November 16, 2011
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A whiff of Egyptian freedom for Gaza BY Eric Walberg
Israel got a taste of the new people’s Egypt with the arrest of an Egyptian journalist on the flotilla to Gaza and plans for the biggest aid convoy yet, reports Eric Walberg Continue reading
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Media Advisory: Iran, Nukes and the Failure of Skepticism
Much of the corporate media coverage of a new UN report on Iran strongly asserts that Iran is close to building nuclear weapons. But the International Atomic Energy Agency report does not actually arrive at that conclusion, and many critics contend that the speculations that are in the report are misguided. Continue reading
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US wants to Censor the Web
Under the new law, the US could force Internet providers to block any website on suspicion of violating copyright or trademark legislation, or even failing to sufficiently police their users’ activities. And, because so much of the Internet’s hosts and hardware are located in the US, their blacklist would clamp down on the free web… Continue reading
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…and Gaddafi was what? Bad, yes. Now open your Citizenship Readers to page 45….
I suppose because the average Libyan is now doomed to years of social chaos, misery and poverty, western consensus media have redoubled their efforts to remind us just how heinous Gaddafi was. I know it’s near to useless to try to hold them responsible or awaken any vestigial conscience lurking in a journalist’s tiny head,… Continue reading
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Video: Eviction Reinforces OWS Determination
Occupy Wall Street supporters will attempt to shut down Wall Street and New York subways Continue reading
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Video: Occupy Protestors Vow to Return
Concerted attack on occupy movements took place after 18 mayors held a conference to discuss a coordinated strategy Continue reading
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Video: COURTS OVERRULED BY COPS – DHS ABOVE THE LAW….
The ugly hand of the federal government is becoming increasingly suspected behind what appears to be a nationwide attempt to repress and evict the Occupation Movement. Continue reading
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Eurozone Crisis Q&A BY BY Hugo Radice, Ed Lewis
Political economist Hugo Radice is a Life Fellow at the School of Politics and International Studies at the University of Leeds. In an interview with NLP’s Ed Lewis, he addresses a series of questions on the escalating crisis in the Eurozone. Continue reading
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Hip-Hop Against the World! BY Jared Ball
Propaganda agencies operate on the principle that everything can be turned to advantage, even the cultural properties of the oppressed.‘ Like jazzman Louis Armstrong’s ‘good will’ tours for the U.S. State Department in the Fifties, rappers today are dispatched on foreign missions to ‘cleanse an image that simply defies cleanliness.’ Hip Hop, the culture that… Continue reading
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Bloomberg Personifies What the Occupation Opposes BY Glen Ford
It was never in the cards for a plutocrat mayor to long tolerate a movement whose essential logic is the dissolution of his class. ‘If the Occupy Wall Street movement has been about anything, it is the absolute necessity to rid the nation – and the world – of the collective tyranny of the Bloombergs,… Continue reading
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General Strike in Portugal in 24 November
With a deeper recession, we will enter a destructive cycle of austerity policies, added recession and higher debt, repeating what is already happening, namely in Greece, with disastrous outcomes for the workers, people and country, which are very visible today.” Continue reading
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Land Research Center: Increasing Attacks on Jerusalemites and their Properties in October 2011
October, 2011, has witnessed radical escalations and a brutal assault against Palestinians and their properties all around the West Bank especially the Occupied City of Jerusalem. Continue reading
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November 30 Strike: student planning meeting tonight, plus demo details
As you’re probably aware, on Wednesday 30 November millions of public sector workers will be taking strike action across the country. A full list of unions taking action on the day is available here, but what’s clear is that N30 it set to see a major stepping up of resistance to austerity in the UK. Continue reading
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WMD deja-vu: Iran replaces Iraq — RT
America’s whipping up hysteria over the Iranian nuclear program, with the same figures that used to accuse Iraq of possessing chemical and nuclear weapons now repeating themselves with frenetic conviction. Continue reading
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Video: IAEA Iran Report Spins Intelligence BY grtv
Gareth Porter: Dubious intelligence used as pretext for tougher sanctions Continue reading
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If the West Attacks Iran, It Could Lead to World War III BY Devon DB
It was reported a week ago that the UN International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) released a report that argued that Iran may have been attempting to build nuclear weapons based on the fact that it had computer models of a nuclear warhead, in addition with other information. On the matter, the report itself states Iran… Continue reading
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Diamonds or Bombs? WaPo Is Only Skeptical on One Side
Joby Warrick’s Washington Post article (11/14/11) on the new International Atomic Energy Agency report on Iran goes wrong from the first sentence Continue reading
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The IAEA Report on Iran is based on Fake Intelligence. IAEA "Soviet Nuclear Scientist" Never Worked on Weapons BY Gareth Porter
The report of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) published by a Washington think tank Tuesday repeated the sensational claim previously reported by news media all over the world that a former Soviet nuclear weapons scientist had helped Iran construct a detonation system that could be used for a nuclear weapon Continue reading
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Stop NATO News: November 16, 2011
16 November 2011 — Stop NATO Iran Strikes: U.S. Air Force Gets Super-Heavy Bunker-Buster Bombs Persian Gulf Arms, Missile Build-Up Boon To U.S. Weapons Companies Nuclear Madness: Iran, Kuwait Or The IAEA? Clinton, Obama Visits Shore Up Asian NATO Against China Australia Could Be Caught In U.S.-China Crossfire Pentagon To Test Hypersonic Prompt Global Strike Continue reading
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