Arabs Give Neocons a Reality Check By James Zogby, 04/16/11 09:44 AM ET … While much of what has come to be known as “the Arab Spring” remains a work in progress, there can be no doubt that a new dynamic has been unleashed across the region — one that will have a profound impact …
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Apr 11 2011
Mission civilisatrice
A mission to ‘civilise’ the East, again? By Hayrettin Yucesoy, 11 Apr 2011 09:43 … As was announced recently by UK prime minister David Cameron, Britain, Germany, France and the US have begun talks to support Libya’s transition away from a violent dictatorship and to help create the conditions where the people of Libya can choose their own future. It …
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Apr 10 2011
What is trvth?
We’re not being told the truth on Libya By Johan Hari, Friday, 8 April 2011 … Most of us have a low feeling that we are not being told the real reasons for the war in Libya. David Cameron’s instinctive response to the Arab revolutions was to jump on a plane and tour the palaces …
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Apr 05 2011
I protest!
There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest. ~ Elie Wiesel [tube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FNQiL-TPobM[/tube] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FNQiL-TPobM [tube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZbWRfBZY-ng[/tube] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZbWRfBZY-ng
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Apr 03 2011
Amnesty International @ 50
Amnesty International posters – in pictures The Observer, Sunday 3 April 2011 Amnesty has produced powerful posters over the past 50 years. Here are some of the best… La Colombe et le Prisonnier, 1959 A poster with an image donated to Amnesty by Pablo Picasso Prisoner of Conscience, 1969 (Netherlands) Designed by Joop Lieverst, a …
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Apr 03 2011
Dangerous farce
The shady men backed by the West to displace Gaddafi By Patrick Cogburn, Sunday, 3 April 2011 … In the restaurant of the Amal Africa hotel in Ajdabiya south of Benghazi, waiters have started to ask journalists to pay their bills before they eat. This urgency on the part of the hotel management reflects their …
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Apr 03 2011
Until we awake
The Collapse of Globalization By Chris Hedges, Mar 27, 2011 … The uprisings in the Middle East, the unrest that is tearing apart nations such as the Ivory Coast, the bubbling discontent in Greece, Ireland and Britain and the labor disputes in states such as Wisconsin and Ohio presage the collapse of globalization. They presage a world …
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