Israeli officials fear that Russian President Dmitry Medvedev will announce on Tuesday during a visit to Jericho that Russia recognizes a Palestinian state based on the 1967 borders. One ministry official said that Russian recognition of a Palestinian state would be a severe blow to Israel that would cause a […]
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[youtube]X1t5anm6Uyo[/youtube] July 2001 ! – U.S. plans to invade Afghanistan for an attack on Osama bin Laden and the Taliban by October 2001. a) https://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia… b) https://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2001/… Sep 4, 2001 – The White House approves plans to invade Afghanistan. https://www.usatoday.com/news/washingt… Sep 5, 2001 – U.S. pulls the plug on Muslim […]
“To Shoot An Elephant” is an eye witness account from The Gaza Strip. December 27th, 2008, Operation Cast Lead. [youtube]JXHB2dnd42Q[/youtube] Urgent, insomniac, dirty, shuddering images from the only foreigners who decided and managed to stay embedded inside Gaza strip ambulances, with Palestinian civilians on the receiving end of tanks, helicopter […]
Producing “reality television” is a matter of economics. Such programs in general cost a fraction of the budgets required for situation comedies and dramas. One doesn’t need a calculator to see how the savings add up quickly: the sets are cheaper, there are fewer paid actors and writers, camera crews […]
20 years ago the United States and its allies launched Operation Desert Storm to fight back Saddam Hussein’s invasion of Kuwait. Has the United States learned any lessons since? [youtube]CEyIsoGLzko[/youtube] Author John R. MacArthur of Harper’s Magazine says the US mainstream media worked as agents for the government, if you […]
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END:CIV examines our culture’s addiction to systematic violence and environmental exploitation, and probes the resulting epidemic of poisoned landscapes and shell-shocked nations. [youtube]b0ErwcSlM8A[/youtube] Based in part on Endgame, the best-selling book by Derrick Jensen, END:CIV asks: “If your homeland was invaded by aliens who cut down the forests, poisoned the […]
Yvonne Ridley comments on the British media’s lopsided coverage of the uprising in Tunisia – devoting airtime to the inconvenience caused to UK tourists and focusing on the role of social media rather than the “revolutionaries who physically took to the streets and faced down live ammunition, baton charges and […]