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Provos, Loyalists and Brits

Category: Documentary
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A trilogy of Documentary Series on Northern Ireland Conflict - Provos, Loyalists and Brits. Although this BBC Documentary was made several years ago, in light of Israel’s illegal occupation of the Palestine / West Bank and the atrocities committed in Gaza in January, it shows that Peace can be reached, but only every group have equal rights. PROVOS: THE IRA AND SINN FEIN BBC documentary series looking at the history of the IRA and Sinn Fein over the past 30 years. Episodes: * BORN AGAIN (23/09/1997) * SECOND FRONT (30/09/1997) * SECRET WAR (07/10/1997) * ENDGAME (14/10/1997) PROVOS: THE IRA AND SINN FEIN: BORN AGAIN Documentary looking at the changes and rise in the Provisional IRA in Northern Ireland from 1969 on. Considers the events of civil unrest in the late 1960s, the ideology and actions of the leaders of the IRA then, which underwent a significant change after the attacks by loyalists and B Specials on Catholics and Nationalists and their homes. Looks at the background of the deployment of British troops, and how they were first welcomed, but later viewed as the enemy. Includes interviews with many older IRA members who talk about their motivations and aims, and the escalation into shooting and bombings, especially after the events of Bloody Sunday. PROVOS: THE IRA AND SINN FEIN: SECOND FRONT Looks into what was discussed at secret meetings between the British authorities and Provisional IRA during the 1970s, and how Britian may have countenanced withdrawal from Northern Ireland. Examines the emergence of Sinn Fein as a political force and the bombing campaigns both in the Province and the British mainland. Also examines the prison protests in the Maze prison, and the hunger strikes, and the effects of the deaths of Bobby Sands and other hunger strikers. PROVOS: THE IRA AND SINN FEIN: SECRET WAR Concentrates on the 1980s and the relaunch of a campaign by the IRA after the death of the hunger strikers. Looks at the increase in heavy weaponry purchased and the funding and supply lines and the IRA\'s keeness to get hold of surface-to-air missiles to shoot down army helicopters. It also goes into the emergence of IRA informants and \"supergrasses\" and the effect they had on operations. PROVOS: THE IRA AND SINN FEIN: ENDGAME The final episode focuses on how the military stalemate of the late 80s created a context whereby the Sinn Fein leadership could persuade the IRA Army Council that the final phase of the struggle had to be political. It also shows how the stalemate paved the way for a remarkable series of secret negotiations between the Government and the IRA which made possible the cessation of 1994. The programme also describes how, despite the end of the ceasefire and the subsequent Canary Wharf and Manchester bombings, backstage efforts for peace continued, resulting in a renewed IRA ceasefire and the current all-party talks. LOYALISTS Documentary series giving an intimate account of the lives of loyalist paramilitaries. Episodes: * NO SURRENDER (21/02/1999) * RETURNING THE SERVE (28/02/1999) * WAR AND PEACE (07/03/1999) NO SURRENDER Documentary series presented by Peter Taylor, about the origins and evolution of the loyalist paramilitary movement in Northern Ireland. RETURNING THE SERVE In the late 1970s the conflict in Northern Ireland reached new levels of brutality. Among those caught up in the violence was UVF member Billy Giles, who retaliated against IRA acts by murdering a Catholic workmate. WAR AND PEACE Former Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF) prisoners Gerry Spence and Bobby Philpott claim that Loyalist violence in the early nineties made the IRA realise they could not win. Peter Taylor reveals the true face of the Loyalist paramilitaries and assesses the prospects for peace in the face of continuing sectarian tensions. BRITS Three-part documentary on the role of the British armed forces in Northern Ireland, made by journalist Peter Taylor. Continues the history of the Troubles Taylor told in the earlier series PROVOS and LOYALISTS. Episodes: * The SECRET WAR (17/05/2000) * SHOOT TO KILL (24/05/2000) * HOLDING THE LINE (31/05/2000) The SECRET WAR This programme focuses on the period 1969-1975. As the IRA launched its terror campaign in the early 1970s, Britain realised that intelligence gathering would be the key to countering their threat. Included in this part are revelations about the covert operations carried out by the army, including the story of how the security services discovered that the IRA had bugged the army\'s Northern Ireland headquarters and how they captured key IRA figures involved with the bugging. SHOOT TO KILL Examination of a series of incidents from the mid-seventies where security forces reacted with speed and aggression. Members of Special Branch, MI6 and the army talk about the dangers of life in the war against the IRA. In their attempts to fight fire with fire did the agents of the crown sometimes go beyond the limits acceptable in a democractic state? HOLDING THE LINE Third and final part of the series investigating British undercover operations in Northern Ireland. Reveals how pressure from British intelligence services helped to bring the IRA to the negotiating table. Also looks at the prospect for a lasting peace.
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Leeches: 5

