Matt Taibbi has just published a major new investigative piece on Goldman Sachs, “The People vs Goldman Sachs,” in the new issue of Rolling Stone. Following are some of Taibbi’s media appearances to discuss the article.
Author: alannahpriestley
Julian Assange’s Sydney Peace Medal speech
Julian Assange was recently awarded the Sydney Peace Foundation (SPF)’s peace medal, presented to him in London. The event was organised at the Frontline Club. Assange’s acceptance address follows introductions by the SPF’s Stuart Rees and Mary Kostikidis.
A write up of a Q&A section with Assange, which followed the speeches, can be found here (part I) and here (part II).
Vodpod videos no longer available.
UAE’s ‘for-profit, no-Muslim’ army of repression
The Nation’s brilliant Jeremy Scahill on the Rachel Maddow show discussing Blackwater CEO Erik Prince’s new UAE venture. (For more see Scahill’s post on his blog).
Egypt marks al-Nakba
Protesters shot dead for shouting: Nakba Remembrance Day 2011
by Brenda Heard
The 15th of May is a day of remembrance. Around the world, we remember the systematic displacement and massacre of the Palestinian people. In their honour, we take note of the necessity of safeguarding the sliver of impoverished land that has been left to the survivors. We pay tribute to those who have refused to be stomped into oblivion.
Yet the Israeli newspaper Haaretz bemoans self-righteously the ‘Palestinian protests for the annual Nakba Day, which mourns the creation of the State of Israel’. At this phraseology we can only shake our heads and say, ‘no, it is not about you; it is about the injustice done to the Palestinian people; it is this injustice that is the catastrophe’.
Continue reading “Protesters shot dead for shouting: Nakba Remembrance Day 2011”
Return to Occupied Golan
UPDATE I: Ali Abunimah describes below what is happening in the video. UPDATE II: an eyewitness report on the aftermath of the march.
Dramatic footage of Syrians and Palestinians braving bullets and landmines to return to occupied Golan.
Welcome to Gaza
Welcome to Gaza is a documentary about Gaza City, Palestine, looking at its ancient heritage. Here’s the trailer:
United we stand
by Brenda Heard
News during the last couple of weeks has rumbled in to shake an already rickety balance of world order. Perhaps one of the most disturbing images accompanying those headlines, though, was not that of more bruised and bulleted bodies. Rather, the image was of what the Associated Press termed a ‘jubilant crowd’. As though they had just won the World Cup Final, Americans waved flags as they sang and chanted their patriotic celebration.
Osama Bin Laden, they had just been told, had been shot dead. After nearly a decade-long manhunt, he had finally been pounced upon in Pakistan. The crowd cheered. And when President Obama made the official announcement, he coaxed the nation to cheer the same; he concluded by quoting the American pledge of allegiance:
Let us remember that we can do these things not just because of wealth or power, but because of who we are: one nation, under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all’.
‘Indivisible’. In this one word lies the notion that has fed American policy for many, many years: united we stand—divided they fall.
Bahrain’s brutal regime targets medics and schoolgirls
The second part of Al Jazeera’s exclusive report on Bahrain looks at the abuse of medical workers as part of the government’s crackdown on dissent.
In first of five exclusive reports, Al Jazeera has unearthed evidence that sheds light on kingdom’s brutal crackdown.
Continue reading “Bahrain’s brutal regime targets medics and schoolgirls”
I knew bin Laden
Ahmad Zaidan, Al Jazeera’s Islamabad correspondent, speaks to people who knew Osama bin Laden.
P U L S E 