November 2010

Austerity road to 19th Century

by News Sources 11.13.2010

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Did Bibi win the midterms?

by News Sources 11.12.2010

James Traub writes: It is widely believed in Israel that Netanyahu’s close aides have been demeaning Obama to the Israeli public through an orchestrated whispering campaign and that this accounts in part for Obama’s dismal poll ratings there. And he and his Likud party have longstanding ties to the Republican Party, which shares Likud’s faith [...]

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Baghdad attacks on Christians prompt archbishop’s call for mass exodus

by News Sources 11.12.2010

The Guardian reports: The martyr in their midst was known all around the area. But in case anyone had missed it, a mourning sign had been posted outside Saad Adwar’s house in the Baghdad suburb of Kampsar, revealing exactly where he lived. It said simply that Adwar had been killed “by the hand of a [...]

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Major Dutch pension fund divests from occupation

by News Sources 11.12.2010

Electronic Intifada reports: The major Dutch pension fund Pensioenfonds Zorg en Welzijn (PFZW), which has investments totaling 97 billion euros, has informed The Electronic Intifada that it has divested from almost all the Israeli companies in its portfolio. PGGM, the manager of the major Dutch pension fund PFZW, has adopted a new guideline for socially [...]

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Glenn Beck: inspired by Iran or Lyndon LaRouche?

by Paul Woodward 11.12.2010

George Soros is a Jewish tycoon and mastermind of ultra-modern colonialism. He is also a thug who is deployed as an economic hitman for the British empire. The first claim comes from a video produced by Iran’s Ministry of Intelligence which has depicted Soros operating out of the Situation Room in the White House, while [...]

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US military destroys hundreds of Afghan homes

by News Sources 11.11.2010

You first have to destroy the nation so that you can then rebuild it — this seems to be innovative thinking that Gen David Petreaus has brought to Afghanistan. Flatten a farmer’s home, destroy his source of livelihood, and then hand him a compensation card that can only be redeemed by an Afghan government official. [...]

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Deadlock in Afghanistan: ‘It’s taken a year to move 20km’

by Paul Woodward 11.11.2010

In June and July, The Guardian‘s Sean Smith accompanied US Marines and a helicopter ambulance crew in Helmand province. He described how embedded reporters quickly adopt the language and mindset of the soldiers they are with: All the journalists here are starting to act like they want to be soldiers. They’re talking about “L-shaped attacks” [...]

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The Palestinians of Israel are poised to take center stage

by News Sources 11.11.2010

Seumas Milne writes: In a quiet street in the Sheikh Jarrah district of occupied East Jerusalem 88-year-old Rifka al-Kurd is explaining how she came to live in the house she and her husband built as Palestinian refugees in the 1950s. As she speaks, three young ultra-orthodox Jewish settlers swagger in to stake their claim to [...]

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Juan Cole: The Asian Century?

by TomDispatch 11.11.2010

Reprinted with permission of TomDispatch.com For Barack Obama, midterm 2010 has already been written off as a crushing Republican triumph, but that’s hardly the full story.  After all, approximately 29 million Americans who voted for him in 2008 didn’t bother to stir for him or the Democrats in 2010.  Think of it this way: he’s less a [...]

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Cultures of Resistance: A look at global militarization

by News Sources 11.11.2010

Cultures of Resistance: A Look at Global Militarization from Cultures of Resistance on Vimeo. Share

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From the front lines of the Palestinian popular struggle

by News Sources 11.11.2010

Palestinian popular resistance to the Israeli occupation, settlements and the wall are a regular occurrence in the West Bank. Despite this, the overwhelmingly non-violent protests, often put down harshly by occupation forces, rarely make the mainstream news. This is a video of a lecture by journalist, blogger and filmmaker, Joseph Dana, at the Palestine Center [...]

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Afghan air war peaks with 1,000 strikes in October

by News Sources 11.11.2010

Noah Shachtman reports: The U.S. and its allies have unleashed a massive air campaign in Afghanistan, launching missiles and bombs from the sky at a rate rarely seen since the war’s earliest days. In October alone, NATO planes fired their weapons on 1,000 separate missions, U.S. Air Force statistics provided to Danger Room show. Since [...]