Noam Chomsky in London - 29th Oct 2009 - MP3

Category: Chomsky
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================================================================ Noam Chomsky - 'Palestine and the region in the Obama era: the emerging framework.' Thursday 29th October 2009, Imperial College London Speakers - Noam Chomsky - Tariq Ali (Historian, author, political commentator) Includes a Q&A session in the last ~40 minutes ================================================================ (At the time of writing) A video of this is available at http://www.union.ic.ac.uk/scc/pps/?s=event&id=20 ================================================================ Length: 1 hr 57 mins 45 seconds BitRate: 32 kbps Size: 26.9 MB Format: MP3 ================================================================ Please seed to a reasonable ratio and feel free to index the torrent file on other sites.
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Aljazeera - Inside Story - Politics over justice?

Category: Documentary
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Immune from prosecution - Ehud Barak, the Israeli defence minister, avoids court in the UK. Palestinian rights groups in London attempted to have Barak arrested over Israel's war on Gaza, which left about 1,400 Palestinians dead. Barak's anticipated visit to the UK brought protests not only from Palestinian groups but also from members of the British parliament. As Israeli defence minister, Barak ordered Israel's offensive on Gaza. The British foreign office fought the case - bringing in its top lawyers who claimed that Barak has immunity. He is in Britain on official business meeting David Milliband, the British foreign minister. So, did political considerations override justice? And what does it all mean for the applicability of international humanitarian law? Inside Story, with presenter Nick Clark, discusses with guests Michel Abdel Massih, an international criminal lawyer and Queen's Council and the man who filed the suit, Dan Schueftan, a professor of political science at Haifa University, and Betty Hunter, the general secretary of the Palestine Solidarity Committee.
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Leeches: 0

Routledge Atlas of the Arab-Israeli Conflict

Category: eBooks, Magazines, Audio Books
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Routledge Atlas of the Arab-Israeli Conflict Martin Gilbert * Product Description The Routledge Atlas of the Arab-Israeli Conflict traces not only the tangled and bitter history of the Arab-Jewish struggle from the early 20th century to the present, it also illustrates the move towards finding peace and the efforts to bring the horrors of the fighting to an end through negotiation and proposals for agreed boundaries. Through 167 maps, the complete history of the conflict is revealed including: * the prelude and background to the conflict - from the siting of the Palestinian Jews before the Arab conquest to the attitude of Britain to the Arabs between 1917 and the present * the Jewish national home - from the Zionist plan for Palestine in 1919 to the state of the Arab world from 1945 to 1962 * the intensification of the conflict - from the Arab response to the UN partition plan of 1947 to the first steps towards the independence of Israel in 1948 * the State of Israel - from the Israeli War of Independence and the Six Day War to the horrific War of Yom Kippur and the Intifada * the moves to find peace - from Camp David to the escalating troubles of the present day, including the Geneva peace plan and the construction of the security fence. With a new index and accompanied by powerful and compelling quotations, this clear, illuminative and highly informative new edition from Martin Gilbert is an absolute must for all students of history. * A POWERFUL VISUAL HISTORY OF THE ARAB-ISRAELI CONFLICT “Because the cartographic format of the book is so straightforward, readers of any level of sophistication or interest can benefit. An excellent primer.” - Library Journal “Each map includes precise explanatory data. A basic appendage to any analysis of Middle East history of politics.” - Middle East Review “Clear and objective information on events of extraordinary complexity.” - Geographical Magazine “This is a very thorough history. The great advantage of presenting history through maps is the unusual clarity it brings to the most complex issues. I would recommend that anyone troubled by the conflicting claims of both sides in this bitter struggle study the book closely. Just look and you’ll learn a lot, without polemics or manifestos to confuse the issue.” - Jerusalem Post Magazine * # Hardcover: 200 pages # Publisher: Routledge; 8 edition (October 28, 2005) # Language: English # ISBN-10: 0415359015
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Seres Queridos (aka Only Human) (D. Harari & T. Pelegri, 2004)-aNaRCHo

