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Daily Archives: November 4th, 2009

Destabilizing Baluchistan, Fracturing Pakistan: The Triangle of Jundallah, the Taliban, and Sipah-e-Sahaba By Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya

04-Nov-09

“Managed Chaos” is the proper term to describe the tensions in NATO-garrisoned Afghanistan and the border zones of Pakistan. Afghanistan and Pakistan, which are now being described by the Pentagon and NATO as the same front in the very same war, are tied to the Iranian border province of Sistan and Baluchistan or Sistan-Baluchistan. It is with the tenure of George W. Bush Jr. and his administration that Sistan-Baluchistan, with emphases on “Baluchistan” begun getting international attention through the ignition of a series of attacks inside the Iranian border with Pakistan by a group originally calling itself the “Army of God” or Jundallah in Arabic.

The nerve of these guys! Karzai ‘wins’ anyway By William Bowles

04-Nov-09

Have you ever seen anything more outrageous? Talk about double standards! For weeks the BBC bombarded us with outrage concerning the elections in Iran with wall-to-wall coverage of the protests and predicting some other kind of ‘colour’ revolution, a green one this time (what will USAID, NDI, Freedom House, George Soros et al do, when they run out of colours?).

Freddie Freeloader – Jon Hendricks & Friends

04-Nov-09

Jon Hendricks founder of the incomparable Lambert, Hendricks & Ross vocal trio, singing his translation of the classic Miles Davis track, accompanied by Bobby McFerrin, George Benson…

Colour-Coded Revolutions and the Origins of World War III Part 2 By Andrew Gavin Marshall

04-Nov-09

Part 2 of this essay on “The Origins of World War III” analyzes the colour revolutions as being a key stratagem in imposing the US-led New World Order. The “colour revolution” or “soft” revolution strategy is a covert political tactic of expanding NATO and US influence to the borders of Russia and even China; following in line with one of the primary aims of US strategy in the New World Order: to contain China and Russia and prevent the rise of any challenge to US power in the region.

Carl Dix: No good for people until revolution overthrows capitalism

04-Nov-09

Communist America is an oxymoron – or is it? Carl Dix a representative of America’s Revolutionary Communist Party thinks that political change IS possible in the US. He spoke to RT’s Anastasia Churkina.

Craig Murray: UK/USA made use of Uzbek torture Pt2

04-Nov-09

21 October, 2009 — Real News Network
Craig Murray says UK and USA sent prisoners to Uzbekistan to be tortured

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Khaled Islaih – Re-spacing Zayta: Exploring Transnational Geographies

04-Nov-09

During the last century, the creation of the state of Israel in 1948 and later the Israeli military occupation of the West Bank in 1967, uprooted Zayta villagers from their lands and homes. In 1948, the majority of the village’s agricultural land was seized by Israel. The Israeli towns of Maggal, Sde Yizhaq, and parts of Hadera are situated on Zayta’s land (Raml Zayta). Israel completed its military occupation of the populated part of the village in 1967, after destroying around 70 houses.

“A remarkable failure for a journalist” – 2009 Courage in Journalism Award Acceptance Speech by Amira Hass

04-Nov-09

What is so generously termed today by the International Women’s Media Foundation as my lifetime achievement needs to be corrected. Because it is Failure. Nothing more than a failure. A lifetime failure.