Bookmarks... 08/31/2010

• The Secret Killers: Covert Assassins Charged With Hunting Down and Killing Afghans - Another World Is Possible

  tags: Afghanistan US War Imperialism Human rights Civilians Assasination 2010

• Enthusiasm for Palestinian prime minister isn't shared by Palestinians - latimes.com

  tags: Fayyad Abbas Bush Imperialism US Palestine Fat'h Traitors 2010

• ‘Sinner’ singer given 39 lashes by rabbis

  tags: Judaism Jews Rabbi lashes Punishment Israel Religion

• Government Think Tank Calls For Infiltrating 'Conspiracy' Websites | empirestrikesblack

  tags: UK Web Internet Activism Truth Censorship History

• ei: Art as resistance: "Against the Wall" reviewed

  tags: Art Resistance Revolution Palestine Israel Imperialism

• Russia to partially privatize major industries

  tags: Russia Capitalism Capitalization privatization

• US soldiers punished for not attending Christian rock concert

  tags: US Soliders Discrimination Religion Rock Concert

• Twenty-Five Years Since the Split with the Workers Revolutionary Party

  tags: US Socialism Socialists workers Party Left Movement

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Bookmarks... 08/29/2010

• U.S. Withdrawal from Iraq is Fiction - Another World Is Possible - Annotated

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• The New Atheism and Islam | Clergy Corner - Annotated

  • "Beyond Belief: Science, Religion, Reason and Survival"
  • Anti-religious sentiment that came to a head in the French Revolution found expression as philosophical atheism with Auguste Comte (d. 1857) and Ludwig Feuerbach (d. 1872) and became militant in the Communist movement.

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Bookmarks... 08/28/2010

• Naomi Klein, Hernando de Soto and Joseph Stiglitz on Economic Power « P U L S E

  "Naomi Klein, Hernando de Soto and Joseph Stiglitz"

  tags: Naomi Klein Hernando de Soto Joseph Stiglitz Capitalism Symposium Economy

• 10,000 Tube staff to strike to defend jobs and safety | Counterfire

  tags: Tube Strike workers Jobs Capitalism Job losses

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Bookmarks... 08/27/2010

• In Canada, the Thought Police try to prevent students from learning about Palestine « Sixteen Minutes to Palestine

  tags: Canada Israel Palestine Settlers Abuses Novel Thought Police Lobby

• Strobist: Lighting 101

  tags: Lighting Flash photography Tips Tutorials

• The post-war war in Iraq | Socialist Alternative

  tags: War Iraq US Imperialism Occupation Withdrawal UK

• 10 things non-technical users don’t understand about your software « Successful Software

  tags: software Programming Users Tips Technicality Issues

• Armed settler guards attack mosque in Wadi Hilweh, shots fired at Palestinian residents | International Solidarity Movement

  tags: Palestine Occupation Israel Wadi Hilwen Settlers Mosque Attacks

• UN Slow to Respond to Gang Rape of Almost 200 Women in the Congo

  tags: UN Congo Rape Human rights Gang Rape

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Bookmarks... 08/26/2010

• CIA wants to cover up US war crimes in Yemen — War in Context

  tags: Yemen US War Crimes Human rights Missiles Civilians Death

• Direct talks are pointless and Netanyahu and Abbas can keep their words to themselves « Sixteen Minutes to Palestine

  tags: Abbas Netanyahu Israel Palestine Direct Talks Negotiations Peace US

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Bookmarks... 08/25/2010

• HP Labs: Most Popular Twitter Users May Not Be Most Influential

  tags: hp Twitter Social Media Followers Influence Activism

• Bangladesh textile factories shut over pay dispute [ WORLD BULLETIN- TURKEY NEWS, WORLD NEWS ]

  tags: Bangladesh workers Strike Textile Capitalism Globalization Asia

• Textile strikes rock Bangladesh | SocialistWorker.org - Annotated

  tags: Bangladesh workers Strike Textile Capitalism Globalization Asia

  • OVER THE past month, Bangladesh's textile industry--one of the most exploitative in the world--has been rocked by strikes and protests.

• After the Australian election: The way forward for the working class - Annotated

  tags: Australia parliament Elections Hung parliament bourgeois

  • Not since 1931 has a first-time government failed to be returned to office and there has been no hung parliament since 1940.
  • For the ruling class, the inability of both major parties to form a stable government signifies that parliamentary mechanisms are becoming increasingly unviable under conditions of deepening global economic crisis and heightening geo-political tensions.

