October 16, 2011
Nude in Black and White Mr. Fish By Mr. Fish While visiting the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum in Washington, D.C., at age 11, I found out that the transparent bubble on a warplane from which a gunner fires his machine gun is called a blister. This seemed somehow appropriately unsettling, as if any aircraft [...]
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September 13, 2011
Financial speculators responsible for rising global food prices, claims report Chickens are transported at a wholesale poultry market in New Delhi. In keeping with a global trend, India’s food price index is on the rise. Photograph: Adnan Abidi/Reuters Influence of financial players on agricultural commodity markets blamed for global food price inflation and hunger [...]
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August 13, 2011
US postal service trucks. Postmaster general Patrick Donahoe is proposing to cut mail delivery from six days a week to five. Photograph Scott Olson/Getty Images The US Postal Service has announced radical plans to cut one in five jobs, reduce services and water down staff retirement and healthcare deals as the government agency struggles to keep [...]
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August 8, 2011
European markets stabilised after the ECB began buying Italian and Spanish debt on Monday [AFP] The stock market ‘woes’ are symptomatic of the immorality of allowing people to deal in a created commodity like a company or corporation while they make no contribution to the company. The company or corporation only exists [...]
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August 7, 2011
A Wall Street sign in front of the New York stock exchange. Recent events have changed the US as an unassailable economic superpower. Photograph: Lucas Jackson/Reuters When India joined China in criticising America’s chaotic handling of its hefty debts this weekend, describing the challenges facing the White House as “grave”, it was the clearest indicator yet [...]
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July 26, 2011
World Food Bank Programme director Josette Sheeran says that many of the children arriving at refugee camps are already in Stage four malnutrition, meaning they have a less than 40 per cent chance of surviving [EPA] In Somalia, where civil war has ravaged the country, where conflict continues to claim victims, a new hardship is [...]
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July 26, 2011
PALESTINE, ISRAEL, GERMANY- THE BOUNDARIES OF OPEN DISCUSSION MONDAY, JULY 25, 2011 AT 1:46PM GILAD ATZMON This is a very important conference!!! http://paltagefreiburg2011.blogspot.com/ September 10-11, 2011 Freiburg, Germany Freedom of speech and expression are recognised by many as primary human rights. However, when it comes to discussion on topics concerning Palestine, Israel and Germany we often face rigid [...]
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July 26, 2011
For those interested in the cancer of the voodoo economic rhythm this editorial should be illuminating. But consider this. The US elite that wishes to rule the planet has been putting what it feels is necessary to achieve this goal for at least a century. What has always driven this march to hegemony is that the people [...]
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July 23, 2011
US military weighs more Predator drones for Libya 22 Jul 2011 21:10 Source: Reuters // Reuters * NATO wants more aircraft in 4-month-old bombing campaign * U.S. again debating whether to arm rebels, official says By Phil Stewart WASHINGTON, July 22 (Reuters) – As the war in Libya drags on, the U.S. military is [...]
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July 16, 2011
You can get access to this video interview at the RealNews site at: Please remember this organisation depends on public support and if you are able to make a donation please do so. Bio Dr. Jayati Ghosh is Professor of Economics and currently also Chairperson at the Centre for Economic Studies and Planning, [...]
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July 13, 2011
Widespread crop failures in India have provoked over 200,000 farmers to commit suicide over the past decade [GALLO/GETTY] The proposed introduction of the Food Security Act by the UPA Government is a welcome and much needed step towards securing the right to food for all of India’s citizens. The right to food is the basis [...]
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July 11, 2011
Water Scarcity Compounds Tensions Between India and Pakistan Nothing is quite as threatening for Pakistan as India planning 33 separate dams within the Indus river system. July 5, 2011 | Advertisement As Egypt’s post-Mubarak regime begins to pursue cooperative water rights agreements with other Nile countries, the Indus River Basin is quickly turning water into a [...]
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July 5, 2011
Risk of new financial crisis prompts RBA to leave rates on hold Peter Martin July 6, 2011 RBA leaves interest rate on hold Business Day reporter Chris Zappone looks at the Reserve Bank‘s decision to leave the cash rate at 4.75 per cent. Video feedback Video settings THE Reserve Bank no longer expects to raise [...]
