Moving sand anime from Ukraine

Gonna pick up posting again soon – just a bit busy right now. But here’s some extremely skillful but rather rather melancholic and soulful sand anime from the Ukraine (looks like it’s related to WWII in the Ukraine, then a part of the USSR). Thanks Inga.

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Dick Cheney’s “Executive Assassination Ring”

Was Dr. David Kelly a target of Dick Cheney’s “Executive Assassination Ring”?
By Tom Burghardt
Antifascist Calling
Revelations that the Central Intelligence Agency launched a world-wide assassination program, and then concealed its existence from the U.S. Congress and the American people for eight years, carries an implication that death squads may have been employed against political [...]

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Potential neurotoxin in our food

Wired Science published an article a couple of days ago on PBDE, a neurotoxin that also found its way into found in our food.
PBDE (PolyBrominated Diphenyl Ethers) are compounds that are used as flame retardants and therefore can be found in a wide array of products, including building materials, electronics, furnishings, motor vehicles, airplanes, plastics, [...]

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The impact of war: Military study ties war trauma, violence at home

Soldiers in a single Army unit killed as many as 11 people after returning home from Iraq and Afghanistan, the military said last week. One contributing factor? The psychological trauma of war.
NPR’s Daniel Zwerdling talks to Guy Raz about the military’s efforts to deal with soldier trauma and ease their re-entry into civilian life. Go [...]

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Pentagon list claiming former GITMO detainees becoming ‘terrorists again’ is totally unreliable

Lia Tarachansky speaks to Nancy Youssef, Pentagon Correspondent for McClatchy Newspapers currently based in Kabul, Afghanistan. Youssef speaks about a list recently released by Pentagon, identifying that 14% or 74 former detainees of Guantanamo Bay Naval Base detention center are “confirmed or suspected of reengaging in terrorist activities.” Following to story [...]

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Israeli soldiers’ revelations from Gaza

Israeli soldiers involved in the attacks on Gaza at the start of this year claim that they were ordered to fire, regardless of the risk to civilians. Israel banned journalists from its invasion of Gaza in December and January, making it hard to verify allegations of indiscriminate firing, the use of phosphorous bombs, and forcing [...]

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Political radicalisation and a profound sense of grief

A very thoughtful article by Robert Jensen on his personal process of political radicalisation. Rather than two pathways that readily come to mind, the one of hands-on activism and that of intellectual endeavour, he talks about a profound sense of grief for the pain in the world without whom joy cannot exist.

Getting radicalized, slow and [...]

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The brutality of the American health & social system: Californian hospitals dump patients on skid row

By Saul Landau
Saul Landau’s ZSpace Page /ZSpace
Amidst interminable “reporting” on the “poor” victims of Ponzi maven Bernie Madoff – would anyone care if people had blown $65 billion trying to get richer in Las Vegas? – an alarming July 5 NY Times headline informs: “Safety Net Is Fraying for the Very Poor.”
In the story, by [...]

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It happened all before: the 1976 swine flu pandemic and the US government vaccination propaganda that caused deaths and long-term illnesses

The WHO and the US administration in alliance with Big Pharma are involved in a major propaganda campaign to implement compulsory vaccination. There is no more “honest reporting” by mainstream TV as in this 1979 CBS TV program. Today, with some exceptions, network TV in America and in other Western countries such as Australia is [...]

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Chuck D and wife Gaye Theresa Johnson discuss rap, Malcom X, Obama and black political tradition

Excellent interview with Chuck D and his wife Gaye Theresa Johnson. It raises to our awareness the importance of black radical politics and black activism for a history that is not America’s as white liberals claim, but that is that of the black people in that country. Obama might be a symbol of that struggle, [...]

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Manipulation is rife on stock markets

Are Our Markets Being Manipulated By “Rogues” Or Firms?
Jul 15, 2009 By Danny Schechter
Danny Schechter’s ZSpace Page / ZSpace
There’s New Evidence to Suggest that Crime In The Financial Markets is Rife
Everyone has heard of the Wikipedia but not everyone knows about the Investopedia, a Forbes website, that monitors finance for market players.  One of [...]

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Noam Chomsky: season of travesties – freedom and democracy in mid-2009

Noam Chomsky’s ZSpace Page / ZSpace
June 2009 was marked by a number of significant events, including two elections in the Middle East: in Lebanon, then Iran. The events are significant, and the reactions to them, highly instructive.
The election in Lebanon was greeted with euphoria. New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman gushed that he is [...]

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A station master’s comment on turncoat Garrett

My respect goes out to the Hazelbrook station master for putting this little note on the station’s notice board yesterday. Nice touch to raise political awareness of the Labor goverment and in particular of one of its most disgusting, spineless and hypocritcal apostates.
A small addendum: Garrett’s back flip on uranium mining is not his first [...]

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Former rock star now environment minister approves uranium mine owned by one of the world’s biggest arms dealers

That the former Midnight Oil leader singer and one-time leader of the Australian Conservation Foundation, Peter Garrett, approved the country’s latest environmentally dangerous uranium mine is not the latest news anymore. What is though is that the mine will be owned by a subsidiary of one of the world’s biggest arms dealers, the Sydney Morning [...]

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There is a solution to bailed out banks refusing California’s request to tide over loans until October

This is an example for the Obama administration’s economic policies in action. It bails out the banks after they have been managed badly, and then the same banks refuse to use a small amount of that public money to give a loan reprieve to the State and therefore people of California, accusing the state of [...]

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When will Obama stand and fight for the people?

Chris Britt
The answer is: never. I’m not sure what it is that makes the so-called progressives not wake up from their illusions about Obama. The guy is part of the political establishment, which in turns is massively enmeshed with big business. Obama’s track record so far has clearly indicated that he does not stand on [...]

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Grand Ayatollah Montazeri suggests Iran’s politcal system is illegitimate (part 2)

more about “The Real News Network – Grand Ayatoll…“, posted with vodpod
Part 2 of Nader Hashemi on Iranian Grand Ayatollah Montazeri’s fatwa in which the Ayatolla suggests that the country’s Supreme Leader, its government and some of its institutions are illegitimate, and calls on Iranians to fight oppression. Nader Hashemi in this video [...]

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Grand Ayatollah Montazeri suggests Iran’s politcal system is illegitimate (part 1)

Iranian Grand Ayatollah Montazeri suggests that Iran’s Supreme Leader and the country’s government and institutions are illegitimate, and he urges Iranians to fight oppression.

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G20 or G192? The global economy needs structural change and not restoration

Let’s face it: the UN does not represent the people of countries but their governments, and governments in general do not represent their people either. Nevertheless, the tussle represented in the two videos above is an interesting one: it reflects a power differential, that between the political [...]

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USW president supports single-payer health care

Leo Gerard: I think we should fight for single-payer health care, fight for a principled position
Paul Jay speaks to Leo Gerard, President of the United Steelworkers’ union about his fight for single-payer health care reform and the unionization legislation. Gerard says that, “the unions are first and foremost going to be [...]

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