THE GENIUS OF CHAVEZ
de : Fidel Castro Ruz
President Chavez presented his annual report on activities carried out in 2011 and his program for 2012 to the Venezuelan Parliament. After thoroughly carrying out the formalities required by this important activity, he addressed the official state authorities, members of parliament from all parties, and supporters and opposition members who had come to the Assembly to participate in the country’s most solemn act. As usual, the Bolivarian leader was gracious and respectful to all (...)
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Tell the board of Susan G. Komen for a Cure: Don’t throw Planned Parenthood under the bus!
de : Becky Bond
The Republican plan to defund Planned Parenthood is working — but if we take action now we may be able to stop the latest attack on women’s right to health care. It was just announced that Susan G. Komen for a Cure, America’s largest charity to fight breast cancer, will no longer fund a program that provides free or low-cost breast cancer screenings for millions of women who get their health care from Planned Parenthood.1 This is a huge blow. In abruptly pulling (...)
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CLEARING THE GROUND FOR WAR AGAINST IRAN
de : London
There is a frightening crescendo building towards war in the Middle East. The UN is debating a resolution on Syria demanding regime change. This follows the withdrawal of the Arab League delegation there and calls for intervention. The US military is clearing the ground for war against Iran. In a report to Congress, Director of National Intelligence James Clapper claimed that Iranian leaders "are now more willing to conduct an attack in the United States." (...)
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U.S. - China Energy Trade War Imminent?
de : John Daly
Washington loves free trade – if it produces a surplus for the U.S. In an election year, with a modest economic recovery underway, American politicians are trumpeting their credentials in saving and creating jobs and protectionism sentiment against foreign products is rising. And the number one target? China. Hardly surprising, as during the period January-November China’s surplus balance of trade with the U.S. reached $272 billion, almost 8 percent higher than that (...)
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Notice - Byron, Illinois Nuke In Trouble
de : Bob Nichols, Project Censored Winner
Loss of Off-site Power Shuts Down Reactor ... by Bob Nichols Jet Stream Winds push Radiation to Downtown Chicago The Weather Channel (San Francisco) Excelon Corporation announced Monday, Jan 30 that one of two reactors at Byron, Illinois had automatically shut down due to loss of electrical power from the electrical grid. The two Byron nuclear stations generate almost 7 Billion Watts of heat, 2.3 Billion Watts is turned into electricity; the remaining 4.7 Billion Watts of Heat is wasted (...)
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Letter of february to Obama.
de : kakine
Mr President Obama The White House 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue N.W. Washington DC 20500 Mr President, It is already the month of February 2012, and the five Cuban patriots, Gerardo Hernández, Antonio Guerrero, Fernando González, Ramón Labañino, and René González, are still not liberated. You cannot say that René González is free, as your justice system does not allow him to return to his country; in consequence, his life is in danger. In my last letter to you, I wrote how we are a great (...)
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The weeks’ nuclear news to February 1
de : Christina Macpherson
Australia: The Australian media excelled itself in its distortion of news on Aboriginal protest in Canberra. There may be an investigation into the violence there – violence not from the Aborigines, but from the police. Focus on this incident obscured a deeper problem – the draft Constitutional changes which include entrenching the discrimination and land-grabbing that goes on in the interests of the uranium/nuclear industry. The Commission’s full report is (...)
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The unfulfilled promises of microcredit: some new evidence
de : Stéphanie Jacquemont
Muhammad Yunus, 2006 Nobel Peace Prize laureate and founder of the Grameen Bank, made the promise of a world without poverty thanks to the magic of microfinance and social business . Since the main problem of poor people was, he said, that they are denied access to capital and markets, the way to release them from the grip of poverty was to lend them small amounts of money. The micro-borrowers would then become competitive micro-entrepreneurs in ultimately rewarding markets. Furthermore, (...)
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15 Things More Important Than Newt’s Sex Life on the Moon
de : David Swanson
1. A war on Iran could kill us all. President Obama said in the State of the Union: "America is determined to prevent Iran from getting a nuclear weapon, and I will take no options off the table to achieve that goal. But a peaceful resolution of this issue is s till possible . . . if Iran changes course." So, unless Iran, which the Secretary of Defense says is not developing a nuclear weapon, ceases developing a nuclear weapon, we’re going to war. Sound familiar? Ever seen this (...)
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Video: TWO’s Wayne Besen on Rachel Maddow Discussing Romney’s Anti-Gay Donations
de : Wayne Besen
Last night, TWO’s Wayne Besen appeared on MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow Show to discuss how former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney indirectly helped fund so-called "pray away the gay" therapy. The Tyler Charitable Foundation, set up and funded by the Romneys, donated $10,000 in 2006 to the Massachusetts Family Institute, which promotes the ex-gay programs. The charity also donated $25,000 to the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty, which opposes marriage equality and has compared LGBT (...)
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The Symbol
de : Daveparts
The Symbol By David Glenn Cox The time comes and it overtakes us all, a time when all, which we thought, could never be so, is so. All of the things, which once seemed impossible, have now come to pass. The world as we once knew it is gone; our lives as we once knew them are inverted, contorted and pulled inside out. Since the fall of the Soviet Union, some thirty years ago, any motivation to promote Capitalism as superior economic system to the people has evaporated and ceased to exist. (...)
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GOP Dance Kills Pet Pipeline Project
de : Daniel J. Graeber
Republican critics of the U.S. president continued to lob accusations at the White House by saying it wasn’t doing enough to promote anything from jobs to energy security or was somehow misleading the American public by playing political games with the planned Keystone XL oil pipeline from Canada. Yet the irony is that by playing their own political games, the Grand Old Party may have effectively killed off the project by forcing the administration’s hands – at least for (...)
