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Sunday 1/1/2012

Asesinan a alcalde electo en el departamento de Nariño a un día de investidura 1/1/2012 Rebelion: "Padre de cinco hijos, Chatazar fue elegido por el Movimiento de Autoridades Indígenas de Colombia (AIC). El gobernador indígena de Santa Cruz, Servio Bernal, exigió a las autoridades esclarecer el crimen, tras llamar a la comunidad a mantener la calma."

Friday 12/30/2011

Has America’s Stolen Election Process Finally Hit Prime Time? 12/30/2011 Common Dreams: "For years the Democratic Party and even much of the left press has reacted with scorn for those who’ve reported on it. But the imperial fraud that has utterly corrupted our electoral process seems finally to be dawning on a broadening core of the American electorate---if it can still be called that."

Marching Towards the Past in Guatemala 12/30/2011 Counterpunch: "In Guatemala, former military officers and their supporters have filed legal charges against human rights activists, journalists, and surviving victims of State repression, even as a former general, Otto Perez Molina – himself implicated in Guatemala’s genocide – prepares to assume the Guatemalan presidency on January 14, 2012! Moreover, Perez Molina has named high ranking trainers of the brutal Kaibil forces to the top three military command positions. Kaibil’s were directly implicated in the very worst of the State repression and genocide of the 1970s, 80s and early 90s, and some today have direct links to the Mexico-based “Zeta” narco-trafficking cartel."

Wednesday 12/28/2011

Los Santos de los narco-paramilitares 12/28/2011 Rebelion: "Fachito, llamado así por su alineamiento con la extrema derecha, fue vicepresidente en el gobierno del narcopara Álvaro Uribe Vélez y en el cual se ocupo de disculpar los crímenes de los militares y escuadrones de la muerte, de atacar a las ONGs de derechos humanos y de condenar el narcotráfico, siendo a la vez un adherente del narcoparamilitarismo colombiano. Su hipocresía no le impidió atacar a ciertos actores y modelos por su adicción a la cocaína (omitió a políticos del planeta), olvidando que él mismo fumaba largos porros de marihuana, como el que se fumo junto a su esposa María Victoria en Ámsterdam, cuando en 1997 le concedió una entrevista a la periodista Petra Koning de la revista holandesa VRIJ, para chillar por su suerte de ex secuestrado de los paras, como es su cínica costumbre."

Tuesday 12/27/2011

Paramilitares asesinan a Alexa Gómez Polania, líder de los desplazados en Mocoa (Putumayo) 12/27/2011 Rebelion: "La herramienta paramilitar del gran latifundio sigue asesinado a reclamantes de tierras con plena complicidad del Estado colombiano."

Monday 12/26/2011

Paramilitares causan desplazamiento de 81 familias afrodescendientes por no colaborar 12/26/2011 Rebelion: "Rebelión ha transcrito la entrevista que Contagio Radio realizó al lider comunitario Orlando Pantoja, coordinador de Cococauca. En Colombia no cesa el desplazamiento ni la guerra. Las comunidades de Timbiquí, Cauca, han tenido que desplazarse. Desde el 14 de diciembre se encuentran en el casco urbano de Guapí."

Saturday 12/24/2011

Venezuela: Jesús Chucho García conversó con productores de Cacao Barloventeños 12/24/2011 Legado Afro: "El barloventeño Jesús “Chucho” García investigador de temas africanos y actualmente jefe de misión diplomática de Venezuela en Angola, conversó el pasado miércoles 21 de diciembre en la población de San José de Barlovento con productores de cacao de esa región sobre “Barloventeñidad y el Poder Popular.”

Friday 12/23/2011

Despojos de tierras: siguen matando a mujeres líderes.-Asesinada líder de los desplazados en Mocoa 12/23/2011 Partido Comminista de Colombia: "Estando en su casa de habitación ubicada en la vereda, las planadas del municipio de Mocoa, fue vilmente asesinada la señora, ALEXA GOMEZ POLANIA, de aproximadamente 35 años madre cabeza de hogar y miembro de la Asociación de desplazados “el Progreso” de la mencionada vereda."

Thursday 12/22/2011

Venezuela: Promulgada Ley Orgánica contra la Discriminación Racial 12/22/2011 Legado Afro: "El presidente de la República Hugo Chávez promulgó este lunes, en Consejo de Ministros Extraordinario celebrado en el Palacio de Miraflores, la Ley Orgánica contra la Discriminación Racial, la cual fue aprobada por unanimidad por los diputados y diputadas de la Asamblea Nacional (AN) el pasado 22 de agosto."

Wednesday 12/21/2011

50 years later: Fanon's legacy 12/21/2011 Pambazuka: "In the penultimate chapter of ‘Frantz Fanon: A Portrait’, Alice Cherki notes that Blida Psychiatric Hospital in Algiers still bears his name, that Fanon has a boulevard and a high school for girls named after him, though young people have no idea who he is. After independence in Algeria, Fanon was quite quickly marginalised. A new constitution identified the nation with Islam and that women were actively dissuaded from playing any part in public life did not jibe with Fanon’s vision of politics."

Monday 12/19/2011

Joel Sangronis Padrón: La recuperación de la africanidad 12/19/2011 Legado Afro: "Como bien lo dice Miguel Acosta Saignes en su obra Vida De Los Esclavos Negros En Venezuela: ?toda la sociedad colonial descansó en Venezuela sobre las espaldas poderosas de los africanos y sus descendientes; sobre su valor y su extraordinaria resistencia; también sobre su inteligencia y su entereza; sobre su capacidad inagotable de esperanza y sobre su indoblegable espíritu de rebeldía?."

Friday 12/16/2011

El “padrino” de la Inteligencia Militar colombiana, absuelto en el caso del Palacio de Justicia 12/16/2011 Rebelion: "Un general colombiano absuelto hoy en uno de los casos más infames de derechos humanos del país colaboró “activamente” con escuadrones de la muerte paramilitares responsables de docenas de masacres, según registros estadounidenses hasta ahora secretos obtenidos según la Ley de Libertad de la Información por National Security Archive. Otrora el tercer oficial más importante de las fuerzas armadas colombianas, y posteriormente máximo consejero del Departamento de Seguridad Administrativa (DAS) del presidente Álvaro Uribe, Iván Ramírez Quintero, fue absuelto hoy de la tortura y desaparición de Irma Franco, una de varias personas detenidas por el ejército durante el desastre en el Palacio de Justicia de noviembre de 1985."

Thursday 12/15/2011

Did Pentagon help strangle the Arab Spring?  12/15/2011 Asia Times: "As state security forces across the region cracked down on democratic dissent, the Pentagon also repeatedly dispatched American troops on training missions to allied militaries there. During more than 40 such operations with names like Eager Lion and Friendship Two that sometimes lasted for weeks or months at a time, they taught Middle Eastern security forces the finer points of counter-insurgency, small unit tactics, intelligence gathering, and information operations skills crucial to defeating popular uprisings."

Venezuela: Con balance positivo culminó II Encuentro de Coordinadores de la Cátedra Libre África  12/15/2011 Legado Afro: "Los participantes coincidieron al señalar que el balance es muy positivo porque se alcanzó un buen número de metas y “las pocas que quedaron pendientes ya están en proceso de consecución”, afirmaron. En el marco de esta actividad también se presentó el proyecto del atlas etnográfico, que fue uno de los compromisos asumidos en mayo del año pasado en el Plan de Acción de la Cátedra Libre África, el cual contempla la realización de una amplia investigación en la que están trabajando de manera conjunta todas las universidades que dictan esta cátedra."

Venezuela: Estudiar la africanidad es conocer el mundo afirma el Viceministro Reinaldo Bolívar  12/15/2011 Legado Afro: "Sostuvo el viceministro que el objetivo principal es lograr que la cátedra sobre la africanidad se institucionalice de manera permanente en la educación universitaria/ Este jueves será presentado el proyecto del atlas etnográfico, que es uno de los compromisos asumidos en mayo del año pasado en el Plan de Acción de la Cátedra Libre África ."

Wednesday 12/14/2011

Century-old Afro-Brazilian religion under threat 12/14/2011 AP: "Although an estimated 400,000 Brazilians such as Cardoso follow the religion, they also continue to face prejudices that clash with the country's public image of racial and religious harmony. Intolerance and outright hostility against Umbanda, as well as Brazil's other major African-descended religion Candomble, have recently returned to the spotlight as religious-freedom activists denounce the demolition of a house known as Umbanda's birthplace. At the same time, the owner of another Umbanda temple in the same city, Sao Goncalo, across the bay from Rio, is fighting an eminent domain order to turn his house into a sports center."

Oswald, Marine Corps Intelligence, and the Assault on the State Department 12/14/2011 Peter Dale Scott

Tuesday 12/13/2011

Israeli Scholar Disputes Founding Myth 12/13/2011 Consortium News: "Sand, himself a European Jew born in 1946 to Holocaust survivors in Austria, argues that until little more than a century ago, Jews thought of themselves as Jews because they shared a common religion, not because they possessed a direct lineage to the ancient tribes of Israel."

Sunday 12/11/2011

Retos afrodescendientes tras cumbre de la Celac 12/11/2011 Aporrea: Por: Jesús Chucho García - "Como venimos discutiendo desde el año pasado,”no puede realizarse una conmemoración Bicentenaria con la exclusión de tres factores que fueron determinantes para lograr las independencias del yugo español: los africanos y sus descendientes, los indígenas y la significación histórica de Haití”. En más de 15 artículos de prensa y exposiciones académicas insistimos en esa necesidad de reconocimiento histórico. El movimiento social afrodescendientes a nivel nacional e internacional hizo lo que le correspondía en ese sentido: presionar a sus respectivos gobiernos para ese pronunciamiento bicentenario, lo cual se plasmó en las resoluciones del IV Encuentro Internacional Afrodescendientes y Transformaciones Revolucionarias, apoyado por el Gobierno Bolivariano, la Vicepresidencia de la Asamblea Nacional y la Cancillería venezolana, realizado en la ciudad de Caracas el pasado mes de junio con la finalidad de lograr un reconocimiento en la Cumbre de la Celac."

Wednesday 11/23/2011

Educadores Afro Venezolanos realizaron jornada de intercambio con comunidades Afrodescendientes de Mississippi, USA 11/23/2011 Aporrea: "El pasado fin de semana se llevó a cabo en la ciudad de Jackson, Mississippi el foro “Los Afrodescendientes y la Revolución Bolivariana”con la participación del rector Gerónimo Sánchez de la Universidad Territorial Argelia Laya ubicada en Barlovento, estado Miranda y el dirigente del movimiento social afro venezolano Alexis Machado. Esta actividad fue organizada por The Malcolm X Grassroots Movement y the Ward 2 People’s Assembly of Jackson."

Tuesday 11/22/2011

Afro-Colombian Victims Ignored in Development of Victims’ Law 11/22/2011 Afro-Colombian News: "Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos signed Law 1448, better known as the Victims and Land Restitution Law, on June 10, 2011. The law offers a historic opportunity to provide reparations to more than four million victims of the internal armed conflict in Colombia, and the United States has expressed its support by pledging considerable financial and technical support for its implementation. However, if the law fails to include the perspectives of the victims themselves, Law 1448 will deepen the structural disadvantages and obstacles confronting the very people that it intends to help."

Monday 11/21/2011

The Doomsday Project and Deep Events: JFK, Watergate, Iran-Contra, and 9/11 11/21/2011 Peter Dale Scott: "My point is a simple and important one: to show that the Doomsday Project of the 1980s, and the earlier emergency planning that developed into it, have played a role in the background of all the deep events I shall discuss. More significantly, it has been a factor behind all three of the disturbing events that now threaten American democracy. The first of these three is what has been called the conversion of our economy into a plutonomy – with the increasing separation of America into two classes, into the haves and the have-nots, the one percent and the 99 percent. The second is America’s increasing militarization, and above all its inclination, which has become more and more routine and predictable, to wage or provoke wars in remote regions of the globe. It is clear that the operations of this American war machine have served the one percent.2 The third – my subject today -- is the important and increasingly deleterious impact on American history of structural deep events: mysterious events, like the JFK assassination, the Watergate break-in, or 9/11, which violate the American social structure, have a major impact on American society, repeatedly involve law-breaking or violence, and in many cases proceed from an unknown dark force."

Sunday 11/20/2011

José Prudencio Padilla: El gigante sacrificado 11/20/2011 El Universal, Colombia: "Hemos escuchado hipnotizados por tanta maravilla informativa y reveladora a la historiadora Aline Helg, de la Universidad de Ginebra (sin duda la que más conoce de manera abrumadora sobre la vida de Padilla), las hazañas y las pequeñeces humanas que perturbaron a este gigante y lo llevaron de manera atroz al sacrificio. Cartagena que puso el mayor número de muertos en la Independencia (los mártires fueron cerca o más de 6 mil cartageneros), no se pronunció sobre la ejecución de Padilla… ¿Por qué los cartageneros no levantaron su voz para defender a Padilla? ¿Por qué el Caribe colombiano se quedó enmudecido ante semejante injusticia que se estaba cometiendo con él? Allí está la gran pregunta que se formula y responde la historiadora Aline Helg, quien afirma que desde los inicios de la guerra contra España, Bolívar estaba obsesionado y prevenido de la repercusión que tendría el poder de los pardos y su impacto en las sociedades de Venezuela y en la Costa, hasta el punto de una repetición de Haití."

Friday 11/18/2011

Three prisoners die in hunger strike related incidents CDCR withholds information from family members, fails to report deaths 11/18/2011 SF Bay View

Wednesday 11/9/2011

The AFL-CIO’s Covert Ops in Venezuela - The Corrupting Influence of the NED 11/9/2011 Counterpunch: "It is not publicly known what the AFL-CIO’s Solidarity Center – which receives nearly all of its funding from federal grants ($28 million out of its total annual budget of $30 million), including from such sources as the NED, the U.S. State Department and the USAID – is currently doing in Venezuela."

Saturday 10/22/2011

Continúan las conversaciones entre Evo Morales y delegación indígena 10/22/2011 CubaDebate: "El presidente de Bolivia, Evo Morales continúa este sábado la reunión con una delegación de indígenas sobre la paralización de la construcción de una carretera que atravesaría el parque natural Tipnis. El encuentro se realiza desde temprano en la mañana en el Palacio de Gobierno con el objetivo de hallar soluciones a las demandas de los nativos."

Thursday 10/13/2011

Una historia que se oculta: el genocidio negro en Argentina 10/13/2011 Agaton

Wednesday 10/5/2011

Canada’s Dirty Banks 10/5/2011 Dean Henderson: "Royal Bank of Canada has more off-shore subsidiaries than any other bank in the world. It bailed out the government of Guyana in 1976 after a CIA coup brought down the socialist government of Cheddi Jagan. Royal launched the business career of Venezuela’s most powerful Cisneros family, which overseas Rockefeller interests in that country. It has a joint venture in the Bahamas with National Westminster called RoyWest. Both the Bank of Nova Scotia and Royal Bank of Canada are controlled by Canada’s most influential family – the Bronfmans. The Bronfmans control DuPont, which spun off Conoco, as well as Seagrams, Vivendi and Eagle Star Insurance. Eagle Star is the Bronfman holding company and a joint venture with British powerhouses Barclays, Lloyds, Hill Samuel and N. M. Rothschild & Sons. Eagle Star combined with Allianz Versicherung – a German company controlled by the von Thurn and Taxis and Wittelsbach families – to become a global financial titan."

Thursday 9/22/2011

Africa: up for grabs - the scale and impact of land grabbing for agrofuels 9/22/2011 Friends of the Earth Africa And Friends of the Earth Europe: "Research carried out by Friends of the Earth Europe, Center for Environmental Development/Friends of the Earth Cameroon (CED/FoEC), Friends of the Earth Sierra Leone, Friends of the Earth Ghana, Environmental Rights Action/ Friends of the Earth Nigeria, Friends of the Earth Togo, Yonge Nawe – FoE Swaziland, FoE Mauritius – MAUDESCO, Citizens for Justice (CFJ) Malawi, Community Training and Development Trust Zimbabwe and the NRDC/ZEGA Training Trust Zambia."

Understanding Land Investment Deals in Africa 9/22/2011 Oakland Institute: multiple studies for each country

Wednesday 9/21/2011

World Bank Policies "enabling" African Land Grab 9/21/2011 Bretton Woods Project: "New research accuses the World Bank Group's policies of facilitating land grabs in Africa and favouring the interests of financial markets over food security and environmental protection. Agriculture and the food crisis are a high-profile agenda topic at the upcoming World Bank annual meetings, and critical voices are growing on the Bank's approach to food price volatility (see Update 77, 76). Recent in-depth research by the US-based Oakland Institute raises further difficult questions on agriculture policy for Bank officials. The report implicates the World Bank Group (WBG) in the increasing acquisition of farmland in the developing world by private investors and wealthy nations, which critics are calling a global 'land grab' (see Update 76, 72, 71, 68). The investigative research, published between March and June, analyses a series of land deals in countries across Africa and finds that the purchases of land, often by large institutional investors, are mainly unregulated, produce few of the promised benefits to local people, and instead are forcing thousands of small farming communities off ancestral land, creating serious food insecurity and driving environmental destruction."

Sunday 9/18/2011

Pedophile Rings & Cocaine Cartels: The Black Network Linked To BCCI  9/18/2011 mindbodypolitic.com

Shell espionage firm opens spy nest in New York  9/18/2011 Royal Dutch Shell plc .com: "A Hakluyt operative, a serving German secret service agent working on a freelance basis, also carried out an elaborate operation in Nigeria directed against friends of Ken Saro-Wiwa, the activist leader hanged by the corrupt Nigerian regime armed by Shell."

Fuelling Fear: displacement in Colombia  9/18/2011 War on Want: "The land seizures taking place in Colombia for biofuel cultivation are not happening in a vacuum. They are directly linked to the increasing global demand for 'green' alternatives to petroleum and a reduction in carbon emissions that harm the environment. In addition to its use as an alternative energy source, palm oil and related products are also used in margarine, crisps, pastries, detergents, soap and toothpaste."

Murders spark palm oil alert  9/18/2011 War on Want: "According to the report, Colombia's armed forces are colluding with right-wing paramilitaries killing hundreds of Afro-Colombians and displacing thousands more to facilitate plantations of palm oil, which originated in Africa. It is claimed that as much as 70 per cent of the population of Nariño's western mountain range in south-west Colombia has been forced off its land as paramilitaries capitalise on biofuels as the alternative to petroleum-based energy. The National Federation of Oil Palm Producers cites Britain as the largest importer of Colombian palm oil, with the UK buying 48.5 per cent of the country's exports."

Thursday 9/15/2011

Palm Oil Fuels Land Grabs in Africa 9/15/2011 Pambazuka News: "By next year 'palm oil is forecast to be the world's most produced and internationally traded edible oil.' But as foreign investors descend on Africa to develop large-scale palm oil plantations, the survival of local people is being threatened as they lose control of the land and water on which they depend for their food production and livelihoods, warns Joan Baxter."

Wednesday 9/14/2011

Herakles Farms Releases Environmental & Social Impact Assessment, Launches Social Infrastructure Program 9/14/2011 Heracles Capital

Tuesday 9/13/2011

Palm oil, poverty, and conservation collide in Cameroon 9/13/2011 Mongabay: "The world's most productive oil seed has been a boon to southeast Asian economies, but the looming arrival of industrial plantations in Africa is raising fears that some of the same detriments that have plagued leading producers Malaysia and Indonesia—deforestation, greenhouse gas emissions, biodiversity loss, conflicts with local people, social displacement, and poor working conditions—could befall one of the world’s most destitute regions."

Monday 9/12/2011

The Bin Laden Cover-Up: Pentagon Scrubs Documents to Hide Truth About Tracking bin Laden  9/12/2011 Alternet: "However, Iron Man, whose unit also developed original intelligence on al-Qaeda targets, which determined that the "most likely buildings to be attacked in the U.S." were the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, claimed JFIC was told to stop tracking Bin Laden, suspected al-Qaeda terrorists, and members of the Taliban some months prior to 9/11."

Ex-FBI interrogator 'gagged' over 9/11 backstory  9/12/2011 BBC: "When the 9/11 attacks occurred, he was in Yemen investigating the bombing of the USS Cole. The day after the attacks, he met a CIA officer at the US embassy in Yemen. The officer passed him an envelope. Inside was a report detailing links between people Mr Soufan had been investigating for the warship bombing and two of the hijackers - who had been living in the US for months. Former FBI investigator Mr Soufan says that written requests for this kind of information had been made three times before without any result. "I think it was probably the worst feeling I have ever experienced in my life," he told the BBC in an interview. "It was a combination of frustration, anger, sadness, betrayal. The only thing I recall is I left the office, went across the hall to the bathroom and I just threw up."

A Huge Oil Palm Plantation Puts African Rainforest at Risk  9/12/2011 Environment 360: "Given the environmental importance of the site of the proposed Herakles plantation, conservationists are asking, why there? Considering that Africa has more than 400 million hectares of degraded forest land available for development, why not choose an area where the forest is already gone? “Given the versatility of oil palm and so much degraded, deforested land across the tropics, surely there are better places to make this kind of investment,” said Nigel Sizer, director of the World Resources Institute’s (WRI) Global Forests Initiative, who met with Herakles officials to express his concerns."

Sunday 9/11/2011

Court Pleadings Point to CIA Role in Alleged “Cartel” Immunity Deal 9/11/2011 NarcoNews: "The fingerprints of the CIA have surfaced in a controversial federal criminal case pending in Chicago against Jesus Vicente Zambada Niebla, an alleged kingpin in the Sinaloa “drug cartel.” ...“That is a very reasonable conclusion [that the CIA is likely involved in this case in some way],” says a former federal agent familiar with national security procedures. “Seeking CIPA protection, yup, there is hot stuff to hide.” Zambada Niebla, extradited to the US in February 2010 and now facing narco-trafficking charges in federal court in Chicago, claims in pleadings in his case that the US government entered into a pact with the leadership of the Mexican Sinaloa narco-trafficking organization that supposedly provide its chief narcos with immunity in exchange for them providing US authorities with information that could be used to target other narco-trafficking organizations."

Wednesday 9/7/2011

The Sweet Deal With ‘El Narco’ 9/7/2011 Counterpunch

Monday 9/5/2011

Texas Blacks advise looking at the real Rick Perry 9/5/2011 Florida Courier

Leak Offers Look at Efforts by U.S. to Spy on Israel 9/5/2011 NYT: "Now the reason for the extraordinary secrecy surrounding the Obama administration’s first prosecution for leaking information to the news media seems clear: Mr. Leibowitz, a contract Hebrew translator, passed on secret transcripts of conversations caught on F.B.I. wiretaps of the Israeli Embassy in Washington. Those overheard by the eavesdroppers included American supporters of Israel and at least one member of Congress, according to the blogger, Richard Silverstein."

Friday 9/2/2011

You Only Believe the Official 9/11 Story Because You Don't Know the Official 9/11 Story  9/2/2011 Global Research: "Why were the NORAD rules changed for the first time several weeks prior to 9/11, taking responsibility/authority for shooting down hijacked lanes away from NORAD military command for the first time in its history, and given to a civilian, Donald Rumsfeld, and then returned to NORAD the day after 9/11? "

Wikileaks Cablegate Search Tool Reveals U.S. Interest In Hip-Hop As International Political Tool  9/2/2011 Grand Good

Classified Belgian police report on Nebula receives another look  9/2/2011 Wayne Madsen Report: "The ATLAS Report also identified who the Belgian police believed was a kingpin of Nebula. It is also noteworthy how Costa Rica is identified as a major nexus for the worldwide network. The information about Russian-Israeli Mafia control of Costa Rica has been verified by recent information obtained by WMR from Costa Rican sources. The ATLAS Report states: "We have been informed about a person who appears to be one of the mysterious top leaders in several countries, (including ours). This person is portrayed as being the ‘éminence grise’, the de facto director of most of the big multinational companies whose structures are being used to launder large amounts of capital. This person is: PRZEDBORSKI, Felix, born 12 December 1930, ‘stateless’, husband to Helène KRYGIER, formerly living in TERVUREN."

Wednesday 8/31/2011

The International: Oil, Drugs, Guns & Kissinger Associates 8/31/2011 Dean Henderson

Thursday 8/25/2011

Finalizo la 1° Cumbre Mundial de Afrodescendientes - Honduras 2011 8/25/2011 UAFRO - Universitarios, Investigadores y Técnicos Afro-Uruguayos: "Al cierre de la ceremonia de clausura, el presidente de la Organización de Desarrollo Etnico (Odeco) de Honduras, Celeo Alvarez, dio a conocer que la Segunda Cumbre de Afrodescendientes se realizará en la Universidad de Alcalá, en España, el 2014."

Wednesday 8/24/2011

The Evangelicals Engaged In Spiritual Warfare 8/24/2011 NPR: "An emerging Christian movement that seeks to take dominion over politics, business and culture in preparation for the end times and the return of Jesus, is becoming more of a presence in American politics. The leaders are considered apostles and prophets, gifted by God for this role... The "mountains" are arts and entertainment; business; family; government; media; religion; and education.... "They teach quite literally that these 'mountains' have fallen under the control of demonic influences in society," says Tabachnick. "And therefore, they must reclaim them for God in order to bring about the kingdom of God on Earth. ... The apostles teach what's called 'strategic level spiritual warfare' [because they believe that the] reason why there is sin and corruption and poverty on the Earth is because the Earth is controlled by a hierarchy of demons under the authority of Satan. So they teach not just evangelizing souls one by one, as we're accustomed to hearing about. They teach that they will go into a geographic region or a people group and conduct spiritual-warfare activities in order to remove the demons from the entire population."

Thursday 8/18/2011

About the Koch Brothers 8/18/2011 Common Cause: "Common Cause has raised questions about the Kochs’ ties to Supreme Court Justices Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas, who according to Koch Industries have been “featured” guests at twice-annual political fundraising and strategy sessions sponsored by the company. In late January, we sponsored a public forum, “Uncloaking the Kochs” in conjunction with one of the Koch meetings in Southern California to spotlight their pursuit of an agenda that advances their private interests at the expense of the public interest. Common Cause also has asked the Department of Justice to investigate whether Justices Scalia and Thomas have participated in Koch-sponsored events and if so whether their participation should have triggered their recusal when the court considered the landmark campaign finance case, Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission. Koch Industries was a major beneficiary of the court’s decision in that case, which overturned longstanding regulations limiting corporate spending around elections."

Wednesday 8/17/2011

Clarke Accuses CIA of Hiding Key Pre-9/11 Intel Tenet and 9/11: a Real Cover-Up? 8/17/2011 Counterpunch

Thursday 8/11/2011

An Explosive New 9/11 Charge 8/11/2011 Daily Beast: "With the 10th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks only a month away, former CIA Director George Tenet and two former top aides are fighting back hard against allegations that they engaged in a massive cover-up in 2000 and 2001 to hide intelligence from the White House and the FBI that might have prevented the attacks. The source of the explosive, unproved allegations is a man who once considered Tenet a close friend: former White House counterterrorism czar Richard Clarke, who makes the charges against Tenet and the CIA in an interview for a radio documentary timed to the 10th anniversary next month. Portions of the Clarke interview were made available to The Daily Beast by the producers of the documentary."

Color Revolutions: Washington Funds Venezuela's "Made in the USA Opposition" $20 million in 2012 for anti-Chavez groups 8/11/2011 Global Research

Monday 8/8/2011

Mujahideen-e Khalq: Former U.S. Officials Make Millions Advocating For Terrorist Organization 8/8/2011 Huffington Post

Brazil: Guard post for uncontacted Indians over-run by “drug traffickers” 8/8/2011 Survival International: "The Brazilian guard post protecting the uncontacted Indians who were filmed from the air earlier this year has been over-run by heavily-armed men, suspected to be drug-traffickers. It has been ransacked and vital equipment destroyed. Fears are now mounting for the welfare of the Indians after workers from FUNAI (the government’s Indian Affairs Department) found one of the traffickers’ rucksacks with a broken arrow inside. A rapid survey by government officials has shown no trace of the Indians, who made worldwide headlines in February."

Saturday 8/6/2011

Jungle villagers continue defiance 8/6/2011 Scotsman: "Locals are demanding that a small part of the 400,000 hectares bought a decade ago by Korean Reverend Sun Myung Moon, who leads the Unification Church, better known as the Moonies, be handed over to the town for people to grow subsistence crops and rear cattle."

Wednesday 8/3/2011

"Yo lo que se de Catalina Loango..."; Orality & Gender in the Caribbean 8/3/2011 Yamila Bauzá

Wednesday 7/27/2011

Play Democracy, Hide the Corpses - Business as Usual in Colombia  7/27/2011 Counterpunch: "Not a week goes in Colombia without reports of assassinations and persecution of labor and political activists. Ana Fabricia Cordoba, gender activist and leader of displaced peasants, was shot dead on June 7th inside a street bus, after she foretold her own death due to constant threats and abuses against her family[1]; Manuel Antonio Garces, community leader, afro-descendent activist and candidate for local office in southwestern Colombia received on July 18th a disturbing warning that read "we told you to drop the campaign, next time we'll blow it in your house" next to an inactive hand grenade[2]; Keyla Berrios, leader of Displaced Women's League was murdered last July 22nd , after continuous intimidation of her organization and threats on behalf of death squads linked to Colombian authorities[3], a fact so publicly known after hundreds of former congressman, police and military personnel are either jailed or investigated for colluding with Paramilitaries to steal elections, murder and disappear dissidents, forcefully displace peasants and defraud public treasury, in a criminal network that extends all the way up to former president Alvaro Uribe and his closest aides[4]. The official explanation to these crimes is also well known; Bacrim, an acronym which stands for "Criminal Gangs", a term created from the Colombia establishment including its omnipresent corporate media apparatus to depoliticize the constant violence unleashed against union leaders, peasants and community activists, Human Rights defenders or anyone humane enough to point at the extremely unequal and unjust structures of power and wealth which rely heavily on repression. However, no matter how much effort is put into misleading public opinion about the nature of this violence, the crimes are so systematic and their effects always turning out for the benefit of the elite that a simple class analysis debunks the façade of these "gangs" supposedly acting on their own, and expose the mutual benefit relation between armed thugs and political power in Colombia, an acute representation of present-day fascism in Latinamerica."

Still Drowning in Debt - Jamaica Restructured  7/27/2011 Counterpunch

The NY Times' Ostrich Act on the JFK Assassination Getting Old  7/27/2011 How What Why: "Take the paper’s coverage of former Washington Post reporter and author Jefferson Morley’s ongoing research on Oswald, which again points toward Oswald not being a “leftist sympathizer” or Communist agent at all. The Times article, generally sympathetic toward Morley, actually began with the following disclaimer, which essentially contradicted the article’s thrust: “Is the Central Intelligence Agency covering up some dark secret about the assassination of John F. Kennedy? Probably not.”

Sunday 7/24/2011

Who Rules America? An Investment Manager Breaks Down the Economic Top 1%, Says 0.1% Controls Political and Legislative Process 7/24/2011 Global Research

Sunday 7/17/2011

Bolivia confrontada a globalización del narcotráfico y aumento de extranjeros en esta actividad criminal  7/17/2011 Contrainjerencia: "El gobierno de Evo Morales expresó hoy su preocupación por la “globalización del narcotráfico” y el aumento de extranjeros en esta actividad ilícita, luego de desarticularse a una banda de “narcosicarios”, compuesta en su mayoría por peruanos, y la destrucción de 70 pequeñas fábricas de droga en el departamento de Santa Cruz."

Organismo internacional prepara demanda contra El Salvador por masacre de 966 personas  7/17/2011 Contrainjerencia: "El Centro por la Justicia y el Derecho Internacional (Cejil) informó este jueves que prepara la demanda contra El Salvador por la masacre de El Mozote ocurrida hace casi 30 años, caso que se ventilará en la Corte Interamericana de Derechos Humanos después de que el Estado salvadoreño incumpliera las recomendaciones de la instancia inmediatamente inferior, la Comisión Interamericana de Derechos Humanos (CIDH)."

Herakles lands $350 mln Cameroon palm oil deal  7/17/2011 Reuters: "New York-based agricultural company Herakles Farms will develop some 60,000 hectares of oil palm plantations in Cameroon's south-west region, project manager Delilah Rothenberg told Reuters in an interview. "We are developing approximately 60,000 hectares of oil palm plantation, and expect the total capital costs to be about $350 million, to be invested over several years," she said of the result of a land lease deal signed with the government… She added Herakles was adhering to industry standards on sustainability and that the project would create some 9,000 local jobs."

Court tells State Dept. to reconsider terrorist label for Iran opposition group  7/17/2011 WaPo: "A federal appeals court Friday ordered the State Department to review its decision to label an Iranian opposition group as a foreign terrorist organization, strongly suggesting the designation should be revoked… The People's Mujaheddin Organization of Iran, also known as Mujaheddin-e Khalq (MEK), has for years fought its designation as a foreign terrorist organization, contending that it was only labeled as such by the Clinton administration in 1997 to curry favor with the Iranian government, which views the group as a threat. The 22-page ruling said the group's due process protections were violated because the State Department did not give it a chance to rebut unclassified information used to justify the designation."

Friday 7/15/2011

Jim Crow Resurrected in Florida 7/15/2011 Counterpunch: "The real issue however is the suppression of black votes. The limits on voter registration (the signatures collected by those registering to vote in Florida must now be turned in within 48 hours) greatly impacts the ability to sign up new voters and is aimed directly at poor minorities and college students. Is it not enough that Florida, under Rick Scott, changed the amount of time that those who committed felonies (mostly on minor drug charges) are now required to wait five years instead of three before their civil and therefore voting rights can be reinstated?"

Saturday 7/9/2011

Mafia's toxic dumping 'increases cancer rates' 7/9/2011 Independent

US Investors want a 72,000 hectare palm oil plantation in the middle of the rainforest 7/9/2011 Intercontinental Cry: "Conservation groups are on a last-minute run to stop one of the world's largest private equity firms, the Blackstone Group, from getting a brand new 72,000 hectare palm oil plantation in the middle of the rainforest. Naturefund, Rettet den Regenwald, Rainforest Foundation UK SAVE Wildlife Conservation Fund and other groups warn that plans are already underway to clear out the biologically-rich rainforest in Southwest Cameroon."

Monday 7/4/2011

La verdad sobre el constante apoyo de Israel a las dictaduras en Argentina y Latinoamérica 7/4/2011 Contrainjerencia: "A fines de abril pasado se publicaron varios comentarios sobre la aparición del libro “Operación Israel: el rearme argentino durante dictadura (1976-1983)” del argentino Hernán Dobry. Allí se documenta que Tel Aviv vendió al general Leopoldo F. Galtieri material bélico durante el conflicto por Malvinas."

Thursday 6/30/2011

Stop Blackstone Deforestation in Cameroon  6/30/2011 African Conservation Foundation: "The rainforests of the Gulf of Guinea in Cameroon and Nigeria are a biodiversity hotspot. They are among the most biologically rich forests in the world and harbor many plant and animal species found nowhere else on this planet. They are also highly threatened. In the middle of this network of forests a palm oil plantation is planned. Over 70,000 hectares (270 sq. miles) of land currently covered by a mosaic of mature, dense forest, agroforest, farmland, and human settlements will be transformed into a monoculture of oil palms. This will be an environmental disaster for the rainforests in Cameroon; even worse than the planned highway trough the Serengeti. The oil palm plantation will further fragment this unique landscape, restricting the natural movements of many animal species."

The new African land grab  6/30/2011 Al Jazeera: "The "town" chief of the village seemed to be in a state of shock. Sitting on the front porch of his mud and thatch home in Pujehun District in southern Sierra Leone, he struggled to find words that could explain how he had signed away the land that sustained his family and his community. He said he was coerced by his Paramount Chief, told that whether he agreed, or not, his land would still be taken and his small oil palm stand destroyed. He didn't know the name of the foreign investor nor did he know that it planned to lease up to 35,000 hectares of farmland in the area to establish massive oil palm and rubber plantations."

Why South Africa's academic boycott of Ben Gurion University took hold  6/30/2011 Pambazuka News

Monday 6/27/2011

Stop the Palm Oil Plantation in Cameroon 6/27/2011 Care2 Petition Site: "The permit for the plantation was given without agreement from the 38 small villages (45,000 people) and factual landowners. Their estates would become confiscated."

Sunday 6/26/2011

Afro-Descendants Forum in Caracas (Haiti Comm. and Solidarity Fund Established) 6/26/2011 HCV Analysis

Friday 6/24/2011

What's Really Going On at the Israeli Institute for Biological Research? - Exposing Israel's Most Dangerous Secret 6/24/2011 Counterpunch: "Mossad obtained some of these special chocolates, coated them with a slow-acting poison, and had them delivered to Haddad, who was then living in Baghdad, by an Iraqi official who was a Mossad agent and who had struck up a friendship with Haddad. Klein relates that the deadly substance was first developed in the IIBR and that its slow-acting and undetectable properties ensured that the agent and the instrument of death would not be discovered. And indeed, following a gradual but severe deterioration in his health, Haddad was flown to a hospital in East Germany where he was diagnosed with leukaemia and eventually died on 28 March 1978. It was not until 32 years later that the truth came to light: that the real cause of death was a poison produced by IIBR. It is not unlikely that Mossad conducted many assassination operations in this way, so as not to leave its fingerprints. In other words, the seemingly accidental deaths of many individuals that Israel regarded as a threat may have actually been caused by substances produced by IIBR. Most likely, the poison that Mossad agents injected into Hamas leader Mahmoud Al-Mabhouh in Dubai in February 2010 came from IIBR."

Thursday 6/23/2011

The Pentagon and Slave Labor in U.S. Prisons  6/23/2011 Global Research: "Prisoners earning 23 cents an hour in U.S. federal prisons are manufacturing high-tech electronic components for Patriot Advanced Capability 3 missiles, launchers for TOW (Tube-launched, Optically tracked, Wire-guided) anti-tank missiles, and other guided missile systems."

Why is there a Media Blackout on Nuclear Incident at Fort Calhoun in Nebraska?  6/23/2011 Global Research: "According a recent report on the People’sVoice website, The Ft. Calhoun plant — which stores its fuel rods at ground level according to Tom Burnett – is now partly submerged and Missouri River levels are expected to rise further before the summer if finished, local reports in and around the Fort Calhoun Nuclear Plant suggest that the waters are expected to rise at least 5 more feet. Burnett states, “Ft. Calhoun is the designated spent fuel storage facility for the entire state of Nebraska…and maybe for more than one state. Calhoun stores its spent fuel in ground-level pools which are underwater anyway – but they are open at the top. When the Missouri river pours in there, it’s going to make Fukushima look like an X-Ray.”

African Descendants Ask CELAC to Recognize their Contributions to Nationalities  6/23/2011 Granma Daily: "Venezuelan Vice-president Elías Jaua called to break all the structural obstacles that generate exclusion and racial discrimination. Jaua made this call Wednesday during the closing session of the 4th Encounter of African Descendants and Revolutionary Transformations held at the Alba Caracas Hotel that was attended by 600 delegates from the Americas and Africa."

Wednesday 6/22/2011

Culmina en Venezuela IV Foro de Afrodescendientes 6/22/2011 PL: "Los principales puntos de análisis fueron: Retos y oportunidades para el afrodescendiente en el movimiento laboral nacional e internacional, Educación y diversidad, Discriminación racial, Deuda social, Aportes del pensamiento africano para la emancipación de los pueblos y La lucha contra la invisibilidad estadística."

