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Investigating the Freedom Flotilla Attack

Honest reports will document the massacre accurately.

WikiLeaks "Afghan War Diaries"

A powerful indictment of all wars.

Anglo-American Political Philosophy 101: The Poor Must Die

By CHRIS FLOYD - July 27, 2010

The savage cutbacks and vast, churning upheavals being pushed through, at breakneck speed, by [Britain's] new Conservative government...will send millions of people tumbling down into a permanent underclass -- and...gut the national health service with a stealth "Americanization" that will turn the operation of local doctors' offices over to private firms...and privatize public hospitals, allowing them to "fail"...if they don't produce enough cash for their elite shareholders.

Israel’s Anti-Boycott Legislation

By Tania Kepler - Sunday, 04 July 2010

Israel has initiated strong legislative measures to combat the growing momentum in support of the Palestinian-led Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement against Israeli policies. The Land of Israel lobby...recently promulgated the “Prohibition on Instituting a Boycott Bill” which, if passed, will criminalize any call for an economic or academic boycott of Israel, and Education Minister Gideon Sa'ar has said that the government will begin taking action against academics joining the call for boycott.

The Charge of the Media Brigade

By John Pilger - July 08, 2010

The Pentagon...spends $4.7 billion on public relations: that is, winning the hearts and minds not of recalcitrant Afghan tribesmen but of Americans. This is known as “information dominance” and PR people are “information warriors”.

Water Rights = Rights for All

By Krystalline Kraus - July 23, 2010

The right to clean water should extend beyond a case for human rights to a case for the rights of all living things.

Why Are Center Left Political Parties Supporting Global Fiscal Austerity?

By Peter Bohmer and Robin Hahnel - July 25, 2010

The claim that fiscal austerity during recession is “good economics” when it is actually “bad economics” is merely a “cover story” for public consumption. As for why center left political parties and politicians now support this disastrous policy, the simple answer is these parties no longer care about economic performance, much less the interests of workers and the poor, but instead identify their interests with those of Wall Street and the upper middle class...

G20 a Month Later: Reflections on Confronting Impacts of Economic Austerity

By Stefan Christoff - July 22, 2010

"Globally speaking we are going to be dealing with cutbacks and attacks at a totally different scale...People mobilizing against the G20 summit in Toronto see a direct connection between the reprehensible gatherings of world leaders and the kicks in the teeth they are receiving from their local government; we are looking at an incredible period of austerity but hopefully we're also looking at an incredible period of resistance."

-- John Clarke, Organizer, Ontario Coalition Against Poverty (OCAP)

War on Terror or War of Terror?

By ANTHONY DiMAGGIO - July 23-25, 2010

Critical evidence from the British government and other sources suggest that the “War on Terror” has actually destabilized the Middle East and increased the terror threat throughout the globe...[T]he terror threat has grown in the wake of the Iraq invasion, despite the fact that Iraq posed no real national security threat to the West...[T]he invasion of Iraq has actually served as one of the best recruiters for Osama bin Laden, al Qaeda, and loosely affiliated Islamist terror groups.

Shut Doors = Broken Windows

By CrimethInc. - Friday, July 02 2010

On June 26, 2010, thousands of anarchists and other protesters gathered outside the G20 summit in Toronto, facing off against more than 19,000 security officials with a budget of nearly one billion dollars...We salute the courage of those who put themselves at tremendous risk to shatter the illusion of social consensus and reveal the depth of outrage against the G20 leaders and the capitalist system they defend. If you put your freedom on the line in Toronto — thank you.

No Time for Public Sector Austerity

By Leo Panitch and Sam Gindin - July 21, 2010

The 2007-08 financial crash was...the greatest in history. It was only prevented from immediately triggering another Great Depression by governments in so many countries taking on the enormous private debt of their banks...Two years later...bond traders were feeling confident enough again to dispense the bankers' old orthodoxies on the evils of public debt...The G20 was reconvened in Toronto to reassure financial markets that they heard the message.

For the Economy, Help Is Not on the Way

By Ted Rall - Thursday, July 15, 2010

We are in a deep depression: calculated the same way as it was in the 1930s, the unemployment rate is the same as it was in 1934. Global credit markets have stalled. Investment has ceased...And help isn't coming...No one knows where the recovery will come from for a simple reason: It isn't coming. Not any time soon.

Remote-Controlled Killing

By JONATHAN COOK - July 13, 2010

Spot and Shoot, as it is called by the Israeli military, may look like a video game but the figures on the screen are real people -- Palestinians in Gaza -- who can be killed with the press of a button on the joystick...The female soldiers, located far away in an operations room, are responsible for aiming and firing remote-controlled machine-guns mounted on watch-towers every few hundred metres along an electronic fence that surrounds Gaza.

Anarchist Critique of Black Bloc Tactic

By Steven Fake - Ideas and Action

In the wake of the G8/G20 economic summit protests in Toronto, Canada this past weekend, black bloc demonstrators have once again sparked discussion on the left and hysterics in the corporate media. Closely linked to anarchism, the continued popularity of the black bloc tactic colors the reputation of protesters, particularly anarchists, and merits a response with greater clarity from anarchists.

Under Threat: A Free and Open Internet

More than ever our freedoms are threatened.