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2011: A Year in Review The year saw the rise of a new country, the fall of long-time leaders and numerous tragedies and triumphs in between. Chris Arsenault and Malika Bilal

December 30, 2011
2011: A Year in Review   The year saw the rise of a new country, the fall of long-time leaders and numerous tragedies and triumphs in between.   Chris Arsenault and Malika Bilal

The year 2011 saw the rise of a new country, the fall of long-time leaders and the tragedies and triumphs in between This was perhaps the biggest news year in the last two decades. In 2011, protesters overthrew entrenched autocracies, the US caught its most wanted man, a devastating earthquake and tsunami thrashed Japan, a new [...]

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Some of the video items available at the Al Jazeera news site

November 2, 2011
Some of the video items available at the Al Jazeera news site

Activists demand abortion rights in Nicaragua Issue of abortion gains prominence as the mostly Catholic country goes to presidential polls. Recognising Malaysia’s stateless Indians Indians arrived in Malaysia a century ago but many of their descendants still lack formal status. Libya tensions show up in Bani Walid Members of the same tribe stand on opposite [...]

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Al Jazeera video news links

October 12, 2011
Al Jazeera video news links

Indian opposition leader protests corruption Main opposition leader takes to the road to highlight corruption but some question his motives. Olive harvest reaps animosity in West Bank Palestinian farmers say settler violence has led to a rushed harvest, while Israelis say they fear “terrorist activity“. China interest in Argentina land irks locals Farmers worried about [...]

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UK’s Ofcom rejects Erekat complaint against Al-Jazeera

October 10, 2011
UK’s Ofcom rejects Erekat complaint against Al-Jazeera

  PLO official Saeb Erekat appears on Al-Jazeera to discuss the Palestine Papers (MaanImages, File) LONDON (Reuters) — British communications regulator Ofcom rejected a complaint from ex-Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erekat that Al-Jazeera had treated him unfairly in its Palestine Papers documentary series broadcast earlier this year that led to his resignation. The Qatari news channel [...]

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The men who crashed the world. An Al Jazeera series

September 21, 2011
The men who crashed the world. An Al Jazeera series

In the first episode of Meltdown, we hear about four men who brought down the global economy: a billionaire mortgage-seller who fooled millions; a high-rolling banker with a fatal weakness; a ferocious Wall Street predator; and the power behind the throne.   The crash of September 2008 brought the largest bankruptcies in world history, pushing more than 30 million people into [...]

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Death of US democracy? That includes democracy everywhere as those in power display their true hatred for freedom and democracy.

June 27, 2011
Death of US democracy? That includes democracy everywhere as those in power display their true hatred for freedom and democracy.

This is another version from the author of the video about what is often referred to by this page as the United States of Israel. Unfortunately nothing happening today is even remotely suggestive of anything but the hatred of democracy by the elites and a very general hatred of people by the Jewish State of [...]

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Memo to all imperial project lackeys; the people are watching your actions. Someone please tell boots and all Gillard what US citizens think

June 22, 2011
Memo to all imperial project lackeys; the people are watching your actions. Someone please tell boots and all Gillard what US citizens think

Poll: Americans Who Favor Withdrawing Troops Quickly at All-Time High   CHRIS HONDROS/GETTY IMAGES Lt. John Paszterko, with the U.S. Army’s 101st Airborne Division, talks with a local farmer while on patrol last year near Kandahar, Afghanistan. By Sara Sorcher Updated: June 21, 2011 | 6:30 p.m. June 21, 2011 | 1:51 p.m. Americans in record [...]

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No evidence of Iranian weapons

June 4, 2011
No evidence of Iranian weapons

No Evidence of Iranian Weapons Program, Despite Rhetoric John Glaser, May 31, 2011 Email This | Print This | Share This | Comment | Antiwar Forum Seymour Hersh reports in the latest issue of The New Yorker that “despite years of covert operations inside Iran, extensive satellite imagery, and the recruitment of Iranian intelligence assets, the United States and its [...]

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Dictators and killing. A call to cease

June 3, 2011
Dictators and killing. A call to cease

The unbearable lightness of killing Earth to Gaddafi and Saleh: Your time is up, stop murdering your people. Marwan Bishara Last Modified: 02 Jun 2011 19:19 Email Print Share Send Feedback Colonel Gaddafi’s forces have unleashed a campaign of carnage against pro-democracy fighters in Misurata and beyond, but Libyans continue to resist [AFP] Ali Abdullah Saleh [...]

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Baroud on his going back to see Gaza

June 3, 2011
Baroud on his going back to see Gaza

Crushed Ice in Nuseirat: My Gaza Refugee Camp Revisited Kids in Nuseirat. (Photo: John Harvey) By Ramzy Baroud – Gaza  ‘Do you remember Mahmoud?’ asked Abu Nidal, my neighbor from nearly 20 years ago, when I lived in Gaza. “Yes, of course, I do,” I answered. I remembered him as yet another troublemaking child among [...]

