60 Minutes: Deepwater Horizon’s Blowout (must-see)

Note: replaced videos Dec. 31, 2010

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CBS News
May 16, 2010

Scott Pelley speaks to one of the survivors of the deadly Deepwater Horizon oil rig blast who was in a position to know what caused the disaster.

Scott Pelley investigates the Deepwater Horizon oil rig explosion that killed 11, causing the ongoing oil leak in the waters off of Louisiana. One survivor talks about his harrowing escape and what happened after he got off the burning rig.

Norman Finkelstein: Israel is being exposed and feels threatened

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RTAmerica

May 17, 2010 — Israel has refused to permit Noam Chomsky, the linguist and icon of the American left, to enter the occupied West Bank from Jordan. Some argue that Chomsky, an 81-year-old professor emeritus at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, could pose a risk to Israel. Norman Finkelstein says that Israel has been exposed to the world during the Gaza conflict and now feels threatened.

Stimulator: The Coming Intifada + Long Live Palestine!

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Palestinian Loss of Land 1946 to 2005
Info-map orders: PIAG

stimulator — May 16, 2010

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This Week:

1. Oil Flopping
2. May Day Machete
3. P.I.G.S.
4. Betty Cariño R.I.P.
5. Unsettling Israeli violence
6. Lowkey – Long Love Palestine
7. Colonization 101

Britain’s New Regime: The Oligarchy’s Coup Moves Into Action by Finian Cunningham

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by Finian Cunningham
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Finian.cunningham@gmail.com
17 May, 2010

Today’s top story in the Financial Times (London) headlines with ‘Osborne braced for cuts’.

Following the British national elections on 6 May, the new British chancellor, George Osborne, is setting out an array of “painful” public spending cuts, reports the FT.

In total, the Conservative-Liberal Democrat coalition government is gunning to slash £6 billion in public spending in the first year in order to rein in Britain’s ballooning budget deficit of £166 billion.

Notice the way the FT suggests that the government is doing something that is making its high-earning ministers feel uncomfortable – by being “braced for cuts”. Let’s be clear, it’s not these hit men in pinstripe suits who are feeling any remorse or pain. It will be ordinary people and the most vulnerable in society who are being lined up to suffer under this new government of austerity.

The Age of Space-Solar Energy: Innovation in the Public Interest by William John Cox

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by William John Cox
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May 17, 2010

by Helen Werner Cox, used with permission

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The industrial revolution has been driven for the past two centuries by the burning of hydrocarbons, first by coal in the Age of Steam, and then by oil and natural gas in the Age of Petroleum; however, as the flow of these fossil fuels slows down as demand goes up, ever-more-intrusive and massive extraction efforts increasingly threaten the progress of industrialization and the civilization it has produced.

Noam Chomsky on Democracy Now!: It’s almost unheard of, outside of totalitarian states

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Democracy Now!
May 17, 2010

Denied Entry: Israel Blocks Noam Chomsky from Entering West Bank to Deliver Speech

BP and the ‘Little Eichmanns,’ by Chris Hedges

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Truthdig
May 17, 2010

Cultures that do not recognize that human life and the natural world have a sacred dimension, an intrinsic value beyond monetary value, cannibalize themselves until they die. They ruthlessly exploit the natural world and the members of their society in the name of progress until exhaustion or collapse, blind to the fury of their own self-destruction. The oil pouring into the Gulf of Mexico, estimated to be perhaps as much as 100,000 barrels a day, is part of our foolish death march. It is one more blow delivered by the corporate state, the trade of life for gold. But this time collapse, when it comes, will not be confined to the geography of a decayed civilization. It will be global.

Bangkok burns as Thai protest heats up + Protesters brace for Thai military crackdown

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AlJazeeraEnglish

May 16, 2010 — Red shirts continue to stand their ground at their protest camp in central Bangkok, openly defying a warning of a possible military crackdown despite clashes that have killed dozens in just four days.

Al Jazeera’s Tony Birtley reports. (May 17, 2010)

“War without Borders”: Obama’s “Long War” by Michel Chossudovsky

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by Michel Chossudovsky
Global Research, May 15, 2010

The concept of the “long war” has characterised military doctrine since the end of World War II. The broader objective of global military dominance in support of an imperial project was first formulated under the Truman administration in the late 1940s at the outset of the Cold War.

The 2000 Project for the New American Century (PNAC), which was the backbone of the NeoCon’s agenda  was predicated on “waging a war without borders”.  The PNAC’s declared objectives was to  “fight and decisively win multiple, simultaneous major theater wars” in different regions of the World as well  perform the so-called military “constabulary” duties “associated with shaping the security environment in critical regions”. Global constabulary implies a Worldwide process of military policing and interventionism. (Project for a New American Century, Rebuilding Americas Defenses.pdf, September 2000)