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TheRealNews on Dec 27, 2009
Day: December 25, 2009
Rage Against the Machine: Killing in the Name
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mr1001nights
December 25, 2009
With a Chomsky intro and some added images
Modern-Day American Imperialism: The Middle East and Beyond by Noam Chomsky (2008)
Boston University on Apr 7, 2010
Noam Chomsky – arguably the most famous Western intellectual and dissident alive today – interprets former President Bush’s foreign policy actions (such as the Iraq war) in the long history of American Imperialism. He points out how the US was founded as an Empire -contrary to popular perception – and has been driven since inception again, contrary to popular perception – by an “expansion is the path to security” strategy. This lecture was delivered at Boston University in the United States on April 24th, 2008 under the title of “Modern-Day American Imperialism: Middle East and Beyond”.
Christmas in the Holy Land: Protests, Arrests, Santas and Drums
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GazaFreedomMarch
December 21, 2009
Thanks to neverbeforecampaign for this video about conditions in the historical Holy Land. A slide show of images from the near east showing conditions under the occupation and siege.
Christmas in Gaza: LET THEM IN! by Eileen Coles + Viva Palestina convoy reaches Syria
by Eileen Coles
Guest Writer
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crossposted at www.docudharma.com/diary
Dec. 25, 2009
Right now, 1362 activist marchers are attempting to get into Gaza from Egypt with humanitarian aid (food and medical supplies) and toys for children.
The Egyptian government has closed the border and will not allow anyone through. CodePink is one of the organizations supporting the march, and has requested that people who want to show support call the Egyptian Embassies both in Cairo and/or Washington DC. Desiree is there with beanie babies for the children. Desiree and Liz got back to me 24 hours ago and said no, they are still not in.
On the Edge with Max Keiser: Healthcare, Lobbyists and Peak Oil
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MaxKeiserTV
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At Christmas, Ex-Guantánamo Prisoner Is Reunited With His Family by Andy Worthington
by Andy Worthington
Featured Writer
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25 December 2009
On December 21, the following article, written by Kevin Cullen, was published by the Boston Globe. It brings up to date the story of Oybek Jabbarov, an innocent man from Uzbekistan, held in Guantánamo for nearly eight years, who was finally freed in September and given a new home in Ireland. As I reported at the time, Jabbarov had been cleared for release by a military review board in 2007, but was unable to return home because of fears that he would be tortured if he was repatriated. It took almost three years for the US State Department to find him a new home, but even after being freed it seemed that Jabbarov’s life had been irredeemably ruined through his lost years in Guantánamo, because he had no idea where his wife and two young sons were, and no way of knowing if he would ever be reunited with them. In his article, Kevin Cullen explained what happened to Oybek Jabbarov’s wife and sons, and I can think of no better way to mark Christmas than to cross-post his article.
A Holiday Reunion
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Obama’s Role in the Militarization of Mexico by Mike Whitney
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by Mike Whitney
Global Research, December 24, 2009
An Interview with Laura Carlsen
“Militarization is not the way to deal with Mexico’s political crisis.” — Laura Carlsen
Mike Whitney— Will you explain what Plan Mexico is and how it relates to the North American Free Trade Agreement? (NAFTA)
Laura Carlsen: Plan Mexico, also called the Merida Initiative, is a three-year regional security cooperation plan devised by the former Bush administration and presented in October of 2007. The plan grew out of the extension of NAFTA into security areas, known as the Security and Prosperity Partnership. Originally Plan Mexico was to be announced in the context of the SPP trinational summit but was delayed. It is presented as a petition of the Mexican president Felipe Calderon for US help in the war on drugs but in reality it was designed in Washington as a way to “push out the borders” of the US security perimeter, that is, that Mexico would take on US security priorities including policing its southern border and allowing US companies and agents into Mexico’s intelligence and security operations.
Does Economics Deserve a Nobel Prize? by Michael Hudson (1970)
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By Michael Hudson
Global Research, December 24, 2009
– 1970-12-10
Reality & Relevance rather than “Purity” & Elegance are the Burning Issues in Economics Today
It is bad enough that the field of psychology has for so long been a non-social science, viewing the motive forces of personality as deriving from internal psychic experiences rather than from man’s interaction with his social setting. Similarly in the field of economics: since its “utilitarian” revolution about a century ago, this discipline has also abandoned its analysis of the objective world and its political, economic productive relations in favor of more introverted, utilitarian and welfare-oriented norms. Moral speculations concerning mathematical psychics have come to displace the once-social science of political economy.
Dennis Kucinich on the healthcare reform bill on BBC News
Is war necessary for progress?
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Robert Pollin: It’s not war that creates technological development, it’s the state investment
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