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This week, the chief Palestinian negotiator, Saeb Erakat, announced that because Israeli settlements continue to grow (with de facto US support) and annex the land planned for a future Palestine, the Palestinians may have to abandon hopes for an independent state. He therefore urged Palestinians to fight for one democratic state where all citizens will be equal. With this announcement, many are wondering what the future of the Israeli occupation would look like. Meanwhile, Israel is continuing its technological evolution of the occupation, making it possible to institutionalize control over the occupation remotely. At the end of October, the joint Israeli-Palestinian Alternative Information Center held a conference in Bethlehem on economy of the occupation.

Daniel Ellsberg: The counter-insurgency plan in Afghanistan is similar to Viet Nam Pt3

Video: Daniel Ellsberg: The counter-insurgency plan in Afganistan is similar to Viet Nam Pt2

7 November, 2009 — Palestine Think Tank



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Adam Shapiro is an American co-founder of the International Solidarity Movement (ISM).

Video: Widely-celebrated, US-brokered agreement looks to have strengthened coup instead of reversing it

5 November, 2009 — Real News Network
Daniel Ellsberg: The counter-insurgency plan in Afganistan is similar to Viet Nam



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Jon Hendricks founder of the incomparable Lambert, Hendricks & Ross vocal trio, singing his translation of the classic Miles Davis track, accompanied by Bobby McFerrin, George Benson…

Communist America is an oxymoron – or is it? Carl Dix a representative of America’s Revolutionary Communist Party thinks that political change IS possible in the US. He spoke to RT’s Anastasia Churkina.

21 October, 2009 — Real News Network
Craig Murray says UK and USA sent prisoners to Uzbekistan to be tortured




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In all, Goldman sold more than $57 billion in risky mortgage-backed securities during a 14-month period in 2006 and 2007, including nearly $39 billion issued from mortgages it purchased. Meanwhile, the firm peddled billions of dollars in complex deals, many of them tied to subprime mortgages, in the Caymans and other offshore locations.

Youssef: Pentagon officials are going public with plan to set-up indefinitely in the region. Real News Senior Editor Paul Jay sits down the Nancy Youssef, the Pentagon Correspondent for McClatchy Newspapers. They discuss the debate over US objectives in the region and the disagreement, at least on the surface, between the Pentagon and Obama’s White House on what is to be done in Afghanistan, and what that means for the strategy moving forward.

Ursula Huws is the author of The Making of a Cybertariat: Real Work in a Virtual World, and the founder and editor of the journal Work Organisation, Labour and Globalisation. The director of Analytica Social and Economic Research and honorary Professor of International Labour Studies at London Metropolitan University, she is renowned for her pioneering research on the economic and social impacts of technological change, the telemediated relocation of employment and the changing international division of labour, especially in the global service sector.

Video: Thirty-six thousand dead every year from the flu? Twenty thousand? Fifteen thousand? No, no, and no. Not even close.

Video: Mexico has taken steps to allow foreigners whether legally or illegally, to apply for citizenship

Al Jazeera’s Shihab Rattansi talks to Judge Richard Goldstone about the investigation into the Gaza war. He travelled to the United Nations in New York to find out if the war on Gaza has transformed Richard Goldstone from a sober jurist into a man on a mission to discredit Israel on an international stage.

The Imperial College Political Philosophy Society, in association with Palestine societies at UCL, SOAS, Goldsmiths, LSE, Imperial and Kings, proudly present one of the greatest political philosophers of all time: MIT Professor Emeritus Noam Chomsky, for what could be his last trip to London.

Williams: Articulating demands and needs of working class people is what's required from the movement

Williams: Over the last several years the left has been suffering from demoralization and demobilization