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U.S. to store another $400m worth of emergency military equipment in Israel

by News Sources 11.10.2010

Haaretz reports: The U.S. government is to move an additional $400 million worth of military equipment to emergency storage in Israel over the next two years. The equipment, which includes so-called smart bombs, will stand at Israel’s disposal in an emergency. The U.S. Congress approved the hike last month, which will bring the value of [...]

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America’s power has already been eclipsed in Asia

by News Sources 11.10.2010

As many a conservative American commentator remains obsessed with the question as to how the United States can retain its position as the world’s preeminent power, Pankaj Mishra indicates why that question is already moot: it is a position America has already lost. He points out: India has many more likely and rewarding partners in [...]

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Separation without separating

by News Sources 11.10.2010

Amjad Atallah and Mickey Bergman step outside the confines of a two-state solution whose parameters are supposedly already well understood, and present a new approach that could conceivably meet both Palestinian and Jewish nationalist aspirations. In their outline for a plan, the two states would be defined more in terms of the political rights based [...]

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Obama officials moving away from 2011 Afghan date

by News Sources 11.10.2010

McClatchy reports: The Obama administration has decided to begin publicly walking away from what it once touted as key deadlines in the war in Afghanistan in an effort to de-emphasize President Barack Obama’s pledge that he’d begin withdrawing U.S. forces in July 2011, administration and military officials have told McClatchy. The new policy will be [...]

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Desperate Afghan wives choose self-immolation

by News Sources 11.10.2010

The New York Times reports: “Why did you burn yourself?” asks the doctor. “If I threw myself from a building, I’d break an arm or a leg, but I wanted to die,” Halima answers. “That’s why I set myself on fire. I thought I would die instantly.” As an answer it is more how than [...]

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British deny George Bush’s claims that torture helped foil terror plots

by News Sources 11.10.2010

The Guardian reports: British officials said today there was no evidence to support claims by George Bush, the former US president, that information extracted by “waterboarding” saved British lives by foiling attacks on Heathrow airport and Canary Wharf. In his memoirs, Bush said the practice – condemned by Downing Street as torture – was used [...]

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The fight has broken out inside the Jewish family

by News Sources 11.10.2010

Philip Weiss writes: The news from the Jewish Federations’ General Assembly in New Orleans is important. I announce landmarks every 100 yards, but this is a big one. The significance of the event is that several young Jews calling themselves proud Jews took Palestinian solidarity into the Jewish family and made trouble with an explosive [...]

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Bibi, Tom Friedman, and U.S. Jews divesting from Israel

by News Sources 11.10.2010

Bradley Burston writes: Ahead of a New Orleans address to the General Assembly [GA] of the Jewish Federations of North America, sources quoted Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as having said that there is fundamental support for Israel within the United States. “We may have lost Thomas Friedman, but I don’t think we lost America,” Netanyahu [...]

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First sign of the new U.S. political reality — Netanyahu’s swagger

by News Sources 11.10.2010

At JTA, Ron Kampeas writes: The sharpest signal of what last week’s elections meant for Jews came not from Washington but from New Orleans, Nova Scotia and Australia. In New Orleans, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu delivered a speech Monday calling for moving beyond sanctions to mounting a “credible military threat” against Iran as a [...]

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Ira Chernus: Is Palestine America’s next Vietnam?

by TomDispatch 11.09.2010

Reprinted with permission of TomDispatch.com Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu hasn’t been alone in playing for time when it comes to American policy, that’s for sure.  (Think, for instance, of our Afghan War commander General David Petraeus.)  But Netanyahu played out the pre-election months with some skill and much shuffling of feet, as he officially [...]

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Police step in to protect young Jewish protesters from Jewish mob violence — in New Orleans

by Paul Woodward 11.09.2010

For more details on the protest during Benjamin Netanyahu’s address to the Jewish Federation’s General Assembly in New Orleans yesterday, see the post below. One of the protesters has now provided her own first hand account of what happened. Although sheriffs were in attendance to provide security for the event, in the end the police [...]

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Tribal loyalty versus the integrity of the individual

by Paul Woodward 11.09.2010

(Young Jews disrupt Netanyahu at Jewish General Assembly from stefanie fox on Vimeo.) Human beings are animals, but the aspects of our nature that can most fittingly be called animalistic, most often express themselves collectively. They require the abandonment of a sense of self, a loss of the awareness of individual autonomy and personal integrity [...]

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