You can see the video at http://english.aljazeera.net/programmes/talktojazeera/2011/09/201191993444637938.html On September 11, 2001, Colin Powell was the US secretary of state. That day set in motion a series of events and decisions that had far-reaching implications, and Powell played a crucial part in all of them. But perhaps more than any other moment it was [...]
AMY GOODMAN: Today President Obama is set to unveil a deficit-reduction plan that includes tax increases as well as cuts to programs such as Medicare and Medicaid. The cuts are meant to reduce government spending by more than $3 trillion over the next decade. The plan also calls for $1.1 trillion in savings from winding down [...]
News stories September 19, 2011 Why Are Kids in Jail? Bart Lubow: Zero tolerance policies and racial bias are pushing many kids out of school and in to jail Go to story | Go to homepage Dale Farm Travelers in Final Plea Before Eviction Residents of Dale Farm who face the clearance of the UK’s [...]
UN bid for Palestine statehood – live coverage Mahmoud Abbas and his delegation and UN secretary-general Ban Ki-moon in negotiations in New York. Photograph: Thaer Ganaim/EPA Rolling coverage from New York as the Palestinians take their demand for statehood to the United Nations You can visit the Guardian UN site at http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/blog/2011/sep/19/palestinian-statehood-united-nations The major difficulty [...]
Fukushima protesters urge Japan to abandon nuclear power Protesters gathered in Tokyo to call on the government to abandon nuclear energy following the Fukushima disaster. Photograph: Koji Sasahara/AP Tens of thousands join Fukushima protest march in Tokyo amid continuing fears over radiation reddit this Comments (0) Justin McCurry in Tokyo guardian.co.uk, Monday 19 September [...]
A Village Under Siege in the West Bank As Palestinians seek statehood at the United Nations, the daily struggle goes on for the 1,200 residents of Wadi Fukin. —Jakob Schiller Most days Yousef Manasra wakes to the sound of jackhammers. The incessant pounding drones on throughout the day and into the evening as [...]
CLIMATE CHANGE AND AMERICA’S DEADLY NATIONAL PARKS Flickr / Koshyk Eighteen people have died this year at Yosemite National Park. After learning that tourist deaths in Yosemite National Park increased this season compared with a typical year, Mother Jones reporter Kiera Butler asks whether the events that are rearranging the Earth’s climate might be the culprit. [...]
The U.S. is trying to avoid the vote altogether. (UN photo) By Jim Miles This week at the UN - if the U.S. push to disable the process does not succeed – a vote will be taken on Palestinian statehood. The U.S. has already stated that it will veto any vote that supports Palestinian statehood. [...]
France‘s burqa ban: women are ‘effectively under house arrest’ Hind Ahmas, one of two French women facing a fine for wearing the niqab in a town near Paris. Photograph: Magali Delporte for the Guardian Since France introduced its burqa ban in April there have been violent attacks on women wearing the niqab and, [...]
News International offers Milly Dowler‘s family £3m settlement The £3m News International offer to Milly Dowler’s family is understood to include a £1m charity donation. Photograph: Surrey Police/PA Negotiations continuing on settlement understood to include personal £1m donation to charity by Rupert Murdoch reddit this Dan Sabbagh guardian.co.uk, Monday 19 September 2011 20.42 BST [...]
Should we wait for the oil to run out? Food to run out? For collapse? Or can we plan our way back down, through power-down, simplification, localization? You have heard the big banks, in Europe, America and Japan are actually bankrupt. They still value their real estate collateral at the high points before the crash. [...]
You can watch this presentation at http://www.ecoshock.info/2011/09/fighting-fossil-goo-activism.html We begin with iconic anti-globalist author Naomi Klein, interviewed by Daphne Wysham from Earthbeat Radio. Naomi was outside the White House, September 2nd, on the Indigenous Peoples day of protest against the Keystone XL Pipeline proposed to carry dirty Tar Sands oil to refineries in Texas. Klein outlines the [...]
Man of Faith: Crusader Blair’s Vision: Eternal War: Iran and Syria Next? Parts 1 and 2 by Felicity Arbuthnot Image by eddiedangerous via Flickr Posted on September 18, 2011 by dandelionsalad by Felicity Arbuthnot Featured Writer Dandelion Salad London, England 15 September 2011 “Since 1990 upper estimates are of three million Iraqi deaths between sanctions, bombings and invasion, [...]
The Rev. Jeremiah Wright Recalls Obama’s Fall From Grace Illustration by Mr. Fish Enlarge this image. By Chris Hedges Barack Obama’s politically expedient decision to betray and abandon his pastor, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, exposed his cowardice and moral bankruptcy. In that moment, playing the part of Judas, he surrendered the last shreds of his integrity. [...]
This week on Listening Post: The ongoing narrative of fear in the US media. Plus, publisher Hameed Haroon on Pakistan and the dangers of reporting the country. The video is available at http://english.aljazeera.net/programmes/listeningpost/2011/09/201191793611513936.html George Ikners ikners.com Last week we looked at the performance of the US news media in decade following the 9/11 attacks. A [...]
Quick military ‘victories’ in Afghanistan and Iraq soon proved to be illusory [EPA] Ten years ago, critics of the United States’ mad rush to war were right, but it didn’t matter. Within hours after the 9/11 terrorist attacks, it was clear that political leaders were going to use the attacks to justify war in Central [...]
Next week, the UN Security Council will vote on whether or not to pass the resolution on Palestine’s membership bid [GALLO/GETTY] Solitude and Absurdity. Perhaps no two other words better described the scene at the United Nations earlier this year when US Ambassador Susan Rice raised her hand with a reluctant expression on her face [...]
