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Israel on trial
(New York Times. Apr 4. By George Bisharat) CHILLING testimony by Israeli soldiers substantiates charges that Israel’s Gaza Strip assault entailed grave violations of international law. The emergence of a predominantly right-wing, nationalist government in Israel suggests that there may be more violations to come. Hamas’s indiscriminate rocket attacks on Israeli civilians also constituted war crimes, but do not excuse Israel’s transgressions. While Israel disputes some of the soldiers’ accounts, the evidence suggests that Israel committed the following six offenses.
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Noam Chomsky on NATO, US Expansion of Afghan Occupation and Israel-Palestine
Democracy Now! speaks to Noam Chomsky, prolific author and Institute Professor Emeritus at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. As NATO leaders gather for a sixtieth anniversary summit in France, Chomsky says, “The obvious question is, why bother celebrating NATO at all? In fact, why does it exist?” Chomsky also analyzes the Obama administration’s escalation of the Afghanistan occupation and reacts to the new Netanyahu government in Israel.
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Marxist Geographer David Harvey on the Financial Crisis and Neoliberalism
For some analysis on the G20 summit and the financial crisis, Democracy Now speaks to a leading thinker on the global economy. David Harvey is a Marxist geographer and distinguished professor of anthropology at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. He is the author of several books, including The Limits to Capital and A Brief History of Neoliberalism.
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Canada and NATO: Protest this Saturday
(From the Canadian Peace Alliance) It is often thought that Canada is a junior partner in NATO. However, Canada’s contributions to NATO are second to none. They show the extent Canada is integrated into the NATO command structure and its readiness for wars such as in Yugoslavia and Afghanistan. Since its inception Canada has been the sixth largest contributor to NATO’s military and civil budgets. In 2005-06 Canada contributed some $160 million and 114 personnel. A Canadian general is Chairman of…
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John Pilger: Fake faith and epic crimes
(By John Pilger. Apr 1) These are extraordinary times. With the United States and Britain on the verge of bankruptcy and committing to an endless colonial war, pressure is building for their crimes to be prosecuted at a tribunal similar to that which tried the Nazis at Nuremberg. This defined rapacious invasion as “the supreme international crime differing only from other war crimes in that it contains within itself the accumulated evil of the whole”. International law would be mere farce,…
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G20: Who’s really violent?
(Email from Don Weitz) The so-called “violence” of some protesters in the streets of London during the current ‘G20 conference’ is nothing compared to the global economic violence and crises perpetrated by the London and Wall Street bankers and Madoffs who have destroyed and still destroying the lives of hundreds of millions -we are witnessing the long overdue death of capitalism.
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Afghanistan to Canada: Five reasons to march this Saturday
(From the Canadian Peace Alliance) Saturday April 4 is a global day of action against war. The date coincides with the 60th anniversary NATO summit in Strasbourg and is the anniversary of Martin Luther King’s famous Beyond Vietnam speech at the Riverside Church in New York. The Canadian Peace Alliance and the Collectif Échec à la guerre are calling for pan-Canadian demonstrations on April 4 to demand an end to the NATO-led war. These demonstrations have taken on a renewed significance…
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Black economic apartheid alive and well
(By Ron Daniels. ZNet Mar 31) Almost every year I make the Pilgrimage to Selma, Alabama for the Annual Bridge Crossing Jubilee commemorating “Bloody Sunday” sponsored by the Voting Rights Museum under the leadership of Atty. Faya Rose Sanders. Sunday March 7, 1965 was that fateful day when civil rights activists and courageous ordinary people were brutally turned back by the State Police as they attempted to march across the Edmund Pettis Bridge en route to the Capital of Montgomery to…
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Election of Lieberman in Israel: A moral failure
(Mar. 2 Yousef Jabareen, Jerusalem Post) In the election held two weeks ago, the Israel Beiteinu (Israel is our Home) Party, led by Avigdor Lieberman, became the third largest in the country - just one of the results of an election which proved that the Israeli electorate has moved far to the right. Right-wing parties now constitute a clear majority in the Knesset. For those of us who are Arab-Palestinian citizens in Israel, the results of the election highlighted even more…
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Demonstrate on April 4: Canada and NATO out of Afghanistan
NATO’s 60th anniversary summit meeting will be held in Strasbourg, France, and Kehl, Germany, April 4-5, 2009. On this occasion, demonstrations are being organized in Europe and worldwide. In Quebec and Canada, demonstrations are already planned in 10 cities. People here will be marching to demand the withdrawal of Canadian troops from Afghanistan and an end to NATO’s war of occupation in that country. Calgary Speak out: Canada and NATO out of Afghanistan! Join us and thousands around the world to…
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