September 2011

Pepe Escobar: Will Asia save global capitalism?

by TomDispatch 09.26.2011

Reprinted with permission of TomDispatch.com Pepe Escobar, that ever-energetic, globetrotting correspondent for Asia Times, has long been on the Pipelinestan beat for TomDispatch, covering the skeletal geography of energy that girds the planet. Today, however, he leaves pipelines behind to consider the planet they service — or is it we who service them? His topic: [...]

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Israel has rendered its closest ally impotent

by News Sources 09.25.2011

Larry Derfner writes: “Tafasta meruba, lo tafasta,” is a Hebrew saying that means, “If you get too greedy, you end up with nothing,” and it fits well to the arm-twisting job Israel just did on Obama at the UN. By leaning on him too single-handedly to block the Palestinian statehood bid, to pressure countries like [...]

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This economic collapse is a ‘crisis of bigness’

by News Sources 09.25.2011

Paul Kingsnorth writes: Living through a collapse is a curious experience. Perhaps the most curious part is that nobody wants to admit it’s a collapse. The results of half a century of debt-fuelled “growth” are becoming impossible to convincingly deny, but even as economies and certainties crumble, our appointed leaders bravely hold the line. No [...]

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Haqqani network will outlast the U.S. in Afghanistan

by News Sources 09.25.2011

The New York Times reports: They are the Sopranos of the Afghanistan war, a ruthless crime family that built an empire out of kidnapping, extortion, smuggling, even trucking. They have trafficked in precious gems, stolen lumber and demanded protection money from businesses building roads and schools with American reconstruction funds. They safeguard their mountainous turf [...]

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Palestinians give ‘two weeks’ for UNSC action

by News Sources 09.25.2011

Al Jazeera reports: The Palestinians want the United Nations Security Council to decide on their bid for full membership of the world body within a fortnight, a leading Fatah official has said as difficult questions about the move’s consequences and the future of their statehood remained. “Palestinians will wait two weeks for Security Council to [...]

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Inside Story – Is Yemen heading towards civil war?

by News Sources 09.25.2011

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The New York Times’ conflicts of interest

by Paul Woodward 09.25.2011

The New York Times has a “public editor” — currently Arthur S. Brisbane — who is described as “the readers’ representative.” His job is to respond to complaints and comments from the public and to monitor the paper’s journalistic practices. Readers’ representative? Is he selected by the paper’s readers? No. Is he employed by the [...]

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French Jewish fighters move in to defend Israeli settlements in West Bank

by Paul Woodward 09.25.2011

While Israeli authorities are making it increasingly difficult for non-violent international activists to visit the West Bank, suspected Jewish terrorists — members of the Jewish Defense League (JDL) — coming from France in recent days apparently had no difficulty reaching the illegal settlements which they claim they want to defend. The FBI has described the [...]

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The lies Netanyahu told at the UN

by News Sources 09.24.2011

The Institute for Middle East Understanding fact-checked Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s address to the UN General Assembly on Friday. NETANYAHU: “Ladies and gentlemen, Israel has extended its hand in peace from the moment it was established 63 years ago.” REALITY: The establishment of Israel in 1948 was accompanied by the expulsion of more than [...]

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Syria: The revolution will be weaponised

by News Sources 09.24.2011

Nir Rosen reports for Al Jazeera: AJ Editor’s note: Al Jazeera special correspondent Nir Rosen spent seven weeks traveling throughout Syria with unique access to all sides. He visited Daraa, Damascus, Homs, Hama, Latakia and Aleppo to explore the uprising and growing internal conflict. In the first article of his series he meets with leaders [...]

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New evidence of Syria brutality emerges as woman’s mutilated body is found

by News Sources 09.24.2011

Fresh evidence of the extreme brutality being meted out to Syrian protesters and their families has been revealed today by Amnesty International. The mutilated body of 18-year-old Zainab al-Hosni of Homs, the first woman known to have died in custody during Syria’s recent unrest, was discovered by her family in horrific circumstances on 13 September. [...]

