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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 3 January 2012: Israeli companies can profit from West Bank resources, court rules
3 January 2012 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Haniyya Meets Erdogan In Ankara IMEMC – Head of the Hamas-led government in the Gaza Strip, Prime Minister Ismail Haniyya, visited the Turkish Parliament on Tuesday, and held a meeting with Turkish Prime Minister, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who affirmed the Turkish support to the… Continue reading
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Video: Against AFRICOM: Questioning the US Agenda in Africa
Find out more about the race for Africa’s riches in this week’s GRTV Feature Interview with former congresswoman and 2008 presidential candidate Cynthia McKinney. Continue reading
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NATO in Libya – UN And ICC Risk Becoming Irrelevant to Africans By Yaw Asare Adu-Otu
Repeating the falsehood that the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) exercised its military capability in Libya to protect civilians against attack by the military of Gadahfi regime did not make the assertion truthful when reasonable people around the world examined all the facts. Additionally, repeating NATO’s false premise has not made intervention in Libya and… Continue reading
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Video: Consensus (Direct Democracy @ Occupy Wall Street)
The community of occupiers at Liberty Plaza have sparked the process of building a movement that now transcends any one physical landmark. The tools to keep the movement alive belong to all of us. Continue reading
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Media Lens: Britain’s Own Pravda-Style Propaganda: Part 1 Ten Years Of ‘Involvement’ In Afghanistan
In a shameful editorial, the Guardian burnished its credentials as a hand-wringing liberal supporter of the war. Readers were told that the war that had been ‘unavoidable’ and that ‘we’ had then stayed in the country ‘through all the twists and turns imposed by events’, struggling with ‘the incoherence of our own changing policies, for… Continue reading
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Read/download 'The Occupied Wall Street Journal'
October 4, 2011 — Occupy Wall Street Media — Occupy Wall Street (#OccupyWallStreet) is the beginning of a whole new kind of democracy: a bottom-up people’s democracy led by the 99%. It is a bold vision for the future that is beginning to inspire the nation. However, to pull it off, we’re going to need… Continue reading
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9.11 with Samir Amin A Video Conference Moderated by Biju Mathew
The target here . . . is not only oil, because they already have control of this oil, but more importantly water, the immense water resources of Libya. . . . And a third is to establish in Libya permanent US military bases, in order for AFRICOM, which is still based in Stuttgart, Germany, to… Continue reading
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Britain’s Riots: Thuggery, Looting, Lawlessness… By the Ruling Class By Finian Cunningham
The events have visibly shocked the political establishment of all parties, police chiefs and the mainstream media. But what should be more shocking is the myopic and incredibly banal commentary that is being offered to ‘explain’ the outburst of street disturbances and violence. Continue reading
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UK: Bullets won’t solve anything
For all the sense that David Cameron spoke following the Cobra emergency committee meeting, he might as well have stayed in his luxury Tuscan villa. Continue reading
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Libya: The True Costs Of War Charles Abugre*
The bottom line is war was solely unwarranted. But my greatest sadness and shame was to see the United Nations secretariat beating the war drums and cheering on the battle rather than singing the songs of peace. This is a sad time indeed. How else can one describe what is going on in Libya but… Continue reading
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Another Stinging Blow for the Libyan Rebellion By Victor Kotsev
The death of the general, whose body along with those of two senior aides was reportedly found badly burnt on Thursday, brings into focus a complex and extensive web of power relationships and rivalries spanning both sides of the conflict. This is evidence of just how fluid the situation in Libya is, with multiple layers… Continue reading
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Breaking news: Tragic cholera outbreak in Port de Paix killing scores of Haitians, HLLN, July 29, 2011
We just received an urgent SOS from the area of Port De Paix (North western) Haiti on a severe cholera outbreak. Our info is that so many people in that City have taken ill and are dying that there’s no place to even hospitalize all who are sick and dying. Medical help is insufficient. Ezili’sHLLN… Continue reading
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MILITARY ESCALATION: NATO chief calls for more planes to bomb Libyan targets
NATO members should supply more warplanes to bomb Libyan military targets, the alliance’s secretary general said on Thursday, increasing pressure on states to contribute more to the mission. Continue reading
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Slash military budget not pensions – UK union leader — RT
British union leader Mark Serwotka says public sector workers, who are going on a nationwide strike on June 30, will not allow the cabinet to go on with the planned cuts of budget spending. Continue reading
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When will the USA and NATO decide that it's Chavez' turn? By Oscar Heck
The similarities between what is happening in Libya (or rather the reasons why it is happening in Libya) and what is happening in Latin America these days is eerie. Continue reading
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NATO actions should be a wake-up call – political scientist — RT
Adrian Salbuchi, a Buenos Aires-based author and political researcher, says that the West is trying to turn the UN into an instrument to implement its own agenda, with Syria being the latest example. Continue reading
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Preview of CNN’s WikiLeaks Special Coming This Sunday: ‘Mission’ Implausible By Greg Mitchell
Like the PBS Frontline producers, the CNN team appears to believe that quoting Assange alone balances a brigade of critics. This, of course, is silly. Many viewers, naturally, take anything the subject of criticism says with huge grains of salt especially when no one else rises to his or her defense (besides figures in masks). Continue reading
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Vladimir Nesterov – US-Chinese Rivalry Over Africa Gaining Momentum
A China-Africa summit convened in Sharm el-Sheikh in November, 2009, the two highlights of the forum being Beijing’s pledge to extend $10b in loans to African countries in return for commodity deals and the signing of a host of impressive contracts in the sphere of infrastructure construction by Chinese companies. Continue reading
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Rape in Haiti: The Aftershocks Continue By Michelle Chen
This month, Port-au-Prince hailed Michel Martelly as he took office as president, trumpeting new hope for his disaster-stricken country. Elsewhere in the Haitian capital, hope was stifled in the smothered screams of women and girls. Continue reading
The New Dark Age 