Auteur/autrice : Heidi Barathieu-Brun

Congress Gives Native American Lands to Foreign Mining Company With New NDAA

Published on Global Research.ca, by RT, Dec 8, 2014.

(The 113th US-) Congress is poised to give a foreign mining company 2,400 acres of national forest in Arizona that is cherished ancestral homeland to Apache natives. Controversially, the measure is attached to annual legislation that funds the US Defense Department … //

… Arizona Sen. John McCain was instrumental in adding to the NDAA the land deal that had been pursued by Rio Tinto for a decade, according to HuffPo. Some in Congress were reportedly concerned with the deal, but it ultimately materialized thanks to economic assurances. Rio Tinto claims mining in Tonto will generate $61 billion in economic activity and 3,700 direct and indirect jobs over 40 years.   Continuer la lecture de « Congress Gives Native American Lands to Foreign Mining Company With New NDAA »

War by media and the triumph of propaganda

Published on ZNet (first on TeleSUR english), by John Pilger, Dec 6, 2014.

Why has so much journalism succumbed to propaganda? Why are censorship and distortion standard practice? Why is the BBC so often a mouthpiece of rapacious power? Why do the New York Times and the Washington Post deceive their readers?

Why are young journalists not taught to understand media agendas and to challenge the high claims and low purpose of fake objectivity? And why are they not taught that the essence of so much of what’s called the mainstream media is not information, but power?   Continuer la lecture de « War by media and the triumph of propaganda »

On the Republicans and the 1% – Noam Chomsky

Video – Interview with Noam Chomsky: Can we save our Democracy and History, 28.04 min, uploaded by The Chomsky Videos, Dec 3, 2014 – (see (US-)Republicans ‘dedicated with utter servility’ to the needs of the 1 percent – Noam Chomsky, on RawStory, by Scott Kaufman, Dec 5, 2014): “The last vote,” he said, referring to the November elections:

  • “was the lowest turnout since 1940, in the middle of [World War II], when people couldn’t vote.”
  • “Why? Because people understand what is shown in academic political science — that their voices just don’t matter. The opinions of the lowest 70 percent of the population — the lowest on the income scale — are simply disregarded” … //

… (full text).

Chomsky in 2014: FULL List and SMALL Clips, on raw story.   Continuer la lecture de « On the Republicans and the 1% – Noam Chomsky »

what happens?

Abbas and the ISIS scheme, on Al-Ahram weekly online, by Dina Ezzat, Dec 5, 2014: Arab heavyweights are backing Abbas’s Palestinian Authority, not in the hope of reaching a final status deal with Israel, but in order to focus on ISIS and militant threats;

Egypt: Trial and revolution, on Al-Ahram weekly online, by Amira Howeid, Dec 5, 2014: Mubarak’s trials say much about Egypt’s post revolution political trajectory;   Continuer la lecture de « what happens? »

Eric Garner: WHAT IS THIS PROTEST ABOUT?

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