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Obama sold Israel bunker-buster bombs

by News Sources 09.24.2011

The Daily Beast reports: While publicly pressuring Israel to make deeper concessions to the Palestinians, President Obama has secretly authorized significant new aid to the Israeli military that includes the sale of 55 deep-penetrating bombs known as bunker busters, Newsweek has learned. In an exclusive story to be published Monday on growing military cooperation between [...]

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September 23, 2011: A historic day for Israel-Palestine?

by News Sources 09.24.2011

Daniel Levy writes: Cynicism and skepticism always have their place, but today might just go down as an historic day on the Israeli-Palestinian front. No, there is no direct or quick fix move from the Palestinian application for U.N. membership to the actual realization of a Palestinian state (and certainly not when one factors in [...]

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Inside Story – Who will support the Palestinian bid?

by News Sources 09.24.2011

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Listening Post – Al Jazeera’s change of guard

by News Sources 09.24.2011

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Mahmoud Abbas’ speech at the UN

by News Sources 09.24.2011

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As Netanyahu blasts the U.N. General Assembly the U.S. bullies members of the Security Council

by Paul Woodward 09.23.2011

Comparing Benjamin Netanyahu’s address to the UN today with Nikita Khrushchev’s boorish conduct in 1960, The Guardian‘s Julian Borger tweeted: “He didn’t take his shoe off and thump the lectern but Bibi just delivered one of the more combative speeches in UN history.” Netanyahu proceeded to insult the UN which he called “the theater of [...]

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The world — except for Israel and the US — welcomes the rebirth of Palestine

by News Sources 09.23.2011

“Palestine is being reborn. This is my message. May all the people of the world stand with the people of Palestine as it marches steadfastly to its appointment with history toward its freedom and independence.” Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas addressing the UN General Assembly today. (Full text of speech – PDF) “susan rice, israeli delegation [...]

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Palestine doesn’t need Israel’s permission to exist

by News Sources 09.23.2011

James Verini writes: In 1988, Abba Eban, perhaps the finest diplomat and one of the sharpest minds Israel has ever produced, got up before a distinguished crowd in London to give an address with the predictable and yet absurd title, “Prospects for Peace in the Middle East.” Predictable not just in itself, but because Eban [...]

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Israel will soon be another South Africa

by News Sources 09.23.2011

Carlo Strenger writes: Research by the Foreign Ministry has shown years ago that the global creative class’s attitudes are critical for Israel’s standing in the world, as it comprises most of the world’s opinion leaders: most serious international journalists, commentators and filmmakers; most academics in the social sciences and humanities, and the majority of Liberals [...]

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Inside Story – Battle brewing over Palestine’s UN bid

by News Sources 09.23.2011

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Palestinians vent anger at U.S. over statehood issue

by News Sources 09.23.2011

McClatchy reports: Palestinian protesters burned effigies of President Barack Obama and stomped on U.S. flags Thursday in one of the largest recent displays of anti-American sentiment here, sparked by the United States’ pledge to veto any request for U.N. membership for a Palestinian state. Gathered outside the residence of Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, who’s [...]

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PLO official: Rick Perry is a ‘racist’

by News Sources 09.23.2011

Foreign Policy reports: A top Palestine Liberation Organization official responded to Texas Gov. Rick Perry’s scathing criticisms of the PLO on Tuesday by telling The Cable that Perry’s comments were “discriminatory and racist.” Perry hosted a pro-Israel rally in New York on Tuesday morning, during which he repeatedly accused President Barack Obama of “appeasement” of [...]

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Palestinians declare independence from the U.S.

by Paul Woodward 09.22.2011

“Israel and the US are one and the same: the US is Israel, and Israel is the US. Israel doesn’t want to give the Palestinians anything and Obama can’t do anything without Israel because Congress is pro-Israel.” That’s how Marwan Jubeh, a shop owner in Ramallah, neatly sums up the situation. If there was an [...]

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