July 2011

Stephan Salisbury: how Muslim-bashing loses elections

by TomDispatch 07.18.2011

Reprinted with permission of TomDispatch.com Here in Washington, everyone, it seems, has an idea about how to solve Washington’s debt drama. Many Democrats, including the White House, want a “balanced” deal, a $4-trillion grab-bag that mixes spending cuts and new revenues achieved through closing tax loopholes or ending tax breaks. Top Republicans in Congress want all cuts [...]

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Nelson Mandela: From prisoner to president

by News Sources 07.18.2011

David Africa writes: As South Africans celebrate the birthday of their national hero Nelson Mandela all the accolades again praise him as a peacemaker, moderate, and a saint. This image of Mandela is one that has been aggressively cultivated since his elevation from prisoner to president with the first democratic election in 1994, and is [...]

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Scotland Yard chief quits over hacking scandal

by News Sources 07.17.2011

BBC News reports: Metropolitan Police Commissioner Sir Paul Stephenson has resigned following the phone hacking scandal. Britain’s most senior police officer has faced criticism for hiring former News of the World executive Neil Wallis – who was questioned by police investigating hacking – as an adviser. Sir Paul said his links to the journalist could [...]

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UK Serious Fraud Office opens investigation of News International

by News Sources 07.17.2011

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The new Mubaraks: Egypt’s military rulers try to strangle the revolution

by News Sources 07.17.2011

The New York Times reports: The military council governing Egypt is moving to lay down ground rules for a new constitution that would protect and potentially expand its own authority indefinitely, possibly circumscribing the power of future elected officials. The military announced Tuesday that it planned to adopt a “declaration of basic principles” to govern [...]

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Rebecca MacKinnon: Let’s take back the Internet!

by News Sources 07.17.2011

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Israeli military commander says Jewish terror camp in West Bank must be shut down

by News Sources 07.17.2011

Haaretz reports: GOC Central Command Avi Mizrahi said Saturday that the yeshiva [seminary] in the West Bank settlement of Yitzhar must be shut down since it functions as a source of terror that must be dealt with. Speaking to ‘Meet the Press’ on Channel 2 television, Mizrahi stated that several of the Od Yosef Chai [...]

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Bill McKibben: the great American carbon bomb

by TomDispatch 07.17.2011

Reprinted with permission of TomDispatch.com These days, even ostriches suffer from heat waves.  More than 1,000 of them reportedly died from overheating on South African farms during a 2010 drought.  As for American ostriches, the human variety anyway, at the moment it should be increasingly hard for them to avoid extreme-weather news. After all, whether [...]

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Rebekah Brooks volunteers to get arrested — London police oblige — updated

by Paul Woodward 07.17.2011

The Guardian reports: Rebekah Brooks has been arrested by police investigating allegations of phone hacking by the News of the World and allegations that police officers were bribed to leak sensitive information. The Metropolitan police said a 43-year-old woman was arrested at noon on Sunday, by appointment at a London police station. Brooks, 43, resigned [...]

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Rupert Murdoch’s empire must be dismantled says Labour party leader

by News Sources 07.16.2011

The Guardian reports: Ed Miliband has demanded the breakup of Rupert Murdoch’s UK media empire in a dramatic intervention in the row over phone hacking. In an exclusive interview with the Observer, the Labour leader calls for cross-party agreement on new media ownership laws that would cut Murdoch’s current market share, arguing that he has [...]

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How the British police colluded with News of the World

by News Sources 07.16.2011

The New York Times reports: For nearly four years they lay piled in a Scotland Yard evidence room, six overstuffed plastic bags gathering dust and little else. Inside was a treasure-trove of evidence: 11,000 pages of handwritten notes listing nearly 4,000 celebrities, politicians, sports stars, police officials and crime victims whose phones may have been [...]

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$14 million and gag orders for departing News International executive

by News Sources 07.16.2011

The Independent reports: Five days after the News of the World rolled off the presses for the last time, Rebekah Brooks, the chief executive of its publisher News International, walked out of the company with a severance package estimated by senior colleagues at £3.5m. Her departure follows that of the final editor of the NOTW, [...]