Tuesday 6/21/2011

Consejo Nacional profundizará en la erradicación de la discriminación en el mundo  6/21/2011 AVN: "La erradicación de la discriminación racial y la inclusión de las comunidades afrodescendientes serán los principales objetivos del futuro Consejo Nacional de Comunidades de Afrodescendientes. La propuesta se incluirá en el documento final que surgirá del IV Encuentro de Afrodescendientes y las Transformaciones Revolucionarias en América Latina y El Caribe. El embajador de Venezuela en la República de Angola, Jesús Chucho García, explicó en su intervención en el programa Toda Venezuela, transmitido por VTV, que este consejo establecerá el vínculo entre los países, de manera que se articulen las políticas y estrategias planteadas con relación a la inclusión de la población afrodescendiente y la erradicación de la pobreza."

Istúriz: Valores de la afrodescendencia e interculturalidad serán un principio educativo  6/21/2011 AVN: "En los pensa de estudio y textos escolares se incluirán los valores de la afrodescendencia y sobre todo la interculturalidad como un principio educativo, expresó el primer vicepresidente de la Asamblea Nacional (AN), Aristóbulo Istúriz."

Propuestas vanguardistas surgirán de foro de Afrodescendencia  6/21/2011 AVN: "Piedad Córdoba, colombiana defensora de los derechos humanos, enfatizó este martes que del Cuarto foro de afrodescendientes, que se lleva a cabo en el hotel Alba Caracas, surgirán propuestas vanguardistas, como elevar el racismo a delito de lesa humanidad, las cuales promoverán el respeto y la igualdad de condiciones del ser humano. Destacó que en la sesión de este martes más de 40 ponentes disertaron sobre la importancia y las dificultades históricas de las personas afrodescendientes, y resaltó la alta participación ciudadana en el foro."

Aristóbulo Istúriz: Debe pagarse deuda social con afrodescendientes  6/21/2011 Globovision: "El diputado Aristóbulo Istúriz, quien participó en la IV Foro de Afrodescendientes, señaló en el evento que en las sociedades latinoamericanas existe la necesidad de pagar la deuda social que se tiene con los afrodescendientes e indígenas. Una de las acciones a tomar, según el diputado, es hacer una comisión que haga seguimiento a las ayudas que se le dan a Haití, para comprobar que no vayan acompañadas a un irrespeto a la soberanía de Haití."

Afro -Venezuelans Call for Multilateralism  6/21/2011 Granma Daily: "We now have an opportunity to use the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America (ALBA) as a springboard for the launching of Unasur and other regional mechanisms aimed at achieving equality, Colombian social activist Piedad Cordova told Prensa Latina. According to the former senator, social processes seeking change and integration in the region must be broadened in order to overcome such evils as racial discrimination and poverty."

Piedad Córdoba: Movimientos sociales son pilares del cambio  6/21/2011 PL: "PL: ¿América Latina y el Caribe están a las puertas del nacimiento de una comunidad genuinamente regional, cómo se inserta ese acontecimiento? Nota del redactor: El 5 y 6 de julio próximo, Venezuela acogerá la cumbre fundacional de la Comunidad de Estados Latinoamericanos y Caribeños (Celac). Córdoba. La situación de los afrodescendientes y de la mayoría de los sectores en la región demanda la formulación de nuevos instrumentos de multilateralismo. Es decir, Naciones Unidas va quedando relegada y la OEA prácticamente desaparece. En ese contexto, emergen bloques como la Alianza Bolivariana para los Pueblos de Nuestra América (ALBA), la Unasur y ahora la Celac, que tiene que ser un espacio para generar las diplomacias de la igualdad y la inclusión."

Venezuela: Foro de Afrodescendencia une voces por la inclusión  6/21/2011 PL: "El IV Foro Internacional de Afrodescendientes, cuya segunda jornada se celebra hoy en Venezuela, ha unido a voces de numerosos países del mundo a favor de la inclusión de los sectores discriminados."

Afroderecha busca excluir y desconocer a sus hermanos afrosdescendientes  6/21/2011 RNV: "La Afroderecha no es más que una expresión del Departamento de Estado y el imperialismo con algunos sectores que han sido cooptado por el neoliberalismo, en función de excluir y desconocer a sus hermanos afro. Observamos que ha pasado en África, Estados Unidos y en muchos países de América Latina". Indicó este martes Filinto Durán, vocero del comité organizador del IV Encuentro de Afrodescendientes y las Transformaciones Revolucionarias en América y el Caribe, en un contacto telefónico al programa "En Contacto", transmitido por el Canal Informativo de Radio Nacional de Venezuela."

Más de 600 delegados celebran el IV Encuentro de Afrodescendientes en Caracas  6/21/2011 Telesur: "Más de 600 delegados nacionales e internacionales participan desde el pasado domingo en el IV Encuentro de Afrodescendientes y las Transformaciones Revolucionarias en América Latina y El Caribe que se realiza en la capital de Venezuela. El evento culminará este miércoles con la Declaración de Caracas que será enviada a la Comunidad de Estados de Latinoamericana y El Caribe (Celac), que se constituirá formalmente el próximo 5 de julio, para su consideración."

Monday 6/20/2011

Alexis Machado "Todo lo malo lo asocian con lo negro"  6/20/2011 Aporrea: con video - "Dentro del marco del IV Foro Internacional de la Afrodescendencia, celebrado en el Hotel Alba en Caracas, desde el día de ayer 18 hasta el 22 de junio, realizamos una entrevista a Alexis Machado, creador del grupo afrodescendiente Elegguá, en Tapipa, Edo. Miranda. Además de ser el productor, Alexis es el prolífico autor de las canciones del repertorio de Elegguá, agrupación que cuenta con innumerables cantos del acontecer venezolano, tanto en lo político como en lo social. Elegguá es un grupo conformado por mujeres de la zona de Tapipa, estado Miranda y han realizado muchas giras internacionales llevando la voz de Venezuela en sus cantos de trabajo, parrandas, folías y otras manifestaciones del canto tradicional con elementos incorporados, propios de la creatividad del grupo."

Indigenas y Afrodescendientes  6/20/2011 Aporrea: Por: Saul Rivas Rivas - "Ponencia para presentarla en las temáticas Afrodescendencia, Educación y Diversidad. Y Afrodescendencia en las perspectivas de los 200 años de las Independencias. Encuentro Internacional de los Afrodescendientes. 19 al 22 de junio de 2011"

Afrodescendientes promueven en Venezuela el multilateralismo  6/20/2011 Prensa Latina: "Delegados de Argentina, Brasil, Colombia, Cuba, Ecuador, Estados Unidos, Ghana, Martinica, Perú, Puerto Rico, San Vicente y las Granadinas, Trinidad y Tobago y los anfitriones venezolanos debatieron en paneles sobre el aporte de los bloques regionales a la construcción de un mundo multipolar."

Sunday 6/19/2011

Designan comisión por Haití en Encuentro de Afrodescendientes  6/19/2011 AVN: "Durante la inauguración del IV Encuentro de Afrodescendientes, que se llevó a cabo este domingo en Caracas, el primer vicepresidente de la Asamblea Nacional (AN), diputado Aristóbulo Istúriz, anunció la designación de una comisión especial que buscará atender las necesidades de la población de Haití. “Comenzando el evento queremos designar una comisión permanente de afrodescendientes revolucionarios por Haití”, expresó el parlamentario. En este sentido, manifestó que la comitiva estará conformada por personalidades defensoras de los derechos de la comunidad afrodescendiente, entre los que destacó a la ex senadora colombiana Piedad Córdoba, a la vocera de la Red de Organizaciones Afrovenezolanas (ROA), Norma Romero, y al embajador de Venezuela en Angola, Jesús García."

Durante tres días se realizará en Caracas Foro de la Afrodescendencia dedicado a Haití  6/19/2011 AVN: "El encuentro se incluye dentro de las celebraciones por el Bicentenario de la Firma del Acta de la Independencia de Venezuela, el 5 de julio, fecha en la que se tiene previsto la conformación de la Comunidad de Estados Latinoamericanos y del Caribe (CELAC), organismo de integración y unidad de las regiones al sur del Río Bravo, sin la presencia de Estados Unidos ni Canadá."

Presentarán conclusiones de Encuentro de Afrodescendientes ante la Celac  6/19/2011 AVN: "Las conclusiones del IV Encuentro de Afrodescendientes, que comenzó este domingo en Caracas, serán enviadas a Comunidad de Estados de Latinoamérica y El Caribe (Celac) para su consideración dentro del organismo, que se constituirá formalmente el próximo 5 de julio. “Este IV Encuentro de Afrodescendientes y las Transformaciones Revolucionarias en América Latina y El Caribe se hizo para que los y las afrodescendientes seamos incluidos en los planes de la Celac”, manifestó este domingo el primer vicepresidente de la Asamblea Nacional (AN), Aristóbulo Istúriz, durante la inauguración del referido encuentro en el hotel Alba Caracas, en la capital."

Venezuela inaugura el Foro de la Afrodescendencia dedicado a Haití  6/19/2011 EFE: ""Este evento lo dedicamos a Haití y vamos a designar una comisión permanente que le haga seguimiento a las promesas que se hicieron con Haití y hay mucha gente que no ha cumplido y es necesario velar porque esas promesas se cumplan", dijo el diputado oficialista y primer vicepresidente del Parlamento, Aristóbulo Istúriz. El legislador denunció, además, que "mucha gente dice que va a ayudar a Haití violándole la soberanía como pueblo".

Inaugurado en Caracas IV Foro internacional de Afrodescendientes  6/19/2011 Prensa Latina: "En el plano interno mencionó que a nivel nacional está pendiente la adhesión de organizaciones afrovenezolanas al Gran Polo Patriótico, donde confluirán partidos y movimientos a favor de la revolución en desarrollo en este país suramericano."

Toma cultural abre en Venezuela foro sobre afrodescendencia  6/19/2011 Prensa Latina: "De acuerdo con el integrante del Colectivo de Jóvenes Afrodescendientes de Venezuela, el encuentro que se inicia esta noche con la participación de delegados de Bolivia, Brasil, Colombia, Ecuador, Estados Unidos, Perú y naciones africanas, entre otras, representa además la oportunidad de rescatar tradiciones."

Foro de Afrodescendencia promoverá actividades educativas y públicas  6/19/2011 RNV: "La defensora de los Derechos Humanos en Colombia, Piedad Córdoba, informó este domingo que en toda Latinoamérica hay más de 180 millones de afrodescendientes, por lo que agradeció a Venezuela la iniciativa de promover políticas de inclusión a este grupo de personas."

Friday 6/17/2011

Anuncian evento sobre afrodescendientes en Venezuela 6/17/2011 Prensa Latina: "Venezuela será escenario la próxima semana de una cita convocada por el presidente Hugo Chávez, para debatir el tema de la discriminación racial en el contexto del Año Internacional de los Afrodescendientes. La noticia fue proporcionada a Prensa Latina por el director general del Instituto Cubano de Investigaciones Culturales Juan Marinello, Fernando Martínez, en el seminario "Cuba y los pueblos afrodescendientes en América" que culmina hoy en la sede de ese centro académico en esta capital tras cinco días de intensos debates."

Wednesday 6/15/2011

Bombshell: Bin Laden worked for US till 9/11 6/15/2011 Daily Kos: published 7/09

Herakles Farms Develops Sustainable Palm Oil Plantations in Cameroon & Ghana 6/15/2011 Heracles Capital

Sunday 6/12/2011

Former Cop and Drug Warrior: Why I Turned Against the Drug War 6/12/2011 Alternet: "Over the past 40 years, we’ve spent a trillion dollars prosecuting the drug war. We’ve jailed tens of millions of Americans for nonviolent offenses, ruined countless young lives, turned neighborhoods into armed battlegrounds, done major damage to the Bill of Rights, destabilized the political and economic policies of foreign countries, and tacitly granted commercial and regulatory monopolies to traffickers from Afghanistan to Jamaica, L.A. to New York. U.S. drug policy is the proximate cause of 37,000 deaths in Mexico alone since 2006."

Friday 6/10/2011

US Plans to grab Venezuela's oil 6/10/2011 VoltaireNet

Wednesday 6/8/2011

Death of a Black Panther 6/8/2011 Counterpunch: "Geronimo Ji-Jaga, affectionately known as G by friends/family or Geronimo by revolutionaries around globe, died in Arusha, Tanzania this past Friday. His death marks yet another loss of a committed social justice activist of an era that is gradually fading from our collective memory."

Tuesday 6/7/2011

Palm oil plantation 'threatens Cameroon rainforest' 6/7/2011 Ethical Consumer: "German campaign group Rettet Den Regenvald have reported that Herakles Capital was planning a 72,000 hectare palm oil plantation in the rainforest of Cameroon. It argued that: "the forest and the animal and plant species living there would be destroyed forever. The people would also lose their land and livelihoods."

Wednesday 6/1/2011

U.S. to boycott global racism conference over anti-Semitic history 6/1/2011 CNN

Tuesday 5/31/2011

The Egyptian Revolution in Identity Crisis 5/31/2011 Counterpunch: "Protestors in Cairo’s notorious Tora prison, after being sentenced to heavy terms for continuing street protests demanding prosecution of the Mubarak family, were pleased to find that Gamel and Alaa, Mubarak’s sons, had joined them in jail. They were less pleased to find that, although one of their main demands had been met, they were not being freed."

Monday 5/30/2011

Startling revelations from a Swiss banking insider 5/30/2011 Nachrichten Heute: "Several secret services from abroad, mostly English speaking, gave orders to fund illegal acts, even the killing of people thru Swiss banks. We had to pay on the instructions of foreign powers for the killing of persons who did not follow the orders of Bilderberg or the IMF or the World Bank for example."

Friday 5/20/2011

Strauss-Kahn Screws Africa 5/20/2011 Greg Palast: "Since taking over the IMF in 2007, erstwhile "Socialist" Strauss-Kahn has tightened the screws in an attempt to maintain the free-market finance mania that ruined this planet in the first place. [That's worth a story in itself – and that's coming. Our team has a stack of inside documents from the IMF that we will be releasing in my new book in the Fall.] DSK's lawyers say the relationship with the housekeeper was "consensual." But DSK says that about all IMF agreements with nations over whom it holds life and death powers. That's like saying a bank robbery is consensual so long as you don't consider the gun."

Thursday 5/19/2011

How Fox News Uses "Big, Scary Hip-Hop" to Race-Bait Its Viewers 5/19/2011 Truth Out

Wednesday 5/18/2011

The Frivolous Attacks on Obama and Common . 5/18/2011 Black Voice News

Saturday 5/14/2011

Common gets a bad rap on Assata Shakur 5/14/2011 Guardian: "Today, admittedly, when America's president is black, Assata's rhetoric seems foreign, anachronistic. Today, I, like most African Americans, would not stand with Assata Shakur. No. In her presence, we should all kneel."

Saturday 5/7/2011

Cameroon: Palm Oil Project Threatens People and the Rainforest 5/7/2011 Rainforest Rescue: "Please participate in our protest and write to the Minister of Environment and the Minister of Forests of Cameroon. We are collecting signatures and will be presenting them to the Cameroon Embassy in Berlin."

Thursday 5/5/2011

Re-demobilized Colombian paramilitaries to sign Free Trade Agreement with U.S. 5/5/2011 Pulse: "When we reached the center of Barichara, the campesinos veered toward the church and my mom and I bought a copy of the day’s El Espectador, which contained a report on the WikiLeaks release of cables from the U.S. Embassy in Bogotá confirming awareness of complaints that palm oil producers had contracted paramilitaries to illegally displace Afro-Colombian communities from their land in the department of Chocó. Of course, the palm oil-paramilitary team-up was already publicized in the mainstream media years ago, as was Uribe’s role in promoting the crop as a biofuel."

Sunday 5/1/2011

Alexander Cockburn and Noam Chomsky vs. JFK: A Study in Misinformation 5/1/2011 Real History Archives

Saturday 4/30/2011

El racismo de Globovisión hace que los Afro descendientes Venezolanos se unan para protestar 4/30/2011 Aporrea: "En este sentido, vemos con preocupación la embestida mediática de los últimos días, esencialmente un video transmitido por el canal Globovisión (y re-transmitido el día viernes 04 y lunes 07 del presente mes por Venezolana de Televisión en el programa Dando y Dando), donde se evidencia un mensaje de alto significado racista; allí se burlan de la presencia de héroes y heroínas como La Negra Matea, Hipólita, Pedro Camejo y José Leonardo Chirinos, entre otros. Cabe destacar que en el video se comete la violación de otros derechos, por el uso de imágenes de niñas y niños en un colegio, que independientemente de contar con consentimiento de sus padres, madres o representantes (si fuese el caso) fueron utilizadas para transmitir un mensaje racista, lo que agrava la culpa."

Thursday 4/28/2011

Convicted RFK assassin says girl manipulated him 4/28/2011 AP: "I thought that I was at the range more than I was actually shooting at any person, let alone Bobby Kennedy," Sirhan was quoted as saying during interviews with Daniel Brown, a Harvard University professor and expert in trauma memory and hypnosis. He interviewed Sirhan for 60 hours with and without hypnosis, according to the legal brief… Brown was hired by Sirhan's lawyer William F. Pepper."

Marine radiation monitoring blocked by Japanese government 4/28/2011 Greenpeace

Monday 4/25/2011

Malcolm X: Who was the man behind the legend? 4/25/2011 Al Jazeera: "Rising from petty criminal to Islamic convert to black power hero, Malcolm X's legendary status has remained untouchable. JOIN THE DEBATE Send us your views and get your voice on the air Until now: With the publication of a warts and all biography that disturbs the widely accepted story of the Muslim leader's life, including controversial insights to his political contradictions and sexual deviations. Some critics have condemned the book as a twisted biography, others say it is a timely reassessment of African-American history. On Monday's Riz Khan, we were joined by the book's leading researcher, Zaheer Ali, by Jared Ball, a professor of communication studies at Morgan State University, and by journalist and historian Todd Burroughs."

Sunday 4/24/2011

Palmeros y el fantasma paramilita 4/24/2011 El Espectador: "El conflicto por la propiedad de la tierra en las regiones de Curvaradó y Jiguamiandó y la extensión de cultivos de palma africana en estos territorios del Chocó, constituye uno de los dilemas más significativos para la sociedad colombiana en el contexto de la lucha por los derechos humanos. La prueba de ello es que entre 2007 y 2009, al menos en once ocasiones la Embajada de Estados Unidos en Colombia remitió cables diplomáticos a Washington detallando este problema y dejando ver las dificultades para solucionarlo por la polarización de sus protagonistas." [Links to wikileaks cables]

Friday 4/22/2011

Rebellion in the Brazilian Amazon 4/22/2011 Counterpunch: "It all started with something very small, just like in Tunisia, the way all great social events begin. It was a fight involving a worker and a bus driver, on the afternoon of March 15, at the camp where thousands of laborers from the poorest regions of Brazil are building one of the largest hydroelectric dams in the country, a gigantic project on the Madeira River that will cost ten billion dollars. Soon after the fight, in which the laborer was beaten, hundreds of workers began to set fire to the buses that take them from their barracks to the worksite. Some sources mention 45 buses and another 15 vehicles burned, but others raise the toll of buses burned to 80, in just a few minutes. The offices of the construction firm, Camargo Correa,[1] also burned, along with half the workers' dormitories and at least three bank ATMs."

9/11 Responders To Be Warned They Will Be Screened By FBI's Terrorism Watch List 4/22/2011 Huffington Post: "The tens of thousands of cops, firefighters, construction workers and others who survived the worst terrorist assault in U.S. history and risked their lives in its wake will soon be informed that their names must be run through the FBI’s terrorism watch list, according to a letter obtained by HuffPost. Any of the responders who are not compared to the database of suspected terrorists would be barred from getting treatment for the numerous, worsening ailments that the James Zadroga 9/11 Health And Compensation Law was passed to address… The provision was added in an amendment by Rep. Cliff Stearns (R-Fla.) during the heated debate over the bill in the House Energy and Commerce Committee last May."

Thursday 4/21/2011

Autora vincula nazis del Tercer Reich refugiados en España con la realidad neofascista en la Península 4/21/2011 Contrainjerencia: "Recuerda que un día vio en un periódico la foto de un matrimonio nazi -los ancianos que vivían y que seguramente viven medio escondidos en la Costa del Sol-, y tanto se impresionó que “de pronto la novela se disparó: estos personajes pasaron a la novela”. “Son los nazis que vinieron a refugiarse en España al calor del franquismo y que no se sabe por qué -o eso habría que explicarlo- han seguido viviendo aquí en la etapa democrática sin que a nadie le moleste”, destacó la escritora."

Thursday 4/14/2011

The demise of the dollar  4/14/2011 Independent: by Robert Fisk, 10/09

Mohammed Atta & 'The Godfather' of Sarasota County  4/14/2011 Madcow Morning News: "David Lindsay Sr. was a top aide to a man repeatedly identified as the individual responsible for creating America’s first officially-sanctioned drug trafficking pipeline, General Claire Chennault of the famous Flying Tigers. In a book called “Sarasota: a history,” Jeff LaHurd writes, "David Lindsay Sr. served as a Major during World War II, and was stationed for two years with the Flying Tigers in China before commanding the Kunming Air Base, terminus of the "Hump" supply route from India." "

U.S. Groups Helped Nurture Arab Uprisings  4/14/2011 NYT: "A number of the groups and individuals directly involved in the revolts and reforms sweeping the region, including the April 6 Youth Movement in Egypt, the Bahrain Center for Human Rights and grass-roots activists like Entsar Qadhi, a youth leader in Yemen, received training and financing from groups like the International Republican Institute, the National Democratic Institute and Freedom House, a nonprofit human rights organization based in Washington, according to interviews in recent weeks and American diplomatic cables obtained by WikiLeaks."

Wednesday 4/13/2011

“Paper Tiger”: Karl Evanzz’s Blistering Review of Manning Marable’s Malcolm X 4/13/2011 VoxUnion: "Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention is an abomination. It is a cavalcade of innuendo and logical fallacy, and is largely “reinvented” from previous works on the subject."

Tuesday 4/12/2011

Final Judgment 4/12/2011 America First Books

Afrodescendientes Al Fin reconocidos historicamente 4/12/2011 Aporrea

Friday 4/8/2011

Soldiers and Protesters Clash in Cairo 4/8/2011 AP

Monday 4/4/2011

Leading Marxist Manning Marable Dies – Once Wrote, Obama “Has Read Left Literature, Including My Works” 4/4/2011 Noisy Room

Saturday 4/2/2011

Año de la Afrodescendencia: Juramentada la Brigada Cubagua 2011 en Nueva Esparta 4/2/2011 Aporrea: "La Brigada tiene como objetivo principal en el marco de este Año Internacional de la Afrodescendencia, el conformar y operativizar grupos de trabajo constituidos por docentes y estudiantes del nivel de básica y media de la educación insular, que posibiliten la promoción y divulgación de los elementos de la cultura afrovenezolana y del proceso histórico afroinsular, la concientización del racismo y la exclusión, el auto reconocimiento étnico, la Declaración de Cubagua del 12 de enero en el marco de los 485 años de otorgarse la primera licencia hacia dicha isla, la cual marca el inicio de la diáspora sursahariana en nuestro país, planteándose para ta fin la realización de charlas, talleres, visitas de campo, jornadas, foros, clínicas, testimonios socializados, exposiciones e intercambios estudiantiles de recursos para el aprendizaje, actos culturales y recreativos así como diversas estrategias en planes, programas y proyectos educativos."

Friday 4/1/2011

Malcolm X biographer Manning Marable has died 4/1/2011 LA Times

Pro Gaddafi march expelled from Tahriri Sq, Cairo 4/1/2011 Youtube

Thursday 3/31/2011

Red de Organizaciones Afro-venezolanas rechaza agresión al pueblo Libio 3/31/2011 Aporrea: "Nosotras y nosotros descendientes de africanas y africanos en Venezuela haciendo honor a nuestra herencia cimarrona, rebelde, antiimperialista y revolucionaria expresamos nuestro más enérgico rechazo a la agresión militar que están perpetrando en el norte de nuestra madre África los ejércitos asesinos de Estados Unidos, Francia, Inglaterra, España y sus lacayos contra el hermano pueblo de Libia y su valiente gobierno encabezado por Muanmar Al Gadafi."

Thursday 3/24/2011

Nixon on Drugs – Part Two 3/24/2011 Watergate Exposed: "From 1968 on, Trafficante's Cubans were in effective control of the traffic in heroin and cocaine throughout the United States.[37] The Florida capo's only gangland partner of significance was the Cotroni family in Montreal. Trafficante carried out his business in a cool and collected manner. Never out of line with the national Syndicate, he enjoyed relative anonymity while other, less prominent gangsters wrote their names in history with blood. His organization was so airtight that when narcotics investigators finally realized how big a fish he was, they had to admit he was untouchable. The BNDD tried nabbing him in its 1969-70 Operation Eagle, then the most extensive action ever directed against a single narcotics network. The Bureau arrested over 120 traffickers, wholesalers, and pushers, but made no real dent. Within days, well-trained Cubans moved into the vacated slots.[38]"

Monday 3/21/2011

Apoyo de comerciantes venezolanos a los nazis durante II Guerra Mundial, reseñado en TVes  3/21/2011 Aporrea: "La reseña que anuncia el programa adelanta que “en la década de los 40 residían en Venezuela 292 miembros del Partido Nazi, quienes formaban parte de la policía secreta alemana. La serie aporta archivos que demuestran que Hitler estaba al tanto del petróleo existente en el país, así como registros de derechos e inversiones alemanas durante el gobierno de Juan Vicente Gómez. Crónicas Extraordinarias ofrece al respecto, una lista de los comerciantes de Puerto Cabello (Carabobo) que hacían aportes económicos a la cuenta del Partido Nazi”.

EEUU combate el “antiamericanismo” con perfiles falsos en Twitter y Facebook  3/21/2011 Aporrea: "De esta forma, el ejército de Estados Unidos contará con un programa que les permita invadir Facebook y Twitter con unos 500 perfiles falsos gestionados por 50 personas (espías) desde servidores alojados fuera del territorio norteamericano."

American Holocaust: When It’s All Over I’ll Still Be Indian  3/21/2011 Intercontinental Cry: "The powerful and hard-hitting documentary, American Holocaust, is quite possibly the only film that reveals the link between the Nazi holocaust, which claimed at least 6 million Jews, and the American Holocaust which claimed, according to conservative estimates, 19 million Indigenous People. It is seldom noted anywhere in fact, be it in textbooks or on the internet, that Hitler studied America's "Indian policy", and used it as a model for what he termed "the final solution." He wasn't the only one either. It's not explicitly mentioned in the film, but it's well known that members of the National Party government in South Africa studied "the American approach" before they introduced the system of racial apartheid, which lasted from 1948 to 1994. Other fascist regimes, for instance, in South and Central America, studied the same policy."

Wednesday 3/16/2011

The Invisible War Against Afro-Colombians 3/16/2011 Americas Quarterly: "This comes despite the de-escalation of Colombia’s three decade-long drug war. Still today armed militias are active and using terror tactics to expel Afro-Colombians from their ancestral territory. The reason is that the land is so valuable. It is considered among the richest in the world in terms of natural, exploitable resources, including oil, timber and minerals. Groups like the Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia (FARC) and Ejército de Liberación Nacional (ELN), which can no longer generate enough income from drug trafficking and kidnapping, are turning to mining, both legal and illegal, along the Pacific Coast to finance weapons sales, according to President Juan Manuel Santos. With gold at near record levels, neo-paramilitary groups appear to be cashing in on this business as well."

Sunday 3/13/2011

Ex senadora Piedad Córdoba anuncia que trabajará en la producción de 12 programas para Telesur 3/13/2011 Aporrea

Egypt State Security Officials Named 3/13/2011 Nachrichten Heute: "When we stormed State Security Police headquarters in Nasr City, which hosted one of Mubarak’s largest torture facilities, on Saturday I found two DVDs in one of the offices, both titled [Arabic text omitted] The Agency Officers’ Archive. The DVDs included profile pictures of State Security officers, organized in folders. Each folder had the officers’ name. Some however did not have the names. There were also sub folders that included pictures of those officers in social events like weddings."

Saturday 3/12/2011

Red Afrodescendientes de Venezuela apuesta por el éxito de la CELAC 3/12/2011 Aporrea: "Reunidos en su sede del Centro de Estudios Integrales de Barlovento (Ceiba) de esa misma región en su población de San José del Estado Miranda, asi lo manifestó esta organización con sus siglas (RAV) y parte del Movimiento Afrovenezolano, quien viene visibilizando los aportes de los africanos y sus descendientes en la construcción de Venezuela luchando por su inclusión junto al gobierno bolivariano desde 1999-2011."

Friday 3/4/2011

Ex-Officials Say They Were Paid To Attend Pro-MEK Events 3/4/2011 Talking Points Memo

Thursday 3/3/2011

Recension 4 étoiles d’un général 5 étoiles pour le livre de Peter Dale SCOTT « La route vers le Nouveau Désordre Mondial » 3/3/2011 ReOpen911.info

Thursday 2/24/2011

Hilllary appoints an alleged Israeil spy to replace Holbrooke 2/24/2011 Dick McManus

Wednesday 2/23/2011

Was the American Revolution Fought to Save Slavery? 2/23/2011 Counterpunch

Tuesday 2/22/2011

Wikileaks Assange doesn't trust Venezuelan media … signs with Colombia 2/22/2011 Headline

Monday 2/21/2011

Davis was CIA's deputy station chief in Pakistan 2/21/2011 Asia One

Sunday 2/20/2011

Radical Separatism: Contours of the Conspiracy 2/20/2011 Strategic Culture: "The CIA, the US Defense Intelligence Agency, and DEA managed to build a separatist stronghold in Venezuela's Zulia state. For a long time, Zulia used to be run by Chavez's staunch opponent Manuel Rosales who routinely discussed with US ambassadors Brownfield and Shapiro bilateral deals between Zulia and the US, the theme to which Caracas explainably has a thin skin. Normally, the state is not entitled to independent foreign policies, though Brownfield admitted publicly that for him Zulia was “an independent republic” and openly urged the local elites to wrestle with Caracas over unrestricted autonomy."

Friday 2/18/2011

George Washington, Slave Holder 2/18/2011 Counterpunch: "Washington and his wife Martha were intent on keeping their human property and allowed none to flee without giving chase. A young woman named Oney fled from the Washingtons and successfully arrived in the state of New Hampshire. The Washingtons did not permit even one young woman to escape them without cost, attempting many ruses to get her back. Oney remained free, but in spite of the Washington's efforts to recapture and re-enslave her."

SYED ZAIDI: Raymond Davis, an American “Tweetie Bird” 2/18/2011 Veterans Today: "Duff and Gates noticed that a great many of the supposed aid projects that were claimed to be German were actually manned by Western and Israeli Jews. The Pakistanis couldn’t tell the difference, but these Americans obviously could. The private armies run by contractors such as Xe (the new name for Blackwater), it turns out, are under Zionist control. The effort to break up nuclear-armed Muslim Pakistan is most of all a Zionist project."

Wednesday 2/16/2011

Obama Administration’s Neocon Easter  2/16/2011 Boiling Frogs

FBI Translator Submitted Report Entitled "Kamikaze Pilots" 5 Months Before 9/11 Warning of Al Qaeda Attacks on U.S. Cities  2/16/2011 Global Research: "The Group Director on matters of national security in the U.S. Government Accountability Office said that President Bush did not respond to unprecedented warnings of the 9/11 disaster and conducted a massive cover-up instead of accepting responsibility."

Dershowitz to advise WikiLeaks founder's lawyers  2/16/2011 Jerusalem Post: "Law School professor and prominent political commentator Alan Dershowitz said on Tuesday that he will join WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange's legal team."

Breaking News: Ray McGovern Brutalized & Left Bleeding by Hillary Clinton Police, “So this is America!”  2/16/2011 Sibel Edmond's Boiling Frogs: "My father was similarly brutalized by dictator regimes, and that was only the beginning, before it escalated to being tortured and having his toenails pulled out by the state police. Why? He was a doctor, a surgeon with an inquiring mind, and he spoke out whenever he could against dictatorships and for liberties. Participating in peaceful demonstrations, encouraging others to rise up for their rights, and reading authors such as Steinbeck (the American author black-listed there as ‘communist and anarchist’) landed him on the list of to-be-punished and pacified…"

Tuesday 2/15/2011

Hugo Chavez the Prime Target for the US Intelligence Community 2/15/2011 Strategic Culture: "The CIA operates a training camp in Florida where potential killers exercise. Banker Guillermo Zuloaga is the key figure in the plot – he opened a fund-rising campaign to collect money to pay the terrorists. Zuloaga fled to Miami when the Venezuelan administration opened a probe into his illicit financial transactions and his complicity in the assassination of prosecutor Anderson who launched a private investigation into the April, 2002 coup. According to Chavez, the would-be killers are promised $100m for the job – surprisingly little considering the net worth of Venezuela's oil and gas reserves."

A Marc Too Far 2/15/2011 The American Conservative: "Hillary Clinton has appointed Marc Grossman her special AfPak representative to replace Richard Holbrooke. Readers of TAC might well recall the Grossman saga as related by FBI whistleblower Sibel Edmonds. Per Edmonds, Grossman was involved in suspected illegal activity connected to the Turkish and Israeli governments and was under investigation by the FBI."

Saturday 2/12/2011

Live blog Feb 12 - Egypt protests 2/12/2011 Al Jazeera English: celebrating the resignation of Mubarak

Friday 2/11/2011

Live blog Feb 11 - Egypt protests 2/11/2011 Al Jazeera English: the resignation of Mubarak

Thursday 2/10/2011

Multiculturalism has failed, says French president 2/10/2011 AFP: "Of course we must all respect differences, but we do not want... a society where communities coexist side by side. "If you come to France, you accept to melt into a single community, which is the national community, and if you do not want to accept that, you cannot be welcome in France," the right-wing president said."

Wednesday 2/9/2011

WikiLeaks Backers ‘Anonymous’ to Be Probed by U.S. Grand Jury  2/9/2011 Bloomberg: "Among the evidence seized by the FBI during multistate raids on Jan. 27 was data taken from an individual who controls one of Anonymous’s primary servers, identified by the organization only by his cyber-handle ‘Owen,’ Brown said."

On the Streets of Cairo  2/9/2011 Counterpunch: "These be your gods, O Progressives! This is the man your champion had championed to "manage" the "transition" in Egypt from the dead hand of a discredited dictator to a backroom string-puller lacquered with a new coat of PR. Of course, when world of Suleiman's private temper tantrum leaked out, the Obama Administration began to backpedal on the firm support for Suleiman it had shown earlier in the day (which had come complete with a long phone call from Suleiman's long-time friend, Joe Biden). Now, the White House was troubled by these "unhelpful" remarks. Unhelpful indeed -- for they gave the game away too soon. Wrong-footed by this unforeseen outpouring of popular will, Washington has not been able to cobble together a proper storyline to justify a violent crackdown by the regime. The American power structure has been set reeling by something that is simply outside the boundaries of their mental universe: a non-violent, non-sectarian, non-ideological, leaderless revolution by ordinary people."

Israel enlists hackers for cyber attacks  2/9/2011 Press TV: "Speaking at a panel on the subject of "the digital medium as strategic weapon" in Tel Aviv on Tuesday, the Israeli military spokesman, Brigadier General Avi Benayahu, said the Israeli army was searching for 120 "hackers who were born and raised online," Ynet news reported. The Israeli spokesperson added that the military screens them with special care and trains them to serve Israel."

Peering through the shroud of global corruption: Hillary's "all hands" meeting and bribery and kickbacks  2/9/2011 Wayne Madsen Report: "Anonymous apparently includes members inside the U.S. government who have access to classified information and who are determined to break America's chains to Israel by exposing more classified information. The original access to classified networks by Anonymous members came as a result of the government hiring consultants to examine the possible penetration of classified Pentagon networks by foreign intelligence agencies. In fact, the actual source of the State Department cables seen as most damaging to the interests of the neocons and Zionists is described to WMR as "an anti-Zionist/neocon faction" operating inside the U.S. government. Wikileaks and Assange, on the other hand, have done their best to suppress the cables seen as most damaging to neocon and Israeli interests. The word on the street is that the world's "military-industrial-political" complex is worried about further releases of sensitive information and is bracing itself for a global rebellion when the true nature of the world's elites is revealed around the world. Anonymous has an ultimate target based on what it has managed to obtain from computers and networks around the world: the Council on Foreign Relations and the Rockefeller family."

Tuesday 2/8/2011

Egypt nears military coup. USS warships in Suez Canal 2/8/2011 Debka, Israel: "Although reforms and pay hikes have been pledged by the new Egyptian government, large groups of workers, mainly in Cairo, rebelled against state-appointed managements and set up "Revolutionary Committees" to run factories and other work places, including Egyptian state TV and Egypt's biggest weekly "Ros el-Yusuf."

Choquibtown afirma que Colombia es racista 2/8/2011 People: "El grupo afrocolombiano nominado al GRAMMY anglo como Mejor Álbum de Rock Alternativo de Latinoamérica denunció discriminación en su país; piden que no los llamen negros."

Monday 2/7/2011

An Interview with Egyptian Blogger "Sandmonkey" - More Than a Facebook Revolution  2/7/2011 Counterpunch

The Muslim Brotherhood and Democracy in Egypt  2/7/2011 Counterpunch: "Since the late 20th century, far from being advocates of religious extremism, the Muslim Brotherhood like other Islamically-oriented candidates and political parties in Algeria, Tunisia, Morocco, Egypt, Lebanon, Turkey, Jordan, Kuwait, Bahrain, Pakistan, Malaysia, and Indonesia have opted for ballots, not bullets. Among the Brotherhood’s most vigorous critics (and enemies) have been Egyptian militants, including Al-Qaeda's Ayman al-Zawahiry. For decades the Muslim Brotherhood, though officially illegal, has proven to be the largest and most effective non-violent opposition movement, politically and socially within mainstream Egyptian society."

US envoy's business link to Egypt  2/7/2011 Independent: "Wisner's astonishing remarks – "President Mubarak's continued leadership is critical: it's his opportunity to write his own legacy" – shocked the democratic opposition in Egypt and called into question Obama's judgment, as well as that of Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. The US State Department and Wisner himself have now both claimed that his remarks were made in a "personal capacity". But there is nothing "personal" about Wisner's connections with the powerful Washington law firm and lobby shop Patton Boggs, which openly boasts that it advises "the Egyptian military, the Egyptian Economic Development Agency, and has handled arbitrations and litigation on the [Mubarak] government's behalf in Europe and the US". Oddly, not a single journalist raised this extraordinary connection with US government officials – nor the blatant conflict of interest it appears to represent."

Saturday 2/5/2011

Saboteurs attack Egypt gas pipeline to Jordan  2/5/2011 AFP: "Egypt supplies about 40 percent of Israel's natural gas, and in December, four Israeli firms signed 20-year contracts worth up to 10 billion dollars (7.4 billion euros) to import Egyptian gas."

El 'modesto' patrimonio de la familia Mubarak podría ascender a 70.000 millones de dólares  2/5/2011 Aporrea: "El patrimonio de la familia de Mubarak podría estar entre los 40.000 y 70.000 millones de dólares --entre 29.000 y 51.000 millones de euros--, según informó la cadena estadounidense ABC citando a expertos. El origen de este dinero estaría en los contratos militares suscritos durante la etapa en la que Mubarak formaba parte de la Fuerza Aérea egipcia. Sin embargo, una vez ya en la Presidencia, desde 1981, Mubarak diversificó sus inversiones."