Oil, tar balls, tar mats, and dead animals are still common sights along the Gulf of Mexico [Erika Blumenfeld/Al Jazeera] Sick Gulf residents continue to blame BP Many people living near the site of the BP oil spill have reported a long list of similar health problems. Dahr Jamail Last Modified: 18 Sep 2011 15:16 [...]
PA: Israeli soldiers detain 2 children in Hebron Published yesterday (updated) 19/09/2011 11:12 Israeli soldiers surround arrested Palestinians following an operation in the West Bank village of Beit Ummar near Hebron on March 11, 2009. [MaanImages/Mamoun Wazwaz] HEBRON (Ma’an) — Israeli forces detained two Palestinian boys at a military checkpoint in Hebron on Sunday, [...]
Palestinians differ about whether the bid for statehood will change the situation ‘on the ground’ [GALLO/GETTY] For the past few weeks, a world of analysts and academics has been fretting and strutting hypotheses about the [...]
Muqtada al-Sadr has laid out three demands with the help of a massive demonstration [EPA] Imagine Dick Cheney’s reaction when confronted with this bit of information. Shia cleric Muqtada al-Sadr, a certified Iraqi nationalist leader and the country’s de facto kingmaker, has just called for the end of any “armed resistance” against US “invader” forces [...]
PA: Settlers shoot at homes in Burin village, Nablus Published today (updated) 19/09/2011 15:22 A Palestinian man looks on as Israeli soldiers check the damage inside a class room at Alsawya girl school in the West Bank Village of Sawya near Nablus, 20 October 2010 after Israeli settlers burned the school. [MaanImages/Rami Swidan] NABLUS [...]
Ambassador: Saudi Arabia supports Palestinian UN bid Published today 16:26 A Palestinian worker inspects a banner as it prints in Ramallah on September 12. The banner reads: “The People want membership of a Palestinian state at the UN”. [Reuters/Mohamad Torokman] RAMALLAH (Ma’an) — Saudi Arabia supports the Palestinian bid for full UN membership, Palestinian [...]
Israel issues 3 demolition orders to Bedouins in Jordan Valley Published yesterday (updated) 18/09/2011 21:28 Israeli bulldozers clear the way for the Separation wall near a Palestinian Bedouin family on the outskirts of Jerusalem on Nov. 11, 2007. [MaanImages/Jared Malsin] TUBAS (Ma’an) — Israeli forces issued three demolition orders on Sunday to residents of [...]
Witnesses: Settlers uproot over 500 trees in Salfit Published today (updated) 19/09/2011 16:19 A Palestinian farmer tries to extinguish fire at his field in the Israeli settlement of Beitar Illit near the West Bank city of Bethlehem on October 19, 2010, after a group of Israeli settlers set fire to the agricultural land. [MaanImages/Luay [...]
Arab schools protest Israeli curriculum changes Published yesterday (updated) 19/09/2011 10:24 An ultra-Orthodox Jewish man takes a picture in front of the Dome of the Rock on the compound known to Muslims as al-Haram al-Sharif, and to Jews as Temple Mount, in Jerusalem’s Old City September 18, 2011. [Reuters/Ammar Awad] JERUSALEM (Reuters) — A [...]
Scientists demand tougher guidelines on teaching of creationism in schools Sir David Attenborough and Richard Dawkins, above, are among 30 scientists demanding tougher government guidelines on the teaching of creationism in schools. Photograph: Alastair Thain for the Guardian Sir David Attenborough among those accusing ‘fundamentalists’ of seeking to portray creationism as scientific theory in class [...]
Imran Khan: ‘America is destroying Pakistan. We’re using our army to kill our own people with their money’ Imran Khan. Photograph: David Levene The Pakistani cricketing legend and politician talks about his country’s damaging relationship with the US, how aid and corruption are further ruining it – and how he is sure he will be [...]
Israel urged to reconsider punishing Palestinians over UN campaign A member of the Palestinian delgation holds a symbolic seat outside the United Nations HQ in New York. Photograph: Stan Honda/AFP/Getty Images US and EU try to pacify Israel as ministers threaten to withhold customs revenue from Palestinian Authority over UN status bid reddit this [...]
Vince Cable: austerity measures must be seen to be fair Vince Cable delivers his keynote address. The business secretary said the only way the public would accept continuing austerity was if it was seen to be fair. Photograph: Matt Cardy/Getty Images In keynote speech at Lib Dem conference, business secretary says UK faces ‘economic [...]
Harold Evans: ‘Rupert Murdoch is the stiletto, a man of method, a cold-eyed manipulator’ Rupert Murdoch, the new owner of Times Newspapers in 1981, flanked by Harold Evans and William Rees Mogg. Photograph: Popperfoto/Getty In a new preface to his book, Good Times, Bad Times, the former Sunday Times editor connects the phone-hacking crisis [...]
Tony Blair ‘visited Libya to lobby for JP Morgan’ Tony Blair used visits to Libya after he left office to lobby for business for the American investment bank JP Morgan, The Daily Telegraph has been told. Mr Blair was flown to Libya twice at Gaddafi‘s expense on one of the former dictator’s private jets Photo: [...]
Libya Rebels Dumping Hundreds of Bodies in ‘Pro-Gadhafi’ Cemetery Makeshift Prisons Fill Up With Dissidents, But Many More Are Missing by Jason Ditz, September 18, 2011 | Print This | Share This | Antiwar Forum The Libyan rebel movement’s primary embarrassment at the moment is that their claims of “50,000″ civilians slain by Moammar Gadhafi looks by early [...]
The US has been creating instability for decades. Even the most cursory reading of Chomsky and Chalmers Johnson can confirm not just the fact but also the reasons. Naomi Klein‘s book the Shock Doctrine also illu8strates how western capitalism and imperialism live and breathe instability to further their own aims. The following article by Nick [...]
