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July 17, 2009
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Coup Regime Rejects Proposed Solution; Arias: Resolve Or Face Civil War
by Eva Golinger
Postcards from the Revolution
Sunday, July 19, 2009
The talks are finished for now, with no resolution. The coup regime in Honduras, which ousted President Zelaya exactly 3 weeks ago, has rejected the 7-point proposal put forth by designated mediator Oscar Arias, president of Costa Rica. Zelaya’s delegation in Costa Rica had earlier stated they had accepted the proposal, but later said they accepted debating the proposal, and didn’t comment on whether or not they had unconditionally accepted all seven terms laid out by Arias.
The coup regime today introduced a counter-proposal, which would not have allowed for President Manuel Zelaya’s return to the presidency, but would have allowed his return to Honduras, to be tried and imprisoned for alleged constitutional violations. The coup regime and those participants in the June 28th coup d’etat that involved the violent kidnapping and forced exile of President Zelaya, have claimed that a coup did not take place, but rather a “rescue” of the constitutional. They claim that President Zelaya was violating the constitution by proposing a non-binding national survey on the possibility of future constitutional reform. Most strange in this claim is that a non-binding survey, which means it doesn’t legally matter what the outcome is, to consult the people’s will regarding their constitution, is somehow a violent crime that justifies kidnapping, forced exile, and 3 weeks of imposed national curfew, suspension of constitutional rights and repression of the people. Who are the real criminals?
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see
Zelaya says yes, interim government says no to Arias’ mediation proposal
Honduras Repression Intensifies
Honduras coup leader ready to quit
Washington & the Coup in Honduras + U.S. continues to train Honduran soldiers
Chiquita in Latin America: From Arbenz to Zelaya by Nikolas Kozloff
Ethnic Han and Uighurs grow further apart
AlJazeeraEnglish
July 18, 2009
As the Chinese government tries to control the situation in Xinjiang following riots there, critics say Beijing’s policies are partly to blame for the outbreak of ethnic violence.
Fighting between Han and Uighur factory workers in the industrial south is said to have sparked the Xinjiang riots. Now the two groups are becoming increasingly separate, as Al Jazeera’s Melissa Chan reports from Shaoguan in Guangdong province.
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Is The World Ignoring A Massacre of Uighurs In China? by Andy Worthington
Report From Urumqi: Thousands of Chinese Troops Enter City Torn by Ethnic Clashes
Threatened And Beaten On The Way To Gaza + Free Gaza–and Palestine
By Adam Shapiro
http://www.huffingtonpost.com
July 17, 2009
I departed Cyprus with 20 others on June 29 in a converted ferry carrying humanitarian provisions intended for Palestinians in Gaza cut off from the world by the Israeli military siege. Our intent was to bring Palestinians toys, medicines, toolkits, olive tree saplings, and one 50-kilo bag of cement while breaking the sea barrier Israel maintains to imprison Palestinians in their coastal territory.
An independent filmmaker, and human rights advocate, I planned to document the trip and life in Gaza.
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h/t: Freegaza
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Free Gaza–and Palestine
By Huwaida Arraf
http://www.thenation.com
July 17, 2009
Last month I led a group of twenty-one human rights workers on a boat from Cyprus to challenge Israel’s naval blockade of the Gaza Strip. We carried toys, medicine, olive tree saplings, toolkits, a fifty-kilo bag of cement and school supplies on our small converted ferry boat.
At 2 AM on June 30, almost eighteen hours into the 230-mile journey, a colleague awakened me. The Israeli Navy was calling our boat on the VHF radio. “You are navigating towards a blockaded area. You are hereby ordered to change your course. If you do not, we will be forced to use all necessary force to stop you.”
h/t: Freegaza
see
Season of Travesties – Freedom and Democracy in mid-2009 By Noam Chomsky
Video leading to capture of Cynthia McKinney and FreeGaza + Viva Palestina US update
Dick Cheney’s “Executive Assassination Ring” – Was British Weapons Expert Dr. David Kelly a Target?
by Tom Burghardt
Global Research, July 17, 2009
Antifascist Calling…
Revelations that the Central Intelligence Agency launched a world-wide assassination program, and then concealed its existence from the U.S. Congress and the American people for eight years, carries an implication that death squads may have been employed against political opponents.
The Wall Street Journal reported July 13 that “A secret Central Intelligence Agency initiative terminated by Director Leon Panetta was an attempt to carry out a 2001 presidential authorization to capture or kill al Qaeda operatives, according to former intelligence officials familiar with the matter.”
Investigative journalist Siobhan Gorman writes, “The precise nature of the highly classified effort isn’t clear, and the CIA won’t comment on its substance.”
Zelaya says yes, interim government says no to Arias’ mediation proposal
by Xinhua writer Luan Xiang
www.chinaview.cn
2009-07-19 06:02:12
SAN JOSE, July 18 (Xinhua) — Ousted Honduran President Manuel Zelaya on Saturday said “yes” to Costa Rican President Oscar Arias’ mediation proposal of setting up a national unity government, while the post-coup interim government refused to put Zelaya back into office.
Zelaya said on Saturday on Radio Globo that he is in favor of the establishment of a power-sharing “government of reconciliation,” as proposed by Arias, designated mediator for the Honduras political crisis.
He also said that he would go back to Honduras within days despite the arrest order issued by his opponents.
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via: Zelaya says yes, interim government says no to Arias’ mediation proposal_English_Xinhua
h/t: Soa Watch
see
Honduras Repression Intensifies
Chiquita in Latin America: From Arbenz to Zelaya by Nikolas Kozloff
Honduras coup leader ready to quit
Washington & the Coup in Honduras + U.S. continues to train Honduran soldiers
Back in the USA by Ralph Nader
by Ralph Nader
The Nader Page
July 18, 2009
On July 30th, an American manufacturer in China and Korea will officially announce the move of its tool manufacturing facilities to Houston, Texas. Farouk Systems will open a factory with the goal of creating 1277 jobs at a new 189,000 sq. ft. facility in the South’s largest metropolis.
Farouk Shami, founder and executive chairman, says the new plant will manufacture “three of its top selling flat irons and two top-selling hair dryers, of which the company sells over three million a year.”
How can this be? Thousands of American companies—electronic, machinery, auto supply, and many other sectors—have rushed to the communist dictatorship of China in the past two decades to take advantage of repressed labor and the relative freedom to pollute and get away with activities banned in the U.S.A. Millions of American jobs and hundreds of communities have suffered due to this exodus.
Dmitry Orlov: Seizing the Mid-Collapse Moment (must-see)
by Dmitry Orlov
ClubOrlov
July 10, 2009
A recording of the public lecture by Dmitry Orlov on 9 June 2009, at the Davenport Hotel, Dublin, Ireland.
This was the opening talk to the 3 day conference The New Emergency: Managing Risk and Building Resilience in a Resource Constrained World.
Health care or disease care?
Updated: July 20, 2009 added Pt 2
Len Saputo: We need publicly funded health care, but we need more – a system based on prevention
Dandelion Salad 