Uprising in Egypt: A Two-Hour Special on the Revolt Against the U.S.-Backed Mubarak Regime  2/5/2011 Democracy Now

Friday 2/4/2011

Egypt, the US and the Israel Lobby 2/4/2011 Counterpunch

Mubarak's Last Gasps 2/4/2011 Counterpunch: "Meanwhile, the last touches of a crude plan to abort the protests and attack the demonstrators were being finalized in the Interior Ministry. In the mean time, the leaders of the NPD met with the committee of forty, which is a committee of corrupt oligarchs and tycoons, who have taken over major sections of Egypt’s economy in the last decade and are close associates to Jamal Mubarak, the president’s son. The committee included Ahmad Ezz, Ibrahim Kamel, Mohamad Abu el-Enein, Magdy Ashour and others. Each businessman pledged to recruit as many people from their businesses and industries as well as mobsters and hoodlums known as Baltagies – people who are paid to fight and cause chaos and terror. Abu el-Enein and Kamel pledged to finance the whole operation.Meanwhile,the Interior Minister reconstituted some of the most notorious officers of his secret police to join the counter-revolutionary demonstrators slated for Wednesday, with a specific plan of attack the pro-democracy protesters."

Wednesday 2/2/2011

Frank Wisner in Cairo: The Empire's Bagman  2/2/2011 Counterpunch: "From inside the bowels of Washington's power elite, Frank Wisner emerges, briefcase in hand. He has met the President, but he is not his envoy. He represents the United States, but is not the Ambassador. What is in his briefcase is his experience: it includes his long career as bagman of Empire, and as bucket-boy for Capital. Pulling himself away from the Georgetown cocktail parties and the Langley Power-point briefings, Wisner finds his way to the Heliopolis cocktail parties and to the hushed conferences in Kasr al-Ittihadiya. Mubarak (age 82) greets Wisner (age 72), as these elders confer on the way forward for a country whose majority is under thirty."

Why Egyptians are Calling Obama the "Black Bush"  2/2/2011 Counterpunch: "As an American of Egyptian heritage who left the U.S in 2006 to live in Egypt, I quickly discovered that the grievances I heard from my colleagues and the youth of America were no different than those of Egyptians. The common complaint amongst all voices was that of suffocation. Both regimes have the same review cards amongst the general population in both countries. However, the social , economic, and political landscapes of Egypt are more accelerated. What is happening in Egypt now, is an excellent forecaster of what is about to hit America."

Obama to Egyptian Army: Remove Mubarak now, start transition  2/2/2011 Debka, Israel: "President Barack Obama delivered an ultimatum to Egyptian Vice President Omar Suleiman and the army and security chiefs: Mubarak must be removed in the coming hours or else US aid to Egypt will be cut off, debkafile's Washington sources exclusively report. Pressure on the Egyptian armed forces to oust the president forthwith was further applied by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton who called Vice President Omar Suleiman, US Defense Secretary Robert Gates who called Egyptian defense minister Mohamed Tantawi, and US armed forces chief Adm. Mike Mullen in a telephone call to the Egyptian chief of staff Gen. Sami Enan."

CIA: Frank G. Wisner arrived in Cairo  2/2/2011 Voltaire Net: "Mr. Wisner is the son of Frank G. Wisner Sr., co-founder of the CIA and Gladio. Together with Allen Dulles, Wisner Sr. was one of the architects of the U.S. secret intervention doctrine: support those democracies which make a "good choice", oppose those which make the wrong choice."

How Cairo, U.S. Were Blindsided by Revolution  2/2/2011 Wall Street Journal: "At 4 p.m., the battles appeared to tip decisively in the protesters' favor. An order came down from Mr. Mubarak to the Minister of Interior, Habib al-Adly to use live ammunition to put down the protests, according to a person familiar with the situation. Mr. al-Adly passed on the order to his top lieutenant, Gen. Ahmed Ramzy—but Mr. Ramzy refused, according to this person. "It was a poor assessment of what [orders] his generals would take from him," this person said. When Mr. Mubarak saw that Mr. Adly wouldn't get the job done, he gave the order for the army to deploy, this person said. Mr. Adly was furious, according to the person. Mr. Adly then gave a sweeping order to pull all police from the streets, from lowly traffic monitors, to prison guards, to the vast armies of truncheon-wielding riot police that had been a ubiquitous presence around Egypt for decades."

Thinking the Unthinkable: Is the Gulf Next?  2/2/2011 WPR: "In imitation of the self-immolation in Tunisia in December that sparked the region's wave of protests, four men in eastern and southern Saudi Arabia have in recent weeks set themselves ablaze. Throughout the past week, groups of up to 100 Saudis have gathered in front of municipalities and extensions of the ministries of education and labor to silently express anger at poor standards of living, corruption and unemployment. Saudi Arabia's unemployment rate is believed to be between 15 percent and 20 percent, yet the country's private sector employs some 9 million foreign workers, despite a laxly enforced policy requiring companies to ensure that 30 percent of their work force consists of Saudi nationals."

Monday 1/31/2011

'Anxious' Israel backs Egypt regime  1/31/2011 Al Jazeera: "Israel has called on the United States and Europe to curb their criticism of president Hosni Mubarak "in a bid to preserve stability in Egypt" and the wider Middle East, an Israeli newspaper reports. The Israeli daily Haaretz reported on Monday that the foreign ministry, in an urgent special cable, instructed its ambassadors to key countries, to "stress ... the importance of Egypt's stability"."

Netanyahu tries to play Egyptian military card - and gets Grad missiles: DEBKAfile Exclusive Analysis  1/31/2011 Debka, Israel: "Netanyahu's first two reactions to events in Egypt were knee-jerk gestures to old friends in Cairo rather than part of a far-sighted, clear-eyed assessment of the fast-moving Egyptian epic. They were misplaced on five counts."

9/11 Family Members Demand Answers from the 9/11 Commission: The Censored Testimony of FBI’s Behrooz Sarshar  1/31/2011 Sibel Edmond's Boiling Frogs: "In a public statement issued today (see below), members of the 9/11 Family Steering Committee demanded a prompt response from the former Chairman and Executive Director of the 9/11 Commission regarding Former FBI Language Specialist Behrooz Sarshar’s censored testimony to the Commission. The press release was prompted by recently released documents related to the interviews conducted by the 9/11 Commission published at Cryptome.org, in particular the “Memorandum for the Record” containing the Commission’s interview with Mr. Sarshar. The memorandum, after establishing Mr. Sarshar’s credibility and vaguely referring to his documented and witnessed testimony regarding specific tip(s) provided to the FBI in April and June 2001 regarding planned imminent “Kamikaze Pilots” attacks targeting major cities in the United States, leaves out the entire testimony. This testimony was also entirely left out of the Commission’s final report released in July 2004."

Sunday 1/30/2011

New Ways Used by Egyptians to Get Online Minus the Internet  1/30/2011 Financial Feed: "We Rebuild has established a Sweden dial-up number. The group is collecting a number list that Egyptians can call and the information is fed on a Wiki page. French Data Network running one of the dial-up numbers said this set up is their first time. Its president Benjamin Bayart said the ISPs modem provides connection every few minutes."

Robert Fisk: Egypt: Death throes of a dictatorship  1/30/2011 Independent: "In the pantomime world of Mubarak himself – and of Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton in Washington – the man who still claims to be president of Egypt swore in the most preposterous choice of vice-president in an attempt to soften the fury of the protesters – Omar Suleiman, Egypt's chief negotiator with Israel and his senior intelligence officer, a 75-year-old with years of visits to Tel Aviv and Jerusalem and four heart attacks to his credit. How this elderly apparatchik might be expected to deal with the anger and joy of liberation of 80 million Egyptians is beyond imagination. When I told the demonstrators on the tank around me the news of Suleiman's appointment, they burst into laughter."

U.S. role in Egypt crisis "shameful"-Chavez  1/30/2011 Reuters

Saturday 1/29/2011

Anonymous Internet Users Team Up To Provide Communication Tools For Egyptian People  1/29/2011 Huffington Post

US behind Egypt internet crackdown  1/29/2011 Press TV, Iran: "Narus, now owned by Boeing, was founded in 1997 by Israeli security experts to create and sell mass surveillance systems for governments and large corporate clients."

Breaking: Al Jazeera Reports Mubarak’s planning exile to Tel Aviv—The Writing on the Wall  1/29/2011 Veterans Today

Friday 1/28/2011

Medios privados financiados por EEUU difunden propaganda antivenezolana  1/28/2011 Kaos en la red: "Los medios de comunicación privados en Venezuela mantienen un vínculo muy estrecho con Estados Unidos y sirven como vía de propaganda para su Gobierno, como lo revelan las recientes filtraciones de WikiLeaks sobre el apoyo de Washington a rotativos opositores venezolanos, advirtió Eva Golinger, escritora y abogada estadounidense."

The Great Nigerian Railway 100 Billion Naira Robbery And The Ooni Of Ife's Connection  1/28/2011 Sahara Reporters: "The investigation revealed that Eser Nigeria Contracting, which Sijuwade recommended for Contract 3, had family connections with him. It is alleged that his brother or a relative (one Aderemi Sijuwade), is a signatory to the bank account of the company held with Skye Bank at Adeola Hopewell Branch on Victoria Island, Lagos, and that records at the Corporate Affairs Commission reveal that the registered office of the company is 65 Queen Street, Alagomeji, Lago. That property belongs to an uncle of Sijuwade, the well-known Ooni of Ife, Oba Okunade Sijuwade. Aderemi Sijuwade is also known to be a Deputy Chairman of Espro Asphalt, an affiliate of Eser Contracting . One Prince Tokunbo Sijuwade has also been named as a Director of Espro Asphalt. Engr Adeseyi Sijuwade has up till now not declared this conflict of interest as required by the Public Procurement Act. "

College fires professor; views on Israel blamed  1/28/2011 Salon: "An adjunct political science professor was fired Wednesday by Brooklyn College following complaints by a student and a local politician about his pro-Palestinian political views."

Thursday 1/27/2011

Colombia asks Israel to extradite mercenary convicted of training drug assassins 1/27/2011 AP: "Colombia asked Israel on Thursday to extradite former Israeli army Lt. Col. Yair Klein, who was convicted by a Colombian court and sentenced in absentia to nearly 11 years in prison for training drug lords' assassins in the late 1980s. "The evidence (against Klein) is conclusive," Interior Minister German Vargas told a news conference, saying the formal request had been made in Tel Aviv by Colombia's embassy there. "For the Colombian government it is essential that this sentence is completed and that this citizen clarify his participation in the organization and training of these groups."

In Defense of Raza/Indigenous Studies: Five Sentenced, But Not Guilty! 1/27/2011 Common Dreams: "Four students and myself were just sentenced to 10 hours of community service for a crime we did not commit. More importantly, our act of civil disobedience was in response to an illegal, immoral and unconstitutional law: hb 2281 - a piece of legislation that makes the teaching of Ethnic Studies in Arizona illegal."

Wednesday 1/26/2011

Gulf human rights hero Thomas B. Manton falsely imprisoned, murdered 1/26/2011 Natural News

Tuesday 1/25/2011

La verdad, la mentira y la ignorancia lejos de Wikileaks 1/25/2011 Cuba Debate: "Pero lo que quizás llame su atención es que un colectivo de hackers autodenominados “Anonymus” (conocidos por el hackeo y el ciberataque a Paypal, Visa, etc.) la han emprendido contra Venezuela. Sus razones parecen salidas de un guión de la USAID, los que habitualmente se encargan de elaborar las matrices de opinión pública que tan buen resultado dan en los medios internacionales."

Sunday 1/23/2011

Venezuela arrests 'Aguilas Negras commander'  1/23/2011 Colombia Reports: "Venezuela on Sunday claimed it arrested the leader of Colombian neo-paramilitary group "Aguilas Negras" in the northwestern city of Maracaibo. According to Interior Minister Tarek El Aissami, the arrested suspect is Victor Gonzalez Sierra, leader of the feared Aguilas Negras and wanted in Colombia for "various homicides." "This is a heavy blow to criminal drug trafficking organizations and this group trying to use our territory to escape justice of other governments," Venezuelan state radio quoted the minister as saying."

Ex subdirector del DAS dió la información que provocó el secuestro de Piedad Córdoba  1/23/2011 Contrainjerencia

Tony Hayward in talks for Glencore job  1/23/2011 Guardian: "Glencore will need a new board if, as expected, it becomes a public company because the current five-person board is dominated by people who have an ownership stake. Hayward is not expected to be in the running for this although some believe he could become the senior non-executive on the board.The trading group has had its own share of controversy. It was formed in 1974 by Marc Rich, who faced up to 300 years in prison after having been the most wanted white-collar criminal in US history, but then won a pardon from President Bill Clinton on his last day in the Oval Office."

Aguilas Negras  1/23/2011 In Sight

Saturday 1/22/2011

The Doomsday Project, Deep Events, and the Shrinking of American Democracy 1/22/2011 Global Research

Friday 1/21/2011

Gobernador desmiente versiones acerca del retraso voluntario de los proyectos de vivienda raizal 1/21/2011 RCN

Thursday 1/20/2011

Silence is Complicity: The methodical shooting of boys at work in Gaza by snipers of the Israeli Occupation Force 1/20/2011 Global Research

Wednesday 1/19/2011

Operation Want 1/19/2011 Anonymous on Youtube

Monday 1/17/2011

LAPD holds Israeli mobsters charged with murder and other crimes in rare extradition deal; Israeli courts rarely agree to extradite Israelis, in line with the Jewish tradition of not turning over Jews for trial in "Christian" courts  1/17/2011 Israel Palestine News: "Israeli brothers Meir and Yitzhak Abergil and three other Israelis were ordered held in prison without bond on Jan 14; they are charged with crimes ranging from murder and massive embezzlement to money laundering, racketeering and running a large L.A.-based Ecstasy ring. Yitzhak Abergil is allegedly the crime boss of the operation… Israeli police and media have frequently described the Abergils as bosses of one the country's most powerful crime syndicates, with extensive overseas operations."

Boogie Woogie: Born In The Backwoods Of America  1/17/2011 NPR: "I thought maybe it was a joke," Alexander recalls. "Does this guy think I’m stupid? Marshall, Texas? Whatcha going to do, hang me?"

Hariri: an audio tape unveils fabrication of false testimonies  1/17/2011 Voltaire Net: "During the meeting, the conspirators decided to frame four Lebanese generals and nine Syrian key figures for the murder of Rafik el-Hariri. They also discussed the payment and the protection of the false witness. Let us recall that in the aftermath of that meeting four Lebanese generals were arbitrarily incarcerated for four years. Israel took advantage of the Lebanese security services’ decapitation to attack the country. On the basis of M. as-Saddik’s false testimony, the Commission accused the serving Presidents of Syria and Lebanon, Bachar el-Assad and Emile Lahoud, while the United States threatened to intervene militarily to arrest them. The scheme fell apart when the Syrian secret services demonstrated the inanity of the false testimony. To the present, the Special Tribunal for Lebanon has refused to delve into "the affair inside the affair" (the false witnesses) and has failed to supply the four unjustly incarcerated generals with the documents that would enable them to rebut their accusers."

Friday 1/14/2011

How Canada Subsidizes Illegal Israeli Settlements 1/14/2011 Counterpunch: "A few weeks ago Maitland received a reply from Keith Ashfield, Minister of National Revenue, who refused to discuss the particulars of the case but provided "general information about registered charities and the occupied territories." Ashfield wrote that "the fact that charitable activities take place in the occupied territories is not a barrier to acquiring or maintaining charitable status." This means Canadian organizations can openly fundraise for settlements Ottawa (officially) deems illegal under international law and get the government to pay up to a third of the cost through tax credits for donations. To justify the government's position, Ashfield cited a September 2002 Federal Court of Appeal case (Canadian Magen David Adom for Israel v. Minister of National Revenue), which reversed the Canadian Revenue Agency's previous position."

Sick Gulf Residents Beg Officials for Help 1/14/2011 Global Research: "In an emotionally charged meeting this week sponsored by the National Commission on the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill, fishermen, Gulf residents and community leaders vented their increasingly grave concerns about the widespread health issues brought on by the three-month-long disaster."

Thursday 1/13/2011

Sweden's Big Trade Deal For Assange. Who profits most?  1/13/2011 Anonymous Operation Want's Blog

La Corte ordena suspender proyecto vial en Barú  1/13/2011 Caracol: "La Corte Constitucional a través de una tutela ordeno suspender la construcción y mejoramiento de la vía transversal de Baru al considerar que no fue consultada la comunidad afro en esa región."

UNESCO Awards Venezuela for Providing Free Access to Internet  1/13/2011 Venezuela Analysis

Tuesday 1/11/2011

Los 485 años del inicio de la Trata Esclavista en Venezuela  1/11/2011 Afrodescendientes

Alias ‘el Iguano’ aceptará su responsabilidad en la comisión de 150 homicidios en el Chocó durante 1998 y 1999  1/11/2011 Agencia Prensa Rural

Venezuelan Government Accuses Landowners of Using "Slave Labor"  1/11/2011 Venezuela Analysis: "More than 500 Colombians worked in near-slavery conditions on recently expropriated estates in northeastern Venezuela, Caracas’ minister for Agriculture and Land said Monday. “It was the most surprising thing ... So far, we’ve got a tally of 1,150 rural workers who have been counted and more than half are from the neighboring country of Colombia, whom they had as practically slave labor,” Juan Carlos Loyo told reporters."

Monday 1/10/2011

Arizona Assassination Spree Tied to Political Right 1/10/2011 Global Research: "According to a memo issued by the Department of Homeland Security in the aftermath of the shooting spree at a Tucson, Arizona strip mall Saturday, Internet activity by the gunman, Jared Lee Loughner, linked him to American Renaissance, which DHS described as an “anti-government, anti-immigration, anti-ZOG [Zionist Occupation Government], anti-Semitic.” The online publication of the organization advocates white supremacy and racial separation... In a YouTube video posting consisting of scrolling text and music, Loughner railed against the “second constitution”, a term used by the political right to refer to the post-Civil War 13th Amendment banning slavery and the 14thAmendment guaranteeing citizenship to all those born in the US and equal protection under the law in every state."

Friday 1/7/2011

Lanny Davis: Lobbyist for Despots  1/7/2011 Dissident Voice: "Post-coup, The Hill.com reported that the far-right Business Council of Latin America (CEAL) hired Davis to lobby Congress and conduct supportive PR for the interim Micheletti government. It involved a media blitz, arranged meetings for coup plotters with congressional members, and drafting an Accord to form a National Unity and Reconciliation Government as cover to solidify fascist rule. Davis, of course, was well paid to assure it. His credentials don’t include honor, morality, ethics and support for the rule of law… His entire Capitol Hill history is as “consistent as it is sleazy,” the more sleaze, in fact, the more compensation. The hard-right Israel Project hired him to defend Israel’s Cast Lead onslaught against Gaza, calling it Israel’s “right to self-defense against terrorism,” when clearly it was preemptive illegal aggression."

White Flight  1/7/2011 National Journal: "By any standard, white voters’ rejection of Democrats in November’s elections was daunting and even historic. Fully 60 percent of whites nationwide backed Republican candidates for the House of Representatives; only 37 percent supported Democrats, according to the National Election Poll exit poll conducted by Edison Research. Not even in Republicans’ 1994 congressional landslide did they win that high a percentage of the white vote. Moreover, those results may understate the extent of the white flight from the Democratic Party, according to a National Journal analysis of previously unpublished exit-poll data provided by Edison Research."

Los nuevos callejones de la droga  1/7/2011 PL: "Nicaso Nicola Gratteri, procurador de la División Antimafia de Calabria, en su libro Mala Planta, identifica al Corredor 38 como la vía utilizada por el grupo mafioso italiano para hacer llegar la cocaína de Sudamérica a Europa. El Corredor 38 vino a sustituir al no ya tan seguro Corredor 9, usado antes con los mismos fines, pero ahora con puesto de gendarmería bastante eficiente. Testigos e informantes aseveran que utiliza a la ciudad de Córdoba, Argentina, y Valle de Punilla como escenarios principales del comienzo de su macabro negocio."

Chavez-Clinton Surprise Meeting Reduces Tension  1/7/2011 Venezuela Analysis

U.S. Sends Mixed Signals in Ambassador Spat as Congress Vows Harder Line against Venezuela  1/7/2011 Venezuela Analysis: "Chávez also affirmed that during his brief encounter with U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in Brazil recently, the two discussed the ambassador issue. “I told her that if they rectify, then we would also rectify. And I repeated it,” he said. “Then she told me something that I will keep private, and I told her something that she will reserve as well. But all towards facilitating the process,” Chávez concluded. On Wednesday, however, Crowley asserted that the Obama administration maintains Palmer as its ambassador nominee. “There have been suggestions,” said Crowley, “particularly suggestions by President Chávez that we are looking for another candidate and the answer is that we’re not looking for another candidate.”"

The Exceptionally Redacted 9/11 Commission Interview  1/7/2011 Veterans Today: by Sibel Edmonds

Thursday 1/6/2011

Is the CIA Infiltrating Central Asia Via Turkish Muslims? 1/6/2011 Eurasia Net

Chavez Rejects University Law as Venezuelan National Assembly Begins New Term 1/6/2011 Venezuela Analysis: "On Tuesday Chavez announced that he was would not sign the University Education law passed by the National Assembly at the end of last month, so that it could be subject to a wide national debate. This means that the law is returned to the National Assembly with changes recommended by the president, which the National Assembly would be free to accept or reject, whereupon it becomes law, with or without the president’s signature. The opposition and leftist critics of the University Education law had argued that it took away university autonomy and that the law would cause conflicts on campus, cutting into class time. “This law has a lot of strengths and a lot of weaknesses... it deserves to be widely discussed,” Chavez said, adding that his rejection of it showed that “Venezuela has a democratic government, a government that listens... and a president that is ...ready, when necessary, to rectify and call for debate and reflection.”"

Wednesday 1/5/2011

Afro-Colombian Farmers on Displacement and Resistance 1/5/2011 Upside Down World: "Activists working on behalf of Colombia’s internally displaced population are subjected to extrajudicial killings and death threats by paramilitary groups supported by the Colombian army and palm oil firms active in rural areas, Sanchez and Guzman report. "They say we're guerrillas and that they're going to kill us," says Sanchez."

Former AIPAC official confirms Lobby access to US secrets 1/5/2011 VoltaireNet: "Accidentally, computer equipment and files seized by the FBI disclosed that AIPAC, which defines itself as "a pro-Israeli lobby in America", had funded the career of French political leader Nicolas Sarkozy. At that time, the Israeli Ambassador in Paris had raced to the Elysée Palace to assure President Jacques Chirac that Israel was in no way involved in such interference, attributing it to certain over-zealous friends in the United States."

Monday 1/3/2011

Leaks to AIPAC Said to be “Common” 1/3/2011 Federation of American Scientists

Sunday 1/2/2011

An Economic Action Plan for Jamaica, Jamaicans United for Sustainable Development 1/2/2011 Norman Girvan

Saturday 1/1/2011

Central Asian Militants, Pan-Turkic Aims & Mysterious Financiers 1/1/2011 Nachrichten Heute: by Sibel Edmonds

Friday 12/24/2010

New Venezuelan Law Makes Foreign Financing of Political Organisations Illegal 12/24/2010 Venezuela Analysis: "Penalties include fines of double the amount received and the expulsion from Venezuela of foreigners who participate in such financing. Presidents of the organisations breaking the law would be barred from political positions for five to eight years and organisations would likewise be banned from electoral processes for five to eight years."

Tuesday 12/21/2010

On Wikileaks Strategy: Too Many Hors D’oeuvres? 12/21/2010 Nachrichten Heute: by Sibel Edmonds

Thursday 12/16/2010

Wikileaks Cables Amok 12/16/2010 Nachrichten Heute

Tuesday 12/14/2010

Television in Venezuela: Who Dominates the Media? 12/14/2010 Venezuela Analysis

Saturday 12/11/2010

En Venezuela cada vez más protestas 12/11/2010 Havana Times: "“Desde 2005 se inició un proceso creciente de criminalización de la protesta social, usando el sistema de administración de justicia. A la fecha, más de 2.400 personas se encuentran procesadas por ejercer el derecho a la protesta pacífica”, señaló a IPS la abogada Mariana Belalba, coordinadora del estudio."

Thursday 11/25/2010

Call to "Assassinate Chávez" by Congressman Mack Confirms Plot 11/25/2010 Tlaxcala: "The exhortation to assassinate Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez uttered by Florida congressman Connie Mack in Washington’s Capitol to participants in a fascist summit a few days ago confirms the existence of a plot with this purpose, hatched by the Venezuelan extreme right under the tutelage of US intelligence services and with the complicity of the Cuban-American mafia."

Wednesday 11/17/2010

Zacarias dirigió el asesinato de tres diputados ARENA que viajaban con $5 millones 11/17/2010 Contrainjerencia: "Jean-Guy Allard.- El venezolano Victor Rivera Aguaje, alias “Zacarias”, viejo colaborador de la CIA y socio de Luis Posada Carriles , fue parte de la estructura criminal que mató a los tres diputados salvadoreños asesinados en Guatemala en febrero de 2007, revela la investigación que también descubrió que los representantes del partido ARENA llevaban consigo cinco millones de dólares."

Tuesday 11/16/2010

Beck under fire over Soros comments 11/16/2010 JTA: "And George Soros used to go around with this anti-Semite and deliver papers to the Jews and confiscate their property and then ship them off," Beck said. "And George Soros was part of it. He would help confiscate the stuff. It was frightening. "Here's a Jewish boy helping send the Jews to the death camps. And I am certainly not saying that George Soros enjoyed that, even had a choice. I mean, he's 14 years old. He was surviving. So I'm not making a judgment. That's between him and God. As a 14-year-old boy, I don't know what you would do." In fact Soros, then 13 and living under the protection of a non-Jewish Hungarian, on one occasion joined the older man when he was ordered by Nazis to inventory the estate of a Hungarian Jew who had fled. On another occasion, the local Jewish council had ordered Soros to deliver letters to local lawyers. Soros' father, Tivadar, realized the letters were to Jewish lawyers and meant to expedite their deportation. He told his son to warn the targets to flee and ended the boy's work with the council."

Friday 11/5/2010

Oakland Filmmaker Feels Police Wrath An Epidemic of Brutality  11/5/2010 Counterpunch: "Valrey sees police brutality as a “unifier” for black and brown communities across the country. “These groups usually don’t agree on religion or politics but they agree that police terrorism is an unnecessary evil in our communities,” Valrey said. “When we showed the film in San Diego, the audience was all Mexican. Blacks and Mexicans don’t get along but there were no problems.”"

The Racial Subtext of the Tea Party Movement Guess Who's Not Coming to Tea?  11/5/2010 Counterpunch: "The high profile of a few Republicans of color instead points to a relatively new and circumscribed phenomenon in white political ideology: white conservative voters in select districts and states are now willing to vote for Republican candidates of color, but only under certain conditions. White conservatives seem willing to elect Republicans of color who embrace a post-racial colorblindness, who are promote the Party's far-right cultural and economic values, and still only in races without a centrist white option. Furthermore, in most high profile races the GOP's new candidates or color have only prevailed when running against a woman or another person of color, and again only in races with a majority white electorate."

New Evidence Links BP to Health Crisis in the Gulf  11/5/2010 Global Research: "The workers, many of whom were fishermen who had joined the cleanup to earn money after the waters were despoiled and closed by the spill, had to choose between supporting their families or protecting themselves from chemicals found in the oil and dispersants. But these fishermen also had another prime incentive to get those BP jobs. "They desperately wanted those cleanup jobs to protect their natural resource, their estuaries and marshes," Subra noted. "So they thought that if they got out there to put out enough booms and do enough skimming that they would protect it enough that the resource would be there." As a consequence, they've been made ill but most are too frightened to speak out because they're afraid to lose their jobs. "Their wives spoke out early on and they were told if their wives continued to speak out they'd be fired, or if they spoke they'd be fired," said Subra, adding that, for this reason, LEAN had stepped in to help voice the concerns of the fishing community. According to all the reports she's received, she confirmed that BP officials and BP contractors, not federal officials, leveled these threats against cleanup workers attempting to wear adequate protective gear or speaking publicly about the related health effects. While BP's cleanup in the Gulf is winding down and many workers have already been laid off, a lot of them are still out there and this practice continues today, said Subra."

Thursday 11/4/2010

How the Iraq and Afghanistan wars are crippling the US economy  11/4/2010 Global Research: "Two years ago, Joseph Stiglitz and I published The Three Trillion Dollar War in which we estimated that the budgetary and economic costs of the war would reach $3 trillion. Taking new numbers into account, however, we now believe that our initial estimate was far too conservative—the cost of the wars will reach between $4 trillion and $6 trillion. For example, we recently analyzed the medical and disability claim patterns for almost a million troops who have returned from the wars, and, based on this record, we've revised our estimate upward to between $600 billion and $900 billion—a broad specter, yes, but certainly also a significant upward tick from our earlier projection of $400 billion to $700 billion, based on historical patterns. Similarly, our estimates for the economic and social costs associated with returning veterans can be expected to rise by at least a third—the staggering toll of repeated deployments over the past decade. The Bush administration not only vastly underestimated the cost of the wars but cut taxes twice—in 2001 and 2003—just as we were ramping up the war effort. This was the first time in U.S. history that a government cut taxes while also appropriating huge new sums to fight a war. And the consequence is that the wars added substantially to the federal debt."

Illinois officer acquitted in videotaped beating  11/4/2010 Raw Story

Brazil wants Rousseff's alleged torturers tried  11/4/2010 WaPo: "After three years underground, Rousseff was captured by Brazil's military police and was considered a big enough catch that a military prosecutor labeled her the "Joan of Arc" of the guerrilla movement. She spent nearly three years in the Tiradentes prison, where she was beaten to the point of heavy bleeding, underwent electric shocks and spent hours on the "parrot's perch" - a painful position involving tying wrists to ankles, then suspending a prisoner off the ground by running a pole under their knees and over their biceps. Rousseff rarely discusses this period of her life, but in an interview with the Folha de S. Paulo newspaper published in 2005, she said: "We fought and participated in a dream to build a better Brazil."

Wednesday 11/3/2010

U.S. ratchets up Contra War II against Nicaragua 11/3/2010 UniverCIA22: by Wayne Madsen

Monday 11/1/2010

After the Party: Music and the Black Panthers 11/1/2010 Guardian: "Musicians don't often end up on FBI watch lists, but the Last Poets did, thanks to their links with the Black Panthers. Dorian Lynskey looks back at a time when pop and politics collided as never before."

A Ray of Hope from Israel 11/1/2010 ZNET: "The question of who is really a Jew, moreover, keeps being redefined by the state of Israel and was never really answered by its ideologues. Many of the leading Zionists of the early 20th century, including the first prime minister of Israel, David Ben-Gurion, and the second and longest-serving president, Yitzhak Ben-Zvi, both realized and wrote, during the first couple of decades of the century, that Palestinians were the main descendants of the ancient Jews, but after Palestinians started resisting Zionist efforts to make Palestine a Jewish state, the truth was buried by these and other Zionists and replaced with the myth of the ancient exile, still imparted today to Israeli schoolchildren, visiting tourists, and many others."

Friday 10/29/2010

FBI Documents on Senator Paul Wellstone Raise Questions about His Death 8 Years Ago 10/29/2010 Democracy Now: "Minnesota Public Radio has obtained the FBI record of the late Senator Paul Wellstone of Minnesota, who died in a plane crash eight years ago this week. The records show the FBI first tracked Wellstone in 1970 after he was arrested at an anti-Vietnam War protest. The records might also raise new questions about the plane crash that killed Wellstone, his wife, his daughter and three staffers. The National Transportation Safety Board determined the crash was caused by pilot error, but the FBI documents reveal for the first time that specific criminal leads were pursued by investigators. [includes rush transcript]"

Complaint: Elderly Black Voters Intimidated at Home 10/29/2010 Mother Jones: "In the Texarkana area, Democratic consultant Malcolm acknowledges that local Republican officials have rejected such tactics, claiming that those responsible are "more of your right-wing renegade" conservatives. When asked about the alleged home visits and intimidation, Jeff Akin, coordinator of the tea party group Texarkana TEA Patriots, reponded that he believed local county officials were perpetrating election fraud in the area: "I have heard reports of voter fraud in Bowie County. I have even seen the documents myself and to the untrained eye it looks as though an elected official in Bowie County could be involved in the alleged voter fraud."* *Akin's remarks have been updated. Nichols later replied in an email: "Since I turned over evidence to Federal and State law enforcement agencies quite some time ago, I am not at liberty to comment on this issue at this time," calling the accusations against her "absolutely false and libelous."

Thursday 10/28/2010

Concerns grow about election fraud, voter intimidation 10/28/2010 McClatchy: ""Legal war rooms," roving teams of lawyers, hot lines and poll challengers are all part of the strategy that Democrats and Republicans will employ Tuesday to handle suspected fraud or to help voters whose right to vote is questioned. The issue is also on the Justice Department's radar. It will post federal monitors at selected polling places around the country, and prosecutors, civil rights attorneys and the FBI will be tasked with handling election-related complaints that day. A special toll-free number — 1-800-253-3931 — will be available for complaints about ballot access."

Wednesday 10/27/2010

CBS, CNN capture video of Ohio attorney subpoena served on Karl Rove  10/27/2010 Colombus Ohio Examiner: "In an article written by Bob Fitrakis and Harvey Wasserman and published at OpEdNews.com, the federal subpoena orders Rove to testify in deposition about his role in the alleged theft of the 2004 election, and to discuss his orchestration of tens of millions of corporate/billionaire dollars in this year's General Elections on November 2."

9/11's Trainer in Terrorism Was an FBI Informant  10/27/2010 Lobster: by Peter Dale Scott, published 10/2006 - "I will expand on what I spoke about a month ago in Berkeley, concerning Ali Mohamed, Washington's double agent inside al-Qaeda, and also a chief 9/11 plotter.(1) I want to add important new material tonight. Ali Mohamed, an Egyptian, was a close ally of Osama bin Laden. As he later confessed in court, he also aided the terrorist Ayman al-Zawahiri, a co-founder of the Egyptian Islamic Jihad, and by then an aide to bin Laden, when he visited America to raise money.(2) It is now generally admitted that Ali Mohamed worked for the FBI, the CIA, and U.S. Special Forces."

Israel's right wing starts its own Tea Party  10/27/2010 Telegraph

Monday 10/25/2010

Tissue, Skin, Bone and Organ Harvesting at Israel's National Forensic Institute - Body Parts and Bio-Piracy 10/25/2010 Counterpunch: by an anthropologist who has studied this extensively - "In fact, according to Kugel, “Organs were sold to anyone; anyone that wanted organs just had to pay for them.” While skin, heart valves, bones, and corneas were removed and used for transplants, solid organs – hearts, brains, livers – “were sold for research, for presentations, for drills for medical students and surgeons.” There was a price for these organs, low – $ 300 for a femur, for example – and should a client want all the organs from a body, that could be arranged, not the body itself, but all the organs removed and sold, Kugel said, for about $2,500. Amid the uproar prompted by the whistle-blowers, Hiss waged his own media campaign and tried to convince the public that everything that was done was to serve a noble end, to help the war-wounded victims of terrorist attacks, and the sick. He presented his conduct, in Dr. Kugel’s descripton, “as something sublime or even heroic, as a modern-day Robin Hood. Taking from the dead and giving to the innocent victims.”

Saturday 10/23/2010

Denuncian el asesinato de 22 defensores de derechos humanos en los primeros 75 días de Santos 10/23/2010 Afrodescendientes

Friday 10/22/2010

The Tea Party's Election Spies 10/22/2010 Mother Jones: "In response to the voter fraud hysteria, voting rights advocates and Democratic officials in Minnesota and elsewhere are planning their own "voter protection" efforts, alerting vulnerable groups to tactics that poll watchers and others might use to intimidate or suppress voters. "We have an offensive strategy—educating voters and constituency groups about the forms you need to bring, what people can ask and can't ask of you, basic voting rights," says Pakou Hang, election protection director for Minnesota's Democratic Party. The party is also planning to station legal teams to respond to complaints of voter intimidation or harassment at the polls. Independent groups like the Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights are executing similar efforts on a national level."

Wednesday 10/20/2010

Participe de la quinta versión de la semana raizal en Bogotá 10/20/2010 Samuelalcalde

Tuesday 10/19/2010

Viceministerio para la mujer Afrodescendiente, Respuesta ante una histórica exclusión 10/19/2010 Aporrea: Por: Fulvia Polanco B., VOCERA RED AFRODESCENDIENTES DE VENEZUELA – FALCÓN

Tea Party gets tough with foes in media 10/19/2010 Financial Times

Monday 10/18/2010

PHILIP GIRALDI: LIAR, LIAR 10/18/2010 Veterans Today: "But more importantly, the Strategic Dialogue is just one of many, ongoing, and high-level exchanges that occur regularly between the United States in Israel. I’m not aware of another country that we engage more regularly on such a wide range of issues. These types of exchanges not only provide opportunities for discussion of ideas on policy, but they also help solidify connections between our two governments. Over the last two years, I have seen four-star generals, intelligence officers, and high-ranking diplomats all develop personal relationships with their Israeli counterparts. Frankly, this degree of coordination is unprecedented. I have participated in these types of discussions for the last 30 years, and they have never been as intense or focused, reflecting the serious cooperation that we have today with Israel. But our commitment to Israel’s security is defined not by talk. It is defined by the kinds of actions and deeds that help make both of our countries safer and stronger in the face of common threats.” -- Dennis Ross

Friday 10/15/2010

How Radical Christian Conservatives May Succeed in Destroying Democracy 10/15/2010 Alternet: "The huge amount of taxpayer money doled out to Wall Street, investment banks, the oil and natural gas industry and the defense industry, along with the dismantling of our manufacturing sector, is why we are impoverished. It is why our houses are being foreclosed on. It is why some 45 million Americans are denied medical care. It is why our infrastructure, from public schools to bridges, is rotting. It is why many of us cannot find jobs. We are being fleeced. The flagrant theft of public funds and rise of an obscenely rich oligarchic class is masked by the tough talk of demagogues, themselves millionaires, who use fear and bombast to keep us afraid, confused and enslaved."

Tuesday 10/12/2010

Conmemoración “Día de la Resistencia Afro-Indígena” Manifiesto 12 octubre 2010  10/12/2010 Aporrea: "Al cabo de casi 518 años que data la historia se inicia la primera globalización perversa en la historia de la humanidad, con el mal llamado “descubrimiento, encuentro o desencuentro” entre Europa occidental y un continente de diversas civilizaciones que hegemonizaron con el nombre de “America” los europeos occidentales, en busca de metales preciosos y en la perspectiva del desarrollo del incipiente capitalismo mercantil, tomaron una serie de iniciativas marcadas por el militarismo e invasiones con la finalidad de expropiar las riquezas de los aborígenes, y al mismo tiempo, castrar una propuesta civilizadora a la humanidad, diferente al modelo societario occidental."

