Archive for the ‘Politics’ Category
G-20 Contradictions: Pledge to Re-Regulate; Committed to De-Regulate
Sunday, September 27, 2009 11:14 No CommentsG-20 commitments to reestablish financial service regulation are in direct contradiction with deregulation requirements in the World Trade Organization’s (WTO) 1999 Financial Services Agreement.
“It is crazy that the G-20 leaders vowed to re-regulate the financial system while simultaneously undermining their ability to actually do so,” said Lori Wallach, director of Public Citizen’s Global Trade Watch [...]
Israel Attacks Gaza Aid Ship; US Congresswoman Kidnapped
Tuesday, June 30, 2009 15:03 42 CommentsA humanitarian aid ship which set sail for the Gaza strip has been seized by occupying Israeli forces today. The Israeli military abducted 21 human rights workers from 11 countries including former U.S. Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney and Noble laureate Mairead Maguire. The passengers and crew, though traveling in international waters, were forcibly dragged [...]
Ecuador to Sue WSJ Over False Reporting
Friday, June 26, 2009 14:33 No CommentsEcuador’s President Rafael Correa has vowed to sue the Wall Street Journal for linking his government to the Colombian FARC rebels. “We will sue this newspaper because we are sick of their lies,” Correa told reporters on Thursday after addressing the UN General Assembly’s Conference on the world financial crisis, Reuters reported.
“We demand the Wall [...]
UK freezes $1.6 billion of Iran’s Assets
Monday, June 22, 2009 20:40 20 CommentsThe UK government has frozen $1.6 billion of Iran’s assets. British officials made the announcement on Thursday and claim that the money was frozen under international sanctions imposed over Tehran’s nuclear program. You know, the nuclear program which Iran has every legal right to pursue under the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty.
UK’s economic secretary to the Treasury [...]
Iran is Completely Surrounded by US Military [Image] #IranElection
Saturday, June 20, 2009 20:40 9 CommentsThis is a map of the middle east which plots countries that have a US military presence. You still think Iranians want our “Help?”
Do We Really Care About Democracy? #IranElection
Friday, June 19, 2009 21:46 41 CommentsAfter being victims of multiple false and propagandistic media campaigns one would think that we would be able to read between the lines when our mainstream media sources act in lockstep with one another in marketing the agenda du jour.
Have we already forgotten the “flowers and candy” which the gracious Iraqi people were going to [...]
BBC Admits to Using Fake Photo in #IranElection Coverage
Friday, June 19, 2009 18:43 4 CommentsIn their June 19th post entitled “Obama refuses to ‘meddle’ in Iran,” the BBC used a photo from a pro-Ahmadinejad rally in Iran and passed it off as a pro-Mousavi rally photo.
The website WhatReallyHappened.com, one of the most visited blogs in the United States, was the first to break the story which shows that the [...]
The ‘Stolen Elections’ Hoax – Prof. James Petras #IranElection
Thursday, June 18, 2009 20:17 No CommentsGlobal Research Article
Change for the poor means food and jobs, not a relaxed dress code or mixed recreation… Politics in Iran is a lot more about class war than religion.”
Financial Times Editorial, June 15 2009
There is hardly any election, in which the White House has a significant stake, where the electoral defeat of the pro-US [...]
War May Soon Be Our Only Export – Kucinich [Video]
Thursday, June 18, 2009 19:47 No Comments This was posted under category: Politics, VideoJPost Removes the Evidence and Issues a Response #IranElection
Wednesday, June 17, 2009 17:30 64 CommentsIn response to our recent post, which traced the bulk of the #IranElection twitter spam back to an article in JPost rather than “Iranian Students”, the Jerusalem newspaper has removed the evidence by altering their June 14th article (luckily, we kept the screenshot). JPost has also written a response to our allegations.
We argued that the [...]





















