May 2011
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‘What Matters Is What Works’: The State and the National Health Service in Scotland and Wales By Colin Leys
After forty years of ideological onslaught the very idea of ‘the state’ is close to joining others, such as ‘collective’ (not to mention ‘socialist,’ and even ‘left’), in the depository of Unclean Concepts. ‘State bad, private good’ may be a crude and simplistic slogan, but it is the very real starting-point of many politicians and… Continue reading
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Haiti's cholera misery: 5,000 dead – and UN peacekeepers to blame By Guy Adams
Although the panel then dismisses as a mere “hypothesis” suggestions that Nepalese troops brought the bacteria into the country (which had been cholera-free for decades), it concedes that the disease began infecting large numbers of Haitians only when it entered the water supply via their camp’s dysfunctional septic disposal system. Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 5 May, 2011: Egypt and Israel Heading for Crisis
5 May, 2011 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Hamas To Allow Fateh Leaders To Travel To Ramallah IMEMC – Friday May 06, 2011 – 02:11, The Hamas-led government in Gaza retracted, on Tuesday evening, a previous decision preventing Fateh leaders from leaving the Gaza Strip to attend an official meeting of the Continue reading
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Stop NATO News: May 5, 2011: Perfectly Acceptable For U.S. And NATO To Kill Children
5 May 2011 — Stop NATO Updates on Libyan war: May 5 Perfectly Acceptable For U.S. And NATO To Kill Children Jamie Shea: NATO Partnerships Needed To Maintain West’s 500-Year World Dominance Where Does NATO’s “Boundary” Lie? Report: NATO Enforces Naval Blockade Against Eritrea Seychelles: NATO Steps Up Military Operations In Indian Ocean Serbia Could Continue reading
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No Revolution in Syria: An Interview with Camille Otrakji by Elias Muhanna
Camille Otrakji: I believe that a clear majority of Syrians support many of the demands of the peaceful protesters. On the other hand, only a minority of Syrians are willing to risk destabilizing their country in order to try to achieve full regime change after a painful drawn-out conflict. Continue reading
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National Security Archive Update, May 5, 2011: Pakistan’s bin Laden Policy
As the discovery of Osama bin Laden in Abbottabad, Pakistan, raises fresh questions about U.S.-Pakistan relations, newly released documents show that as early as 1998 U.S. officials concluded the Government of Pakistan “is not disposed to be especially helpful on the matter of terrorist Usama bin Ladin.” Continue reading
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Battle for Algiers
Time to remind folks about France’s role in North Africa. Trailer for Gillo Pontecorvo’s masterpiece, Battle of Algiers Continue reading
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Libya Fact Sheet By Ron Ridenour
What the US-NATO-EU hopes to achieve is to eliminate the half-reliable partner Gaddafi and replace him with a neo-liberal oriented government that will do their bidding: sign on AFRICOM, kick China out, reverse the government central bank to a BIS private enterprise, continue using dollars of course, and have the lackey leaders join in their… Continue reading
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And now for something completely different…
5 May 2011 Blues guitar legends B.B. King and T-Bone Walker performing “Sweet Sixteen” together at the 1967 Monterey Jazz Festival. Continue reading
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Libya Newslinks 4-5 May 2011
5 May 2011 17:00:46 — williambowles.info 5 May 2011 Dissident Voice: Libya Fact Sheet williambowles.info: Fallujah, Iraq 2004 – Misrata, Libya 2011 BBC: VIDEO: Clearing mines at Misrata port Consortium News: ‘Liberating’ Iraq, Now Libya Mathaba News: Women whip off shirts in Gaddafi’s support Mathaba News: The Libyan War Crime Continue reading
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Media Lens: Fallujah, Iraq 2004 – Misrata, Libya 2011
Our point – an obvious one, we would hope – is not at all to suggest that we support Gaddafi’s tyranny or his atrocities. Our point is that, time and again, our ostensibly independent mass media fall into line when the state declares war. When the official enemy attacks civilians our media howl with righteous… Continue reading
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Killing Gaddafi’s Grandbabies By Glen Ford
When the U.S. and Europeans needed a way to get on the ‘right’ side of the Arab Awakening – and thereby crush it – they chose to re-demonize Libyan leader Moammar Gaddafi as the evil from which the Euro-Americans would rescue North Africa. ‘Gaddafi was perfect, having long existed in cartoon form for western consumption.’ Continue reading
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Black Agenda Report 4 May 2011: Obama Killing Spree / Brazil in Haiti / Obama Needs Birthers
4 May 2011 — BAR – News, commentary and analysis from the black left Osama, Obama and Bush: Apt Comparisons, Missed Opportunities by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon Illustration by Leon Kuhn. More of his work at http://www.leonkuhn.org.uk/ This weekend the White House announced the extrajudicial killing of Osama Bin Laden, and the secret disposal Continue reading
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Wikileaks founder Julian Assange interviewed by Russia Today, criticizes Guardian, New York Times, and Facebook
Wikileaks founder Julian Assange interviewed by Russia Today, criticizes Guardian, New York Times, and Facebook. Gives his opinion on the Arab revolutions. Continue reading
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Bahrain mostly mainstream newslinks 5 May 2011: Bahrain renews emergency law as repression persists
5 May 2011 — williambowles.info BAHRAIN: Medical staff face prosecution, alleged torture after aiding anti … Los Angeles Times Nearly 50 doctors, nurses and other medical staff have been detained in Bahrain in connection with treating anti-government protesters, human-rights officials said Wednesday. Those detained included 24 doctors and 23 nurses and paramedics, according to … Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 4 May, 2011: An independent homeland or bantustan in disguise?
4 May, 2011 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Soldiers Attack Nabi Saleh Procession Celebrating Unity IMEMC – Thursday May 05, 2011 – 03:44, Israeli soldiers attacked on Wednesday a nonviolent procession in Nabi Saleh village, near the central West Bank city of Nablus, as dozens of residents marched in the streets celebrating Continue reading
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Information Clearing House Newsletter 4 May, 2011: US Knew Where Osama Was Since 2005 – The story behind the story
4 May 2011 — Information Clearing House Cross and Double Cross With Gitmo Files US Knew Where Osama Was Since 2005 By Israel Shamir Now we’ll give you the story behind the story: who crossed and double crossed whom, which information was redacted and how did it lead to OBL? www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28030.htm Continue reading
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Obit: Osama bin Laden (1957–2011) By Eric Walberg
A devout Wahhabi, bin Laden rose to fame quickly following the occupation of Afghanistan by Soviet troops in 1979, when US president Jimmy Carter authorised massive funding of mujahideen in Afghanistan and Pakistan and president Ronald Reagan launched his war against the “evil empire”, the ailing Soviet Union, in 1981. Continue reading
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Key Articles on The US-NATO Never-Ending War Machine
5 May 2011 — Global Research SYRIA: Who is Behind The Protest Movement? Fabricating a Pretext for a US-NATO “Humanitarian Intervention” – by Prof. Michel Chossudovsky – 2011-05-03 Continue reading
The New Dark Age 