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STOP THE WAR BEFORE IT STARTS - EMERGENCY PROTEST THIS SAT JAN 28
de : London
Hands off Iran and Syria 2 - 4pm, US Embassy Grosvenor Square London W1K 2 Called by Stop the War Coalition. Supported by UNITE the Union, War on Want, Palestine Solidarity Campaign, Campaign against Sanctions and Military Intervention on Iran, Friends of Al-Aqsa, Goldsmiths Student Union and SOAS Student Union. This is the most dangerous moment in the world since 2003. The sanctions on Iranian oil imposed by the EU on Monday are a provocation that could spark a war at any time. (...)
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26 January: Indian Republic Day & Australia’s Australia Day (Invasion Day)
de : Dr Gideon Polya
26 January is the Republic Day of India which commemorates the date on which the Constitution of India came into force, replacing the British Government of India Act 1935 (26 January 1950), noting that India achieved Independence from Britain on 15 August 1947. The 26th of January was chosen to commemorate the declaration of Indian independence in 1930. 26 January is Australia Day for White Australians and Invasion Day for Indigenous Australians (Black Australians, Aborigines, (...)
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The Message
de : Timbre Wolf
The message It is not in ANYONE’s best interest that: There are millions of unemployed people (most of them WANT to be employed).  It is not in ANYONE’s best interest that: Millions of people on unemployment can’t afford to take a job that pays less than their unemployment.   It is not in ANYONE’s best interest that: Millions of people on unemployment can’t afford to take a job that would eliminate what healthcare insurance they have. It is not in (...)
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Wrap up of the week’s nuclear news
de : Christina Macpherson
Australia: Renewable energy The anti renewable energy movement has taken a decidedly political turn in three States. Victoria and New South Wales persist in strong anti wind energy policies, despite scientific reports about wind energy not being harmful to health. (An extraordinary double standard here, as Victoria’s government pushes ahead with permits for coal seam gas exploration). In South Australia, Family First rears its astroturfing head, as it vows a political fight against (...)
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Why Oil Prices Are About to Collapse
de : The Oil Drum
All is not as it appears in the global oil markets, which have become entirely dysfunctional and no longer fit for its purpose, in my view. I believe that the market price is about to collapse as it did in 2008, and that this will mark the end of an era in which the market has been run by and on behalf of trading and financial intermediaries. In this post I forecast the imminent death of the crude oil market and I identify the killers; the re-birth of the global market in crude oil in new (...)
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Stop Threatening Iran! We Will NOT Tolerate It
de : Timbre Wolf
Whereas Iran is home to 75 million ordinary (and extraordinary) fathers, mothers, sons and daughters, and whereas U.N. and IAEA fact finding missions have found no evidence of nuclear weapons manufacturing in Iran (despite a dishonest US mainstream media blitz to the contrary), and whereas the only possible explanation for invasion is corporate greed, We, the people, of the United States, Israel, Europe, Asia, South and Central America, Canada, Australia, Russia, Turkey, Africa, and the (...)
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CO2-based Carbon Debt (Climate Debt) & Carbon Credit (Climate Credit) by Country
de : Dr Gideon Polya
At some point Humanity is going to realize that it is too late to tackle man-made climate change without massive geoengineering that will in turn have predicted and unpredicted flow-on effects. One way of assessing our approach to this “Too Late” scenario is to assess Net Carbon Debt (Net Climate Debt) and Net Carbon Credit (Net Climate Credit) for every country on Earth. See below to find out to what extent YOUR country is a Climate Debtor or a Carbon Creditor in terms of (...)
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PROTEST NEXT SATURDAY 28 JAN, 2PM - HANDS OFF IRAN & SYRIA
de : London
The first major protest against an attack on Iran and Syria is scheduled for next Saturday, January 28, outside the US Embassy in Grosvenor Square, London. The prospect of a new war in the Middle East is growing. As well as tightening sanctions, covert operations, assassinations and cyber attacks on Iran there is clear evidence of hostile US troop movements in to the region. The right in the US is pushing hard for intervention and these kind of provocations could spark war at any time. (...)
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SOPA Won’t Stop Online Piracy, Would Censor Everyone Else Read more: http://tec Obama’s Clever Manipulation of Local Law Enforcement Demonstation F**k The Police ! Saturday, February 11 in Barcelona (Catalonia pla Charlottesville, Va., City Council Passes Resolution Opposing War on Iran UK TV series "The Promise" & false pro-Zionist defamation of anti-racist Jews Israeli persecution against Rabbi Uzi Meshulam & his family (video) THE BEST PRESIDENT FOR THE UNITED STATES Press Release – Collectif Bellaciao sued in defamation by Mario SANDOVAL THE MARCH TOWARDS THE ABYSS Never Underestimate the Desperation of a Broke(n) Government BOYCOTT INDIANA!!! How Congress Has Signed Its Own Arrest Warrants in the NDAA Citizen Arrest Act Young People More Likely To Favor Socialism Than Capitalism: Pew Education Ministry blasts Israeli Arab school for taking students to human right Palestinians hoping to leave Gaza Strip asked to collaborate with Israel The History of MIT’s Blatant Suppression of Cold Fusion letter of january to Obama A Normal Life While You Were Drinking Obama Turned Your Rights Over To the Military Happy Gay New Year (it’s the effing Constitution Stupid) Re 2011, pro-war, pro-US Mainstream Australia media "don’t mention the war" Unsustainable Israeli Politics of Exclusion in Jerusalem War Imminent in Straits of Hormuz? $200 a Barrel Oil? 2012 will be a change in America...finally!! Former oppressor brought from Bolivia to be prosecuted for more than 300 kidnappings Australian ABC censorship of top Jewish intellectuals against racist Zionism BREAKING: China and Japan, Asias two largest economies just dumped the greenback Prospects for Peace on Earth Startling the Global Community, Canada Withdraws from the Kyoto Convention Israel is in the midst of a culture war USA 2012/2016: An insolvent and ungovernable country!!! WH OKs military detention of terrorism suspects BBC Reporter Detained & Prevented from Covering US-NATO- Syrian Operations 8 Stories Buried By the Corporate Media That You Need to Know About Has the Israel Lobby Gone Too Far? Bradley Manning hearing: agents say gunship killing video found in room (videos) Nicaragua Sugar, pesticides and CKD Ein Bustan kindergarten is the first Jewish/Arab Waldorf kindergarten in Israel San Antonio sugar mill maintains tradition of commitment with its collaborators US withdraws but Australian ABC censors out 4.6 million war-related Iraqi dead

