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The president of the UN General Assembly, Miguel d’Escoto Brockmann,  has some harsh words for Israel and the UN Security Council

source: un

Hatem al-Shurrab, an aid worker for the Gaza-based Islamic Relief organisation, has kept a video diary of the last few days to show what conditions have been like since Israeli air strikes began.

source: guardian

In an exclusive interview with RT, daughter of Cuba’s President Raul Castro, Mariela Castro, reflects on what will happen once all the Cuban living legends of the revolution are gone.

source: russia today

The U.S. and the EU gave the greenlight to Israel for the attacks on Gaza, says George Galloway, a member of the British Parliament representing the Respect Party.

source: russia today

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Harold Pinter, the Nobel Prize-winning British playwright, screenwriter, poet, actor and political activist died last week at the age of seventy-eight after a prolonged battle with cancer. In his 2005 Nobel Prize acceptance speech, Pinter excoriated US foreign policy. “The invasion of Iraq was a bandit act, an act of blatant state terrorism, demonstrating absolute contempt for the concept of international law,” Pinter said.

source: nobelprize.org

President of Iran, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's christmas speech to British citizens

source: channel4

A top Republican internet strategist who was set to testify in a case alleging election tampering in 2004 in Ohio has died in a plane crash. Michael Connell was the chief IT consultant to Karl Rove and created websites for the Bush and McCain electoral campaigns. Michael Connell was deposed one day before the election this year by attorneys Cliff Arnebeck and Bob Fitrakis about his actions during the 2004 vote count in Ohio and his access to Karl Rove’s email files and how they went missing.

source: DemocracyNow!

The winners of the 2008 Worst EU Lobbying Awards were revealed at a ceremony in Brussels, 9 December 2008. More than 8500 people took part in the online public vote.

With more than 50% of the votes, the Award for the Worst EU Lobbying 2008 is jointly won by the agrofuel lobbyists of the Malaysian Palm Oil Council, Brazilian sugar barons UNICA and energy company Abengoa Bioenergy. They were jointly nominated for their use of misleading information and greenwash to influence crucial debates in the European Parliament and Council by claiming that agrofuels (crops used for fuel for cars and lorries) are sustainable.

The Worst Conflict of Interest Award 2008 goes to the Finnish MEP Piia-Noora Kauppi, with 26% of the votes cast. MEP Kauppi has been promoting the interests of her future employer, a banking lobbying group, while still an active member of the European Parliament.

Concerns about the secrecy around big business lobbying in Brussels are growing. How public is ‘public affairs’?

CEO TV interviews professional lobbyists about mandatory versus voluntary lobbying transparency. The clip features interviews with lobbyist from : Fleishman Hillard, Eamonn Bates, Kellen Europe, Westinghouse, Sidley Austin.

 More info: www.worstlobby.eu