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Michael Ratner: Army is trying to pressure Manning into implicating Julian Assange so that he too can be charged and extradited to US.
Michael Ratner is President Emeritus of the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) in New York and Chair of the European Center for Constitutional and Human Rights in Berlin. He is currently a legal adviser to Wikileaks and Julian Assange. He and CCR brought the first case challenging the Guantanamo detentions and continue in their efforts to close Guantanamo. He taught at Yale Law School, and Columbia Law School, and was President of the National Lawyers Guild. His current books include "Hell No: Your Right to Dissent in the Twenty-First Century America," and “ Who Killed Che? How the CIA Got Away With Murder.” NOTE: Mr. Ratner speaks on his own behalf and not for any organization with which he is affiliated.Michael Ratner: Army is trying to pressure Manning into implicating Julian Assange so... more
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On January 11th the Israeli parliament passed an amendment to the so- called “Infiltrators Law”. This revision allows the authorities to automatically imprison asylum seekers for three years. The plan includes constructing a 10,000 person jail to house the refugees. According to Amnesty International, this puts Israel at the top of the Western World for length of imprisonment of refugees. Today Israel is home to nearly 50,000 asylum seekers from Africa, 85% of whom are from Eritrea and Sudan. The Real News' Lia Tarachansky spoke to Nic Schlagman and Johannes Bayu of the African Refugee Development Center, Ran Cohen of Physicians for Human Rights, and "Ibrahim", an Eritrean asylum seeker in Israel for ten years.On January 11th the Israeli parliament passed an amendment to the so- called... more
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Just this week, the PERI institute in Boston released a study showing that there is a tremendous amount of excess dollars sitting around in bank accounts doing nothing, something the campaign to elect Mike Ballantine 2012 has been saying for months. In fact, they identify roughly the same amount as we do and propose providing incentives to get banks to invest $1.4 trillion in the economy to create 19 million jobs. That is more aggressive than our plan which stipulates an investment of $2 trillion to create 20 million jobs. Either way, both plans show a reasonable approach to the unemployment problem facing our nation. Both plans follow the same approach and would not only reduce unemployment but also restore tax revenues to pre-recession levels. Unless we choose to adopt this type of approach our nation will continue to languish in insolvency. Those that argue that we cannot afford to borrow, fail to grasp the enormity of creating 20 million jobs and what is required. As long as the free-market is going to remain on the sidelines, the needs of the American worker will go unmet. Please read this plan and listen to Bob Pollin explain it to Paul Jay at the Real News.(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7OIbTSAGPOM)
http://www.peri.umass.edu/fileadmin/pdf/published_study/PERI_19Million.pdf
http://www.scribd.com/doc/75296147/Ending-the-American-Winter-Ver-2-0
www.mikeballantine2012.orgJust this week, the PERI institute in Boston released a study showing that there is a... more
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David Swanson on his book about the 1928 Kellogg-Briand Pact and how it makes current wars illegal.David Swanson on his book about the 1928 Kellogg-Briand Pact and how it makes current... more
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Boyce and Ndikumana, authors of 'Africa's Odious Debts', argue that under international law, debts incurred by dictators should not be enforceable.Boyce and Ndikumana, authors of 'Africa's Odious Debts', argue that... more
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Lawrence Wilkerson: Colin Powell's job was to "clean the crap" off the oval office carpets; intelligence was being fixed around the policy of going to war.
Lawrence Wilkerson is a retired United States Army soldier and former chief of staff to United States Secretary of State Colin Powell. Wilkerson is an adjunct professor at the College of William & Mary where he teaches courses on US national security. He also instructs a senior seminar in the Honors Department at the George Washington University entitled "National Security Decision Making."Lawrence Wilkerson: Colin Powell's job was to "clean the crap" off the... more
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Adam Hanieh: Saudi Arabia and the Gulf Cooperation Council states created a super exploited migrant work force after facing a radicalized Arab working class in the 60s.