America´s Shadow Class War and the 2010 Elections. The Rich are Getting Richer.  10/12/2010 Global Research: "The country doesn't need this class war, and it is irrational in any case. Practically no one, least of all Obama, is questioning the basics of the market system or proposing anything more than somewhat tighter economic regulations -- after the biggest financial collapse since the Great Depression -- and rather modest tax increases on the wealthy. But even these steps are apparently too much for those financing all the television ads, which should lead voters to ask themselves: Who is paying for this? What do they really want? And who gave them the right to buy an election?"

Ecuador's CONAIE and Defamation by “Journalism of the State”  10/12/2010 NarcoNews: "Leading the charge against these indigenous social movements is US lawyer Eva Golinger, a television personality for TeleSur, a channel created by the Venezuelan government that receives additional financing from other Latin American governments. Formerly with the government-supported Washington DC-based Venezuelan Information Office, Golinger has attempted in recent days to paint a portrait of historic organizations like the Federation of Indigenous Nationalities of Ecuador (CONAIE in Spanish initials) as agents of US imperialism."

Monday 10/11/2010

British Novelist John le Carré on the Iraq War, Corporate Power, the Exploitation of Africa and His New Novel, "Our Kind of Traitor" 10/11/2010 Democracy Now

Saturday 10/9/2010

Authentic Dishonesty - Newt and Dinesh Save America! 10/9/2010 Counterpunch: "At least one of Newt’s wives would tell us that Newt is a man who “played a wonderful con” in connection with his marriages and is “authentically dishonest.” According to a story in Esquire in September, prior to dissolving his marriage to Second Wife Marianne because of an affair he was having with Soon To Be Third Wife Callista Bisek, he returned from Erie Pennsylvania where he’d given a speech on family values. He and Marianne were talking and she asked him: "How do you give that speech and do what you're doing? "It doesn't matter what I do," he replied. "People need to hear what I have to say. There's no one else who can say what I can say. It doesn't matter what I live.” Actions, he believes, do not speak louder than words. Time will tell if he’s right."

Friday 10/8/2010

Ecuador: Coup or Riot? 10/8/2010 Counterpunch: "The police attack on Correa was co-coordinated with similar takeovers in several other cities, the seizure of Ecuador’s two largest airports by army troops, and the occupation of the National Assembly. In the end the Ecuadorian Army supported the President, freed him from the police hospital where he was being held, and whisked him to safety, but only after a firefight killed one soldier and a student who had turned out to support Correa. The President’s car was struck by five bullets. According to the Latin American Herald Tribune, eight people died and 274 were wounded in incidents nationwide."

Thursday 10/7/2010

The Bigot-Whisperers of the Right  10/7/2010 Common Dreams

S.S. Poet left Philly, but where'd it go?  10/7/2010 Philadelphia Inquirer: "She cited a 1980 Reuters report stating that when the 52 hostages were released, Iran took 32 new U.S. hostages identified as "New Jersey heroin smugglers." "Were these estimated thirty-two 'New Jersey heroin smugglers' taken hostage by Iran on or around January 20, 1981, the same as the estimated thirty-four men reported to have been on board The Poet, hijacked by the New Jersey Gambino clan?" Honegger wrote. Zukier-Fredette believes the October Surprise theory. She believes that the ship made it to Iran and disappeared."

Caught Spying on Student, FBI Demands GPS Tracker Back Read More http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2010/10/fbi-tracking-device/#ixzz123JRJzsS  10/7/2010 Wired

Wednesday 10/6/2010

Feds: Akamai worker offered Israel info 10/6/2010 Boston Business Journal: "The foreign country’s representatives, according to U.S. Attorney Carmen Ortiz’s office, cooperated with U.S. authorities instead of taking Doxer up on his offer. Beginning in the summer of 2006, Doxer provided documents such as contracts, employee lists and employee contact information to the agent."

Tuesday 10/5/2010

Evidence Refutes BP's and Fed's Deceptions 10/5/2010 Global Research: "In August, Truthout conducted soil and water sampling in Pass Christian Harbor, Mississippi; on Grand Isle, Louisiana; and around barrier islands off the coast of Louisiana, in order to test for the presence of oil from BP's Macondo Well. Laboratory test results from the samples taken in these areas show extremely high concentrations of oil in both the soil and water. These results contradict consistent claims made by the federal government and BP since early August that much of the Gulf of Mexico is now free of oil and safe for fishing and recreational use. The samples taken were tested in a private laboratory via gas chromatography."

Monday 10/4/2010

CIA's Unethical Research Ignored - Guatemalan Research Horrors and US Hypocrisy  10/4/2010 Counterpunch

Target: Ecuador  10/4/2010 Counterpunch: "In June of last year, when the Honduran military overthrew the social democratic government of Manuel Zelaya, President Rafael Correa of Ecuador took it personally. "We have intelligence reports that say that after Zelaya, I’m next,” said Correa."

Brazil presidential elections head for second-round  10/4/2010 Guardian, UK

Sunday 10/3/2010

Chavez Says U.S. Is Behind Failed Coup Attempt Against Ecuador's Correa 10/3/2010 Bloomberg: [Clinton never called it an attempted coup.]

Saturday 10/2/2010

Ecuador Between Three Wagers 10/2/2010 Counterpunch

Friday 10/1/2010

Ecuador declares state of emergency amid 'coup attempt'  10/1/2010 BBC

Finally, Israel Lobby Gets Challenged  10/1/2010 Consortium News

"Underground" Group of Cadets Say Air Force Academy Controlled by Evangelicals  10/1/2010 Global Research: "An anonymous cadet at the US Air Force Academy (USAFA ) spoke out against alleged religious discrimination at the school last week, saying that some cadets must pretend to be evangelical Christians in order to maintain standing among their peers and superiors. In an email to the Military Religious Freedom Foundation (MRFF), the whistleblower stated that he is part of an "underground group" of about 100 cadets who cannot rely on proper channels to confront evangelical pressure."

Ecuador: A third US sponsored coup d’etat against a member state of the Bolivarian Alliance of the Americas (ALBA)  10/1/2010 Global Research: by Eva Golinger - "Several US-funded organizations have made calls to demand Correa's resignation. The police forces behind the coup are maintaining President Rafael Correa sequestered in a military hospital. Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez warned minutes ago that Correa's life is in "severe danger". Chávez also criticized the US State Department's failure to condemn the coup underway in Ecuador this afternoon during their daily press briefing. State spokesman Phillip Crowley said the US is "monitoring the situation" in Ecuador, but failed to condemn the developments… USAID channels millions annually into political groups against Correa that could be behind the coup attempt."

Informe confirmado: inteligencia USA penetró a fondo la policía ecuatoriana  10/1/2010 Granma: Por: Jean-Guy Allard - "El sublevamiento de elementos golpistas de la policía ecuatoriana en contra del Presidente Rafael Correa confirma un informe alarmante sobre la infiltración de la policía ecuatoriana por los servicios de inteligencia norteamericanos difundido en el 2008, en el cual se señalaba cómo muchos miembros de los cuerpos policíacos desarrollaban una "dependencia" hacia la embajada de Estados Unidos en ese país sudamericano. El informe precisaba que unidades de la Policía "mantienen una dependencia económica informal con Estados Unidos, para el pago de informantes, capacitación, equipamiento y operaciones". El uso sistemático de técnicas de corrupción de parte de la CIA para adquirir la "buena voluntad" de oficiales de policía fue descrito y denunciado en numerosas oportunidades por el ex agente de la CIA Philip Agee, quien, antes de abandonar las filas de la agencia, estuvo asignado a la embajada de Estados Unidos en Quito."

Ecuador troops rescue president from rebel cops  10/1/2010 WaPo: "They are a bunch of ungrateful bandits," Correa said of the protesters after they set upon him. He said the new law "is removing bonus payments and decorations from the entire public sector ... to prevent abuses of state money. We know the Ecuadorean people support us in all this." Correa said at the palace that he asked the rebelling police if they had read the law and none had. He said they had fallen victim to rumor and lies spread by hostile media. In fact, the law will provide police with better salaries, he said."

Thursday 9/30/2010

Presidente Rafael Correa fue rescatado de Hospital de la Policía, llega sano y salvo al Palacio de Carondelet  9/30/2010 Aporrea

The New Racism is the Old Racism  9/30/2010 Common Dreams: "Wise also urged white liberals to let go of their discomfort in looking past class alone when addressing inequity. Getting white progressives to see that their “racial indifference is another form of white supremacy” is one way to transform what he calls “aspring white allies” into actual allies. He also noted that framing racial justice as a way to “save our humanity” can be appealing to whites who often see race as either irrelevant or threatening. Sen pointed out another common blind spot for white liberals: the idea that diversity is the key to leveling the field. “Diversity is not equity,” said Sen."

UN: Israel Executed Flotilla Activists Gareth Porter: UN Fact-Finding Mission Says Israelis "Executed" US Citizen Furkan Dogan  9/30/2010 Common Dreams

Coup Attempt in Ecuador Is a Result of Sec. Clinton's Cowardice in Honduras  9/30/2010 Ecuador: "It was this newspaper, through reporter Bill Conroy's investigations, that broke the story last August that the State Department-controlled Millennium Challenge Corporation had poured extraordinary amounts of money into Honduras in the months leading up to the June 29, 2009 coup d'etat. And in story after story, we demonstrated with documented fact how Clinton's Millennium Challenge Corporation went so far as to violate the ban on US aid to the Honduran coup regime. Clinton's later endorsement of farcical presidential elections and her over-reaching attempts to pretend nothing had happened in Honduras are precisely the signals that were received by today's coup plotters in Ecuador when they made a run at toppling the democratic government there."

Manifestantes logran romper cerco y llegan a hospital donde se encuentra secuestrado Correa  9/30/2010 TeleSur

Soros secretly funded J Street  9/30/2010 VoltaireNet: "Thus far, Mr. Soros has denied the existence of such donations. But, J Street has recognized that it received 750 000 dollars from Soros since it was created three years ago. J Street’s chief donor is a mysterious shell company registered in Hong Kong, Consolacion Esdicul."

Wednesday 9/29/2010

Door-to-door spies in Utah County?  9/29/2010 ABC4, Salt Lake City: "Folks are reporting that they're asking about the new National Security Agency's data center that is being built at Camp Williams… Officer Schauerhamer cited the group for soliciting without a city business license and then passed along their information to Immigration and Customs Enforcement. He said ICE is investigating. ABC 4 also contacted other agencies that might have interest in possible door-to-door spies. We were told by a spokesman for Utah Homeland Security that they were unaware of the Israeli artists and the FBI had no comment."

Israeli Commandos Accused of Murder  9/29/2010 Consortium News

In a Computer Worm, a Possible Biblical Clue  9/29/2010 NYT

Sunday 9/26/2010

Revealed: The maps that show the racial breakdown of America’s biggest cities 9/26/2010 Daily Mail, UK

The former guerrilla set to be the world's most powerful woman 9/26/2010 Independent: "The world's most powerful woman will start coming into her own next weekend. Stocky and forceful at 63, this former leader of the resistance to a Western-backed military dictatorship (which tortured her) is preparing to take her place as President of Brazil. As head of state, president Dilma Rousseff would outrank Angela Merkel, Germany's Chancellor, and Hillary Clinton, the US Secretary of State: her enormous country of 200 million people is revelling in its new oil wealth. Brazil's growth rate, rivalling China's, is one that Europe and Washington can only envy. Her widely predicted victory in next Sunday's presidential poll will be greeted with delight by millions. It marks the final demolition of the "national security state", an arrangement that conservative governments in the US and Europe once regarded as their best artifice for limiting democracy and reform. It maintained a rotten status quo that kept a vast majority in poverty in Latin America while favouring their rich friends."

Friday 9/24/2010

Ahmadinejad and the 9/11 attacks  9/24/2010 Al Jazeera: "About 46 per cent of the world's people believe that al-Qaeda launched the 9/11 attacks, while 15 per cent think the US government was behind the assault, and seven per cent blame Israel, according to a 2008 world public opinion study carried out by the Program on International Policy (PIPA) Attitudes at the University of Maryland, which interviewed 16,063 people worldwide… But Ahmadinejad views himself as a leader in the Arab and Muslim worlds. And, in these regions, surveys show significant sectors of the population believe that the US and Israel launched the 9/11 attacks to meet their own geopolitical goals. In Jordan, 31 per cent of those polled by PIPA believe Israel was behind the attacks, while only 11 per cent blame it on al-Qaeda. Likewise, 43 per cent of Egyptians blame Israel, and 12 per cent think the US was responsible, while only 16 per cent think al-Qaeda brought down the towers."

Israeli leaders condemn Clinton immigrant comments  9/24/2010 AP: "Israeli leaders have sharply criticized Bill Clinton over comments the former U.S. president made this week calling Russian immigrants in Israel an obstacle to peace. Clinton, who is generally a well-loved figure in Israel for his efforts to broker a Mideast peace deal in the 1990s, also said at a round-table group this week in New York that the most recent arrivals in Israel have the hardest time agreeing to share the land with the Palestinians."

Soros revealed as funder of liberal Jewish-American lobby  9/24/2010 Washington Times: "The Jewish-American advocacy group J Street, which bills itself as the dovish alternative to the influential American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) lobby, has secretly received funding from billionaire George Soros despite previous denials that it accepted funds from the Hungarian-born financier and liberal political activist."

Thursday 9/23/2010

Congress requests extradition of Israeli mercenary 9/23/2010 Colombia Reports: "Colombia has previously requested that Klein be extradited to the South American country, where he is accused of creating training camps for private armies that worked for drug lords, including the infamous Pablo Escobar. These groups later developed into Colombia's right-wing paramilitary groups. Colombia's request was denied in April, with the European Court citing human rights concerns as the reason Klein would not be delivered to Colombian authorities. The former Israeli army lieutenant colonel was convicted in absentia by a Colombian court in 2001 for training illegal armed groups in the 1980s. He was sentenced to ten years and eight months in a Colombian jail. Klein was arrested at Moscow's Domodedovo airport in August 2007 on an arrest warrant issued by Colombia through international police agency Interpol. The Israeli remains in detention in Russia."

Wednesday 9/22/2010

Signs Multiply of Fissures in Iranian Regime 9/22/2010 Tehran Bureau

Tuesday 9/21/2010

Apartheid in Our Schools 9/21/2010 Common Dreams: "Education advocates hoped the Obama administration would have by now offered its own, more helpful guidance on voluntary integration programs. In an administration that feels that some racial issues are a third rail for an African-American president, this has not happened. Obama’s big education speech this summer to the Urban League made no mention of school resegregation. He talked plenty about his Race to the Top contest to fight the achievement gap, but racial desegregation is not part of that fight. Children of color continue to be exposed to disproportionate disadvantages that make the gap almost impossible to close. Until Obama publically connects the two, consider the issue “unaddressed.’’

Tea Party triumphs: Good news for Democrats 9/21/2010 Progreso: "Indeed, in six states, Tea Partiers have stolen the Senate nomination from establishment Republican candidates. In Utah, Mike Lee ousted incumbent Senator Robert Bennett. In Kentucky, Rand Paul trounced Mitch McConnell's handpicked candidate, Trey Grayson. In Alaska, Sarah Palin-backed Joe Miller upset incumbent Senator Lisa Murkowski. Ken Buck knocked out former Lt. Gov. Jane Norton in Colorado. Sharron Angle beat out front-runner Sue Lowden in Nevada. And now, in Delaware, Christine O'Donnell has toppled Congressman Mike Castle, who'd been supported by the entire state and national Republican hierarchy."

Monday 9/20/2010

New Tests Show Key Witnesses Lied at Abu Jamal Trial 9/20/2010 Counterpunch: "During the contentious 1982 murder trial of Philadelphia radio-journalist Mumia Abu-Jamal, a central argument of the prosecution in making its case for the conviction and for imposition of a death penalty was the trial testimony of two key eyewitnesses who claimed to have actually seen Abu-Jamal fire his pistol repeatedly, at virtually point-blank range, into the prone Officer Daniel Faulkner. This testimony about Abu-Jamal’s shooting at the defenseless policeman execution-style solidified the prosecution’s portrayal of Abu-Jamal as a cold-blooded assassin. There was however, always the lingering question, never raised at trial, or even during the subsequent nearly three-decades-long appeals process, of why, if Abu-Jamal had fired four bullets downward at Faulkner, only hitting him once with a bullet between the eyes on the morning of December 9, 1981, there was no evidence in the surface of the sidewalk around the officer’s body of the bullets that missed."

Israel seeks release of spy in exchange for extending settlement freeze 9/20/2010 Guardian: "However, any deal is likely to meet stiff resistance from US intelligence which has previously scuppered plans to free Pollard."

Sunday 9/19/2010

Who’s picking up the tab for the tea party?  9/19/2010 CSM

Venezuelans Seize 2 Tons of Drugs on Colombian Border  9/19/2010 Inside Costa Rica

Hiring Foreign Spies and Bringing Israeli Military Values to America  9/19/2010 Pacific Free Press: "But ITRR does much more than just monitor terrorists. Indeed, it seems to be far too busy monitoring legitimate, non-violent and completely legal protest organizations and other political groups to do much real anti-terror work. According to news reports on ITRR’s work for the Pennsylvania Homeland Security Agency and also the Pittsburgh Police Department, it would appear that ITRR was spying on and providing Pennsylvania State Police and Homeland Security with reports on everything from anti-war groups and anti-oil-shale-fracking groups to gay rights groups, animal rights groups, environmental organizations and even Good Schools Pennsylvania, a citizens association formed to back Gov. Ed Rendell’s school reform initiatives. Even a Harrisburg, PA man who likes to bring a 25-foot inflatable pig to demonstrations to symbolize government waste was targeted. While local news media reports in Philadelphia have suggested that ITRR is just composed of two people, Aaron Richman, an Israeli police captain and security consultant and Michael Perelman, a retired New York City police commander, the website makes it clear that the company actually employs a large number of people in Israel, and may have as many as 15 people working “in the field” in the US."

Saturday 9/18/2010

US couple allegedly tried to help Venezuela develop nuclear weapon 9/18/2010 AP: "Kenneth Gonzales, U.S. attorney for New Mexico, said the indictment does not allege the government of Venezuela or anyone acting on its behalf sought or was passed any classified information."

Friday 9/17/2010

Colombian drug lord is arrested in Venezuela 9/17/2010 El Universal: "The number of dangerous kingpins and members of different drug trafficking organizations requested by Interpol and arrested in Venezuela until September 2010 amounts to 16 criminals so far this year."

Partners in Crime: The U.S. Secret State and Mexico's "War on Drugs" 9/17/2010 Global Research: Good links.

Thursday 9/16/2010

Colombia: Paramilitares dominan territorios y expulsan comunidades negras e indígenas  9/16/2010 Aporrea: "La actuación de un grupo paramilitar en los límites y en el territorio de Calima, en Colombia, está perturbando y perjudicando la vida de las poblaciones afro-colombianas e indígenas que residen en el lugar. Desde julio, los paramilitares están realizando operaciones armadas, amedrentando y amenazando a la población, realizando desalojos forzados, aislando a la población y cometiendo asesinatos. Dos meses después, el estado no dio ninguna repuesta ante tan grave situación."

Nixon's Vengeful War on Marijuana  9/16/2010 Consortium News: "The U.S. government has maintained its own double standards, tolerating and protecting some drug traffickers who collaborated with the CIA. The U.S. government also has experimented with mind-altering drugs often on unsuspecting subjects. For instance: "

South African hospital chain charged in organ trafficking case  9/16/2010 Toronto Star: "A major South African hospital chain and its chief executive have been charged after years of investigation into a human organ trafficking case that stretched from Israel to South Africa to Brazil, hospital officials and police said Thursday."

Wednesday 9/15/2010

'Dude, you have no Koran' 9/15/2010 Asia Times: "David Grisham, the wacko director of one Repent Amarillo organization, who had planned his own Koran-burning session in support of Gainesville, Florida, pastor and instant global celebrity Terry Jones, was about to commit the act in front of around 200 people when, out of nowhere comes ... the unlikeliest of heroes; Jacob Isom, a 23-year-old, bespectacled local skateboarder. Isom himself described what happened to the Amarillo-Globe News: "I snuck up behind him and took his Koran, he said something about burning the Koran, I said 'Dude you have no Koran,' and ran off." The righteous skateboarder even had time to add to a startled Grisham, "You’re just trying to start holy wars," then handed the unburned Koran to a local Muslim leader."

Michael Steele Defends Gingrich's Comments That Obama May Have A 'Kenyan Anti-Colonial Worldview' 9/15/2010 Huffington Post: "Part of the reason Steele may be defending Gingrich is that the former House Speaker has repeatedly stuck up for him. After news of questionable RNC expenditures at a strip club dogged Steele and raised questions about his leadership, Gingrich publicly told Republicans to stop focusing on him and worry instead about defeating Democrats in November. In January, Gingrich said, "I'm a fan of Steele's. I think he is learning, he is smart and he will be an important part of where we're going."

Monday 9/13/2010

Forbes’ Shameful Piece on Obama as the “Other” 9/13/2010 Columbia Journalism Review: "First of all, D’Souza perpetuates the Cokie Roberts idiocy—that Hawaii is somehow less American than the rest of the U.S. But hey—no problems with Alaska, which came into the Union the same year. Somehow, Sarah Palin always seem to be an examplar of “Real America.” Hmmm. But D’Souza has some real nerve here: Obama is a native-born American and D’Souza is not. When he says “Here is a man who spent his formative years—the first 17 years of his life—off the American mainland,” he could be referring to himself. According to Wikipedia, anyway, he was born in India in 1961 and never came to the States until 1978. That adds up to about “the first 17 years of his life—off the American mainland.” Somehow the first-seventeen years thing raises questions about Obama’s Americanness but not about D’Souza’s qualifications to question somebody’s degree of native-born Americanness. This is loathsome stuff. And, again, it’s the cover story of one of the three big mainstream financial magazines."

Saturday 9/11/2010

Powder Keg? Glenn Beck Groupies, Oath Keepers and Tea Partiers to Collide with Black Family Reunion  9/11/2010 Alternet

The Xenophobic Right's Weird Reaction to Hollywood Blockbuster 'Machete'  9/11/2010 Alternet

Ahmadinejad-Khamenei Rift Deepens  9/11/2010 PBS: "Although Khamenei firmly supported the election fraud and recognized Ahmadinejad as the elected president even before the Guardian Council certified the returns, friction between the two men began to emerge almost immediately afterward. Khamenei overruled Ahmadinejad's appointment of Esfandiar Rahim Mashaei as his first vice president (there are eight) in August 2009. The reason, never publicized, for Khamenei's decision was that in the 1980s, when Mashaei was an interrogator of political prisoners, he married a "repentant" former member of the Mojahedin-e Khalgh Organization. In that era, Mashaei, whose daughter is married to Ahmadinejad's son, was known as Morteza Moheb Oldlia."

Friday 9/10/2010

Los Angeles Launches Nation’s First Israel Divestment Campaign  9/10/2010 Alternet: "On Wednesday, September 8th, at a noon press conference in Los Angeles in front of the Israeli Consulate, the California Israel Divestment Campaign, a culturally diverse group of compassionate Americans announced the launch of California ballot initiative 10-0020 to require public employee systems to divest from certain business activities in Israel."

The Scapegoats of Europe - The Persecution of the Roma  9/10/2010 Counterpunch

Untangling the Bizarre CIA Links to the Ground Zero Mosque  9/10/2010 NY Observer: "From 2006 to 2008, R. Leslie Deak worked as a "business consultant" to this super-secretive security contractor with ties to the CIA and counterterrorism forces, and in those same three years he also donated nearly $100,000 in seed money to the foundation now advocating the construction of the so-called Ground Zero Mosque. Interestingly, during the same three-year period during which the Deak Family Foundation was financing the Cordoba Initiative, Deak also donated a total of $101,247 to something called the National Defense University Foundation. The National Defense University is a network of war and strategy colleges and research centers (including the National War College) funded by the Pentagon, designed to train specialists in military strategy. The organization recently announced a November 5 dinner gala in honor of Defense Secretary and former CIA chief Robert Gates. Sponsors include Northrup Grumman, Boeing, Lockheed Martin and...the Patriot Defense Group."

Who is rigging our elections? Clues from Massachusetts.  9/10/2010 Op Ed News: "His starting point is the fact that among the 3% of ballots that were hand-counted, Coakley won a solid victory. He then proceeds to eliminate, one by one, all the innocent explanations for the disparity between the 3% (hand counted, publicly verifiable) and the 97% (machine-tallied using trade-secret software by two large corporations, ES&S and Diebold, both with partisan Republican ties)."

Thursday 9/9/2010

Polls, Damned Polls and the Truth About Venezuela 9/9/2010 Counterpunch

Effingham deputies call feds after arresting Russians with shovel, wire cutters outside Georgia Power plant 9/9/2010 Savannah Morning News: "The men, two from Russia and one from Kazakhstan, were found near Georgia Power’s Plant McIntosh on Old Augusta Road about 1 a.m. Sunday after a ranger with the Department of Natural Resources reported a suspicious vehicle, Effingham County sheriff’s spokesman David Ehsanipoor said. Deputies reported the men, who were inside a 1995 Nissan Pathfinder, had a machete, shovel, wire cutters and ski masks. One man also had black silk stockings in his front left pocket… The three were released after being interviewed by task force members, Ehsanipoor said. "They did all have visas that allowed them to be here and are supposed to be leaving the country soon."

Wednesday 9/8/2010

Koran Burner: Creepier Than You Think - Florida church’s “rulebook” worthy of pastor’s bonfire 9/8/2010 The Smoking Gun

Monday 9/6/2010

Americans believed involved in Pakistan air crash, Hijacking  9/6/2010 Mathaba: "Suspicions were raised inside Pakistan’s military and intelligence organizations when American military contractors employed by Blackwater/Xe showed up on the scene immediately after the crash, seizing the black box and “other materials.” …Four Blackwater employees, armed and possessing explosives were arrested outside the Kahuta nuclear facility in 2009. The four, driving a Jeep 4×4 and possessing advanced surveillance and jamming equipment of Israeli manufacture, were intercepted 1.5 miles from the Kahuta nuclear facility. The four spoke fluent Pushtu and were dressed in a manner as to resemble Taliban fighters. The order for their release, given by Minister of the Interior Rehman Malik, is an issue of considerable controversy between the civilian government in Pakistan and the powerful military."

Good Americans: The dark side of the Pullman Porters Union  9/6/2010 SF Bay View: "When it came to domestic politics, Randolph and Rustin were on the mark most of the time, fighting for equal rights, civil rights and most of all jobs – but they only conducted these struggles within the parameters of being perceived as good Americans. Beyond the borders and shores of America, they were virulent defenders of colonialism and capitalism."

Thirty-four Colombian tribes face extinction, says UN report  9/6/2010 Survival: "Just two weeks before the report was released, leader Luis Socarrás Pimienta of the Wayúu tribe was shot-dead by an alleged paramilitary outside his home in the northern Colombian province of la Guajira. According to the report, murders of indigenous Colombians rose by 63% between 2008 and 2009, and thirty-three members of Colombia’s Awa tribe were killed in 2009 alone."

Sunday 9/5/2010

Histoire secrète du pétrole algérien 9/5/2010 Tunisia Watch: "L’Algérie est malade de ses dirigeants, pas de son pétrole"

Saturday 9/4/2010

Portugal's elite linked to paedophile ring 9/4/2010 Effedieffe: "Former secretary of state for families, Teresa Costa Macedo, said she had sent a dossier containing photographs and testimonies from children to the police 20 years ago but they had done nothing about it, while she was subjected to a campaign of threats."

Covert Finances: Drug Trade Through Vietnam War 9/4/2010 Sherm Says

Friday 9/3/2010

A Koran-Bashing Pastor - The Fire This Time  9/3/2010 Counterpunch

Big Aid Has a Very Dirty Secret - The CIA to UNICEF  9/3/2010 Counterpunch: "From CIA to UNICEF? The charge that every person who has headed a major western aid agency has an intelligence background has been proven time and time again. It may have taken some serious digging, some dogged investigation, but the fact remains that everyone of those supposed humanitarians that has been investigated has turned out to be a wolf in sheep's clothing. BIg Aid was created as a nefarious tool for dirty doings in the Third World by the powers that be in the west and only trusted capos from the inner circle are allowed to plan and implement their crimes. Of course some good works have to be done, or no one would allow them into their countries. Its only from the inside that they can be really effective in buying off or if that doesn't work, “neutralizing” those in power."

270 nuevas familias raizales para el proyecto Seaflowers Keepers  9/3/2010 RNC, Colombia: "270 nuevas familias entraron al proyecto. El monitoreo y seguimiento lo realizará bimestralmente la Oficina de las Naciones Unidas contra la Droga y el Delito (UNODC). El proyecto impulsa líneas productivas en pesca artesanal, apicultura, agricultura y artesanías."

Thursday 9/2/2010

Israeli spies wooing U.S. Muslims, sources say 9/2/2010 WaPo: "The CIA took an internal poll not long ago about friendly foreign intelligence agencies. The question, mostly directed to employees of the clandestine service branch, was: Which are the best allies among friendly spy services, in terms of liaison with the CIA, and which are the worst? In other words, who acts like, well, friends? “Israel came in dead last,” a recently retired CIA official told me the other day."

Wednesday 9/1/2010

Mapa electoral afrovenezolano 9/1/2010 Aporrea: por Jesus Chucho Garcia

Monday 8/30/2010

Saratoga Springs Police Dept Blotter 8/30/2010 Saratoga Springs, UT: "Several residents have contacted our offices in regards to recent door-to-door solicitations of supposed Israeli students selling “authentic” artworks. After a resident complained on August 18th, it was reported the four Israeli students were eventually contacted by officers in a local restaurant. The solicitors were identified as being Israeli residents, and were not, in fact, art students. One of the women conducting the door-to-door sales admitted to being involved in a “scam”. She said the artwork being presented as ‘original’ paintings were actually copies. Their information was gathered and forwarded to US Immigration officials."

Wednesday 8/25/2010

Brazil's census offers recognition at last to descendants of runaway slaves 8/25/2010 Guardian: "Brazil's excluded, she said, were increasingly willing to stand up and be counted. "I'm here. I'm me. I'm not ashamed of my history." "The progress is slow but it is progress," said Moreira, sat beside his shack's rickety wooden door, bearing the chalked words: "God in first place." "Before, the government didn't care if we existed or not. Today things are different. Today we all have to be registered. We have to appear. That's the only way things will get better."

Tuesday 8/24/2010

Nazi leader Adolf Hitler had Jewish and African relatives, DNA test suggests 8/24/2010 NY Daily News: "Working with historian Marc Vermeeren, the samples were tested and were found to contain a chromosome called Haplopgroup E1b1b (Y-DNA), which is rarely found in Western Europeans. "It is most commonly found in the Berbers of Morocco, in Algeria, Libya and Tunisia as well as among Ashkenazi and Sephardic Jews," Vermeeren said in the article."

Monday 8/23/2010

Sarkozy's immigration tough talk backfires  8/23/2010 AFP: "French President Nicolas Sarkozy's tough talk on Gypsies and immigrants faced a fierce backlash Monday, drawing fire from the right, the left and the Church while failing to boost him in the polls. With two years to go before he seeks re-election and with his popularity at an all time low, Sarkozy has this month attempted to recapture the political initiative with a populist racially-tinged law and order message. Police have begun rounding up and expelling Roma from Eastern Europe and dismantling unauthorised Gypsy campgrounds, while Sarkozy has threatened to strip some French but foreign-born criminals of their nationality. Early opinion polls appeared to show that a majority of voters approved of the crackdown, but an initial surge of interest does not seem to have translated into a boost to the president's personal standing."

The Pond: Running Agents for State, War, and the CIA  8/23/2010 CIA: published 4/07, by Mark Stout - "Editor's note: The career of John "Frenchy" Grombach has long been a mystery that apparently would never be solved, given the secrecy of his actual work and the exaggerations of his memoirs and collaborators. Mark Stout has labored valiantly in publicly available sources and, with the help of other historians, in personal collections to outline Grombach's activities. This article presents his findings. In late 2001, however, voluminous records of Grombach's semi-private intelligence organization were found in a barn in Virginia. Those records are now at the CIA, which, after reviewing them for lingering security concerns, will transfer them to the National Archives. Mr. Stout had access to the newly discovered records before he left the Agency in 2003."

Venezuela defends controversial flights to Iran and Syria  8/23/2010 CNN: "There is absolutely nothing untoward about these flights -- which take place between two countries that have shared diplomatic relations for over 50 years," Herrera wrote in the letter dated August 13. "One can also fly to Tehran from Frankfurt, Germany, amongst other cities, so I still remain confused as to why this should be of any concern. Should you or your staff want to see for yourself, I greatly encourage you to take one of the flights."

Osun hosts confabs on Black race  8/23/2010 Guardian, Nigeria: "The Global Conference of Black Nationalities will open today in Osogbo, Osun State. Besides, over 30 eminent scholars, specialists and Historians from across the globe are converging on Iloko-Ijesha, also in Osun State, for the International Colloquium on Slavery, Slave Trade and their Consequences. Both programmes are being packaged by the Osun State government, through its Centre for Black Culture and International Understanding (CBCIU), in collaboration with United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) as well as Federal Government of Nigeria. While President Goodluck Jonathan is expected to open the Osogbo conference, former President Olusegun Obasanjo will moderate the opening session and present a keynote address."

504 familias raizales de San Andrés le apuesten a la legalidad con ayuda de Acción Social  8/23/2010 Republica de Colombia: "Acción Social entrega incentivos económicos condicionados por 113 millones de pesos para las 504 familias isleñas que se capacitan en pesca artesanal, apicultura, agricultura y artesanías. La Oficina de las Naciones Unidas contra la Droga y el Delito (Unodc) certificó su compromiso en la legalidad y productividad."

Sunday 8/22/2010

Retired FBI Agent Says Oswald Didn't Kill Kennedy 8/22/2010 FOX: "One of Adams first assignments was investigating an extreme right radical, with connections to the States Rights Party and KKK named Joseph Adams Milteer. "He was reportedly one of most violent men in the country," said Adams… And an FBI record states that after the assassination, "a jubilant" Milteer bragged to the informant, "You thought I was kidding when I said he would be killed from a window with a high powered rifle." Adams questions why Milteer appears in a photograph near President Kennedy's limousine before the shooting, but was never mentioned in the Warren Commission Report."

Friday 8/20/2010

Mr. Crown and the President - Israel, Big Money and Obama  8/20/2010 Counterpunch

The Self-Destruction of Dr. Laura - The Lady Who Cried "Nigger"!  8/20/2010 Counterpunch

BP and the Government Are Underplaying the Difficulty of Stopping the Oil Leak  8/20/2010 Global Research

The trials of Rep. Maxine Waters: Ethics or payback?  8/20/2010 SF Bay View: "Congresswoman Maxine Waters, who waged a more successful war on drugs than the entire U.S. government, was concerned with people like Ronald Reagan and George Bush, who made enormous profits from this trade by flooding urban America with poison. Her efforts to investigate were suppressed by Porter Goss, who then chaired the House Intelligence Committee. Now Goss heads the ethics office that charged Waters with ethics violations for her legitimate advocacy for Black banks and economic justice for Black and Brown people."

The Story of Obama: All in The Company (Part I)  8/20/2010 VoltaireNet: "Investigative journalist Wayne Madsen has discovered CIA files that document the agency’s connections to institutions and individuals figuring prominently in the lives of Barack Obama and his mother, father, grandmother, and stepfather. The first part of his report highlights the connections between Barack Obama, Sr. and the CIA-sponsored operations in Kenya to counter rising Soviet and Chinese influence among student circles and, beyond, to create conditions obstructing the emergence of independent African leaders."

Thursday 8/19/2010

Sex at Dawn - Our Promiscuous Prehistory 8/19/2010 Counterpunch

Wednesday 8/18/2010

Mosque Furor Endangers US Troops  8/18/2010 Consortium News: "Think for a minute about how differently this controversy could have played out: The proximity between Ground Zero and a mosque could have been held out as proof that American leaders mean what they say about welcoming moderate Muslims. The message at home would have reinforced – not contradicted – the message carried by U.S. soldiers and diplomats abroad. The United States would have stood up before the world as a confident nation that lives – not just talks – its principles. The American welcoming of a mosque near the 9/11 site could have represented a propaganda blow to al-Qaeda and other extremists. Instead, the opposite has occurred. The world has seen the United States appearing as a weak, prejudiced and vengeful nation, blaming an entire religion for the actions of a few adherents."

The secrets in Israel’s archives: Evidence of ethnic cleansing kept under lock and key  8/18/2010 Counterpunch: "For decades, Israelis have been taught a grand narrative in which, having repelled an attack by Syrian forces, Israel then magnanimously allowed the civilian population of the Golan to live under its rule. That, say Israelis, is why the inhabitants of four Druze villages are still present there. The rest chose to leave on the instructions of Damascus. One influential journalist writing at the time even insinuated anti-Semitism on the part of the civilians who departed: “Everyone fled, to the last man, before the IDF [Israel Defence Forces] arrived, out of fear of the ‘savage conqueror’ … Fools, why did they have to flee?” However, a very different picture emerges from Haaretz’s interviews with the participants. These insiders say that all but 6,000 of the Golan’s 130,000 civilians were either terrorised or physically forced out, some of them long after the fighting finished. An army document reveals a plan to clear the area of the Syrian population, with only the exception of the Golan Druze, so as not to upset relations with the loyal Druze community inside Israel. The army’s post-war tasks included flushing out thousands of farmers hiding in caves and woods to send them over the new border. Homes were looted before the army set about destroying all traces of 200 villages so that there would be nowhere left for the former inhabitants to return to. The first Jewish settlers sent to till the fields recalled seeing the dispossessed owners watching from afar."

Civilians to Take U.S. Lead After Military Leaves Iraq  8/18/2010 NYT: "To protect the civilians in a country that is still home to insurgents with Al Qaeda and Iranian-backed militias, the State Department is planning to more than double its private security guards, up to as many as 7,000, according to administration officials who disclosed new details of the plan. Defending five fortified compounds across the country, the security contractors would operate radars to warn of enemy rocket attacks, search for roadside bombs, fly reconnaissance drones and even staff quick reaction forces to aid civilians in distress, the officials said."

Israel & The Anti-Muslim Blow-Up  8/18/2010 Political Correction: "Bottom line: it's a witches' brew that is being stirred up, and it is one that will no doubt produce violence. But the witches are not all on the right. Just as many liberals are stirring the pot to please some of their donors. I'm not saying you should not blame Beck and Limbaugh for all this hate. But don't forget to blame your favorite liberal and progressive politicians. With a few (very few) exceptions, they are just as bad."

Tuesday 8/17/2010

Colombian court blocks military agreement with U.S.  8/17/2010 CNN: "The court ruled that the agreement over use of the bases was not an extension of treaties signed between the two nations in the past, but a new treaty that requires the approval of the legislature to be valid. "It's certainly a big bump in the road, but it's not a huge setback," Adam Isacson, senior associate at the Washington Office on Latin America organization told CNN. The congressional make-up is about 80 percent backers of current president Juan Manuel Santos and former President Alvaro Uribe, who was in office when the agreement was signed, Isacson said. So congressional approval could come quickly."

“La Tramacúa”: Colombia’s Abu Ghraib  8/17/2010 NarcoNews

Arming Aid: Costa Rica, the US Military and the Ongoing “War” on Drugs  8/17/2010 Upside Down World: "The US will begin sending warships to Costa Rica as early as August 20 despite the fact that the Costa Rican Supreme Court agreed to hear a case challenging its constitutionality. The court will hear the challenge to the Costa Rican legislative assembly's decision to permit the US to move 46 warships (with the capacity to carry 7,000 troops and 200 helicopters) into Costa Rican territory. While initially there were reports that the court’s agreement to do so would delay the arrival of US military personnel at least until they ruled, the US will begin to utilize the permission unabated."

