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Shawn Achor: The happy secret to better work |... →
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October 2012
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August 2012
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Top Ten Differences Between White Terrorists and Others
1. White terrorists...
– Top Ten Differences between White Terrorists and Others
Juan Cole
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RT @marklittlenews: Seeing is believing: Human rights content in the age of...
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July 2012
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EU move to upgrade relations with Israel →
Very disappointing: EU giving away huge bargaining chip with no concessions from Israel on settlements.
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June 2012
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Trials of Henry Kissinger
Excellent documentary, originally released ten years ago, and based on a Christopher Hitchens book on the same subject. It looks at Kissinger’s considerable involvement in the Vietnam war, and the horrific bombardment of Cambodia, and subsequent association with the Indonesian invasion of East Timor, and also the coup overthrowing Allende in Chile.
It’s...
April 2012
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Then they tortured. They tortured men at military bases and detention centers in...
– Larry Siems, in Slate, details what he found as he read 140,000 declassified documents, which show how the US tortured prisoners in it’s captivity since 9/11.
The declassified documents came:
Thanks to a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit—a lawsuit the New York Times has called“among the...
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The Euro is Still Doomed: Why Most of the News Out... →
Some grim realism from The Atlantic regarding the fiscal situation in Europe. It’s hard to be optimistic.
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March 2012
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Joseph Kony is not in Uganda (and other... →
The Kony2012 video which is currently going viral is the slickest and best (and probably most costly) activism video I’ve ever seen. Most NGO’s would do anything for a campaign video even half as effective.
While I would wonder how ethical it is spending so much on the film, it is excellent, and in the space of a few days Joseph Kony has become very well know, beyond demographics...
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Palestinian rights defender banned from traveling... →
I was happy to see that director of respected Palestinian human rights organisation Al Haq, Shawan Jabarin, was permitted recently by the Israeli authorities to leave the West Bank for the first time in six years. In 2006 Israel imposed a travel ban on him, based on “secret evidence” which neither Jabarin nor his lawyers have had access to.
I had the privilege to meet Shawan shortly...
February 2012
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Collapse of the Celtic Tiger - People & Power - Al... →
Collapse of the Celtic Tiger
This documentary aired on Al Jazeera a little while ago. It covers how Ireland went from boom to bust in a few short years, and how the economic crash is impacting the people. Worth watching, and makes one question why the Irish taxpayers are continuing to pay the Anglo bondholders.
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What War on Religion? →
Good piece from Mother Jones on why, despite recent rather loud protestations, Obama has NOT declared war on religion.
January 2012
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Piss on War: Death, Desecration, and Afghanistan →