December 2010
32 posts
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U.S. Pushing Genetically Modified Foods in Europe →
“U.S. diplomatic cables released by WikiLeaks reveal the Bush administration drew up ways to retaliate against Europe for refusing to use genetically modified seeds. In 2007, then-U.S. ambassador to France Craig Stapleton was concerned about France’s decision to ban cultivation of genetically modified corn produced by biotech giant Monsanto. He also warned that a new French...
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How Facts Backfire | BostonGlobe →
“In reality, we often base our opinions on our beliefs, which can have an uneasy relationship with facts. And rather than facts driving beliefs, our beliefs can dictate the facts we chose to accept. They can cause us to twist facts so they fit better with our preconceived notions. Worst of all, they can lead us to uncritically accept bad information just because it reinforces our...
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Obama Order to Formalize Permanent Detention... →
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The Internet Splits in Two →
‘There will soon be a fast Internet for the rich and a slow Internet for the poor.’
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Obama Flip-Flop: FCC Vote Could End Net Neutrality →
How the American internet is about to change.
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Chris Hedges: Obama is a "Poster Child for the... →
An important voice on the American left. Listen to this guy.
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Al Franken: The Most Important Free Speech Issue... →
“This Tuesday is an important day in the fight to save the Internet.”
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WikiRebels - The Documentary [Video] →
Fascinating Swedish TV documentary on the history of the Wikileaks organization, with exclusive staff interviews and behind-the-scenes footage.
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WikiLeaks cables lay bare US hostility to... →
“US embassy dispatches reveal American preoccupation with discerning court’s views on Iraq”
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What We Learn From WikiLeaks: Media paint... →
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NYTimes: World's Largest Arms Dealer Strains to... →
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World Public Opinion: Poll Finds U.S. Voters Were... →
“Following the first election since the Supreme Court has struck down limits on election-related advertising, a new poll finds that 9 in 10 voters said that in the 2010 election they encountered information they believed was misleading or false, with 56% saying this occurred frequently. Fifty-four percent said that it had been more frequent than usual, while just three percent said it...
WikiLeaks and Press Freedom: Is Treason a Civic... →
Excellent.
Noam Chomsky: the American Socrates on an Upbeat... →
“Noam Chomsky is the closest thing we have to Socrates in the American public square: a scathing questioner of virtually every common premise about who we Americans are and what we’re up to in the world. We’ve never heard him as mellow as this — ever wary of a hemlock ending, but good-humored about that, too.”
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Counterspin: Glenn Greenwald on WikiLeaks [Audio] →
Must listen. Greenwald starts at 9m45s.
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Pentagon Whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg: Julian... →
Daniel Ellsberg leaked the Pentagon Papers about the Vietnam War in 1971.
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What is Mental Environmentalism? →
“If a key insight of environmentalism was that external reality, nature, could be polluted by industrial toxins, the key insight of mental environmentalism is that internal reality, our minds, can be polluted by infotoxins.”
Wikileaks' Swedish Bunkers [Video] | Al Jazeera →
NYTimes: Europeans Criticize Fierce U.S. Response... →
“PARIS — The United States considers itself a shining beacon of democracy and openness, but for many Europeans Washington’s fierce reaction to the flood of secret diplomatic cables released by Wikileaks displays imperial arrogance and hypocrisy, indicating a post-9/11 obsession with secrecy that contradicts American principles”
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Copenhagen Climate Cables: The US and China Joined... →
The dispatches reveal that the US and China, the world’s top two polluters, joined forces to stymie every attempt by European nations to reach agreement.
Visa and Mastercard are happy to transfer... →
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U.S. Manipulation of Climate Talks Revealed in... →
The cables show how the US sought dirt on nations opposed to its approach to tackling global warming, how financial and other aid was used to gain political backing, and how the US mounted a secret global diplomatic offensive to overwhelm opposition to the “Copenhagen Accord.”
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United Nations Silent as NATO Destroys Potentially... →
‘The Washington Post and The New York Times indicate that the practice is widespread and they have confirmed that whole villages have been leveled.’
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The girl who silenced the world for 5 minutes... →
Remains good medicine for total despair on the environment. The UN delegates’ faces are priceless.
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A Real Jaw Dropper at the Federal Reserve |... →
$3.3 trillion in secret, no-strings loans to US and non-US corporations.
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Revealed: US Taxpayers Unwittingly Bailed Out... →
‘The Federal Reserve has revealed it lent $3,300 billion to US and non-US banks to avert financial meltdown.’
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Iraqi Concentration Camp Exposed [Video] →
‘People are being detained in concentration camps in Iraq under deplorable conditions without being charged with any crime.’
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Buy Nothing Christmas →
“Watch our infamous “North American Piggy” anti-advertisement for Buy Nothing Day – banned from MTV and other networks worldwide.”
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NYT's Iran Missiles Walkback →
Paper discovers reasons for skepticism
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The National Security State Cops a Feel | Le Monde... →
“At the height of Cold War hysteria…big and small penises were in play, symbolically speaking. Only now…are those penises perfectly real and, potentially, completely humiliating.”
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New York Times Beats Drums for War Against Iran... →
History repeating itself?
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Why Wikileaks is Good for Democracy | Bill Quigley →
‘Information about government contributes to a healthy democracy. Transparency and accountability are essential elements of good government.’
November 2010
27 posts
Nicolas Rossier: Talking with Jean-Bertrand... →
Haiti’s most popular politician is banned from the country.