War With Iran: History and Consequences (video)
Global Research TV
November 21, 2011
TRANSCRIPT AND SOURCES: http://www.corbettreport.com/?p=3219
This month’s release of a new International Atomic Energy Agency report into Iran’s nuclear energy program has caused a flurry of diplomatic activity, political posturing, and breathless news headlines about the supposed imminent threat of an alleged Iranian nuclear weapons program.
Given the nature and tenor of the coverage of the IAEA report in the mainstream press, one might be forgiven for believing that the agency has in fact uncovered new signs that Iran has made any concrete steps toward creating a nuclear weapon since it suspended that program in 2003 or that there is any evidence whatsoever that Iran has made any progress in the development of nuclear weapons technology.
In reality, however, the report contains no new information about Iran’s alleged attempts to create nuclear weapons, a fact quietly conceded by even the most hawkish opponents of Iran’s nuclear program, including former weapons inspector David Albright.
Find out more about the recent moves toward war with Iran in this week’s GRTV Backgrounder.
What Egyptian “Revolution”? (video)
YouTube – corbettreport
November 21, 2011
As crowds once again fill Tahrir Square and the military dictatorship of Egypt continues, the world is left wondering: “Did the Egyptian revolution ever really happen?” James Corbett joins RT to discuss the latest.
For more information on the meaning of revolution and the situation in Egypt, please see Episode 202 of The Corbett Report podcast, “How to Overthrow a Dictator:”
Occupy Toronto Eviction Update (video)
Press For Truth
November 23, 2011
Occupy Montrealers start removing tents
City issues order to vacate “immediately”
CBC News
November 24, 2011
Occupy Montreal protesters started tearing down camp Thursday afternoon after the city asked them to vacate Victoria Square on the spot.
Police posted a second round of eviction notices Thursday morning that were more strongly worded than a previous warning issued the previous night.
Thursday’s notice asked occupiers to vacate “immediately.”
A city spokesman says Montreal wants the campers to leave on their own, but he adds that necessary measures will be taken if required.
“We have indicated that the period of tolerance towards the protesters at the campground is over and that we will apply the city’s existing bylaws,” Gonzalo Nunez said on Thursday. “We’re still working on convincing the protesters to act on a voluntary basis.”
Crackdown on Occupy Canada encampments
Carl Bronski
WSWS
November 21, 2011
Toronto
About 2,000 supporters of the Occupy Wall Street movement in Toronto marched from the protesters’ encampment in St. James Park to City Hall on Saturday. The demonstration was in response to efforts currently underway by the administration of right-wing mayor Rob Ford to evict several hundred people occupying the park. Ford has already garnered significant opposition from working people in Toronto for his agenda of privatizations, wholesale layoffs and massive cuts to social services.
Protesters in the crowd were quick to link these attacks with the move to curtail the democratic rights of the occupiers. Despite a “no politics” mantra promulgated by elements within the Occupy movement, the possibility of occupying threatened libraries, public housing units and workplaces was being raised on the march by a section of community activists and workers.
The “Evict Rob Ford” march comes on the heels of a concerted effort by municipal officials to shut down Occupy encampments across Canada. In the previous 10 days, police have moved in to evict protesters in Regina and Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, London, Ontario, and in Halifax, Nova Scotia, where 14 arrests were made. Police were poised Sunday night to remove scores of demonstrators in Edmonton, Alberta. In Victoria and Vancouver, British Columbia, orders enabling evictions in the coming week have been issued by the provincial court.
FULL ARTICLE HERE…
(hat tip: Mostly Water)
Canadian cop tases kid in face (video)
YouTube – RTAmerica
November 23, 2011
Syrian Baath Party building ‘hit by rockets’
Josie Ensor
London Telegraph
November 20, 2011
Syrian Army defectors say they launched a rocket-propelled grenade attack on a Baath Party building in Damascus on Sunday, in the first insurgent attack inside the Syrian capital since the uprising began.
Witnesses reported hearing two explosions before seeing smoke rising and fire trucks rushing to the scene early this morning.
It is thought the attack was carried out just before dawn when the building was mostly empty. There were no immediate reports of casualties.
Thabet Salem, a journalist who lives close the party building, told Al Jazeera: “This is a clear-cut escalation of what’s going on … It will bring us into a dangerous phase.”