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July 5, 2011
Corporate Power? No Thanks Posted: 04 Jul 2011 11:38 AM PDT The machinations of the industry shouldn’t be allowed to spoil the case for nuclear power. By George Monbiot. Published in the Guardian 5th July 2011 Power corrupts; nuclear power corrupts absolutely. The industry developed as a by-product of nuclear weapons research. Its deployment was [...]
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July 5, 2011
Corporate Power? No Thanks Posted: 04 Jul 2011 11:38 AM PDT The machinations of the industry shouldn’t be allowed to spoil the case for nuclear power. By George Monbiot. Published in the Guardian 5th July 2011 Power corrupts; nuclear power corrupts absolutely. The industry developed as a by-product of nuclear weapons research. Its deployment was [...]
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July 5, 2011
The damaged units of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. Photograph: AIR PHOTO SERVICE / HO/EPA How did the thinking go? Well he does seems to have been anti-nuclear, with good reason BUT why the change in opinion and then this? The answer is quite simple, at least for me, but trust me that [...]
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July 5, 2011
Editor’s Note: Australian participant on the Freedom Flotilla to Gaza Michael Coleman has been arrested by Greek Police for attempting to block their pursuit of the Canadian boat the “Tahrir” as it left port. Michael and Soha, another Canadian Flotilla team member, were in two kayaks beside the “Tahrir”. As soon as the boat’s [...]
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July 4, 2011
India‘s economy has been growing quickly, but activists say democracy is suffering because prosperity is being hoarded by a small group of corrupt elites [EPA] 2010 was the year of scams in India – the 2G telecom swindle, Commonwealth Games, Adarsh and plenty of others. 2011 has emerged as the year of the fight against corruption – [...]
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July 3, 2011
Asian markets search for a new model consumer after the American economy tanked, which has yet to recover [Getty] Asia needs a new model consumer. A post-crisis generation of “zombie consumers” in the United States is likely to hobble growth in global consumption for years to come. And that means that export-led developing Asia now [...]
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July 3, 2011
Time and bailouts do not cushion anemic post-crisis recoveries from the inevitable next shock [GALLO/GETTY] The global economy is in the midst of its second growth scare in less than two years. Get used to it. In a post-crisis world, these are the footprints of a failed recovery. The reason is simple. The typical business [...]
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July 3, 2011
U.S. turns to other routes to supply Afghan war as relations with Pakistan fray By Craig Whitlock, Sunday, July 3, 9:54 AM The U.S. military is rapidly expanding its aerial and Central Asian supply routes to the war in Afghanistan, fearing that Pakistan could cut off the main means of providing American and NATO forces with fuel, food and equipment. Although Pakistan [...]
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July 3, 2011
KABUL, Afghanistan – Despite U.S. reports of progress on the battlefield, American troops were killed in the first half of this year at the same pace as in 2010 — an indication that the war’s toll on U.S. forces has not eased as the Obama administration moves to shift the burden to the Afghans. While [...]
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July 3, 2011
Obama intends to withdraw 10,000 US troops by the end of this year, and to complete the withdrawal of some 30,000 troops by September 2012 [GALLO/GETTY] US President Barack Obama’s speech from the White House on June 22 concerning the “way forward” in Afghanistan struck many as highly unusual. Though billed in advance as a [...]
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June 30, 2011
King George III Won: Happy Fourth of July! By David Swanson http://warisacrime.org/node/58333 Preface: It has always been a matter of concern that the US has for so long lived in an deluded state that it had gained its independence from the harsh and odious British rule to replace that with a Grand Dream of Republicanism. In this way the future [...]
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June 30, 2011
The Politics of Militarization and Corporatization in Higher Education War Colleges By HENRY GIROUX While there is an ongoing discussion about the increasing corporatization of higher education—extending from the attempted buying of faculty positions by right-wing billionaires such as the Koch brothers to the increasing casualization of faculty labor and the commodification of knowledge, what [...]
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June 27, 2011
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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June 25, 2011
Perhaps all the talk after the so called drawdown in Afghanistan, may well amount to concealed laughter by the military. The numbers being removed, if any real decease is actually going to happen are extremely small. Then the replacement mercenaries become yet another US army. If you have been just shot and killed by a [...]
