My Bookmarx 12/02/2010

• Carne Ross: The End of Diplomacy As We Know It

  It will take a long time, perhaps many years, for the full impact of the WikiLeaks disclosure of thousands of US diplomatic cables to become known. Make no mistake: this is an event of historic importance — for all governments, and not only the US.

  tags: Wikileaks cablegate usa diplomacy foreignpolicy history

• 7 وثائق.. نص الترجمة لوثائق ويكليس عن مصر وأمريكا وإسرائيل | الدستور

  Wikileaks U.S. State Department cables >> Cairo embassy — Translated into arabic

  tags: Wikileaks egypt arabic Nawara dostor cablegate

• WikiLeaks’ Plan To Take Down A Major Bank | Disinformation

  ulian Assange, perhaps THE man of the media moment, says that early in 2011 WikiLeaks will disclose documents so damning that their release could “take down a bank or two.”

  tags: Wikileaks banks bankers usa fraud financial_crisis

  • t will give a true and representative insight into how banks behave at the executive level in a way that will stimulate investigations and reforms, I presume.

• Interpol puts Assange on most-wanted list – CNN.com

  Interpol has put WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange on its most-wanted list at the request of a Swedish court looking into alleged sex crimes from this year.

  tags: Wikileaks freedom Liberty fraud

• OpEdNews – Article: JFK: What We Know Now

  With the advent of the 47th observance of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, it may be appropriate to share important findings regarding what we know now about his death that we have not known in the past.

  tags: usa JFK history investigation murder assassination conspiracy

• Q&A: Noam Chomsky – by David Samuels > Tablet Magazine – A New Read on Jewish Life

  It seems safe to say that no living intellectual has enraged more people with more predictable regularity than Noam Chomsky.

  tags: Noam_Chomsky interview hezballah lebanon zionism Israel

• Thanksgiving: Celebrating The Genocide Of Native Americans | NEWS JUNKIE POST

  The sad reality about the United States of America is that in a matter of a few hundreds years it has managed to re-write its own history into a mythological fantasy.

  tags: usa history thanks_giving genocide indigenous_people Native_Americans

• الدائـــــرة الشـــــــــريرة

  أطرف ما تجده في الصحافة المستقلة والمعارضة هذه الأيام ذلك الولع الشديد بالمقالات والأبحاث المنشورة والأقوال الذائعة في الصحف والإذاعات والفضائيات الأمريكية والبريطانية عن مصر وأحوالها السياسية والاقتصادية 0f

  tags: egypt politics ndp elections fraud opposition muslim_brotherhood

• Islamophobia Inc. | SocialistWorker.org

  the business of Islamophobia–a multimillion-dollar industry that profits from promoting fear of Arabs and Muslims as part of the U.S. “war on terror.”

  tags: islamophobia business war_on_terrorism europe usa west islam muslims

  • Steve Emerson is the owner of SAE Productions–a company that took in $3,390,000 in 2008 alone “for researching alleged ties between American Muslims and overseas terrorism. The payment came from the Investigative Project on Terrorism Foundation, a nonprofit charity Emerson also founded, which solicits money by telling donors they’re in imminent danger from Muslims.”
  • As Frankie Martin, a research fellow at American University’s School of International Service, recently wrote in the Washington Post, there is now an “infrastructure” of anti-Muslim hate in the U.S.:

• Class war in America | SocialistWorker.org

  Even as millions of out-of-work and otherwise struggling Americans are tightening their belts for the holidays, the nation’s elite are lacing up their dancing shoes and partying like royalty as the millions and billions keep rolling in.

  tags: usa class class_war rich poor capitalism

  • Recessions are for the little people, not for the corporate chiefs and the titans of Wall Street who are at the heart of the American aristocracy. They have waged economic warfare against everybody else and are winning big time.

• BBC News – Wikileaks release of embassy cables reveals US concerns

  Whistle-blowing website Wikileaks has begun releasing extracts from secret cables sent by US embassies, giving an insight into current global concerns.

  tags: Wikileaks foreignpolicy usa cablegate diplomacy Hillary-Clinton obama

  • They include reports of some Arab leaders – including Saudi Arabia’s King Abdullah – urging the US to attack Iran and end its nuclear weapons programme.

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