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Aftermath of wildcat at Israel Railways

08-02-2009 23:14 | Analysis | Palestine | Workers' Movements | World

Using an inside source, an Israeli libertarian communist constructs an analysis of the picture behind the scenes at the recent wildcat of Israel Railways workers.

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Food is a human right, not a corporate commodity

This is a response to a particularly bad Foreign Affairs article in which Collier, author of The Bottom Billion, suggests that what we need to combat hunger is to throw the peasant off the land, bring machinery to bear on agriculture, and plant GM crops.

It is, as Aal et al note, a full-speed backward vision of agriculture, filled with wild fantasies of infinite production and zero environmental or social consequences. Frankly, it's a Stalinist vision, one that owes more to the dreams and delusions of the 1950s than anything else. In the next issue of Foreign Affairs, Paul Collier presents his solution to the transportation crisis: nuclear-powered flying cars.

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The campaign for the bank users strike begins

08-02-2009 22:54 | Globalisation | Social Struggles | World

With this message from the Crisi collective, begins the Banks users strike

Obama and 9/11

Imagine yourself within the mind of Barack Obama, the first African American president of the United States of America. You are a man who knows how 'the system' works. This knowledge has been accrued at hard struggle, and by a remarkable and unique ability to adapt to any environment because you spent a lifetime as an exotic specimen in every environment, from Kansas to Kenya -- both African and American, Muslim and Christian, black and white. But you always displayed your native nobility -- tribal nobility on your father's side; nobility of spirit on your mother's -- and you were, with rare exceptions, accepted on your own terms. You were born under the sign of Leo, the lion, the natural leader; and your intelligence was honed with great discipline, under the influence of strong women.

Eco-rangers murdered, in danger in DRC, Africa

08-02-2009 20:58 | Animal Liberation | Ecology | Migration | World

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On Mount Gerizim, thinking about Gaza, timeless occupations and endless ethnic c

08-02-2009 20:44 | Analysis | Palestine | Terror War | World

Over the December period, Israel started shelling Gaza in a major offensive against the civilian population who individually paid the price with massive fatalities, dismembered limbs and phosphorous burns penetrating skin to bone.
Sharp blades of all sizes and shapes, lethal slivers raining down slicing and piecing, amputating; arms from bodies, heads from necks...
Gazans were prevented from leaving the strip, trapped inside as the knives and fire rained down.
In Nablus people clung to their TV screens, eyes spread- eagled wide, unable to work as the seemingly endless deformities of destruction paraded night after night.

Obama the imperialist

The first Democratic president in the modern era to be elected on an anti-war ticket is also, to the relief of neocons and the liberal belligerati, a hawk. Committed to escalation in Afghanistan, his foreign policy selections also indicate bellicosity towards Sudan and Iran. During his first week in office he sanctioned two missile attacks in Pakistan, killing 22 people, including women and children. And his stance on Gaza is remarkably close to that of the outgoing administration. The question now is how Obama will convince his supporters to back that stance. Bush could rely on a core constituency whose commitment to peace and human rights is, at the very least, questionable. Obama has no such luxury. In making his case, he will need the support of those "liberal hawks" who gave Bush such vocal support.

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Greek banks downgraded!

Three of the top Greek banks have been downgraded by the economic agency Moody’s, after losing 70 per cent of their share price in the Athens Stock Exchange during 2008.

Pure rubbish: Christopher Booker prize

08-02-2009 16:53 | Climate Chaos | Culture | Other Press | World

Christopher Booker prize 2009 offered for producing clap-trap about climate change.

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Climate change So what legacy will we leave behind?

08-02-2009 16:43 | Analysis | Climate Chaos | Technology | World

I wrote the following article and I would like to have it get a little more exposure than just a letter to the editor in the local newspaper. The problem with the global warming theory is that it can cloud one's vision from a real threat, global cooling. And in so doing can cause great harm to this country.

Full Disclosure or Damage Control

Last week a High Court ruling confirmed Binyam Mohamed was tortured whilst in the custody of the US in the full knowledge and cooperation of the Blair government. Mohamed has claimed that he was beaten, scalded and subjected to sleep deprivation, starvation and other forms of extreme mental and physical torture. Furthermore, British authorities were aware of the extent of the torture that Mohammed was subjected to making them complicit in his unlawful detention and abuse.

Freedom Fighters, Terrorists or Schlemiels?

Condi Rice: “What we’re seeing here, in a sense, is the growing birth pangs of a new Middle East.”

