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  Be Our Guest, Julian! posted by Raffi Khatchadourian via Kismo, 2010-06-11 10:38:10
The house on Grettisgata Street, in Reykjavik, is a century old, small and white, situated just a few streets from the North Atlantic. The shifting northerly winds can suddenly bring ice and snow to the city, even in springtime, and when they do a certain kind of silence sets in. This was the case on the morning of March 30th, when a tall Australian man named Julian Paul Assange, with gray eyes and a mop of silver-white hair, arrived to rent the place. Assange was dressed in a gray full-body snowsuit, and he had with him a small entourage. “We are journalists,” he told the owner of the house. Eyjafjallajökull had recently begun erupting, and he said, “We’re here to write about the volcano.” (full story and 6 comments)
miscellaneous / international
 Markets About to Turn Nasty, Buy Barbed Wire: Advisor posted by Patrick Allen via fleet, 2010-06-09 07:13:49
Bond markets could get very nasty over the coming months, while stock investors could take a few months off and stop attempting to trade volatile swings in the markets, Anthony Fry, senior managing director at Evercore Partners, told CNBC Monday. (full story)
social/political / international
 Spain follows Greece -- people reject severe austerity cuts posted by staff report, 2010-06-09 05:25:11
MADRID — Tens of thousands protested against austerity cuts in Spain and Denmark Tuesday as Germany's powerful unions warned of mass action and Hungary became the latest debt-ridden nation to slash spending. (full story)
social/political / international
All Lies posted by Mike Whitney via stele, 2010-06-08 22:29:55
Israel has become Myanmar on the Jordan. Every new act of violence deepens the paranoia, the resentment, the isolation. The killing of 9 peace activists aboard the Mavi Marmara was celebrated in Tel Aviv--another blood victory against the 'terrorists', another triumph against those who would harm Israel. Heads of state around the world have condemned the butchery, but Israelis have shrugged off the criticism. They think that support for the activists is anti-Semitism. They think that food and medicine are weapons that will be used by Hamas against Israel. This is madness, but madness has consequences. Nine people are dead. (full story)
social/political / international
An Eye for an Eye posted by chela, 2010-06-08 00:01:13
"An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind." -- Mahatma Gandhi (full story)
prose/poetry / international
Some Big Lies of Science posted by Denis G. Rancourt via reed, 2010-06-07 07:03:19
“The majority of politicians, on the evidence available to us, are interested not in truth but in power and in the maintenance of that power. To maintain that power it is essential that people remain in ignorance, that they live in ignorance of the truth, even the truth of their own lives. What surrounds us therefore is a vast tapestry of lies, upon which we feed.” – Harold Pinter, Nobel Lecture (Literature), 2005 (full story)
social/political / international
 Stowaway posted by jaylin, 2010-06-06 22:47:09
[breadth of sky and depth of sea cannot hope to measure a Soul] (full story and 1 comments)
prose/poetry / international
 God’s chosen Terrorists! posted by finch, 2010-06-05 22:00:48
Israel’s forced boarding and seizure of the MV Rachel Corrie in international waters yesterday highlights what many commentators are loath to mention and others are at pains to hide; the cultural consciousness/basis behind which the inhuman actions of Israel toward non-Jews are realised. (full story and 3 comments)
human rights / international
China, Russia and the MV Rachel Corrie posted by baz, 2010-06-03 21:27:40
Take your place on the world stage; an opportunity goes begging to fight and win; leverage a hugely popular cause; demonstrate your relevance in world affairs and offer a NAVAL ESCORT for the MV Rachel Corrie on her humanitarian mission to Gaza. Make perfectly clear to the world which two nations -- USA and ISRAEL -- terrorise humanity and arrogantly flout international law and convention by making a Nazi concentration camp of the Gaza strip! (full story)
human rights / international
Gaza: when world leaders become irrelevant posted by stylus, 2010-06-02 07:59:17
We are heartened that divergent groups of brave, freedom loving people of conscience came together to form a multinational peace force to assist their fellow human beings in distress – the highest ideal of civilised humanity and the major religions has been realised by a humanitarian aid convoy sailing to relieve the long suffering people of Gaza. It seems the designs of a few sick Zionist minds to transform the new century into a permanent warring hell may have been thwarted. Peaceful resistance has been re-affirmed as the most powerful force for social change known to civilised society. [I need not remind readers which nations adhere to the ideology of ‘permanent war’ – this past decade bears horrific testimony to the carnage perpetrated on an unsuspecting world by ISRAEL and AMERICA.] (full story and 2 comments)
human rights / international
Irish ship sails for Gaza in defiance of Criminal Blockade posted by Stephen C. Webster via ryall, 2010-06-01 21:59:01
In DEFIANCE of U.S. supported Israeli crimes on land and sea, the IRISH ship MV Rachel Corrie continues to sail for Gaza with relief aid. The WORLD, now intolerant of the appalling crimes committed against humanity by ISRAEL/AMERICA, two ROGUE nations that mistakenly believe they are somehow ‘special’ and above the law, watches with keen interest! We offer, from Australia, our whole hearted support for the brave crew and passengers of this ‘little’ IRISH vessel, which continues to fly the ‘flag’ of FREEDOM, JUSTICE AND HUMANITY for us ALL. You little bewdy!
We are ONE (full story and 1 comments)
injustice/law / international
Israel: are we really surprised? posted by gan, 2010-05-31 21:24:38
The latest murderous outrage committed by Israeli commando forces attacking a civilian aid flotilla bound for Gaza should be seen exactly for what it is – PAR FOR THE Israeli criminal COURSE! (full story and 1 comments)
peace/war / international
With bare Hands posted by emir, 2010-05-31 00:39:04
my darling girl (full story)
prose/poetry / international
 Tony Blair’s Blood Money posted by stan, 2010-05-30 00:12:58
In spite of Blair’s now infamous ‘45 minute’ LIE, which led Britain into an unholy alliance with the criminal Cheney/Bush administration -- facilitators for Oil Transnationals -- and the ensuing civilian Iraqi holocaust; Blair continues to feather his own nest and feed his unrestrained avarice on the misery he inflicts on others – this man is truly the worst type of criminal imaginable! (full story and 1 comments)
injustice/law / international
 In our amoral, cowardly faces! posted by stylus, 2010-05-28 20:54:30
The entire world – including the Hague (plainly corrupt) Courts and the joke that is the UN -- watches as the US continues its overtly criminal, civilian-killing Drone strikes in Central Asia and Africa. These strikes are conducted by a non-military organisation, the CIA, a situation that clearly exacerbates and increases the criminal nature of the crimes, which are committed almost daily by the Obama administration. (full story)
injustice/law / international
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