Press Release – Collectif Bellaciao sued in defamation by Mario SANDOVAL
Wednesday 11 January-02:05
de : Collectif BELLACIAO

On January 12, 2012, Roberto Ferrario, one of the spokesmen of the Collectif BELLACIAO, will appear before the Criminal Court of Auxerre, assisted by his lawyer, Maître France WEYL, following a libel suit that Mr. Mario Sandoval filed against several media, including Marianne2, Mediapart, Le Grand Soir, Courrier International, France Info, El Correo, Calpa ... Mr. Mario Sandoval, a former Argentine police officer, sues BELLACIAO for the publication, on our forum, of an article released by (...)

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BOYCOTT INDIANA!!!
Wednesday 4 January-15:20
de : David R. Hoffman, Legal Editor of Pravda.Ru

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The late civil rights activist Malcolm X once said, “I believe that there will ultimately be a clash between the oppressed and those who do the oppressing. I believe that there will be a clash between those who want freedom, justice and equality for everyone and those who want to continue the system of exploitation. I believe that there will be that kind of clash, but I don’t think it will be based on the color of the skin . . .” Yet, despite this hope that the (...)

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From Occupation to Revolution
Wednesday 9 November-22:49
de : John Spritzler and Dave Stratman

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There is no step the OWS movement can take that would have greater impact than to decide explicitly that its goal is revolution. Transforming the whole society has in fact underlain the movement from the start. It is implicit in the movement’s profound commitment to democracy, to equality among participants, to sharing and support for each other. Why should the values embodied in OWS be limited to a few blocks in towns and cities across America? The movement’s refusal to (...)

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APPEAL OF THE SECOND INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF VICTIMS OF AGENT ORANGE/DIOXINE
Wednesday 31 August-19:13
de : André Bouny

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Hanoi, Socialist Republic of Vietnam, 9th August, 2011 The Second International Conference of Victims of Agent Orange/dioxin, held in Hanoi from August 8th to 9th, 2011 included participants from around the world: Agent Orange victims, victims of other toxic chemicals, scientists, lawyers and social activists. The conference is a significant and important historic event, marking the 50th anniversary of the first spraying of the toxic chemical Agent Orange (1961-1971) by the U.S. forces (...)

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Was Norway Massacre a reaction to BDS Israeli Boycott?
Sunday 24 July-22:35
de : Gilad Atzmon

I learned last night from an Israeli online journal, that two days before the Utoya Island massacre, AUF’s (Labour Party’s youth movement) leader Eskil Pedersen gave an interview to the Dagbladet, Norway’s second largest tabloid newspaper, in which he unveiled what he thinks of Israel. In the course of the interview, Pedersen stated that he “believes the time has come for more drastic measures against Israel, and (that he) wants the Foreign Minister to impose an (...)

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