Mr. Erdogan: Please Say No to Uribe  8/17/2010 Uruknet: "We are writing to you from under a brutal, hermetic siege now entering its fourth year to express our outrage against the nomination of the notorious former president of Columbia, Álvaro Uribe Vélez to the Panel of Inquiry into the May 31, 2010 Israeli brutal attack on the humanitarian flotilla to Gaza. Mr. Prime Minister, it is an insult to the memory of those killed in the Israeli massacre against peace activists aboard the Mavi Marmara to have their blood "redeemed" by a man who has a record of violations against human rights and international law. Uribe Vélez was an accomplice in corruption and crimes against humanity in Columbia. Lately, he supported the displacement of Afro-Colombian families from their ancestral territories in La Toma, Suarez and kept silent against the denial of their economic and territorial rights. Not only so, but is a devoted Zionist, committed to the myth and fabrication of "Israel’s security."

Monday 8/16/2010

Bogota bombing was 'work of far right'  8/16/2010 Radio Netherland

How the "ground zero mosque" fear mongering began  8/16/2010 Salon: "To a remarkable extent, a Salon review of the origins of the story found, the controversy was kicked up and driven by Pamela Geller, a right-wing, viciously anti-Muslim, conspiracy-mongering blogger, whose sinister portrayal of the project was embraced by Rupert Murdoch's New York Post… (To get an idea of where Geller is coming from, she once suggested that Malcolm X was Obama's real father. Seriously.)"

The Man With The Israeli Accent–USS LIBERTY Survivor’s Life Threatened by Mossad on American Soil While Uncle Sam Yawns  8/16/2010 the ugly truth

Saturday 8/14/2010

Dr. Laura Shows How Not to Address Racism Via Her N-Word-Filled Rant 8/14/2010 About.com: "Dr. Laura has since apologized for using the N-word but not for the myopic views she shared during the heated exchange with the caller. She has, however, expressed regrets for not helping Jade and has invited her to call back. I wouldn't hold my breath until she does. Consider Schlessinger's last bit of advice for Jade: "If you're that hypersensitive about color and don't have a sense of humor, don't marry out of your race."

Friday 8/13/2010

"Routine" Massacre of Civilians in Iraq: Former GIs Describe US Policy of Firing on Civilians 8/13/2010 Global Research: “What the world did not see is the months of training that led up to the incident, in which soldiers were taught to respond to threats with a barrage of fire---a “wall of steel,” in Army parlance---even if it put civilians at risk,” report Sarah Lazare and Ryan Harvey in the August 16th issue of The Nation magazine. Former Army Specialist Josh Stieber said that newly arrived soldiers in Baghdad were asked if they would fire back at an attacker if they knew unarmed civilians might get hurt in the process. Those who did not respond affirmatively, or who hesitated, were “knocked around” until they realized what was expected of them, added former Army Specialist Ray Corcoles, who deployed with Stieber."

Thursday 8/12/2010

Gulf of Mexico `Dead Zone' Grows as Spill Impact Is Studied 8/12/2010 Bloomberg

Monday 8/9/2010

Mensaje para la población de raza negra de los Estados Unidos 8/9/2010 Aporrea: "A los ciudadanos de raza negra o afrodescendientes, como a muchos morenos estadounidenses les gusta que los llamen. Aun cuando, yo no estoy de acuerdo con ese concepto. Porque, yo no he visto, por ejemplo en alguna planilla del seguro social, algún banco o empresa cualquiera cuando exigen la identificación de una persona, se lea en dicha planilla por ejemplo, no dice, Cedula de identidad asiático descendiente en caso de los asiáticos, o europeo descendiente, en caso de europeos, o afro descendiente; solo se lee Cédula de Identidad Venezolana (CEV)."

Thursday 8/5/2010

America's Covert "Civil Society Operations": US Interference in Venezuela Keeps Growing 8/5/2010 Counterpunch: by Eva Golinger

The Big Lie - Venezuela and Labor 8/5/2010 Counterpunch: "In other words, the ITUC, which is recognized as the foremost authority on anti-union violence, views the killings of unionists in Colombia and Venezuela very differently – with the violence against unionists in Colombia being “structural” and “systematic,” almost invariably with government sanction; and the violence in Venezuela, on the other hand, stemming from mafia-like corruption largely within the union movement itself."

Wednesday 8/4/2010

Colombia and Venesuela Rattle Their Sabres - Uribe's Parting Shot 8/4/2010 Counterpunch

Tuesday 8/3/2010

Operation False Positive - Behind the Colombia / Venezuela Tensions 8/3/2010 Counterpunch: "“False positive” is the name given to the Colombian armed forces operation that murdered civilians and then dressed them up in insurgent uniforms in order to demonstrate the success of the army’s counterinsurgency strategy, thus winning more aid from the U.S. According to the human rights organizations Comision de Derechos Homanos del Bajo Ariari and Colectivo Orlando Fals Borda, some 2,000 civilians have been murdered under the program. The bodies at La Macarena have not been identified yet, but suspicion is that they represent victims of the “false-positive” program, as well as rural activists and trade unionists. The incoming Colombian president, Juan Manuel Santos, was defense secretary when the murders were talking place. Santos also oversaw a brief invasion of Ecuador in 2008 that reportedly killed a number of insurgents. The invasion was widely condemned throughout Latin America."

Young Palestinians With Cameras - Shooting Back 8/3/2010 Counterpunch: “People started to take this tool, the video camera, and use it as a way to express themselves, to tell stories,” said Gross. “We didn’t train them to do that. We trained them to document human rights violations. But pretty soon we got the sense that this can be a powerful tool for them to empower themselves.”

Monday 8/2/2010

Eva Golinger: EEUU otorga más de 6.4 millones de dólares para la oposición en paises de la ALBA 8/2/2010 Aporrea: "Educación Cívica (NOMBRE CENSURADO): $21.575 dólares para fortalecer la capacidad de mujeres afro-descendientes para promover sus derechos y participar en las decisiones en sus comunidades."

Israeli Rabbi Preaches "Slaughter" of Gentile Babies 8/2/2010 Counterpunch: "In the 230-page book, Shapira and his co-author, Rabbi Yosef Elitzur, also from Yitzhar, argue that Jewish law permits the killing of non-Jews in a wide variety of circumstances. The terms “gentiles” and “non-Jews” in the book are widely understood as references to Palestinians. They write that Jews have the right to kill gentiles in any situation in which “a non-Jew’s presence endangers Jewish lives” even if the gentile is “not at all guilty for the situation that has been created”. The book sanctions the killing of non-Jewish children and babies: “There is justification for killing babies if it is clear that they will grow up to harm us, and in such a situation they may be harmed deliberately, and not only during combat with adults.” The rabbis suggest that harming the children of non-Jewish leaders is justified if it is likely to bring pressure to bear on them to change policy."

Sunday 8/1/2010

Shock wave and bubble: the untruth about the Cheonan - 'proof' that the Cheonan was sunk by North Korea has been thoroughly discredited. 8/1/2010 Global Research

Thursday 7/29/2010

The Truth Behind the Tea Parties 7/29/2010 Consortium News: "Right-wing groups poured funding into the nascent movement. These groups included: Americans for Prosperity, a pro-tobacco, anti-healthcare and anti-tax lobbying organization; and FreedomWorks, a lobbying firm devoted to opposing taxes, immigration, healthcare reform and solutions to global warming. Koch Industries, an oil, mineral, ranching and securities conglomerate, funds both of these groups, while the Sarah Mellon Scaife foundation, with interests in oil, industry and banking, funds FreedomWorks."

Lideres raizales mañana marcharan por las calle de san andres , para prostestar por las inmovilizaciones de motocicletas 7/29/2010 RNC, Colombia: "El ciudadano Raizal Carlos Piusy en denuncias entregadas a los diferentes medios de comunicación señalo que la policía de carretera ha establecido persecución a los motociclistas de la isla. Según lo expresado por piusy las motocicletas le solicitan documentos que todavía no están socializado por el gobierno y lo agentes de manera drástica inmovilizan el vehículo moto y no los taxis ni vehículos particulares camiones que ya cumplieron su ciclo."

Wednesday 7/28/2010

Philly Knows Better - Another Reverse Racism Scam 7/28/2010 Counterpunch: "The usual suspects – right-wing operatives, conservative media commentators and GOP Congressmen – are portraying two members of the New Black Panther Party, including of one carrying a baton, as having intimidated white voters during the November 4, 2008 presidential election where Obama defeated GOP candidate McCain. A closer examination by ThisCantBeHappening! however reveals that, just like the doctored video that falsely implied that USDA official Shirley Sherrod was a racist who had denied farm aid to poor whites, this Philly claim of alleged black intimidation of white voters is just more trumped-up nonsense."

Settlers Wage Vendetta on Israeli Secret Police - Shin Bet Exposed 7/28/2010 Counterpunch: "In another blow to the Shin Bet, Pearlman’s supporters have released a video secretly filmed of the head of the Shin Bet’s Jewish division, which arrested Pearlman, both naming him and identifying where he lives. Although he is in charge of handling “Jewish terror” cases for the Shin Bet, the video states that he lives in Kfar Adumim, a West Bank settlement. It is a criminal offence to identify any employee of the Shin Bet. Pearlman’s allies, who posted the video on overseas websites so they could not be removed, appear to hope that the Shin Bet will be intimidated by their move. Identification of such a senior figure will prompt fears that he may be in danger either of revenge attacks or future prosecution in an international tribunal."

Tuesday 7/27/2010

BP Gets Louisiana Inmates to Do Their Dirty Work Cleaning Up Oil Spill 7/27/2010 Black Voices

BP Using Prison Labor in Oil Spill Cleanup 7/27/2010 The Roots

Monday 7/26/2010

The WikiLeaks Afghanistan Leak  7/26/2010 Common Dreams

Afghan War Leaks Expose Costly Folly  7/26/2010 Consortium News: "Perhaps the most explosive revelations disclose the double game being played by the Pakistani Directorate for Inter-Service Intelligence (ISI). Der Spiegel reported: “The documents clearly show that this Pakistani intelligence agency is the most important accomplice the Taliban has outside of Afghanistan.” The documents also show ISI envoys not only are present when insurgent commanders hold war councils, but also give specific orders to carry out assassinations — including, according to one report, an attempt on the life of Afghan President Hamid Karzai in August 2008. Former Pakistani intelligence chief, Gen. Hamid Gul, is depicted as an important source of aid to the Taliban, and even, in another report, as a “leader” of the insurgents. The reports show Gul ordering suicide attacks, and describe him as one of the most important suppliers of weaponry to the Talban. Though the Pakistani government has angrily denied U.S. government complaints about Gul and the ISI regarding secret ties to the Taliban and even to al-Qaeda, the new evidence must raise questions about what the Pakistanis have been doing with the billions of dollars that Washington has given them?"

How Bush Botched the Afghan War  7/26/2010 Consortium News: " As their internal assessment sank in, the CIA analysts drifted into silence, troubled by the implications of their own conclusions. “An ocean of hard truths before them – such as what did it say about U.S. policies that bin Laden would want Bush reelected – remained untouched,” Suskind wrote. If helping Bush was bin Laden’s intent, the strategy appeared to work. Two last-minute polls showed Bush moving from a virtual dead heat with Sen. John Kerry, the Democratic nominee, to about a five percentage point lead. Bush then hung on to win by an official margin of less than three points."

14 Examples - Rampant Racism in the Criminal Justice System  7/26/2010 Counterpunch

Office Gets 30 Months for Killing Arab Driver - Israeli Police Impunity  7/26/2010 Counterpunch: "At Mizrahi’s original trial last year, the district court judge, Menachem Finkelstein, ruled that the policeman had acted “recklessly” during an operation to stop car thefts in the Jewish town of Pardes Hanna in 2006. Despite his life never being in danger, Mizrahi had used the butt of his gun to smash the window of a car in which Mahmoud Ghanaim, 24, was seated and shot him in the head from close range. The court also noted that Mizrahi had changed his testimony several times during the investigations. According to Mossawa, an advocacy group, 40 Palestinian citizens have been killed in suspicious circumstances by the security forces over the past decade. Mizrahi is the first policeman to be convicted in such a case."

Sunday 7/25/2010

BP Oil Spill Threatens Bayou Tribes 7/25/2010 Consortium News

Friday 7/23/2010

Who Is Behind the 25,000 Deaths In Mexico? 7/23/2010 The Nation: "Yet the daily torrent of local press accounts from Ciudad Juárez makes it clear that most of the murder victims are ordinary Mexicans who magically morph into drug cartel members before their blood dries on the streets, sidewalks, vacant lots, pool halls and barrooms where they fall dead, riddled with bullets… General Jorge Juárez Loera, the first commander of the Joint Operation Chihuahua, put it this way: "I would like to see reporters change their articles and instead of writing about one more murder victim, they should say, 'one less criminal.' "

The attack on the Euro and the dismantling of the European Union 7/23/2010 Voltaire Net

Thursday 7/22/2010

Government Allows BP to Dump Oil-Spill Waste on Black Communities 7/22/2010 OpEd News: "Given the sad history of waste disposal in the southern United States, it should be no surprise to anyone that the BP waste disposal plan looks a lot like "Dumping in Dixie," and has become a core environmental justice concern , especially among low-income and people of color communities in the Gulf Coast--communities whose residents have historically borne more than their fair share of solid waste landfills and hazardous waste facilities before and after natural and man-made disasters. For decades, African American and Latino communities in the South became the dumping grounds for all kind of wastes--making them "sacrifice zones." Nowhere is this scenario more apparent than in Louisiana's "Cancer Alley," the 85-mile stretch along the Mississippi from Baton Rough to New Orleans. Gulf Coast residents, who have for decades lived on the fenceline with landfills and waste sites, are asking why their communities are being asked again to shoulder the waste disposal burden for the giant BP oil spill. They are demanding answers from BP and the EPA in Washington, DC and the EPA Region 4 office in Atlanta and EPA Region 6 office in Dallas--two EPA regions that have a legacy of unequal protection, racial discrimination, and bad decisions that have exacerbated environmental and health disparities."

Newspaper Chain’s New Business Plan: Copyright Suits 7/22/2010 Wired

Wednesday 7/21/2010

Right Tries to Bloc NAACP Criticism of Tea Party Racism  7/21/2010 Black Voice News: "What surprised me was the opposition of Cynthia Tucker, African-American editor of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution who wrote that the NAACP had no business condemning the Tea Party. Her view was: 1) she did not know what “elements” of racism were; 2) this would confirm that the NAACP was an arm of the Democratic Party; 3) the NAACP did not purge its own ranks; and 4) the resolution just draws attention to the Tea Partiers. This is very weak stuff for the editor of a major American newspaper, especially coming an African American."

What the Tea Party Really Stands For  7/21/2010 Black Voice News: by Al Sharpton

Bias by CNN Correspondent Ben Wedeman More than Just a Tweet  7/21/2010 Camera: "Not so with CNN's Senior International Correspondent Ben Wedeman. As with Nasr, a post on the Cairo-based correspondent's Twitter page raises serious questions about his objectivity. But in this case, the journalist's contributions to CNN seem to answer those questions in a way that should deeply trouble the network, as they suggest that his biases excessively influence his reporting. In a June 29, 2010 tweet, Wedeman directed his followers to an "excellent" article, as he put it, by the harshly anti-Israel professor/blogger Juan Cole. Judging by that warm praise, Wedeman embraces, and thinks his readers should likewise subscribe to, the radical and facile narrative put forth by Cole in the recommended piece. Cole's article claimed: [Israel's] isolation derives from Israeli policies, of illegal blockades ... and systematic land theft and displacement of occupied civilians under its control, along with aggressive wars on neighbors, which target infrastructure and civilians and are clearly intended to keep neighbors poor and backward."

Sunday 7/18/2010

U.S. policy a paper tiger against sex trade in war zones 7/18/2010 WaPo: "Zero prosecutions," said Martina Vandenberg, a lawyer and former Human Rights Watch investigator, "suggests zero effort to enforce the law." The State Department reported recently that allegations of contractors' employees procuring commercial sex acts were "well publicized" but that no contractors have been prosecuted and no contracts terminated."

Saturday 7/17/2010

A wide-ranging variety of viewpoints on tea party racism story Read more: http://www.kansascity.com/2010/07/17/2090217/readers-representative-a-wide.html#ixzz0u1OtRX1I 7/17/2010 Kansas City Star

Dengue Fever Outbreak Leads Back to CIA & Army Experiments 7/17/2010 VoltaireNet: "In the spring and summer of 1981, Cuba experienced a severe hemorrhagic dengue fever epidemic. Between May and October 1981, the island nation had 158 dengue-related deaths with about 75,000 reported infection cases. Prior to this outbreak, Cuba had reported only a very small number of cases in 1944 and 1977. At the same time as the 1981 outbreak, covert biological warfare attacks on Cuba’s residents and crops were believed to have been conducted against the island by CIA contractors and military airplane flyovers. Particularly harmful to the nation was a severe outbreak of swine flu that Fidel Castro attributed to the CIA. ...The timing of this outbreak of Dengue fever presents two additional problems; the symptoms of Dengue fever are very similar to that of exposures to chemicals such as those contained in crude oil and the dispersants currently being used in the contaminated areas of the Gulf of Mexico, potentially making it difficult to diagnose the source of a sufferer’s symptoms. Worse yet, there looms the possibility that Corexit and other toxins present in the Gulf area may weaken the immune system, thus setting the stage for more severe forms of the disease in people who are, or have previously been, exposed to the virus."

Friday 7/16/2010

Yes, There Is Racism in the Tea Party  7/16/2010 Alternet: "As NAACP President and CEO Ben Jealous said, "We're simply asking them to repudiate racist acts and bigotry in their ranks or accept responsibility." But instead of acknowledging and disassociating themselves from the more radical actions of their membership, Tea Party leaders have said that racist elements are non existent. In hurling accusations of racism back at the NAACP, Tea Party leaders have wielded a professed desire for colorblindness as a whitewashing tool. But Tea Party members are employing a defense that only perpetuates the racism they are desperately trying to refute."

Clues Suggest Nuclear Scientist's Defection an Iranian Plot - Was Amiri a Double Agent?  7/16/2010 Counterpunch

More Than Just a Few Bad Apples - Days of Cop Violence in New Orleans  7/16/2010 Counterpunch: "While the details of their charges are shocking, much of the media has missed the real story: corruption and violence are endemic to the NOPD, and wider systemic change is needed not just in police personnel, but in the city's overall criminal justice system… A coalition of criminal justice activists called Community United for Change (CUC) has asked for federal investigations of dozens of other police murders committed over the past three decades, which advocates say have never been properly examined. Activists named a wide range of cases, from the death of 25-year-old Jenard Thomas, who was shot by police in front of his father on March 24, 2005; to Sherry Singleton, shot by police in 1980 while she was naked in a bathtub, in front of her four year old child."

BP buys up Gulf scientists for legal defense, roiling academic community  7/16/2010 Press Register, Alabama: "For the last few weeks, BP has been offering signing bonuses and lucrative pay to prominent scientists from public universities around the Gulf Coast to aid its defense against spill litigation. BP PLC attempted to hire the entire marine sciences department at one Alabama university, according to scientists involved in discussions with the company's lawyers. The university declined because of confidentiality restrictions that the company sought on any research."

Air forces officer asks to down Herons to save PKK terrorists  7/16/2010 Today's Zaman, Turkey: "Heron unmanned aircraft detected a terrorist presence in Siirt last month. Twelve terrorists were killed after this and an attack that may have been fatal for Turkish soldiers was prevented. Herons also detected the presence of terrorist elements before the Aktütün attack of 2008, but the military did not take the necessary measures and 17 soldiers were killed."

Thursday 7/15/2010

U.S. Government Considers Listing Turkish Charity As ‘Terrorists’ 7/15/2010 Aletho News: "The US State Department is considering whether to designate a Turkish charity as a ‘terrorist group’ after the organization sent a ship of medical and school supplies to the Gaza Strip in May. The aid ship was attacked in international waters by the Israeli navy, and nine aid workers, including one US citizen, were killed."

Was Amiri a Double Agent? by BABAK SARFARAZ 7/15/2010 PBS: Snookered again.

Wednesday 7/14/2010

Cops could face death in post-Katrina shootings  7/14/2010 AP

Guárico: El afro mundo danzario llega al Centro de la Diversidad Cultural  7/14/2010 Aporrea

New Satellite Images of Gulf: Oil reaches Mexico’s Yucutan, near Cancun  7/14/2010 Florida Oil Spill Law

Doomsday Methane Bubble Rupture?: How the BP Gulf Disaster May Have Triggered a 'World-Killing' Event  7/14/2010 Global Research: "Reports, filtering through from oceanologists and salvage workers in the region, state that the upper level strata of the ocean floor is succumbing to greater and greater pressure. That pressure is causing a huge expanse of the seabed-estimated by some as spreading over thousands of square miles surrounding the BP wellhead-to bulge. Some claim the seabed in the region has risen an astounding 30 feet. The fractured BP wellhead, site of the former Deepwater Horizon, has become the epicenter of frenetic attempts to quell the monstrous flow of methane. The subterranean methane is pressurized at 100,000 pounds psi. According to Matt Simmons, an oil industry expert, the methane pressure at the wellhead has now skyrocketed to a terrifying 40,000 pounds psi… A huge gash on the ocean floor—like a ragged wound hundreds of feet long—has been reported by the NOAA research ship, Thomas Jefferson. Before the curtain of the government enforced news blackout again descended abruptly, scientists aboard the ship voiced their concerns that the widening rift may go down miles into the earth. That gash too is hemorrhaging oil and methane. It’s 10 miles away from the BP epicenter. Other, new fissures, have been spotted as far as 30 miles distant. Measurements of the multiple oil plumes now appearing miles from the wellhead indicate that as much as a total of 124,000 barrels of oil are erupting into the Gulf waters daily-that’s about 5,208,000 gallons of oil per day… While some say it can’t happen because the bulk of the methane is frozen into crystalline form, others point out that the underground methane sea is gradually melting from the nearby surging oil that’s estimated to be as hot as 500 degrees Fahrenheit."

Red Alert Gulf news: Military road blocks. S La people leaving  7/14/2010 Human Rights Examiner: "A rapid military build-up and road-block maneuver is being conducted, along with a visible exodus of residents in the Barataria Bay area of Jefferson Parish in South Louisiana. This news from Intel Hub coincides with the new military rule gently broken to the public, of having to obtain from the military and carry papers in the region, starting with reporters and photographers, a psyop squarely focusing on "public victory" rather than covert military take-over in the Gulf and martial law in the region."

Gulf Roadblocks – Misquoted Reports  7/14/2010 Intel Hub: "Matt Smith is clearly on record saying that these are unconfirmed reports, yet people throughout the internet continue to pretend otherwise. Instead of attacking someones credibility, people need to listen to the reports more closely. Project Gulf Impact has released some extremely vital information regarding Corexit9500 and from all accounts have proven to be a credible and valuable source of information. Having to spend the time to address this clear disinformation is absolutely ridiculous."

"They Just Don't Know Who They're Messing With"  7/14/2010 Mother Jones: "But while Dillon says the company is bungling many aspects of the spill response, he notes that it has done a reasonably good job in one area: blocking the media from seeing the worst of the disaster in Grand Isle, a beach on a barrier island off Louisiana's coast. "There was all kinds of stuff they didn't want the media to see," he says, describing areas thick with oil that were off-limits to journalists. "They kept it very strict what they wanted the media not to see, and what they wanted them to see. Where the media was actually given access to really was kind of mundane."

Investigation Confirms Pennsylvania Fracking Well Blowout Was Easily Preventable, Potentially Catastrophic  7/14/2010 Truth Out: ""Make no mistake, this could have been a catastrophic incident," Hanger said. "Had the gas blowing out of this well ignited, the human cost would have been tragic, and had an explosion allowed this well to discharge wastewater for days or weeks, the environmental damage would have been significant." John Vittitow, an experienced petroleum engineer hired by the DEP to conduct the investigation, made an eerie comparison to the Deepwater Horizon disaster in the gulf as he described the failed blowout preventer that led to the incident. Vittitow said that EOG Resources only installed one pressure barrier during a well clean-out procedure, while industry standards call for at least two barriers in case of failure."

6 New Orleans officers charged in Katrina shootings  7/14/2010 WaPo

Tuesday 7/13/2010

Madsen: Ecocide Turns GOM into Gulf of Death  7/13/2010 Fellowship of the Minds: "Madsen says BP has been conducting night aerial spraying of bleaching agents over sensitive barrier islands near Grand Isle and Port Fourchon, Louisiana, to give the impression that the oil has been removed. Around 2:30 to 3:00 am (local time), BP aircraft flying without lights — a clear violation of Federal Aviation Administration regulations and a threat to other aircraft in the region — would spray a compound of hydrochloric (muriatic) acid."

Censored Gulf chemical rape news: Night spraying acid on beaches confirmed  7/13/2010 Human Rights Examiner

Coast Guard promises greater media access to Gulf exclusion zone, but there’s a catch  7/13/2010 Raw Story

Monday 7/12/2010

Valentine's Pack Traces Real Drug War  7/12/2010 Consortium News

The Unchallenged Power of the Israel Lobby  7/12/2010 Counterpunch: By JAMES ABOUREZK

From a Fishing Village, to an "'Oil Town": Hell Has Come to South Louisiana  7/12/2010 Global Research: '“There has been a BP cover-up from day one,” he says, as I write furiously in my notepad, trying to keep up, “The US Government, OSHA [Occupational Safety and Health Administration], the Coast Guard, NIOSH [National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health], all of them are in on it.”

Sunday 7/11/2010

Chavez, Venezuelan church clash over freedoms 7/11/2010 AP

Native American tribe reclaims slice of the Hamptons after court victory 7/11/2010 Guardian, UK

Saturday 7/10/2010

How the ultimate BP Gulf disaster could kill millions 7/10/2010 Helium: "The burgeoning methane gas cloud will surface, killing everything it touches, and set off a supersonic tsunami with the wave traveling somewhere between 400 to 600 miles per hour. While the entire Gulf coastline is vulnerable, the state most exposed to the fury of a supersonic wave towering 150 to 200 feet or more is Florida. The Sunshine State only averages about 100 feet above sea level with much of the coastline and lowlands and swamps near zero elevation."

Toxicologist: Oil/Corexit mix caused heart trouble, organ damage, rectal bleeding 7/10/2010 Raw Story

Friday 7/9/2010

US Denies Visa to Colombian Journalist 7/9/2010 Common Dreams: "The U.S. government has denied a visa to a prominent Colombian journalist who specializes in conflict and human rights reporting to attend a prestigious fellowship at Harvard University. Hollman Morris, who produces an independent TV news program called "Contravia," has been highly critical of ties between illegal far-right militias and allies of outgoing President Alvaro Uribe, Washington's closest ally in Latin America. The curator of the Nieman Foundation at Harvard, which has offered the mid-career fellowships since 1938, said Thursday that a consular official at the U.S. Embassy in Bogota told him Morris was ruled permanently ineligible for a visa under the "Terrorist activities" section of the USA Patriot Act... "We were very surprised. This has never happened before," said the Nieman curator, Bob Giles."

Wednesday 7/7/2010

Oily rain in South Carolina,soon more states will have same disaster 7/7/2010 YouTube

Monday 7/5/2010

Fending For Themselves: Devastating Social and Environmental Impacts of BP Oil Spill  7/5/2010 Global Research: "“About two weeks ago a BP spokesman held a town hall meeting,” she explains, “He said, it’s not if but when the oil comes here again. There was not one state or parish official at the meeting. BP is running things here now.”"

Protecting Oil Companies? BP Investigation Blocked  7/5/2010 Global Research

Censored Gulf oil news: Fake sand brought to beaches  7/5/2010 Human Rights Examiner

Marine biologist claims US Coast Guard involved in Corexit spraying  7/5/2010 Raw Story

Oil or Chemical Rain in South Carolina - Update - June 26 2010 Mirror  7/5/2010 YouTube

Friday 7/2/2010

Is John Stossel More Dangerous Than Glenn Beck?  7/2/2010 Alternet: "In May this year, a prominent commentator on Fox News called for the repeal of the section of the 1964 Civil Rights Act that bans discrimination in places of public accommodation. "Private businesses ought to discriminate... it should be their right to be racist," he said. Fox News has a longstanding policy of giving race-baiters a soapbox, but the fascinating thing about this particular bit of vile nonsense is that even other figureheads at the channel like Bill O'Reilly, Charles Krauthammer and Steve Brown -- each known for their own ignorant worldviews -- voiced disgust at the suggestion that racial discrimination ought to be a right granted to businesses."

Chavez: Detained Salvadoran wanted in Cuba  7/2/2010 Miami Herald: "Chavez said the suspect, Francisco Chavez Abarca, was detained upon arrival Thursday by Venezuelan intelligence agents and is accused of placing bombs in Havana in 1997. He called the Salvadoran a "big terrorist" who is closely associated with Cuban militant Luis Posada Carriles, a former CIA operative wanted for allegedly plotting the 1976 bombing of a Cuban plane that killed 73 people. "My heart tells me this gentleman came here to kill me. I have no doubt," the president said."

Why Is the Gulf Cleanup So Slow? There are obvious actions to speed things up, but the government oddly resists taking them.  7/2/2010 WSJ: "The combination of these two regulations is delaying and may even prevent the world's largest skimmer, the Taiwanese owned "A Whale," from deploying. This 10-story high ship can remove almost as much oil in a day as has been removed in total—roughly 500,000 barrels of oily water per day. The tanker is steaming towards the Gulf, hoping it will receive Coast Guard and EPA approval before it arrives."

Thursday 7/1/2010

El jefe de los escuadrones de la muerte gana las elecciones colombianas  7/1/2010 Afrodescendientes

Guns of August in the Middle East?  7/1/2010 Counterpunch

Dr Kelly 'couldn't have slit his wrist as he was too weak' Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1291019/Dr-Kelly-slit-wrist-weak.html#ixzz0sWdxA0Wn  7/1/2010 Daily Mail: "Dr Kelly, who worked for both the UN and later the Ministry of Defence, was found dead seven years ago next month in an Oxfordshire wood. He was said to be deeply upset after being exposed as the source of a controversial BBC news report questioning Britain's grounds for going to war in Iraq. The report, by journalist Andrew Gilligan, stated that Tony Blair's press spokesman Alastair Campbell had 'sexed up' the case for war for political reasons. But, unusually for a death of this nature, no full coroner's inquest has ever been held. Instead, Tony Blair appointed retired judge Lord Hutton to chair a non-statutory public inquiry into the circumstances leading to his body being discovered."

Wednesday 6/30/2010

FBI Watch 6/30/2010 Campu Activism

Methane Release From the Gulf Oil Spill: What Does It Mean? How Bad Could It Get? 6/30/2010 Global Research: "Although methane from surface-vessel spills or shallow-water blowouts escapes into the air, I expect that the vast majority of methane making the long trip to the sea surface from a deep water spill would dissolve," Valentine wrote. "Unlike oil, methane dissolves uniformly in seawater. And the tools are available to measure it accurately and sensitively."

Tuesday 6/29/2010

Is BP lobbying to increase the amount of oil allowed in Gulf seafood? 6/29/2010 Florida Oil Spill Law

Ecuador threatens to cut Colombia ties over spy plot 6/29/2010 Reuters

Monday 6/28/2010

Burge found guilty of lying about torture  6/28/2010 Chicago Breaking News: "Former Chicago police Cmdr. Jon Burge, the subject of accusations of torture against suspects for decades, was convicted today on all counts of an indictment charging him with perjury and obstruction of justice. Burge was convicted of lying in a 2003 civil lawsuit about his use or knowledge of torture of criminal suspects."

No oil in South Florida? New color-corrected aerial photos released  6/28/2010 Florida Oil Spill Law: "Brownish-red ribbons/streamers are photographed north of the Florida Keys, just off the state’s southern tip on May 26"

What are Colombian agents doing in the EU?  6/28/2010 PressEurop

Sunday 6/27/2010

The last post: McChrystal's bleak outlook 6/27/2010 Independent: "Sacked US General Stanley McChrystal issued a devastatingly critical assessment of the war against a "resilient and growing insurgency" just days before being forced out."

Saturday 6/26/2010

The BP "Gulf Syndrome": Benzene and Corexit Poisoning - The Government is Silent on the Human Health Risks  6/26/2010 Global Research: "Out of work shrimper, oil clean-up work Clint Guidry reported, “The closest I got [to the Gulf water] was Venice, Louisiana, and you could smell it from Venice... they were actually spraying Corexit 9527A on the oil spill on top of the water and spraying all around - Venice sits on a peninsula, the Mississippi River, right at the - right above the Head of the Passes. "And they were actually spraying this Corexit in the air all around where people were living, with kids and children, and continuously saying how safe it was."

VIDEO: Is it "Raining Oil" in Metro New Orleans?  6/26/2010 Global Research: "It's in 5,000 feet of water and is reputed to be close to 30,000 into the earth. In Russia, where such super deep wells were pioneered, they are only drilled on land and far from human habitations. At least one prominent oil industry safety specialist warned in writing against the drilling of this well."

Oil or Chemical Rain in South Carolina - Update - June 26, 2010  6/26/2010 YouTube

Friday 6/25/2010

Why Charles Rangle Sold Himself Too Cheaply - The Death of Black Politics 6/25/2010 Counterpunch: "It doesn’t matter that Rangel’s constituents do not support Israel’s human rights violations. As pointed out in Black Agenda Report, Rangel and other members of the Congressional Black Caucus are terrified of facing an onslaught of Zionist fundraising, and with good reason. In the past their colleagues who dared to step out of line and defy the pro-Israel lobby were defeated by suddenly well-funded opponents. Rangel can easily put two and two together and chose to speak words that will gain him additional campaign dollars. That degree of support is yet unknown, but shame would be added on top of shame if Rangel sold himself too cheaply."

Oil Spill Might Be Making Natural Seeps Larger 6/25/2010 Global Research

Thursday 6/24/2010

Corexit/oil eats through boat hulls, kidneys 6/24/2010 Florida Oil Spill Law: "I’ve seen guys who that have volunteered to clean up birds that were working for BP. The hulls of their boats, whether its from the oil or from the Corexit, are being eaten through. And they are saying that ‘I volunteered this ship to help with this effort, there is no way BP is gonna pay me back for that.’ BP Spokesperson: Yes they will. The claims process is not perfect yet, we are working on it, but yes they’ll be paid. …"

Methane and Martial Law in the Gulf of Mexico 6/24/2010 My Auburn

Wednesday 6/23/2010

Coverup: BP Has the Technology to Accurately Measure the Amount of Leaking Oil 6/23/2010 Global Research

Tuesday 6/22/2010

Israel Escalating Terror in Turkey?  6/22/2010 Aletho News: "There is an article by Seymour Hersh written in 2004 in the New Yorker describing Israelis training Kurdish forces for use in Iran and Syria for information gathering, sabotage and destabilization operations. Of course these terrorists would also be used in Turkey. Hersh also wrote that the Israeli Mistaravim teams were training those terrorists. Mistaravim teams are one of the most secretive groups of the Israeli army. Mistaravim is the plural of “mista’arev”, the Hebrew slang for “being an Arab”. These soldiers are trained to “be an Arab” and go into the occupied territories to capture (or kill) a wanted person. These are also commonly known as the ‘Arab Platoons’."

BP-Style Extreme Energy Nightmares to Come - Four Scenarios for the Next Energy Mega-Disaster  6/22/2010 Common Dreams: "Without warning, a gigantic, storm-propelled iceberg strikes the Hibernia, rupturing the GBS and spilling more than one million barrels of oil into rough waters. The topside facility is severed from the base structure and plunges into the ocean, killing all 185 crew members. Every connection to the undersea wells is ruptured, and 135,000 barrels of oil start flowing into the Atlantic every day (approximately twice the amount now coming from the BP leak in the Gulf of Mexico). The area is impossible to reach by plane or ship in the constant bad weather, meaning emergency repairs can't be undertaken for weeks -- not until at least five million additional barrels of oil have poured into the ocean. As a result, one of the world's most prolific fishing grounds -- the Grand Banks off Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, and Cape Cod -- is thoroughly poisoned."

Intimidating Supporters of Palestine - US Fear Factory Kills Free Speech  6/22/2010 Counterpunch: "The Los Angeles Times reveals that UC Irvine has told its university students that the Muslim Student Union will be suspended for one year because it dared to criticize Israel and protested during a speech given by the Israeli Ambassador. So there you have it – freedom of speech is now banned. The unprecedented action also sends out a chilling message to students across the USA who might consider demonstrating, rallying or protesting against the Zionist state and its supporters. Free speech, it seems, is a thing of the past in Barack Obama’s America. And should you be in any doubt, read a story about the latest decision to emerge from the US Supreme Court. In a majority 6-3 ruling it becomes virtually impossible for anyone to put food into the mouths of malnourished babies in Gaza or to give money to a charity to do the humanitarian act for you."

What is the work of the IJAN academic network? Why are we organizing as anti-Zionist Jewish academics?  6/22/2010 Jews Confront Apartheid

Louisiana Police Pull Over Activist at Behest of BP  6/22/2010 Mother Jones: "And though as of June 16 the federal government was saying helicopters could fly reporters as low as 1,500 feet around spill sites, on June 17 I was on a helicopter that was prohibited from flying below 3,000 feet (and whose pilot flipped silent birds at the "military guys" coming over the radio and hassling him about being in the area at all). But Louisiana state police pulling over a video camera-wielding private citizen because the head of BP security wanted to ask him some questions is a whole other level of alarming."

The Runaway General  6/22/2010 Rolling Stone: "Whatever the nature of the new plan, the delay underscores the fundamental flaws of counterinsurgency. After nine years of war, the Taliban simply remains too strongly entrenched for the U.S. military to openly attack. The very people that COIN seeks to win over – the Afghan people – do not want us there. Our supposed ally, President Karzai, used his influence to delay the offensive, and the massive influx of aid championed by McChrystal is likely only to make things worse. "Throwing money at the problem exacerbates the problem," says Andrew Wilder, an expert at Tufts University who has s?udied the effect of aid in southern Afghanistan. "A tsunami of cash fuels corruption, delegitimizes the government and creates an environment where we're picking winners and losers" - a process that fuels resentment and hostility among the civilian population. So far, counterinsurgency has succeeded only in creating a never-ending demand for the primary product supplied by the military: perpetual war."

Monday 6/21/2010

International agencies fund Venezuelan opposition with $40-50 million annually  6/21/2010 Aletho News: "A revealing report published in May 2010 by the FRIDE Institute, a Spanish think tank, prepared with funding from the World Movement for Democracy (a project of the National Endowment for Democracy-NED), has disclosed that international agencies are funding the Venezuelan opposition with a whopping US$40-50 million annually. This exorbitant amount of financing well exceeds the approximately $15 million previously believed to have been channelled to Venezuelan opposition groups via the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and the NED. According to the FRIDE report, which analyzes the impact of this funding in Venezuela, and concludes that more donations are necessary to support the “democratic opposition” to President Hugo Chavez in Venezuela, the multi-million dollar funds are exclusively directed towards political activities in the polarized South American nation. A large majority of the $40-50 million donated by US and European agencies and foundations is given to the right wing opposition political parties, Primero Justicia (First Justice), Un Nuevo Tiempo (A New Time) and COPEI (Christian Democrat ultra-conservative party), as well as to a dozen or so NGOs, student groups and media organizations."

