A Real American Hero, Mark Klein: Wiring Up The Big Brother Machine… and Fighting It

with Peter B. Collins and Sibel Edmonds
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The Peter B Collins Show
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29 December 2009

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Is the United States of America a leading terrorist state? (Noam Chomsky interview; 2002)

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December 03, 2008

Noam Chomsky interview 9-11 CBC/Hot Type/Evan Solomon

April 16, 2002

Transcript:http://www.cbc.ca/hottype/season02-03/middleeast_chomsky.html

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Noam Chomsky: Want to reduce terrorism, don’t participate in it (2002) + Power and Terror (2002)

Hundreds Protest in Cairo + Tell Egypt you stand in solidarity with Gaza

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Democracy Now!
Dec. 29, 2009

Egypt Denies Gaza Freedom March Access to Border, Hundreds Protest in Cairo

In Egypt, hundreds of solidarity activists from around the world are being prevented by the Egyptian government from entering Gaza. Dubbed the Gaza Freedom March, organizers were planning to cross the border last Sunday to commemorate the first anniversary of Israel’s assault on Gaza that killed 1,400 Palestinians and 13 Israelis. We get a report.

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Tell Egypt you stand in solidarity with Gaza

The Chilcot ‘Inquiry’: a theatre of the absurd By William Bowles

By William Bowles
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29 December 2009

Crossposted at Strategic Culture Foundation, 16 December 2009

Why does the extermination of an entire culture cause not a ripple in our public discourse? The answer is obvious: we don’t have any kind of discourse with those who wield power. The Chilcott ‘Inquiry’ demonstrates this down to a tee. It’s brazen in its disregard for the reality of the crimes the British state has committed in Iraq and continues to commit in Afghanistan. And brazen in the way it scoots a lot of very guilty-looking ‘witnesses’ through the process as painlessly as possible. How has this come to pass?

U.S. Citizens attacked by Egyptian Riot Police in Cairo outside of U.S. Embassy by Cindy Sheehan

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Dec. 29, 2009

One of my friends, Joshua Smith, just texted me from Cairo and said that some U.S. citizens of the Gaza Freedom March went to the U.S. Embassy today there to try and implore the staff there to intercede on behalf of the March to help get them into Gaza–they were not so warmly welcomed.

Recently, almost 1400 people from around the globe met in Cairo to march into Gaza to join Gazans in solidarity and to help expose their plight after years of blockade and exactly a year after the violent attack in what Israel called “Operation Cast Lead” that killed hundreds of innocent Gazan civilians. So far the Marchers have been denied access (Egypt closed the Rafah crossing) and their gatherings have become increasingly and more violently suppressed.

Capitalism: A Love Story (2009; must-see)

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With both humor and outrage, Michael Moore’s Capitalism: A Love Story explores a taboo question: What is the price that America pays for its love of capitalism? Years ago, that love seemed so innocent. Today, however, the American dream is looking more like a nightmare as families pay the price with their jobs, their homes and their savings. Moore takes us into the homes of ordinary people whose lives have been turned upside down; and he goes looking for explanations in Washington, DC and elsewhere. What he finds are the all-too-familiar symptoms of a love affair gone astray: lies, abuse, betrayal…and 14,000 jobs being lost every day.

Fatah warns of intifada against Mahmoud Abbas

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29 December 2009


1) Fatah warns of intifada against Mahmoud Abbas (28 December 2009)
2) Abbas: As long as I’m in office, I will not allow a new Intifada (22 December 2009)

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excerpts from: Fatah warns of intifada against PA

by Khaled Abu Thoameh, Jerusalem Post, 28 December 2009

The killing of the three Fatah operatives in Nablus by the IDF [Israeli Defense Forces] over the weekend could trigger a third intifada, Fatah officials warned on Sunday. But the new intifada, they said, would be different from the first two – this time it would be directed against the Palestinian Authority [i.e. Mahmoud Abbas’ Fatah administration in the West Bank].

During the funerals of the three men, all veteran members and leaders of Fatah’s armed wing, the Aksa Martyrs Brigades, thousands of Palestinians chanted slogans accusing the Palestinian Authority of collusion with Israel and calling for an end to security coordination with Israel and the dismantling of the Palestinian Authority. […] It was, in the words of a local journalist, “one of the biggest anti-Palestinian Authority demonstrations” in many years.

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http://online.wsj.com/article/SB126144119169100897.html



excerpt from: Transcript: Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas

by Charles Levinson, Wall Street Journal, 22 December 2009

“I will not allow a new intifada. As long as I’m in office, I will not allow anybody to start a new intifada. Never never.”

[Fatah leader Mahmoud Abbas, interwiew with the Wall Street Journal, 20 December 2009]

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IDF praises PA security performance

by Yaakov Katz, Jerusalem Post, 27 December 2009


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CIA present in Yemen since 2008: Report

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28 Dec 2009

The US has opened a covert front against ‘al-Qaeda’ in Yemen by offering support to the country’s military operations, a US intelligence sources says.

Citing an unnamed former CIA official, The New York Times reported late on Sunday that about a year ago the CIA sent many field operatives with counterterrorism experience to the country.

The report revealed that some of the most secretive special operations commandos have begun training Yemeni security forces.

The paper noted that the Pentagon will be spending more than USD 70 million over the next 18 months to train and equip Yemeni military, Interior Ministry and coast guard forces.

Yemen’s national security chief had earlier declared that the country was receiving assistance from the US in the crackdown on what he called “al-Qaeda operatives” in southern Yemen.

Mohamed al-Anisi had told the Saudi Arabian newspaper Okaz that the Yemeni forces were cooperating with the US military on attacks against al-Qaeda camps.

The developments come as international aid agencies and some UN bodies including the United Nations Children’s Fund and the UN High Commissioner for Refugees have voiced concern over the dire condition of the Yemeni civilians, who have become the main victims of the conflict in the country.

The United Nations, which according to its charter is set up “to take effective collective measures for the prevention and removal of threats to peace, and for the suppression of acts of aggression or other breaches of the peace,” has failed to adopt any concrete measures to help end the bloody war.

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Disturbing questions in thwarted US plane bombing + The Yemen War

Saudi warplanes rain ‘1,011 missiles’ on Yemen + ‘US aided’ deadly Yemen raids

Rachel Maddow: America’s War With Yemen

Robert Johnson: Crony capitalism unchanged + Wall St: More complicated means more profitable

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Robert Johnson: Only public money pushed the economy back from the cliff; it can all happen again

Dr. Robert A. Johnson currently serves on the United Nations Commission of Experts on International Monetary Reform under the Chairmanship of Joseph Stiglitz. He is also the Director of Economic Policy for the Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt Institute (FERI) in New York. Dr. Johnson was previously a managing director at Soros Fund Management where he managed a global currency, bond and equity portfolio specializing in emerging markets. Prior to that time, Dr. Johnson was a managing director of Bankers Trust Company managing a global currency fund. He also served as Chief Economist of the U.S. Senate Banking Committee under the leadership of Chairman William Proxmire (D. Wisconsin) and before that, he was Senior Economist of the U.S. Senate Budget Committee under the leadership of Chairman Pete Domenici (R. New Mexico).