There has been a release of photos of an Amazon tribe that is uncontactable and threatened by the destruction of the area. As you are aware the rape and pillaging of the planet continues, probably in some pseudo spiritual belief that a God made all this for us in perpetuity and when the time is [...]
Archive for January, 2011
Guardian plots history of Wikileaks in continuing reports and videos
January 31, 2011
The Guardian continues its coverage of the Wikileaks story and on a book recently written about the Wikileaks personalities and the organisation. There is a great deal of really good reading on the Guardian page with a video and several links to other parts of the site with information about Wikileaks. One report commences,” Three [...]
Latest Al Jazeera report from the area and role of the Army in Egypt
January 31, 2011
There has been home and local press in Australia and elsewhere reporting on the Egypt army saying it will not use force against a planned demonstration or perhaps in general. The following is a complete Al Jazeera report that commences, “The Egyptian army has said it would not use force against citizens staging protests to [...]
A letter from Human Rights Watch to a Field Marshall in Egypt
January 31, 2011
The following is a letter from Human Rights Watch to an Egyptian Army Officer. It forms part of an ongoing live part of the Guardian site. There a great deal of news and views at this section of the Guardian site and it should give you a very good look at present developments. As the [...]
Continuing attempts to discredit Richard Falk
January 31, 2011
There is an excellent Stuart Littlewood article at the Sabbah site. He starts as follows, “ Mention Richard Falk and you think of an honourable man who cares deeply about injustice, particularly the trampled rights of Palestinians under the evil jackboot. Mention Susan Rice, US Ambassador to the United Nations, and what comes to mind? [...]
Latest from Al Jazeera on ElBaradei
January 31, 2011
The following is a short article from Al Jazeera showing what they feel is the present position of ElBaradei. It starts in this way,” Mohamed ElBaradei, a leading opposition figure, has joined thousands of protesters in Cairo’s Tahrir Square, in continued demonstrations demanding an end to President Hosni Mubarak’s 30-year rule. The former head of [...]
When you are Prime Minister, like Gillard, that means you can do whatever you want, is that correct?
January 31, 2011
You may think it is interesting how Gillard’s first function was to go on her knees to the mining elite in Western Australia on the basis that we needed her negotiating skills to save her own bacon. It is a nonsense to believe that somehow a group of dirt barons in WA can make their [...]
Hiilary Clinton a disgrace with her views on Egypt
January 31, 2011
There is an excellent video interview at the Democracy Now Site with Mostafa Omar. The interview starts with Amy Goodman introducing Omar and saying, “ AMY GOODMAN: We are also joined in our New York studio by Mostafa Omar, an Egyptian American activist and writer who lives in New York City. Mostafa, I wanted to [...]
The US Pakistan and Afghanistan and India thrown in as well
January 30, 2011
Eric Walberg has written an interesting article on the US, Afghanistan and Pakistan it starts with the observation that, “War junkies popped their champagne corks on 7 June to celebrate the 104th month of U.S. military engagement in Afghanistan, America’s longest war in history (Vietnam lasted 103 months). Presumably they toasted the five NATO soldiers [...]
A history of Assange
January 30, 2011
What follows is a history of Assange from the Guardian. It starts with the following observations.” Glimpsed in the half-light of a London evening, the figure may just have passed for female. She emerged cautiously from a doorway and folded herself into a battered red car. There were a few companions – among them a [...]
An interview at Real News about the lead up to the present position in Egypt.
January 30, 2011
There is a video interview at the Real News site related to the present position in Egypt. If you click on the hyperlink you can watch the interview. It is with an Egyptian named Ezzeldin and Paul Jay. He outlines the years leading up to the present position.
Hilary Clinton and Mubarak are personal friends
January 30, 2011
There have been some recent references by Hilary Clinton about how she considers Mubarak and his wife as personal friends. A very recent video interview between Phyllis Bennis and Paul Jay at the Real News revealed a very recent statement by Hilary Clinton to this effect. You can watch that interview at link. There is [...]
Hatred in the media how it affects life
January 30, 2011
There are quite a few people peddling hatred at the moment but none more vile than Beck in the US and media empire behind him. The latest target has every right to be genuinely worried even terrified at the prospects for her safety when these people garner support for deadly action against anyone prepared to [...]
Wikileaks An interview with Assange
January 30, 2011
There is an interview with Assange at the Guardian It commences with., “Julian Assange awakes to talk, from the nap he has stolen in an armchair at the Norfolk country house where he is staying. He has been up all night disseminating, on his WikiLeaks site, US State Department cables and documents relevant to the [...]
Egypt protesters unmoved by Mubarak moves so far
January 30, 2011
Those protesting in Egypt are digging in as you might gather from this article at the Christian Science Monitor. It is worth reading and should be able to assist you to come to a view about the happenings in Egypt. As this page sees it Mubarak has sacked a government, except himself and installed a [...]
An Arab point of view
January 30, 2011
There is a very interesting article at the Sabbah site that looks at happenings in the Middle East through Muslim/Islamic eyes. You may or may not agree with the author’s Muslim religious beliefs or perhaps do not even care what Muslims think. But it is difficult to say the least to simply think that is [...]
