February 2012
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“The idea was to create a project not to replace the Iraqi health system but, as...”
– Dr. Assamarraie, an Iraqi surgeon and deputy medical coordinator of MSF’s program in Amman for the chronically wounded, in an interview with Warscapes. (via doctorswithoutborders)
Best thing US Activists Can Do to Support...
This is a 20 minute audio file of a talk I gave yesterday about the MENA Uprisings/Arab spring/whatever you want to call it.
Resources and references are available, and I recommended 10 specific actions for U.S. activists.
At minute 10, the recording failed, and some of my talk was not recorded. I ended with the story of the scorpion and the frog.
10 things US Activists Can do to Support...
End USA hostility towards Iran (fcnl.org)
Free Bradley Manning
Step up your involvement with Amnesty International
End the war on drugs
Restore rehabilitation in US Prisons
Comprehensive immigration reform
Reduce carbon emissions
Reclaim the university and don’t take its claims at face value
Go to Egypt and Tunisia for tourism or study abroad
Support School of the Americas Watch
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WatchJielis van Baalen is a journalist working in Egypt for Ghazala Productions. He discusses his experience of the Arab Spring and the impact on the Christian Church in Egypt.
NYPD monitored Muslim students all over Northeast →
The New York Police Department monitored Muslim college students far more broadly than previously known, at schools far beyond the city limits, including the elite Ivy League colleges of Yale and the University of Pennsylvania, The Associated Press has learned
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Shock and Awe: Use our magic to get the natives to...
The #USA #military made #racist assumption that Shock and Awe in #Iraq would lead to total surrender.
Just like some believe that the First Nations of Central America allowed the Spanish to conquer them because they thought a white god would come from the east, or that the Spaniards’ horses and guns created a mystical fear which prevented resistance, the United States believed it could use...
Meet Town Left In Millionaire Debt By Private... →
US Security Class and N African-SW Asian...
This blog entry contains sources I cited and supplemental sources in my talk at the University of South Carolina’s Amnesty International chapter meeting on the Arab Spring.
Glenn Greenwald explains the US security class, September 3, 2009.
Secretary of State Hilary Clinton Praises Mubarak Regime on January 25, 2011
Will Obama Lose Egypt as Jimmy Carter Lost Iran? Fox News, January 31,...
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“What the EU is trying to do with this trade agreement is effectively slowly...”
– Piero Gandini Head of Mission for MSF in India
India has been called the “pharmacy of the developing world” because it produces a large number of high-quality, affordable generic medicines. MSF and other treatment providers also rely on Indian generic medicines to treat other diseases and...
