In the blazing midday sun, hot and thirsty little children walk around bags of diapers and soft suitcases piled outside a locked community center in the Lower Ninth Ward. Military police in camouflage and local police in dark blue uniforms and sunglasses sit a few feet away in their cars. Moms and grandmas sit with the children and wait quietly. Everyone is waiting for a special city bus which will start them on their latest journey away from home.
The United States current account deficit is roughly $700 billion. That is enough ‘borrowed’ capital to pay the yearly $120 billion cost of the war in Iraq, the entire $450 billion Pentagon budget, and Bush’s tax cuts for the rich. Why does the rest of the world keep financing America’s militarism via the current account deficit or is it just the unavoidable consequence of currency deregulation, ‘dollar hegemony’ and globalization?
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Tagged capitalist rivalry, Collateralized Mortgage Obligations, debt, dollar hegemony, economics, empire, imperialism, privatisation, stock market, Sub-Prime Mortgage Debt, usa, war
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The historic return voyage represents the first time ever that Palestinians have been able freely to enter and leave their country. The Free Gaza Movement will mark this historic moment with a reception at Larnaca Harbour , as will Palestinians in Gaza , as both boats return safely from Gazan and international waters after a calm and uneventful crossing.
“The book describes over two decades of turmoil and change in the Middle East, steered via the history-soaked landscape of Palestine. A lawyer and human rights activist of independent temper, Raja has always found much-needed peace by taking walks in the Palestinian hills – a landscape which, owing to occupation, Jewish settlements and disastrous environmental policies, is fast disappearing.”
To our great disappointment, the alerts of the Georgian Peace Committee and of progressive personalities of Georgia on the pernicious character of the militarization of the country and on the danger of a pro-fascist and nationalist policy had no effect. The authorities of Georgia once again organized a bloody war, feeling the support of some Western countries and of regional and international organizations.
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The West, led by the US and the UK have inflamed the situation by sending an armada into the Black Sea, promised to re-arm Georgia, broken off any meaningful dialog with Russia, and re-invented the Cold War. And in so doing, backed Russia into a corner by refusing to recognize its legitimate rights.
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On September 3, a number of Panamanian civic groups and political movements have scheduled a nationwide protest against the recently enacted five-pronged National Security Reform package. President Martin Torrijos and his Cabinet approved what essentially was a presidential edict, during the National Assembly’s two-month recess.
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Summerfield has spent the last 16 years exposing Israeli war crimes and publishing scathing critiques in Britain’s leading medical journals on the complicity of Israeli doctors. Today, the name of this honorary senior lecturer at London’s Institute of Psychiatry and teaching associate at the Refugee Studies Centre at the University of Oxford, stands out in the much talked about British academic boycott of Israeli universities.
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The SS Free Gaza and SS Liberty left port in Gaza at 3:40 PM, and have begun their long voyage back to Cyprus. Aboard the ship are seven Palestinian passengers, including several children. We were able to speak with Paul Larudee on the SS Liberty just a few minutes ago:
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Several Palestinians who have previously been denied exit visas by Israel will join international human rights workers on the journey. Among the Palestinians leaving are Saed Mosleh, age 10, of Beit Hanoon, Gaza. Saed lost his leg due to an Israeli tank shell and is leaving Gaza with his father to seek medical treatment. Also on board are the Darwish family, who will finally be reunited with their relatives in Cyprus.
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Source: Moon of Alabama
Isn’t it funny how some ‘western’ politician[s] still bluster about the signed ceasefire agreement over Georgia and Russian peacekeepers in Georgia. But they do this, of course, with a purpose. They want to change the accepted and signed ceasefire agreement.
To understand what is happening here, one has to go back to the [...]
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“Last week, I landed in Washington, DC, brimming with optimism. Upon arrival, I was whisked into a separate room. An American official informed me that he had just received information about me that he could not reveal. However, it required him to put me on the next plane home. I was shocked. And I was taken aback at the cruelty of snatching away my educational dreams at the last possible moment.”