Category: Misc
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Seres Queridos (aka Only Human) (D. Harari & T. Pelegri, 2004)-aNaRCHo IN SPANISH WITH FRENCH AND ENGLISH SUBTITLES INCLLUDED **A COMEDIC TAKE ON THE JEWISH-PALESTINE CONFLICT** "The funniest film I've seen in years, "Only Human" is a comedy about Leni, the daughter of a eccentric Jewish family, who brings her fiancé home to meet her relatives for the first time. Dinner is planned, and all is going well, until Leni reveals that her fiancé Rafi is Palestinian. Of course the reaction is hysterical, and Rafi retreats to the kitchen to help in preparing the meal. He offers to take care of the chicken soup, but in removing the frozen soup from the container, it accidentally falls out the window, landing on the head of a man outside and knocking him out. To make things worse, the man may be Leni's father, and the soup may have killed him. Things really take off from there... With a cast of talented comic actors and a truly funny and irreverent screenplay, Only Human gave me more honest laughs than any film I've seen in ages. The characters are definitely oddball, but they are treated with respect, and there is no low humor or mocking of the characters' weirdness. It's good to see a comedy that takes it's humor from the situation and the personalities of the characters, rather than making them look stupid for a cheap laugh. Highly recommended. 10/10" --pb104-1, from imdb "I had the opportunity to see a preview of this movie (to be entitled "Only Human" for English-speaking audiences). A genuinely funny take on a very real situation: Spanish Jewish neurotic girl who is a TV presenter in Madrid brings home her Palistinian lecturer boyfriend to meet her dysfunctional family. Her sister is a nymphomaniac belly-dancer who lives at home with her five year old contrary daughter, younger brother (who is going through a faux ultra-orthodox stage), blind grandfather, pre-menopausal mother and a duckling! The farcical plot (such as it is) revolves around some frozen soup, belly-dancing, Jewish-Islamic shiboleths and all the fun you can pack into 96 minutes! It's cleverly plotted, extremely convincingly acted, neatly directly and very reminiscent of Pedro Almodavar - on acid! I fell off my chair laughing." --sales169, from imdb PLEASE SEED AND ENJOY!!!
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Leeches: 1

Checkpoint (2003)

Category: Documentary
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This film provides a fly on the wall account of various checkpoints on the Palestine-Israel border. ... Enjoy and seed seed seed <<<<< Titan >>>>>
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Democracy Now! Thursday, June 18, 2009

Category: News & Current Affairs
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Today's Headlines Supporters of Mousavi Hold Mourning Rally in Tehran Iran Accuses US of Meddling in its Internal Affairs US State Dept Asks Twitter to Delay Shutdown Due to Iran Protests Obama Extends Some Benefits to Same-Sex Partners of Federal Workers Holder Refuses to Say Bush’s Warrantless Wiretapping Program Was Illegal NSA Database Collects Millions of Intercepted Emails Obama Proposes New Regulations of Financial Industry EPA Declares Public Health Emergency in Libby, Montana US Drone Strike Kills Nine in Pakistan Suicide Bombing Kills Somalia’s National Security Minister GOP Aide in Tennessee Distributes Racist Image of Obama GOP Operative in SC Compares First Lady to a Gorilla "American Radical: The Life and Times of I.F. Stone" Twenty years ago today, I.F. Stone died at the age of eighty-one. He was the premier investigative reporter of the twentieth century, a self-described radical journalist. I.F. Stone’s legacy of work spanned the New Deal, World War II, McCarthyism, the Cold War, Israel/Palestine, the civil rights movement, the Vietnam War and beyond. He scooped reporters right and left. As the FBI tracked him, he tracked down the story. He is best remembered for his self-published I.F. Stone’s Weekly. At its peak in the 1960s, the one-man publication had a circulation of about 70,000. We speak to his biographer, D.D. Guttenplan, and air historic recordings of I.F. Stone at the 1965 Vietnam teach-in in Berkeley, CA, and on The MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour. [includes rush transcript]
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Leeches: 10

Norman Finkelstein On Gaza - 13.04.09 - AVI - Godcanjudgeme

Category: Talks, Debates, Interviews
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Norman Finkelstein On Gaza - 13.04.09 - Godcanjudgeme ----------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------------- "Dr. Norman Finkelstein visited California State University, Chico, and discussed recent events in Gaza, occupied Palestinian territories. He gave the packed auditorium details (omitted by our corporate media) about events leading up to the recent violence and disproportionate deaths of Palestinian civilians from IDF incursions into Gaza.." Sponsors: Palestine Solidarity Committee; Pi Sigma Alpha; Political Science Department; Middle East Studies Program ----------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------------- http://www.normanfinkelstein.com/ http://www.campus-watch.org/article/id/7381 http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2009/04/14/18588741.php ----------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------------- Source : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P9G45Ny7Byw (Parts I - VIII) Size : 350 MB Video : XVid - 559 kbps Resolution : 720x240 Framerate : 25 fps Audio : MP3 - 192 kbps - vbr - stereo - English Sample : 48000 Hz Subtitles : N/A Runtime : 00:58:57 ----------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------------- Please Seed x1/ x2 ..Keep Torrents Alive.. ..Godcanjudgeme..
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Kwame Ture: The Revolutionary

