The Corporation - Part 10 of 23 - Boundary Issues - English
10. We used to regard many areas as too essential to the public good to be commercialized - they were protected by tradition and regulation. Now...
10. We used to regard many areas as too essential to the public good to be commercialized - they were protected by tradition and regulation. Now everything is becoming fair game in the private taking of the commons -- land oceans air water education health energy and social assistance. Where do we draw the line.
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Al Nakba - The Palestinian Catastrophe 1948 - English Arabic
The Palestinian Exile - also known as Al Nakba - Arabic for - The Catastrophe- -refers to the ethnic cleansing of native Palestinian peoples all...
The Palestinian Exile - also known as Al Nakba - Arabic for - The Catastrophe- -refers to the ethnic cleansing of native Palestinian peoples all during the 1948 Arab-Israeli war. From December 1947 until November 1948 Zionist forces - namely the Irgun - Lehi - Haganah terrorist gangs - expelled approximately 750 000 indigenous Palestinians --almost two third of the population--from their homes. Hundreds of Palestinians were also murdered for refusing to leave their homes. The most notable massacre is the Deir Yassin Massacre in which an estimated 120 Palestinian civilians were brutally murdered by an Irgun-Lehi force. Other massacres include the ones at Sahila - 70-80 killed - Lod - 250 killed- and Abu Shusha - 70 killed -. About 40 other massacres were carried out by Zionist forces in just the summer of 1948. Not only did Zionist forces conduct massacres of Palestinian civilians - rape occured as well. According to Israeli historian Benny Morris - In Acre four soldiers raped a girl and murdered her and her father. In Jaffa soldiers of the Kiryati Brigade raped one girl and tried to rape several more. At Hunin which is in the Galilee two girls were raped and then murdered. There were one or two cases of rape at Tantura south of Haifa. There was one case of rape at Qula in the center of the country. At the village of Abu Shusha near Kibbutz Gezer - in the Ramle area - there were four female prisoners - one of whom was raped a number of times. And there were other cases. Usually more than one soldier was involved. Usually there were one or two Palestinian girls. In a large proportion of the cases the event ended with murder. Because neither the victims nor the rapists liked to report these events- we have to assume that the dozen cases of rape that were reported- which I found are not the whole story. They are just the tip of the iceberg.- during Al Nakba - Palestinians were murdered raped and ethnically cleansed from their villages. According to Israeli historian Ilan Pappe - In a matter of seven months 531 villages were destroyed and 11 urban neighborhoods emptied.- Palestinians were forced into were forced out of Palestine and into neighboring countries - i.e. Lebanon Syria and Jordan - where they lived in refugee camps. Many were also sent to camps in West Bank and Gaza Strip. Most Palestinian towns were demolished and taken by the newly established Israeli government to make room for new Jewish immigrants. Old Palestinian infrastructures as well as many ruins dating back from the Canaanites Romans Greeks Crusaders Arabs and Ottoman Turks were completely destroyed. This signified the end of historical Palestine and the birth of modern-day Israel. Al Nakba marked the beginning of the Palestinian refugee crisis. Al Nakba destroyed a thriving and diverse Palestinian society and scattered them into diaspora. According to the UNRWA - the number of registered Palestinian refugees today is approximately 4.5 million. These refugees are dispersed throughout the world - many of which are still living in poverty-stricken refugee camps. Today the situation keeps worsening and thousands die from malnutrition - contaminated water - or scarce medical supply. Israel has since refused to allow Palestinian refugees to return to their homes and has refused to pay them compensation as required by UN Resolution 194 which was passed on December 11 1948. Historically the Israeli government Israeli schools and Israeli historians have denied that Al Nakba has occured. However The New Historians - a loosely-defined group of Israeli historians - have recently published information recognizing the Al Nakba tragedy and controversial views of matters concerning Israel - particularly events concerning its birth in 1948. Much of their material comes from recently declassified Israeli government papers. Leading scholars in this school include Benny Morris - Ilan Pappe - Avi Shlaim - and Tom Segev. Many of their conclusions have been attacked by other scholars and Israeli historians - who continue deny Al Nakba even occured.
