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How Could the Largest Social Justice Movement in Israel’s History Manage to Ignore the Country’s Biggest Moral Disaster? By Joseph Dana
The decision to exclude the occupation from the grievances of the July 14 Tent City movement was entirely organic. The key question is why. Continue reading
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The Libyan Soldier: The True Heroes of NATO’s War By Glen Ford
NATO has proven it has the capacity to kill thousands of Libyan soldiers from the skies, but it cannot ‘convey honor and legitimacy’ to the rebels under its killer wings. ‘They are little more than extras for imperial theater, a mob that traveled to battle under the protective umbrella of American full spectrum dominance of… Continue reading
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An update on InI and other ramblings By William Bowles
Somewhere, on some now obsolete media, thus irrecoverable, and maybe even in print, there exists the very first thing I ever wrote specifically for my first online endeavour, New York On-Line. If I can be bothered (you’ll know soon enough) I’ll try and dig out the hard copy as I’m sure I have it in… Continue reading
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The Israeli Occupation Archive 18 August 2011: J14 / Leahy Law / Beating Palestinians and more…
18 August 2011 — The Israeli Occupation Archive * Lia Tarachansky: The fight for equality in Israel’s J14 movement * Josh Ruebner: Hold Israel accountable with Leahy law * IDF officer who defended beating Palestinians to take over infantry Continue reading
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National Security Archive Update, August 15, 2011: TOP SECRET CIA ‘OFFICIAL HISTORY’ OF THE BAY OF PIGS: REVELATIONS
This episode of ‘friendly fire’ is one of many revelations contained in the Top Secret multi-volume, internal CIA report, “The Official History of the Bay of Pigs Operation.” Other revelations include new information on the CIA’s collaboration with the Mafia to assassinate Fidel Castro as part of the invasion plan, Richard Nixon’s role in the… Continue reading
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Bombs Disguised as “Humanitarian” Gifts: NATO’s Mission
NATO continues to claim that Gaddafi poses a threat to civilians and by intervening they have thwarted another genocide on the scale of Rwanda or the holocaust. Gaddafi’s history belies this claim. Continue reading
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When the revolution comes By Gaither Stewart
In the Blue Ridge Mountains of Western North Carolina where I started out my life, I ran into the story of the Asheville-based self-professed Communist writer, Olive Tilford Dargan, of whom I had never heard before. Visiting then her gravesite in the little known Green Hills Cemetery in West Asheville and researching her and her… Continue reading
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CIA FORCED TO RELEASE LONG SECRET OFFICIAL HISTORY OF BAY OF PIGS INVASION
Pursuant to a FOIA lawsuit filed by the National Security Archive on the 50th anniversary of the infamous CIA-led invasion of Cuba, the CIA has released four volumes of its Official History of the Bay of Pigs Operation. Continue reading
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Palestine, Israel, Germany- The Boundaries of Open Discussion
The conference ‘Palestine, Israel and Germany – Boundaries of Open Discussion’ will elaborate on some ‘contentious’ topics such as suppression of truth, history, narration, mainstream-media complicity and media coverage, Islamophobia, anti-Semitism vs. criticism of Israel and responsability. We will also try to show practical solutions for Palestinian self-determination. Continue reading
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The Industrial Revolution: A New History By Pat Hudson
For 200 years the British industrial revolution has been seen largely as a story of the triumph of British science, inventiveness and entrepreneurship, promoted by a progressive liberalisation of markets and the political economy of free trade. Continue reading
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The Role of the UN Security Council in Unleashing an Illegal War against Libya By Ronda Hauben
Looking back at the sequence of events by which the issue of Libya was brought to the Security Council, leads to an important observation. It was not a Security Council member nation which started this process. Nor was it the Arab League. Rather it was a party that one could argue had no legitimate basis… Continue reading
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NATO will be Defeated in Libya: The Libyan Resistance Movement. A Defining Moment for Africa By Gerald A. Perreira
The argument in Libya has been won by the Al Fateh revolution. There is now a glaring truth confronting the North Atlantic Terrorist Organization (NATO) – Muammar Qaddafi has handed out over one million kalashnikovs to the Libyan people. If he was the brutal dictator that NATO would have us believe him to be, then… Continue reading
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Exclusive: Julian Assange of WikiLeaks and Philosopher Slavoj Žižek in Conversation With Amy Goodman
Amy Goodman, Democracy Now!: “In one of his first public events since being held under house arrest, WikiLeaks Editor-In-Chief Julian Assange appeared in London Saturday for a conversation with Slovenian philosopher Slavoj Zizek, moderated by Democracy Now!’s Amy Goodman. They discussed the impact of WikiLeaks on world politics, the release of the Iraq and Afghanistan… Continue reading
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U.S. Boat to Gaza Seized by Greek Authorities and Captain Jailed
“This shameful chapter in Greek history is symbolized by Prime Minister Netanyahu thanking his Greek counterpart Prime MInister Papandreou for his cooperation in helping thwart the flotilla, and by the fully-armed and masked Greek commandos at sea, pointing their guns at unarmed American civilians singing “We are a gentle, loving people,” says passenger Medea Benjamin. Continue reading
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Videos: Thousands of G20 Detentions Illegal: Ontario Ombudsman
25 June 2011 — The Real News Network Thousands of G20 Detentions Illegal: Ontario Ombudsman Paul Jay asks Ombudsman Andre Marin who is responsible and who has been held accountable for “the most massive compromise of civil liberties in Canadian history” RCMP vs Toronto Police – Who Wanted “Martial Law” Legislation? The RCMP says they Continue reading
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Greece: Crisis and Unrest By Panagiotis Sotiris
The only way to describe recent developments in Greece is to refer to a peaceful popular insurrection that has led to an open political crisis. The mass gatherings at city squares at the centres of all major Greek cities continue to gather momentum. Since the 25th of May, Athens and most Greek cities have experienced… Continue reading
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Fukushima is the greatest nuclear and environmental disaster in human history By Steven C. Jones
By way of comparison, the Chernobyl nuclear disaster that occured in 1986 in the Ukraine, Russia- heretofore the worst nuclear disaster on record- burned for 10 days and cumulatively killed an estimated 1 million people worldwide. The Fukushima, Japan nuclear disaster has 5 nuclear reactors burning, 2 in partial meltdown and 3 in full meltdown-… Continue reading
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Final Statement – Adopted by the International History Conference Commemorating 70th Anniversary of the Outbreak of 1941-1945 Great Patriotic War
We are increasingly alarmed with the current rise of revisionism of the history of World War II in the West and in several post-Soviet republics where incendiary political considerations outweigh commitment to historical accuracy. Continue reading
The New Dark Age 