Congress
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Members of US Congress Express Outrage Over Camp Destructions by Haitian Police
26 May 2011 — Transafrica.org Washington, DC—On Wednesday, May 25, 2011, Rep. Donald M. Payne (NJ), Rep. Yvette Clarke (NY), Rep. Frederica Wilson (FL), and Rep. Maxine Waters (CA) made a joint statement in response to the eviction and destruction of camps on public property in the Delmas district of Port-au-Prince: Continue reading
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Evictions ramp up for Haitian quake victims By Jacqueline Charles
Police and security agents wielding machetes and knives stormed the squalid encampment north of downtown Port-au-Prince shortly after daybreak recently, tearing through the makeshift tents as unsuspecting campers fled for cover or yelled in protest. “This is the work of animals,’’ resident Guerin Pierre said, standing amid donated plastic sheeting, plywood and clothing strewn across… Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 25 May, 2011: America’s Coming Nakba
25 May, 2011 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Amnesty International Demands End To Destruction Of “Unrecognized” Villages In Israel IMEMC – Wednesday May 25, 2011 – 16:27, Amnesty International has called on Israel to cease the demolition of the Bedouin village of al-‚ÄòAraqib in the Negev desert in southern Israel. Continue reading
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Protecting Us from Our Freedoms: Congress Set to Renew Patriot Act Spy Provisions By Tom Burghardt
As night follows day, you can count on Congress to serve as loyal servants and willing accomplices of our out-of-control National Security State. Last week, in another shameless demonstration of congressional “bipartisanship,” Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV), Senate Minority leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) and House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) forged a filthy backroom deal… Continue reading
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Video: Netanyahu Addresses Adoring Congress
Michel Warschawski: Israeli PM makes no attempt to even appear willing to compromise, making sure no peace talks are possible Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 24 May, 2011: Israel Cancels Controversial Visit To Josephs Tomb
24 May, 2011 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Israeli TV: “Netanyahu Crushed Abbas During His Congress Speech” IMEMC – Wednesday May 25, 2011 – 02:10, Israeli TV, Channel 2, quoted several Israeli political analysts stating that, during his congress speech on Tuesday, Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, crushed Palestinian President, Mahmoud Abbas, Continue reading
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Information Clearing House Newsletter 25 May, 2011: Protester Who Heckled Netanyahu Beaten
25 May, 2011 — Information Clearing House Dispatch From Tripoli NATO’s Feast of Blood By Cynthia McKinney NATO only attacks (as does the US and its allies) the poor and underprivileged of the 3rd world. www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28182.htm Continue reading
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The Mubarak regime could collapse in the a face of a nationwide protest movement… What prospects for Egypt and the Arab World? By Michel Chossudovsky
In Egypt, a devastating IMF program was imposed in 1991 at the height of the Gulf War. It was negotiated in exchange for the annulment of Egypt’s multibillion dollar military debt to the US as well as its participation in the war. The resulting deregulation of food prices, sweeping privatisation and massive austerity measures led… Continue reading
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9/11 Truth Truth By Joel S. Hirschhorn
Months, years and then decades slip by. Despite an avalanche of information burying me everyday I had not read or heard anything about 9/11 truth for many, many months. Sometimes movements become so marginalized that they no longer have enough vitality to stay within the consciousness of very many people. Continue reading
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Information Clearing House Newsletter 24 July, 2010: Congress Green-Light For Israeli Strikes on Iran
Act Now To Stop Congress Green-Lighting Israeli Strikes on Iran By Jamal Abdi Republicans in the House of Representatives have introduced a measure that would green-light an Israeli bombing campaign against Iran. The resolution, H.Res. 1553 (in full below), provides explicit support for military strikes against Iran, stating that Congress supports Israel’s use of “all Continue reading
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MEDIA LENS ALERT: VICTORY FOR THE OVERLORDS – OBAMA’S HEALTHCARE REFORM
In November 2008, the historic importance of Barack Obama’s presidential victory was a relentless theme across the media spectrum. Even the pretence of a mainstream commitment to balanced reporting vanished from sight in deference to the self-evident Truth. Continue reading
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War Is a Hate Crime By Chris Hedges
Violence against lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people is wrong. So is violence against people in Afghanistan and Iraq. But in the bizarre culture of identity politics, there are no alliances among the oppressed. The Matthew Shepard and James Byrd Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act, the first major federal civil rights law protecting lesbian, gay,… Continue reading
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These Colors Won’t Run… Afghanistan By Norman Solomon
We desperately need a substantive national debate on U.S. military intervention in Afghanistan and Pakistan. While the Obama administration says that the problems of the region cannot be solved by military means, the basic approach is reliance on heightened military means. Continue reading
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WIKILEAKS: Change you can download: a billion in secret Congressional reports
The 6,780 reports, current as of this month, comprise over 127,000 pages of material on some of the most contentious issues in the nation, from the U.S. relationship with Israel to abortion legislation. Continue reading
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Media Lens: Loaded Words: ‘Surge’, ‘Reconstruction’ And ‘Withdrawal’
News media this week are devoting huge swathes of coverage to the report by General David Petraeus, the top US military commander in Iraq, on the impact of the so-called ‘surge’ of US troops. The surge boosted the number of US troops in Iraq earlier this year by 30,000 to 168,000. Continue reading
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Spinning out of control By William Bowles
Wonderful! Alistair Campbell accuses the BBC of ‘lying’ because, he asserts, the BBC accused the government of lying over the ’45 minute’ scenario. Is this a desert storm in a teacup? Whilst the two monopolies go at each other, the essential issues simply don’t enter into the discussion at all, from either side. Whilst they… Continue reading
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Go for the Jugular! By William Bowles
Except of course, they won’t (the media that is). We’ll be lucky if they name and shame a pinky. On both sides of the Atlantic, the frantic search for scapegoats continues apace, one of the latest being Ahmed Chalabi of the INC (favourite of the Wolfie clan) on whose ‘intelligence’ both the Pentagon and the… Continue reading
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