Tens of thousands march in the first organised demonstration since unrest broke out in the Gulf Arab nation. [Read “Bahrain protesters back in action”.]
Noha Radwan
20 February 2011
On February 16, Roger Ebert, an American film critic and commentator, tweeted: “The attack on Lara Logan brings Middle East attitudes toward women into sad focus.” While the attack on CBS News correspondent Lara Logan was a tragic and upsetting event, it needs to be understood in its political context. Any attempt to propound this in such familiar orientalist terms would be offensive and unfair, not only to Egyptians protesting for democracy, but to Logan herself. She was not attacked as a woman–although the gendered nature of the assault is indisputable; she was attacked as a professional journalist and a supporter of the Egyptian protest. I, too, was attacked, probably by the same type of thugs who attacked Logan. I understand both attacks in light of Egypt’s political conditions and the role of the Egyptian women in an ongoing struggle against oppressive and undemocratic government. The heinous attacks mark much more than “attitudes towards women.” Perhaps they mark the desperation of a dying regime.
By Jim Harkness
February 17, 2011
A version of this commentary appeared in Policy Innovations, a publication of the Carnegie Council.
When global food prices spiked in 2007-08, a hundred million people were added to the ranks of the world’s hungry, pushing the total number over 1 billion for the first time in history. Now, just two years later, we are seeing another food price hike, and more famine is likely to follow.
Earlier this month, the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) published its global food price index for January 2011. The agency’s index was at its highest level (both in real and nominal terms) since the FAO started measuring food prices in 1990. Food riots have already begun in Algeria. As history repeats itself and the second major global food crisis in two years takes shape, it is vital that we learn the lessons of the first crisis, and address its fundamental causes.
Click here to continue reading, “Is Famine the New Normal?” by Jim Harkness.
Christie Books
10 February 2011
Interview (in English with Spanish subtitles) with Daniele Ganser, author of NATO’s Secret Armies. Operation Gladio and Terrorism in Western Europe. Ganser talks to Tania Gálvez San José about the strategy of tension, ‘false flag’ terrorism and how NATO — under the auspices of US and Western European intelligence services, including MI6 — organised secret armies in Europe from 1944 until the early 1990s, recruiting neo-fascists and ultra-right wingers to infiltrate and discredit the European extra-parliamentary left, spread ‘black propaganda’ and organise and implement terrorist acts falsely attributable to libertarian extra-parliamentarians with the sole purpose of creating a climate of fear to justify ‘muscular government’, the introduction of repressive legislation to ‘suppress subversion’ and ‘the enemies of the status quo’and contain any ‘drift’ to the left.
See also: Stefano Delle Chiaie: Portrait of a Black Terrorist (1984) and on this site and Pinelli and the Piazza Fontana – Italy’s Cold War –
See also the following FILMS: Gladio 1 – The Ringmasters; Gladio 2 The Puppeteers; Gladio 3 – The Footsoldiers; L’Orchestre Noir; Nella Citta Perduta di Sarzana; Piazza Fontana – 12 December 1969; Il Filo della memoria Giuseppe Pinelli; S’era tutti sovversivi – a Franco Serantini; Storia – Strage di Stato – Three hypotheses on the death of Pinelli ; Italian fascism
Financial crooks brought down the world’s economy — but the feds are doing more to protect them than to prosecute them
By Matt Taibbi
February 16, 2011
Over drinks at a bar on a dreary, snowy night in Washington this past month, a former Senate investigator laughed as he polished off his beer.
“Everything’s fucked up, and nobody goes to jail,” he said. “That’s your whole story right there. Hell, you don’t even have to write the rest of it. Just write that.”
I put down my notebook. “Just that?”
“That’s right,” he said, signaling to the waitress for the check. “Everything’s fucked up, and nobody goes to jail. You can end the piece right there.”
Click here to continue reading, “Why Isn’t Wall Street in Jail?” by Matt Taibbi.
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