Monthly Archives: January 2010

Caught out: Stealing Palestinian images for Israeli causes (updated)

Posted on 20 January, 2010 by

This extraordinary appropriation of Palestinian images by the Israeli Meir Panim organization, picked up by Khalid Amayreh, shows a sinking to new lows.  Amid the Haiti hasbara, we now see that even Palestinian child victims of Israeli policies are to … Continue reading →

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The Merchants of Fear: Israel’s Profiting from Homeland Insecurity

Posted on 20 January, 2010 by

By Maidhc Ó Cathail In the wake of the weird Christmas Day “underwear bomber” incident on Northwest Flight 253, former Homeland Security chief Michael Chertoff, as if on cue, was all over the mainstream media touting whole-body scanners as the … Continue reading →

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‘Every language is an old-growth forest of the mind’

Posted on 8 January, 2010 by

An excellent TED talk by Wade Davis on endangered languages and the ethnosphere. National Geographic Explorer Wade Davis celebrates the extraordinary diversity of the world’s indigenous cultures, disappearing from the planet at an alarming rate, and what it means for … Continue reading →

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Terrorists R US

Posted on 7 January, 2010 by

An excellent short testimony from Mike Prysner, an Iraq war veteran connecting the dots between corporatism and militarism. To learn more about Michael Prysner and the organization he helped co-found, see March Forward!

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