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Israeli academics boycott settlements
THURSDAY, 02 SEPTEMBER 2010 16:27 Over 150 Israeli academics say they will no longer take part in cultural activities or lecture in the occupied West Bank settlement of Ariel.
Press TV reported: In a signed petition, faculty members from universities across Israel vowed not to lecture or participate in any discussions in the illegal settlements area and voiced support for the theater artists who have said they would refuse to perform in this West (…)

"We Don’t Need Central Banks"
Samstag, 15. Mai 2010 10:23 von Lars Schall
J.S. Kim, founder of the investment consulting firm SmartKnowledgeU, gives in an exclusive interview for chaostheorien.de his take on the deflation-inflation debate, talks about the Plunge Protection Team and reasons why it is important to understand that “there are no free-markets.”
J.S. Kim graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in 1990 (in Neurobiology) and earned a double master degree from the (…)

By David Glenn Cox
I walk these quiet empty streets like a post-apocalyptic omega man surrounded by quiet and empty stores and houses. Past the fast food joints still not busy even at dinnertime and car washes not busy on a beautiful Saturday morning. I fell into some money this week and thought I’d celebrate by going down to the sport’s bar about a mile from the garage and watching some college football.
I told my son where I was going and he screwed up his face and asked, “What sports (…)

THE MISNOMER OF PEACE TALKS
John Chuckman
I don’t know how anyone given the task could draw a map of Israel: it is likely the only country in the world with no defined borders, and it actually has worked very hard over many decades to achieve this peculiar state.
It once had borders, but the 1967 war took care of those. It has no intention of ever returning to them because it could have done so at any time in the last forty-three years (an act which would have been the clearest (…)

America: a walking dead-zombie country
Freitag, 20. August 2010 00:23 von Lars Schall
The high-profile financial pundit Max Keiser doesn’t shy away from crystal-clear, unmistakable statements. The following exclusive interview is no exception. Mr. Keiser sees an attack exercised against the majority of people in the U.S., sets out why gold is in no bubble at all, points at a remarkable move by the Harvard University, and has an advice to some US-American billionaires disguised as noble (…)

Island of Shame
by Murray Polner
Review of David Vine’s Island of Shame: The Secret History of the U.S. Military Base on Diego Garcia (Princeton University Press, 2009)
Why should anyone care about 5,000 part-African, part-southern Indian Chagossians, who once inhabited Diego Garcia, a remote island in the Indian Ocean mid-way between Africa and Indonesia, who were exiled so the U.S. could build yet another military base?
Since the onset of WWII and its aftermath, tens of millions (…)

Why The Fourth Branch Of The US Government Needs To Be Abolished, And Why "Authority" Should Never Be Trusted
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 09/05/2010 10:01 -0500
Ben Bernanke Central Banks Christina Romer Council Of Economic Advisors Excess Reserves Federal Reserve Lehman Market Crash Monetary Policy President Obama Purchasing Power Quantitative Easing Reality Recession recovery Reserve Currency Stagflation University of California White House
Yesterday we presented Dylan Grice’s (…)

Non-combat US troops in Iraq engage in combat
by Boris Volkhonsky
Global Research, September 6, 2010 Voice of Russia
On September 5, US troops were called in by Iraqi authorities to help combat insurgents who attacked an army base in Baghdad. There were no casualties among the American military and the whole incident would hardly be worth mentioning be it not for the fact that American participation in combat took place only five days after the widely advertised pullout of all US (…)

Is the US becoming a Third World Country?
Global Research, September 6, 2010 Press TV
During recent years, the gap between the rich and poor has increased at a staggering pace, systematically wiping the existence of the middle class from America.The United States is on the brink of sliding down to a Third World country, as it struggles with massive debts, rising unemployment and a deteriorating economy.
Some of the warning signs that indicate America’s fantastic fall from a First World (…)

When some 60 leading Israeli actors and playwrights signed a letter stating they would refuse to play in the new theatre in Ariel, one of Israel’s largest settlements, the attacks from Prime Minister Netanyahu, Israel’s Minister of Culture and Sport and many others were swift and intense. Over 150 leading Israeli academics and writers-including Amos Oz and David Grossman- came to their defense. It was the first time such mainstream figures had drawn a line around normalizing settlements (…)