Slideshow on effectss of flood in Pakistan
January 29, 2011
The Guardian has a web page devoted to a slideshow on the recent floods in Pakistan where as it says, “The Pakistan floods affected 21 million people in the Indus valley region, and six months on, more than 1 million people are still homeless. Huge numbers of farmers have lost their livelihoods as much of [...]
Internet activists get bail in UK
January 29, 2011
Five people arrested in the UK over the Wikileaks so called reprisals have been given bail. The Guardian has an interesting article that deals with these people and their alleged counterparts in the US. Perhaps most significantly their number is growing daily and may well form part of a nucleus of internet activists prepared to [...]
Atzmon on US policy and the Middle East
January 29, 2011
There is a very interesting article on US foreign policy at Gilad Atzmon’s site. The article also features an Atzmon musical “take” on the present position in the US. Atzmon refers to an article by Kinzer in Newsweek and in a simple straightforward way Kinzer looks at the issues, particularly for those born in the [...]
Murdoch’s problems still there
January 29, 2011
If you have been fortunate enough to have read the book Flat Earth News by Nick Davies you would realise the talent of the author Nick Davies for getting to the bottom of a story and with extremely thorough work being able to expose people who are being very far from candid. The Guardian editor, [...]
Consent coercion Mubarak Obama and more lies about Egypt
January 29, 2011
What follows is a short but fascinating article from Jason Ditz at Anti War. He deals with the position in Egypt. Obama in a speech referred to his speech in Cairo. Dirz does not mention this but if you combine the two you can see exactly where the US is coming from. Obama talked about [...]
More reports on the situation in Egypt
January 29, 2011
There is a very good video interview at the Democracy Now site that concerns what is happening in Egypt. The hyperlink provided here is to that part of the site that contains the interview. Following some introductions Amy Goodman commences with a short overview, “Protests have erupted across Egypt today in the biggest day of [...]
Israeli settlers kill and wound Palestinians
January 29, 2011
The following report is at the Al Jazeera site it shows the continuing violence against the Palestinians by the Israeli settlers, who wish to be as unstoppable as possible. The report commences with the observation that, “ Armed Israeli settlers in the occupied West Bank have shot two Palestinian men, critically wounding one of them, [...]
Current happenings in Egypt
January 28, 2011
There is a live almost minute by minute page at the Guardian if you want to stay on top of the present happenings in Egypt. Perhaps the real importance of events there is to the people themselves to see if they are able to free themselves from what has been an oppressive regime in power for [...]
Current happenings in Egypt
January 28, 2011
There is a live almost minute by minute page at the Guardian if you want to stay on top of the present happenings in Egypt. Perhaps the real importance of events there is to the people themselves to see if they are able to free themselves from what has been an oppressive regime in power [...]
When things are bad they usually get worse
January 28, 2011
You may think when there is a lack of people at the helm of political parties that what follows is a substantial dumbing down of the political process. If you take the Australian example we allegedly have what is a sort of two party system, Labor and Liberal, but the Liberals would be hard pressed [...]
The Kennedy undercover police affair in the UK
January 28, 2011
If you are interested in the Mark Kennedy undercover police case in the UK the Guardian has prepared a page on its site that has all the present articles and news on the ongoing events. You can go to the site at the Guardian by clicking on the hyperlink here and you can then look [...]
Chomsky on the charade of talks between Israel and Palestine
January 28, 2011
An article by Noam Chomsky was published on the 6th of December 2010. The article was titled, “The Charade of Israeli-Palestinian Talks” at the time this article was written the Palestine Papers had yet to come into the public domain. Those documents show a side to so called negotiations that has left the public in [...]
Link to very good interactive timeline for climate
January 28, 2011
This is a link to a very good timeline on climate talks prepared by the Guardian. Timeline
Link to video interview with Atwan on Palestine Papers
January 28, 2011
This is link to a video to an interesting with Abdel Bari Atwan. It is definitely worth watching this respected journalist from the UK to hear his views. Interview.
UK Phone Hacking Scandal Just Keeps Getting Bigger
January 28, 2011
The phone hacking affair in the UK seems to get bigger by the day. In an article today the Guardian gives further information. Things may not be very rosy in Murdochland at the moment. Toward the end f the article there is a very interesting reference to John Howard.The article commences,” Tessa Jowell, the former [...]
Gillard and :Labor waiting at the levy
January 27, 2011
Al around the world at the moment the ‘solution’ being offered to just about everything from economic disaster to environmental extinction is a call for cuts in government spending. There is no talk at all that the elite may have to even share the burden in a manner proportionate to the amounts of money they [...]
Gilad Atzmon on the Palestine Papers
January 27, 2011
There is a short article at Gilad Atzmon’s site about Palestine and the Palestine Papers. You may find it extremely worthwhile to read what this man has to say. The article starts with Atzmon saying, “ I have a rule — I never intervene in Palestinian political matters. I never comment on Palestinian internal debate. [...]
