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  • Israeli troops attack ship carrying aid to Gaza killing 16
    31 May 2010 par (Open-Publishing)

    Israeli commandos have stormed a flotilla of ships carrying activists and aid supplies to the blockaded Palestinian enclave of Gaza, killing as many as 16 of those on board.
    By Richard Spencer, Middle East Correspondent and Matthew Kalman in Jerusalem
    Fighting broke out between the activists and the masked Israeli troops, who rappelled on to deck from helicopters before dawn.
    A spokeswoman for the flotilla, Greta Berlin, said she had been told ten people had been killed and dozens (…)

  • Israelis Kill at least 3, Injure Dozens in Assault on Gaza Ship Convoy Carrying Humanitarian Aid
    31 May 2010 par (Open-Publishing)

    10 PM CST: Solidarity activists aboard one of six relief vessels traveling to Gaza with humanitarian report that they have been attacked by Israeli forces, with three of their human rights volunteers killed and roughly 30 injured. The assault comes in the wake of the flotilla being surrounded earlier today by three Israeli warships in international waters, roughly 70 miles away from the Israeli coast. The Flotilla moved further west, deeper into international waters to avoid any conflict (…)

  • Western Sahara and the Sahrawis: a Cross-Road or a New Road-Map
    26 May 2010 par (Open-Publishing)

    The Western Sahara deadlock has been taking place for many years and caused a lot of misery, suffering, debates, and frustration among other things. The UN-brokered peace plan has only contributed to more grievance and false hopes.
    Yet in Western Sahara, recent civilian nonviolent resistance has greatly impacted the lives of the Sahrawis and changed political calculations. Oppression, beatings, torture, imprisonment, unfair trails have only pushed Sahrawis to go on further and challenge (…)

  • U.S. Lifts Sanctions Linked to Iran
    23 May 2010 par (Open-Publishing)

    23 May 2010 AP WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama’s administration has removed sanctions against three Russian organizations that the United States had previously accused of assisting Iran’s effort to develop nuclear weapons. Penalties against a fourth Russian entity previously accused of illicit arms sales to Syria were also lifted.
    The timing of the decisions, published in Friday’s Federal Register but not otherwise announced by the State Department, suggested the possibility of a (…)

  • Video: Memo to Rep. Cummings: “Stop Funding the War!”
    19 May 2010 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Memo to Rep. Cummings: “Stop Funding the War!” from William Hughes on Vimeo.
    Peace and Justice activists, on May 19, 2010, staged a protest action in front of Rep. Elijah Cummings’ office in midtown Baltimore, MD. They urged him to oppose the proposed $33 billion supplemental funding Bill for the war in Afghanistan, which is currently pending in the U.S. Congress. Speaking on camera are: Max Obuszewski, Maria Allwine, Emiko Ortega, Cindy Farquhar and David Schott. The action was sponsored (…)

  • Trotsky, “The Lacuna” & Murdochracy Q&A: Australia ignores Israeli, US state terrorism & holocaust denial
    16 May 2010 par (Open-Publishing)

    Trotsky, “The Lacuna” & Murdochracy Q&A: pro-Zionist Australia ignores Israeli and US state terrorism, Western holocaust denial and the ongoing Palestinian Genocide, Iraqi Genocide, Afghan Genocide and Climate Crisis (10 billion people are predicted to die in the worsening Climate Genocide but none of these Genocide terms are part of Australian public discourse).
    The Australian taxpayer-funded Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) (Australia’s equivalent of the British BBC) is (…)

  • Questions Q&A won’t ask re Israeli terrorism, huge child sexual abuse & Internet Censorship in Australia
    11 May 2010 par (Open-Publishing)

    Australia has a taxpayer-funded electronic media corporation called the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) that is essentially the Australian equivalent of the UK BBC and is regarded as the most liberal and progressive medium in the country.
    Unfortunately the ABC has to maintain a position of “balance” and that means in practice maintaining a position between the extreme right wing , pro-war, pro-coal, pro-logging, pro-Zionist, human rights-abusing, conservative Liberal (…)

  • Video: CODEPINK’s Medea Benjamin Speaks Out for Peace
    9 May 2010 par (Open-Publishing)

    CODEPINK’s Medea Benjamin Speaks Out for Peace from William Hughes on Vimeo.
    Activists from CODEPINK showed up at John Marshall Park in Washington, D.C., on Saturday May 8, 2010. The were joined briefly by activists fighting for the creation of a national jobs program. CODEPINK was celebrating not only Mother’s Day, but echoing the spirit of Julia Ward Howe’s 1870 Proclamation. Ms. Howe demanded on that Mother’s Day past for the nation to “Disarm, Disarm! Mothers say Disarm!” Medea (…)

  • On 65th VE Day Anniversary US Alliance responsible for 9-11 million excess deaths in Iraq & Afghan Wars
    9 May 2010 par (Open-Publishing)

    As of the 65th Anniversary of VE Day (8 May 1945), the US Alliance (and German) War on Arab, Muslim, and Asian Women and Children is now responsible for 9-11 million excess deaths in Iraq (1990-2010) and Afghanistan (2003-2010).
    The World has just celebrated the 65th anniversary of VE Day (Victory in Europe Day), the day on which Nazi Germany was finally defeated after about 35 million deaths in the European part of World War 2.
    However the US took over when genocidal and racist German (…)

  • The United States of Corruption: Government of Corporate Overlords, by the CIA/Pentagon, for the Royals
    4 May 2010 par (Open-Publishing)

    The United States of Corruption: Government of Corporate Overlords, by the CIA/Pentagon, for the Royal Elite
    Responding to President Obama’s Claim that "We, the People, are the Government"
    B.Z. Burnbridge Cinco de Mayo, 2010
    "From the bosom of the devastated Earth, a voice goes up with our own. It says ’Disarm!’ ’Disarm!’ The sword of murder is not the balance of justice." —Julia Ward Howe, Mother’s Day Declaration, 1872
    In the past industrial century, human beings have been (…)