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The view from Afghanistan a David Swanson article

May 21, 2011
The view from Afghanistan a David Swanson article

  The View From Afghanistan http://warisacrime.org/content/view-afghanistan Editor’s Note: Asking Afghans what they think of U.S. Taliban “peace talks” produces answers one doesn’t encounter in the United States. Here’s a response to that question from Hakim, a.k.a. Teck Young Wee, of Afghan Youth Peace Volunteers.-DCNS By Hakim BAMYAN PROVINCE, AFGHANISTAN — The Obama administration (and NATO) [...]

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The Media forever free and balanced the preserve of the reasonable and the fair. Sounds better than sex.

May 19, 2011
The Media forever free and balanced the preserve of the reasonable and the fair. Sounds better than sex.

This is a first rate article on the media and the Middle East it is written by, Nir Rosen, who is an American journalist who writes on current and international affairs. He has contributed to The New Yorker and Rolling Stone, among others. His latest book is Aftermath: Following the Bloodshed of America’s Wars in the Muslim [...]

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Another Gareth Porter article on Bin Laden and Al Qaeda

May 9, 2011
Another Gareth Porter article on Bin Laden and Al Qaeda

  After bin Laden Hit, U.S. Aides Raise Dubious Hopes for Peace by Gareth Porter, May 09, 2011 Email This | Print This | Share This | Antiwar Forum Barack Obama and top administration officials have taken advantage of the killing of Osama bin Laden to establish a new narrative suggesting the event will pave the way for negotiations [...]

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Ex CIA view of Bin Laden

May 9, 2011
Ex CIA view of Bin Laden

This as much to let you see the standard and type of reporting available in the middle East as to let you make up your own mind. Whatever you decide is a matter for yourself and no one else. But only the foolish do not look and listen to as much as possible before deciding [...]

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Life is cheap everywhere

May 9, 2011
Life is cheap everywhere

Nato units left 61 African migrants to die of hunger and thirst Exclusive: Boat trying to reach Lampedusa was left to drift in Mediterranean for 16 days, despite alarm being raised Share1587 Jack Shenker in Lampedusa guardian.co.uk, Sunday 8 May 2011 21.30 BST Article history Refugees from Libya reach Lampedusa. A Nato ship failed to [...]

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Chomsky- a brief matter

May 8, 2011
Chomsky- a brief matter

An email from Noam Chomsky Noam Chomsky University of Leeds (UCU) – Blog, November 30, 2009 I had a startling experience a few weeks ago. I travelled to Mexico City for talks at the National University, an enormous and very impressive institution with high standards of achievement and scholarship. Entrance is selective, but the university [...]

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Bin Laden and Obama

May 8, 2011
Bin Laden and Obama

This is from the Guardian at http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/may/08/osama-bin-laden-pakistan-obama Osama bin Laden must have had Pakistan support network, says Obama Barack Obama raises pressure on Pakistan to investigate whether its people were involved in helping Bin Laden hide Share109 Ed Pilkington in New York, Declan Walsh in Islamabad and Saeed Shah in Abbottabad guardian.co.uk, Sunday 8 May 2011 18.58 BST [...]

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We Keep Dancin’ To That Voodoo Rhythm

May 8, 2011
We Keep Dancin’ To That Voodoo Rhythm

In a recent video interview at the Real News site there is some very interesting information. The whole interview should be watched. You can do that at http://therealnews.com/t2/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=31&Itemid=74&jumival=6731. It starts with the news that S & P has  said a few things about the US economy. The witch doctors of financial boogie fever have spoken But they seem to [...]

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Bahrain Medical Centres

April 27, 2011
Bahrain Medical Centres

This is the Al Jazeera address for an excellent video on what is happening in Bahrain at the moment. It looks at medical centres and the like extensively and includes an interview with people on the ground there. http://therealnews.com/t2/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=31&Itemid=74&jumival=6673 George Ikners ikners.com  a WordPress site This is an interesting Comment post at the Real News site [...]

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It seems that Al Jazeera has quite a few problems

April 23, 2011
It seems that Al Jazeera has quite a few problems

Al Jazeera’s War on Gaddafi Submitted by Stephen Lendman on Sat, 2011-04-23 08:41 Media Al Jazeera’s War on Gaddafi – by Stephen Lendman Based on its recent Libyan and Gulf states reporting (or lack thereof), Qatar-based Al Jazeera’s credibility appears extremely compromised. A previous article said the following: Overall, its Libya misreporting has been deceitful, [...]

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