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  • It’s Not Going to Be OK
    4 February 2009 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Chris Hedges
    The daily bleeding of thousands of jobs will soon turn our economic crisis into a political crisis. The street protests, strikes and riots that have rattled France, Turkey, Greece, Ukraine, Russia, Latvia, Lithuania, Bulgaria and Iceland will descend on us. It is only a matter of time. And not much time. When things start to go sour, when Barack Obama is exposed as a mortal waving a sword at a tidal wave, the United States could plunge into a long period of precarious (…)

  • My Future As An Arms Manufacturer by Terry Jones (The Nation)
    1 February 2009 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Terry Jones The Nation January 22, 2009
    Source:/www.philhart.com
    It’s not that I’m keen on killing people. It’s just that the money’s so good. It’s not that I’m keen on killing people. I haven’t actually killed anyone myself yet. It’s all to do with economics. You see, I can’t help but notice that the arms industry is doing extremely well. In fact in these times of economic disaster, it’s the one industry that seems to be expanding.
    According to the Government’s Defence and (…)

  • Governments across Europe tremble as angry people take to the streets (video)
    31 January 2009 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Video from Bellaciao - Paris - 09-01-29
    By Ian Traynor,
    Arcellor Mittal workers demonstrate during a protest march in Marseille. Photograph: Jean-paul Pelissier/Reuters
    France paralysed by a wave of strike action, the boulevards of Paris resembling a debris-strewn battlefield. The Hungarian currency sinks to its lowest level ever against the euro, as the unemployment figure rises. Greek farmers block the road into Bulgaria in protest at low prices for their produce. New figures from the (…)

  • CLOSING GUANTANAMO: A Case for the International Criminal Court
    30 January 2009 par (Open-Publishing)

    JAZZMAN CHRONICLES. DISSEMINATE FREELY.
    On July 17, 1998 an assembly of diplomats in Rome created the International Criminal Court and charged it with the responsibility of prosecuting individuals accused of committing crimes against humanity, war crimes, genocide and crimes of aggression.
    The Court opened its doors on July 1, 2002, made its first arrest in March 2006 and began its first trial on January 26, 2009. The Court’s jurisdiction is limited to crimes committed after its (…)

  • Icelandic police tear gas protesters
    22 January 2009 par (Open-Publishing)

    By VALUR GUNNARSSON and JILL LAWLESS
    REYKJAVIK, Iceland (AP) — Police used tear gas to break up an angry protest outside Iceland’s parliament early Thursday, and two officers were hospitalized after being hit by rocks, the force said.
    It was the first time the country’s police had used tear gas in more than half a century, and came as demonstrators mount increasingly violent protests against a government they blame for leading once-prosperous Iceland into economic ruin.
    Demonstrators, (…)

  • Message in a Bottle
    19 January 2009 par (Open-Publishing)

    By David Glenn Cox
    I’m too angry to sleep, too weary to hope. I’m too old for optimism and too young to stop fighting. I’d hit someone if only I knew who; I’d march if only I knew where to go. I support the new President and think that he will bring a new vitality to the nation, but my age and anger tells me that vitality is a show business term. That trickle down never reaches us, and political spin is just so much wind passed into our faces.
    I have seen tax cuts for the rich passed (…)

  • “March of the Dead” Demonstration on Capitol Hill (video)
    7 January 2009 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by William Hughes
    On Tuesday, Jan. 6, 2009, Antiwar activists dressed all in black, with white death masks, paraded in a steady rain and in single file, past the U.S. Supreme Court, and around the U.S. Capitol, in Washington, D.C., as the new 111th Congress convened inside.
    The “March of the Dead” participants wore around their necks the names of those killed in conflicts in Iraq, Afghanistan and Israeli Occupied Gaza.
    The U.S. Congress has repeatedly voted hundreds of billions of (…)

  • Gaza pummelled as Sarkozy prepares for peace mission (+ video SKYNEWS)
    5 January 2009 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Philippe Naughton
    "Seven Palestinian children and six adults died today in Israeli bombardment of the Gaza Strip from air, land and sea, as President Sarkozy of France prepared for a unilateral diplomatic mission to the region.
    Houses, mosques and tunnels were hit as the Israelis continued to fire into the densely populated Palestinian territory in the hopes of damaging the militant group Hamas.
    Ehud Barak, the Israeli Defence Minister, said that "Operation Cast Lead" would continue (…)

  • Global protests end in riot on London streets
    4 January 2009 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Jeremy Watson
    RIOT police had to be deployed last night as a protest outside the Israeli embassy in London over Israel’s invasion of the Gaza Strip erupted into violence.
    In a day of global demonstrations over Israel’s military campaign against the Islamist Hamas movement, thousands of protestors gathered outside the embassy with some attempting to storm the Kensington compound.
    As tensions mounted in the early evening, police officers came under fire from missiles. The barrage, (…)

  • GAZA: "Operation Cast Lead" Part of a Broader Agenda by Michel Chossudovsky
    4 January 2009 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Michel Chossudovsky
    The aerial bombings and the ongoing invasion of Gaza by Israeli ground forces must be analysed in a historical context. Operation "Cast Lead" is a carefully planned undertaking, which is part of a broader military-intelligence agenda first formulated in 2001:
    "Sources in the defense establishment said Defense Minister Ehud Barak instructed the Israel Defense Forces to prepare for the operation over six months ago, even as Israel was beginning to negotiate a (…)