June 30, 2009
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Carnival: Coup in Honduras won’t affect cruise ship calls in Roatan Since everybody was waiting to know, the coup in Honduras will not disrupt your summer cruise plans. Source: www.borev.net Share
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In Honduras, first you take a photo like this……..then you catch them doing this……..and then suddenly you’re the target. Source: incakolanews.blogspo… Share
June 24, 2009
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When an authoritarian regime approaches its final crisis, its dissolution as a rule follows two steps. Before its actual collapse, a mysterious rupture takes place: all of a sudden people know that the game is over, they are simply no longer afraid. It is not only that the regime loses its legitimac… Source: www.cinestatic.com Share
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Rejecting such condescension, the new type of Palestinian says, “My Palestinianness existed before your state was created on top of the ruins of my people. Citizenship is a compromise I have accepted in order to be able to go on living here in my land. It is not a favour that you bestow on me [...]
June 22, 2009
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Despite all the diplomatic talk of disbanding the settlements as a condition for peace, no one seriously believes that these communities — with their half a million residents, their urban installations, their privileged access to fertile land and water — will ever be removed. The Israeli authorities… Source: www.nytimes.com Share
In a short essay that Abbas Amanat, a scholar of 19th-century Iran at Yale University, was asked to write for The New York Times on the current crisis in Iran, he asserted that what we are witnessing is … Source: www.cnn.com Share
June 20, 2009
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Who, until this morning, thought that ‘Shiraz’ was just the name of a wineWho’s beaming with pride you can now write ‘Ahmadinejad’ without copy-and-pasting it from a news websiteWho only heard of Evin … Source: travellerwithin.blog… Share
June 19, 2009
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Last weekend’s shooting death of a tourist visiting Miami Beach has drawn national attention from Arab-American groups and others who are planning a vigil Friday night in front of the Miami Beach police headquarters. Source: www.miamiherald.com Share
On Sunday night, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu delivered a speech that — by categorically ruling out the creation of a sovereign Palestinian state — ought to have been seen as a mortal blow … Source: www.latimes.com Share
June 9, 2009
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Racist images posted on Facebook sparked a march of 300 African American students in Berkeley, Calif. Source: socialistworker.org Share
Up to 52 civilians killed in Nato attack in Helmand, Afghan president’s office says.
How regrettable. How unfortunate. Bombs away!
(Discussion)While anti-Semitism means, rightly, social death, Islamophobia might get you a television spot, a column in a newspaper, or academic tenure.
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The 400 richest families in America, who saw their wealth increase by some $400 billion during the Bush years, have now accumulated $1.27 trillion in wealth. Four hundred families! During the last fifteen years, while these enormously rich people became much richer their effective tax rates were sla…
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A six-year archive of classified military documents to be made public on Sunday offers an unvarnished, ground-level picture of the war in Afghanistan that is in many respects more grim than the official portrayal.
Shoot, you don’t need secret documents to tell you that… but viva WikiLeaks either way.
(Discussion)Israeli parliament passes first of three readings illegalizing boycott activism or advocacy
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But what we’re seeing today is just the unleashing of a long-incubated racism, both institutional and incidental. It doesn’t emanate from the Jewish component of Israeli nationhood. It is informed by the Eurocentric cornerstones of the country: the belief, expressed by Israel’s founding fathers and …
(Discussion)More then twice as many Oscar Grant protestors came out to the Walnut Creek Courthouse to show that nowhere in the bay area will attempts to justify the murder of Oscar Grant go unquestioned. While about a hundred supporters of Johannes Mehserle and law enforcement attended the rally, their numbe…
Racists for Mehserle
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In the US, anti-miscegenation laws were on the books until 1967, when the Supreme Court declared them unconstitutional. That was the same year that Israel began its occupation of Sabbar Kashur’s home in East Jerusalem. Since then, Israelis have fine-tuned their own obsession with racial purity. Only…
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