Adam Hanieh is a lecturer in Development Studies at the School of Oriental and African Studies in London. His research focuses on the political economy of the Middle East, with an emphasis on state and class formation in the Gulf Cooperation Council. He is the author of the forthcoming book "Capitalism and Class in the Gulf Arab States."Adam Hanieh: Saudi Arabia and the Gulf Cooperation Council states created a super... more
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Samer Shehata: Salafists' attacks on Coptic Christians opposed by vast majority.
Samer Shehata is an assistant professor of Arab Politics at Georgetown University. He is the author of the book: "Shop Floor Culture and Politics in Egypt" published in 2009. Samer has also written numerous articles on Arab politics for the International Herald Tribune, Boston Globe and the Arab Reform Bulletin.Samer Shehata: Salafists' attacks on Coptic Christians opposed by vast majority.... more
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Kuniko Tanioko: Japan must tell world how it dealt with the nuclear runoff into the ocean
Daphne Wysham is a Fellow at the Institute for Policy Studies and founder and host of Earthbeat, now airing on 61 public radio stations in the US and Canada.
Kuniko Tanioka is a Japanese politician of the Democratic Party of Japan, a member of the House of Councillors in the Diet (national legislature). A native of Osaka Prefecture, she graduated from the University of Toronto in Ontario, Canada and received a Ph.D in design. She was elected to the House of Councillors for the first time in 2007.Kuniko Tanioko: Japan must tell world how it dealt with the nuclear runoff into the... more
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Eric Margolis: Bringing bin Laden to justice would have meant a trial, not an assassination.
Eric S. Margolis is an award-winning, internationally syndicated foreign affairs columnist. His articles have appeared in the New York Times, the International Herald Tribune, the Los Angeles Times, Chicago Times, Times of London, the Gulf Times, the Khaleej Times, Dawn, Daily News Pakistan, Sun Malaysia, Mainichi Tokyo, U.S. Naval Institute Proceedings, Globe and Mail and the American Conservative. His internet column www.ericmargolis.com reaches global readers on a daily basis. He is the author of two best selling books, War at the Top of the World: The Struggle for Afghanistan And Asia, and nominated for the Governor General's prestigious award for American Raj: Resolving The Conflict Between The West And The Muslim World. As a war correspondent Margolis has covered conflicts in Angola, Namibia, South Africa, Mozambique, Lebanon, Turkist Kurdistan, Peru, Afghanistan, Kashmir, India, Pakistan, El Salvador and Nicaragua. He was among the first journalist to ever interview Libya’s Muammar Khadaffi and was the first to be allowed access to KGB headquarters in Lubyanka.Eric Margolis: Bringing bin Laden to justice would have meant a trial, not an... more
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Bill Janeway: No realistic chance that US or UK will default on debt but threat used to achieve Reagan-Thatcher objectives.Bill Janeway: No realistic chance that US or UK will default on debt but threat used... more
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Recently returned from Benghazi, Hafiz reports on rebel fighters, supporters and early stages of the Libyan uprising.
Jihan Hafiz reported for The Real News Network while in Libya in February and March 2011.Recently returned from Benghazi, Hafiz reports on rebel fighters, supporters and early... more
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Recently returned from Bengazi, Hafiz reports on rebel fighters, supporters and early stages of the Libyan uprising.Recently returned from Bengazi, Hafiz reports on rebel fighters, supporters and early... more
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Bob Alvaraz: US has 71,000 metric tons of spent nuclear fuel that is not properly protected
Daphne Wysham is a Fellow at the Institute for Policy Studies and founder and host of Earthbeat, now airing on 61 public radio stations in the US and Canada. Robert Alvarez is a Senior Scholar at IPS, where he is currently focused on nuclear disarmament, environmental, and energy policies. Between 1993 and 1999, Mr. Alvarez served as a Senior Policy Advisor to the Secretary and Deputy Assistant Secretary for National Security and the Environment. Prior to joining the DOE, Mr. Alvarez served for five years as a Senior Investigator for the U. S. Senate Committee on Governmental Affairs, chaired by Senator John Glenn, and as one of the Senate's primary staff experts on the U.S. nuclear weapons program.Bob Alvaraz: US has 71,000 metric tons of spent nuclear fuel that is not properly... more
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Ali Ahmida: After battling Reagan in the cold war, Gaddafi makes a deal with Bush and Blair and becomes more alienated from Libyan people.
