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The Anti-Empire Report November 2nd, 2010: Jon Stewart and the left By William Blum
2 November, 2010 — www.killinghope.org Jon Stewart and the left The left in America is desperate; desperate for someone who can inspire them, if not lead them to a better world; or at least make them laugh. TV star Jon Stewart is sometimes funny, especially when he doesn’t try too hard to be funny, which Continue reading
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Cuba50 Celebrating Cuban Culture
Welcome to the Cuba50 newsletter – for Cuban cultural events in the UK. Cuba’s National Day of Culture / Cuban TV soap opera / Dia de la Cultura Cubana / Creole Choir of Cuba / Chucho Valdes & The Afro-Cuban Messengers / The legendary ‘lost’ project that became Buena Vista Social Club Continue reading
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Global Research: US Elections, Global Banking, Nuclear Weapons and Democracy – Selected Articles 1-12 October, 2010
12 October, 2010 — Global Research America´s Shadow Class War and the 2010 Elections. The Rich are Getting Richer. – by E.J. Dionne Jr. – 2010-10-12 Inside the Global Banking Intelligence Complex, BCCI Operations Part II – by David DeGraw – 2010-10-12 No International Justice for Congo. UN Coverup of War Crimes – by Ann Continue reading
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Black Agenda Report 30 September, 2010: News, Commentary & Analysis From the Black Left "No Knock Barack" –Stop the Raids at Home & Wars Abroad
30 September, 2010 — BAR President Barack “Midnight Raid” Obama: End Your Wars at Home and Abroad by BAR executive editor Glen Ford Last week’s FBI raids likely signal that the Obama regime has begun a major campaign to criminalize and crush the Left. Think COINTELPRO, 21st century-style. President Obama, the constitutional rights lawyer who claims Continue reading
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Cuba Update, Tuesday 17 August 2010
Cuba Update, Tuesday 17 August 2010 1. CHOMSKY ARTICLE IN FULL 2. AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL URGES OBAMA NOT TO EXTEND BLOCKADE LAW 3. CUBA HAS TRAINED OVER 8,000 DOCTORS FROM 54 NATIONS 4. CUBA SOLIDARITY CAMPAIGN JOB VACANCIES 5. MIAMI 5 VIGIL AND OTHER FORTHCOMING EVENTS … 1. CHOMSKY ARTICLE IN FULL Folowing it’s publication in Continue reading
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Strategic culture foundation online magazine latest publications from 25-31 July, 2010
31 July, 2010 — Strategic Culture Foundation 2010-07-26 Alexander MEZYAEV UN Court and Kosovo: International Law Amputated “On July 22, 2010 the International Court of Justice issued an advisory opinion on the legality of the unilateral declaration of independence by «the Kosovo administration»… The amputation which the ICJ has performed on international law will generate Continue reading
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Black Agenda Report 7 April, 2010: Are Blacks Sinking to New Bottom? / Burn Hollywood Burn!
The Black job market is imploding, even as the moneyed classes congratulate themselves on having “turned the corner” toward economic recovery. Alarming Black unemployment patterns indicate that “a perfect storm of racial disadvantage” has occurred. “Virtually nothing prevents the boss from acting out his prejudices and greed with impunity.” There’s nothing “post-racial” about the current… Continue reading
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HLLN 6 April, 2010: Statement of Cuban Foreign Minister at UN Donors Meeting on Haiti | US/Euro pillage masking as humanitarian aid
Below we post the Haiti-Cuba proposal for building health care in Haiti that considers the needs of the poorest of the poor in Haiti and is without the unseemly large budget of the cork-popping champagne fanfare of the UN/Papa-Mama Clinton March 31st media show and pledging session that just took place. Continue reading
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ICH 25 February, 2010: John Pilger: Listen to the Heroes of Israel
Daily aggregation of news and analysis. Continue reading
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Anonymity in the field By LETICIA MARTÍNEZ HERNÁNDEZ
“You see all of this here? They’ve set it all up. And every time we have a problem, there they are. They’re ‘doctors’ too, but doctors who take care of us.” That is how surgeon Suárez talks about the team of medical electronics technicians who set up Cuba’s five field hospitals in Haiti. In addition… Continue reading
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The Fateful Geological Prize Called Haiti By F. William Engdahl
Behind the smoke, rubble and unending drama of human tragedy in the hapless Caribbean country, a drama is in full play for control of what geophysicists believe may be one of the worlds richest zones for hydrocarbons-oil and gas outside the Middle East, possibly orders of magnitude greater than that of nearby Venezuela. Continue reading
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Haiti's suffering is a result of calculated impoverishment By Seumas Milne
Most scandalously, US commanders have repeatedly turned away flights bringing medical equipment and emergency supplies from organisations such as the World Food Programme and Médecins Sans Frontières, in order to give priority to landing troops. Despite the remarkable patience and solidarity on the streets and the relatively small scale of looting, the aim is said… Continue reading
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Disaster Capitalism in Haiti By Stephen Lendman
In her book, ‘The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism,’ Naomi Klein explores the myth of free market democracy, explaining how neoliberalism dominates the world with America its main exponent exploiting security threats, terror attacks, economic meltdowns, competing ideologies, tectonic political or economic shifts, and natural disasters to impose its will everywhere. Continue reading
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19th January 2010 – CNN report on Cuban medical teams in Haiti
Cuban medical teams already on the ground in Haiti help victims of the earthquake. Graphic content. Continue reading
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The West’s role in Haiti's plight By Peter Hallward
Any large city in the world would have suffered extensive damage from an earthquake on the scale of the one that ravaged Haiti’s capital city on the afternoon of January 13, but it’s no accident that so much of Port-au-Prince now looks like a war zone. Much of the devastation wreaked by this latest and… Continue reading
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Anti-Empire Report, Number 77: The American Elite By William Blum
6 January, 2010 — www.killinghope.org Lincoln Gordon died a few weeks ago at the age of 96. He had graduated summa cum laude from Harvard at the age of 19, received a doctorate from Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar, published his first book at 22, with dozens more to follow on government, economics, and foreign Continue reading
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Assassinated CIA agents worked for "contractor" active in Venezuela… By Eva Golinger
At least eight US citizens were killed on a CIA operations base in Afghanistan on Wednesday … a suicide bomber infiltrated Forward Operating Base (FOL) Chapman located in the eastern province of Khost, which was a CIA center of operations and surveillance. Official sources in Washington have confirmed that the eight dead were all civilian… Continue reading
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