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In the following short video, Arundhati Roy, “an Indian writer and activist who won the Booker Prize in 1997 for her novel, The God of Small Things, and in 2002, the Lannan Cultural Freedom Prize,” explains what occupies her thoughts during these unsettling times:
“I think, the thing that I’m thinking the most about, the question that occupies me a lot these days is, what kind, what form of resistance is effective, and acceptable to us?
“Because, I see all over and all around us, (…)

You Cannot Pardon a Crime you Authorized War Crimes of President Bush and His Subordinates
by Lawrence Velvel
Global Research, November 27, 2008
Statement from the Steering Committee for the Prosecution for War Crimes of President Bush and His Subordinates
Never before has a president pardoned himself or his subordinates for crimes he authorized. The closest thing to this in U.S. history thus far has been Bush’s commutation of Scooter Libby’s sentence. Bush is widely expected to (…)

Gunmen attack Mumbai, 80 killed
Source : "Pakistan Observer"
Mumbai—Gunmen targeted luxury hotels, a popular tourist attraction and a crowded train station in at least seven attacks in India’s financial capital, killing 80 people and wounding 250, officials and media reports said.
The Press Trust of India said at least 80 people were killed in the attacks that began late Wednesday and continued into Thursday morning.
Johnny Joseph, chief secretary for Maharashtra state, of which (…)

China and the Congo Wars: AFRICOM. New US Military Command
by F. William Engdahl
Global Research, November 26, 2008
Just weeks after President George W. Bush signed the Order creating a new US military command dedicated to Africa, AFRICOM, events on the mineral-rich continent have erupted which suggest a major agenda of the incoming Obama Presidency will be for the son of a black Kenyan to focus US resources, military and other, on dealing with the Republic of Congo, the oil-rich Gulf (…)

CounterPunch
November 22 2008
Photo: IN
While the liberal intelligentsia was swooning over Barack Obama during his presidential campaign, I counseled “prepare to be disappointed.” His record as a Illinois state and U.S. Senator, together with the many progressive and long overdue courses of action he opposed during his campaign, rendered such a prediction unfortunate but obvious.
Now this same intelligentsia is beginning to howl over Obama’s transition team and early choices to (…)

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There are many people who have been forced out of their jobs and academic careers, from postgraduate researchers to professors, because of bullying in universities in Britain.
We know that these same problems exist elsewhere around the world and seems to worsen the more neoliberal policies and ideologies are forced upon Higher Education systems. Sometime the problem of bullying and mobbing in the universities around the world is obscured and difficult to translate as behaviours and (…)

On Nov. 26, 2008, activists rallied in front of the White House, at 8 AM, to spotlight the ongoing humanitarian crisis in Israeli-Occupied Gaza. President George Bush plans this morning to pardon two turkeys in honor of Thanksgiving Day. Meanwhile, the desperate people of Gaza are trapped in borders “sealed” shut by the Israeli Occupation Army. According to the sponsoring group’s press release: “As a result of Israel’s closure, the UN has been forced to stop food distribution to 750,000 (…)

Financial Meltdown: You Ain’t Seen Nothing Yet
by Mike Whitney
Global Research, November 25, 2008
"The problems we face today cannot be solved by the minds that created them" Albert Einstein Obama hasn’t even been sworn in yet, and already the Wall Street cheerleaders are celebrating his first great triumph. According the pundits, the stock market staged a surprise 494 point rally on Friday because—get this—it was announced that Timothy Geithner would be appointed Obama’s (…)

Fidel Castro: "Al-Qaeda terrorists engineered in order to advance Bush administration’s agenda "
Global Research, November 25, 2008 Press TV - 2008-11-24
Former Cuban president Fidel Castro says al-Qaeda terrorists have been engineered in order to advance the Bush administration’s agenda.
In an essay published on Sunday, Castro said the terrorist group "was born from the empire’s own entrails", using the term "empire" to refer to the United States.
After the Sept. 11 attacks, the (…)