Tribute to Howard Zinn with Ralph Nader, Amy Goodman and more

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Tribute to Howard Zinn
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CSPAN Book TV
Feb. 21, 2010

Friends of Howard Zinn gathered at Busboys and Poets in Washington, DC to pay tribute to the historian and political activist who died on January 27, 2010.  The speakers include Ralph Nader, Marian Wright Edelman, Amy Goodman, Dave Zirin, Bernice Johnson Reagon, Phyllis Bennis, Geoffrey Millard, Richard Rubenstein, and Busboys and Poets’ owner Andy Shallal.  The program also includes music by Bernice Johnson Reagon and Emma’s Revolution, readings from Howard Zinn’s books.

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Bennis: What is withdrawing ‘responsibly’ from Iraq?

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Phyllis Bennis: Israeli troops admit abuses in Gaza

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Bennis: Israeli soldiers come forward saying they had no restrictions rules of engagement

Don’t cut and run, but get out of Iraq now

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Non-combat combat troops

Bennis: Rebranding will not change fact that US troops in Iraq will be involved in combat

Jewish Peace News: Letters etched in lead

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Jewish Peace News

1.9.09

Contents:

1) Letter from Vanessa Farr

2) Letter from Luisa Morgantini

3) Letter from Khalil Abu Shammala

4) Link to Social TV report

5) Link to The Real News interview

While Israel continues to deny world journalists any access to the area and people under its cynically named “Molten Lead” attack on Gaza, flouting freedom of information among the many other basic rights it is violating, people around the world are resorting to receiving and spreading information in the tried and proven form of letters—personal ones to friends and family or open, public letters to politicians and elected representatives. Often coming from or transmitted by known contacts such as friends, friends of friends, acquaintances, these letters embody the reliability of personal voice and personal connections. Many of them are widely disseminated over the web by their original recipients.

Jewish Peace News: Media and the war on Gaza

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Jewish Peace News
Jan 7, 2009

Contents:

1) Media coverage: NY Times article

2) Media coverage: FAIR report

3) Amira Hass on the collapse of the infrastructure

4) The Times of London on Israel’s use of white phosphorus shells

As the death toll approaches 700, the Israeli military continues to defy an Israeli Supreme Court ruling that foreign correspondents must be allowed into Gaza. As the New York Times reports (first piece below), foreign journalists are barred from seeing the scenes of carnage inside Gaza, while being given full access to Israeli government propaganda as well as guided tours of sites where Palestinian missiles have fallen.

The success of the Israeli government’s concerted efforts to monopolize the narrative are apparent – the media watchdog group, FAIR, has issued a report criticizing coverage of the fighting (second piece below) and in particular the tendency of the press to blame the conflict on missile attacks by Hamas, often even while citing facts that put into question this deceptive chronology.

Bennis: Calling a TV station pro-Hamas does not make it a military target

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Bennis: Calling a TV station pro-Hamas does not make it a military target Pt.2/2

Historical amnesia and Gaza + Peace activist report from Gaza

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US Blocks UN Security Council Vote Calling for Immediate Ceasefire in Gaza

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Democracy Now!
1.5.09

US Blocks UN Security Council Vote Calling for Immediate Ceasefire in Gaza

On the diplomatic front, the Security Council is meeting again today to discuss the crisis, after Sunday’s emergency session did not produce a ceasefire resolution. On Saturday, the United States blocked a UN Security Council statement calling for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza. Egypt, meanwhile, is hosting meetings for a European-backed ceasefire today. [includes rush transcript]

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Jewish Peace News: Analyses and update on Gaza

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JPN Post: List of contents:

– Links to information about Israeli resistance from Rela Mazali

– 3 analyses:

1) “Has Israel Revived Hamas?” By Daoud Kuttab in the Washington Post

2) A briefing on the Gaza crisis by Phyllis Bennis from ZNet

3) “Palestine’s Guernica and the Myths of Israeli Victimhood” by Mustafa Barghouthi

– A report on the condition of the hospitals in Gaza

Rela Mazali writes:

Absent from Israeli and most other TV networks are the ongoing activism and protest inside Israel against Israel’s siege and, now, war on Gaza. Immediately below is a link to a televised report on two of many such actions. In Hebrew and Arabic with no English (or other) subtitles, they nevertheless offer glimpses of current activism in Israel. The first segment documents a demonstration in Tel Aviv and bits of the police reaction. The second was recorded at a public meeting, just hours before the demonstration, addressed jointly by Palestinian and Israeli members of Combatants for Peace. The reports were created by the alternative media group, Social TV (for details on the group see: http://www.tv.social.org.il/ful-profile-social-tv-eng.rtf):
http://www.tv.social.org.il/medini/stv-aza-oferet-27-12-08.htm

[DS editor’s note: English subtitles on second link]

Will Obama-Biden question military dominance?

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New tag/category for Dennis Kucinich’s posts: Kucinich-Dennis J.

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The Obama-Biden worldview with Eric Margolis, Phyllis Bennis and Paul Heinbecker Pt2

US military toll in Iraq hits 4000 & Iran (video)

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Phyllis Bennis: Cheney visit in Middle East intended to isolate Iran and prepare possible war

Report critical of army in Iraq suppressed (video)

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Phyllis Bennis is a Senior Analyst at the Institute for Policy Studies in Washington DC. She is the author of Before and After: US Foreign Policy and the September 11 Crisis and Challenging Empire: How People, Governments, and the UN Defy US Power.