Category: Documentary
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Kwame Ture was born as Stokely Carmichael on the Caribbean island of Trinidad, on June 29, 1941. Kwame became a household name in america during the 1960s when after enrolling as a student of Howard University in Washington D.C., Kwame decided to join the freedom rider efforts to integrate the southern portion of the united snakes. As a member of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, SNCC (pronounced SNICK), Kwame was arrested 26 times between 1964 and 1966 because of his work to register Africans in Mississippi, Alabama, and Georgia, to vote. In June, 1966, Kwame defeated now usa Congressman John Lewis to become Chairperson of SNCC. Kwame's election as SNCC Chairperson signaled the growing militancy within SNCC, and the movement, and a desire on behalf of many in the membership to take a more militant and uncompromising stance on African liberation. During the summer of 1966, Kwame became known as the person who popularized the phrase "Black Power" when he articulated that demand in Greenwood, Mississippi, during the great Civil Rights march of that summer. It should be noted that although Kwame has been credited with creating that phrase, the phrase has a long history that extends back to the 1700s and the movement and writings of Martin Delaney. During his tenure as Chairperson of SNCC, Kwame helped the organization develop into one of the most militant African organizations in america. SNCC became the first African organization to come out against the Vietnam war. SNCC was also the first African organization to take a position against the zionist state of israel. In 1968, Kwame briefly spent time as the Prime Minister of the Black Panther Party (BPP) that was founded in Oakland, California by Huey P. Newton and Bobby Seale. By the end of 1968, Kwame had resigned from the BPP, not because, as the imperialist press has consistently claimed, the BPP "forged links with whiteradicals", but because the BPP's ideological framework was not completely consistent with Kwame's developing ideological orientation. In 1967, while still Chairperson of SNCC, in the height of the united snakes of amerikka imperialist war against Vietnam, Kwame had the privilege of going to Vietnam and visiting the Great Nguyen Al Thouc (Ho Chi Minh), the leader of the Vietnamese war resistance against amerikkkan imperialism. It was during that visit when Kwame expressed his disillusionment with the direction of the struggle in the amerikkka, that Al Thouc told Kwame "why don't you go to Africa? It is your home." Taking Al Thouc's advice further, Kwame took up the offer made by Guinean (West African) President Sekou Ture made three years prior to a visiting SNCC delegation, to come to Guinea, stay, and help to build the African revolution. In 1968, Kwame moved to Guinea and began to live and study under Sekou Ture, and Kwame Nkrumah, the first president of Ghana who was overthrown in a central intelligence agency-organized Coup in 1966. After the coup in Ghana, Ture invited Nkrumah to come to Guinea and become Co-President of Guinea. At that time, Guinea was struggling to build the Democratic Party of Guinea (PDG), as a mass, Pan-Africanist political party that would function as a base within West Africa in which to launch the Pan-African struggle to unite Africa under one continental, socialist, government (see Nkrumah; Handbook of Revolutionary Warfare pg. 56-59). Kwame Ture stayed in Guinea from 1968, until his death in 1998, working to bring about Pan-Africanism. Ture and Nkrumah passed on in 1984 and 1972 respectively. In 1977, Kwame changed his name from Stokely Carmichael to Kwame Ture in order to honor the Pan-Africanist work of Sekou Ture and Kwame Nkrumah. From 1968 to 1998, Kwame worked tirelessly to build the All African People's Revolutionary Party (A-APRP), which is the revolutionary Pan-Africanist political party that Nkrumah discussed in his handbook as the logical vehicle to bring about unity and socialism to Africa. In the Handbook, Nkrumah talked about the inability of the Organization of African Unity (OAU), which he founded, to bring about genuine African unity. He offered up the A-APRP, through it's organization of the All African Committee for Political Coordination (A-ACPC) as the vehicle to bring about true unity. The A-ACPC, unlike the OAU, would not depend on the governments to unite, but would instead unite the genuine African revolutionary political parties and movements under the direction and guidance of the A-APRP to bring about continental unification. Kwame Ture spent 4 years at Howard, three years in SNCC, less than one year in the BPP, but thirty years in the A-APRP. He didn't run away, disappear, or become irrelevant after 1968, as the imperialists, and many so-called progressives and revolutionaries would have you believe. Instead he worked tirelessly to build the A-ACPC and the A-APRP. Today, five years after his physical transition, no one can deny the fruits of his work. The A-APRP, in its efforts to build the A-ACPC, has developed strong principled brother/sister relationships with the Democratic Party of Guinea, Pan-African Union of Sierra Leone, African Party for the Independence of Guinea-Bissau, Azanian People's Organization of Azania/South Africa, and Pan-Africanist Congress of Azania/South Africa, all of which consider themselves A-ACPC organizations as called for by Nkrumah. The A-APRP has organizers on the ground, openly integrated with the A-APRP and those respective parties and organizations in each of those countries, as well as Ghana, Senegal, The Gambia, Britain, Canada, Barbados, Virgin Islands, Brazil, and throughout the united snakes of amerikkka. These organizers are working to build the A-ACPC which will serve as a worldwide fighting force of Pan-African revolutionaries who are dedicated to fighting amerikkkan led imperialism to liberate Africa under one unified, socialist government. As Kwame Nkrumah and Sekou Ture predicted, once Africa is free, unified, and socialist, Africa, and Africans, wherever they live on the planet, will be empowered to make a proper forward contribution to all of human civilization. Kwame Ture's life, from Civil Rights, to Black Power, forward to Pan-Africanism, is the logical forward progress of the international struggle of African people to achieve self-determination. He should be remembered, three years after his death, as Rev. Jesse Jackson described him in 1998, as "a man who never made peace with capitalism, racism, and american policy."Some legacies of Kwame Ture's life: - Contributions to the A-APRP which include actualizing a genuine international Pan-African political party, based in Africa. - Contributing towards developing true principled relationships with< non-African revolutionaries such as -the Palestine Liberation Organization, -Irish Republican Socialist Party, International Indian Treaty -Council/American Indian Movement. - Contribution towards institutionalizing African Liberation Day as an international Pan-Africanist day of protest and unity throughout the world. - Contributions towards developing and building an African United Front in amerikkka between groups as far apart ideologically as the NAACP, Urban League, Nation of Islam, Republic of New Afrika, and A-APRP.
Seeders: 12
Leeches: 4

