Documentary on Terrorism against Cuba to Be Screened in Brazil http://www.cubanews.ain.cu/2010/0625documentary-terrorism-againts-cuba-to-be-screened-in-brazil.htmThe documentary ‘El arca cubana’ (The Cuban Ark), which takes a look at the history of aggressions and terrorist actions carried out against Cuba by mercenaries and the US government, will be screened on Friday in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, as part of the Cinesul Film Festival 2010.
The System and the Drug War Douglas Valentine's "Strength of the Pack" http://spiderlegsworld.blogspot.com/2010/06/system-and-drug-war.htmlThe "war on drugs," is the war on drug-dealers who are not aligned with US interests. If you pass muster with the CIA you can deal all the drugs you want. Whatever is made contraband to control its use is probably something people want and will do much to attain.
As soon as a system is set up in which contraband materials (for which people demand and will pay dearly) are supplied by "underground" characters and blocked by agents whose jobs were created for the sole purpose of blocking supply, you have an unwinnable, internecine “war” on human greed, desire, ego, etc.
US senators urge Obama to stand by Israel http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=294254
Bethlehem – Ma’an – In a letter, 87 American senators told President Barack Obama that the US “must continue” to stand with Israel. In a senate of 100 members, the group of 87 represents a strong majority.
comment-how much more can obama stand with israhell?sit on their laps?penis's?
Child Tortured, His Privates electrified By Israeli Interrogators http://www.imemc.org/article/58997
Israeli interrogators tortured a Palestinian child who was detained and sent a detention near in a settlement near Hebron. The child said that the interrogators used electricity in torturing him by attaching wires to his testicles.
What does VenEconomy mean by Venezuela should follow Colombia's example?http://www.pr-inside.com/print1966392.htmWhat is worse, they dare wish the same fate on the Venezuelan people, when asking us to follow the examples of Colombia.What examples are they talking about?Could it be the one related to vote-buying? The Mission of Electoral Observation (MOE) in Colombia confirmed in its first report on the presidential election held in that country a record of vote-buying in favor of candidate, Juan Manuel Santos.
Are they talking about the reliability of the electoral system? It was alleged evidence in hand that the computerized system used for the elections, belongs to a company in which Santos was on the board of directors three years ago and that one of the current directors is part of the Santos campaign team.
Will they be praising the legitimacy of the results? It is said that Santos won by 69% of the vote but it so happens that this Santos 69% is calculated on 34% of the votes cast ... abstention was 66%.These results, well and truly read, mean that only about 22% voted for Juan Manuel Santos.
comment-also see... CIP Americas Program | Colombia's Elections: Under the Gun http://americas.irc-online.org/am/6707
Chris Herz // Halleluja ... I'm a Terrorist http://www.vheadline.com/readnews.asp?id=93593The Supreme Court of the USA has decided by a vote of 6 versus 3 that anyone offering any support at all to any organization deemed "terrorist" should spend the rest of his or her life in solitary confinement. This means that as soon as the US State Department bureaucracy can label President Chavez a terrorist, or a supporter of terrorists, I can be imprisoned for the rest of my life for offering to him, and to those persons in his country who can think of some better destiny than being hewers of wood and drawers of oil for the empire, my wholehearted support.
Well, I wish to pre-empt this legal illegality. I support with all my heart the efforts of the Venezuelan people and their leader to break with the empire. I support the work of Daniel Ortega in attempting to find some way for his tiny and weak nation to find its own way in the world without kissing butt on Wall Street. I support the efforts of the people of Haiti to end the never-ending succession of miserable US interventions in their country, each one of which, Washington says will bring to that people the blessings of good governance and democracy.
Well, they have had sixteen or seventeen opportunities and it has not happened yet. Instead we see a country looted of everything which can be loaded on a ship or airplane and sent north.3,000 and more Chilenos can testify with their blood that the Washington empire's intentions are far from benign. And in the empire's newest colony, Colombia, sister republic to Bolivarian Venezuela, at least 150,000 citizens have been murdered by their own government in the course of the long war against the FARC-EP, which likewise I am proud to support.
SPINWATCH-Ex UN ambassador: "We will do all we can to take Chavez to The Hague" http://thenakedfacts.blogspot.com/2010/06/spinwatch-ex-un-ambassador-we-will-do.html
Diego Arria, the former Venezuelan ambassador to the United Nations, regretted that some opposition leaders consider that it is impossible that President Chavez can be tried in a court. "It is incredible that the people who have mostly undermined the arguments against the (Venezuelan) regime come from the opposition. They prefer to attack opposition leaders rather than recognizing them"
El Universal: Former UN ambassador Diego Arria reported that there is an organized process to take President Hugo Chavez to the International Court of Justice at The Hague for human rights violations."Definitely, it is possible to try him, and we will make it real. We are getting ready to take Mr. Hugo Chavez to The Hague. No doubt about it," Arria said in an interview with the Venezuelan radio station Unión Radio.
comment-first of all the icj hague has zero credibility,it is nothing more then the imperial nations tool to go after regimes wich are hostile to western agressions and plots to destabilize them...secondly diego arrias,was an ambassador to un from venezuela appointed,by former president Carlos Perez,whos an international fugite sought by venezuela for crimes of state against population during caracazo uprisings,wich killed hundreds,still being dug up and uncovered in mass graves...thruout the bolivarian state...
