[ Documentary now showing in New Zealand theatres ~ From the makers of The Last Resort ] On October 15th 2007, activists around New Zealand woke to guns in their faces. Black-clad police smashed down doors, dragging families out onto roads and detaining some without food or water. In the […]
Geopolitics
[youtube]FBGz0MhuMCA[/youtube] Stephen Chan is currently Professor of International Relations at the University of London and Dean of Law and Social Sciences at the School of Oriental and African Studies. He is the author of The Zen of International Relations (2001), Robert Mugabe: A Life of Power and Violence (2003), Out […]
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An image apparently showing a dead Osama bin Laden broadcast on Pakistani television and picked up by British newspaper websites is a fake. Read the rest here
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[Listen to my interview with David Ray Griffin, author of Osama Bin Laden: Dead or Alive? here. In it we discuss the evidence that OBL died in December 2001.] Osama Bin Bogeyman, the tribal chiefs tell us, has been ritually sacrificed: Slaughtered by warriors, then dumped into the ocean. But […]
https://tumeke.blogspot.com/2011/05/how-west-built-osama-bin-laden.html What a dreadful waste of a decade for the West’s ‘war of terrorism’. Over a Trillion dollars in direct costs and anywhere between 100 000 and a million dead civilians (we’re not sure because we don’t count ‘them’ when they die). The biggest waste has been that we don’t […]
Al-Qaeda founder and leader Osama Bin Laden has been killed by US forces, President Barack Obama has said. Read the rest here
Following the recent announcements of Egypt’s intention to open the Rafah Crossing with Gaza, Richard Lightbown describes some of the hypocrisies behind Israel’s objections and speculates on what might follow. Egypt announced last week that it intends to open the Rafah Crossing to the Gaza Strip on a permanent basis. […]
https://politics.slashdot.org/story/11/05/01/1242259/US-Offered-To-Draft-NZ-3-Strikes-Law-Fund-Copyright-Initiative An anonymous reader writes “Wikileaks has just posted hundreds of cables from US personnel in New Zealand that reveal regular government lobbying on copyright, offers to draft New Zealand three-strikes-and-you’re-out legislation, and a recommendation to spend over NZ$500,000 to fund a recording industry-backed IP enforcement initiative. The funding raises […]