Research
The World is at a Dangerous Crossroads. America’s is on a War Path.
“When a US sponsored nuclear war becomes an “instrument of peace”, condoned and accepted by the World’s institutions and the highest authority, including the United Nations, there is no turning back: human society has indelibly been precipitated headlong onto the path of self-destruction.” (Towards a World War III Scenario, Global Research, May 2011)
Preparing to Attack Iran with Nuclear Weapons: “No Option can be taken off the Table” By Michel Chossudovsky
26 December, 2011 — Global Research
The World is at a Dangerous Crossroads. America’s is on a War Path.
“When a US sponsored nuclear war becomes an “instrument of peace”, condoned and accepted by the World’s institutions and the highest authority, including the United Nations, there is no turning back: human society has indelibly been precipitated headlong onto the path of self-destruction.” (Towards a World War III Scenario, Global Research, May 2011)
VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 27 December 2011: Open letter from Gaza: Three years after the massacre, justice or nothing!
27 December 2011 — VTJP
News
International Middle East Media Center
One Killed, 3 Injured in Israeli Air Strike North of Gaza
IMEMC – One Palestinian was killed and three others were injured as an Israeli air strike targeted on Tuesday evening a Palestinian vehicle near Abu-Sharkh Square in the city of Jabaliya, north of the Gaza Strip, the Maan News Agency reported Tuesday evening. …
Palestinians in a ‘Jewish state’ By Ben White
27 December 2011 — Al Jazeera
Palestinians living in Israel face institutionalised discrimination and segregation in a supposedly democratic state.
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PCHR Narrative: The Abu Taima family
28 December 2008 — Palestinian Centre for Human Rights
“Living under occupation means that whatever hopes we have, it will fall apart one day. For example, you bring up your child and put all of your hopes in him or her, but then they come and kill your child and all your hopes are destroyed.”
WHAT IF GORBACHEV HAD WON TWENTY YEARS AGO? By Gaither Stewart
28 December 2011
(Rome) As a follow-up to Patrice Greanville’s article, “The Soviet Union—Environmental Degradation: Some Historical Antecedents”, I have presented here excerpts from some of my own articles written during the Gorbachev perestroika period, plus notes and reflections concerning Mikhail Gorbachev, the last General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU) and Chief of State of the USSR, and his role in the history of Socialism. As an intermittent correspondent in Moscow for a West European newspaper during the Gorbachev era I covered some of the evolving crisis in Russian Communism in the late 1980s-early 1990s. From my notes of over twenty years ago I have reconstructed here the essence of my various articles on the XIX Conference of the CPSU held in Moscow in June-July of 1988.
A fool’s paradise revisited By William Bowles
28 December 2011
My last piece clearly touched a nerve at least judging by the readership it’s gotten so I thought it worth exploring the issue a little further, especially in light of the comments I’ve read.
Information Clearing House Newsletter 27 December 2011: The Man Who Prevented World War III
27 December 2011 — williambowles.info
Justifying War with Iran
By Russ Baker
A growing body of evidence points to a concerted campaign to prepare Americans and the world for war against Iran. This is not idle speculation. It fits a pattern that repeatedly preceded previous hostilities. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article30084.htm
The New Dark Age 