Hopes for a peaceful settlement of Yemen’s political crisis receded further on Tuesday as street battles intensified between government security forces and opposition tribesmen, leaving at least two dozen people dead and turning part of the Yemeni capital, Sana, into a war zone. Read the rest here
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In a frightening example of how the state is tightening its grip around the free Internet, it has emerged that You Tube [ … yes & who is ‘youtube’ and what is their business model again ? ] is complying with thousands of requests from governments to censor and […]
Jonathan Cook analyses the role of mainstream media in defending Western imperial elites and peddling their narratives, and assesses the impact of new media in breaking the elites’ stranglehold on information. ”This is an opportunity and one that we must nurture. We must demand of the corporate media more honesty; […]
[ Instead – it continues to expand – thereby continuously perpetuating the conflict ] Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Thursday that U.S. President Barack Obama’s vision of a Palestinian state on the borders of 1967 could leave the Jewish state “indefensible.” “The viability of a Palestinian state cannot come […]
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The crown prince of Abu Dhabi has hired the founder of the private security firm Blackwater Worldwide to set up an 800-member battalion of foreign mercenaries for the United Arab Emirates, the New York Times reported Sunday. The Times said it obtained documents that showed that the unit being formed […]
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[youtube]AHytXOd6U0s[/youtube] DEBORAH FEYERICK, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Yes, I can. That is the information that I am getting from two sources, that there was a van either on the New Jersey Turnpike or the Garden State Parkway, and that it was near the George Washington Bridge. There were two or three men […]
Johann Hari on an environmental disaster in the making. When David Cameron gazed into the dewy eyes of a husky and promised to lead “the greenest government ever”, what did you think that would involve? Probably not an attempt to sell off all our trees to logging companies. Probably not […]