Diego Arria Salicetti is a Venezuelan politician, diplomat, former Venezuelan Permanent Representative of Venezuela to the United Nations (1991 - 1994) and President of the Security Council (1992-93).[1] He was Governor of the Federal District of Caracas in the mid-1970s. Other positions have included Diplomatic Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diego_Arria
Arria first came to prominence in the first government of Rafael Caldera (1969-1974), when he was president of the CONAHOTU (National Corporation of Hotels and Tourism) for most of the presidential term. He then resigned to support the successful presidential candidacy of Carlos Andrés Perez
In Spain, Arria has been received like royalty with opposition Partido Popular leader, Jose Maria Aznar paying him tribute http://www.vheadline.com/readnews.asp?id=92934 (who's partido popular in spain?oh just the fascist franco era regimes remnants wich are fighting tooth and nail to stop re investigation into francos fascist regimes war crimes against spaniards!!!)(same partido popular that has judge baltazar removed for trying to reopen those investigations)
Powerful enemies (partido popular)are attempting to unseat the 'superjudge' who tried to bring the death squads of Franco's dictatorship to book http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/apr/25/baltasar-garzon-spain-franco
"The judiciary in Spain has changed since the Pinochet case," explained Garcés. "A lot of rightwing judges were appointed to the supreme court by the Partido Popular (People's party) government of José María Aznar in the eight years up to 2004." They include some elderly judges who once swore loyalty to Franco's regime, he said.
PP backs the campaign against Garzón. The party was vocal in its criticism of the Franco case. "It is outlandish," said Manuel Fraga, a former Francoist minister who is the party's founding president. The party had also lashed out at Garzón for his recent investigation into a PP corruption scandal known as the Gürtel case. Party leader Mariano Rajoy has called the wave of pro-Garzón demonstrations "anti-democratic".
the initial article piece >http://english.eluniversal.com/2010/06/23/en_pol_esp_ex-un-ambassador:-w_23A4075251.shtml
Call To Resist the IMF http://phillyimc.org/en/call-resist-imfThe International Monetary Fund and the World Bank have a well-deserved reputation for being the loan sharks of global capitalism. Both institutions are infamous for forcing poor countries in the global south to ruin their own economies in order to further enrich Western corporations. Nations who decline to borrow money at exorbitant interest rates and then beggar their populations to pay it back (or worse, default on their existing debt), are subjected to trade sanctions that have been described as “the economic equivalent of nuclear war.”
Gutting Public Education: Neoliberalism and the Politics of Opportunism http://www.truth-out.org/gutting-public-education-neoliberalism-and-politics-opportunism60754America's political and economic elites have declared a war on working, middle-class and poor Americans. Now that war is coming to a head with the draconian cuts in education, among other vital services, under the economic recession.
AUDIO - Gord Hill - 500 Years of Indigenous Resistance http://toronto.mediacoop.ca/audio/gord-hill-500-years-indigenous-resistance/3794The 5th speaking event of the Kitchener-Waterloo Peoples Summit (KWPS) is highlighted by a presentation by author and agent of social change Gord Hill and focuses in the topic of Hill’s book, and new comic book – 500 Years of Indigenous Resistance.Here is Gords description:
The history of the colonization of the Americas by Europeans is often portrayed as a mutually beneficial process, in which '”civilization” was brought to the Natives, who in return shared their land and cultures. A more critical history might present it as a genocide in which Indigenous peoples were helpless victims, overwhelmed and awed by European military power. In reality, neither of these views is correct.
Interview with Jesse Freeston of Real News http://toronto.mediacoop.ca/audio/interview-jesse-freeston-real-news/3809
Journalist describes march, arrests, being punched in the face by police officer
Welcome to 'Gasland': it could kill you! http://onlinejournal.com/artman/publish/article_6042.shtmlNo, Gasland is not an unsafe theme park. It’s the title of a jolting new documentary by filmmaker Josh Fox, which premiered on HBO a few nights ago. It left me with a sickening feeling about the industry that drills for natural gas. It makes you want to look at the list of countries you could move to. But then you say, hey, this is my country, too, made for you and me, as the song goes, so let’s do something about this.
Multinational chemical corporation Formosa Plastics Group (FPG) has been presented with the International Black Planet Award http://chelseagreen.com/blogs/dianewilson/2010/05/21/conquered-by-petrochemicals-taiwans-disgrace-formosa-plastics-wins-black-planet-award/ Multinational chemical corporation Formosa Plastics Group (FPG) has been presented with the International Black Planet Award at its annual stockholders meeting, which took place in Taiwan on 25th June. Protesters were 'ejected' from the meeting by police and denied the opportunity to present the owner of the company with the award in person.
