BDS Update: Israel’s Ides of March By Eric Walberg – Cairo Israeli land confiscations accelerated in the 1970s and led Palestinians to organise the first coordinated demonstrations in the Occupied Territories on 30 March 1976, during which 6 Palestinians were killed. This date has been marked ever since as [...]
http://www.deliberation.info/ ERIC WALBERG: CRITIQUING ISRAEL: COLONIALISM OR JEWISH CULTURE? FRIDAY, APRIL 6, 2012 AT 2:46PM GILAD ATZMON The phenomenal success the Boycott Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement has had since it began in 2005 has attracted attention from all corners of the political spectrum — for better or for worse. Israel is scared. Israeli thinktanks have described [...]
Police officers remove “No Trespassing” signs at a checkpoint to the restricted zone of a 20km radius around the crippled Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant in Japan March 31. Op-ed contributor Kenichi Ohmae says, ‘If you cannot equip a nuclear facility with a reliable last resort of power for cooling reactors, you shouldn’t operate the [...]
In Bid for Iraqi Crude, Oil Corporations Play Politics Exxon, Shell, and BP tread lightly over Iraq‘s political sectarianism to reign supreme in Iraqi oil production by John Glaser, April 05, 2012 antiwar.com Print This | Share This Major oil companies like Exxon Mobil and Shell are playing politics in Iraq, juggling the autonomous Kurdish north with the [...]
East Timor: A Lesson in Why the Poorest Threaten the Powerful by John Pilger, April 06, 2012 Print This | Share This Milan Kundera’s truism, “the struggle of people against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting,” described East Timor. The day before I set out to film clandestinely there in 1993, I [...]
Hugo Chávez weeps as he prays for his recovery from cancer at a mass in Barinas, Venezuela. Photograph: Reuters A tearful Hugo Chávez has prayed for God to spare his life as he attended a pre-Easter mass on returning from cancer treatment in Cuba. The Venezuelan president wept in a televised speech from the Catholic service in [...]
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Solicitors for Sienna Miller say they are taking legal instructions over the alleged leak by a Virgin Atlantic employee. Photograph: Rex Features Virgin employee quits after claims she sent celebrity flight details to paparazzi Emails indicate Virgin Atlantic supervisor passed information about eight celebrities to Big Pictures agency Interactive: the celebrity flight details listed in the email [...]
UNAC conference challenges U.S./NATO war policies By davidswanson - Posted on 05 April 2012 From SocialistAction On April 1 The New York Times reported that the U.S.and the Gulf states, meeting as the “Friends of Syria” in Istanbul, had moved dramatically closer to direct military intervention against the Assad regime. The pro-U.S. Arab nations pledged [...]
3 April 12 The Farce Of The “Golden Age Of Gas” Oil and gas industry insiders revealed earlier this year the high probability that we’re headed into a shale gas bubble. But that’s not what the industry’s CEOs and PRdepartments want you to hear. “The reality of at least 100 years’ worth of shale [...]
An abhorrent sponsorship system in the Gulf 04 April 2012 At the same time Western nations send troops and fleets to invade countries and change regimes under the banner of democracy, freedom and human rights, they remain deathly silent in front of regimes that embody slavery in the ugliest forms. This [...]
Pepe Escobar: ‘Pentagon freaks creep into China‘s backyard’ Apr 4, 2012 The first rotation of about 200 US marines has arrived in Australia on a six-month training deployment. A total of 2,500 troops are expected to arrive over the next few years in Darwin to enhance the US’s military presence in [...]
THE ROVING EYE We want war, and we want it now By Pepe Escobar It was deep into the night, somewhere over Siberia, in a Moscow to Beijing flight (BRIC to BRIC?) when the thought, like a lightning bolt, began to take hold. What the hell is wrong with those Arabs? Maybe [...]
San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station (SONGS) Are America’s Nukes on the Brink of Death? by Harvey Wasserman link http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/04/05-1 The only two US reactor projects now technically under construction are on the brink of death for financial reasons. If they go under, there will almost certainly be no new reactors built here. The much mythologized “nuclear renaissance” [...]
Wikileaks’ Julian Assange Slams Media for Libelous Coverage – Common Dreams staff WikiLeaks‘ Julian Assange said today that he’s made 75 official complaints over shoddy reporting of his extradition battle. Assange claims he has been subjected to inaccurate and libelous media coverage.Assange itemized the complaints in a written statement to Britain’s judge-led inquiry into [...]
SOURCE: AP/Steve Ruark John R. Bolton, the former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, speaks to the Baltimore Council on Foreign Affairs in May 2006. By Eric Alterman | April 5, 2012 link http://www.americanprogress.org/issues/2012/04/ta_040512.html In a front-page story in Sunday’s New York Times dealing with the specter of corrupted pre-Iraq invasion intelligence and its potential influence on the debate over whether the [...]
BOOKSare living things. They have transmissible life.The mere sight of books, resting on shelves, vivifies me. When I am in their presence, I feel them. The energy that they emanate reaches me. If hungry, all sense of want goes. I feel sated with books around me, alive. This explains why my favourite place in [...]
Suing the Government: Does NDAA Threaten You? John Glaser, April 05, 2012 Print This | Share This | Comment Via Lawfare, prominent American activists have filed suit arguing that the language in NDAA can be used to detain them for engaging in their ”daily professional work.” They include: Christopher Hedges, Daniel Ellsberg, Jennifer Bolen, Noam Chomsky, Alexa O’Brien, [...]
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