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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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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Sharp decline in employment of Blacks, slight employment increase for Whites: equality in America

The following New York Times article talks about employment inequality in New York, but it also mentions that that city reflects a nation-wide trend – just much more extreme. In the year ending April 30, Whites in New York gained about 130,000 jobs over the previous 12 months while Blacks, Hispanics and Asians lost 61,000 [...]

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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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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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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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The oppressive regime in Iran is bad, but so is the CIA

I’m no supporter of oppression or any other form of state violence and brutality. But let’s stop being hypocritical and become fair instead: while the Western world is rightly up in arms against state sponsored ruthlessness and barbarity in Iran, let’s ask the question: where is the same outcry and fervour [...]

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Conservatives use “racism” to drive a wedge between black and white working class communities

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When rabid right wing radio talk show host Rush Limbaugh and conservative guru Newt Gingrich initially attacked Supreme Court nominee Judge Sonia Sotomayor as a “racist,” they were using a time-tested strategy to appeal to Whites who believe their “rights” are being threatened by Blacks and people of [...]

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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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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.

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

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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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Peru Congress Suspends Two Divisive Decrees

Re-posted from Indigenous People’s Issues and Resources

Repression of Indigenous Protests Met with International Outcry, Solidarity Protests Held in 11 Cities Worldwide
Actress Q’orianka Kilcher To Visit Peru
US Urged to Take Position on the Necessity of Decrees for FTA

Lima, Peru (June 11, 2009) – Six days after National Police violently attacked indigenous people in Bagua, [...]

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Peru: Battle Lines Drawn over the Amazon

Published on Wednesday, June 10, 2009 by Rabble
by Ben Powless
The rhetoric was sharp enough to cut down Amazonian hardwoods. Yesterday, Sunday June 7th, after a number of ministers had been paraded out Saturday and the day before, Peru’s el Señor Presidente, Alan Garcia decided to make it personal. After a joint police-military operation aimed at stopping [...]

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Report Details Racial Discrimination at World Bank

WASHINGTON – June 9 – Today, the Government Accountability Project (GAP) released a report that investigates and finds evidence of racial discrimination against black professional grade employees at the World Bank. The report, which documents the treatment of these employees in recruitment, retention and internal judicial decisions, finds that a race ceiling exists at the [...]

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Israeli Terrorism and the Talmud

Quite a shocking video. It demonstrates the insanity sometimes embedded in religious books and the deadly effects it can have when believers deal with so-called non-believers. And while at first sight it seems hard to believe that there actually are Jews who would follow such inhumane and barbaric teachings, the small [...]

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List of current articles on the global economic and social crisis

The list represents a collection of recent articles by the Global Research Institute:
Sid Shniad, Daniel Estulin, James Petras & Russ Baker on The Global Research News Hour- Host: Stephen Lendman. Program Details, June 1-5 – 2009-06-05
Biopiracy, GM Seeds & Rural India
- by Priya Kumar – 2009-06-02
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The Economic Crisis in Australia
- by Peter Murray [...]

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Religious insanity – Christian video’s call to action to save Western civilisation from Muslim takeover

The West’s Racist attacks on Islam are part of the daily news feeds – from the Iraq war to backing Israel’s ethnic cleansing strategies against Palestinians, casting the wide net of labelling the innocent ‘terrorists’, refusing permission to build Islamic schools in Western cities, or providing a matrix for violent attacks [...]

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