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

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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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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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Obama’s Cap and Trade Carbon Emissions Bill – A Stealth Scheme to License Pollution and Fraud

By Stephen Lendman
Global Research

On May 15, HR 2454: American Clean Energy and Security Act of 2009 (ACESA) was introduced in the House purportedly “To create clean energy jobs, achieve energy independence, reduce global warming pollution and transition to a clean energy economy.”
In fact, it’s to let corporate polluters reap huge windfall profits [...]

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What ethics? Julia Gillard’s unquestioning love for Israel

There’s nothing clean about the business of politics, and certainly ethics play no part part in it – unless they can be exploited for personal gain. Julia Gillard, this slow-speaking nasty piece of Labor conservatism, camouflaging as deputy prime minister of Australia (hard to believe she’s been a student activist once representing the political left), [...]

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Ship Carrying Humanitarian Aid for Gaza Seized by Israel

Interview with Caoimhe Butterly, an Irish solidarity activist, conducted by Melinda Tuhus

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On June 30, an unarmed boat, named “Spirit of Humanity,” carrying 21 international peace activists was seized in international waters by the Israeli Navy, as it attempted to sail from Cypress to Gaza with relief supplies and messages of solidarity for Palestinians living [...]

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Millions face hunger in absence of immediate climate change action

Three days ago, Oxfam released a 60-page briefing paper under the title: “Suffering the Science – Climate change, people, and poverty”. The report reveals that seasons which were once distinct are shifting, destroying harvests and causing widespread hunger – which is just one of many impacts taking their toll on the world’s poorest people.

The [...]

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Uighurs’ struggle to retain cultural identity

The Chinese government has accused Uighur exiles of inciting violent protests in Urumqi in the western province of Xinjiang. But many ethnic Uighurs blame Beijing for systematically destroying their culture and identity. Al Jazeera’s Nazanine Moshiri explores the tense relationship between Uighurs and China’s leaders.
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Weekly list of articles on topics from the financial crisis to Iranian elections

F. William Engdahl, Larry Everest, Catherine Lutz and Cynthia Enloe, and Ellen Brown are guests on The Global Research News Hour
Host: Stephen Lendman, June 22-26
- 2009-06-26

Obama’s Financial Reform Proposal: A Stealth Scheme for Global Monetary Control
- by Stephen Lendman – 2009-06-24

Peruvian government forced to repeal Amazon free trade decrees
- by Luis Acre – [...]

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To the question of “natural growth” of Israeli settlements

Israeli settlement construction, including “natural growth” makes an advancement of two-state solutionimpossible, and Israel knows that – which is why they continue with the settlments’ expansion. So far they already have annexed 50% of the Westbank; their aim therefore can only be to incorporate the whole of this Palestinian land into [...]

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Israel, selling lies and barbarism to a world that doesn’t ask question anymore

“Make the lie big, make it simple, keep saying it and eventually you will believe it” …
The Israeli Regime has been selling nothing but lies and delusions, and after decades of repeating them, the world has stopped questioning. Intelligence, wisdom, justice and compassion have been almost [...]

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A history of CIA coups and atrocities

CIA operations follow the same recurring script. First, American business interests abroad are threatened by a popular or democratically elected leader. The people support their leader because he intends to conduct land reform, strengthen unions, redistribute wealth, nationalize foreign-owned industry, and regulate business to protect workers, consumers and the environment. So, on behalf of American [...]

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One sixth of the planet’s human population going hungry

The UN Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) estimates that 1 billion people on the planet (or 1/6 of the human population) do not have to enough to sustain themselves; in other words they suffer from hunger, malnutrition and all related after-effects. And while the wealthy countries’ governments are busy spending tax money on bailing out [...]

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Binyamin Netanyahu’s speech simply rhetorical

There was nothing new in Netanyahu’s speech, as many commentators have pointed out. When Netanyahu talks about ‘two free people’ he means the kind of racist homeland model that South Africa had under its apartheid regime. It was just a reheating of the same old disgustingly tasting soup, disgusting to those naively hoping for peace, [...]

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American Christians fund illegal Jewish settlers

… and therefore support illegal land grabs, racism, oppression, murder and ethnic cleansing. And all in the name of their god and his supposed son, who in theory loved all people. If Christians actually would live up to their beliefs, they would support the Palestinians – just as Jesus is said to have taken sides [...]

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An anti-capitalist manifesto

Apart from it being Euro-centric (although it speaks out against Euro-centrism), this manifesto puts its finger with high precision on the causes for the many emergencies we are confronted by: the financial, economic, climate, social, food and energy crises  as well as the ongoing wars are by and large products of a rapacious and obscene [...]

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From Airbus to Afghanistan, Israel, Peru, Antarctica and Clinton/Bush as war criminals …

… and much more – a long list of articles on current political topics by Global Research. I like GR because its critical perspective shines a torchlight onto the otherwise pretty meaningless and superficial news coverage of the mainstream press. The articles listed below were posted between the 2nd and 12th of June 2009.

And if [...]

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Petition to protect Peruvian Amazon Rainforest and its people

Dear friends,

Peru’s government is clashing violently with indigenous groups protesting the rapid devastation of the Amazon rainforest by mining, oil and logging companies. The forest is a global treasure – let’s stand with the protesters and sign the petition to President Garcia to stop the violence and save the Amazon:

The Peruvian government has pushed through [...]

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While Obama sweet-talks and does nothing another young child dies in Israel’s concentration camp called Gaza

Smile On The Face Of The Tiger
Jun 11, 2009 By John Pilger
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At 7.30 in the morning on 3 June, a seven-month-old baby died in the intensive care unit of the European Gaza Hospital in the Gaza Strip. His name was Zein Ad-Din Mohammed Zu’rob, and he was suffering from a lung [...]

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