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1 May 2013 — williambowles.info
Pirate Party gains three seats in Iceland’s parliament
CBS News
Physically isolated near the Arctic Circle, it is one of the world’s most wired countries and has been a hub for the online secret-spilling group WikiLeaks. Jonsdottir has worked with WikiLeaks in the past. In 2011 the country announced it would crowd …
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-202_162-57582088/pirate-party-gains-three-seats-in-icelands-parliament/
12 April 2013 – Amandla!
The Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU) is in the midst of the biggest crisis in its 27-year history. This crisis has arisen from a South African Communist Party (SACP)-driven attempt to oust democratically elected COSATU general secretary Zwelinzima Vavi, under the guise of corruption charges. The conflict’s roots are in longstanding political contradictions and ideological tensions between COSATU and its Alliance partners – the ruling African National Congress and the SACP. At stake is not only the leadership of COSATU, but its political and moral direction.
18 March 2013 — Media Lens
Ten years ago today, on March 18, 2003, Tony Blair delivered a speech to parliament prior to a vote that resulted in MPs authorising war on Iraq. The war began two days later.
9 February 2013 — WSWS
The French Socialist Party government of President François Hollande has ordered the mobilisation of the secret services and police to carry out surveillance of workers fighting mass unemployment and factory closures.
6 February 2013 — RT
28 November 2012 — The Greanville Post - Paul Carline is Associate Editor of Greanville Post
“To Empire, with Love”
It’s said there are few safer bets in Hollywood than a Bond film. The latest offering in the extremely lucrative Bond franchise – “Skyfall” – has already broken box-office records, taking some $87.8 million in its first weekend in the USA, and easily covering its $200 million production costs in the first two weeks. So far, the Eon Productions series has grossed $4,910,000,000 (over $12,360,000,000 when adjusted for inflation) worldwide, making it the second highest grossing film series after “Harry Potter”. Continue reading this...
1 November, 2012 – MERIP
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For background on the Orange Movement and the fight for women’s political rights, see Mary Ann Tétreault, “Kuwait’s Annus Mirabilis,” Middle East Report Online, September 7, 2006 and Mary Ann Tétreault and Mohammed al-Ghanim, “The Day After ‘Victory’: Kuwait’s 2009 Election and the Contentious Present,” Middle East Report Online, July 8, 2009.
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In the New York Review of Books, Hussein Agha and Robert Malley imagine the results of the Arab revolts as the possible beginning of a reconstitution of the Ottoman Empire. They see the regional unrest as media-driven, with various partisans asserting their own versions of reality to mobilize popular support. Outsiders fumble for understanding as forces push back and forth, now winning and now losing. Some see Islamists as the only ones with moral standing, yet Islamists in power seem ready and eager to “compromise” with the West to attract money and space to pursue their domestic projects. Continue reading this...
4 October 2012 — GRtv
In a bid to speed up their time tables for Spring 2013, the West and their proxy Turkey are now baiting Syria into a wider regional conflict. Turkey‘s parliament has authorized cross-border military operations into Syria ‘when necessary’ following a casual mortar-shelling incident on the Turkish-Syrian border.
6 March 2012 – Global Research
URL of this article: http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=29626
In a pattern of propaganda now well-established in the mainstream media, fear-mongering against Iran is reaching an all-time peak. A case in point includes ongoing accusations that Iran is in violation of the nuclear non-proliferation treaty, despite statements to the contrary from U.S. Defence Secretary Leon Panetta as well as a number of American intelligence officials[1].
14 February 2012 — Eric Walberg
Greek protesters defied the pleading of their prime minister in a televised address to the nation to accept austerity measures to allow a massive loan and “debt swap” plan by the IMF and EU to stave off bankruptcy. The measures approved by parliament involve slashing the minimum wage by up to one-third, deregulating the labour market to make it easier to lay off workers, and cutting pensions.
13 February 2012 — Greanville Post – Bella Caledonia
Post sponsored by Gaither Stewart, Senior Editor, TGP
With our thanks to Paul Carline
Television images of demonstrators being teargassed by riot police in Athens on Sunday night followed the usual rules of media coverage of civil unrest – plenty of graphic images with little or no honest representation of the story behind the actual events.