Anti-Zionist Jews and Palestine Solidarity at the US Social Forum: The Most Anti-Zionist Ever  6/21/2010 Jewschool: "The International Jewish Anti-Zionist Network is hosting the 2010 U.S. Assembly of Jews: Confronting Racism & Israeli Apartheid. They are acutely aware that some folks use anti-Zionist rhetoric to mask some nasty anti-Semitism, and so made the effort to say that “We believe that supporting Palestinian self-determination requires challenging Zionist ideas, policies and practice, not the practice of Judaism.”

Hundreds in Oakland protest Gaza blockade  6/21/2010 SF Chronicle: "Hundreds of demonstrators, condemning Israel's blockade of the Gaza Strip, picketed at the Port of Oakland on Sunday and may have prevented an Israeli cargo ship from unloading for the day. Two shifts of longshoremen agreed not to cross the picket line, leaving nobody to unload the vessel."

Friday 6/18/2010

BP Tells Cleanup Workers They'll Be Fired If They Wear Respirators 6/18/2010 Global Research: "For example, BP has been keeping reporters out of areas hardest hit by the oil (and see this, this, this and this) and threatening to arrest them if they try to take pictures, hiding dead birds and other sealife, and using dispersants to break up the thick plumes of oil. Indeed, attorney and environmental advocate Monique Harden says that BP is "running the Gulf region like a prison warden". "

Tuesday 6/15/2010

American Media Failure Again - Israeli Raid Coverage  6/15/2010 Counterpunch

Mexico's Gaza  6/15/2010 Counterpunch: "Today, nearly a quarter century after the initial Amnesty International report, the death toll in the Triqui region has mounted to over 400."

Statistical Analysis and Visualization of the Drug War in Mexico  6/15/2010 Diego Valle-Jones: "While the first joint army operations in 2006 and 2007 lowered the homicide rates in Michocán and Guerrero, later military operations in Chihuahua, Durango, Nuevo León, Veracruz and Durango have coincided with increases in homicides and attempts by the Sinaloa cartel to take over drug trafficking routes from rival cartels."

Monday 6/14/2010

The Re-Education of Helen Thomas  6/14/2010 Counterpunch

Israel denounces Castro "swastika" remarks  6/14/2010 Reuters

The Pentagon’s Afghan Mineral Hype  6/14/2010 Unsilent Generation: "This morning’s New York Times includes a story headlined, ”US Identifies Vast Riches of Minerals in Afghanistan.’’ In fact the country’s mineral wealth has been known for centuries. Records of it date back to the time of Marco Polo. Mineral stories were mapped by the Soviets during their occupation of the country, and more recently by other mining experts. While it’s possible that the team of Pentagon officials and American geologists credited with the “discovery” may have added some detail to existing knowledge on the subject, it’s hardly the revelation their reports–and the article–suggest."

Sunday 6/13/2010

Eyewitness Contests Israeli Account 6/13/2010 Consortium News: "One of the most haunting parts of the experience for Mohammadi was the fact that six people are still missing, and she is sure that the commandos threw several people over board—she wasn't sure if they were dead or alive. “I heard splashes while I was going between the decks … and there are others who would corroborate that bags were placed over people’s heads and they were not sure whether they were dead or alive, and then they were thrown overboard.” Many of the horrid images drawn by Mohammadi were corroborated by an hour-long video, released on Wednesday."

U.S. Identifies Vast Mineral Riches in Afghanistan 6/13/2010 NYT: "The United States has discovered nearly $1 trillion in untapped mineral deposits in Afghanistan, far beyond any previously known reserves and enough to fundamentally alter the Afghan economy and perhaps the Afghan war itself, according to senior American government officials."

Saturday 6/12/2010

El Paso 'Cat and Mouse' Turns Fatal  6/12/2010 Consortium News: "One eyewitness told El Diario from Juarez, “I was at the flagpole on the [Paso del Norte] bridge waiting for my wife, and I suddenly saw the boys entering the American side. Immigration agents chased them, as they returned back. The boys were on the Mexican side, and an immigration officer or a police officer on a bicycle shot at the boys.” Another eyewitness, 53-year-old Bobbie McDow, was walking across the Paso del Norte bridge as well. She paused to watch the young men crossing back to Mexico. She said that the border patrol agents arrived and detained two men, but the others escaped back to Mexico. McDow said the 14-year-old teen was slain on the Mexican side of the border and was not throwing stones."

U.S. Military has Special Ops "Boots on the Ground" in Mexico  6/12/2010 NarcoNews

Deepwater Oil Spill - A Longer Term Problem, Personnel -  6/12/2010 Oil Drum: "We need to prepare for the possibility of this blow out sending more oil into the gulf per week then what we already have now, because that is what a collapse of the system will cause. All the collection efforts that have captured oil will be erased in short order. The magnitude of this disaster will increase exponentially by the time we can do anything to halt it and our odds of actually even being able to halt it will go down."

Israeli Disinformation Challenged: New Smuggled Clip Shows IDF Commandos Kicking and Apparently Shooting Victim  6/12/2010 This can't be happening: "There are claims from Turkish sources that this clip depicts the 19-year-old American-born Furkan Dogan being executed. Dogan's autopsy showed he was shot four times in the face, and at least once in the back. IDF defenders are claiming that the video doesn't actually show the victim, but unless you think the first commando is kicking soccer goals on the deck, and the shooter is firing at the deck for sport, there can be no doubt that the target of both acts of violence is being first pummeled with kicks, and then peppered with bullets." [Dogan was an American citizen, and not a dual Turkish American national, as the corporate media has claimed.]

Wednesday 6/9/2010

Israel Threatens War if Turkish PM Tries to Deliver Gaza Aid - Israeli Official Warns of Casus Belli on Israeli Army Radio  6/9/2010 AntiWar

American Jewish Student Loses Eye During West Bank Protest of Israel  6/9/2010 Forward: "Overshadowed by the events of the Gaza-bound flotilla, the May 31 incident at Kalandia crossing near Ramallah went almost unnoticed. Little was reported on the injury of Emily Henochowicz, a 21-year-old American Jewish student who lost her left eye after being hit by a tear gas canister shot by Israeli soldiers during a pro-Palestinian protest."

Helen Thomas, veteran reporter: why she had to resign  6/9/2010 Guardian: "Thomas joined United Press International in 1943 when it was still a major force in American journalism. She was 23 and had not long left Detroit, where she grew up to Lebanese immigrant parents."

Tuesday 6/8/2010

Standing Up for Helen Thomas 6/8/2010 Consortium News

Monday 6/7/2010

BP Well Bore And Casing Integrity May Be Blown, Says Florida’s Sen. Nelson 6/7/2010 EmptyWheel: "If Nelson is correct in that assertion, and he is smart enough to not make such assertions lightly, so I think they must be taken at face value, it means the well casing and well bore are compromised and the gig is up on containment pending a completely effective attempt to seal the well from the bottom via successful “relief wells”. In fact, I have confirmed with Senator Nelson’s office that they are fully aware of the breaking news and significance of what the Senator said to Andrea Mitchell."

Venezuela’s Chavez attacks Israel in speech 6/7/2010 JTA: "He also accused Israel of supporting the local opposition against his government. “Israel is financing the Venezuelan opposition. There are even groups of Israeli terrorists, of the Mossad, who are after me trying to kill me,” he said. In response, the American Jewish Committee said in a news release last Friday that the Organization of American States should condemn the comments in the “strongest possible terms.”

Sunday 6/6/2010

Passengers grabbed Israeli weapons to stop the killing 6/6/2010 YouTube: Interview with Kenneth Nichols O'Keefe.

Friday 6/4/2010

Erasing International Law in Israel's Gaza Flotilla Attack - Rogue State Politics  6/4/2010 Counterpunch

Pariah Nation  6/4/2010 Counterpunch: “I think,” he wrote to me, “that matters are close to the point where if Hillary Clinton and a group of senior American officials were meeting the Israeli leaders for negotiations, and Netanyahu expressed his displeasure at the American positions by pulling out a gun and shooting her dead, then having the entire American delegation beaten to death by his security guards, there would probably be a small item buried in the next days' American newspapers that due to conflict with the Israelis, Obama had decided to nominate a new Secretary of State.”

Israel killed more than 9, threw wounded into sea, witnesses say  6/4/2010 Today's Zaman, Turkey: “Until now they have returned nine dead bodies, but our list is bigger. There are people missing.” Speaking to journalists at Atatürk International Airport shortly after his return, Yildirim said: “We saw 38 injured who were brought back to us by doctors after the attack. Now they are saying there are 21 people who have been injured.”

Thursday 6/3/2010

"Mad Dog" Diplomacy - A Cornered Israel is Baring Its Teeth 6/3/2010 Counterpunch

How The CIA Created The Jamaican Shower Posse 6/3/2010 News One for Black America: "With the recent violence in Jamaica and the controversy over alleged drug lord, Christopher “Dudus” Coke, many people are talking about the infamous Jamaican Shower Posse and the neighborhood of Tivoli Gardens, where they have their base. What is being is being ignored largely by the media, is the role that the American government and the CIA had in training, arming and giving power to the Shower Posse. It is interesting that the USA is indicting Christopher “Dudus” Coke, the current leader of the Shower Posse for drug and gun trafficking, given that the CIA was accused of smuggling guns into Jamaica and facilitating the cocaine trade from Jamaica to America in the 70s and 80s. In many ways Dudus was only carrying on a tradition of political corruption, drug running, guns and violence that was started with the help of the CIA."

Wednesday 6/2/2010

Israeli MP's Night of Terror on Aid Ship 6/2/2010 Counterpunch: "Terrified passengers had been forced off the deck when water was sprayed at them. She said she was not aware of any provocation or resistance by the passengers, who were all unarmed. She added that within minutes of the raid beginning, three bodies had been brought to the main room on the upper deck in which she and most other passengers were confined. Two had gunshot wounds to the head, in what she suggested had been executions. Two other passengers slowly bled to death in the room after Israeli soldiers ignored messages in Hebrew she had held up at the window calling for medical help to save them. She said she saw seven other passengers seriously wounded."

San Diego Man Brutally Beaten to Death by Border Agents 6/2/2010 IndyBay: "At press conference held June 2, the American Friends Service Committee and the ACLU pledged an unrelentless search for justice for the man mauled and killed by militant border agents in broad daylight. In conjuction with Arizona's spate of racist laws (see accomping article), the dead man's cousin asked the Latino community to "stand strong" against the "fear and hate.""

Tuesday 6/1/2010

Politicians from Both Parties Rally Behind Israel Following Raid  6/1/2010 CBS

ELECTION 2008: VANISHING VOTES, DISAPPEARING DEMOCRACY AND MEDIA MISDIRECTION  6/1/2010 Project Censored

Former Mossad agent ridicules Gaza ship raid  6/1/2010 WaPo

Sunday 5/30/2010

Nigeria's agony dwarfs the Gulf oil spill. The US and Europe ignore it 5/30/2010 Guardian, UK: "Forest and farmland were now covered in a sheen of greasy oil. Drinking wells were polluted and people were distraught. No one knew how much oil had leaked. "We lost our nets, huts and fishing pots," said Chief Promise, village leader of Otuegwe and our guide. "This is where we fished and farmed. We have lost our forest. We told Shell of the spill within days, but they did nothing for six months." That was the Niger delta a few years ago, where, according to Nigerian academics, writers and environment groups, oil companies have acted with such impunity and recklessness that much of the region has been devastated by leaks. In fact, more oil is spilled from the delta's network of terminals, pipes, pumping stations and oil platforms every year than has been lost in the Gulf of Mexico, the site of a major ecological catastrophe caused by oil that has poured from a leak triggered by the explosion that wrecked BP's Deepwater Horizon rig last month."

Saturday 5/15/2010

Chavez orders money changer raids for currency crash 5/15/2010 Caribbean Net News

Commentary: Growth of prominent Garifuna village in Belize will be doomed 5/15/2010 Caribbean Net News: "Due to the beautiful beaches that Hopkins possesses, rich Belizeans and foreign nationals have been buying up lands in the village and surrounding areas to open up tourist resorts. Many residents of Hopkins have and are migrating to the United States to join their family members, pursue higher education or to improve their economic situation. While this is occurring, there is a significant drop in the population growth among the Garifuna people and an increase in the population of the newcomers. A majority of the government land is being sold by the government and private landowners for residential and commercial purposes. When some members of the village experience economic hardship, they lean to sell their properties to foreigners for a huge amount of money."

Monday 5/10/2010

Bicentenario y día de la Afro-venezolanidad 5/10/2010 Aporrea: "El 10 de Mayo se celebra el día de la Afrovenezolanidad, decreto aún, pues en nuestras escuelas se desconoce y poco se divulga, poca importancia se le dá. De ser decreto debe pasar a ser discurso consciente y acción permanente de los que en verdad asumimos cambios significativos en nuestra educación y esto va desde el ministro de educación hasta el último director o directora de escuela y nuestra sociedad comunal. Con ello fortaleceremos la lucha y estaremos conscientes que la revolución bolivariana tiene tinte de africana también…"

The Mossad in South America 5/10/2010 Tiwy: "International Security Agency (ISA) mainly staffed by former Israeli special forces officers and intelligence operatives is also active in Latin America. The agency (in tight cooperation with the CIA and the Mossad) took part in the coup that displaced M. Zelaya, the legitimate President of Honduras. Currently ISA specialists are working in the security service of the current President of Honduras P. Lobo, who was propelled to presidency as the result of an imitation of free elections like those Washington realized in Iraq and Afghanistan."

Sunday 5/9/2010

Shin Bet deports Spain’s most famous clown upon arrival in Israel 5/9/2010 Aletho News

Saturday 5/8/2010

Commentary: Investment in the southern part of Belize is long overdue 5/8/2010 Caribbean Net News: "How come suddenly they are interested in coming to live in the south not only from the northern part of our country but also from the neighboring republics? This is a question that I am grappling with every day of my life and sometimes I am wondering whether it is happening by design or accident. The industrialization of the south can only occur when the government decides to give this region its fair share of revenues that it has been deserving for years due to the amount of people that now reside in the south. Dangriga town is in need of about four factories in the immediate vicinity, to supply employment to its unemployed citizens. If we can help to provide these industrial facilities for our citizens, it will reduce the burden on the government."

Slavery and Imperialism - Why Gates is Wrong About Reparations 5/8/2010 Counterpunch: "To equate the main perpetrators of the system of modern slavery--the European and white American merchants and slaveholders--with its African bit players is simply illogical. It would be like equally apportioning blame between the U.S. and its puppet regime in South Vietnam for the killing of 4 million Vietnamese during the Vietnam War."

Thursday 5/6/2010

Scenes From Apartheid Arizona - Welcome to Operation Streamline 5/6/2010 Counterpunch

Robert Rodriguez cuts 'illegal' trailer for 'Machete' to protest Arizona immigration law 5/6/2010 NY Daily News

Wednesday 5/5/2010

Slick Operator: The BP I've Known Too Well 5/5/2010 TruthOut

MACHETE "Illegal" Trailer X HD 5/5/2010 YouTube: "This is Machete with a special Cinco de Mayo message …to Arizona!"

Monday 5/3/2010

Dick Cheney and the oil spill 5/3/2010 Guardian

Counting Coup – Lakota Citizens Stop US Helicopters from Landing at Wounded Knee 5/3/2010 Republic of Lakota: "At high noon today US Army helicopters of the US Seventh Cavalry air division attempted to land their Blackhawk aircraft upon Lakota Sacred Burial grounds in South Dakota. The presence of military aircraft from this unit is a sad and insulting reminder of the slaughter of more than 300 American Aboriginals on December 29, 1890 when soldiers of the US 7th Cavalry gunned down more than 300 Aboriginal Minneconjou Lakota refugee children, women, infants and the elderly at what is now called Wounded Knee in South Dakota Indian Country. The military then left the bodies of their victims to decay unburied in the driving snow."

Friday 4/30/2010

Houston Cops Put on Desk Duty After Chinese Diplomat Beating 4/30/2010 CBS: "The police officers involved in the incident claim they didn't know they were in the Chinese Consulate when they arrested Yu, but CBS News has learned Yu allegedly told the police officer they didn't belong on Consulate grounds before being arrested."

Immigration Enforcement is Out of Control at the Federal Level - It's Not Just Arizona 4/30/2010 Counterpunch: "While people protest the terrible Arizona state law that uses local law enforcement to target immigrants, the federal government is expanding its efforts to use local law enforcement in immigration enforcement and has launched a major PR campaign to defend it."

Tuesday 4/27/2010

Something fishy in Seine Bight? 4/27/2010 Amandala: "Amandala has received multiple reports from residents of Seine Bight, Stann Creek, alleging that the business of land transactions in the Garifuna fishing village has been riddled with irregularities: for instance, a lot being sold to one party when another party holds the lease for it; double issuing of leases for the same lot; and the issuance of lease land where a house built as a part of a community project now sits."

Monday 4/26/2010

M.I.A. Releases Graphic, Explicit 'Born Free' Video (NSFW) 4/26/2010 Huffington Post: "MIA released her new video for 'Born Free' on her website Monday, and it's not easy to watch. The video shows U.S. soldiers rounding up redheaded men and boys and bussing them to the desert where they are brutally beaten and killed. Whether it's a comment on the absurdity of genocide (of which MIA saw plenty during her early childhood in Sri Lanka) or a challenge to the idea of "other" in Arizona's immigration law, it is startling even in the context of recent genre-bending music art-films."

Sunday 4/18/2010

Semen found on Terre'Blanche's 'private part' 4/18/2010 Mail & Guardian, South Africa: ""His body was found half naked with semen on his private part. That is not new information, it has always been part of the evidence," said Nonkululeko Mbatha. Cele told a Sunday newspaper that the "sex issue" had always been there because Terre'Blanche's body had been found with his pants down and "were wet with semen". However, Cele said there was no condom found on the scene, [as reported in the media last week]."

Saturday 4/17/2010

The Roots of Stalin in the Tea Party Movement 4/17/2010 Alternet: "The secretive oil billionaires of the Koch family, the main supporters of the right-wing groups that orchestrated the Tea Party movement, would not have the means to bankroll their favorite causes had it not been for the pile of money the family made working for the Bolsheviks in the late 1920s and early 1930s, building refineries, training Communist engineers and laying down the foundation of Soviet oil infrastructure."

Wednesday 4/14/2010

Raizales complacidos por ley que reconoce su tradición lingüística 4/14/2010 RNC, Colombia: "La consultiva de alto nivel Ofelia Livingston se mostró complacida por la divulgación de la 13 81 de 2010 por la cual se desarrollan varios artículos de la constitución política que aprueba el convenio 169 de la OIT sobre pueblos indígenas y tribales y se dictan normas sobre reconocimiento, fomento, protección, uso, preservación y fortalecimiento de las lenguas de los grupos étnicos de Colombia y sobre sus derechos lingüísticos y los de sus habitantes."

Tuesday 4/13/2010

Genocidal pressures 4/13/2010 Amandala: "Two hundred years ago the black forestry worker was a prized commodity in the forestry–dominated economy of the settlement of Belize. It was around the same time that the Garifuna people had experienced genocidal pressures in Balliceaux and Roatan after waging war against the British and the French on St. Vincent. In Belize, the black forestry worker was indispensable to the mahogany trade, and therefore that worker enjoyed a certain status, although many such workers were technically still slaves. Meanwhile, the Garifuna people had been humbled by their genocidal experiences in St. Vincent, Balliceaux and Roatan, and they were no longer interested in a direct confrontation with white supremacy. They were seeking other ways to survive. Today on the Southside of Belize City, the descendants of Belize’s forestry workers have been drastically marginalized and they are experiencing genocidal pressures. As a result, we are seeing gang battles being fought by young boys and young men armed with automatic weapons and grenades. In some areas of the old capital, just to grow up on a certain street will mean that you are gang-affiliated, or viewed as such, especially if you are a healthy male. The gang battles in the old capital have been going on for more than two decades, and they have reached the point where “civilians” in certain areas have become fair game."

Monday 4/12/2010

The Pope's Cover-Up 4/12/2010 Counterpunch

Friday 4/9/2010

Spontaneous Uprising? Corporate Lobbyists Helping To Orchestrate Radical Anti-Obama Tea Party Protests 4/9/2010 ThinkProgress: "Despite these attempts to make the “movement” appear organic, the principle organizers of the local events are actually the lobbyist-run think tanks Americans for Prosperity and Freedom Works. The two groups are heavily staffed and well funded, and are providing all the logistical and public relations work necessary for planning coast-to-coast protests."

Wednesday 4/7/2010

Israeli police uncover organ trafficking ring in north 4/7/2010 Aletho News: "Police on Tuesday arrested six men suspected of being involved in an organ trafficking ring in northern Israel. Among the suspects are an IDF reserves brigadier-general and two lawyers. The department for fraud and misappropriation in northern Israel has been conducting an undercover investigation which began following a complaint by a 50-year-old woman from Nazareth, who replied to an advertisement in Arabic offering 100,000 dollars for a kidney."

Monday 4/5/2010

Can the US Triumph in the Drug-Addicted War in Afghanistan? Opium, the CIA and the Karzai Administration 4/5/2010 Asia Pacific Journal - Japan Focus: by Prof Peter Dale Scott

Thursday 4/1/2010

Who’s Afraid of 9/11 Conspiracy Theories?  4/1/2010 Aletho News: "The story of the five Israelis who were seen celebrating and filming as the Twin Towers burned and collapsed was investigated by Neil Mackay in Scotland’s Sunday Herald. The so-called “dancing Israelis” worked for Urban Moving Systems, later deemed to be a Mossad front by the FBI. Despite failing numerous polygraph tests, the young men were deported to Israel two months later. Back home, several of the men appeared on a TV chat show, in which one of them amazingly said, “Our purpose was to document the event.”"

Peace for Israelis and Palestinians? Not without America's tough love.  4/1/2010 CSM: "Both my grandfathers fled the Nazis and came to Palestine. Both were subsequently injured in the 1948 Arab-Israli War. My mother’s only brother was a paratrooper killed in combat in 1968. All of my relatives served in the Israeli military for extensive periods of time, some of them in units most people don’t even know exist. In Israel, military service for both men and women is compulsory. When my time to serve came, I refused, because I realized I was obliged to do something about these acts of segregation. I was denied conscientious objector status, like the majority of 18-year-old males who seek this status. Because I refused to serve, I spent a year and a half in military prison."

Papal ally accused of 'ritual beatings'  4/1/2010 Independent: "The child abuse scandal rocking the Catholic Church widened yesterday as a leading German bishop personally appointed by Pope Benedict was accused of ritually beating and punching children at a church-run home during the late 1970s and early 1980s. Five former residents of the St Josef's home in Bavaria submitted written statements to Germany's Süddeutsche Zeitung newspaper claiming the Bishop of Augsburg, Walter Mixa, a controversial conservative churchman appointed by the Pope in 2005, used to hit and degrade them during punishment sessions at the home."

Protesters silence Israeli musicians in London  4/1/2010 Independent: "Within the first 10 minutes of the performance by the Jerusalem Quartet at the Wigmore Hall a woman stood up to "sing out" her condemnation of Israeli policy, setting the pattern for interruptions by people strategically positioned among the audience. The result was that BBC Radio 3's live recording of the concert had to be broken off under extraordinary scenes with the musicians engaged in a debate on stage with the protesters over the conduct of Israel in the Occupied Territories."

Sunday 3/21/2010

El racismo nuestro de cada día 3/21/2010 Aporrea: por Jesus Chucho Garcia

Wealthy Colombian businessman is a drug-trafficker, CIA operative alleges 3/21/2010 NarcoNews: “Colombia exports $100 billion or more in drugs each year and everyone that has been arrested accounts for only a very small amount of that retrieved [by the authorities],” Vega claims. “And they [the Colombian narco-traffickers now in control] have been working for 10 to 15 years making $100 billion a year, so where is all that money?”

Wednesday 3/17/2010

US Department of Justice Asked to Regulate AIPAC as a Foreign Agent of the Israeli Government 3/17/2010 IRMEP: "The US Department of Justice has been formally asked to begin regulating the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) as the foreign agent of the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs. A 392 page legal filing presented by a four person IRmep delegation in a two hour meeting with top officials of the Internal Security Section substantiated the following case for AIPAC's immediate registration."

Tuesday 3/16/2010

CIA: What Really Happened in the quiet French village of Pont-Saint-Esprit 3/16/2010 VoltaireNet: "A U.S. journalist, who was investigating the Cold War mind-control experiments conducted by the CIA, came across some documents relating to an obscure episode in France that was never elucidated. He alleges that in 1951 the CIA was testing for a secret weapon: the aerosol spraying of LSD. The experiment was reportedly carried out in a French village, whose inhabitants and authorities were kept completely in the dark. But it went wrong and caused the death of 7 people. We asked Hank Albarelli to provide a summary of his investigation for the readers of Voltaire Network."

Dick Armey's 'tea party' history is a strange brew 3/16/2010 WaPo: "As head of FreedomWorks, the group that helps to fund and coordinate tea party activists, Armey went to the National Press Club on Monday afternoon in advance of Tuesday's tea party protest in Washington, to present some of his historical findings. "Jamestown colony, when it was first founded as a socialist venture, dang near failed with everybody dead and dying in the snow," Armey reported in his luncheon address."

Tuesday 3/9/2010

San Andrés: 16 jóvenes raizales desaparecidos tendrían nexos con narcos 3/9/2010 Agencia Prensa Rural

Monday 3/8/2010

The Ultimate Hedge? Venice has a 60 year history of drug trafficking 3/8/2010 Madcow Morning News: "During World War II, when it was known as the Venice Army Air Field, it was home to the Stateside operations of a man widely and credibly accused of using proceeds from international heroin trafficking to prop up the war machine of a corrupt Chinese warlord whose army, even after its defeat, hung on to a lion's share of Southeast Asian real estate which became known as the Golden Triangle. Contemporary newspaper clips from the time show that the Venice Airport has had an extraordinary six-decade long history, and been the scene of covert activities including gunrunning, international heroin and cocaine trafficking, and being used as a launch pad for coups in the Caribbean and Central America."

Sunday 3/7/2010

Israelis protest against Jewish settlements in Arab quarter 3/7/2010 AFP

Saturday 3/6/2010

When Victims Become Victimisers: Zionism´s Angry Xenophobic War Against Itself and the Rest of the World  3/6/2010 Aboriginal Press News Service: "Occupied Palestine's Indigenous Arab population cannot be removed from this list. In fact, they currently stand at the head of this roster due to the ironic fact that their oppressors are European Jews, themselves historical victims of xenophobia and selective ethnic removal. This writer finds this paradox to be the question of the age: 'How does a victim of genocide excuse their own practise of genocide'? At what point is it deemed irresponsible if not downright despicable to misuse the memory of your own experience with genocide as a political and theological tool to silence criticism of the hypocrisy?

Uribe pagó deuda perpetua  3/6/2010 Aporrea: "Y la razón de tanta impunidad es que Narco-Uribe 82 no se opuso como Noriega e incluso facilitó todos los medios a su alcance para que USA alcanzara sus fatídicos designios y lograra apoderarse de Colombia para dañar a Venezuela. Fue para saldar su deuda personal de narcotraficante que Uribe Vélez aceptó la jugada maestra del asesino Bush, artimaña maligna que hoy aplauden el conchabado de la Casa Blanca -Obama- y la próxima candidata demócrata a la presidencia de los estados unidos, Hilary Clinton. Porque el poder imperial norteamericano se regocija hoy por la ocupación militar que viola el honor y la soberabía de la hermana república neocolonizada."

Chile earthquake beforeshock lights, aftershock nuclear link enlightenment  3/6/2010 Examiner: "Ms. Lorena Rios was driving in her car in Santiago when the earthquake struck Chile. She tells CNN (Youtube below at 00:37) that there was "some type of lightning in the sky, as if they were shutting down the electricity." Another Chilean has stated that there is much discussion in the country about the lights people saw. (See: Dupre, (video) Chilean TV HAARP quake WMD special program, Examiner) Similar odd lighting was noted by witnesses in China and in Haiti moments before their last major earthquakes that devastaed them. One news reporter downplayed eyewitness reports and citizen discussions about the odd quake lights saying something to the effect that bright odd lighting is always associated with earthquakes because of gasses released. "Tectonic stresses ionizing the atmosphere to the release of gasses." Earthquake lights have become a source of attention by geologist such as Andrew Alden. (See Andrew Alden, No, They Weren't Earthquake Lights, May 27, 2008) "

Friday 3/5/2010

Huge Methane Leak in Arctic Ocean: Study  3/5/2010 AFP: "More than 80 percent of the deep water and more than half of surface water had methane levels around eight times higher than found in normal seawater, according to the study published in the journal Science. The researchers warned that the release of even a fraction of the methane stored in the shelf could trigger abrupt climate warming."

A Wrench in the Israeli Gears  3/5/2010 Counterpunch: "David Ben Gurion, who later became Israel’s first prime minister, infamously stated: “If I knew that it was possible to save all the [Jewish] children of Germany by transporting them to England, and only half by transferring them to the Land of Israel, I would choose the latter...”

How Sports Attacks Public Education  3/5/2010 The Nation: "At the University of Maryland, as tuition has been hiked and classes cut, football coach Ralph Friedgen makes a base salary of 1.75 million bucks, which would be outrageous even if the team weren't two-steps past terrible. Friedgen also gets perks like a $50,000 bonus if none of his players are arrested during the course of the season. Ground zero of the student protest movement is the University of California at Berkeley. Over at Berkeley, students are facing 32% tuition hikes, while the school pays football coach Jeff Tedford 2.8 million dollars a year and is finishing more than 400 million in renovations on the football stadium. This is what students see: boosters and alumni come first, while they've been instructed to cheer their teams, pay their loans, and mind their business."

Thursday 3/4/2010

Douglas Valentine's History of the DEA - Of Course Narcs Are Crooked … 3/4/2010 Counterpunch

No Story Here! US Press Sits on Story - Executing Handcuffed Afghan Kids? 3/4/2010 Counterpunch

Wednesday 3/3/2010

Why all this media manipulation being directed against Hugo Chavez? 3/3/2010 Aletho: "Any Spaniard knows that under an agreement signed in 1989 by Felipe Gonzalez for the Spanish Government and then Venezuelan President Carlos Andres Perez, Venezuela accepted several alleged ETA members into political exile. Perez’ political organization, the conservative Accion Democratica, is today a major participant in Venezuela’s political opposition in cahoots with Partido Socialista Obrero Espanol … currently in the Spanish Government. The agreement stated that any of those deported to Venezuela were not to be extradited, if according to the two countries laws their alleged crimes were subject to the Statute of Limitations … which they are!"

Tuesday 3/2/2010

Pakistan Keeps Custody of Baradar - Defying the U. S. 3/2/2010 Counterpunch: "The refusal of Pakistani intelligence to turn over Taliban leader Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar and as many as six other top Taliban figures to the United States or the Afghan government has dealt a serious blow to the Barack Obama administration's hopes for Pakistani cooperation in weakening the Taliban. It has left little doubt in the minds of U.S. officials that the Pakistani military intends to keep physical custody of the Taliban detainees in order to exert influence on both the pace of peace negotiations in Afghanistan and the ultimate terms of a settlement. The Pakistani custody of Baradar and other Taliban leaders now appears to be more of a safe haven for the Afghan insurgents than a normal detention. At least some U.S. officials already accept the likelihood that the Pakistanis will allow the Taliban leaders to continue to maintain contact with other Taliban officials while in custody."

Interview w/ Rodstarz of Rebel Diaz-Why they are looting in Chile? 3/2/2010 Davey D: "He noted that Chile has long been called the Tiger of Latin America because of it’s economic policies which has long been desireable by conservatives here in the US. They want the US to be like Chile where everything from water to social security is all privatized. Rod described Chile’s economic situation as a failed experiment where you have a few wealthy people on top and lots of poor people on the bottom who are constantly struggling. During last week’s earthquake not only was there loss of life but many were left with no water, housing and other basic needs. He talked about the devastation that existed in some communities where shabby work was done because the people there were poor and being exploited by the rich.."

Monday 3/1/2010

Ebony Magazine Pens Article Criminalizing Mumia Abu Jamal  3/1/2010 Davey D

Former Black Panther chair Elaine Brown Speaks on Cointel-pro, The Panther’s influence on Gangs & Freeing Chip Fitzgerald  3/1/2010 Davey D

Venezuela to request extradition of former president for 1989 riot deaths  3/1/2010 Hartford Courant: "Perez was president when the rioting broke out on Feb. 27, 1989, over a hike in gasoline prices and public transportation fares. Venezuela's army was deployed to quell the unrest and at least 300 people died. Rights activists say hundreds more were killed, many of them shot indiscriminately by security forces. None of the government officials, military officers or police responsible for putting down the riots has gone to trial for the deaths. Perez, who has lived in the Miami area for more than a decade, is also wanted in Venezuela on corruption charges."

BLOODY CALABRIA - Criminal Networks Exploit Italy's Anti-Immigrant Backlash  3/1/2010 WW4 Report

Saturday 2/27/2010

Ahmadinejad Won, Get Over It! 2/27/2010 Consortium News: "PIPA analyzed multiple polls of the Iranian public from three different sources, including some before the June 12 election and some afterwards. The study found that in all the polls, a majority said they planned to vote for Ahmadinejad or had voted for him. The numbers ranged from 52 to 57 percent just before the election to 55 to 66 percent after the election. "These findings do not prove that there were no irregularities in the election process,” said Steven Kull, director of PIPA. “But they do not support the belief that a majority rejected Ahmadinejad."

Friday 2/26/2010

Mossad 'factory' churned out fake Australian passports  2/26/2010 ABC News

Mining, Malaria and Genocide - The Life and Death Struggle of the Yanomami  2/26/2010 Counterpunch: "Likewise, this situation, is even being termed as a genocide due to the inexcusable behavior of a number of Brazilian government officials who both lent support to the garimpeiros and knowingly adjusted to the spread of disease in order to wreak havoc on the Yanomami people (particularly due to the exposure of the tribe to malaria, against which they did not have immunity). During the height of the gold rush from 1987 to 1999, it is estimated that the malaria epidemic, combined with the armed battles against garimpeiros, shockingly led to the loss of thirteen percent of the Yanomami population living in the region."

Now is Not the Time for Austerity - The Debt is Not the Threat  2/26/2010 Counterpunch

Wednesday 2/24/2010

MPs' verdict on News of the World phone-hacking scandal: Amnesia, obfuscation and hush money 2/24/2010 Guardian: "Rupert Murdoch's media giant News International could face a judicial inquiry after a highly critical parliamentary report today accuses senior executives at its top-selling newspaper of concealing the truth about the extent of illegal phone hacking by its journalists. The 167-page report by a cross-party select committee is withering about the conduct of the News of the World, with one MP saying its crimes "went to the heart of the British establishment, in which police, military royals and government ministers were hacked on a near industrial scale"."

CIA Involvement With Drug Trade Resulted In Death Threats Against US Senator 2/24/2010 Wayne Madsen

Monday 2/22/2010

Garifuna Collective Returns from Performance at Winter Olympics 2/22/2010 7 News Belize: "The Garifuna Collective and Umalali Singers flew into Belize today after a two week North American tour. They crisscrossed the west coast of the United States with stops in Seattle, Washington, San Diego in California, and the jetted across to the east coast for shows in Boston and New Hampshire. But the highlight of the tour was a performance at the Cultural Olympiad as part of the 2010 Winter Olympic Games in Vancouver, Canada. We met the band at the airport this morning and got their reaction to the tour – where – strange as it sounds - for the first time they got to play to audiences who were sitting down. Desiree Diego told us how the Women’s Collective got them to stand up."

Fascism is Alive and Well in Spain - The Case of Judge Garzon 2/22/2010 Counterpunch

Friday 2/19/2010

My thoughts on ‘Showdown in Desire: The Black Panthers take a stand in New Orleans’ 2/19/2010 SF Bay View

Wednesday 2/17/2010

Think tank: Israel faces global delegitimization campaign 2/17/2010 Haaretz: "Reut lists the network's major hubs - London, Brussels, Madrid, Toronto, San Francisco and the University of California, Berkeley. The network's activists - "delegitimizers" the report dubs them - are relatively marginal: young people, anarchists, migrants and radical political activists. Although they are not many, they raise their profile using public campaigns and media coverage, the report says"

Tuesday 2/16/2010

Colombia Mimes CIA - Students as Spies 2/16/2010 Counterpunch: "The police and armed forces, of course, are institutions whose crimes have been many and varied on Uribe’s watch, as evidenced by the “false positives” scandal in 2008, in which it came to light that since 2002, the Colombian army has given officers and soldiers incentives and rewards to disappear and murder perhaps 1,700 unemployed young men across the country and dress them up to look like guerrillas. In January, 46 officers and soldiers charged with these crimes were freed on a technicality and confined to a base just south of Bogotá, where they will remain awaiting trial. The army gave them a welcome-home party featuring therapeutic workshops and aromatherapy, massages and makeovers for their wives, and clowns for the kids. This is the army that has received the bulk of the $7 billion that the U.S. government has dispensed through Plan Colombia and its successors under Presidents Clinton, Bush, and Obama."

Corporate Death Squads Come Back to Haunt U.S. Companies 2/16/2010 Huffington Post: "One of the ex-paramilitaries -- Jose Gregorio Mangones Lugo (aka "Carlos Tijeras") -- was the former commander of the William Rivas Front of the United Defense Forces ("AUC") -- the group that operated in northern Columbia, in the zone where the companies and their suppliers grew bananas. In a sworn statement Tijeras described the AUC's relationship with the multinational banana companies as "an open public relationship" involving everything from "security services" to the kidnapping and extrajudicial assassination of labor leaders fingered by the companies as "security problems." Tijeras' statement -- which reads like the confessions of a corporate death squad leader and directly refutes his paymasters' version of events -- has now been entered into the record in a case filed against Dole last April in California by attorneys with Conrad and Scherer."

Monday 2/15/2010

Human Terrain Systems Dissenter Resigns, Tells Inside Story of Training's Heart of Darkness  2/15/2010 Counterpunch: “Though the HTS dream is to use anthropologists, it will have a next to impossible time hiring any (or at least any decent ones, esp. not ones with actually field research in the areas where HTS will work—today Afghanistan, tomorrow AFRICOM), so they will grab historians, religious studies, political science, accountants etc. to fill the gap, but these people won’t come from disciplines that champion ethnographic fieldwork.”

Our Founders Were Not Fundamentalists  2/15/2010 Counterpunch: "God forbid our children should know of American Christians who embraced the Sermon on the Mount and renounced the Book of Revelations…or natives who established democracy on American soil long before they saw the first European…or actual Founders who got drunk, high and laid on their way to writing the Constitution. Faith-based tyranny is anti-American. So are dishonest textbooks. It's time to fight them both."

CIA drug traffic TI whistleblowers' death threats and psych confinement for 'delusion'  2/15/2010 Examiner

CIA drug traffic TI whistleblowers' death threats and psych confinement for 'delusion'  2/15/2010 Examiner

Spanish intelligence reportedly investigating market attacks  2/15/2010 Market Watch: "Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero has hinted on a number of recent occasions that criticism by the U.S. and British media is part of an effort to undermine the euro. El Pais said in private he has been taken aback by just how aggressive some parts of the foreign press have been with Spain."

