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Sameh Brill – VIDEO: Looking at the Gaza War (if they let us): for “End the Siege on Gaza”
Sameh Brill is back! And he’s produced the first of a new series of videos for the European Campaign to End the Siege on Gaza. In this video we see news clips, but mostly… we see those who tell us that we weren’t allowed access to see ANYTHING. Those people include Richard Falk, George Galloway,… Continue reading
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Seminar to introduce the first session of the Russell Tribunal on Palestine
Considering Israel’s repeated breaches of International law and the suffering of the Palestinian people for more than 60 years, a new Russell Tribunal is being put in place on the lines of what was started by Bertrand Russell, Jean-Paul Sartre and others with the Russell Tribunal on Vietnam in the 1960s. Basing itself on the… Continue reading
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Gaza Friends: Together we can make this next voyage happen
The situation in Gaza is as bad today as it was the day the bombs stopped falling in January. The Gaza Strip is still sealed; homes, businesses, hospitals, schools and mosques still lie in rubble; and fundamental supplies are in severe shortage, as Israel continues to restrict the entry of basic goods such as fuel,… Continue reading
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Global Research War, Globalization and Flu Panic Selected Articles 16-22 November, 2009
22 November, 2009 — Global Research MONTREAL: Denis J. Halliday Lecture on “The United Nations’ Role in Peace and War” December 1 – 2009-12-01 Award Winning Movie: “SUPERPOWER”: Order the DVD Online from Global Research – by Barbara-Anne Steegmuller – 2009-11-28 Please Support Global Research A Message to Readers – 2009-11-27 CALGARY: Lecture on “War… Continue reading
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Video: Shooting the messenger – the media under fire
Shooting the Messenger, Al Jazeera’s documentary on the deliberate killing and intimidation of journalists in conflict zones, has been nominated for a presitigious Emmy award. Continue reading
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Re the Poll: Percent of what? By Harry Feldman
According to Yaniv Reich, reproduced at Information Clearing House, ‘53% of Israelis think ethnic cleansing is the solution to the conflict’.In reality, the poll was not a survey as usually understood, where respondents are selected at random from identified ‘strata’ of a population to ensure that the sample reflects demographic characteristics of the whole population,… Continue reading
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Poll: ‘Transfer’ Tops Solutions to Arab-Israeli Problem
Transfer of Arabs from the Palestinian Authority to actual Arab countries was the most popular solution to the Arab-Israeli conflict, according to a poll this week by Israel National News. Of the more than 6,400 people surveyed, 53.2 said ‘Transfer of Palestinians to another Arab country’ when asked, “What’s the best solution for the Arab-Israeli… Continue reading
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Shlomo Sand: “The Invention of the Jewish People”
The Invention of the Jewish People is divided into two parts. The first is a long section on the theory of nationalism, whose main characteristic, according to Sand, is the tendency to invent a past that suits the current needs and goals of the people in question. This is not a new idea (Benedict Anderson… Continue reading
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Zionist Control of Britain’s Government: 1940-2009 By William A. Cook
Now perhaps we can answer the question, ‘How many years has the British government been under the control of the Zionist influence?’ Three score and ten, the biblical age. Perhaps it’s time that Britain is reborn, free from the shackles that bind it to this corrupt power that flouts international law, wantonly commits crimes against… Continue reading
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GUEST MEDIA LENS ALERT: A COMPARATIVE REVIEW OF FLAT EARTH NEWS AND NEWSPEAK – PART 2 By Jonathan Cook
The professional journalist, they suggest, is trained to seek out facts from which he or she constructs an “objective” news report. On this view, journalists select facts in the same way that, adopting an analogy used by Edwards and Cromwell, a geologist collects rocks for research. “Geologists have no emotional attachment to their rocks –… Continue reading
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Channel 4 Dispatches investigates The pro-Israel lobby in Britain
Dispatches investigates the pro-Israel lobby in Britain which is working in support of the interests of the State of Israel. We have obtained a full copy of this by Peter Oborne and James Jones. Continue reading
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Global Warfare USA: The World is the Pentagon’s Oyster By Rick Rozoff
“Not only does one country account for the overwhelming plurality of world military expenditures, but that nation also has troops and bases on all six habitable continents (as well as a 54-year military mission in Antarctica, Operation Deep Freeze) and eleven aircraft carrier strike groups and six navy fleets that roam the world’s oceans and… Continue reading
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Public meeting: David Ben Gurion, 1948 and the Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine
London: 24 November, SOAS Palestine Society invites you to this fascinating talk, the only public event in our history seminars ‘Readings in the History of Palestine/Israel’ Continue reading
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Alan Hart – President Obama’s opportunity to speak truth to power, Part 2 – Rahm Emanuel does it for him
14 November, 2009 — Palestine Think Tank When I wrote and posted Part 1 of this article, I was, of course, aware that there wasn’t a snowball’s chance in hell of President Obama speaking truth to the power of Jewish America as it was represented at the General Assembly of The Jewish Federations of North… Continue reading
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"U.S. Public Diplomacy toward Iran: Structures, Actors, and Policy Communities" By Foad Izadi
This dissertation is an in-depth study of the structures, actors, and policy communities associated with U.S. public diplomacy toward Iran. Since 2006, the U.S. government has spent more than $200 million for its Iran-related public diplomacy via State Department ‘democracy promotion’ programs, National Endowment for Democracy, and the Broadcasting Board of Governors. These initiatives promoted… Continue reading
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Israeli Confessions (Never Before Campaign)
Video: If one wants to know why and how the conflict started in Palestine more than 60 years ago, the “confessions” of Israeli and Zionist leaders should make it very clear. 700,000 Palestinians (more than half of the Palestinian population at the time) were expelled in 1948. More than 600 towns and villages were ethnically… Continue reading
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Phone Morrisons and Waitrose this Wednesday 11 November – National week of supermarket boycott actions
Our boycott week of action is attracting media attention: The Jerusalem Post writes: ‘Activists are targeting two supermarket chains in a weeklong protest starting Monday, in an attempt to stop them stocking any Israeli goods Continue reading
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US Generals Flood Israel for Exercise against Specific Threats’ By Tzvi Ben Gedalyahu
An unprecedented number of American generals, along with 1,400 U.S. army soldiers, are participating with top IDF brass in the high-level Juniper Cobra military exercise that one U.S. Navy commander said is aimed at “specific threats.” Public affairs officials interrupted the naval commander in order to divert the conversation from the scenario of Israel attacking… Continue reading
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Video: Ni’ilin marking 20 years to the fall of the berlin wall by taking down the wall on their land
Demonstrators toppled 8 meters tall concrete wall in Ni’ilin The protest in Nilin was held today to mark the 20th anniversary to the fall of the Berlin wall, which has been declared an international day of action against Israel’s barrier. The 300 demonstrators managed to topple a part of the eight meters tall concrete wall… Continue reading
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Israel: Remote control occupation?
This week, the chief Palestinian negotiator, Saeb Erakat, announced that because Israeli settlements continue to grow (with de facto US support) and annex the land planned for a future Palestine, the Palestinians may have to abandon hopes for an independent state. He therefore urged Palestinians to fight for one democratic state where all citizens will… Continue reading
The New Dark Age 