U.S. Intensifies Military Encirclement of China by Rick Rozoff

U.S.S. Abraham Lincoln (CVN-72)

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by Rick Rozoff
Featured Writer
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Stop NATO
Nov. 18, 2012

With the emergence of China as the world’s second-largest economy and its concomitant renewal of (comparatively minor) territorial claims in the East China Sea and South China Sea, the stage is set for a U.S.-Chinese confrontation of a nature and on a scale not seen since before the Sino-Soviet split of 1960.

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Gaza: They Have Names by Felicity Arbuthnot + Death Toll Mounts In Gaza + 92 Gazan Dead Named

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by Felicity Arbuthnot
Featured Writer
Dandelion Salad
London, England
18 November 2012

Daddy, can people die of fright?
— Question of a nine year old child in Gaza to her father, 17th November 2012

As I write the lost in Gaza has reached 52, the injured 560. The Al Shifa Hospital has reported being close to running out of generator fuel – thus incubators, life supporting equipment will close down lives. Medical supplies are perilously low.

Israel decides how many calories the people of Gaza deserve and indeed what food (as all else) they can import. They now, again, decide who of the 1.6 million fellow human beings in the tiny Gaza strip can live or die.

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Chris Hedges: The tragedy of Gaza, the West Bank and Israel (2009; repost)

Gaza-bombs

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In case you missed this when it was first posted in 2009. Unfortunately, it is still relevant today.

with Chris Hedges
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Dec. 24, 2009

The author spoke at the Revolution Books Town Hall Meeting at Ethical Culture Society on January 13, 2009

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December 22, 2009

In this brilliant speech, former New York Times Mideast Bureau Chief Chris Hedges said, “The Israeli decision to rain death and destruction” on Gaza was aimed at “creating squalid, lawless, and impoverished ghettos in the West Bank and Gaza where life for Palestinians will be barely sustainable.”

The goal is ethnic cleansing, plain and simple.

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Why They Strike

#workers #unite in #solidarity with striking people around #europe// #14n #strike #fightback #fuck #troika #hueglageneral #spain #greece #portugal #italy #amm

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Alan Akrivos explains the issues in the huge strikes by Greek, Italian, Portuguese and Latin American workers. Nov. 14, 2012 in New York City.
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