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Bookmarks... 08/24/2010

• Iran enhances its capacity to shut down the global oil supply — War in Context

  tags: Iran US Israel Weapons Imperialism Nuclear weapons

• Wikileaks: The Real Stuff - Another World Is Possible

  tags: Wikileaks Human rights Freedom of Expression Freedom of Press Press Media US Pentagon

• Criminalization of peaceful protest continues: more arrests at weekly demonstrations | International Solidarity Movement

  tags: Demonstration Israel Palestine Activism Activists Human rights

• Masterminds, mosques and mass insanity - Another World Is Possible

  tags: Ground Zero Mosque NYC Insanity Conservatism Racism Media Elections US

• Climate Change Affects Biodiversity — Global Issues

  tags: Climate Environment Heat Biology Biodiversity Evolution

• Palestinian prisoner smashes her head against cell wall to get rid of pain

  tags: Palestine Palestinians prisoners Israel Human rights Pain

• Maan News Agency: Report: Egypt to re-purchase natural gas sold to Israel

  tags: Natural Gas Israel Egypt Pimps A7a Import Traitors

• Dervishes دراويش - a set on Flickr

  tags: Dervishes 3arabawy Photography photography Photos

• Unseen Lives: Migrant Domestic Workers in Lebanon – JustImage.org | Matthew Cassel

  tags: Migrants workers Proletariat Human rights Work Conditions Lebanon photography Photos

• The Frame: NYC mosque protests - Annotated

  tags: photography Photos Ground Zero Mosque Racism Bigotry US NYC

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Bookmarks... 08/23/2010

• YouTube - funtwo - Happy Birthday To You

  tags: Happy Birthday Metal Music Electric Guitar

• Facebook | Mohammad Ahmad Hamama

• Nothing depleted about 'depleted uranium' - Another World Is Possible

  tags: Depleted Uranium Uranium Weapons Human rights US

• “Without A Revolution, Americans Are History.” - Another World Is Possible - Annotated

  tags: US America crisis Revolution Capitalism

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• Wikipedia Editing for Zionists - The Lede Blog - NYTimes.com

  tags: Israel wikipedia Activism Internet Zionism

• None Dare Call It Tyranny - Another World Is Possible

  tags: US Tyranny Dictatorship Capitalism Imperialism

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Bookmarks... 08/22/2010

• The political and social roots of Russia’s wildfire disaster

  tags: Russia Wildfire Disaster crisis

• Israel lobby pushes US to attack Iran « P U L S E

  tags: Israel US Iran War Imperialism

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Bookmarks... 08/20/2010

• Documents - The Arabist

  tags: US Egypt Military Aids Capitalism Aids

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Bookmarks... 08/19/2010

• Lebanon: Commemorating Ashura - Images | Matthew Cassel Photography

  tags: Ashura Lebanon Commemoration Festivals Shia'a Islam

• Hizballah’s Ashura – JustImage.org | Matthew Cassel

  tags: Hizbullah Shia'a Islam Festivals Ashura Lebanon

• ei: Students, boycott Israel's propagandist youth festival!

  tags: Israel BDS Boycott Palestine Activism Statement students

• American Zionist Council - Department of Information and Public Relations Reports

  tags: Documents Israel US PR Media Imperialism

• Ramadan Kareem from the Netanyahu and Obama Administrations | Intifada Palestine

  tags: Palestine Palestinians Israel Human rights Occupation

• Now that the oil well is capped... - The Big Picture - Boston.com

  tags: photography Photos Oil Oil spill US Environment Pollution Capitalism

• Relationships are good for your health - The Independant - Annotated

  tags: Relationships Love Hormones Stress Health

  • Scientists found students given tests they believed would affect their career
    prospects had much less of the stress hormone cortisol flowing through their
    bodies if they had a partner.
  • Scientists found students given tests they believed would affect their career
    prospects had much less of the stress hormone cortisol flowing through their
    bodies if they had a partner.

