UK government issues travel document to control order detainee Mahmoud Abu Rideh after horrific suicide attempt by Andy Worthington

by Andy Worthington
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www.andyworthington.co.uk
20 July 2009

Today, I received disturbing news from the British human rights organization Cageprisoners, which announced that, on July 18, Mahmoud Abu Rideh, the stateless Palestinian who has been imprisoned without charge or trial or held under a control order for seven and a half years, “was taken to hospital having severely self-harmed.” The press release continued, “The repeated, horrific slashing of his left arm with a razor this weekend demonstrates the desperation this man feels at having been detained for so long on the basis of secret evidence and being denied the ability to leave the United Kingdom. Cageprisoners urges the Home Office to immediately grant Mr. Abu Rideh with a travel document which will allow him to finally find solace abroad and be reunited with his family after years of suffering.” Note: The Cageprisoners report contains disturbing images.

In an Impotent World even the Bankrupt can Prevail By Paul Craig Roberts

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By Paul Craig Roberts
July 20. 2009 “Information Clearing House”

When Japan attacked Pearl Harbor, Japan did not spend years preparing her public case and demonstrating her deployment of forces for the attack. Japan did not make a world issue out of her view that the US was denying Japan her role in the Pacific by hindering Japan’s access to raw materials and energy.

Similarly, when Hitler attacked Russia, he did not preface his invasion with endless threats and a public case that blamed the war on England.

These events happened before the PSYOPS era. Today, America and Israel’s wars of aggression are preceded by years of propaganda and international meetings, so that by the time the attack comes it is an expected event, not a monstrous surprise attack with its connotation of naked aggression.

Towards a Global Currency? by Michel Chossudovsky

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by Michel Chossudovsky
Global Research, July 20, 2009

Towards the integration of the Dollar and the Euro?

With a view to restoring financial stability, World leaders have called upon the Group of 20 countries (G-20) to instigate a new global currency based on the IMF’s Special Drawing Rights (SDRs).

The media has presented the global currency initiative as a consensus building process, in which BRIC countries (Brazil, Russia, India and China) would participate in the revamping of the international monetary system.

Government Gone Mad by Joel S. Hirschhorn

by Joel S. Hirschhorn
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www.foavc.org
July 20, 2009

Perhaps most Americans deserve the federal government they have.  A government that, contrary to the lofty rhetoric of Barack Obama, is pure politics as usual.  A government that is as corrupted by moneyed interests as ever.  A government that is as dysfunctional and inefficient as ever.

A government that should have prevented the current recession but did not and now has spent horrendous amounts of money that has largely been wasted.  A government that has put many future generations in debt.  A government that makes a mockery out of the concept of democracy.

Honduras: Anti-Chavez ‘free speech’ warriors linked to coup by Federico Fuentes

Posted with permission from Green Left Weekly

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by Federico Fuentes
Green Left
Caracas
18 July 2009

The Inter American Press Association IAPA is well-known for its mission to expose the Venezuelan government of President Hugo Chavez as a threat to free speech “all over the continent”.

These brave free speech warriors made a big deal this year about how they “dared” to hold a meeting in the Venezuelan capital, “defying” the repression of Chavez’s dictatorial regime.It turns out that the IAPA has found little to condemn in regards to the dictatorship that has installed itself by military force in Honduras.

It turns out that the IAPA has found little to condemn in regards to the dictatorship that has installed itself by military force in Honduras.

Sri Lanka’s dangerous silence by Suren Surendiran

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Thanks to Suren Surendiran who sent the link to DS.  His website: http://www.tamilsforum.com

by Suren Surendiran
guardian.co.uk
Monday 20 July 2009 12.34 BST

The conflict is over – now the international community must make sure Tamils get the help they desperately need

Many people are in the camps not because they have no other place to go… They are in the camps because the government does not allow them to leave. — Brad Adams, Human Rights Watch

The Paris-based non-governmental organisation Action Contre la Faim ACF last week accused the Sri Lankan government’s presidential commission of inquiry of failing to identify the people responsible for the killing of 17 aid workers in August 2006, calling it one of the “most serious crimes ever committed against an NGO” and reiterating its calls to the European Union for an “internationalised inquiry into this massacre”.

