Video: Haiti – Six Months On

(AlJazeera) – Six months after the earthquake that killed up to 300,000 people, the dust is starting to settle over Port-au-Prince. As it does, the deep wounds that fracture this country are re-emerging, more gaping than even before.

One-and-a-half million people remain displaced, many living under tents and tarps. Rubble removal is slow, and rebuilding has yet to begin.

The UN and NGOs are as omnipresent as the rubble – but the chasm between Haiti’s poor majority and the foreign organisations that say they are here to help seems as wide as ever. Continue reading

World War

(HuffingtonPost) – Maine video producer recounts Gaza flotilla ordeal

A Maine video producer recalled hearing shots amid the chaos that broke out as Israeli troops raided the aid flotilla he was on that was attempting to break Israel’s blockade of Gaza. Read More Here

Video: Israel Navy Massacres Freedom Flotilla Passengers in International Waters

In 3 languages, the Israeli Navy massacres 20 unarmed international humanitarian activists in international waters and injures dozens. The Freedom Flotilla had European MPs, priests, people from many nationalities, including Israeli, and 10,000 tons of aid to the 3-year besieged Gaza. View Video Here

(Reuters) – U.S. weighing new options over North Korea – Read More Here

(MaanNews) – Israel under fire for doctoring flotilla recordings

Israel’s military came under intense scrutiny Saturday after releasing a new, heavily edited version of a video it had distributed to journalists in the days following its deadly raid on a Gaza-bound aid convoy. Read More Here

(JPost) – TA: Thousands rally Gaza blockade – Read More Here

(TimesOnline) – Thousands protest flotilla killings in London and Istanbul – Read More Here

(Haaretz) – Turkish PM Considers Gaza Trip to Break Blockade

Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan is weighing the possibility of traveling to the Gaza Strip in order to “break the Israeli blockade,” the Lebanese newspaper al-Mustaqbal reported on Saturday, according to Army Radio. Read More Here

(Telegraph) – Video: Israeli Military Takes Control of Rachel Corrie

The military said its forces boarded the 1,200-ton Rachel Corrie cargo ship from the sea, not helicopters.

The takeover stood in marked contrast to a violent confrontation at sea earlier this week when Israeli commandos blocked a Turkish aid vessel trying to break the blockade. View Video Here

(PressTV) – More anti-Israel demos across the globe – Read More Here

(PressTV) – Russia warns against Iran sanctions – Read More Here

(Voltaire) – NATO Could Not Have Been Unaware

Totally hazed over by the media, NATO is central to the Israeli aggression on the high seas as well as to the Israeli’s retraction with regard to its takings. In this article, written just before the Alliance requested the release of the prisoners and vessels, Manlio Dinucci observes that, given the close ties between the Israeli forces and NATO, it is inconceivable that the latter had no foreknowledge of the operation. Read More Here

Video: Flotilla Attack – Eyewitness Account

Sarah Colborne was on the boat attacked by Israeli commandos. Full account from today’s press conference organised by Palestine Solidarity Campaign.

(GulfNews) – Israelis Subdued Captain by Pointing Gun at a Child

According to a report in The Guardian, an Algerian activist, who gave her name as Sabrina, revealed that Israeli troops pointed their gun at a one-year-old Turkish child in front of his parents to force the captain of the Mavi Marmara to stop sailing. Read More Here

(Creators) – Lift the Siege of Gaza

And today, President Obama should end his and his country’s shameful silence over the inhumane blockade of Gaza that is denying 1.5 million beleaguered people the basic necessities of a decent life.

Time to start acting like America again. Read More Here

(PaulWatson) – Bilderberg Agenda Revealed: Globalists In Crisis, Supportive Of Attack On Iran

The 2010 Bilderberg agenda has been revealed by veteran Bilderberg sleuth Jim Tucker and it paints a picture of crisis for the globalists, who are furious at the increased exposure their gatherings have received in recent years, as well as being dismayed at their failure to rescue both the euro and the failing carbon tax agenda, but more alarmingly according to Tucker, the majority of Bilderberg members are now in favor of military air strikes on Iran. Read More Here

(LondonTimes) – Obama secretly deploys US special forces to 75 countries across world

President Obama has secretly sanctioned a huge increase in the number of US special forces carrying out search-and-destroy missions against al-Qaeda around the world, with American troops now operating in 75 countries.

