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Demos in Israel – today and in the next weekend
A Communist Party of Israel leading member, MK Mohammad Barakeh, chairman of Hadash (Democratic Front for Peace and Equality) « congratulated » the Israeli prime minister and defense minister for « the shining victory of their pirate army on the freedom civilian sail ».
« The crimes of the pirate government in killing some of the sail’s participants put the government beyond international and human law. Tyrants like Bibi and Barak will find (…)

Israeli commandos have stormed an international aid convoy bound for Gaza leaving up to 19 dead and sparking mass protests across the world.
Britain joined other countries in denouncing the attack as "deplorable" and Palestine described the bloodshed as a "massacre".
The deadly dawn raid on a Turkish ship sparked a mass protest in Istanbul with 10,000 people marching through the street, burning Israeli flags.
Commandos, dressed in black and armed with rifles, dropped down ropes from (…)

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 (…)

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 (…)

South America: Venezuela the second largest economy in the region
Attilio Folliero and Cecilia Laya, Caracas 10/05/2005 - Updated 13/05/2010 and 21/05/2010
First published in
It’s official: in 2009 the GDP of Venezuela has overtaken Argentina. According to data recently published by International Monetary Fund (1), in 2009 the GDP of Venezuela was 337.30 billon dollars, compared with 310.07 billion dollars of GDP in Argentina. It ’s the first time that Venezuela over Argentina and is (…)

Western states obliged to help the United States! The U.S. public debt scary, almost 13 trillion dollars, which will add tens of trillions of dollars in other obligations. A portion of U.S. public debt is financed by foreign states, by buying U.S. Treasury bonds.
At the end of March 2010, the foreign countries holding U.S. bonds totaling 3884.60000000000 dollars, according to the latest data published last May 17 (1).
The figure is steadily increasing, although this amount was 3.071 (…)

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 (…)

“You are a little harder when you come out of a steel mill than when you went in.” - Austin McLelland (1)
In “Roots of Steel: Boom and Bust in an American Mill Town,” Deborah Rudacille vividly recreates the lives of the workers who lived in the company town of Sparrows Point, aka the “Point,” and the surrounding community of Dundalk, Maryland. During WWII, as many as 36,000 were employed at the sprawling facility, then owned by the Bethlehem Steel Co. and located on the water’s edge, just (…)

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 (…)

Orwellian Australia, a world leading greenhouse gas (GHG) polluter, falsely asserts that “More is less”, “Non-renewables are renewables”, “Inaction is action” and “Gas is clean energy” - turning the truth on its head Downunder.
Australia is a world leader in annual per capita GHG pollution and natural gas exports and is the world’s leading coal exporter. Australia is also dominated by powerful corporations linked to this orgy of Planet-killing GHG pollution. The horrible reality is that (…)