June 19, 2011
Half a million displaced as Khartoum moves to crush Sudan‘s Nuba people Fierce fighting raises fears the country’s 22-year civil war will be reignited as the government turns on the north’s Africans, sidelined in the south’s peace dea New fighting has increased the chances that a north-south war will reignite, ending hopes of peaceful [...]
Tags: African Union, Comprehensive Peace Agreement, Kaduqli, Nuba peoples, Southern Sudan, Sudan, Sudan People's Liberation Army/Movement, United Nations Mission in Sudan
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June 7, 2011
If Killing Were As Evil As Flirting Submitted by davidswanson on Tue, 2011-06-07 04:14 Afghanistan I, Robert Gates, resign my position as Secretary of Defense of the United States of America with deep regret for actions that do not reflect my true values. For decades I have experienced a steady lapse of judgment for which [...]
Tags: Afghanistan, David Petraeus, Military budget, Osama bin Laden, Robert Gates, Soviet Union, United States, United States Secretary of Defense
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June 3, 2011
A State for Jews By William James Martin I grew up in NC and was around for the transformation to an integrated society where in the laws of the state and nation became color-blind; and blacks were afforded equal protection under the law. My parent’s generation were generally decent honorable people who wished no one [...]
Tags: Arab citizens of Israel, Israel, Jewish people, Jewish state, Jews, Law of Return, Palestinian people, United States
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May 20, 2011
Central to the position in Palestine is the presence of a fully armed and nuclear capable country that is seeking to simply take and to keep taking what belongs to other people. The first taking was then the land was simply handed to them without any regard to the justice of doing that. Regardless of how much [...]
Tags: Barack Obama, Benjamin Netanyahu, Boycott Divestment and Sanctions, Human rights, Israel, Israeli–Palestinian conflict, Jewish people, Jews, middle east, Nazism, Omar Barghouti, Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel, Palestinian people, United States, Zionism
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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 15, 2011
Usually when you see or hear the words “embedded with” and it refers to a Journalist particularly you can add to that description the words “State Department tool” or” Military asset ” What follows are very excellent TomDispatch articles on this topic. George Ikners ikners.com a WordPress site Tomgram: Peter Van Buren, Warrior Pundits and [...]
Tags: Adam Hochschild, History, New York Times, Saddam Hussein, TomDispatch, TomDispatch.com, United States, World War I
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May 8, 2011
Tomgram: Andy Kroll, Welcome to the McJobs Recovery Posted by Andy Kroll at 5:50pm, May 8, 2011. [Note for TomDispatch Readers: For those of you who created a wavelet of contributions in response to our offer on Tuesday of a personalized, signed copy of Adam Hochschild’s remarkable new history of World War I, To End All Wars: [...]
Tags: Adam Hochschild, Bertrand Russell, British Army, History, To End All Wars, Twentieth Century, Wars and Conflicts, World War I
Posted in Assange, Atomics Corporation, Austerity, Australia, Australian complicity in US warmongering policies and war crimes, Australian economy, Bahrain, Bakunin, BBC, BDS, Bin Laden, Bolivia, BP, Bradley Manning, BRIC, Burma, Capital, Capital Project, Capitalism, Children in Palestine and Gaza, CIA, Climate, Climate change, Commentators, Counterpunch, Cuba, D Room, economic measures, Economics, Economy, Education, Egypt, elections, Elites, Englehardt, Environment, Erdogan, Escobar, Escobar Escobar opinion thoughts, European, European Foreign Policy, Fascism, Fatah, Fisk, Foreign Policy, Fox News, Fukushima, Galeano, Gaza, Germany new old politics, Gillard, Gitmo disclosures, Goldstone, Greece, Guantanamo Bay a human disaster, Guantanamo crimes, Guardian, Hamas, Hillary, Honduras, IMF, immigration, Imperial Project, Imperialism, Indigenous, Indigenous Australians, Iran, Iraq, Islam and the US, Israel, Israel and diaspora forces of crime, Israel and force, Israel and the settlers, Israel and zionist moral crimes, Israel death and destruction, Israel expulsion, Israel lobby and what it can do, Israeli checkpoints, Ivory Coast, Ivory Coast Warlords, Japan, Japan Nuclear, Jason Ditz, Jewishness, Jordan, Koran, Kosovo, Labor, Leon Panetta, Libya, Malalai Joya, Media, melt down, MI 6, Middle East, Military, Military madmen, Miscarriage of Justice, Mission Creep, Monbiot, Mothers vote, Nakba, NATO, Netanyahu, News, News of the World, news report, Newsweek, Nigeria oil, nuclear, Obama, Obama warmonger, oil, Oil in the USA, Pakistan, Pakistan and war and unrest, Palestine, Pentagon, people's protests, Tom Dispatch, US economy, US elections, US Foreign Policy, US Politics, US war crimes, USA, Video, War, War Crimes, War is a crime | No Comments »
May 8, 2011
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 [...]
Tags: California, Higher education, Mexico, Mexico City, Noam Chomsky, Osama bin Laden, San Francisco, United State, University of California Los Angeles, University of Leeds
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April 16, 2011
blame Share224 Comments (512) Zrinka Bralo guardian.co.uk, Friday 15 April 2011 10.17 BST Article history David Cameron talked of wanting ‘good immigration’ not ‘mass immigration’ in his speech this week. Photograph: Ben Birchall/PA David Cameron’s speech on Thursday was a perfect example of everything that is wrong with the debate on immigration. He starts [...]
Tags: David Cameron, Debate, Guardian.co.uk, Human migration, Immigration, Politician, Social phenomenon, Vince Cable
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Is there a lesson here for the unelected Australian government?
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
Posted in Austerity, Australia, Australia and support it gives to Afghan war crimes, Australia Politics, Australian complicity in US warmongering policies and war crimes, Australian economy, Australian Foreign Policy, Australian Politics, Australian presence is the the Rudd dream, Avnery, Bahrain, Bakunin, Baltzer, Bangladesh, BBC, BDS, Bin Laden, Bolivia, BP, Bradley Manning, BRIC, Bukowski, Burma, Capital, Capital Project, Capitalism, Children in Palestine and Gaza, China, CIA, Climate, Climate change, Comedy, Commentators, Consent, Counterpunch, Cuba, D Room, debate and discussion, Democracy, Gillard, Gillard and Labor; Masters of the Australian Crawl, Global capitalism and imperialism, Golan Heights, Goldstone, Greece, Hamas, Hillary, Human Rights, IMF, immigration, Imperial Project, Imperialism, India, Indigenous, Iran, Iraq, Irrevelavance, Islam and the US, Israel, Middle East, US economy, US elections, US Foreign Policy, US Politics, US war crimes, USA, voodoo rhythm economics | No Comments »