7 February 2012 — Red Scribblings
The class=’StrictlyAutoTagBold’>Tories are in deep trouble over Lansley’s health ‘reforms’. Their class=’StrictlyAutoTagBold’>Lib Dem coalition partners are deeply split over it, in the class=’StrictlyAutoTagBold’>Lords Shirley Williams appears to be among those fighting hardest to defeat it. The Labour Party meanwhile, though it has capitulated on the public sector pay freeze and on the wider issue of class=’StrictlyAutoTagBold’>cuts, is making defeating it in class=’StrictlyAutoTagBold’>parliament a cause celebre.
And rightly so, as the proposals are a deadly threat to the class=’StrictlyAutoTagBold’>NHS, aimed at fragmenting it and allowing private health companies to virtually tear off profitable chunks of it for themselves. It also aims at integrating the class=’StrictlyAutoTagBold’>NHS into economic sectors governed by EU competition laws that ostensibly oppose ‘monopoly’, thus imposing marketisation and a slide to outright privatisation through extra-territorial legal fiat.
8 February 2012 13:47:55 — williambowles.info
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Israel embassies preparing for Iran strike?
occupation magazine – articles Today at 23:59
Itamar Eichner – Ynet – ‘In the framework of the preparations for possible fallout in case of an Israeli strike on Iran, foreign diplomats stationed in Israel requested that the Foreign Ministry equip them and their family members with gas masks.’
2 January 2012 — UK Parliament
From the UK government’s Website and worthwhile visiting or subscribe to their RSS feed. Here are a few of the latest:
MPs publish report on unauthorised tapping or hacking of mobile communications 23/12/2011 at 09:59
The Welfare reform bill is currently in report stage. Two days of further scrutiny by the Lords has been completed.
Lords to hear evidence from The Journalism Foundation
MPs publish report on unauthorised tapping or hacking of mobile communications 20/12/2011 at Noon
Lords Communications Committee continue their inquiry into the future of investigative journalism”
21 December 2011 — Youtube
A masterpiece video, the music is an old patriotic song from the operetta “Shehrzad” composed by Sayed Darwish in 1920s. Its title is “the best armies in the world are ours”. The scenes are those of security forces cracking down on the protests in front of the parliament.
19 December 2011 — williambowles.info
19 December 2011
Fresh violence hits Tahrir Square
BBC News Today at 10:40
At least one person dies in fresh clashes between protesters and troops in the Egyptian capital Cairo, bringing the death toll since Friday to 11.
30 November 2011 — RT
Cairo : Election officials take away ballot boxes from a polling station near Tahrir square at the end of the voting day in Cairo on November 29, 2011. (AFP Photo / Odd Andersen)
Millions of Egyptians have voted in the first parliamentary election since the fall of President Mubarak. But many doubt whether it will change much, with the army generals who took over from the ousted president still holding the reins.
Authorities report unexpectedly high turnout reaching an estimated 70 to 80 per cent over the two days of voting. Some lines to the polling stations were several kilometers long.
21 October 2011 — williambowles.info
Greek Govt Approves Cuts Amid Violent Protests
Wall Street Journal
By STELIOS BOURAS And ALKMAN GRANITSAS WSJ’s Stephen Fidler joins the News Hub to discuss a second day of violence in Greece as residents stage a second day of general strikes. Photo: AFP PHOTO / LOUISA GOULIAMAKI ATHENS—Greek lawmakers narrowly …
http://europe.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204618704576642682598222752.html
9 August 2011 — The Wolf Report
Back in the day, blast from the past, a golden oldie, with respect and appreciation to the youth of Britain back in that day and here in this day. Here’s what was said 30 years ago.
30 July 2011 — WSWS
On Friday, members of Parliament’s Commons Culture Select Committee voted against recalling News Corporation Chairman James Murdoch to give more evidence on phone hacking and police corruption. Labour MP Tom Watson had called on Murdoch, the son of international media mogul Rupert Murdoch, and two ex-News of the World executives, former editor Colin Myler and the newspaper’s ex-legal manager Tom Crone, to appear.
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