November 2012
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Gaza Friends: IOF Attacks Gaza Again
On November 14, 2012, the Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) unleashed another massacre in Gaza. In just one day, 15 Palestinians were killed, most of them women and children. Dozens were injured, homes destroyed and the hospitals in Gaza are overwhelmed with the wounded. Israel and its apologists say this is a war, but the people… Continue reading
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100 Years of the ANC: From Liberation Movement to State Power in South Africa by Adèle Kirsten and Tshepo Madlingozi
There is no doubt that South Africa is in deep crisis – an unfinished revolution. “The land question is unresolved, economic redistribution is not addressed, racial equality is not attained.” Yet the ruling African National Congress remains deeply embedded in the nation’s political culture. “The ANC remains the central organizational pivot in South Africa’s peoples’… Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel News & Articles 14 November 2012: Israel mulls toppling Abbas over UN bid
14 November 2012 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Abbas Asks Security Council To Convene, Discuss Gaza EscalationIMEMC – Eight Palestinians Killed, 85 Injured So Far Palestinian President, Mahmoud Abbas, sent on Wednesday at night an urgent letter to the Security Council, currently convening in India, asking the International Community to act on stopping the… Continue reading
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Leader of Hamas’ Armed Wing and His Bodyguard Extra-Judicially Executed-Death Toll in Rises to 13, Including Two Children and a Woman…
Since Wednesday evening, 14 November 2012, Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) have escalated military attacks on the Gaza Strip. They first extra-judicially executed the leader of the Izziddin al-Qassam Brigades (the armed wing of Hamas) and his bodyguard. This attack was followed by a series of aerial, ground and sea attacks on civilian and paramilitary targets… Continue reading
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ICH 14 November 2012: Mayhem in Gaza – Live Updates
14 November 2012 — Information Clearing House Israeli Attack Kills Hamas Military Chief And 8 Other People In Gaza Israeli assassination of Jabari has ‘opened the gates of hell’ By BBC Hamas spokesman Taher Anunu told BBC Arabic: “This was a heinous crime that will have repercussions. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article33028.htm Continue reading
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London: Media and War Conference with John Pilger on Saturday 17 November 2012
14 November 2012 John Pilger, Peter Oborne (Daily Telegraph), Michelle Stanistreet (NUJ General Secretary), and Seumas Milne (The Guardian) are among the many keynote speakers at the important conference this Saturday: Media and War – Challenging the Consensus. Topics include: Serving the military or the public? Media coverage of the war on terror The media and the anti-war movement: how do we… Continue reading
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Video: Hamas says now in 'open war' with Israel, promises 'gates of hell'
Hamas says that it is now in a state of “open war” indefinitely with Israel after the killing of the Hamas commander Ahmed Jabari by an Israeli airstrike. Continue reading
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Video: Hamas says now in ‘open war’ with Israel, promises ‘gates of hell’
Hamas says that it is now in a state of “open war” indefinitely with Israel after the killing of the Hamas commander Ahmed Jabari by an Israeli airstrike. Continue reading
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ColdType, November 2012: Arun Gupta / Edward S. Herman / Dave Lindorff…
Cover story this month is Arun Gupta’s journey back to Niles, Ohio, where steelworkers are striking to protect their community as it falls deeper into a post-industrial abyss. Other top stories include Edward S. Herman’s indictment of the double standards and hypocrisy that mark the West’s flawed concepts of ‘war on terrorism’ and ‘humanitarian intervention’;… Continue reading
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“Sandy”: Obama’s “Good Storm” By Felicity Arbuthnot
Cathy Breen from Voices for Non Violence was late to hear of Hurricane Sandy and of its impact on the Manhatten community where she lives. She was in Najav, in southern Iraq, where, as the rest of the country, the electricity is intermittent to non-existent, nearly ten years after the invasion which wrought its final… Continue reading
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Ezili Danto: Assassination attempt on human rights attorney Evel Fanfan and other Haiti Lawyers under attack under Martelly government under US occupied Haiti | History of the Brandt family in Haiti
14 November 2012 — Ezili Danto Recommended HLLN Link: Bilan voyage d avocat contre la Famille Martelly Haiti Lawyers under attack under Martelly government under US occupied Haiti http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d9t1L8_ka2w Haiti: Brandt Busted as Clintons with Hollywood celebrate sweatshop http://bit.ly/RyxPCN Audio: Swapping Haiti lives: Interview on US Haiti Exploits http://bit.ly/Oe6V4u Continue reading
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Attacks on first responders transform criminality of drone strikes to sadism
Those of us on the left who came of age during the Vietnam War, as well as the period when CIA meddling in foreign affairs to deadly effect was at its peak, may have thought we’d lost our capacity to be shocked at what the United States has shown itself capable. But attacking those coming… Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel News & Articles 13 November 2012: Press TV: ‘Israeli crimes against Palestinians have gone unpunished due to Western cover’
13 November 2012 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Army Occupies School In JeninIMEMC – Israeli soldiers invaded, on Tuesday evening, a school east of Jenin city, in the northern part of the West Bank, and used it as a military post and monitoring tower. … Continue reading
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ICH 13 November 2012: Video: Confirmed: CIA Was Holding “Prisoners” at Benghazi Annex
13 November 2012 — Information Clearing House Netanyahu: Engineering Consent For An Attack On Gaza Video Netanyahu: We’ll take whatever action is necessary to put a stop to this. This is not merely our right, it’s also our duty, and it’s something that I think is understood by any fair-minded person in any fair-minded government in the… Continue reading
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The EyeOpener- PSYOPS 101: The Technology of Psych Warfare
As we have examined in this special series of EyeOpener reports on psychological warfare in recent weeks, Psychological Operations, or PSYOPS, are every bit as vital to military strategists today as they ever were. Continue reading
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Bloggers’ fear: Russian crackdown on illegal web content causes stir
The federal law ‘On information, information technology and protection of information’ that came into force on November 1 empowered Russia’s Federal Supervision Agency for Information Technology and Communications to compose a blacklist of websites to be closed down. Public discontent over a ban on popular websites in the Russian sector of the internet is skyrocketing.… Continue reading
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Enemy inside the gates: Syria’s main foe is ‘foreign-sponsored terrorists’
Syrian President Bashar Assad is not caught in a traditional civil war, but is rather struggling against an extra-state-sponsored war of terrorism to bring down his government, according to Russian experts. Continue reading
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A bailout of the people by the people?
Rolling Jubilee is a Strike Debt project that buys debt for pennies on the dollar, but instead of collecting it, abolishes it. Together we can liberate debtors at random through a campaign of mutual support, good will, and collective refusal. Debt resistance is just the beginning. Join us as we imagine and create a new… Continue reading
The New Dark Age 