A must read article by Littlewood on the Palestine Papers
January 27, 2011
Stuart Littlewood has added to the material post the Palestine Papers it is available at the Palestine Chronicle site. He has been reporting events in Israel and the Middle East for quite some time and has a well deserved reputation. He commences by saying that,” See this embarrassment as your big chance – a God-sent [...]
Looking and working toward a peaceful future
January 27, 2011
What follows is a very good article on the first decade of this century. It is available at the Al Jazeera site. It is written by, Sadia Ali Aden who is a Human Rights Advocate and a Freelance Writer. Aden commences with a general observation to the effect that, “ The first decade of the [...]
War and Killing does not come cheap But it’s a living for some
January 27, 2011
Just in case you would like to know just how much the Pentagon and the US is/will be paying for war look at the following article from the Anti War site. Once again written by Jason Ditz the article commences with,” The lack of a final military funding bill is causing “severe problems” for the [...]
30 Year Commitment to Afghan/Obama’s war is sought.
January 27, 2011
A thirty year commitment is being sought to the war in Afghanistan or as it is now known Obama’s War. This is the result of what an EU envoy has said. So those of you who may be thinking of having children they too may find themselves in uniform if conscription is reintroduced or joining [...]
Undercover creation of crime
January 27, 2011
Undercover operations are just that, undercover. It all depends on what or who is doing to provide the cover to the agent or police officer. In the end all the system of undercover operations requires revolves around secrecy. If for some unknown reason or for some cause that was never expected something goes wrong then [...]
A Real News interview on war and war spending
January 26, 2011
There is an interesting video interview at the Real News site with David Swanson from the War is a Crime site (formerly called After Downing Street) Swanson has raised a petition about not supporting Obama unless he stops US wars. Perhaps more importantly there is also a focus on war expenditure and budgets that keep [...]
Blair and his role in the Middle East
January 26, 2011
In what may well be a severe understatement the Guardian has an article arising from the Palestine Papers that says simply, ”Tony Blair criticised for ‘Israeli bias’Leaked papers show Palestinians feel quartet envoy is paternalistic and that the Israelis don’t take him too seriously Tony Blair, envoy of the Middle East quartet, was attacked by [...]
In the back room at the Israel-Palestinian peace talks
January 26, 2011
There are more revelations in the Palestine Papers. The Guardian site is continuing to expose many more details. At the site today there is an article that deals with denials by Erekat and effectively shows that the picture Erekat paints is one of how much the Palestinians were prepared to concede or talk about in [...]
Anothe Guardian article on the Palestine Papers and the role of MI6
January 26, 2011
The Palestine Papers release is set to deepen to a lot more parties than the PA and the Israelis. At the Guardian there is a very good article to show the MI6 role. The article commences with the observation that,” British intelligence helped draw up a secret plan for a wide-ranging crackdown on the Islamist [...]
Ramzy Baroud on the Palestine Papers
January 26, 2011
The recent documents release is now referred to as the Palestine Papers and there is an excellent article on the papers at the Palestine Chronicle by Ramzy Baroud. He is the author of some books that are exceptional including, My Father was a Freedom Fighter and The Second Palestine Intifada . As the editor of [...]
A view on Tunisia
January 25, 2011
There is an article at the Al Jazeera site that is by James Zogby who in, Washington Watch a weekly column this author of Arab Voices: What They Are Saying to Us, and Why it Matters, a book that brings into stark relief the myths, assumptions, and biases that hold us back from understanding the [...]
The Palestinian negotiators-make up your own mind
January 25, 2011
The right of return and related matters has for decades been at the heart of Palestinian concerns following events like the Nakba and the continual encroachment by Israel into Palestine. These latest leaks show both the preparedness of Palestinian negotiators to disregard this and the Jewish State of Israel’s obvious path to the domination of [...]
Juan Cole and US policy in the Middle East
January 25, 2011
In an article available at thr Tom Dispatch site, Juan Cole looks closely at the US policies particularly in the Middle East. You may or may not agree with his assessment about the difference between Obama and Bush but that is entirely a matter for you. If there is a difference you could be forgiven for [...]
No link between Assange and Manning
January 25, 2011
Looks like the US Administration is going to need to invent some other charge for Assange. There appears to have been an admission that despite the appalling conditions Manning is being kept under he just will not come to the party and roll over and make up something against Assange, The Anti War site has [...]
There is only one winner
January 25, 2011
The following is a very good article by George Monbiot in the Guardian it concerns the banks and how they were propped up in the UK. There is a message for us all in what he says. He commences with,” It’s bonus season, the time of year when bankers show us what they really believe. [...]
More on the Palestine / Israel peace papers released
January 24, 2011
Despite decades of opposition to the Israel policies about Palestinian refugees it appears that during talks Palestinians had agreed to limit returning refugees to 10,000 according to leaked documents. Palestinian negotiators privately agreed that only 10, 000 refugees and their families – out of a total refugee population exceeding 5 million – could return to [...]
Some reactions to the recent peace documents release
January 24, 2011
The following brief statement from Time Magazine as repeated in the Guardian, is about what has happened in Palestine since the elections of 2006, won by Hamas. As far as the US administration and other Zionist supporters are concerned that was simply not supposed to happen. The brief description commences with,” The major impact of [...]