August 2011
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Video – UK: The Voice Of Reason
A working man from South London, tells it like it is! Continue reading
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Pambazuka News 544: Stealing the commons and looting the streets (Pambazuka Editor)
12 August 2011 — PAMBAZUKA NEWS 544: STEALING THE COMMONS AND LOOTING THE STREETS The authoritative electronic weekly newsletter and platform for social justice in Africa Pambazuka News (English edition): ISSN 1753-6839 CONTENTS: 1. Features, 2. Announcements, 3. Comment & analysis, 4. Advocacy & campaigns, 5. Books & arts, 6. Highlights French edition, 7. Cartoons Continue reading
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Updates on Libyan war/Stop NATO news: August 12, 2011
12 August 2011 — Stop NATO South African President Condemns NATO Over Libya Denmark Extends NATO War Mission In Libya U.S. Drone Warfare: Tyranny Of Flying Terror NATO: Over 1.3 Million Reservists In 34 Member, Partner Nations Canadian Military Priority: Boost ‘Operational Capability In The Arctic’ Russian Arctic Force Could Include Paratroopers With 1,500 Troops Continue reading
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Ten reasons to riot By William Bowles
What is fascinating about the ten headings is that taken collectively they spell capitalism, but broken down as they are, they are reduced to fragments of the whole and subsequently dealt with accordingly, as fragments of largely cliched and predictable knee-jerk reactions, rolled glibly off the tongue of the assembled ‘experts’. Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 11 August, 2011: Israel approves 1,600 Jerusalem settler homes
11 August , 2011 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Abbas: “Future State Will Be Under NATO Security Forces Headed By The USA” IMEMC – Friday August 12, 2011 – 03:12, Palestinian President, Mahmoud Abbas, stated Thursday that the future Palestinian state will be under the security responsibility of a third party, NATO Continue reading
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Information Clearing House Newsletter August 11, 2011: An Explosive New 9/11 Charge
11 August 2011 — Information Clearing House Waging a Savage War on Libyan People By Lizzie Phelan I watched their heartbroken and incensed loved ones bury the 33 children, 32 women and 20 men. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28812.htm Continue reading
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Updates on Libyan war/Stop NATO news: August 11, 2011
11 August 2011 — Stop NATO Southern Africa Liberation Movements Youth Groups: All NATO Leaders War Criminals U.S. Launches Anti-Libya African Offensive Blueprint For NATO Attack On Syria Revealed Prompt Global Strike: Pentagon To Launch New Hypersonic Aircraft Contra U.S.-NATO ABM System: Russia Restoring Missile Umbrella New Russian Submarine Supermissile Can Penetrate U.S. Missile Shield Continue reading
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Libya — Lather, Rinse, Repeat — Syria: Liberal Imperialism and the Refusal to Learn By Maximilian C. Forte
One detects a strong tendency among liberal imperialists and assorted self-designated “progressives” to think of their actions and thoughts as being above history, as if residing in some altostratus of unimpeachable rectitude. If they pretend to act and think as if they were gods, it is not an historical accident. At the end of their… Continue reading
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Who is the sick one here? By William Bowles
Yesterday, 10 August our vainglorious pm announced that the communities from which it is alleged the ‘rioters and looters’ emanated from were “sick”. But more on who is really sick in our society later. In the meantime I’d like to pick up on an aspect of the state’s response (or apparent lack of) to the… Continue reading
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UK: Bullets won’t solve anything
For all the sense that David Cameron spoke following the Cobra emergency committee meeting, he might as well have stayed in his luxury Tuscan villa. Continue reading
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Wikileaks Newslinks 11 August 2011
11 August 2011 — williambowles.info Shmoop Snoops the Facebook Profiles and Email Inboxes of the Gods, Launches … San Francisco Chronicle (press release) @shmoop went all WikiLeaks on us… mere mortals are all up in our Olympian business. SOCTLB* According to an anonymous Valhalla-based publicist, Shmoop’s team of private investigators infiltrated some seriously personal files Continue reading
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A "Humanitarian War" on Syria? Military Escalation. Towards a Broader Middle East-Central Asian War? By Michel Chossudovsky
An attack on Syria would lead to the integration of these separate war theaters, eventually leading towards a broader Middle East-Central Asian war, engulfing an entire region from North Africa and the Mediterranean to Afghanistan and Pakistan. Continue reading
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A “Humanitarian War” on Syria? Military Escalation. Towards a Broader Middle East-Central Asian War? By Michel Chossudovsky
An attack on Syria would lead to the integration of these separate war theaters, eventually leading towards a broader Middle East-Central Asian war, engulfing an entire region from North Africa and the Mediterranean to Afghanistan and Pakistan. Continue reading
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UK: An Anatomy of a police shooting By Tony Mckenna
Consider the following hypothetical situation: a group of policeman unlawfully kill a suspected criminal. We do not know what has lead to the unlawful killing – only that it takes place and – having taken place, must now, somehow, be presented to the public as a ‘lawful kill’. Continue reading
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Black Britain Revolts: What If It Had Been New York? By Glen Ford
Britain’s Black rebellion shocked the nation, but has not produced the kind of carnage that routinely accompanies urban unrest in the United States. ‘Had London’s current disturbances occurred on a similar scale in New York City, with outbreaks across the various boroughs, the police would have unleashed a bloodbath.’ Which is not to say that… Continue reading
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Austerity and Anarchy: Budget Cuts and Social Unrest in Europe, 1919-2009
Does fiscal consolidation lead to social unrest? From the end of the Weimar Republic in Germany in the 1930s to anti-government demonstrations in Greece in 2010-11, austerity has tended to go hand in hand with politically motivated violence and social instability. In this paper, we assemble cross-country evidence for the period 1919 to the present,… Continue reading
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Left groups respond to the UK riots
Statements by various left groups on the riots that have swept the UK over the past week. Continue reading
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Video: Dozens of olive trees were uprooted in Walaje – and it seems many more will be uprooted
Dozens of olive trees were uprooted in Walaje – and it seems many more will be uprooted Continue reading
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Black Agenda Report 10 August 2011: Barack's Satan Sandwich / Obama Slipping / Black Brits Revolt
10 August 2011 — Black Agenda Report: News, commentary and analysis from the black left Barack’s Satan Sandwich Only The First Course: Will We Re-Hire the Chef in 2012 Anyway? Bruce A. Dixon By BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon Rep. Emmanuel Cleaver pronounced the debt deal a Satan Sandwich. The CBC is conducting its Continue reading
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