Making the Impossible Possible – Quratulain Bakhteari
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May 2013
The Popularity Of The Consumerist Culture Is Imported From The West
by Kourosh Ziabari posted April 14, 2013 by Countercurrents.org Interview with Prof. Zygmunt Bauman Prof. Zygmunt Bauman is a world-renowned, award-winning sociologist, philosopher and historian. He was born on November 19, 1925 in Poland and has been living in the UK since 1971. He is an emeritus
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When Israeli denial of Palestinian existence becomes genocidal
by Ilan Pappe posted April 20, 2013 by The Electronic Intifada Sixty-five years on, Israeli President Shimon Peres still denies the existence of the indigenous population of Palestine. In a regal interview he gave the Israeli press on the eve of the state’s ” Independence Day,” Shimon Peres, the current president of Israel, said the following: “I remember
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A Dangerous Delusion – Why the West is Wrong About Nuclear Iran
by Daud Abdullah A book review The current dispute between the west and Iran over its nuclear programme bears uncanny similarities to the case of Iraq; western assertions that Iran is developing a nuclear weapons programme is strikingly reminiscent of the claims of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. In the absence of no
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Tomgram: Engelhardt, Field of Nightmares
By Tom Engelhardt posted April 23, 2013 by TomDispatch.com [Note for TomDispatch readers: This is part two of my series on how Washington helped create its enemies in the post-9/11 era. Part one was “The Enemy-Industrial Complex.” Also, I can’t resist mentioning that I — and so TomDispatch — was named “Truthdigger of the week” at the
The Five Stages Of Collapse, By Dmitry Orlov, Reviewed
by Carolyn Baker posted April 8, 2013 by Information Clearing House” – “Carolyn Baker” Many of us who have been researching collapse for a decade or more repeatedly use the word in writing, speaking, and daily conversation, but few of us have the opportunity to define it with such precision or personal experience as one finds in Dmitry
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The PLO’s dangerous land swaps rhetoric
by Samah Sabawi … posted April 3, 2013 by Aljazeera … The “land swaps” rhetoric is designed to protect the large Israeli settlement blocks and their buffer zones. “As PLO representatives parrot the parlance of “land swaps”, they need to remember that these settlements are responsible not only for destroying Palestinian livelihood, but also
Myanmar’s neo-Nazi Buddhists get free rein
Burma/Myanmar’s radical “969 movement” has been central in the recent brutal pogroms against minority Muslims that have left at least 40 dead and 12,000 displaced. The Buddhist monk-led group, however, cannot be understood outside of the interface between President Thein Sein’s government and the country’s racist society at large. Nor can it be explained without
Google Involved in ‘Regime Change’: WikiLeaks
Top Google execs, including the company’s CEO and one of Barack Obama’s major presidential campaign donors Eric Schmidt, informed the intelligence agency Stratfor about Google’s activities and internal communication regarding “regime change” in the Middle East, according to Stratfor emails released by WikiLeaks and obtained by Al-Akhbar. The other source cited was Google’s director for
The Elephants in the Room: Citizens United, Trade and Corporate Ownership of Our Natural Resources
by Yves Smith posted April 20, 2013 by Naked Capitalism Yves here. This is a short but useful reminder of how the failure to enforce anti-trust laws leads to oligopolies. MBAs are taught how to make markets inefficient to increase corporate profits, and one of the most lasting ways is to achieve a dominant position, ideally