Media Lens: Russell Brand’s ‘Revolution’ – Part 2, The Backlash

12 November 2014 — Media Lens

From Messiah To Monty Python

If Julian Assange was initially perceived by many as a controversial but respected, even heroic, figure challenging power, the corporate media worked hard to change that perception in the summer of 2012. After Assange requested political asylum in the Ecuadorian Embassy in London, the faux-feminists and corporate leftists of the ‘quality’ liberal press waged war on his reputation.

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Media Lens: Russell Brand’s ‘Revolution’ – Part 1, ‘The Fun Bus’

11 November 2014 — Media Lens

On October 23, 2013, Russell Brand appeared to crash through the filter system protecting the public from dissident opinion.

His 10-minute interview with Jeremy Paxman on the BBC’s Newsnight programme not only attracted millions of viewers – the YouTube hit-counter stands at 10.6 million – it won considerable praise and support from corporate journalists on Twitter. Brand was arguing for ‘revolution’ and yet was flavour of the month, cool to like. Something didn’t add up.

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ISIS is America’s Dream Rebel Army By Tony Cartalucci

10 November 2014 — Land Destroyer

US policy paper reveals desire for construction of full-scale extraterritorial army to invade Syria. Such an army is being built in Iraq and Turkey and it’s called “ISIS.”

The corporate-financier funded and directed policy think tank, the Brookings Institution, has served as one of several prominent forums documenting and disseminating US foreign policy. It would host in part the architects of the so-called “surge” during the nearly decade-spanning US occupation of Iraq, as well as battle plans for waging a covert war against Iran now well under way.

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The NHS: Unaccountable!

11 November 2014 — 38 Degrees

Could Jeremy Hunt’s NHS executives be wasting millions of pounds of our money? For weeks, NHS England – the people he put in charge of our NHS – have been promising to show how they are spending our money. They said they’d publish their receipts by 1st November, but we’re still waiting. [1]

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Bill Evans Trio: ‘Nardis’

8 November 2014

Recorded in London, March 19 1965. Wonderful stuff! Continue reading this...

New at Strategic Culture Foundation 2-8 November 2014

8 November 2014 — Strategic Culture Foundation

The Crisis of Ukrainian Statehood

08.11.2014 | 00:00 | Pavel DMITRIEV

…The elections in Ukraine on 26 October and the elections in the two Novorossiya republics on 2 November, as well as Russia’s recognition of these elections become another step towards the emergence of a new geopolitical reality in Eastern Europe… Following the victory in the armed struggle for de facto sovereignty, Novorossiya, by carrying out independent elections, has started to use this sovereignty in practice. The will of the people of Donetsk and Lugansk has been declared openly, and attempts to ignore it will be of no avail… Establishing the sovereignty of the republics of Novorossiya is, at one and the same time, putting an end to the existence of the Ukrainian state within the borders it has had since the collapse of the USSR in December 1991, when the Ukrainian Soviet Republic became an independent state… Continue reading this...

This is the Modern World By S. Artesian

7 November 2014 — The Wolf Report: Nonconfidential analysis for the anti-investor

1.  It is the “universalizing tendency” of capitalism that allows Marx to recognize, categorize, and critique its historical specificity– or rather the historical specificity of the condition of labor that is capital’s determinant.  That condition is that the laborers have no use for their own labor, that the labor has no value to them,  save its use in exchange, as value to be exchanged for the equivalent of the value of the means of subsistence.  So labor-time is compelled to present itself as exchange value, compensated for the time necessary for its reproduction, while the working time exceeds that of compensated time.

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NHS Care.data soon to become active

7 November 2014 — 38 Degrees

Care.data – the scheme that would give our personal medical data to private companies. It’s being rolled out in just a few weeks’ time. [1]

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Black Agenda Report for November 5 2014: Zombie Consensus Wins Midterms, Ditch the Working Familes Party, Pinkney Convicted

5 November 2014 — Black Agenda Report

by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon

Democrats lost almost everywhere this midterm, and where they won it wasn’t good news for the 99%. Pension-cutting, privatizing, mass incarcerating tax-the-poor and coddle-the-rich Democrats like the incumbent governors of California, Illinois, New York are pretty hard to tell from Republicans. Both are part of a zombie consensus, animated by something other than the will of the people.

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PAMBAZUKA NEWS 701: ‘YOU CANNOT KILL IDEAS': THE RETURN OF THOMAS SANKARA

6 November 2014 — Pambazuka News

 

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Media Lens: A Match Made In Heaven – President Obama And The BBC’s John Simpson

4 November 2014 — Media Lens

Sometimes a piece of propaganda is so glaring you almost have to splash cold water on your face to make sure your eyes are not deceiving you. Take a bow John Simpson, the grandly titled ‘World Affairs Editor’ of BBC News. You don’t earn a moniker like that by offending the global power elite. But is it really necessary to genuflect before US President Barack Obama as Simpson did in a recent article masquerading as informed commentary?

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Spirit of ‘Africa’s Che Guevara’ found in Burkina Faso uprising

31 October 2014 — New Power

_74550481_sankara_afpBy Kingsley Kobo (AlJeezera)

OUGADOUGOU, Burkina Faso – In the early hours of a night in 1987, one of Africa’s youngest leaders, Thomas Sankara, was murdered and quietly and quickly buried in a shallow grave.

Now, the man widely believed to be behind it, Burkina Faso’s president, has watched as his parliament was set ablaze by furious protesters who want him gone.

Many of the protesters say the history of the slain 1980s leader partly inspired them to rise against Blaise Compaore, who has been in power for 27 years and was trying, by a vote in parliament, for another five.

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Black Agenda Report for October 29, 2014: World Embraces Cuba, Slaps US, Human Rights Abuses, CBC (Corporate Black Cash-hounds)

29 October 2014 — Black Agenda Report

by BAR executive editor Glen Ford

The United Nations’ yearly vote against the U.S. trade embargo of Cuba has evolved into a “singular opportunity for all the world body’s members to chastise the superpower that seeks full spectrum domination of the planet.” The Cuban model of behavior in the world – exemplified in the fight against Ebola – was ceremonially saluted, while “the world’s biggest economic and military power could neither buy nor bully a single ally” except Israel.

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Statewatch News Online, 27 October 2014 (14/14): Operation ‘Mos Maiorum’

26 October 2014 — Statewatch.org/ 

NEWS
http://www.statewatch.org/news/

JOINT POLICE OPERATION “MOS MAIORUM”

1.    EU: Joint Operation “Mos Maiorum” (13-26 October 2014): Statewatch Summary of News/Web of coverage
2.    Joint Police Operation “Mos Maiorum”: Statewatch can confirm that the UK is taking part
3.    Joint Police Operation “Mos Maiorum”: Document from Italian Interior Ministry giving instructions on how to treat migrants
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