Ali Ahmida is a professor and chair of the Department of Political Science at the University of New England in Biddeford, Maine. His specialty is political theory, comparative politics, and historical sociology of power, agency and anti-colonial resistance in North Africa, especially modern Libya. He is the author of The Making of Modern Libya: State Formation, Colonization and Resistance (1994) in addition to numerous articles. He is editor of Beyond Colonialism and Nationalism in the Maghrib: History, Culture and Politics (2000).
Click on the link to watch the video.Ali Ahmida: After battling Reagan in the cold war, Gaddafi makes a deal with Bush and... more
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Ali Ahmida; History of Gaddafi's rise from a hero of national resistance to a hated dictatorial regime.
Ali Ahmida is a professor and chair of the Department of Political Science at the University of New England in Biddeford, Maine. His specialty is political theory, comparative politics, and historical sociology of power, agency and anti-colonial resistance in North Africa, especially modern Libya. He is the author of The Making of Modern Libya: State Formation, Colonization and Resistance (1994) in addition to numerous articles. He is editor of Beyond Colonialism and Nationalism in the Maghrib: History, Culture and Politics (2000).
Next part at http://current.com/news-and-politics/93087097_modern-history-of-libya.htmAli Ahmida; History of Gaddafi's rise from a hero of national resistance to a... more
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Jonathan Schell: Global protest movements challenge global elite
Jonathan Schell is the author of twelve books, including The Fate of the Earth, The Time of Illusion, The Unconquerable World: Power Nonviolence and the Will of the People, and, his most recent book, The Seventh Decade: The New Shape of Nuclear Danger. The Fate of the Earth, which first appeared in The New Yorker, was hailed by The New York Times as "an event of profound historical moment." It received the Los Angeles Times book prize, among other awards, and was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, and the National Critics Award. In 1966-7, Schell was a reporter in Vietnam for The New Yorker, where he remained as a staff writer until 1987. In the 1987, he was a fellow at The Institute of Politics, at the Kennedy School of government, and, in 2003, a fellow at Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics, and Public Policy also at the Kennedy School, From 1990 to 1996, he was a columnist at New York Newsday. He has taught at many universities, including Wesleyan, Emory, Princeton, The New School, and the Yale Law School. He is currently The Harold Willens Peace Fellow at the Nation Institute, Peace and Disarmament Editor for The Nation magazine, and Visiting Lecturer at Yale College.Jonathan Schell: Global protest movements challenge global elite
Jonathan Schell is... more
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Hamid Dabashi: Gaddafi gained power as anti-imperialist, made deal with Bush and pushed neo-liberal economics.
Born on June 15,1951 into a working class family in the south-western city of Ahvaz in the Khuzestan province of Iran, Hamid Dabashi received his early education in his hometown and his college education in Tehran, before he moved to the United States, where he received a dual Ph.D. in Sociology of Culture and Islamic Studies from the University of Pennsylvania in 1984, followed by a postdoctoral fellowship at Harvard University. He wrote his doctoral dissertation on Max Weber's theory of charismatic authority with Philip Rieff (1922-2006), the most distinguished Freudian cultural critic of his time. He is currently the Hagop Kevorkian Professor of Iranian Studies and Comparative Literature at Columbia University in New York, the oldest and most prestigious Chair in his field. He has also taught and delivered lectures in many North American, European, Arab and Iranian universities. His books include Close Up: Iranian Cinema, Past, Present, Future (2001), Iran: A People Interrupted (2007), and The Green Movement and the USA: The Fox and the Paradox (2010).Hamid Dabashi: Gaddafi gained power as anti-imperialist, made deal with Bush and... more
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