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June 22, 2011
Hezbollah and the Arab revolution The group’s leader keeps his ear close to the ground, bonding with the dispossessed and speaking their language. Heralded by millions of fans as ‘the mastermind of the resistance’ – and demonised by the US and Israel as a ’terrorist’, Sayyid Hassan Nasrallah‘s rhetoric towards Syria is equally divisive [GALLO/GETTY] Is [...]
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June 22, 2011
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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June 21, 2011
If only Australia had the same number of capable female politicians who could really show the men’s club just how much damage they have done over the decades past. Instead we have Gillard, Wong, Bishop et al to show for what must surely be a very very substantial pool of female talent and motivation to [...]
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June 18, 2011
Whatever attitude you adopt it is hard to go past the fact that the US was with Iraq and our co-criminal involvement was all about oil as a resource as well as about controlling oil reserves in the Middle East. Of course that spreads to and includes other countries with estimated massive reserves of gas [...]
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June 17, 2011
Has oil production already peaked? Photograph: Corbis/BarbaraDavidson In public, the last government shrugged off the prospect of peak oil. In private, we know now that it had a different view. A powerpoint presentation released at last by the Department of Energy and Climate Change, in response to freedom of information (FoI) requests by the indefatigable [...]
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June 8, 2011
How the Empire Destroys Its Own People By James Petras On May 29, 2011, President Obama visited Joplin, Missouri , the site of a devastating tornado that killed 140 and pronounced it a terrible ‘tragedy’. But were the deaths the inevitable result of ‘natural events’ beyond the human intervention? Coincidentally the same week Afghan President [...]
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June 1, 2011
As we here in Australia listen to the madness of our elected representatives talk about security, war and a stupid notion of a presence in the Middle East, it should be remembered that insanity comes with a price tag. As the rush to security continues so does the amount we need to spend on the war [...]
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June 1, 2011
Misdiagnosing the Middle East |More F. Gregory Gause III | May 26, 2011 There is a dangerous consensus about the Middle East based on the assumption that authoritarian politics are the root of instability, violence and anti-Americanism. Thus the United States is obliged, for both its own security and the furtherance of its values, to [...]
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May 31, 2011
Global food crisis: Counting the real cost of biofuels A perfect storm of factors has driven the breathtaking rates of inflation and volatility in food markets over recent years, but biofuels have been the game changer Share10 Comments (2) Corn is loaded into a truck in Valley Springs, South Dakota. In 2008, while biofuels accounted [...]
Tags: 2007–2008 world food price crisis, Alex Evans, Biofuel, Climate change, Energy, Ethanol, Renewable, United States
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May 25, 2011
Netanyahu Conditions Denounced as ‘War’ by Palestinians by Mitchell Plitnick, May 25, 2011 Email This | Print This | Share This | Antiwar Forum Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu laid out what he called his vision for peace with the Palestinians Tuesday, but listed a set of conditions the Palestinians immediately called “a declaration of war.” Speaking before a [...]
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May 22, 2011
Let Obama Be Clear, But Can He? Obama is in the unenviable place between Israel and his re-election. By Lina Sawan When Hillary Clinton introduced Barack Obama’s long-awaited speech on Middle East policy to the State Department on Thursday May 19, her introduction pinpointed the purpose of the highly-anticipated speech, or what may come to [...]
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May 22, 2011
Barack Obama says he would repeat Pakistan raid Barack Obama says he respects Pakistani sovereignty but would go after another ‘very high-value target’ if found to be there Share98 Press Association guardian.co.uk, Sunday 22 May 2011 10.03 BST Article history Andrew Marr interviewed Barack Obama in the Diplomatic Reception Room of the White House. Photograph: [...]
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May 19, 2011
Barack Obama to back Middle East democracy with billions in aid President pledges cash to support Egypt and Tunisia after criticism US has been too slow to support uprisings Share60 Ewen MacAskill in Washington The Guardian, Thursday 19 May 2011 Article history Barack Obama will use his speech as an attempt to reposition the [...]
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May 18, 2011
In a recent Davis Suzuki Democracy he quoted a saying that the most revolutionary English words and actions are I’m Staying, the same can certainly apply to “I’m going” George Ikners ikners.com a WordPress site. Wednesday, May 18, 2011 He did it, Hassan Hijazi returned to Yafa (Java) – Millions will follow Palestinian Bouazizi [...]
