Bookmarks 01/17/2012

• NYC’s deadly deal with Israeli apartheid | SocialistWorker.org

  tags: unitedstates israel NYC apartheid military industry corporate zionism zionist

  • A few days before Christmas last year, Mayor Michael Bloomberg announced plans for a $2 billion research campus to be constructed in partnership with Cornell University, Technion and the City of New York.
  • With rare exceptions like WBAI’s Law and Disorder and the website Mondoweiss, the media neglected to mention Technion’s extensive military and political connections to apartheid Israel.
  • Shir Hever, an Israeli researcher, explains that Technion “has all but enlisted itself in the [Israeli] military.”
  • under the guise of research, this deal would cement a lucrative bond between the financial capital of the U.S. empire and Israel’s military-industrial complex.

• WikiLeaks: More Evidence of Monsanto’s Bullying and Influence-Buying

  tags: wikileaks monsanto corruption corporate government unitedstates europe

• Egypt’s revolution has been misread | Khalid Abdalla | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk

  tags: egypt revolution counterrevolution politics parliament protests justice poverty social

• Egypt asked IMF for $3.2 bln in support: minister

  tags: egypt imf military credit debt finance economy economics

• ‫هالة سرحان تعرض فيديو رهيييييب مش هاتصدق راكبي الجمال يوم موقعة الجمل كانوا في حماية مين؟؟؟؟!!!!!‬‎ – YouTube

  video footage of the cavalry riding in from maspero on #feb2. also the moment of attack including the man on top of the museum who signaled the attack. 

  tags: egypt counterrevolution revolution jan25 feb2 violence military scaf noscaf police ndp mubarak video

• Solar grid parity 101-and why you should care | Grist

  tags: electricity energy solar grid energy-policy unitedstates alternative economics

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