January 2013
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VTJP Occupied Palestine and Israel News and Articles 8 January 2013: Media misconceptions: Is the conflict really about Jews vs. Arabs?
8 January 2012 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Abbas Willing To Cooperate With US To Achieve Two-State SolutionIMEMC – Palestinian President, Mahmoud Abbas, stated that he is willing to continue to cooperate with the United States and the Obama Administration to achieve a peace agreement with Israel based on the two-state solution. … Continue reading
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ICH 8 January 2013: The American System of Suffering, 1965-2014
8 January 2013 — Information Clearing House The Syria Endgame: Strategic Stage in the Pentagon’s Covert War on Iran By Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya “Rebel” attack on Syria is a front in the covert multi-dimensional war against Iran. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article33562.htm Continue reading
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Greater Albania: a United States project against the Orthodox world? by Alexandre Latsa
Wednesday, December 5, 2012, the Albanian Prime Minister Sali Berisha advocated granting Albanian citizenship to all Albanians, wherever they reside. This statement was made during a visit of the city of Vlora where the independence of the Albanian state was declared, only 100 years ago. At the time Albania had just liberated itself from Ottoman… Continue reading
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Mleeta, Khiam, Sabra, Shatila and Resistance In General By Gilad Atzmon
It was my second visit to the country. 30 years ago I crossed the Lebanese border along with an IDF convoy escorted by tanks and armed vehicles. Then I was an occupier, this time I came with only my saxophone and a desire to share my thoughts and deliver some beauty. Continue reading
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UK council leaders warn of social unrest By Robert Stevens
The leaders of three Labour Party-controlled city councils wrote a letter to the Observer, published December 29, warning that the scale of the Conservative/Liberal Democrat austerity agenda could lead to “the break-up of civil society”. Continue reading
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Fukushima “Decontamination” Measures Are Making Things Worse
Cleanup crews in Fukushima Prefecture have dumped soil and leaves contaminated with radioactive fallout into rivers. Water sprayed on contaminated buildings has been allowed to drain back into the environment. And supervisors have instructed workers to ignore rules on proper collection and disposal of the radioactive waste. Continue reading
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A BRIEF HISTORY OF OCCUPY WALL STREET By Ethan Earle
In Lower Manhattan, in a small plaza called Zuccotti Park, Occupy Wall Street was born in September of 2011. While the first Occupiers had originally come to protest Wall Street, once the actual occupation began their game plan was not entirely clear. What were their goals and how would they pursue them? Continue reading
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VTJP Occupied Palestine and Israel News and Articles 7 January 2013: Desperate to break Samer Issawi hunger strike, Israel relentlessly targets his family
7 January 2012 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Farawna: “Palestinian Christians, Partners In Struggle, Pain And Captivity”IMEMC – Former political prisoner, a Palestinian researcher specialized in detainee’s affairs, Abdul-Nasser Farawna, wished all Palestinian Christians a Merry Christmas and a happy new year, and stated that Palestinian Christians are partners in the struggle against Continue reading
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The Anti-Empire Report #112 8 January 2013 By William Blum: A Jihadist by any other name
8 January 2013 — www.killinghope.org Where have you gone, Joe DiMaggio? “France no longer recognizes its children,” lamented Guillaume Roquette in an editorial in the Figaro weekly magazine in Paris. “How can the country of Victor Hugo, secularism and family reunions produce jihadists capable of attacking a kosher grocery store?” 1 Continue reading
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Cuba, Socialism and Cybernetics By Ivet González
“It is not an option for our future development, it’s an imperative of our time,” economist Ricardo Torres told IPS. “Without the mass application of the New Information and Communications Technologies (NICT), to production processes and social life, there are no contemporary possibilities of development.” Continue reading
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ICH 7 January 2013: A warning to all who consider dissent
7 January 2013 — Information Clearing House Syria: Why Assad May Yet Claim Victory By Simon Tisdall Perhaps it’s not Bashar al-Assad who is detached from reality but Obama and Hague. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article33554.htm Continue reading
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The Syria Endgame: Strategic Stage in the Pentagon’s Covert War on Iran By Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya
Since the kindling of the conflict inside Syria in 2011, it was recognized, by friend and foe alike, that the events in that country were tied to a game plan that ultimately targets Iran, Syria’s number one ally. Continue reading
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Bolivarianism in Venezuela. “With or without Chavez, it’s institutionalized” By Stephen Lendman
With or without Chavez, it’s institutionalized. It greatly improved the lives of most Venezuelans. It’s become part of the national culture. It won’t wane and die. Continue reading
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Ireland copyright battle: Newspapers demand $400 for sharing links
The body representing Ireland’s main newspapers is demanding a minimum of $400 for third parties to directly link their articles, sparking an unprecedented copyright row which strikes at the very heart of sharing content on the World Wide Web. Continue reading
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Market Madness By Craig Murray
Three days ago I collapsed for the second time in two days; an ambulance was called and a paramedic arrived within 5 minutes, with a full ambulance arriving inside a further five minutes. The NHS at its amazing best. I am well looked after. Yet a couple of weeks previously I had an example of… Continue reading
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Chano Pozo & Dizzy Gillespie 'Manteca'
Dizzy’s dozens of Latin-flavored compositions, including the hit song “Manteca” and “Tin Tin Deo” (both co-written by Pozo), “Fiesta Mojo” and others – have Afro-Cuban drumming derived from the ritual rhythms of West Africa as their rhythmic backbones. Continue reading
The New Dark Age 