Jon Stewart: “Birth pangs? Yes, I believe today’s contraction took out a city block.”

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Another Study Exposes Bio-Fuel Scam - Corn Dog Update

08-02-2009 15:20 | Ecology | Energy Crisis | Technology | World

A couple days ago, I published a piece listing 14 studies that have exposed the high costs of the ethanol scam. But I overlooked two points: A new study by Cornell University’s David Pimentel, and the latest numbers showing the amount of corn ethanol distilling capacity that has been idled due to negative margins.

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Obama and the Empire

I've said all along that whatever good changes might occur in regard to non-foreign policy issues, such as what's already taken place concerning the environment and abortion, the Obama administration will not produce any significantly worthwhile change in US foreign policy; little done in this area will reduce the level of misery that the American Empire regularly brings down upon humanity. And to the extent that Barack Obama is willing to clearly reveal what he believes about anything controversial, he appears to believe in the empire.

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Towards a typology of discrimination?

08-02-2009 14:26 | Analysis | Anti-racism | Other Press | World

When we talk about discrimination, we tend to blend in racism, heightism, sexism, ageism, ableism, lookism and as many other ‘isms’ as one can think of. These terms describe how people differentiate unfavourably between a self-defined “normal” and a self-defined “abnormal”. Reading over a blog I’d never seen before, I was moved to ask, are all these forms of discrimination the same or are they different? What features do they share in common?

If the pro-war left is dead, what’s next?

Neoconservatism thinking, according to E.D. Kain (via Sullivan), goes like this: The Islamic world is nothing like the Western world. We have few, if any, of the same values and virtually no historical commonality save our shared, centuries-old conflict with one another. The Islamic world, by and large, has none of the laws or customs necessary to develop an organic democratic society the way Western nations have. Therefore, the only way to achieve peace with the Islamic world is for them to adopt our notions of plurality, democracy, and humanism. They won’t do this on their own because of their lack of shared values, and so it follows that we must intervene on their behalf to impose these values, and fashion democracies for them in our image.

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Dirty Socks: Who Will Get My Vote?

'I have some good news and some bad news,' the sergeant in the joke tells his men. 'The good news is that you are going to change your dirty socks. The bad news is that you are going to exchange them among yourselves.'

Water in Bolivia: Defeating the Multinationals Is Just the Start of the Problem

08-02-2009 14:07 | Health | Other Press | Repression | World

Set in a landscape of dry brown hills and arroyos flooded with dust, Cochabamba, Bolivia's third-largest city, is not rich in water. Seen from the air in early September, at the tail end of the southern winter, the land is brown and barren from the ridgetops to the river valleys. A warm wind blows dust in billowing clouds. Thousands of feet below the soaring, icy peaks of the altiplano to the west, and thousands of feet above the lush coca fields of the Chapare to the east and the Amazon to the north, Cochabamba enjoys the mildest climate in the country, but suffers from what geographers call "water stress," compounded here, as everywhere, by climate change.

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Foreign Office colludes with US to cover-up torture of Binyam Mohamed

A High Court ruling by two British judges regarding the torture of a Guantánamo detainee has unleashed a major political crisis.

The judges have stated that they have been pressured by the United States into concealing evidence that should be made available in any country governed by the rule of law. This took the form of threats to withdraw security cooperation, instigated under the Bush administration and continued under Barak Obama's presidency.

Racism in Italy. The hunt has begun (from El Pais)

08-02-2009 10:21 | Anti-racism | World

Increased incidents of racism and xenophobia, some of them characterized by unprecedented violence

World Newswire Archive

Aftermath of wildcat at Israel Railways

Food is a human right, not a corporate commodity

The campaign for the bank users strike begins

Obama and 9/11

Eco-rangers murdered, in danger in DRC, Africa

On Mount Gerizim, thinking about Gaza, timeless occupations and endless ethnic c

Obama the imperialist

Greek banks downgraded!

Pure rubbish: Christopher Booker prize

Climate change So what legacy will we leave behind?

Full Disclosure or Damage Control

Freedom Fighters, Terrorists or Schlemiels?

Another Study Exposes Bio-Fuel Scam - Corn Dog Update

Obama and the Empire

Towards a typology of discrimination?

If the pro-war left is dead, what’s next?

Dirty Socks: Who Will Get My Vote?

Water in Bolivia: Defeating the Multinationals Is Just the Start of the Problem

Foreign Office colludes with US to cover-up torture of Binyam Mohamed

Racism in Italy. The hunt has begun (from El Pais)

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