• The Ultimate Wedding Photography Checklist « The Phoblographer

  tags: photography Wedding Photos Tips

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Bookmarks... 08/18/2010

• ei: Economic and political pressures at Ramadan

  tags: Israel Palestine Palestinians Work Jobs Human rights Ramadan Economy

• The Frame: Kashmir: Valley of Tears

  tags: Kashmir India Demonstrations Protests Photos

• Kashmir: Where Is Our Sky? - Another World Is Possible

  tags: Kashmir India War

• GOP Blank Check for War? « Patrick J. Buchanan - Annotated

  tags: GOP US War Imperialism Capitalism

  • High among the blunders of history was the “blank cheque” Kaiser Wilhelm gave Vienna, after the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, to deal with the Serbs as they saw fit.
  • H.R. 1553
  • unequivocal “support for Israel’s right to use all means necessary to confront and eliminate nuclear threats posed by Iran … including the use of military force.”

• Indianapolis auto workers drive UAW executives out of meeting

  tags: workers Strike Protest Capitalism Employees Employers

• أبعد من شهود الزور | جريدة الأخبار

  tags: Hariri Assasination Lebanon Israel Imperialism Hizbullah Investigation

• Wall Street celebrates the destruction of workers’ jobs and wages - Annotated

  tags: Wall Street US Capitalism workers Job losses Credit Crisis Bailout

  • GM is expected to file papers this week for an Initial Public Offering (IPO) of stock later this fall.

• Secret diary of a temp worker | Counterfire - Annotated

  tags: Diary of a worker workers Work Conditions Capitalism Directors

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  • "They treat us like shit and pay us a pittance because there's always someone desperate enough to work like this"

• Ramadan in New York City - Photo Journal - WSJ

  tags: Ramadan photography Photos

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Bookmarks... 08/17/2010

• Peace does not come in the form of a loaded gun: Thoughts on Abir Aramin, age 10 « Sixteen Minutes to Palestine

  tags: Abir Aramin Israel Palestine Children Gaza

• History of climate gets 'erased' online - Another World Is Possible

  tags: Global Warming Environment Disaster Plot Archive History

• Storm over Israeli 'abuse' photos - Middle East - Al Jazeera English

  tags: Israel Human rights Democracy Torture Eden Abergil Photos Assault

• Army violently attack Hebron demo again – yet only an innocent British peace activist is charged with assault | International Solidarity Movement - Annotated

  tags: Israel Human rights Democracy Demonstrations Protests

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• Obama's Gulf Swim Was Fake - Another World Is Possible

  tags: Obama Oil Oil spill Gulf Environment BP

• Lebanon in Danger of Becoming Hizbullah’s Next Terror Capital « P U L S E - Annotated

  tags: War Imperialism Israel US Lebanon Hizbullah Humanity

  • One of the advantages of Israeli collective punishment of various Arab populations is that when hundreds or thousands of civilians are killed, it is naturally impossible to delve into the circumstances of each individual tragedy and victims are often reduced to mere statistics
  • no corresponding sense of humanity is offered to Palestinian victims of Israeli aggression

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Bookmarks... 08/16/2010

• The Atlantic :: Magazine :: The Point of No Return - Annotated

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• How propagandists function: Exhibit A | empirestrikesblack - Annotated

  • Goldberg wouldn’t possibly claim what he claims now — that the 1981 strike permanently halted Saddam’s “nuclear ambitions” — because, back then, his goal was to scare Americans about The Threat of Saddam.
  • But now, Goldberg has a different goal:  to convince Americans of the efficacy of bombing Iran, and thus, without batting an eye, he simply asserts the exact opposite factual premise:  that the Israelis successfully and permanently ended Saddam’s nuclear ambition back in 1981 by bombing it out of existence (and, therefore, we can do something similar now to Iran).

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Bookmarks... 08/15/2010

• U.S. Leading The Terror In Afghanistan - Another World Is Possible

  tags: Afghanistan US War Imperialism Terrorism Human rights

• Annabel Lee by Edgar Allan Poe - Annotated

  • And this maiden she lived with no other thought
    Than to love and be loved by me
  • And neither the angels in heaven above,
  • Nor the demons down under the sea,
    Can ever dissever my soul from the soul
    Of the beautiful Annabel Lee.

