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Take Action to Stop Violent Force Evictions in Haiti
Members of the Haitian National Police accompanied by agents of Mayor Wilson Jeudy of Delmas have been destroying camps in the Delmas neighborhood of Haiti’s capital. On Monday, May 23rd, they arrived after many people had left the camp to look for work and immediately began to destroy tents with batons. Continue reading
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Rape in Haiti: The Aftershocks Continue By Michelle Chen
This month, Port-au-Prince hailed Michel Martelly as he took office as president, trumpeting new hope for his disaster-stricken country. Elsewhere in the Haitian capital, hope was stifled in the smothered screams of women and girls. Continue reading
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Libya Newslinks 25-26 May 2011
26 May 2011 — williambowles.info 26 May 2011 Mathaba: Death squad attacks in Libyan “rebel” capital Stop Nato: Libyan war updates/Stop NATO news: May 26, 2011 williambowles.info: NATO testing ‘Kosovo model’ in Libya and Syria By Pyotr ISKENDEROV Mathaba: Libya: CNN Loud Opiniated Mouths vs Cool CIA Counter-Terrorism Analyst williambowles.info: Gulf State Gendarmes: West Backs Continue reading
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NATO: A Feast of Blood By Cynthia McKinney
‘It is transparently clear now that NATO has exceeded its mandate, lied about its intentions, is guilty of extra-judicial killings–all in the name of ‘humanitarian intervention.’ If the humanitarian ruse is allowed against Libya, why not…anywhere? ‘People around the world need us to stand up and speak out for ourselves and them because Iran and… Continue reading
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NATO airstrikes kill 19 civilians in Tripoli – Libyan TV
NATO airstrikes on Libyan capital, Tripoli, killed at least 19 civilians over the past 24 hours, the Libyan state television reported. Continue reading
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Mass Protest in Spain: No Vote for Traditional Parties! By junge Welt
Madrid. Tens of thousands of people, especially youth, demonstrated again on Tuesday evening in the Spanish capital of Madrid, against the political and economic system of the country, which they called corrupt. Continue reading
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Former Greek minister attacked by mob as riots break out in Greece
24 December, 2010 — The Daily Telegraph A former government minister was stoned by a mob in Athens s riots broke out in the Greek capital in protest at the government’s austerity measures. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/telegraph/template/utils/ooyala/telegraph_player.swf 1st collector for Former Greek minister attacked by mob as riots … Follow my videos on vodpod Continue reading
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Haiti: The catastrophe continues By G. Dunkel
The situation for the homeless in Port-au-Prince is so grim that a 10-minute rain storm with high winds on Sept. 24 left at least five people dead, hundreds injured and thousands of shelters tents, tarps and sheets destroyed. As of Sept. 26 the government had not reported the toll for towns outside of the capital. Continue reading
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MIMO – A socio-economic model for the 21st century? By William Bowles & Michael Jensen
MIMO is a ‘work in progress’, that starts from the point where use value is transformed into cultural capital and, over time (as with the evolution of money from being a portable form of barter, to being a commodity) establishes a mechanism for measuring value generation that has meaning in the real world, insofar as… Continue reading
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MEDIA LENS ALERT: BROTHERS-IN-ARMS: CAPITALISM AND CORPORATE JOURNALISM
An essential role of corporate journalism is to shore up public confidence in an unjust, crisis-riven financial and economic system. Although plenty of gloom and doom is permitted, especially in the face of obvious crisis, the legitimacy of the system is rarely questioned. Continue reading
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NATO Newslinks 18 May, 2010
Nato should tool up for cyber war, say globo-bigwigs / NATO’s Contemptible ‘Courageous Restraint’ Medal Continue reading
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Media Lens: Propping Up Propaganda IRAQ, CLIMATE AND THE CORPORATE MEDIA’S FEAR OF THE PUBLIC
October 22, 2008 Since starting Media Lens in 2001, we have learned that corporate journalists are very often ill-equipped, or disinclined, to debate vital issues with members of the public. In 2004, the esteemed Lancet medical journal published a study showing that 98,000 Iraqis had most likely died following the US-led invasion. John Rentoul, chief Continue reading
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The Capitalist Shakedown By William Bowles
I can’t tell you how many times I’ve started this essay on the Capitalist Shakedown that’s going on around us, totally disconnected from us even, due to some pretty nifty media work and, I might add, thirty years of revanchism on the part of our political masters to disconnect us all from the political process. Continue reading
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Sink or Swim in the capitalist ocean? By William Bowles
When a group of so-called Aboriginals from I believe Borneo (or maybe it was Papua New Guinea) visited the UK recently they were gob-smacked to find homeless people on the streets of London. The concept ‘homelessness’ simply didn’t exist in their vocabulary and reinforced by the vast wealth that surrounded them (the ‘Aboriginal and the… Continue reading
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Book Review: Who said Marx wasn’t Green? By William Bowles
1 September 2007 Book Review: Ecology Against Capitalism by John Bellamy Foster “An ecological approach to the economy is about having enough, not having more.” — John Bellamy Foster “For the first time — nature becomes purely an object for humankind, purely a matter of utility; ceases to be recognized as a power for itself; Continue reading
The New Dark Age 