Eurostat to Look Into Greece's Debt Swaps  2/15/2010 WSJ: "Europe's statistics office is seeking information from the Greek government concerning reports Greece used complicated currency swaps overseen by Wall Street investment banks to hide its mounting debt levels, a European Commission spokesman said Monday."

Tuesday 2/9/2010

Electrician or Trained Killer? Check Out That Cuban! 2/9/2010 Counterpunch

Obama's "Change" Drops Its Mask - The Democrats are Coming After Social Security 2/9/2010 Counterpunch

Sunday 2/7/2010

Hitchens Has No Clothes: A response to ‘Vidal Loco’ 2/7/2010 Independent, UK: "Indeed, the pre-9/11 intelligence failure was not simply because of a lack of reliable intelligence, or because intelligence bureaucracy was hopelessly incompetent (which it was and is), but ultimately because the Bush administration made political decisions that obstructed critical intelligence investigations and ongoing information-sharing that could have prevented 9/11. Those decisions were made to protect vested interests linked to US support of Islamist extremist networks like the Taliban and their state-sponsors, such as the Gulf kingdoms, rooted in Western oil dependency and intersecting financial investments. The inadequacy of the 9/11 Commission investigation, in this regard, is an open secret to many intelligence experts. In the words of 27-year CIA veteran and former Chairman of the National Intelligence Estimate Ray McGovern, ‘The 9/11 report is a joke. The question is: What’s being covered up? Is it gross malfeasance, gross negligence? Now there are a whole bunch of unanswered questions.’ As other whistleblowers such as the FBI’s Coleen Rowley and Robert Wright have said, the problem was the politicization and corruption of the intelligence system - a reality which reared its ugly head yet again in the Iraq-WMD fable, also thoroughly documented by George Washington University’s National Security Archive, which found that ‘the public relations push for war came before the intelligence analysis, which then conformed to public positions taken by Pentagon and White House officials.’ "

Saturday 2/6/2010

Chevron hires twelve public relations firms to discredit indigenous Indians in Ecuador 2/6/2010 Natural News: "In response to an environmental lawsuit filed against the oil giant, Chevron has fortified its defenses with at least twelve different public relations firms whose purpose is to debunk the claims made against the company by indigenous people living in the Amazon forests of Ecuador. According to them, Chevron dumped billions of gallons of toxic waste in the Amazon between 1964 and 1990, causing damages assessed at more than $27 billion."

Wednesday 2/3/2010

The Right Gets Itself 'Wired' 2/3/2010 Consortium News

Organización de raizales fuera del archipiélago inician actividades para el 2010 2/3/2010 RNC, Colombia

Tuesday 2/2/2010

U.S. Embassy in Ankara denies links to Ergenekon 2/2/2010 Armenian News: "A national newspaper in Turkey has said part of an indictment in the Ergenekon probe alleged a car registered on the U.S. Consulate in Istanbul had entered a military zone to take photographs in Poyrazkoy district, the scene of an excavation which unearthed weapons and explosives last April. The spokesperson said they had no record of a Consulate vehicle being present at the site on April 7, 2009, Anatolian News Agency reported. The Ergenekon case in Turkey has been investigating a neo-nationalist gang believed to be the extension of a clandestine network of groups with members in the armed forces and accused of being behind a number of unsolved murders of journalists, academics, public-opinion leaders and writers."

Thursday 1/28/2010

Carleton University (Canada) Student Group Launches Israel Divestment Drive 1/28/2010 Creative-I

Wednesday 1/27/2010

Obama's War for Oil in Colombia 1/27/2010 Counterpunch

The U.S., Latin America and Haiti - Hugo and the Shockwave 1/27/2010 Counterpunch: [This article is part of the disinformation campaign against Hugo Chavez, it reports that Chavez claimed the Haiti earthquake was intentionally created. He never said anything like this.]

Monday 1/25/2010

Accusations of Israeli IDF theft of organs of Haiti victims 1/25/2010 Anggia for Palestine

Hugo Chavez Did Not Accuse the U.S. of Causing the Haitian Earthquake 1/25/2010 Monthly Review: "On January 19, Spanish newspaper ABC, a newspaper of record in Spain, published a story entitled "Chavez Accuses US of Causing Earthquake in Haiti."

Sunday 1/24/2010

China accuses US of online warfare in Iran 1/24/2010 Guardian: "The United States used "online warfare" to stir up unrest in Iran after last year's elections, the Chinese Communist party newspaper claimed today, hitting back at Hillary Clinton's speech last week about internet freedom. An editorial in the People's Daily accused the US of launching a "hacker brigade" and said it had used social media such as Twitter to spread rumours and create trouble."

Friday 1/22/2010

Hugo Chavez Did Not Accuse the U.S. of Causing the Haitian Earthquake 1/22/2010 Aletho

Thursday 1/21/2010

Manchurian Candidates: Supreme Court allows China and others unlimited spending in US elections 1/21/2010 Greg Palast

Monday 1/18/2010

Obama authorizes covert economic war against Venezuela 1/18/2010 Wayne Madsen Report on Milfuegos: "WMR's intelligence sources have reported that the Obama administration has authorized an economic war against Venezuela in order to destabilize the government of President Hugo Chavez. After a successful coup against Chavez ally, President Manuel Zelaya of Honduras, and the very thin 51-49 percent electorial win by Chile's billionaire right-winger Sebastian Pinera on January 17, a buoyed Obama White House has given a green light for political operatives in Venezuela, many of whom operate under the cover of non-governmental organizations (NGOs), to set the stage for massive street demonstrations to protest Chavez's devaluation of the bolivar, Venezuela's currency… The Obama administration's assault os two-fold: economic and political. Pressure is being applied against the gasoline chain Citgo, which is owned by the Venezuelan state oil company, PDVSA, and Venezuelan investment favorability ratings. Politically, the U.S. is overtly and covertly funneling money to anti-Chavez groups through the National Endowment for Democracy (NED), U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), and groups affiliated with George Soros."

Wednesday 1/13/2010

Tavis Smiley Ends State of Black American Union Show, Continues Media Lockdown of Obama's Black Left Critics 1/13/2010 Black Agenda Report: "Tavis Smiley announced on January 6 that the annual State of the Black Union event, held in early February for the last ten years, will not be held this year. His public reasons are vague and unconvincing. The real deal is that corporate media, the Democratic party and the Obama administration cannot tolerate the emergence of public leftward pressure from Black America. So the black conversation that SOBU showcased over the last decade must be silenced."

Sunday 1/10/2010

The Real Grand Chessboard and the Profiteers of War (Part Two) by Peter Dale Scott  1/10/2010 Foreign Policy Journal

The Real Grand Chessboard and the Profiteers of War by Prof. Peter Dale Scott  1/10/2010 Global Research: "To offset the pressure on limited armed forces assets, Donald Rumsfeld escalated the increasing use of Private Military Contractors (PMCs) in the Iraq War. At one point as many as 100,000 personnel were employed by PMCs in the US Iraq occupation. Some of them were involved in controversial events there, such as the Iraq Abu Ghraib prison scandal, and the killing and burning of four contract employees in Fallujah. The license of the most controversial firm, Blackwater, was terminated by the Iraqi government in 2007, after eight Iraqi civilians were gratuitously killed in a firefight that followed a car bomb explosion.[28] (After much negative publicity, Blackwater renamed itself in 2009 as Xe Worldwide.) Insufficiently noticed in the public furor over PMCs like Blackwater was the difference in motivation between them and the Pentagon. Whereas the stated goal of Rumsfeld and the armed forces in Iraq was to end violence there, the PMCs clearly had a financial stake in its continuation. Hence it is no surprise that some of the largest PMCs were also political supporters for pursuing the ill-conceived "War on Terror." Blackwater was the most notorious example; Erik Prince, its founder and sole owner, is part of a family that figures among the major contributors to the Republican Party and other right-wing causes, such as the Council for National Policy. His sister once told the press that "my family is the largest single contributor of soft money to the national Republican Party."

Italians cheer as police move African immigrants out after clashes with locals  1/10/2010 Guardian, UK: "This is the very first time the Africans rebel against the local 'Ndrangheta mafia which dominates the fruit and vegetable businesses," said Francesco Forgione, a former head of Italy's parliamentary anti-mafia commission. "During their protest they even surrounded the house of an old boss in the Pesce clan, which is powerful locally, something the Calabrians have never done."

Nace una Camapaña de solidaridad con tres antifascistas canarios  1/10/2010 Nacion Canaria: "Estando cerca de una conocida playa de la ciudad nos comunica un conocido muy asustado que más de diez individuos con estética fascista le arrancaron un parche del “Ché” Guevara que llevaba cocido en su chaqueta, además de obligarle a cantar el himno fascista del “cara al sol” con la amenaza de darle una paliza si se negaba. Al escuchar sus palabras, miramos hacia el lugar de los hechos cuando pudimos comprobar como un grupo de entre diez y quince personas increpaban y se burlaban esta vez de una mujer magrebí, por lo que decidimos ir en su defensa y pedir explicaciones a este grupo de salvajes. Los fascistas al vernos deciden agredirnos por lo que decidimos defendernos. En la huida, la policía nos para y nos detiene, dejando en libertad a los nazis que además, como si fueran víctimas, aprovechan para denunciarnos."

As Yu Sel Yusef, Na So Di Wol Go Bai Yu  1/10/2010 Nigerian Village Square: "There is a lot of wahala as a result of the foolish attempt of a spoiled Nigerian boy to blow up an airliner on its way to Detroit. This has provoked a serious and sustained effort by the US and European authorities to prevent such a thing from happening again so they have established strict controls over Nigerians travelling through their airports. In the Caribbean this is called ‘under heavy manners ’(like the reggae song by Prince Far 1.). The authorities are clamping down on Nigerian travellers; forcing the good and the innocent into the same routines as the guilty and the conspiratorial. This has outraged many in Nigeria and they have made complaints and sent delegations to the US Embassy to register their protests. This has provoked bewilderment on the part of the US authorities; bewilderment at how the Nigerians see themselves as opposed to how the world sees Nigerians. The US has had nothing but trouble tying to establish a mature relationship with the Nigerian authorities for years. In the recent lawsuits with Halliburton, Siemens, ‘Dollar Bill’ Jefferson to name a few the Nigerian authorities have refused to assist the US in its prosecutions even though there is an agreed protocol to do so and some of the key perpetrators are prominent Nigerian officials."

Friday 1/8/2010

HOWARD ZINN: “Holy Wars” 1/8/2010 Democracy Now

Protesters decry Falash Mura indecision 1/8/2010 Jerusalem Post: "Thousands of Ethiopian Israelis gathered in the capital on Sunday morning to protest the government's failure to reach a decision or raise a discussion on the immigration of some 8,700 Ethiopian Jews still waiting to make aliya."

Thursday 1/7/2010

Panamá: Contarán a los afrodescendientes en los Censos 2010 1/7/2010 Estudio 1 Panama: "¿POR QUÉ ES NECESARIO CONTAR A LOS NEGROS O AFRODESCENDIENTES EN PANAMÁ? - Porque con las evidencias estadísticas podemos conocer las condiciones reales de la población negra o afrodescendiente en nuestro país. Con la inclusión de la etnia negra en los Censos Nacionales se rompe con el proceso histórico de invisibilización que ha padecido este sector de la población panameña y se abre la posibilidad de alcanzar un conjunto de reivindicaciones de carácter económicos, políticos, sociales y culturales largamente anhelados."

Las Américas Tienen Color: Afrodescendientes en los Censos del Siglo XXI 1/7/2010 Pelusa Radical: "Con el título “Las Américas Tienen Color: Afrodescendientes en los Censos del Siglo XXI”, la producción del Canal Integración es el resultado de la sociedad entre el Grupo de Trabajo Afrodescendientes de las Américas Censos de 2010 y el UNIFEM Brasil y Cono Sur. A partir del 29 de enero se iniciará la exhibición de la serie “Trabajo Doméstico, Trabajo Decente”, que revela la realidad de las trabajadoras domésticas de Brasil, Bolivia, Guatemala y Paraguay"

Tuesday 1/5/2010

Another Iranian Revolution? Not Likely  1/5/2010 NYT

Israel's Treatment of Ethiopians Called 'Racist'  1/5/2010 The Global Report: "Health officials in Israel are subjecting many female Ethiopian immigrants to a controversial long-term birth control drug in what Israeli women's groups allege is a racist policy to reduce the number of black babies. The contraceptive, known as Depo Provera, which is given by injection every three months, is considered by many doctors as a birth control method of last resort because of problems treating its side effects. However, according to a report published last week, use of the contraceptive by Israeli doctors has risen threefold over the past few years. Figures show that 57 percent of Depo Provera users in Israel are Ethiopian, even though the community accounts for less than two percent of the total population. "This is about reducing the number of births in a community that is black and mostly poor," said Hedva Eyal, the author of the report by Woman to Woman, a feminist organization based in Haifa, in northern Israel. "The unspoken policy is that only children who are white and Ashkenazi are wanted in Israel," she said, referring to the term for European Jews who founded Israel and continue to dominate its institutions."

Israel’s treatment of Ethiopians ‘racist’  1/5/2010 The National: "Women’s groups were alerted to the widespread use of Depo Provera in the Ethiopian community in 2008 when Rachel Mangoli, who runs a day care centre for 120 Ethiopian children in Bnei Braq, a suburb of Tel Aviv, observed that she had received only one new child in the previous three years. “I started to think about how strange the situation was after I had to send back donated baby clothes because there was no one in the community to give them to,” she said. She approached a local health clinic serving the 55 Ethiopian families in Bnei Braq and was told by the clinic manager that they had been instructed to administer Depo Provera injections to the women of child-bearing age, though he refused to say who had issued the order."

Friday 1/1/2010

Obama and Afghanistan: America’s Drug-Corrupted War by Prof Peter Dale Scott 1/1/2010 Global Research: "...the U.S. economy has become a narco-capitalist one, dependent on the hot or dirty money, much of it from the drug traffic."

Wednesday 12/30/2009

Are Presidents Afraid of the CIA? 12/30/2009 Counterpunch: "Did Allen Dulles and other “cloak-and-dagger” CIA operatives have a hand in killing President Kennedy and then covering it up? The most up-to-date—and, in my view, the best—dissection of the assassination appeared last year in James Douglass’ book, JFK and the Unspeakable. After updating and arraying the abundant evidence, and conducting still more interviews, Douglass concludes the answer is Yes."

Thursday 12/24/2009

Ethiopian Soldiers Enlighten their Parents about Military Life 12/24/2009 IDF, Israel: "90% of Ethiopians enlist in the IDF, a very high percentage compared to the general society, and a lot of them chose a significant combat service."

Tuesday 12/22/2009

Break the CIA in Two 12/22/2009 Consortium News: "Investigator Raymond Marcus is among those struck by the curious lack of response — one might say embargo — regarding Truman’s Washington Post article. Marcus has written: “According to my information, it was not carried in later editions that day, nor commented on editorially, nor picked up by any other major newspaper, or mentioned in any national radio or TV broadcast.” What are we to make of this? Was/is it the case, as former CIA Director William Colby is quoted as saying in a different connection, that the CIA “owns everyone of any significance in the major media?” Or at least that it did in the Sixties?"

Sunday 12/20/2009

US Military Agression Against Venezuela Escalating 12/20/2009 Trinicenter

Thursday 12/17/2009

Mumbai terror suspect David Headley was ‘rogue US secret agent’ 12/17/2009 London Times: "He came to the attention of the US security services in 1997 when he was arrested in New York for heroin smuggling. He earned a reduced sentence by working for the US Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) infiltrating Pakistan-linked narcotics gangs. Indian investigators, who have been denied access to Mr Headley, suspect that he remained on the payroll of the US security services — possibly working for the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) — but switched his allegiance to LeT."

Friday 12/11/2009

Una triste historia 12/11/2009 Las Leyes de Laritza: "La mujer, insensible, buscó en una lista de fallecidos, para ver cuáles familiares no habían encargado coronas. Porque “tocaban” dos coronas nada más por cada muerto, y la nena, había recibido ya las dos a la que tenía derecho."

Monday 12/7/2009

Robar para vivir 12/7/2009 Las Leyes de Laritza: "El salario que recibía no le alcanzaba para solventar sus necesidades económicas. No obstante, entre sus planes no estaba la opción de abandonar el empleo. Tiene una esposa y tres hijas menores que mantener. Unas veces más, otras menos, compensaba las carencias con lo que allí resolvía, la comida de casa."

Wednesday 12/2/2009

Peru officer suspended over human fat killers 'lie' 12/2/2009 BBC

Tuesday 12/1/2009

Israeli Defense Forces Embrace Web 2.0 12/1/2009 Internet & Democracy Blog, Harvard Law

Monday 11/30/2009

Houthi Resistance Humilliates Saudi Armed Forces 11/30/2009 Irak-War.ru

Saturday 11/28/2009

Lima apologizes to Afro-Peruvians for abuses  11/28/2009 AP: "The government of Peru is apologizing to its Afro-Peruvian population for the first time for centuries of abuse, exclusion and discrimination. An executive resolution says discrimination against black Peruvians still exists and is "a barrier for social, economic, labor and educational development." Women's and Social Development Minister Nidia Vilchez says the government hopes its apology will help promote the "true integration of all Peru's multicultural population." "

Lima apologizes to Afro-Peruvians for abuses  11/28/2009 AP

Lost JFK Tapes: The Assassination Sun. Nov 29  11/28/2009 Monsters & Critics: "National Geographic Channel will air The Lost JFK Tapes: The Assassination on Sunday, Nov. 29. For over 45 years, news footage and radio reports of Kennedy's assassination and the days following have quietly languished in Dallas - first kept under wraps by the news stations who owned them, then in the vault of a museum dedicated to preserving the memory of the day Kennedy was cut down."

Friday 11/27/2009

EL SALVADOR: Declassified Docs Shed Light on Jesuits' Murders 11/27/2009 IPS: "The declassified documents from the late 1980s and early 1990s indicate the CIA (U.S. Central Intelligence Agency) and U.S. State Department had foreknowledge of the Salvadoran military leadership's plan to kill the then-rector of the José Simeón Cañas Central American University (UCA) in San Salvador, along with four other Spanish priests and a Salvadoran priest on Nov. 16, 1989."

Thursday 11/26/2009

World Health Organization ‘Manufactured’ The Global Swine Flu Scare – Suspected Of Corruption 11/26/2009 Infowars Ireland: "The Swine Flu Pandemic which Novye Izvestija has written about many times, may be the most ambitious scam and corruption of our time. In any case, the enormous commercial aspect of the “swine flu scare” is already evident. The same conclusion was reached by Danish journalists who expertly examined the links between the World Health Organization (WHO) and the world’s leading pharmaceutical companies, who gained wealth by selling drugs to counter the disease. It turns out, for example, that many scientists who sit on various committees of WHO, carefully concealed the fact that they receive money from the giant pharmaceutical companies of the world. According to the international investment bank JP Morgan, the pharmaceutical industry will make more than 7 Billion Euros this year on the sale of A/H1N1 vaccines. Leading western countries have ordered enough doses to vaccinate either their entire population (such as Australia) or one third (Germany and several other EU member States). Factories making the vaccines and pills are working around the clock, in four shift rotations, with a backlog of orders …they are not experiencing the global economic crisis as others might. For the first time in many years flu pandemic ‘panic’ has affected the EU. The vaccine has been produced without a sufficient number of clinical and laboratory tests."

Why Afghans Dig Empire Graveyards 11/26/2009 Middle East Online: "A Dutch friend of mine tried to have a rational conversation with an American co-worker about 9/11 and the so-called “war on terror,” and was told, "You can't possibly understand. Your country has never been attacked like this." The puzzled Dutch woman had to ask, "Did you never hear anything about the Second World War?" Of course, it is precisely the far greater dangers that people in other countries have faced in the past that enable them to put the threat of terrorism in perspective. Paradoxically, it is the relative safety of the United States that makes Americans so vulnerable to panic and propaganda when faced with such a limited threat. In fact, the response of the US government to the terrorist attacks has been exactly as Osama bin Laden and his colleagues intended. They did not expect to defeat the United States by knocking down a few buildings. Nor were they motivated by some irrational hatred of freedom. Rather the attacks were designed to provoke a reaction that would expose the hypocrisy of the United States, laying bare the hard iron fist of militarism and violence within the soft velvet glove of Hollywood and soda-pop. The explicit goal was to goad the American empire into using its vast arsenal of destructive weapons in ways that would gradually undermine its own economic and military power. Bin Laden and his second-in-command Ayman al-Zawahiri understood so much better than America’s deluded leaders that this would be a war the United States could not win."

Wednesday 11/25/2009

JFK and the Unspeakable: Why He Died and Why It Matters 11/25/2009 Global Research: "We are then faced with the contemporary relevance, and since we know that every president since JFK has refused to confront the growth of the national security state and its call for violence, one can logically assume a message was sent and heeded. In this regard, it is not incidental that former twenty-seven year CIA analyst Raymond McGovern, in a recent interview, warned of the “two CIAs,” one the analytic arm providing straight scoop to presidents, the other the covert action arm which operates according to its own rules. “Let me leave you with this thought,” he told his interviewer, “and that is that I think Panetta (current CIA Director), and to a degree Obama, are afraid – I never thought I’d hear myself saying this – I think they are afraid of the CIA.” He then recommended Douglass’ book, “It’s very well-researched and his conclusion is very alarming.” "

Más venganzas 11/25/2009 Las Leyes de Laritza

Tuesday 11/24/2009

Philippines massacre: The story behind the accused Ampatuan clan 11/24/2009 CSM: "The US got its first extended taste of counterinsurgency on Mindanao, where Moro fighters centered in the powerful local clans tied up US forces for 14 years as America sought to colonize the country (the Moro rebellion ended in 1913). The island’s Muslim population has had an uneasy relationship with the central government ever since, and two major separatist groups – the Moro National Liberation Front and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) – were born there. In 1990, the Autonomous Region of Muslim Mindanao (ARMM) was created for the Muslim provinces of the island, ostensibly to give the local population more power over their own affairs and suck the life out of Mindanao’s various insurgencies. But in the 1990s, the Armed Forces of the Philippines continued to aggressively hunt down local militants using the paramilitary loyalists, much as similar civilian forces were created by Colombia’s military in the 1960s. One paramilitary leader who worked with the Army’s 6th Infantry Division was Andal Ampatuan."

Saturday 11/21/2009

Suspected Colombian paramilitary leader Magaly Moreno captured in Venezuela 11/21/2009 LA Times: "A woman described by Venezuelan authorities as an important leader of a Colombian paramilitary group has been captured, the justice minister said today. Interpol had called for the arrest of Magaly Janeth Moreno Vega, who was wanted by Colombian officials on homicide charges, said Venezuelan Justice Minister Tareck El Aissami. He referred to the 39-year-old suspect as a paramilitary chief for the United Self-Defense Forces of Colombia, or AUC... Moreno previously worked as an investigator for Colombian prosecutors and was detained with her boss several years ago on accusations of aiding militias, according to news reports. Moreno was convicted on conspiracy charges tied to various crimes after she acknowledged working for paramilitary boss Jorge Ivan Laverde, who has said he participated in the killings of more than 2,000 people, the Associated Press reported."

Bautizado el libro "USAID, NED y CIA. La agresión permanente" 11/21/2009 Venezuelan Government

Friday 11/20/2009

Fat of up to 60 bodies used in Italian cosmetics  11/20/2009 AFP

Competency hearing for accused Maui spy to begin  11/20/2009 AP: "The charges against Gowadia also assert that he offered to sell classified stealth technology to foreign business people in Israel, Germany and Switzerland."

Rumors Of Coups And War: U.S., NATO Target Latin America  11/20/2009 VoltaireNet

Thursday 11/19/2009

The agony of the Ecstasy  11/19/2009 Haaretz, Israel: "The most commonly heard estimate is that Israeli criminals control no less than 75 percent of the Ecstasy market in the U.S. How did Israel become a central player in this dubious game?"

Russia slams U.S. on Afghan drugs  11/19/2009 The Hindu: "The U.S. does not want to address the problem of drug production in Afghanistan, said Russia’s anti-narcotics chief after talks with U.S. Special Envoy for Af-Pak Richard Holbrooke. “My meeting with Holbrooke unfortunately confirmed our fears that they are not prepared to destroy the production of drugs in Afghanistan,” Viktor Ivanov, head of the Federal Narcotics Control Service, told Russian journalists on Tuesday, hours after Mr. Holbrooke left Moscow for Kabul after one-day consultations."

Film uses N. Texas media coverage to tell story of Kennedy assassination  11/19/2009 WFAA: "The National Geographic Channel film pulled footage from hundreds of hours of material from the archives of the Sixth Floor Museum. "And a lot of that material really has not been seen," said Gary Mack, the Sixth Floor Museum's curator. "Some of it hasn't been seen since it actually happened." [Mack is seen by other researchers as having gotten himself coopted by the coverup.]

Monday 11/16/2009

Embajador Gustavo Márquez no descarta una invasión gringa 11/16/2009 Aporrea: "El embajador de Venezuela en Colombia, Gustavo Márquez, aseguró que Venezuela debe prepararse para la guerra porque hay "una situación de preguerra" que amenaza a la nación, y no descartó una invasión de Estados Unidos."

Sunday 11/15/2009

CIA says it gets its money's worth from Pakistani spy agency 11/15/2009 LA Times

Saturday 11/14/2009

Peru Cancels Talk With Chile Over Espionage Dispute 11/14/2009 VOA

Friday 11/13/2009

Stealing Money, Selling Heroin and Raping Boys -- The Very Dark Side of the Afghan Occupation  11/13/2009 Alternet: "Corruption and mismanagement do not just mean that the police are on the take or that no contract is awarded without a bribe. It is much worse than that. For instance, one reason Afghan villagers prefer to deal with the Taliban rather than the government security forces is that the latter have a habit of seizing their sons at checkpoints and sodomizing them. None of our business, Mr Fox, who may be British Defense Secretary by this time next year, would presumably say. We are not in Afghanistan for the good government of Afghans: 'Our troops are not fighting and dying in Afghanistan for Karzai's government nor should they ever be.' But the fact that male rape is common practice in the Afghan armed forces has, unfortunately, a great deal to do with the fate of British soldiers. There was a horrified reaction across Britain last week when a 25-year old policeman called Gulbuddin working in a police station in the Nad Ali district of Helmand killed five British soldiers when he opened fire with a machine gun on them. But the reason he did so, according to Christina Lamb in The Sunday Times, citing two Afghans who knew Gulbuddin, was that he had been brutally beaten, sodomised and sexually molested by a senior Afghan officer whom he regarded as being protected by the British."

Details about NSA cyberattack during Bush administration revealed  11/13/2009 Federal News Radio: "The National Journal's Shane Harris reports today that at the request of his national intelligence director, President Bush ordered an NSA cyberattack on the cellular phones and computers that insurgents in Iraq were using to plan roadside bombings. And former officials with knowledge of the computer network attack tell National Journal that the cyber-attack helped turn the tide of the war. Even more than the thousands of additional ground troops that Bush ordered to Iraq as part of the 2007 "surge," they credit the cyberattacks with allowing military planners to track and kill some of the most influential insurgents."

How the US army protects its trucks – by paying the Taliban  11/13/2009 Guardian: "It's a big part of their income," one of the top Afghan government security officials admits. In fact, US military officials in Kabul estimate that a minimum of 10% of the Pentagon's logistics contracts – hundreds of millions of dollars – consists of payments to insurgents."

Huge rise in birth defects in Falluja  11/13/2009 Guardian: "Doctors in Iraq's war-ravaged enclave of Falluja are dealing with up to 15 times as many chronic deformities in infants and a spike in early life cancers that may be linked to toxic materials left over from the fighting. The extraordinary rise in birth defects has crystallised over recent months as specialists working in Falluja's over-stretched health system have started compiling detailed clinical records of all babies born. Neurologists and obstetricians in the city interviewed by the Guardian say the rise in birth defects – which include a baby born with two heads, babies with multiple tumours, and others with nervous system problems - are unprecedented and at present unexplainable."

Thursday 11/12/2009

The Real Thanksgiving Day 11/12/2009 Consortium News: "Matters came to a head one night in 1637 when Governor Bradford, without provocation, dispatched his militia against his Pequot neighbors. With the Pilgrims seeing themselves as devout Christians locked in mortal combat with infidels, the officers and soldiers made a systematic assault on a sleeping Pequot Indian village. Bradford described the night of fire, pain and death: “It was a fearful sight to see them frying in the fire and the streams of blood quenching the same and horrible was the stink and stench thereof. But the victory seemed a sweet sacrifice and they [the militiamen] gave praise thereof to God.” The colony's famous minister, Reverend Increase Mather, rejoiced and called on his congregation to give thanks to God "that on this day we have sent six hundred heathen souls to hell." Mather and Bradford are still celebrated in school texts as colonial heroes."

Wednesday 11/11/2009

Israeli rabbi says Judaism allows murdering gentile babies 11/11/2009 ME Online: "According to his book "The King's Torah", even babies and children can be killed if they pose a threat to Israel. Shapiro based the majority of his teachings on passages quoted from the Bible, to which he adds his opinions and beliefs, Haaretz reported. "It is permissible to kill the Righteous among Nations even if they are not responsible for the threatening situation," he wrote, adding: "If we kill a Gentile who has sinned or has violated one of the seven commandments - because we care about the commandments - there is nothing wrong with the murder." According to Haaretz, several prominent rabbis, including Rabbi Yithak Ginzburg and Rabbi Yaakov Yosef, have recommended the book to their students and followers."

Monday 11/9/2009

America Owned by Its Army 11/9/2009 Common Dream: "Professional armies have often been considered a threat to their own societies. It was one of Frederick the Great's own officers who described Prussia "as an army with a state, in which it was temporarily quartered, so to speak". The French revolutionary statesman Mirabeau said that "war is Prussia's national industry". Considering the portion of the US national budget that is now consumed by the Pentagon, much the same could be said of the United States."

Sunday 11/8/2009

Chavez to troops: Prepare for war with Colombia 11/8/2009 AP

Valor y pantalones (II y final) 11/8/2009 Las Leyes de Laritza: "Soy abogada, periodista independiente, bloguera y ama de casa. Tareas que responsable y pacíficamente asumo. No hago ni haré nada para satisfacer frustraciones y ansías ajenas. Si la supuesta ayuda que brindan a la disidencia dentro de Cuba, que es la que en realidad corre los riesgos, es a condición de que nos “tiremos pa’ la calle”, ahora mismo dejen de enviarla."

Friday 11/6/2009

The Crazy October Surprise Debunking 11/6/2009 Consortium News: "Larry Casey insisted to me that he vividly remembered his parents having dinner with Bill Casey at the Jockey Club in Washington on Oct. 19, 1980. ”It was very clear in my mind even though it was 11 years ago,” Larry Casey said. But then I showed Larry Casey the sign-in sheets for the Reagan-Bush campaign headquarters. The entries recorded Larry Casey’s parents picking up Bill Casey for the dinner on Oct. 15, four days earlier. Larry Casey acknowledged his error, and indeed an American Express receipt later confirmed Oct. 15 as the date of the Jockey Club dinner. In 1992, however, Larry Casey had replaced the Jockey Club dinner with “the phone call alibi,” which he had not mentioned in the Frontline interview. Though Larry Casey’s alibi was anything but “credible,” the House task force accepted it as solid proof."

Thursday 11/5/2009

Afghan insurgents learn to destroy key U.S. armored vehicle  11/5/2009 McClatchy: "The insurgents' success in attacking the hulking machines, which can cost as much as $1 million each, underscores their ability to counter the advanced hardware that the U.S. military and its allies are deploying in their struggle to gain the upper hand in the war, which entered its ninth year last month. The attacks also raise questions about how vulnerable a new, lighter MRAP, the M-ATV, which is now being shipped to Afghanistan, are to the massive explosive charges that Taliban-led insurgents have been using against its bigger cousin. The insurgents are also hitting MRAPs with rocket-propelled grenades that can penetrate their steel armor, according to U.S troops in Afghanistan, several of whom showed McClatchy a photograph of a hole that one of the projectiles had punched in the hull of an MRAP. The Pentagon has spent more than $26.8 billion to develop and build three versions of the largest MRAPs, totaling some 16,000 vehicles, mostly for the Army and Marine Corps, according to an August report by the nonpartisan Congressional Research Service."

Congressmen Denouncing U.N. Inquiry Receive Handsome Donations from Pro-Israel Lobby  11/5/2009 Open Secrets: "What is happening to the Palestinians today is the same thing that happened to my people, the Nowampanoag tribe . My father and six of his braves brought venison meat to the colonist's first thanksgiving. The next generation of colonists did not remember my father's kindness to their people but instead became greedy for more land and demanded that we give it to them. When I resisted and tried to drive them off of our land the colonists killed me, quarted my body and put my head on a pole in the public square for all to see. Colonists haven't changed much in 350 years. King Philip"

Israeli settlements could cause one-state solution  11/5/2009 Salon: by Juan Cole

Monday 11/2/2009

Israël accroît sa présence militaire en Amérique latine 11/2/2009 Voltaire Net: "Global CST, qui dément tout lien de subordination au gouvernement de Tel-Aviv, est une pièce essentielle du complexe militaro-industriel israélien. Il s’agit d’une structure légère, n’employant qu’une poignée d’individus, mais rattachée au groupe Mikal (marques : Soltam, ITL, Saymar), la seconde compagnie privée israélienne d’armement. Présidé par Avraham (Miko) Gilat, Mikal vend toute une gamme de produits allant des pièces d’artillerie aux blindés légers en passant par l’optronique. Global CST est dirigé par le généra Israël Ziv (ancien chef des opérations de l’armée israélienne), qui échoua face au Hezbollah en 2006. En 2008, Global CST a réalisé le sauvetage d’Ingrid Betancourt en Colombie (Operation Jaques) et, simultanément, la planification de l’attaque géorgienne contre l’Ossétie du Sud (une opération qui fit plus d’un millier de morts)."

Sunday 11/1/2009

Who’s Afraid of Sibel Edmonds?  11/1/2009 American Conservative: EDMONDS: Okay. So these conversations, between 1997 and 2001, had to do with a Central Asia operation that involved bin Laden. Not once did anybody use the word “al-Qaeda.” It was always “mujahideen,” always “bin Laden” and, in fact, not “bin Laden” but “bin Ladens” plural. There were several bin Ladens who were going on private jets to Azerbaijan and Tajikistan. The Turkish ambassador in Azerbaijan worked with them. There were bin Ladens, with the help of Pakistanis or Saudis, under our management. Marc Grossman was leading it, 100 percent, bringing people from East Turkestan into Kyrgyzstan, from Kyrgyzstan to Azerbaijan, from Azerbaijan some of them were being channeled to Chechnya, some of them were being channeled to Bosnia. From Turkey, they were putting all these bin Ladens on NATO planes. People and weapons went one way, drugs came back... As soon as Obama became president, he showed us that the State Secrets Privilege was going to continue to be a tool of choice. It’s an arcane executive privilege to cover up wrongdoing—in many cases, criminal activities. And the Obama administration has not only defended using the State Secrets Privilege, it has been trying to take it even further than the previous terrible administration by maintaining that the U.S. government has sovereign immunity. This is Obama’s change: his administration seems to think it doesn’t even have to invoke state secrets as our leaders are emperors who possess this sovereign immunity. This is not the kind of language that anybody in a democracy would use. The other thing I noticed is how Chicago, with its culture of political corruption, is central to the new administration. When I saw that Obama’s choice of chief of staff was Rahm Emanuel, knowing his relationship with Mayor Richard Daley and with the Hastert crowd, I knew we were not going to see positive changes. Changes possibly, but changes for the worse. It was no coincidence that the Turkish criminal entity’s operation centered on Chicago."

Obama and the Intelligence Cabal  11/1/2009 Left.ru: "Last April the international group of investigative journalists burtsev.ru published an expose of an anti-Obama group of intelligence officers from the former Soviet Union whose private intelligence company Far West LLC has been the object of considerable controversy in Russian and international press. This is an updated and expanded version of the original article in Russian, published in Left.ru 4 (2009) under the title “Kto gotovit pokushenie na Prezidenta SshA?” (Who Prepares the Assassination of the US President?)."

Israeli Organ Trafficking and Theft: From Moldova to Palestine  11/1/2009 WRMEA: "While Scheper-Hughes emphasizes that traffickers and procurers come from numerous nations and ethnicities, including Americans and Arabs, she is unflinchingly honest in speaking about the Israeli connection: “Israel is at the top,” she states. “It has tentacles reaching out worldwide.”6 In a lecture last year sponsored by New York’s PBS 13 Forum, Scheper-Hughes explained that Israeli organ traffickers, “had and still have a pyramid system at work that’s awesome…they have brokers everywhere, bank accounts everywhere; they’ve got recruiters, they’ve got translators, they’ve got travel agents who set up the visas.” "

Friday 10/30/2009

Nicaragua protesters chase off US ambassador  10/30/2009 AP

Support for Chavez is eroding in Venezuela due to shortages  10/30/2009 Miami Herald

Venezuela arrests eight Colombian "paramilitaries"  10/30/2009 Reuters: "The arrests in Venezuela's western Tachira state were the latest incident in a region where Colombian guerrilla groups, paramilitary militia, drug-traffickers and other criminal gangs all operate and violence is rampant. Venezuela's Interior Minister Tarek El Aissami said the eight Colombians included a known paramilitary leader. Two guns of a type used by hitmen were captured with them, he said."

9yr-old boy tortured, says former Guantanamo detainee  10/30/2009 The Star, Malaysia: "A British Muslim detained for three years at the controversial Guantanamo Bay prison manned by the United States, revealed that the youngest detainee he knew of was a nine-year-old boy who was also tortured like the rest. Ruhal Ahmed’s story was among more accounts of atrocities committed against the detainees at Guantanamo, told before an open commission hearing which began Friday on the sidelines of an international conference to criminalise war."

Thursday 10/29/2009

Africa and "Witchcraft" 10/29/2009 Angry Indian: "The rapid growth of Evangelical Christianity throughout African has exploited the problem. With these churches in competition for parishioners, some clerics establish their unique godly credentials by claiming to have special powers in recognizing and exorcising these “child witches” for, of course, exorbitant fees. The role religion has played in witch hunts is not new and has always targeted children, the most defenseless, before targeting marginalized adults."

The Peru Shoot Down 10/29/2009 Zmag: "Among the five cases of intelligence operation cover up currently being investigated by the US House Intelligence Committee is the 2001 shoot down of a small plane in Peru, resulting in the death of a Baptist missionary from Michigan and her 7-month-old daughter. The CIA inspector general has already concluded that the CIA improperly concealed information about the incident. Intelligence Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee Chairwoman Jan Schakowsky, who is leading the investigation, says she hasn't ruled out referrals to the Justice Department for criminal prosecutions if evidence surfaces that intelligence officials broke the law. On the other hand, she hasn't guaranteed that the true story will ever be released, since the Committee's report of its investigation will be classified." [Jan has reportedly been blackmailed for a lesbian affair by the Turkish-Israeli mafia who are partially funded by narcotics trafficking.]

