July 17, 2009: Author: Dauna Coulter | Editor: Dr. Tony Phillips Forty years ago, Apollo astronauts set out on a daring adventure to explore the Moon. They ended up discovering their own planet. How do you discover Earth … by leaving it? It all started with a single photograph: Apollo 8 […]
Apartheid five years on By Khalid Amayreh July 17, 2009 at 7:22 pm The World Court ruled Israel’s annexation wall in the West Bank illegal in 2004, but with no pressure coming from the international community it has not been dismantled, writes Khaled Amayreh in the occupied Palestinian territories […]
Tim Jackson 16 Jul 2009 Every society clings to a myth by which it lives. Ours is the myth of economic growth. For the last five decades the pursuit of growth has been the single most important policy goal across the world. The global economy is almost five […]
By Garth Franklin Thursday July 9th 2009 05:14AM Michael Moore’s new global financial crisis documentary has scored a title – “Capitalism: A Love Story” reportsVariety. The film takes a look at “the disastrous impact that corporate dominance and out-of-control profit motives have on the lives of Americans and citizens of the […]
The Onion (edited for safe-for-work viewing, see original here) finally gets the 40-year-old headline right. The interactive website commemorating today’s anniversary is worth the click. 40 years ago we were a nation that spent billions of dollars on the crap shoot of putting three men on top of 3,200 tons of hellfire wrapped […]
At approximately 1820GMT on July 15 2009, the Viva Palestina US Convoy finally crossed into Gaza from the Rafah Crossing in Egypt. Headed up by the British Member of Parliament, George Galloway as well as former Congresswoman Cynthia Mckinney, the convoy was due to bring over US$1million of AID and […]
By Ezra Levant | Publication Date: May 2009 How would censorship work in the Internet age? Australia gives us a sneak preview of the gong show that ensues when medieval thinking is applied to a wired world. Australia’s government nannies have officially banned 1,370 web sites. They’ve drawn up a […]
Israel’s oppressive Iron fist occupation will cause its own demise. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ljLEPjaF3S0
By Charlie Brooker (Presenter of the BBC’s ‘Screenwipe’ & ‘Newswipe’ – Check them out on youtube) It’s all gone wrong. Our belief in everything has been shattered by a series of shock revelations that have shaken our core to its core. You can’t move for toppling institutions. Television, the economy, […]
(Screen Shot…Video is Below) (Screen Shot…Video is Below) I receive film-video submissions daily, and this is the most impressive piece I’ve seen: a brand new, short film by Lagan Sebert and Harry Hanbury of The American News Project featuring Ron Paul, Wlliam Greider, Dennis Kucinich, Darrell Issa and Alan Grayson. The subject […]