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The fight to rescue the Arab spring

by News Sources 07.16.2011

The Guardian reports: The historic revolutions that have rippled through the Arab world this year were in danger of eclipse on Friday night as protesters returned to the streets to profess their disgust at how the movement is being stymied by regimes old and new. Six months after the Arab spring claimed its first dictator, [...]

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Campaigners seek arrest of former CIA legal chief over Pakistan drone attacks

by News Sources 07.16.2011

The Guardian reports: Campaigners against US drone strikes in Pakistan are calling for the CIA’s former legal chief to be arrested and charged with murder for approving attacks that killed hundreds of people. Amid growing concern around the world over the use of drones, lawyers and relatives of some of those killed are seeking an [...]

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Is Murdoch now getting advice from Gaddafi?

by Paul Woodward 07.16.2011

“News Corp is not Rupert Murdoch,” says Murdoch. In this gesture of mock humility, I don’t think the News Corp CEO is suggesting that, for the good of the company, he’s ready to bow out. It’s much more like Muammar Gaddafi saying that he can’t step down from power in Libya because supposedly he’s not [...]

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Rupert and James Murdoch are next targets as Rebekah Brooks steps down

by News Sources 07.15.2011

Bloomberg reports: News Corp. (NWSA) Chairman Rupert Murdoch and his son, James, are under mounting pressure from U.K. lawmakers to take responsibility for a phone-hacking scandal after bowing to calls for Rebekah Brooks to resign. Some people close to the Murdoch family and News Corp.’s directors think it would make sense for Murdoch to relinquish [...]

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Phone hacking fallout: ten days that shook Britain

by News Sources 07.15.2011

Jonathan Freedland writes: This has not looked like a revolution. There have been no crowds massed overnight in Trafalgar Square, no tanks or water cannon deployed on the streets of London. And yet, in their own bloodless way, these have been the 10 days that shook Britain and shocked the world. Quietly and without violence, [...]

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FBI opens inquiry into hacking of 9/11 victims’ phones

by News Sources 07.15.2011

The New York Times reports: In response to requests from members of Congress and to at least one news report, the Federal Bureau of Investigation in New York opened a preliminary inquiry on Thursday into allegations that News Corporation journalists sought to gain access to the phone records of victims of the Sept. 11 attacks, [...]

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Wired publishes the full Manning-Lamo chat logs

by News Sources 07.15.2011

Glenn Greenwald writes: Yesterday — more than a full year after it first released selected portions of purported chat logs between Bradley Manning and government informant Adrian Lamo (representing roughly 25% of the logs) — Wired finally published the full logs (with a few redactions).  From the start, Wired had the full chat logs and was under [...]

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U.S. recognizes rebels in Libya

by News Sources 07.15.2011

The New York Times reports: The United States formally recognized the rebel leadership in Libya as the country’s legitimate government on Friday. The move, made at an international gathering here to discuss the five-month-old conflict in Libya, ratcheted up the diplomatic pressure on Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi amid a continuing NATO-led bombing campaign to push him [...]

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‘Little Gitmo’

by News Sources 07.15.2011

Christopher S. Stewart writes: On August 4, 2004, Yassin Aref was walking along West Street in a run-down part of downtown Albany. It was about 11 p.m., and he had just finished delivering evening prayer at the storefront mosque around the corner, where he had been the imam for nearly four years. Caught up in [...]

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Two marches, two futures for Jerusalem

by News Sources 07.15.2011

David Shulman writes: One of the oddities of life in Jerusalem is that everyone knows where the future border will run between the Palestinian East and the Israeli West—despite the tiresome insistence of the Israeli government that the city will never again be divided. For example, north of the Old City the line will correspond [...]

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On Orientalism — Edward Said (Part 4)

by News Sources 07.15.2011

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My summer at an Indian call center

by Attention to the Unseen 07.15.2011

Andrew Marantz writes: Indian BPOs [business process outsourcing jobs] work with firms from dozens of countries, but most call-center jobs involve talking to Americans. New hires must be fluent in English, but many have never spoken to a foreigner. So to earn their headsets, they must complete classroom training lasting from one week to three [...]

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