Tags: 1948 Palestinian exodus, David Ben-Gurion, Israel, Majdal Shams, Maroun al-Ras, Nakba Day, Palestinian people, Syria
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May 18, 2011
Obama Faces Mounting Arab Disillusionment by David Elkins, May 18, 2011 Email This | Print This | Share This | Antiwar Forum On the eve of a much-anticipated address by President Barack Obama on U.S. policy in the Middle East, a new survey suggests that disillusionment with both Obama and Washington’s approaches to the region are once again on [...]
Tags: Barack Obama, Benjamin Netanyahu, George W. Bush, Israeli–Palestinian conflict, middle east, Osama bin Laden, Palestinian territories, United States
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May 17, 2011
Subscribe to FFF Email Update Subscribe to Freedom Daily DONATE TO FFF Hornberger’s Blog Monday, May 16, 2010 Hornberger’s Blog Index Information about RSS REMINDER: The Jacob Hornberger Show every Saturday at 7-8 pm EST. Listen and watch live on the Internet: http://www.ustream.tv/channel/the-future-of-freedom-foundation America’s Post-9/11 Turn toward Dictatorship by Jacob G. Hornberger Among the most potent [...]
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May 17, 2011
Special report: In Libyan oil shipment, sanctions prove dumb inShare6 Share this Digg Email Print Related News NATO must step up pace in Libya: British general Sun, May 15 2011 NATO hits Libyan arms depot as West faces dilemma Mon, May 9 2011 Special report: What triggered oil’s greatest rout Mon, May 9 2011 Libyan [...]
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May 17, 2011
One day everyone or at least those left alive and still able to think and speak will thank Assange whoever and whatever he was,is and will be. For the elites the hegemons the imperialists and the capitalists the truth has to be guarded against. Elaborate systems of lies, deceit and murder must be put in place [...]
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May 17, 2011
Carney knowledge used to be a crime but these days it seem to be the best way of avoiding a discussion by using it to say they were right now what is your question? Even to a child in a school yard that is not an accepted way of talking but in the US anything [...]
Tags: 1948 Palestinian exodus, Israel, Jay Carney, Nazi Germany, Palestinian refugee, Syria, United States, White House
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May 16, 2011
Sanity is where you find it and a recent article by Justin Raimondo of antiwar.com is exactly the place to go to see sanity in action. Perhaps the better word or phrase is “strict critical analysis”, but that is entirely a matter for you to decide. However, there is one possible complaint, and that [...]
Tags: 1948 Palestinian exodus, Bashar-al Assad, Justin Raimondo, middle east, Riders On The Storm, Rudolf Rocker, Tel Aviv, United States
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May 16, 2011
60 More Days in Libya: Obama Does Bush Lawyers Proud By David Swanson http://warisacrime.org/node/57853 Now we know why Obama has gone to such outrageous lengths to keep Bush’s lawyers out of prison, claiming powers of secrecy and immunity beyond Cheney’s wildest dreams and pressuring foreign nations to clamp down on any outbreaks of law [...]
Tags: John McCain, John Yoo, Libya, NATO, United Nations, United States, United States Constitution, War Powers Resolution
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May 16, 2011
‘Nakba’ Killings: Israeli Envoys Told to Blame Syria Israel Gears Up PR Campaign to Defend Killings Along Border by Jason Ditz, May 15, 2011 Email This | Print This | Share This | Antiwar Forum Faced with growing international concern over the killing of some 20 civilian protesters along its borders with Lebanon and Syria and the wounding of [...]
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May 16, 2011
This is an article from Der Spiegel about the Bin Laden assassination. After all the rumour and innuendo dies down what we can expect is that the US will continue to lie about what really happened for what can only be reasons of world domination. However, by simply going into a foreign country and assassinating someone like Israel their close cohorts [...]
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Been waiting a long time for this. But not surprised. Are you? Think first a Monbiot point of view
The damaged units of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. Photograph: AIR PHOTO SERVICE / HO/EPA How did the thinking go? Well he does seems to have been anti-nuclear, with good reason BUT why the change in opinion and then this? The answer is quite simple, at least for me, but trust me that [...]
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