The government of Sri Lanka continues its farce on the world media stage, parading the five detained Tamil doctors who retracted statements they made on the number of civilian causalities during the final stages of the conflict and prompting calls by Amnesty International for an “independent inquiry” into war crimes. Despite the renunciation by the doctors, who remain in custody and apparently under duress, the UN, aid workers and an investigation by the Times have corroborated the true extent of civilian casualties during the final onslaught.

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via Sri Lanka’s dangerous silence | Suren Surendiran | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk.

Obama’s interrogation unit

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RussiaToday
July 20, 2009

The Obama administration is considering setting up a special unit that will interrogate terrorism suspects, US media reports say.

Prescribing Cake to Cure the Health Care Crisis by Walter Brasch

Updated: July 21, 2009 revised by the author

by Walter Brasch
Featured Writer
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www.walterbrasch.com
July 20, 2009

Marie Antoinette, contrary to popular opinion, never said a solution for the starving masses of revolutionary France in the late 18th century was, “Let them eat cake.” But, Sen. Charles Grassley (R-Iowa) apparently said something close to it.

At a public meeting, one of Grassley’s constituents asked him, “Why is your insurance so much cheaper than my insurance and so much better than my insurance?” He then asked, “How come I can’t have the same thing you have?” Grassley’s response was a flip, “You can. Just go work for the federal government.” Grassley, who opposes universal health care, is happy with health care programs paid for with tax dollars and available for every member of Congress, all Congressional staffers, everyone in the executive and judicial branches, and the military and their families. He doesn’t even oppose Social Security and Medicare. He just doesn’t want the masses to have the same quality of medical care that Senators have.

stimulator: The Present Insurrection

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stimulator
July 20, 2009

http://submedia.tv/stimulator/2009/07…
This Week:

1. State of the Future Report
2. Obama Acts on Climate Change
3. The Gangstas meet again
4. Le Boom Boom!
5. Squatting an airport
6. Earth First! blockade
7. EnCana’s holey pipeline
8. Bobby Mac eats it
9. Jedi Mind Tricks
10. Defending the resistance

Canadian miners strike global giant

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TheRealNews
July 20, 2009

Canadian workers fight against concessions at Vale Inco, one of the largest nickel mines in the world

Edwin Starr: War – What is it good for?

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Warning

This video may contain images depicting the reality and horror of war/violence and should only be viewed by a mature audience.

cctaximan
June 18, 2007

1970 Motown Time Capsule video featuring the song War by Edwin Starr

War Without Purpose by Chris Hedges

by Chris Hedges
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Truthdig
July 20, 2009

Al-Qaida could not care less what we do in Afghanistan. We can bomb Afghan villages, hunt the Taliban in Helmand province, build a 100,000-strong client Afghan army, stand by passively as Afghan warlords execute hundreds, maybe thousands, of Taliban prisoners, build huge, elaborate military bases and send drones to drop bombs on Pakistan. It will make no difference. The war will not halt the attacks of Islamic radicals. Terrorist and insurgent groups are not conventional forces. They do not play by the rules of warfare our commanders have drilled into them in war colleges and service academies. And these underground groups are protean, changing shape and color as they drift from one failed state to the next, plan a terrorist attack and then fade back into the shadows. We are fighting with the wrong tools. We are fighting the wrong people. We are on the wrong side of history. And we will be defeated in Afghanistan as we will be in Iraq.

The Molotov: Free

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scart69net
July 19, 2009

Music Video for FREE by The MOLOTOV (includes SCART, KT, MATT & STU). Shot by Tim Kirchler, Edited by SCART. Many thanks to Ania for the venue and all who partied with us on the night. Comments appreciated.