Wednesday 10/28/2009

Un abogado israeli de Nueva York es dueño del voto de Palau en la ONU  10/28/2009 Aporrea

Israeli Exceptionalism  10/28/2009 Countepunch: "Writing about Zionism has not been easy. The history of Zionism is history gone wrong, and not only for the Palestinians. The tragedy for the Palestinians is obvious, although, blinded by racism and the Zionist bias of their media, Westerners only recently have begun to see this tragedy for what it is. It has been a tragedy for the Jewish people too, who were co-opted by the Zionists to place their energy, their talent and their hopes on a project they should never have undertaken, and whose only chance of success lay in obliterating the hopes of another people. The more trapped this project becomes in its own logic, the greater the destruction it becomes willing to wreak. It chooses destruction in order to delay coming to terms with, and making amends for, the tragedy it has spawned."

Brought to You by the CIA - America's Drug Crisis  10/28/2009 Counterpunch

The Dealmakers Behind the Chicago Mob  10/28/2009 The Chicago Syndicate: "As the schemes got more complicated, the mobsters needed the help of lawyers, politicians and frontmen with relatively clean criminal records. It was a Faustian bargain, but it helped launch some of the most prominent names in Chicago's Jewish community. For example, according to Russo, Outfit funds and connections formed the foundation on which lawyer Abe Pritzker's family built the Hyatt hotel chain."

Le secret de Guantánamo  10/28/2009 VoltaireNet: "Si l’on additionne la totalité des personnes qui ont été faites prisonnières en zone de conflit ou enlevées n’importe où dans le monde et transférées dans cet ensemble de prisons au cours des huit dernières années, ce sont au total 80 000 personnes qui auraient transité dans le système, dont moins d’un millier auraient été poussées vers les stades ultimes du processus de Biderman. Dès lors le problème de l’administration Obama se résume ainsi : il ne sera pas possible de fermer Guantánamo sans révéler ce qui y a été fait. Et il ne sera pas possible de reconnaître ce qui y a été fait, sans admettre que tous les aveux recueillis sont faux et ont été délibérément inculqués sous la torture, avec les conséquences politiques que cela implique."

Tuesday 10/27/2009

Flagship health project stirs Venezuelan politics 10/27/2009 Reuters: "For supporters, President Hugo Chavez's flagship social project, with around 15,000 mainly Cuban doctors in more than 6,000 clinics, illustrates the best of his decade-long rule: a commitment to the poor and tangible results. Critics, however, say 'Barrio Adentro' is a political project illustrating the dangerous "Cubanization" of Venezuela. Half of the two-storey, red-brick clinics are collapsing, local doctors have been pushed out of jobs by Cubans, and traditional hospitals are underfunded, they argue."

Sunday 10/25/2009

The Education of Bob Baer - Unlearning the CIA 10/25/2009 Counterpunch: "So here was Baer among Jordanian princes, rogue oil traders in Iraq. Here he was in 1993 stealing a kilo of cocaine from the airplane of Morocco’s King Hasan, simply to prove that one of our allies in the Middle East was a drug runner (“I wanted to rub Washington’s nose in it.”). In Sarajevo he posed as an arms dealer, in Iraq he was an assassin, in Paris a pimp."

Thursday 10/22/2009

El espía Larry Franklin, condenado a 10 meses, explica su plan para derrocar al Gobierno iraní 10/22/2009 CubaDebate: "Larry Frankin, el espía condenado a 10 meses de prisión domiciliaria por haber entregado a Israel miles de documentos secretos del Pentágono, explica en la última edición de la conocida revista Foreign Policy su plan para derrocar el gobierno de Iran. Lawrence “Larry” Franklin es uno de los espías más devastadores de la historia de Estados Unidos. Regaló al gobierno sionista de Israel miles de documentos ultra-secretos sacados directamente del sistema informático del Pentágono."

Wednesday 10/21/2009

Jefferson Morley’s struggle to find the truth about George Joannides and the CIA’s fight to hide it 10/21/2009 Machetera: "The day that his brother was assassinated, the Attorney General of the United States, Robert F. Kennedy, spoke by telephone with one of the leaders of the terrorist campaign against Cuba, Enrique “Harry” Ruiz-Williams. Kennedy said to him directly: “One of your men did it.” Bobby Kennedy didn’t ask him. He told him. It came from his gut, because he knew those people. That’s how the journalist/researcher Jefferson Morley tells it in an interview he granted Cubadebate. “The assassination of President John F. Kennedy on November 22, 1963 and the dirty war against Cuba organized by the Miami Cubans are intimately linked: they’re battles in the same war, “ said Morley."

Tuesday 10/20/2009

US scientist charged with attempted spying for Israel 10/20/2009 Channel News Asia: "The US authorities on Monday arrested a leading American scientist who had worked for the Pentagon and NASA and charged him with attempted spying for Israel. Stewart Nozette, 52, was apprehended after a sting operation involving an undercover FBI agent, the Department of Justice said, adding that there was no wrongdoing by Israel. He is charged with "attempted espionage for knowingly and wilfully attempting to communicate, deliver, and transmit classified information relating to the national defence of the United States to an individual that Nozette believed to be an Israeli intelligence officer."

DEA Agents Accused in Court Pleadings of Dealing Heroin As Part of 1990s Pakistan Connection 10/20/2009 NarcoNews

Sunday 10/18/2009

British mining company faces damages claim after allegations of torture in Peru 10/18/2009 Guardian

Saturday 10/17/2009

Indigenous Rights Leader shot, 2 family members killed in Yukpa territory, Venezuela 10/17/2009 Republic of Lakotah

Friday 10/16/2009

DANCING TO OUR ISRAELI MASTERS 10/16/2009 Opinion Maker: "Bundlers raise funds from the Diaspora and bundle those contributions to present them to the candidate. No quid pro quo need be mentioned. After McCain-Feingold became law in 2003, AIPAC-identified bundlers could raise $1 million-plus for AIPAC-approved candidates simply by contacting 10 like-minded supporters. Here’s the math: The bundler and spouse “max out” for $9,200 and call 10 others, say in Manhattan, Miami, and Beverly Hills. Each of them max out ($10 x $9,200) and call 10 others for a total of 11. (111 x $9,200 = $1,021,200.) Imagine the incentive to do well in the AIPAC interview. One call from the lobby and a candidate can collect enough cash to mount a credible campaign in most congressional districts. From Tel Aviv’s perspective, that political leverage is leveraged yet again because fewer than 10 percent of the 435 House races are competitive in any election cycle (typically 35 to 50)."

Thursday 10/15/2009

Inside Intel / Commies and a Pinko 10/15/2009 Haaretz: "An Israeli with links to arms makers here is helping Peru's army fight Maoist rebels... A few months ago, the Israeli security firm, Global CST, headed by Major General (Res.) Israel Ziv, won a $10 million contract to prepare the Peruvian army's special forces for its struggle against the Sendero Luminoso ("the Shining Path") - which recently renewed its struggle… Ziv and his partners in the firm have previously supplied similar services in fighting against guerilla forces and terrorists, including the integration of an intelligence system, to the Georgian and Colombian armies. Advertisement In Georgia, their students failed the test and suffered a beating at the hands of the Russians. In Colombia they succeeded in a daring commando raid, with the assistance of Americans, in saving the life of Ingrid Betancourt, the former presidential candidate who had been held prisoner for six years by the guerilla forces of the FARC rebel group. Ziv not only prepares the army, he also has an influence on the equipment it will acquire. Thus he serves as a kind of sales representative for the Israeli military industries which reward him accordingly."

Wednesday 10/14/2009

Paraguay unveils archives from Alfredo Stroessner dictatorship 10/14/2009 AP: ""In skimming through them, we uncovered some interesting information regarding Operation Condor," said Almada, who directs a museum about past government repression and torture. Several South American military governments are accused of working together to crack down on leftist dissidents beginning in the mid-1970s. Many alleged "Operation Condor" abuses are being investigated for the first time after Argentina overturned legal amnesties and Uruguay elected its first leftist president."

Friday 10/9/2009

Israel's export of occupation police tactics 10/9/2009 The Rebel: "Israel's specialized policing and fighting capacity, which it is currently exporting to other countries, including the US, began to take shape after the June 1967 Arab-Israeli war. In the territories it occupied during the conflict, especially the Palestinian West Bank, East Jerusalem and Gaza Strip, the Israeli government wanted to lay claim, permanently, to specific parts of the occupied area. This desire ran into Zionism's longest-running problem, the presence of Palestinians. As Zionist leader Ze'ev Jabotinsky wrote in 1923 about indigenous resistance to colonial projects, "The native populations ... have always stubbornly resisted the colonists.""

Wednesday 10/7/2009

Man killed by HPD no agent, CIA insists 10/7/2009 Houston Chronicle: "The CIA said it had conducted the searches under a provision of federal law, however, that “exempts CIA operational files from the search, review, publication and disclosure requirements” of the Freedom of Information Act."

Sunday 10/4/2009

Life, health care, prisons and cutting costs by Sundiata Acoli 10/4/2009 SF Bay View

Friday 10/2/2009

Gigantic Scandal!: The Sibel Edmonds Story 10/2/2009 AntiWar: "Philip Giraldi is a former CIA and DIA operative, and is a contributing editor at the American Conservative magazine. He also regularly writes a column called "Smoke and Mirrors" for us at Antiwar.com. Joe Lauria is a New York-based independent investigative journalist who has written for the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Daily Telegraph, the Daily Mail, the Guardian, the Montreal Gazette, the Johannesburg Star, the Washington Times, New York magazine, the London Times and many other publications, and has broken a great many stories."

Thursday 10/1/2009

Georgia Supreme Court Rules Unauditable, Unverifiable Elections Are Just Fine  10/1/2009 Brad Blog

The Judeo-Russian Mafia: the “Cosa Nostra” - From the Gulag to Brooklyn to World Dominion  10/1/2009 M. Raphael Johnson, Ph.D: "On April 28, 2002, a military helicopter went down in the southern part of the Krasnoyarsk region of Siberia. On board was a major Russian dignitary, Gen. Alexander Lebed, governor of the region. Lebed was pronounced dead at the scene. Almost immediately, the international press blamed “heavy fog” for the incident. However, at the time, every member of the Russian military was convinced the death of Lebed was no accident, but rather another hit by the international Jewish mafia, an organization that had long since taken control over much of Russia’s economy. Lebed, likely the most popular man in Russia at the time, was going to build a national socialist empire—possibly with Chinese assistance—based on the massive oil and mineral wealth of the region. Had he succeeded, world history could have changed, and the 21st century would look very different. Prior to that, dozens of anti-Zionists in Russia had been murdered by car bombs or other devices, while none of the cases was ever solved. Only a handful was even investigated."

AFFIDAVIT OF EDWARD P. CUTOLO  10/1/2009 We The People: "73. Edwin Wilson explained that the profit from the sale of narcotics was laundered through a series of banks. Wilson stated that over 70% of the profits were laundered through the banks in Panama. The remaining percentage was funneled through Swiss banks with a small remainder being handled by banks within the U.S. Wilson indicated that a large portion of the profits are brought into the banks of Panama without being checked. I understood that some of the profits in Panamanian banks arrived through Israeli couriers. I became aware of that fact from normal conversations with some of the Embassy personnel assigned to the Embassy in Panama. Wilson also stated that an associate whom I don't know also aided in over seeing the laundering of funds, which was then used to purchase weapons to arm the various factions that the CIA saw as friendly towards the U. S. The associates name is Tom Clines. Wilson indicated that most of Operation Watch Tower was implemented on the authority of Clines."

Noam Chomsky: Coups, UNASUR, and the U.S. From a talk given in Caracas, Venezuela on August 29  10/1/2009 Zmag: "Abroad, the "supply-side approach" has been the basis for U.S.-backed counterinsurgency strategy in Colombia and elsewhere, with a fearful toll among victims of chemical warfare and militarization of conflicts, but enormous profits for domestic and foreign elites. Colombia has a shocking record of human rights violations, by far the worst in the hemisphere since the end of Reagan's Central American terror wars in the 1980s, and also the second-largest internal displacement of populations in the world, after Sudan. Meanwhile, domestic elites and multinationals profit from the forced displacement of peasants and indigenous people, which clears land for mining, agribusiness production and ranching, infrastructure development for industry, and much else. There is a great deal more to say about this, but I will put it aside. At home, the drug war coincided with the initiation of neoliberal programs, the financialization of the economy, and the attack on government social welfare systems, real, even though limited by international standards. One immediate consequence of the war on drugs has been the extraordinary growth in scale and severity of incarceration in the past 30 years, placing the U.S. far in the lead worldwide. The victims are overwhelmingly African-American males and other minorities, a great many of them sentenced on victimless drug charges. Drug use is about the same as in privileged white sectors, which are mostly immune."

Wednesday 9/30/2009

EU report: Georgian attack started war with Russia 9/30/2009 AP

W.E.B. DuBois' Classic Souls of Black Folk CENSORED! 9/30/2009 Islam Online: Published 4/01 - "But there is a patent defense at hand - the defense of deception and flattery, of cajoling and lying. It is the same defense which the Jews of the Middle Age used and which left its stamp on their character for centuries." In the 1953 rendition, the phrase "the Jews of the Middle Age," was changed to read, "the peasants of the Middle Age" (Aptheker, pp. 15-17). Aptheker said that the pressure for Du Bois to make the alterations came initially from a close confidant, Jacob Schiff, but later from Rabbi Stephen Wise and Morris Schappes, an editor and historian tied closely to the publishing industry. Some sources indicate that Du Bois was politely threatened with the prospects of being charged with anti-Semitism and boycotted by the publishing industry should he not make the changes in his book."

Monday 9/28/2009

And It’s Not Only Sibel Edmonds Who Says So  9/28/2009 American Conservative: “John M. Cole, an FBI spy catcher who retired in 2004, says that from 1993 to 1995 alone, he had “125 open cases” of Israeli espionage, representing nearly half of all the investigations carried on in his Global Unit, part of the now-defunct National Security division.” Inside the FBI itself, Cole said, tracking suspected Israeli spies was hush-hush.In a sharp break with FBI procedures, he was prohibited from notifying field offices when an investigation crept into their jurisdictions. “No one was supposed to know we were investigating the Israelis,” Cole said.”

Attorney: Oklahoma bombing tapes appear edited  9/28/2009 AP: "Four cameras in four different locations going blank at basically the same time on the morning of April 19, 1995. There ain't no such thing as a coincidence," Trentadue said. He said government officials claim the security cameras did not record the minutes before the bombing because "they had run out of tape" or "the tape was being replaced." "The interesting thing is they spring back on after 9:02," he said. "The absence of footage from these crucial time intervals is evidence that there is something there that the FBI doesn't want anybody to see."

Former FBI Agent Confirms: Bush State Official Was Target of 'Decade-Long' Espionage Probe  9/28/2009 Brad Blog: "George W. Bush's third-highest ranking State Department official, Marc Grossman, who became the Under Secretary of State after previously serving as Ambassador to Turkey, was targeted as part of a "decade-long investigation" by the FBI, according to an 18-year veteran manager of the agency's Counterintelligence and Counterespionage departments. For still-unknown reasons, the investigation which also involved a multitude of cases involving Israeli espionage, was ultimately "buried and covered up", according to the official. The comment from the former FBI official John M. Cole, in response to recent, stunning disclosures made by former FBI translator turned whistleblower Sibel Edmonds, helps to shore up a key aspect of her allegations. Cole is now calling for an investigation to help "bring about accountability" in the matter."

Maddow on ACORN Again: Details Actual Fraud, Child Prostitution, Murder by Federally-Funded Organizations NOT Defunded by Congress  9/28/2009 Brad Blog: "Maddow continued her long-overdue exposé, by examining the "Defund ACORN Act of 2009", which recently passed both houses of Congress by large margins, after sting videos showing low-level ACORN employees behaving stupidly (but breaking no laws) were created and posted by rightwing operatives. As she notes, the Congressional bill appears to be both unconstitutional, and incredibly hypocritical given that other, still-federally funded organizations --- such as Halliburton, Blackwater and many many more --- often receive far more federal funding in a single day than ACORN has received during the organization's entire lifetime. Furthermore, those other organizations which still receive billions from the U.S. government, were actually found to have committed actual crimes, such as millions of dollars worth of fraud, have been charged with murder and the deaths of U.S. troops, and even involve child prostitution and sex slavery! "

Sunday 9/27/2009

The Rise and Fall of Antonette Haughton 9/27/2009 Jamaica Observer: "After her first degree at 21 years old, she received a scholarship from the Government of Jamaica to do law. At the Cave Hill campus in Barbados, she wasted no time in joining a radical student movement. But Barbados would be special for many things, not the least of which was the fact that it was there that she would meet the Cuban envoy and university professor, Osvaldo Cardenas Junquera. She would marry him, in 1993, as if to say "there!" to anti-Cuban Jamaicans."

“Israel” in Africa 9/27/2009 Voltaire Net: "Israel has long been keen to capitalise on Africa’s mineral wealth. It plans to appropriate African diamonds and process them in Israel which is already the world’s second largest processor of diamonds. And if the composition of Lieberman’s entourage is anything to go by, Israel is also interested in African uranium, thorium and other radioactive elements used to manufacture nuclear fuel. In addition it is looking for new markets for its range of lightweight weapons. It also appears that not a few Israeli military pensioners are on the lookout for job opportunities as trainers of African militias, while other members of Lieberman’s delegation are facilitating contracts for Israelis to train various militias. The huge oil reserves in a number of African countries are also high on Israel’s agenda, with Tel Aviv seeking a share in exploration, extraction and export operations."

Thursday 9/24/2009

Edmonds Issues Formal Response to Schakowsky's Denial of Lesbian Affair with Turkish Operative  9/24/2009 Brad Blog

Inter American Press Association  9/24/2009 Source Watch: "IAPA stands ready, with all its hundreds of cooperating member newspapers, to scream "Marxist Threat to Free Press" if any attempt is made by the target government to restrict the flow of hostile propaganda. In 1969 the CIA had five agents working as media executives at El Mercurio, all of whom in subsequent years were elevated to the Board of Directors of IAPA. The owner of El Mercurio was made head of the Freedom of the Press committee, and later President. IAPA bylaws permitted only working owners to be members, so the bylaws were changed to accommodate him. Then many of the CIA operatives at Copley News Service were made members of the Board of Directors of IAPA. Immediately before the campaign to oust socialist Prime Minister Michael Manley, Jamaica Daily Gleaner publisher Oliver Clarke was added to the Executive Committee; he has now been promoted to Treasurer. At the last annual convention in San Diego, IAPA elevated Pedro Joaquin Chamorro, Jr., to its Board of Directors. At that time he was not an editor or publisher of La Prensa, but the CIA needed him because he had the same name as his martyred father. After his elevation he was belatedly made Assistant Director of La Prensa, and when he was recently added to the IAPA Executive Committee, La Prensa began carrying the IAPA membership credential in its masthead. At the last IAPA meeting in Rio de Janeiro in October, speeches, including those by Vice-President Bush, were dominated by alarmist references to the situation of the press in Nicaragua. Obviously the owner of a conservative newspaper in Latin America does not need CIA money to be against a socialist government. The assistance provided by the CIA is primarily technical, not financial. Without CIA help, the local newspaper's opposition would be openly stated on the editorial page in language reflecting the ideology of the local conservative elite. That would be ideological warfare, not psychological warfare. But the CIA is not concerned, in these operations, with local ideology; it is concentrating on the use of its bag of technological dirty tricks. One of these tricks is disinformation.[2] "

Brazilian Parliament Recommends Freezing Out Israelis from Third Largest Export Market  9/24/2009 Uruknet: "The Brazilian Parliamentary Commission on Foreign Relations and National Defense has recommended that the parliament should not ratify the Free Trade Agreement (FTA) between Mercosur and the State of Israel until "Israel accepts the creation of the Palestinian state on the 1967 borders". This decision is an explicit act of pressure on the Israeli government to comply with international law, and a rejection of years of incessant Israeli lobbying, pressuring for a vote to ratify the agreement… The Mercosur is one of the world's most quickly expanding markets and the fifth largest economy in the world. Israeli exports to the Mercosur amounted nearly 600 million dollars in 2006."

Tuesday 9/22/2009

Adhesión de la IGLESIA REFORMADA EVANGELICA MISIONERA a UnoAmérica 9/22/2009 UnoAmérica: UnoAmerica seria un apéndice de la Fundación Libertad, financiada por la NED y al Faes de José María Aznar, según la prensa oficialista hondureña

Monday 9/21/2009

Cover Story on Edmonds 'Outs' Video-taped, 'Blackmailed' Dem Congresswoman; Alleges State Dept. Mole at NYTimes; MUCH MORE… 9/21/2009 Brad Blog

Sunday 9/20/2009

“Amerika Über Alles” — Our Nazi Nation 9/20/2009 Dissident Voice: published 10/07

It is right to expose Wiesenthal 9/20/2009 Jewish Community Online: "Walters’s documentary evidence on Wiesenthal’s inconsistencies and lies is impeccable. He shows how the Nazi hunter’s accounts of his wartime experiences are contradictory and implausible. He demonstrates that he had no role, contrary to his own assertion, in the capture of Adolf Eichmann. He pitilessly dissects Wiesenthal’s overblown claims about the numbers he brought to justice, suggesting it was not much more than a handful. When you read Hunting Evil, you know its author is telling the truth. And, above all — above everything — the truth matters. The truth however painful, the truth however embarrassing, the truth wherever it takes you. Jews can never be hurt by the truth about the Holocaust and must never fear it, never run away from it. Ben Barkow, the director of the Wiener Library, the institution that my grandfather established to document the truth, has lent his voice to that of Walters, agreeing that a revaluation of Wiesenthal’s contribution was in order."

Saturday 9/19/2009

Israelis Now Taps ALL US Telephones And Faxes 9/19/2009 Palakert: All your base are belong to us.

Friday 9/18/2009

Rachel Maddow: Why Do 1/3 of New Jersey Conservatives Think Obama Might Be the Anti-Christ?  9/18/2009 Alternet: "You don‘t work to move them off this position. You move past them. Look, a village cannot reorganize village life to suit the village idiot. It‘s as simple as that. And we have to understand, we have a village idiot in this country, it‘s called “Fundamentalist Christianity.” And until we move past these people—and let me add as a former lifelong Republican—until the Republican leadership has the guts to stand up and say it would better—it would be better not to have a Republican Party than have a party that caters to the village idiot, there‘s going to be no end in sight. The next thing they‘ll do is accuse Obama of being the anti-Christ and then who knows what comes next on and on it goes."

Racism in America Doesn't Stop with Glenn Beck and His Fans -- It's in Our Health Care Debate Too  9/18/2009 Alternet: "The myth goes like this: unless a hooded clansman is burning a cross on an African American family's lawn, the United States is not dealing with traditional racism. Our country has transcended race, since the election of President Obama, this myth says. Furthermore, race is only a relevant factor when something overtly hostile happens to our leader, who happens to be black (not that any of us notice, since we have transcended the problem of racism). The myth leaves no room for discussions of institutionalized racism, or the acceptance that race and racism are always in the room with us, and not just when President Obama delivers nuanced, thoughtful speeches about them."

More questions on 9/11 by Pepe Escobar  9/18/2009 Asia Times

“I am Obama’s prisoner now” - Leonard Peltier Speaks out After Parole Denial  9/18/2009 Republic of Lakotah

Thursday 9/17/2009

Limbaugh's Racist Shocker: "We Need Segregated Buses" 9/17/2009 Alternet: "In a remark extraordinary even by the standards of conservative talk show host Rush Limbaugh, the right-wing radio heavyweight declared on his program Wednesday that the United States needed to return to racially segregated buses. Referring to an incident in which a white student was beaten by black students on a bus, Limbaugh said: “I think the guy’s wrong. I think not only it was racism, it was justifiable racism. I mean, that’s the lesson we’re being taught here today. Kid shouldn’t have been on the bus anyway. We need segregated buses — it was invading space and stuff. This is Obama’s America.”

Venezuela cataloga como cínico e hipócrita informe de EE UU sobre narcotráfico mundial 9/17/2009 Aporrea: "El ministro venezolano del Interior, Tarek El Aissami, rechazó y catalogó de cínico e hipócrita, este jueves, el informe estadounidense que "descertifica" a Venezuela, junto a Bolivia y Birmania en la lucha contra el tráfico de drogas. "Rechazamos ese informe que raya lo inmoral, es cínico e hipócrita, y lo condenamos", sentenció El Aissami en una rueda de prensa donde también expresó su opinión respecto al incremento que Estados Unidos ha tenido en la producción, tráfico y consumo de estupefacientes, por lo que consideró que deberían revisar las políticas que les "han impulsado a ese fracaso".

Wednesday 9/16/2009

Problems with the recent exhibit, ‘African Presence in Mexico’ 9/16/2009 SF Bay View

Tuesday 9/15/2009

CIA DRUG TRAFFICKING By David Guyatt 9/15/2009 Deep Black Lies

Monday 9/14/2009

Joe Wilson's Strange Friends 9/14/2009 Max Blumenthal: "The controversial congressman has been a member of Sons of Confederate Veterans. Max Blumenthal, author of the just-published Republican Gomorrah, asks: Did he remain so even after it became a hate group?"

Sunday 9/13/2009

TIAA-CREF confirms Africa Israel divestment 9/13/2009 Haaretz: "The U.S. pension fund giant, TIAA-CREF, confirmed in statements to the media on Friday that it divested from Africa Israel Investments, owned by Israeli billionaire Lev Leviev, earlier this year. The statements came in response to a letter initiated by a pro-Palestinian group, Adalah-NY, and signed by TIAA-CREF clients. The fund's investment in Africa Israel amounted to only $257,000, so the financial effect of the divestment is minimal. The news of the divestment came as the Israeli firm was suffering a deep financial crisis, having recently announced that is unable to meet its liabilities to its bondholders. Advertisement Adalah NY noted in its press release that "Despite the recent divestment from Africa-Israel, the new June 30th TIAA-CREF report indicates that the fund continues to invest clients' money in a number of companies supporting Israeli settlement activity including Israel Discount Bank, Cellcom Israel, Bezeq Israeli Telecommunications Corp, Bank Leumi, and Motorola, among others."

Thursday 9/10/2009

Miami's ex-DEA chief charged with shredding documents for disgraced banker Allen Stanford 9/10/2009 Miami Herald

Links between Colombian Intelligence Organisation and Venezuelan Opposition Uncovered 9/10/2009 Trinicenter: "The AUC were a phenomenon that was changed by drug-smuggling....so they looked for cultivation and smuggling zones, so this is what permeated the [border] zone, including today [the phenomenon] is still present in [Venezulean border state] Tachira with [paramilitary group] the Black Eagles."

Wednesday 9/9/2009

La aculturación a que fueron sometidos los negros en el país, no les permitió crear una diversidad socio-cultural  9/9/2009 Aporrea

New Jewish organ theft gang busted  9/9/2009 Press TV

International Declaration against monoculture tree plantations  9/9/2009 Pulp Inc

Video: International Declaration: Stop the expansion of monoculture tree plantations!  9/9/2009 Pulp Inc

Tuesday 9/8/2009

New York police arrest Jewish gang trafficking organs of Algerian children 9/8/2009 Watan: "An Algerian official revealed Sunday the New York city police were able to catch a Jewish gang involved in the abduction of children from Algeria and trafficking of their organs headed by Levy Rosenbaum. Rosenbaum was directly involved in the recent case of trading human organs which raised a storm of reactions in the US and Israel. Dr. Mustafa Khayatti, the head of the Algerian national committee for the development of health and research, said that the arrest of the gang came after Interpol investigations showed that Algerian children were abducted from cities in western Algeria and taken to Morocco in order to harvest their kidneys and traffic them in Israel and the US for $20,000 and $100,000 dollars each."

Monday 9/7/2009

Venezuela's Chavez says hopes can work with Obama 9/7/2009 Reuters: "The leftist 55-year-old leader added in an interview in Italy that despite the global economic crisis and signs of a slowdown in growth in Venezuela, he did not expect his country to fall into recession. Chavez was in Venice for the world premiere of "South of the Border," director Oliver Stone's sympathetic portrait of a leader he says has championed the poor and who has been unfairly demonized by the U.S. media. "I have no reason to call him (Obama) the devil, and I hope that I am right," Chavez told reporters in Venice. "With Obama we can talk, we are almost from the same generation, one can't deny that Obama is different (from Bush). He's intelligent, he has good intentions and we have to help him."

Sunday 9/6/2009

Afrodescendientes y racismo en América Latina 9/6/2009 Choike

Encuentro y desencuentros de los "saberes" en torno a la africanía "latinoamericana" 9/6/2009 RED DE BIBLIOTECAS VIRTUALES DE CIENCIAS SOCIALES DE AMERICA LATINA Y EL CARIBE: publicado en 2005

Saturday 9/5/2009

FBI Whistleblower: Hastert, Burton, Blunt, Other Members of Congress 'Bribed, Blackmailed' 9/5/2009 Huffington Post: "The under-oath, detailed allegations include bribery, blackmail, espionage and infiltration of the U.S. government of, and by current and former members of the U.S. Congress, high-ranking State and Defense Department officials and agents of the government of Turkey. The broad criminal conspiracy is said to have resulted in, among other things, the sale of nuclear weapons technology to black market interests including Pakistan, Iran, North Korea, Libya and others. Even as many of these allegations had been previously corroborated to varying extents, by a number of official government reports, documents and independent media outlets (largely overseas), not a single major mainstream media outlet in the U.S. has picked up on Edmonds' startling claims since her deposition has been made fully available."

Friday 9/4/2009

Altos mandatarios de 66 países asistirán a II Cumbre ASA de América del Sur-África en Venezuela  9/4/2009 Aporrea: "Esta actividad de corte académico y cultural, se efectuará concretamente del 20 al 25 en la sede de la Universidad de las Artes (UNEARTE), y comprende la realización del Consejo de Rectores Universitarios América del Sur-África, los días 23 y 24 y concluirá con la firma de la “Carta de Hermanamiento del Consejo de Rectores ASA”. De igual modo, forma parte de la “Ronda de Saberes, Pensamientos y Palabras”, donde los rectores universitarios de Suramérica y África intercambiarán información y experiencia en las áreas de la salud, agricultura, educación, ciencia y saberes en general, en aras de contribuir en la búsqueda de soluciones a los problemas de las comunidades de estos países. Se estima que participen rectores de las universidades de Senegal, Etiopía, Gambia, Namibia, Mozambique, Angola, Libia, Argelia Argentina, Brasil, Uruguay, Ecuador, Paraguay y Venezuela, país anfitrión que estará representado por los miembros de la Asociación de Rectores Bolivarianos (ARBOL) y autoridades de otras instituciones venezolanas donde existe la Cátedra África."

Scaremongering About Bolivia and Islam  9/4/2009 Counterpunch: "The head of the Islamic Center, Mahmud Amer Abusharar, an elderly grey haired Palestinian refugee sitting in his front office appeared humorously bewildered when presented with recent US intelligence and media reports detailing him among others in a study of “extremist threats” in Bolivia. “The Islamic center is a Bolivian institution, which has no discrimination, whatsoever, against anyone… white like the Europeans, or brown like the Bolivians… Thank God we call on the people to be good to be universal and honest, not to be aggressive,” Abusharar told me. “I never thought that the Islamic Center forms danger to the United States, but who is introducing this idea to the United States public; he must be the one looking to harm the North American people.”

The Missing Link in Israeli Organ Theft? The Autopsy Surgeon Aftonbladet Forgot  9/4/2009 Counterpunch: "Of even greater concern for the Palestinian families is the fact that at around the time the bodies of their loved ones were whisked off by the army for autopsy, the only institute in Israel that conducts such autopsies, Abu Kabir, near Tel Aviv, was almost certainly at the centre of a trade in organs that later became a scandal inside Israel. Equally disturbing, the doctor behind the plunder of body parts, Prof Yehuda Hiss, appointed director of the Abu Kabir institute in the late 1980s, has never been jailed despite admitting to the organ theft and he continues to be the state’s chief pathologist at the institute. Hiss was in charge of the autopsies of Palestinians when Bostrom was listening to the families’ claims in 1992. Hiss was subsequently investigated twice, in 2002 and 2005, over the theft of body parts on a large scale. Allegations of Hiss’ illegal trade in organs was first revealed in 2000 by investigative reporters at the Yediot Aharonot newspaper, which reported that he had “price listings” for body parts and that he sold mainly to Israeli universities and medical schools. [6]"

Chalabi aide: I went from White House to secret prison  9/4/2009 McClatchy

Nuclear proliferation cannot be controlled now - Former CIA agent says  9/4/2009 Nachrichten Heute: published 2/08 - "A former American CIA agent and nuclear expert David Dastych has claimed that main nuclear arsenals of Pakistan, India, Britain, France, the USA, Russia and China are safe but nuclear proliferation could not be controlled now because it has completely slipped out of control. He said some corrupt officials of the US defence and state departments were involved in the theft of US nuclear secrets which were sold to many countries including Israel and Pakistan."

Thursday 9/3/2009

Playing the ‘Anti-Semitism’ Card Against Venezuela 9/3/2009 NACLA: " Authorities quickly realized that the synagogue’s security fence had been cut from the inside, prompting detectives to investigate the break-in as an inside job. Within the week it became clear that the attack had in fact been a robbery disguised as anti-Semitic vandalism, carried out by the synagogue’s privately contracted security team. Eleven men were arrested for their role in the plot, and their statements to the police indicated that the graffiti and desecration were intended to throw off investigators.3 Although the arrests helped ease the anxieties of Venezuela’s Jewish community, the international media pressed on with the storyline of a politically motivated attack. The very week that the Venezuelan Israelite Association issued a statement praising the swift and successful investigation, The Washington Post ran an editorial titled “Mr. Chavez vs. the Jews,” which again blamed the robbery on the government, or, more specifically, on an ugly comment left on a “pro-government Web site,” demanding “that citizens ‘publicly challenge every Jew that you find in the street, shopping center or park’ and called for a boycott of Jewish-owned businesses, seizures of Jewish-owned property and a demonstration at Caracas’s largest synagogue.”4 The editorial concluded that the synagogue was then “duly attacked.”5 The idea that the sacking of the Caracas synagogue was based purely on anti-Semitism has persisted, even showing up in a recent piece authored by two academics in the high-brow Boston Review. The authors claim the attack is a sign of “state-directed anti-Semitism.”6"

Neoliberalism Needs Death Squads in Colombia 9/3/2009 Upside Down World: "In recent years, a variety of human rights organizations, as well as mainstream academics and journalists have found it impossible to ignore the astronomical human rights violations. However, even though these groups have accurately reported on the actual atrocities, Jasmin Hristov argues that in their reports, the atrocities are largely de-contextualized from the powerful forces in Colombia and the US that directly benefit from this repression. According to Hristov, this mainstream presentation serves to mask the fact that US and Colombian elites directly support (via funding, training, supervising, and providing legal immunity for) state repression carried out by the police and military, as well as illegal paramilitary groups that are unofficially sanctioned by the government. Whether it is murdering labor organizers or displacing an indigenous community because a US corporation wants to drill for oil on their land, Hristov passionately asserts that death squad violence is purposefully directed towards sectors of society that stand in the way of the ruling class’s efforts to maintain economic dominance and acquire more resources to make even more profit. In her book, Hristov makes a a convincing argument that Colombia’s notorious death squads are inherently linked to maintenance of the country’s extreme economic inequality. Particularly since the neoliberal reforms of the 1990s that have increased poverty, Colombia’s poor continue to resist their oppression in many different ways. In response, state repression on a variety of levels is needed to terrorize unarmed social movements and other community groups and activists."

Wednesday 9/2/2009

AFRICA Y LA CRISIS MUNDIAL (1)  9/2/2009 Fundacion AfroAmerica: "APORTES PARA LA DISCUSION PARA LA CUMBRE AFRICA-SURAMERICA. A REALIZARSE EN CARACAS DEL 23 AL 27D E SEPTIEMBRE."

AFROPERSPECTIVAS TRAZADOS DEL TIEMPO  9/2/2009 Fundacion AfroAmerica

INVITAN AL PRESIDENTE CHAVEZ A REUNIRSE CON AFRODESCENDIENTES  9/2/2009 Fundacion AfroAmerica

África y la reconversión ideológica  9/2/2009 Red Afrovenezolana: "Del 23 al 27 septiembre se estará realizando en Venezuela la II Cumbre África-Suramérica en la ciudad de Caracas, organizado por el Ministerio de Relaciones Exteriores, bajo la coordinación del Viceministerio del Despacho África. Esta Cumbre se encuadra en el planteamiento del proyecto estratégico Simón Bolívar que impulsa la construcción de un mundo multipolar con la profundización el diálogo sur-sur que tanto soñaron lideres como Kwame Kruma, Amilcar Cabral y Julius Nyerere por solo mencionar un rosario de líderes africanos, que han dado al mundo de las ideas bases sustanciales ideológicas para su liberación y contra el imperialismo. Esas ideas desde las antiguas civilizaciones africanas hasta nuestros días han ido cambiando, pasando por un proceso de conversión y luego reconversión."

Tuesday 9/1/2009

Chávez destaca unión África-Sudamérica 9/1/2009 Giron, Matanzas, Cuba: "El presidente de Venezuela, Hugo Chávez, resaltó la importancia de la unión de África y Sudamérica dentro de la conformación de un mundo multipolar, al intervenir en el Congreso de la Unión Africana (UA) en Libia, reportó DPA. El mandatario bolivariano llamó a incrementar la unidad como única forma de ser libres, y anunció el encuentro denominado II Cumbre América del Sur–África (ASA), que se realizará el 26 y 27 de septiembre en Isla Margarita, Venezuela, con el fin de avanzar en el fortalecimiento de las relaciones bilaterales en materia económica, científica, política y energética. De acuerdo con Telesur, entre los temas de esa reunión estarán la crisis económica mundial, la conformación de un banco que articule a América Latina y África, la creación de una moneda alternativa para el comercio entre los pueblos y un sistema educativo que comprenda a las universidades para "lograr una mejor capacitación de nuestros jóvenes"."

Venezuela ratifica invitación a cumbre Africa-Sudamérica 9/1/2009 Pueblo en Linea: "El presidente de Venezuela, Hugo Chávez, ratificó el día 31 la invitación a los integrantes de la Unión Africana (UA) para la cumbre que reunirá a ese bloque regional con la Unión de Naciones Suramericanas (Unasur), a celebrarse en Caracas el 26 y el 27 de septiembre. Chávez ratificó su invitación al intervenir durante la Cumbre Especial de la UA, en Trípoli, capital de la Gran Yamahiriya Arabe Libia Popular y Socialista, reportó su equipo de prensa presidencial."

Monday 8/31/2009

Presidente Chávez ratificó invitación a cumbre África-Suramérica 8/31/2009 Gobierno Bolivariano de Venezuela: "El presidente venezolano, Hugo Chávez, ratificó este martes la invitación a los integrantes de la Unión Africana, para la cumbre que reunirá ese bloque regional con los países de la región suramericana, este mes de septiembre en Caracas. “Hemos acordado celebrar en Caracas el próximo día 26 (y el 27) de septiembre, dentro de pocas semanas, la cumbre de la Unión Africana (UA) con la Unasur, la Unión de Naciones Suramericanas”, dijo el mandatario."

Sunday 8/30/2009

Israel war on Gaza: Gilad Atzmon - Organ Donation and Theft in Contemporary Jewish Folklore 8/30/2009 Palestine Think Tank

Saturday 8/29/2009

Obama Vows to Speed Hurricane Katrina Recovery Effort 8/29/2009 NYT

Friday 8/28/2009

Israeli Organ Harvesting 8/28/2009 Counterpunch: Places the

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