The dramatic expansion in the use of special forces, which in their global span go far beyond the covert missions authorised by George W. Bush, reflects how aggressively the President is pursuing al-Qaeda behind his public rhetoric of global engagement and diplomacy. Read More Here

(Redress) – Is Israel planning act of desperation? It still holds two stolen nukes for possible port attack – Gordon Duff Read More Here

(Uruknet) – Erasing International Law in Israel’s Gaza Flotilla Attack – Rogue State Politics – Read More Here

(Uruknet) – Israel, Nazi propaganda chief Göebbels would have been proud of you – Read More Here

(Telegraph) – Russia builds listening post sparking fears of Georgia strike – Read More Here

(Redress) – Rise people, rise: call for zero tolerance of Israeli crimes

Rich Wiles views Israel’s murder of peace activists aboard the Gaza-bound international aid flotilla against the background of a long history of Israeli crimes against the Palestinians. He reminds us that, even as the world was mourning the murder of the peace activists, Israeli soldiers and settlers continued to murder Palestinians. Read More Here

(PoliticalTheatrics) – Israel vs. The Rest Of Humanity – Read More Here

(AlJazeera) – Video: Al Jazeera Reporter: Israel Fired On Gaza-Bound Ship Before Boarding

‘According to Jamal ElShayyal’s account of the raid, the Israeli military had fired on the Mavi Marmara before boarding the ship. “It was evident there was definitely fire from the air, because one of the people who was killed was clearly shot from above — he was shot, the bullet targeted him at the top of his head,” ElShayyal said. “There was also fire coming from the sea as well.” This account differs from the one given by the Israeli military.’ Continue reading

Video: Fears of humanitarian crisis in Marjah

(Aljazeera) – More than a week into the Nato-Afghan military offensive against the Taliban in the southern Helmand province town of Marjah, warnings of a humanitarian crisis are growing.

Members of a fleeing family tell Al Jazeera they fled the fighting because they could stop neither the Taliban nor US soldiers from entering their homes. Continue reading

Video: Drug firms made ‘false H1N1 claims’

(AlJazeera) – The severity of the H1N1 outbreak was deliberately exaggerated by pharmaceutical companies that stood to make billions of dollars from a worldwide scare, a leading European health expert has claimed. Continue reading

Video: Inside Story – The world has failed Gaza – Report

(AlJazeera) – Israeli policy and global inaction are directly responsible for poverty in the Gaza strip, according to a new report from sixteen humanitarian and human rights groups. The report urges the EU to suspend relations with israel unless they stop the blockade, that it claims has impaired reconstruction and sharply increased poverty. Inside story, with guests discusses the details. Continue reading

MSM: Israeli youths reject army call-up

(Aljazeera) – More than 80 Israeli students have announced their refusal to serve in the Israeli military because of what they call their nation’s track-record of oppression in the occupied territories. Continue reading

Pakistanis see US as biggest threat

A survey commissioned by Al Jazeera in Pakistan has revealed a widespread disenchantment with the United States for interfering with what most people consider internal Pakistani affairs. Continue reading

MSM: Israel troops speak out on Gaza war

(Aljazeera) – Some troops fighting in Israel’s war on Gaza were urged by their commanders to shoot first rather than worry about killing civilians, a document from an Israeli activist group shows. Continue reading

Video: Gaza activist talks to Al Jazeera from Israeli jail

Fourteen people remain in custody after an aid ship bound for Gaza was seized by the Israeli navy on Tuesday. Among them are a nobel peace prize winner, and two Al Jazeera journalists. The Free Gaza movement sent the ship loaded with humanitarian supplies from Cyprus, in defiance of Israel’s crippling 2-year blockade. Continue reading

Video: Protest Invades Wall Street

While investors and the media look to the market numbers as an indication of where the economy is headed, others are looking to political leaders who say bailing out Wall Street is not enough.