May 26, 2010
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Housmans Radical Books, London: Events Newsletter June 2010
26 May, 2010 — Housmans Books NEWS 1. 10 % discount for Trade Union members 2. Sunday opening over summer months EVENTS 3. ‘Human rights violations and resistance in China since 1989’ with Shao Jiang 4. ‘Demilitarising global society’ with Diana Francis and friends 5. ‘Reclaiming the F Word’ with Catherine Redfern and Kristin Aune Continue reading
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Coalition of the unwilling? I don’t think so By William Bowles
There’s a fascinating pas de deux going on here between the media and the political class that centres on not talking about about the crisis of capital. Instead, the Independent along with the rest of corporate/state media, focuses all of a sudden on ‘peoples’ rights’ what Clegg is calling the “power revolution”. Continue reading
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Information Clearing House Newsletter 25 May, 2010: Afghans Believe US Funding Taliban
‘US to Send Secret Military Teams to Iran’ U.S. Moves Goalposts On Iran And Changes Uranium Details Former CIA Officer on Iran: Brazil and Turkey are Vital Checks and Balances Ruled by Paranoia U.S. Night Raid In Afghanistan Elicits Outrage Grayson’s Smart Calculus Makes War Cost Real for Taxpayers Gulf Oil Disaster: Interior Probe Finds Continue reading
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Mirror, Mirror on the Wall, Who’s the Biggest Boycotter of them All?
While Israel and its supporters become wildly hysterical over calls by Jews and non-Jews alike to boycott, divest and impose sanctions on Israel for its continued and well-documented human rights abuses, rampant discrimination even within its borders, and alleged commission of war crimes in Gaza and elsewhere — calling these calls anti-Semitic, Israel and its… Continue reading
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The Unspoken Alliance: Military and Nuclear Ties between Israel and Apartheid South Africa Sasha Polakow-Suransky Interviewed by Amy Goodman
Israeli President Shimon Peres has denied reports that he offered to sell nuclear weapons to apartheid South Africa when he was defense minister in the ’70s. On Sunday, the Guardian newspaper of London published top-secret South African documents revealing that a secret meeting between then-defense minister Shimon Peres and his South African counterpart, P.W. Botha,… Continue reading
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Freedom flotilla ready to break the Gaza Strip blockade – RT Top Stories
Nine ships fitted from the UK, Ireland, Greece, Turkey, Kuwait and Algeria are gathering in the Mediterranean to put an end to the 3-year Gaza Strip blockade. They are to bring medications, medical equipment, construction materials and house parts to the 1.5 million Palestinian residents who have been punished collectively for three years – something… Continue reading
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National Security Archive Update, May 25, 2010: THE DIARY OF ANATOLY CHERNYAEV, 1990
Fifth Installment of Former Top Soviet Adviser’s Journal Available in English for First Time For more information, contact: Svetlana Savranskaya – 202/994-7000 www.nsarchive.org Washington, DC, May 25, 2010 – Today the National Security Archive publishes its fifth installment of the diary of Anatoly Chernyaev, the man behind some of the most momentous transformations in Soviet Continue reading
The New Dark Age 