29 January 2011 — Information Clearing House
New U.N. Draft Resolution Gives Syria 15 Days to Comply
By Josh Rogin
The draft resolution on Syria calls on Syrian President Bashar al-Assad to hand over power to his deputy and says additional measures would be taken if he doesn’t comply within 15 days.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article30378.htm
29 January 2012 — Global Research
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Property Rights versus Human Rights: Challenging the Super Wealthy
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24 January, 2012 — Global Research
After meeting again to decide Syria’s fate, the Arab League again decided to extend its “monitoring mission” in Syria. However, some Arab League nations under U.S. diplomatic control are clamoring for blood. These countries — virtual sock puppets of U.S. foreign policy — want to declare the Arab League monitoring mission “a failure,” so that military intervention — in the form of a no fly zone — can be used for regime change.
27 January 2012 — Avaaz
The BBC is being forced to hand over tens of millions of pounds every year to line Rupert Murdoch’s pockets. Murdoch’s cronies in government are determined to save this scheme — but together we can stop this outrage.
27 January 2012 — Information Clearing House
Masked Gunmen Rule in Damascus: Video
By RT
In many parts of the county it is not clear who is actually in control. The situation is certainly very dangerous for civilians. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article30365.htm
27 January 2012
PM Cameron’s call for a “moral capitalism” would be laughable if it weren’t so tragic and hypocritical. After all, hasn’t it been capitalism’s alleged occupation of the ‘moral high ground’, what they now choose to call ‘humanitarian intervention’ that has been used as a justification for mass murder and genocide? But plainly the millions killed and the countries decimated don’t fall under Cameron’s definition of what is and isn’t ‘moral’. Clearly, it’s for ‘local consumption’ only.
25 January 2012 — Global Research
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25 January 2012 — Information Clearing House
US/Israel: Iran NOT Building Nukes
By Ray McGovern
America’s newspaper of record won’t even report accurately what Israel (or the CIA) thinks on this important issue, if that goes against the alarmist conventional wisdom that the neocons favor. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article30358.htm
25 January 2012 — al-akhbar
The working class in the <strong class=’StrictlyAutoTagBold’>Arab world has accomplished a lot in the course of one year of uprisings. Some of these accomplishments are material, including higher wages and improvements in working conditions. Others are political, such as the right to democratic representation (the rise of Egyptian independent unions and changing the leadership of the Tunisian general workers’ union, among others).
25 January 2012 — VTJP
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Egypt’s People’s Council Head Declines Invitation To Visit Israel
IMEMC – Dr. Mohammad Al-Kittani, the elected head of the Egyptian People’s Council, a political leader of the Freedom and Justice Party in Egypt, declined an invitation to visit Israel to deliver a speech in front of the Israeli Knesset. …
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22 January 2012 — Max Keiser
* Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement
In October 2007, the United States, the European Community, Switzerland, and Japan simultaneously announced that they would negotiate a new intellectual property enforcement treaty the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement or ACTA. Australia, the Republic of Korea, New Zealand, Mexico, Jordan, Morocco, Singapore, the United Arab Emirates, and Canada have joined the negotiations. Although the proposed treaty’s title might suggest that the agreement deals only with counterfeit physical goods (such as medicines) what little information has been made available publicly by negotiating governments about the content of the treaty makes it clear that it will have a far broader scope and in particular will deal with new tools targeting ‘Internet distribution and information technology’.
25 January 2012 — Access Now
If you thought SOPA and PIPA were bad, let us introduce you to their Big Brother, ACTA.
We helped stopped SOPA and PIPA. Now let’s help defeat their Big Brother, ACTA! Sign the Petition
The Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) is an international treaty that threatens free speech and your privacy online. Imagine if your ISP could censor their networks, police what you did online, and with greater ease turn your information over to authorities. That’s the danger that ACTA poses, and it’s got to be stopped. Continue reading
25 January 2012 — Manifesto Club
Public spaces have become increasingly policed by unaccountable officials bearing open-ended powers. Criminal offences that would have been tried in court are now often dealt with on the spot.
Innocent people have been punished. A woman was given an on-the-spot fine for feeding the ducks; a man was fined for dropping a £10 note. One Women’s Institute was threatened with fines for handing out leaflets, and for putting up a poster.
A new Manifesto Club campaign against ‘Pavement Injustice‘ will take on unaccountable officials in public spaces – investigating how powers are being used, and calling for their review and limitation.
See our article in the Guardian about Pavement Injustice.
If you have received an unjust on-the-spot fine, or have other examples of ‘pavement injustice’ to report – please do contact us.
25 January, 2012 — Media Lens
Seumas Milne, George Monbiot & ‘Media Analysis’ In The Guardian Wonderland
One of the original aims of Media Lens, when we began in 2001, was to engage in honest, open and rational debate with journalists working for major news organisations. It wasn’t about ‘bashing’ them or trying to make them look bad. We wanted to examine media assumptions, challenge journalists’ arguments and find out more about the unwritten rules of ‘responsible’ reporting.
18 January, 2012 — Media Lens
News that a fourth scientist in two years, Mostafa Ahmadi Roshan, had been assassinated in Iran by an unknown agency generated minimal outrage in the press.
25 January 2012 — williambowles.info
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As cyberspace turns its attention to the SOPA and PIPA bills in the US, the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement, or ACTA, has been quietly signed or ratified by most of the developed world and is arguably the biggest threat to Internet freedom yet
Max Keiser and Stacy HerbertYesterday at 17:57
An ACTA of war: secret censor tool to shake up world wide web
24 January 2012 — VTJP
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Residents Detained in Hebron
IMEMC – On Tuesday Morning, the Israeli army kidnapped two Hebron residents near Ibrahim Mosque, and moved them to undisclosed location, the Palestinian news agency, Ma’an, reported. …
24 January 2012 — Information Clearing House
Stop the Madness
BY YOUSAF BUTT
Despite all the hype, Iran‘s nuclear program has yet to violate international law. It’s time to calm down, think, and above all halt the rush to war. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article30344.htm
24 January 2012 — RT
A demonstrator with ACTA stickers on his mouth takes part in a protest against Poland's government plans to sign international copyright agreement ACTA (Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement), in front of the European Union office in Warsaw on January 24, 2012 (AFP Photo / JANEK SKARZYNSKI)
As cyberspace turns its attention to the SOPA and PIPA bills in the US, the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement, or ACTA, has been quietly signed or ratified by most of the developed world and is arguably the biggest threat to Internet freedom yet.
ACTA has – officially – been in the works since 2008, and was signed by the US, Australia, Canada, Japan, Morocco, New Zealand, Singapore and South Korea in 2011. All negotiations were held behind closed doors, and it is mostly thanks to Internet hacktivist groups like Anonymous that news of the potential damage ACTA could cause has spread.
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