The Revolution Business

The Revolution Business - World - June 1, 2011 Vidéo mirrorthis2010 sélectionnée dans Actualité

Democratic change has been demanded across the Middle East. But was what seems like a spontaneous revolution actually a strategically planned event, fabricated by 'revolution consultants' long in advance?

Revolution consultants are the worst nightmare of every regime. Srdja Popovic was a founder of the organisation 'Otpor', a revolution training school. It was instrumental in the overthrow of Slobodan Milosevic in the 1990s and has now inspired a new generation of activists. Political commentators like William Engdahl are convinced Otpor is being financed by the USA. "The people from Otpor gave us a book in which they described all their strategies", says Ezzedine Zaatour of the Tunisian uprising. That book was written by an American, Gene Sharp, and is now considered the "revolution guide book", being used by opposition movements worldwide.

Jonathan Cook: on Nazareth, Israeli citizenship laws, and the Arabic language

Nazareth-based journalist Jonathan Cook interviewed by Jon Dillingham

15 April 2011

Part I: Nazareth Complicates Israeli Narrative

British journalist Jonathan Cook explains how Nazareth’s religious mix doesn’t fit in with the common perception that all things Israel can be understood as Jewish vs. Muslim.

Cook, a former reporter for The Guardian and The Observer, now writes for Abu Dhabi’s The National as the only foreign correspondent based in Nazareth, where he’s lived for almost a decade.

Cook’s position in the Arab heartland of Israel puts a different perspective on his reporting: namely that the post-1967 conflict over the occupied territories is best understood as a reflection and continuation of the larger conflict begun in 1948.

Nazareth Complicates Israeli Narrative from Jon Dillingham on Vimeo.

Part II: The Underlying Philosophy of Upper Nazareth

Nazerat Illit, or Upper Nazareth, is a Jewish enclave built above the Palestinian Arab city of Nazareth in the Galilee, northern Israel. The “illit” city (the Hebrew word illit means both higher physically, but also “elite”, or better, in a moral and philosophical sense) was built on confiscated Palestinian land and, according to British journalist Jonathan Cook, serves two purposes: to stop the expansion of the “Arab capital” of Israel and to act as a mitzpe (“lookout”) to literally watch over Nazareth’s Palestinians (the municipal government building overlook the city).

Cook, a former reporter for The Guardian and The Observer, now writes for Abu Dhabi’s The National as the only foreign correspondent based in Nazareth, where he’s lived for almost a decade.

Cook’s position in the Arab capital heartland of Israel puts a different perspective on his reporting: namely that the post-1967 conflict over the occupied territories is best understood as a reflection and continuation of the larger conflict begun in 1948.

The Underlying Philosophy of Upper Nazareth from Jon Dillingham on Vimeo.

Part III: Israeli Inequality Sustained By Citizenship Laws

Israel uses the rule of law, namely two separate citizenship laws for Jews and non-Jews, to divide and oppress its minorities, says British journalist Jonathan Cook.

Cook, a former reporter for The Guardian and The Observer, now writes for Abu Dhabi’s The National as the only foreign correspondent based in Nazareth, where he’s lived for almost a decade.

Cook’s position in the Arab heartland of Israel puts a different perspective on his reporting: namely that the post-1967 conflict over the occupied territories is best understood as a reflection and continuation of the larger conflict begun in 1948.

**The “loyalty oath” to which Cook refers to in the video was taken out of a law passed in the Knesset on March 28, 2011, a week after the interview.

Israeli Inequality Sustained By Citizenship Laws from Jon Dillingham on Vimeo.

Part IV: Arabic – Israel’s Silent Official Language

Though Arabic is one of Israel’s two official languages, it’s virtually non-existent in official Israeli life, and even met by contempt within Jewish Israeli society, explains British journalist Jonathan Cook.

Cook, a former reporter for The Guardian and The Observer, now writes for Abu Dhabi’s The National as the only foreign correspondent based in Nazareth, where he’s lived for almost a decade.

Cook’s position in the Arab heartland of Israel puts a different perspective on his reporting: namely that the post-1967 conflict over the occupied territories is best understood as a reflection and continuation of the larger conflict begun in 1948.

Arabic: Israel's Silent Official Language from Jon Dillingham on Vimeo.

– http://vimeo.com/22009193

Wind Fall-Out

Wind Fall-Out from Friends of Lāna‘i on Vimeo.

Friends of Lāna‘i (FriendsOfLanai.org) presents this video to help explain how mainland developer David Murdock’s (Castle and Cooke) plan to cover 1/4 of the Hawaiian island of Lāna‘i with 170 wind turbines — to supply just 10% of O’ahu island’s electricity — would impact the people and the island.

This project uses tax and rate payer money to enrich a privately held corporation. It bills itself as “green” when it is actually a corporate boondoggle.

- Friends of Lāna‘i on Vimeo

NED’s impeccable timing

Democracy, Dissent, and Digital Media in the Arab World - Remarks by Carl Gershman from CIMA on Vimeo.

Democracy, Dissent, and Digital Media in the Arab World – Remarks by Carl Gershman from CIMA on Vimeo.

“As part of her normal duties of developing and overseeing the program, [Amira Maaty] just happened to arrive in Cairo on the 25th, and was there throughout this entire historic period,” said a grinning Carl Gershman, recounting the opportune arrival in Egypt of NED’s Program Officer for Middle East and North Africa.

Written by Maidhc Ó Cathail

Henan Protestor Killed as Security Guards Watch

NDTV | January 6, 2011

In China's Henan province on Monday (January 3rd) a 38-year-old woman and mother, Li Li, was killed by a digger. It happened while she was protesting a construction project, local media reported.

Officials say her death was an accident. But this video has led many to believe otherwise:


Source

One Family in Gaza

One Family in Gaza from Jen Marlowe on Vimeo.

Here is one response to the video which was posted at My Catbird Seat:

"It is a beautiful video, a mythology-shattering piece both compelling and painful. Watching it brought to mind a hasbara tactic that infuriates me, the mythology surrounding incitement, specifically, the assertion by Israel that Palestinian educators and parents teach their children to hate and that is what drives Palestinian violence.

While there are undoubtedly issues with both Palestinian and Israeli textbooks, this tactic is simply noxious. Throughout the telling, the father of this family reflects on how this experience and fear have been ingrained in his children’s blood – this is of course the greatest source of incitement, the killing and traumatizing of civilians, the subjugation of generations, the demolitions of homes and land, and the killing, always the killing.

Until now, I had not seen nor heard this tactic adequately exposed."

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