• The Opium Wars in Afghanistan - Another World Is Possible - Annotated

  tags: Afghanistan US War Imperialism Opium Heroin Business Capitalism

  • reputedly hidden inside the area's mud-brick houses, regularly processing the local poppy crop into high-grade heroin

• Aryn Baker, Time Magazine's Afghanistan Reporter, Failed To Disclose Conflict Of Interest: NY Observer [UPDATE] - Annotated

  tags: Time journalism Professionalism A7a Imperialism Cover Story Afghanistan US

  • In other words, the Time reporter who wrote a story bolstering the case for war appears to have benefited materially from the NATO invasion.
  • "quite a bit of involvement from ISAF [NATO's International Security Assistance Force, commanded until recently by Stanley Gen. McChrystal] and coalition forces.

• 150 Irish artists pledge to boycott Israel - The Irish Times - Fri, Aug 13, 2010 - Annotated

  tags: Israel Ireland Boycott BDS

  • A CULTURAL boycott of Israel was launched yesterday, with more than 150 Irish artists announcing that they intend not to perform or exhibit in Israel, or to accept any funding from institutions linked to the Israeli government.

• Depth of Field - Annotated

  tags: photography Photos Tips Depth of Field Tutorials

  • distance
    between the nearest and farthest objects that appear in acceptably sharp focus in
    a photograph
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Bookmarks... 08/13/2010

• Canadian postal workers put stamp of approval on bid to break Gaza blockade

  tags: Canada Israel Boycott BDS Siege Activism workers Capitalism Imperialism

• The myth of Israeli morality - Focus - Al Jazeera English - Annotated

  tags: Gaza War Israel Palestine Resistance Flotilla Massacre

  • Israel has, in fact, at different times reacted with repression or even extreme violence to cultural and political manifestations of Palestinian identity.

• In pictures: Gaza Massacre « Pak Alert Press

  tags: Israel Massacre Gaza 2009 Photos

• Fired Workers Protest, Prepare for NLRB Hearing in Two-Year Union Fight | Industrial Workers of the World

  "Fired Workers Protest, Prepare for NLRB Hearing in Two-Year Union Fight"

  tags: Work Conditions workers Capitalism Job losses Protests Demonstrations Strike Struggle

• Articles - Enhancing Reality: Surrealism in Photography | iStockphoto.com - Annotated

  tags: photography Photos Digital Photography Surrealism Art

  • seems to bridge the gap between the lucidity of a dream-like world and the harshness of reality
  • The Dada Movement was created as a slap in the face to an ugly war mongering society.
  • would create in a darkroom by using Photoshop

• Framing Your Subject | Online Photo Resource | Photography Tips and Tools

  tags: photography Tips Digital Photography Framing

• Net Neutrality Threatened - Another World Is Possible

  tags: Net Neutrality Internet Freedom of Expression Human rights Verizon Google

• Captured: Flooding in Pakistan – Plog Photo Blog

  tags: photography Photos Pakistan Floods Disaster

• ISO Settings in Digital Photography

  tags: ISO photography Digital Photography Tips

• Photography - Hossam el-Hamalawy on Diigo

  tags: Hamalawy photography Digital Photography Tips Tutorials

• How to Shoot Light Trails

  tags: Digital Photography photography Tips Light Trails

• Rule of Thirds

  tags: Digital Photography photography Tips

• Four Rules of Photographic Composition - Annotated

  tags: Digital Photography photography Tips

  • This rule states that for an image to be visually interesting, the main focus of the image needs to lie along one of the lines marked in thirds

• 10 Quick, Easy and Intuitive Tips to Improve your Photography - Annotated

  tags: photography Digital Photography Tips

  • Use the shutter speed to your advantage
  • Use reflective surfaces

• Solarisation - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

  tags: photography Solarisation

• The Myth of the US Military Aid to Lebanon - Another World Is Possible - Annotated

  • According the Israeli daily Haaretz, in the past five years, the Lebanese Army has been the second largest recipient of US military assistance per capita after Israel.

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Bookmarks... 08/12/2010

• US Federal Reserve reassures markets, offers no help to the unemployed - Annotated

  • the slowdown in US economic growth
  • while taking no measures to seriously address the worsening jobs crisis.
  • and moved to reassure the financial markets

• The Point of No Return - Magazine - The Atlantic - Annotated

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• If Israel Were Founded By Angels : Political Theatrics

  tags: Israel Imperialism Capitalism War Palestine Human rights Occupation Gaza

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