Democracy Now! Monday, June 15, 2009 :: Iran, Netanyahu

Category: News & Current Affairs
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Today's Headlines Iran Supreme Leader Calls for Probe into Disputed Election UN Approves New North Korean Sanctions Netanyahu Backs Demilitarized Palestinian State Top Sunni Lawmaker Assassinated in Iraq Report: 30 Lawmakers Have Financial Holdings in Healthcare Industry Obama Administration Urges Court to Toss Rendition Lawsuit Judge Rules Jose Padilla Can Sue John Yoo over Torture CIA Fires Mitchell Jessen & Associates CIA Head Says Cheney Almost Wishing US Be Attacked Again Peruvian President Alan Garcia Accused of Ethnic Genocide Obama Admin to Spend $350 Million on New National Educational Standards Top Minutemen Officials Arrested on Murder Charges Domestic Workers Rally in New York Iran in Turmoil After Disputed Presidential Election; Anti-Ahmadinejad Street Protests Continue Iran remains in a state of turmoil after Friday’s much-anticipated elections ended in a result strongly disputed by opposition candidates and many thousands of their supporters. Today, Iranian officials refused to allow the leading opposition candidate Mir Hossein Mousavi and his supporters to hold a major rally protesting the re-election of President Ahmadinejad. Demonstrators began calling for the election to be canceled after the Interior Ministry announced that President Ahmadinejad had won over 62 percent of the vote. The official results gave Mousavi less than 34 percent of the vote. Heavily armed riot police have been cracking down on street protests that continued through the weekend. Early Monday morning, security forces raided a dormitory at Tehran University, injuring fifteen. Opposition websites report that over a hundred prominent opposition members were detained and then released over the weekend. We speak to Trita Parsi of the National Iranian American Council and David Makovsky, co-author with Dennis Ross of a new book called Myths, Illusions, and Peace. [includes rush transcript–partial] Netanyahu Outlines Vision for a Demilitarized Palestinian State with Israel Controlling the Borders and Airspace of Palestine Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu delivered what was billed as a major policy speech on Sunday, accepting the creation of a Palestinian state on the condition that it would be completely demilitarized and have no control over its airspace. He also said that Israel would refuse to engage with Hamas. Palestinian officials condemned Netanyahu’s speech, saying it closed the door to permanent status negotiations.
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