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Food riots around the world New World Order Agenda-English
The plan has been put into place We have been conditioned into believing that there are too many people in the world and there is not enough food...
The plan has been put into place We have been conditioned into believing that there are too many people in the world and there is not enough food Yes there is not enough food when our own government pays FARMERS NOT TO PLANT Look it up it is true Lets raise gas so we all complain and look for ALTERNATIVE FUEL like BIO FUEL Ridiculous when we can have Electric even Cars that run on WATER or AIR look that up Its simple the NWO plan is called EUGENICS look that up They are controlling us now creating panic making it so that we will turn to them the almighty for solutions WAKE UP NOW otherwise face the terrible consequences Our rights are being taken away daily and the third world countries are made to suffer first Google Kissinger s Plan for Food Control Genocide www larouchepub com slash other slash 1995
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The New Food Wars - Globalization GMOs and Biofuels - Vandana Shiva -...
Violence takes many forms - physical... symbolic...structural. Hunger is a structural violence resulting from current international trade laws...
Violence takes many forms - physical... symbolic...structural. Hunger is a structural violence resulting from current international trade laws formulated by corporate greed. The various forms of violence also implies that the moral activists around the world cannot afford to focus on only one front - while neglecting other - of the prevailing global injustice. --- Across the world food riots are taking place. Scientist and activist Vandana Shiva explores whether the future will be one of food wars or food peace. She argues that the creation of food peace demands a major shift in the way food is produced and distributed and the way in which we manage and use the soil water and biodiversity which makes food production possible. 17th Annual Margolis lecture at UC Irvine. July 2008.
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Gazans Have Nowhere To Go- English
As Israeli troops close in on Gaza City, clashes with various Palestinian fighters intensify. Sameh Habeeb, a photojournalist based in Gaza City,...
As Israeli troops close in on Gaza City, clashes with various Palestinian fighters intensify. Sameh Habeeb, a photojournalist based in Gaza City, reports, shortages of water, food, gas and fuel have left many with nothing but what they have stored from before the attack began. Habeeb says the Israeli army has been warning Palestinians to evacuate in advance of bombings, but explains that for the majority of the people, they have nowhere to go. While Habeeb was describing the mushrooming humanitarian crisis in Gaza City, his house was being shelled by the unending violence between the IDF and the Hamas forces.
Sameh Habeeb is a freelance journalist and photographer based in Gaza City, Gaza Strip, Palestinian Territories. He worked previously as a producer for Ramattan News Agency.
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Cynthia McKinney in an Israeli jail - English
As if we needed any more proof that the international media deliberately avoids exposing anti-Muslim, anti-Palestinian injustices, its suspect...
As if we needed any more proof that the international media deliberately avoids exposing anti-Muslim, anti-Palestinian injustices, its suspect behavior during recent days has sealed the case.
Even as we were being force-fed minute details of Michael Jackson's colorful life along with endless speculation as to the true parentage of his children, a former U.S. Congresswomen and presidential candidate, Cynthia McKinney, was languishing in an Israeli jail.
Her 'crime' was boarding the Free Gaza Movement's aid vessel The Spirit of Humanity in Cyprus, in an effort to break Israel's cruel siege of Gaza, which even the U.S. President has condemned.
Like several of her sister vessels, The Spirit of Humanity was attacked by the Israeli Navy in international waters before being boarded by Israeli commandos and dragged along with its crew and passengers towards Israel.
Once there, 21 human rights advocates from the U.S., Britain, Ireland, Denmark, Jordan, Palestine and Yemen, including McKinney, Noble Laureate Mairead Maguire, and documentary filmmaker Adam Shapiro, were incarcerated.
Let's be realistic. If just about any other high-profile U.S. politician on any other mission had been detained within a cell block on foreign soil, the incident would have merited headlines.
