Videos
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Four Beaten and Arrested at Al-Walaje Sit-In by Mazin Qumsiyeh
Our ten hour ordeal with the occupation forces started at 8:30 AM as we gathered in the small village of Al-Walaje. A tiny store with an elderly women who insisted on making me coffee and not charging me. Idyllic setting except for the heavy bulldozers now carving the hills to separate the remaining people from… Continue reading
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Free Gaza Movement: We’re almost ready By Greta Berlin
We’re almost ready. Our vessels are being loaded with construction materials, specialized medical equipment, generators, pre-fab homes, water filtration units, and school supplies for the children. Israel allows only 81 items into Gaza, forcing the people to use tunnels to bring in supplies, barely keeping their economy at subsistence level. Continue reading
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Did Ahmadinejad Actually Say, Israel Needs To Be Wiped Off The Map?
5 May, 2010 — Information Clearing House Ahmadinejad Interview With Russian Television – 5 May, 2010 Part 1 Part 2 President Ahmadinejad: Bin Laden Is In Washington May 5, 2010 George Stephanopoulos Interviews Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad Continue reading
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Honduras still looking for truth in 2009 coup
A truth commission has been established to investigate the situation surrounding Honduras’ 2009 coup, but observers are divided over whether or not it will have any effect on pacifying the country. The ghost of Honduras’s 2009 coup just won’t die Continue reading
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We believe US media are controlled by single unit – Ahmadinejad
On his trip to New York to attend the UN nuclear summit Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad spoke to RT about nuclear non-proliferation, the Obama Administration, Iran’s representation in the US and other hot issues. Continue reading
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Another Palestinian Protest Leader Jailed But Not Silenced
Iyad Burnat, a leader in the popular struggle against the Israeli wall, was banned by Israel’s military from crossing the West Bank borders into Jordan on Saturday. Burnat is head of the local committee against the wall and settlement in the central West Bank village of Bil’in. The villagers of Bil’in have been organizing weekly… Continue reading
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Gil Scott-Heron – “Me And The Devil”
Gil Scott-Heron’s video for “Me And The Devil”, out Feb 22 and taken from his forthcoming album “I’m New Here” Continue reading
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US military enforces attacks on Haitian unions Pt2 By Didier Dominique
Didier Dominique: Deliberate US policy weakened Haitian farming to create pool of cheap textile labor Continue reading
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Power2010: They didn’t think we could get this far
As the election draws closer, more and more people are crying out for change, but they don’t know what to do about it. To many, it seems inevitable that we will return to politics as usual after the election. But it’s not inevitable. That’s just what the politicians want us to believe – you know… Continue reading
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Obama's Militarized Status Quo in Latin America
Video: Panel Discussion From the 2010 Left Forum with Christy Thornton, Joseph Nevins, Suzanna Reiss, Mark Weisbrot Continue reading
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“The Future of Palestine: Righteous Jews vs. the New Afrikaners” with Professor John J. Mearsheimer
“Regrettably, the two-state solution is now a fantasy. Instead, those territories will be incorporated into a Greater Israel,which will be an apartheid state bearing a marked resemblance to white-ruled South Africa. Nevertheless, a Jewish apartheid state is not politically viable over the long term. In the end, it will become a democratic bi-national state, whose… Continue reading
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Cochabamba: Climate Justice Has a New Program and New Hope for Victory By Ian Angus
Following the failed climate negotiations in Copenhagen in December, where Barack Obama tried unsuccessfully to impose a toothless backroom deal, Bolivian President Evo Morales invited “the peoples of the world, social movements and Mother Earth’s defenders, … scientists, academics, lawyers and governments,” to attend a conference “to define strategies for action and mobilization to defend… Continue reading
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Democracy Now Interviews Danny Schechter on His New Film “Plunder”
We speak with investigative journalist, filmmaker, and author Danny Schechter, ‘the News Dissector.’ His latest film features interviews with industry insiders to reveal how the financial crisis was built on a foundation of criminal activity. It’s called “Plunder: The Crime Of Our Time.” Continue reading
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Palestinian village inspires popular movement
Every Friday for five years, Palestinian, Israeli, and international activists protest the annexation of the lands of the Bil’in village by Israel’s segregation wall. Their grassroots effort won them a major victory in Israeli courts in 2007. Now, at the fifth Bil’in conference, Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad and representatives of all the major political… Continue reading
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GazaFriends: The Freedom Flotilla Sails to Gaza in May
On May 24, 2010, the Freedom Flotilla sets sail for Gaza determined to, once again, challenge Israel’s blockade of 1.5 million Palestinians trapped in an open-air prison. Under the coordination of the Free Gaza Movement, numerous human rights organizations, including the Turkish Relief Foundation (IHH), the Perdana Global Peace Organization from Malaysia, the European Campaign… Continue reading
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Demonstrators Stop the Wall, Teenager Pepper-sprayed and Arrested
Palestinian, Israeli and international demonstrators managed to stop the construction of the Wall in the village of al-Walaje, south of Jerusalem, for the second time this week. If completed, the path of the Wall in the area will surround the village completely, isolating it from all its lands, the cities of Bethlehem and Jerusalem and… Continue reading
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Keiser Report No.36: Markets! Finance! Scandal!
Max Keiser and co-host Stacy Herbert wonder why Iceland’s volcanic ash cloud spared the victims of banking fraud; they also look at the scandals behind the Fabulous Fab Tourre’s “monstrosities,” Gordon Brown’s “shock” at Goldman’s “moral bankruptcy,” and at the political markets shocking the currency markets. In the second half of the show, Max talks… Continue reading
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Keiser Report with very special Hollywood guest
Max Keiser and co-host Stacy Herbert look at a handful of the many Goldman Sachs fraud metaphors; the scandals of what the US bankers, regulators and government knew about Repo 105 before it helped take down Lehman Brothers, and of President Clinton’s big mistake on derivatives. In the second half of the show, Stacy interviews… Continue reading
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The Global Movement Spreads: New Wave of Protests in Hebron By Avital Aboody
On April 24, 2010 at around 15:45 a group of approximately 50 Palestinian, Israeli, and International activists gathered in Hebron next to the checkpoint gate separating Shuhada Street from the Casbah. The protest was organized by a Palestinian group in Hebron called “Youth Against Settlements” and the organizers hope to hold these protests every week… Continue reading
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Ending structural blackmail? By Gerald Epstein
Epstein: None of the measures being considered will end “too big to fail” Continue reading