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Tagged ANC, cia, gaza, gaza strip, GE, israel, jerusalem, MIT, NATO, palestine, right, siege, torture, un, united states, usa, washington, west bank
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Yehudit Genud hardly feels she is on the frontier of Israel’s settlement project, although the huddle of mobile homes on a wind-swept West Bank hilltop she calls home is controversial even by Israeli standards.
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On Saturday, after 32 hours on the high seas, I sailed into the port of Gaza City with 45 other citizens from around the world in defiance of Israel’s blockade. We traveled from Cyprus with humanitarian provisions for Palestinians living under siege. My family in Michigan was worried sick.
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Tagged AIDS, ANC, carter, china, cia, food, gaza, GE, human rights, iri, israel, jerusalem, MIT, myanmar, occupation, palestine, right, siege, the state, travel, un, united nations, usa, water
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Israel has refused to let Palestinians fish in their own waters for the past 15 months. Even before that, they restricted Palestinian fishermen to around 6 miles. Now, they shoot holes in the boats and in the fishermen if they are caught farther out than about a kilometer.
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Tagged economy, gaza, GE, israel, israeli siege, left, media, MIT, palestine, right, siege, un, water
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It was a day of smiles and a day of tears for me here in Gaza City. Another early press conference, followed by a visit to the hospital which has seen most of the carnage created in Gaza by Israeli bombs and rockets. The doctor related some of the difficulties faced by the population of Gaza. That 50 chldren have died because Israel refused to let them enter Israel for treatment.
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Tagged cuba, doctors, gaza, GE, israel, palestine, right, siege, un, usa, war, water, west bank
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The power of big, transnational capital has transformed not only the economic landscape but also the nature of the way we live — from the food we eat (and where we buy it) to the fundamental fabric of our social spaces, and judging by the level of dissatisfaction with contemporary capitalist society, great swathes of the population are not happy bunnies.
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Tagged ANC, banking, capitalism, cia, climate, climate change, consumer capitalism, credit, crisis, debt, economy, food, GE, imperialism, left, marx, media, middle class, MoD, proletariat, revolution, security state, speculation, the state, uk, un, usa, war, war on terror
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The Russified South Ossetia/Abkhazia vs. Georgia crisis has brought home an uncomfortable lesson for the US/NATO and Western powers outraged at Russia’s quick and powerful response to the invasion of South Ossetia by NATO-led mercenaries and the ‘so-called independent Georgian Army’ – there is no big stick they can reach for to punish Moscow.
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Tagged Abkhazia, afghanistan, ANC, atrocities, caspian, china, cia, cold war, communism, crisis, cuba, debt, economy, EU, finance, food, GE, georgia, human rights, independent, israel, massacre, McCain, media, mercenaries, MIT, MoD, NATO, New York, new york times, obama, oil, ossetia, poland, refugees, right, Saakashvili, Sarkozy, south ossetia, soviet union, stalin, taliban, the new york times, uk, Ukraine, un, usa, Venezuela, war, war crime, washington, water, WTO
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Forty-six international human rights workers are now sailing to Gaza through international waters with one overriding goal: to break the Israeli siege that Israel has imposed on the civilian population of Gaza. Any action designed to harm civilians constitutes collective punishment (in the Palestinians’ case, for voting the “wrong” way) and is both illegal under international law and profoundly immoral.
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Standing on a square about a mile from Moscow’s Kremlin, the towers of which are nearly visible from famous Trimphalnaya Square, commonly known as Mayakovskaya Square, the poet’s statue seems lonely in the hubbub of modern Moscow. Passing right over the body of the “poet of the Revolution”, so to speak, this voyage passes through the intricacies and pitfalls of available choices in life, the artistic choices of the poet and the political-ideological choices of Stalin, a man caught at the center of an extremely complex world historical process.
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Tagged ANC, Asia, atrocities, books, boycott, bush, capitalism, cia, cnn, cold war, communism, coup, culture, development, economy, EU, fascism, GE, georgia, germany, guardian, iri, left, marx, marxism, mayakovsky, media, MIT, MoD, occupation, patriotism, progressive, proletariat, propaganda, racism, revolution, right, socialism, soviet union, speculation, stalin, stalinism, the Guardian, the state, third world, travel, uk, un, united states, usa, war, WWII
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