However, McKinney's abduction went almost unnoticed. Not only was the story relegated to the back pages, if it ran at all, there was a corresponding absence of comment from Congress and the White House.
McKinney is now home after refusing to sign a statement in Hebrew that she was guilty of a violation, but the mainstream media is certainly not clamoring at her door for interviews.
As far as I can tell, her ordeal has mostly been covered by left-wing outlets such as Democracy Now or Middle East networks including Al Jazeera and Press TV.
A number of McKinney's supporters say the reason for the media blackout was the fact that she is a Black American. But, in fact, it's her cause that's the problem rather than her color.
My analysis is based on the lack of media coverage given to the Viva Palestina aid convoy of trucks and ambulances from London to Gaza, led by British Parliamentarian George Galloway.
The Herculean efforts of hundreds of ordinary Britons to deliver much-needed humanitarian supplies to war-torn Gaza earlier this year was a non-event as far as the media was concerned until Galloway was barred from entering Canada as a result.
Unless you're a person who relentlessly digs on the internet, you probably are not aware that during McKinney's ordeal, Galloway, along with Vietnam War veteran Ron Kovic, were meeting up with over 200 Americans in Cairo armed with $2 million (Dh7.35 million) that was raised in the U.S. to buy trucks and medical aid destined for Gaza.
The Egyptian English-language paper Al Ahram Weekly dubs this ""the largest grassroots medical relief effort for Gaza in U.S. history"" but once again, this doesn't merit column inches in either U.S. or European mainstream papers.
In a similar vein, is the way that the horrendous courtroom stabbing of 32-year-old Marwa Al Sherbini was considered inconsequential by the German media until it elicited angry protests in her hometown of Alexandria.
There are so many aspects to this story, which should have been emblazoned across front pages.
First of all it was a blatant race crime, which Germany is normally sensitive about. Second, it begs questions concerning court security.
What were armed officers doing when Marwa was stabbed 18 times and why was her husband shot when he attempted to protect his pregnant wife?
What kind of editors would bin reports of such a horrendous crime carried out in full view of the authorities? What were they thinking?
Purely coincidentally, I was sitting at a table with one of Marwa's uncles in an Alexandria coffee shop when he received a call on his mobile and had to dash off because of a ""family emergency"".
Today, this exceptionally close-knit family is devastated and hurt that the murder of one of their own wasn't initially treated with the weight the crime deserved.
Egyptians are outraged at Germany's disinterest and the inaction of their own foreign office. The numbers who attended her funeral, who gathered outside the German embassy in Cairo and who demonstrated in Cairo and Alexandria speak for themselves.
Because Marwa's dispute with her attacker was based on his objections to her Islamic headscarf, the death of the young pharmacist has become an emblem for the rights of Muslim women at a time when the French President is attempting to ban the burqa. Marwa loved life.
She didn't plan to become a martyr. But in the eyes of Egyptians calling for a mosque and a street in Alexandria to be renamed in her honor, she is a heroine.
If the U.S. and Europe are chronically supine when it comes to Muslim causes, then the governments and media throughout the Arab and Muslim world should embrace them clearly and loudly.
With anti-Muslim hate crimes on the rise, Muslims need a strong united voice on the international stage. Shame on the world's media that appears to be united only in its anti-Muslim bias!
Linda S. Heard is a specialist British writer on Middle East affairs.
(Source: Gulf News
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Thousands homeless in Turkey floods - 09Sep09 - English
Desperate attempts are being made across northwestern Turkey to rescue people trapped by flooding triggered by two days of torrential rainfall -...
Desperate attempts are being made across northwestern Turkey to rescue people trapped by flooding triggered by two days of torrential rainfall - the worst in eighty years. At least Twenty Eight people are reported to have been killed but officials are saying that the death toll could get higher. Parts of the Istanbul are already under water and forced thousands from their homes. The race is now on to try to stop the situation from getting any worse - with more rain forecast for later in the week.
