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Many Avatars of Indian Corruption By Satya Sagar
To call Anna Hazare’s crusade against corruption a ‘second freedom movement’ may be hyperbole but in recent times there has been no mass upsurge for a purely public cause, that has captured the imagination of so many. Continue reading
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Electronic Intifada 15 August 2011: Women in Hebron | Rafah closure frustration | Throwing rocks | And more …
15 August 2011 — Update from the Electronic Intifada RECENT BLOG POSTS ON THE ELECTRONIC INTIFADA: Continue reading
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NATO Massacres of Civilians Aimed at “Cleansing” the Libyan People’s Resistance Photographic Evidence of NATO War Crimes By Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya
A large number of casualties occurred in the city of Zliten, in the district of Misurata. In Zliten, 85 people were killed including 33 children, 32 women, and 20 men as a result of NATO’s deliberate targeting of residential areas and civilian infrastructure. Many of the injured civilian victims are in critical condition and near… Continue reading
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Video: Make No Mistake: NATO committed War Crimes in Libya by grtv
This video reveals the crimes committed by NATO, as well as those committed by the Western media, which has decided to obfuscate the casualties and human suffering of the Libyan people and uphold the humanitarian fiction of NATO’s R2P mandate. Continue reading
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Ten reasons to riot By William Bowles
What is fascinating about the ten headings is that taken collectively they spell capitalism, but broken down as they are, they are reduced to fragments of the whole and subsequently dealt with accordingly, as fragments of largely cliched and predictable knee-jerk reactions, rolled glibly off the tongue of the assembled ‘experts’. Continue reading
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Wikileaks Newslinks 4 August 2011
4 August 2011 — williambowles.info Wikileaks: UN discussed dropping #003 Radio Netherlands United Nations officials discussed shutting down Cambodia’s war crimes tribunal without hearing a politically sensitive case involving two former Khmer Rouge leaders, according to a classified US diplomatic cable disclosed by Wikileaks. … http://www.rnw.nl/international-justice/article/wikileaks-un-discussed-dropping-003 Continue reading
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Pambazuka News 542 1 August 2011: Links and Resources
1. Zimbabwe update, 2. Women & gender, 3. Human rights, 4. Refugees & forced migration, 5. Social movements, 6. Emerging powers news, 7. Elections & governance, 8. Corruption, 9. Development, 10. Health & HIV/AIDS, 11. Education, 12. Racism & xenophobia, 13. Environment, 14. Land & land rights, 15. Media & freedom of expression, 16. Conflict… Continue reading
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Libya’s War for “The Abaya”: Women’s Rights and NATO’s Support of Pro-Islamist Rebels By Susan Lindauer
For European bankers, it’s a war for Libya’s Gold. For oil corporations, it’s a war for Cheap Crude (now threatening to destroy Libya’s oil infrastructure, just like Iraq). But for Libya’s women, it’s a fierce, knock down battle over the Abaya— an Islamic style of dress that critics say deprives women of self-expression and identity. Continue reading
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Update from the Electronic Intifada 25 July 2011: Oslo horror | Israeli left’s belated awakening | Gaza women | Nakba Day eyewitness | Women prisoners
25 July 2011 — Electronic Intifada RECENT BLOG POSTS ON THE ELECTRONIC INTIFADA: Norway suspect laid out detailed plans for violence against “traitors,” Muslims http://electronicintifada.net/blog/ali-abunimah/norway-suspect-laid-out-detailed-plans-violence-against-traitors-muslims Continue reading
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Updates on Libyan war/Stop NATO news: July 22, 2011
22 July 2011 — Stop NATO 126-Day War: Over 16,000 NATO Air Missions, Over 6,000 Strike Sorties Libyan War: Pentagon Considers NATO Request For More Drones Libya: Bishop Laments NATO’s Rejection Of Ramadan Truce NATO’s Women Warmongers Video And Text: Mutilated Government Soldiers Found In Rebel-Held Libya AFRICOM Commander In Gambia For 40-Nation Military Exercise Continue reading
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NACLA 15 July 2011: Out this week: Mexico Drug Crisis
This issue includes coverage of Mexico’s own history of prohibitionism by the historian Isaac Campos. His forthcoming book about marijuana, Home Grown: Marijuana and the Origins of Mexico’s War on Drugs, will explore how the substance became associated with madness and violence in Mexico, leading to its prohibition in 1920. Continue reading
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Why Context Matters: Journalists and Haiti By Gina Athena Ulysse
Earlier this week, the Ms. Blog interviewed journalist Mac McClelland regarding the much-discussed online article she wrote about dealing with PTSD after a reporting stint in Haiti. One of our Ms. bloggers wanted to weigh in with her thoughts about the controversial story. Continue reading
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Syria: Marches in Most Governorates to Support Reforms, Reject Misleading Media and Foreign'Intervention
Popular activities continued in the Syrian governorates to express support for the reform program under the leadership of President Bashar al-Assad, rejection of misleading media channels and any foreign intervention in the Syrian internal affairs. Continue reading
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Alain Gresh: Egypt’s Revolution is Only Beginning By ALAIN GRESH
Khaled Khamissi, author of Taxi, which describes imaginary conversations in this popular forum for the exchange of world views, said: “We are seeing the clash of two opposing forces: on one side the army, which ‘speaks in the name of the revolution, the better to kill it off’; on the other, the revolution.” Continue reading
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Video: Qaddafi Did NOT Threatens Attacks on Europe
Gaddafi is challenging Sarkozy, Cameron and Obama to switch on their TV and watch the crowd. He is saying that they will find out that they are delusional because they entered a war which they will never win, he also says if you continue targeting our houses we can do the same because Europe is… Continue reading
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Libya Newslinks 1 July 2011
1 July 2011 — williambowles.info Libya’s women-at-arms Washington Post Among Moammar Gaddafi’s most ardent loyalists are a core of Libyan women who have risen to high-profile roles in the police, military and government and credit Gaddafi with giving them greater career avenues than many of their sisters elsewhere in the … http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/libyas-women-at-arms/2011/06/30/AGM4qVtH_gallery.html Continue reading
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Replay: Libya rape claims ‘hysteria’ – investigator
A UN human rights investigator has cast doubts over claims by the chief ICC prosecutor of evidence that Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi had ordered mass rapes. Continue reading
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Black Bloc: A Misguided Tactic for June 30 By Maeve McKeown
On March 26, a movement that has existed for several decades but has largely been absent from UK politics, known as ‘Black Bloc’, emerged from the shadows and scared the living daylights out of Middle England. The media quickly vilified Black Bloc’s activities, and ‘anarchist’ became a by-word for hooligan. Continue reading
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Video: Selling Israeli Militarism Like Toothpaste
From children’s shows to national war drills, a discussion on militarism in Israeli society and gender equality in the army Continue reading
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