The award, granted by the Ethics & Economics Foundation (ethecon), came amid protests that started at the beginning of June against FPG's "dramatic crimes against mankind and the environment."
Formosa Plastics Group is one of the world's largest producers of the infamous substance PVC, which is known to cause serious illnesses such as cancer, circulatory problems and birth defects. FPG is also infamous for its scandalous negligence in regard to environmental and health protection issues. For more information on FPG, see this dossier compiled by ethecon.
Bailouts are only for banks, not useful charities http://refugee-migrant-justice.org.uk/Mass campaigning to rescue a legal advice charity has failed to persuade the government to show some of the generosity enjoyed by crumbling banks during the financial crisis. Refugee and Migrant Justice (RMJ), which provided legal support to thousands of asylum seekers, had been forced into administration because of changes brought in by the previous government to the way that Legal Aid fees are paid.
The new system only pays fees when cases are exhausted, meaning payments could take up to two years. As a result, RMJ had a £1.8 million backlog of unpaid fees, which eventually led to a cash crisis. The charity was, thus, not asking for new money but simply prompt payment of legal aid owed by the Legal Services Commission or, failing that, an interest-free loan from the government to cover the gap.
After launching an emergency appeal for funds, £76,525 was pledged by members of the public within 24 hours and a number of charitable trusts and organisations offered significant support. However, talks with the Legal Services Commission, RMJ's main funder, were unsuccessful and the organisation is now in the process of winding down. RMJ was one of few organisations to provide quality legal advice and representation to asylum seekers and immigrants across England and Wales. Over 10,000 clients, including 900 unaccompanied minors, have now been left in legal limbo.
After drones, satellites to monitor EU borders http://europa.eu/rapid/pressReleasesAction.do?reference=IP/10/716&format=HTMLThe European Commission has started negotiations to sign research contracts worth 324 million Euros with 108 successful space and security research consortia, in efforts to increase reliance on new technology for "strong border protection... the fight against terrorism and climate change."
108 successful projects have been short-listed from amongst 732 proposals received in the third of six planned calls for proposals under the Space and Security themes of the Seventh Framework Programme for Research (FP7). They comprise 68 space and 40 security research projects. One of the space research projects under the FP7 is called the New European Watcher (NEWA). Drawing up a "sustainable road-map", the project outlines the use of radar satellites for European space-based Reconnaissance & Surveillance (R&S).
DFID in India VI: False promises http://www.corporatewatch.org.uk/?lid=3661The final part of the Dodgy Development: DFID in India series by Eshwarappa M and Richard Whittell, published by Corporate Watch over the past few months, focuses on the British government's Department for International Development's funding of civil society organisations. This part comprises a film and two interviews. The film, False Promises,
looks at the 'Business Partners for Development' project, funded by the DFID, which convinced people to allow a coal company to mine their lands with devastating results. In the two interviews that conclude the series, two people's organisation activists discuss why groups like theirs should not take the DFID's money and argue for the importance and necessity of international, people to people solidarity. Preceding parts of the series can be found here. http://www.corporatewatch.org.uk/?lid=3655
Why the only way to trade ethically is to divest from Israel: An update on EDOM and VGS http://www.corporatewatch.org.uk/?lid=3660
After Corporate Watch sent an open letter to Valley Grown Salads (VGS), which has a 20% share in the Israeli company EDOM UK, we were immediately contacted by Jimmy Russo, the company's director, who is also the chairman of EDOM.
Canada Flunks on Indigenous Rights, Protesters Say http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2010/06/25Canada was given a failing grade on aboriginal human rights by First Nations groups protesting the G8/G20 economic summits.First Nations protesters and supporters march outside of Queen’s Park on Thursday, June 24, 2010, to bring the world’s attention to their call for native rights. (STEVE RUSSELL/TORONTO STAR) “Canada has failed,” said Cathryn Mandoka, 59, of the Stoney Point First Nation near Sarnia. “Canada gets an F.”
15,000 Progressive Activists in Detroit: Why No Media or Respect? http://www.alternet.org/vision/147341/15%2C000_progressive_activists_in_detroit%3A_why_no_media_or_respect_/It’s not surprising that the mainstream media is paying little attention to the 15,000-plus community organizers and progressive activists gathered in Detroit, Michigan this week for the second United States Social Forum. After all, the center-left political establishment isn’t paying attention either.
Corporate Cowboys http://www.vivelecanada.ca/article/235930837-corporate-cowboys
"Limited liability is at the heart of this rise of corporate power: it constitutes a blanket exemption of a special interest group from accountability for the actions of their companies". Stephanie Blankenburg and Dan Plesch (PDF 100KB).