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Why are there more foreign military contractors in Pakistan - 09Sep09 -...
It looks like Xe and the CIA are just waiting for the green light to go in. Some of these contractors are in a gray area or military reservists who...
It looks like Xe and the CIA are just waiting for the green light to go in. Some of these contractors are in a gray area or military reservists who work for these companies full time
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BLACKWATER BRIBED IRAQI GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS - English
A report has surfaced about BlackWater bribing Iraqi government officials to safeguard from an investigation of the incident in which 17 innocent...
A report has surfaced about BlackWater bribing Iraqi government officials to safeguard from an investigation of the incident in which 17 innocent Iraqi civilains were killed. The private security contractor has been deployed in Iraq Afghanistan and now possibly in Pakistan.
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Blackwaters Secret War in Pakistan - 25Nov09 - English
Investigative journalist Jeremy Scahill talks about his bombshell story in The Nation about Blackwaters involvement in targeted killings drone...
Investigative journalist Jeremy Scahill talks about his bombshell story in The Nation about Blackwaters involvement in targeted killings drone attacks and other covert operations in Pakistan. GRITtv with Laura Flanders brings participatory democracy onto your computer screen and into your living room bridging the gap between audience and advocates.
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Emails show CIA detroyed interrogation tapes - 16 April 10 - English
Contributed by CurrentAffairs. More than one-hundred pages of newly released documents from the US's top intelligence branch are providing the...
Contributed by CurrentAffairs. More than one-hundred pages of newly released documents from the US's top intelligence branch are providing the clearest look yet at the CIA's decision to destroy videotapes of detainee interrogation. The new documents show that Porter Goss, the then CIA chief, agreed with the decision to destroy the tapes, though they show he did not know of the destruction until after it occurred. They also reveal that almost immediately after the destruction, CIA officials worried they had done something wrong, if not illegaloarding . Patty Culhane reports (16 April 2010).
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Undefeatable Might - Islamic Republic Iran - Urdu
This is the documentary about capture of British soldiers (rangers) who entered Islamic Republic of Iran through water. Watch the whole...
This is the documentary about capture of British soldiers (rangers) who entered Islamic Republic of Iran through water. Watch the whole documentary to see how the incident shaped.
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BP Slick Covers Dolphins and Whales - English
A flight over the BP Slick Source where I saw at least 100 Dolphins in the oil some dying. I also photographed a Sperm Whale covered in oil all...
A flight over the BP Slick Source where I saw at least 100 Dolphins in the oil some dying. I also photographed a Sperm Whale covered in oil all around it is blow hole
Please spread this around the world. Send me any links to places it gets posted so I can follow
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People Begin Living without Electricity and water in California-English
Houses everywhere are going vacant People dont say goodbye they dont leave a number they just disappear With their disappearance we add another...
Houses everywhere are going vacant People dont say goodbye they dont leave a number they just disappear With their disappearance we add another vacant house to the street But families living in housing without utilities is a new sight for me to behold I spoke recently with a rep from So Cal Edison who full time contacts residence who have had their electricity turned off due to non payment She has a negotiator sent in and they work on a reduced payment Its amazing to me that now it is becoming acceptable in California to camp out in your home
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An interview with Dr A K Susheela fluoride poisoning of the soft...
An interview with Dr AK Susheela on her work in India diagnosing and treating patients with fluoride poisoning of the soft tissues With early...
An interview with Dr AK Susheela on her work in India diagnosing and treating patients with fluoride poisoning of the soft tissues With early diagnosis the early symptoms are easy to reverse Western doctors are totally oblivious of this disease which may be impacting millions of people living in fluoridated countries with a plethora of common complaints
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Young Boy begs israeli soldiers not to take his Daddy - All Languages
TV cameras have captured the distressing moment a five-year-old Palestinian boy sees his father arrested for stealing water for his family.
TV cameras have captured the distressing moment a five-year-old Palestinian boy sees his father arrested for stealing water for his family.
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