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Information Clearing House Newsletter 5 January, 2011: US Cable Reveals Israel Deliberately Choked Gaza
5 January, 2011 — Information Clearing House The Culture of the Occupation By Layla Anwar Every time I attempt to write an overall picture of the Iraq of before and after, I need to take a break, a choking feeling grips me in my throat and the rage rises again, like some lava from a volcano Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 25 December, 2010: Jesus was Palestinian and why it matters
25 December, 2010 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Israel Set To Build And Market 5000 Units In Occupied East Jerusalem, W. Bank IMEMC – 25 Dec 2010 – Saturday December 25, 2010 – 09:36, The Israeli Housing Ministry is planning to build and market nearly 5000 new units for Jewish settlers in Continue reading
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Django Rheinhardt and Stephan Grappelli
16 December, 2010 — Jazz on the Tube There isn’t much video of Django. This was filmed in 1939 just one year before the German invasion and occupation. Django Rheinhardt and Stephan Grappelli Follow my videos on vodpod Continue reading
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The American Occupation of Afghanistan and the Birth of a National Liberation Movement By Prof. Marc W. Herold
Edited Transcript of a Public lecture by professor Marc Herold, Massachussetts Institute of Technology M.I.T., Cambridge, Mass. August 2010 Continue reading
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…We were told we were fighting terrorists. The real terrorist was me and the real terrorism is this occupation…
A SPEECH BY WAR VETERAN [An Repentant War Criminal] http://widgets.vodpod.com/w/video_embed/ExternalVideo.915959 more about “AMAZING SPEECH BY WAR VETERAN“, posted with vodpod “…I tried hard to be proud of my “service”, but all I could feel was shame. Racism can no longer mask the reality of the occupation. These were people. These were human beings. I since Continue reading
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A Real Green Deal By Hilary Wainwright and Andy Bowman
Thirty-five years ago, workers at the Lucas Aerospace company formulated an “alternative corporate plan” to convert military production to socially useful and environmentally desirable purposes. Hilary Wainwright and Andy Bowman consider what lessons it holds for the greening of the world economy today. Continue reading
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MEDIA LENS: THE BBC’S JEREMY PAXMAN ON IRAQ – “WE WERE HOODWINKED”
Does not government submission of evidence mark the point where serious journalism +begins+ rather than ends? What is the reason for journalism at all, if the responsibility is simply to accept what a US Secretary of Defence says because we “know” he “is an intelligent, thoughtful man, and a sceptical man”? Continue reading
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William Blum: Anti-Empire Report, Number 71 'Much ado about nothing'
In his world-prominent speech to the Middle East on June 4, Obama mentioned that ‘In the middle of the Cold War, the United States played a role in the overthrow of a democratically elected Iranian government.’ So we have the president of the United States admitting to a previous overthrow of the Iranian government while… Continue reading
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No place to run, no place to hide By William Bowles
It is directly because of ‘journalism’ like Bowen’s that we have no understanding of our Palestinian brothers and sisters’ situation, where, according to Bowen resistance to Israeli slaughter comes not from a proud people defending what’s left of their homeland but from religious fanatics. Continue reading
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Reham Alhelsi – Despite all odds, Palestinians carry on with living in the Heart of Hebron
The presence of these illegal settlers in the heart of Hebron, mainly in the Casaba, had led to the closure of many commercial shops, and many residents were either forced out of their houses or left due to lack of security and livelihood. Severe restrictions are placed upon the Palestinians, including restrictions on movement in… Continue reading
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Exhibition – Riding on Fire: Iraqi art under occupation
Men Snatcher 19 September – 31 October 2008 19 September – 31 October 2008 http://www.artiquea.co.uk/ Curated by the Iraqi sculptors Najim Alqaysi and Redha Farhan. This is the first exhibition to focus exclusively on Iraqi art after occupation. It will introduce artworks that have never been seen in London – oil paintings and bronze statues Continue reading
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Palestinian Walks: Notes on a Vanishing Landscape by Raja Shehadeh
“The book describes over two decades of turmoil and change in the Middle East, steered via the history-soaked landscape of Palestine. A lawyer and human rights activist of independent temper, Raja has always found much-needed peace by taking walks in the Palestinian hills – a landscape which, owing to occupation, Jewish settlements and disastrous environmental… Continue reading
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The BBC back-peddles big time or how to completely rewrite history before the ink’s even dried By William Bowles
29 October 2007 Question: When is a Plan not a Plan? Answer: When the Plan is not a Plan, Plan The BBC is currently flighting a programme in two parts entitled ‘No Plan, No Peace – the Inside Story of Iraq’s Descent into Chaos’ (28 and 29 October on BBC1). Way back and many times Continue reading
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The lights are on but is anyone home? By William Bowles
Bush the smaller made his pitch to the nation over the weekend to “save civilisation” from terrorism and told us that the “frontline” was now Iraq. So Saddam disappears not only literally but also figuratively to be replaced by the generic ‘threat’ that has been the real core of the propaganda since 9/11. And in… Continue reading
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Between Iraq and a hard place By William Bowles
The latest bombing in Iraq of the UN headquarters has, understandably, put the frighteners on the USUK alliance. For not only does it up the anté, it puts the USUK on the spot. Continue reading
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Remembering Vietnam William Bowles
As with the ‘war on terror’, the ‘war on (godless) communism’ (or, if you prefer, fanatical Islamic fundamentalists) relied on a vast disinformation campaign based on fear and paranoia using the conception of the ‘other’ to put the fear of God into the population. So for example, many of the sci-fi movies that were made… Continue reading
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While the US crows, Iraq resists By William Bowles
As with all the other US military adventures across the world over the past decades, the US operates on the premise that people fight US invasions because they’re forced to. Yet time and again, this view has proved to be self-delusionary and follows from the imperialist elite confusing their own largely domestically targeted propaganda with… Continue reading
The New Dark Age 