Parliament: the mother of all deceptions By William Bowles

30 June 2012

wm-morris“There — it sickens one to have to wade through this grimy sea of opportunism. What a spectacle of shuffling, lies, vacillation and imbecility does this Game Political offer to us? I cannot conclude without an earnest appeal to those Socialists, of whatever section, who may be drawn towards the vortex of Parliamentarism, to think better of it while there is yet time.

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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 29 June 2012: Israel, US blast UN vote on Palestinian heritage sites

29 June 2012 — VTJP

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International Middle East Media Center

22 Elected Legislators Still Imprisoned By Israel
IMEMC – Head of the Census Department at the Palestinian Ministry of Detainees, Abdul-Nasser Farawna, reported that the current number of elected Palestinian legislators imprisoned by Israel dropped to 22 after Israel released, on Thursday afternoon, two legislators, the Palestine News Network, PNN, reported. …

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Why today’s radicals must read Marx’s Das Kapital by Mike Wayne

21 June 2012Counterfire

Mike Wayne is a Professor in Screen Media at Brunel University in London. His most recent book is  Marx’s Das Kapital For Beginners.

The relevance of Marx’s Das Kapital to the modern capitalist world is once again getting a hearing. After the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 and the opening up of China to international capitalism, the political and economic elites declared that a new economic paradigm had arrived, bringing with it undreamt promises of wealth and consumer bliss as long as the market was left to do its own thing. Plenty of people listened to them. But their hubris and complacency rested on a massive historical amnesia that blinded them to an elementary truth borne out by nearly 400 years of history: namely that capitalism remains structurally prone to major economic crises.

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Wikileaks Newslinks 29 June 2012

29 June 2012 — williambowles.info

 

WikiLeaks’ Assange defiant over UK police request

Reuters

LONDON (Reuters) – WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange said it was almost certain he would not leave his embassy refuge on Friday to enter a British police station as part of his extradition process to be.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/06/28/us-wikileaks-assange-idUSBRE85R0ZG20120628

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NATO Proxies Turkey and Saudi Arabia Move to War Footing on Eve of Syrian ‘Peace Summit’ By Finian Cunningham

28 June, 2012 — Global Research

The NATO-backed covert aggression against Syria could be reaching a tipping point for all-out war involving state forces. That should be no surprise. For the past 16 months, NATO and its regional proxies have been steadily increasing the violence and turmoil inside and outside Syria, while the Western corporate-controlled media maintain the ridiculous fiction that the bloody chaos is largely due to the government forces of President Bashar Al Assad cracking down on “peaceful protesters”. 

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Bradley Manning Newslinks 29 June 2012

29 June 2012— williambowles.info

 

Judge orders prosecution to explain stonewalling in Bradley Manning case

World Socialist Web Site

A military judge on June 25 ordered Army prosecutors to address accusations that they have withheld evidence from the defense team of accused whistleblower Bradley Manning.

http://www.wsws.org/articles/2012/jun2012/mann-j29.shtml

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Information Clearing House Newsletter 28 June 2012: The American People Are Angry?

28 June 2012 — Information Clearing House 

Obama Stalling His Way To War With Iran
By Flynt Leverett and Hillary Mann Leverett

Obama is locking America into a path that is increasingly likely to result in yet another U.S.-initiated war in the Middle East during the first years of the next presidential term. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31714.htm

VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 28 June 2012: Israel treats every Palestinian child as “potential terrorist”: government-backed UK study

28 June 2012 — VTJP

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International Middle East Media Center

Israel Army Asks For Extensive Deployment On Egyptian Border
IMEMC – Israeli paper, Maariv, reported Thursday that senior leaders of the Israeli army are demanding the government to grant the army $15 billion over the coming five years, in order to deploy the military in full capacity along the border with Egypt. … 

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Wikileaks Newslinks 28 June 2012

28 June 2012williambowles.info

 

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange ordered to present himself to police

Telegraph.co.uk

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has been served with a letter saying he has to present himself to a London police station tomorrow, according to sources.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/wikileaks/9361410/WikiLeaks-founder-Julian-Assange-ordered-to-present-himself-to-police.html

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History is the enemy as ‘brilliant’ psy-ops become the news By John Pilger

21 June 2012 — John Pilger

Arriving in a village in southern Vietnam, I caught sight of two children who bore witness to the longest war of the 20th century. Their terrible deformities were familiar. All along the Mekong river, where the forests were petrified and silent, small human mutations lived as best they could.

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The US-NATO Military Crusade against Syria and Iran: Selected Articles Edited By Michel Chossudovsky

27 June, 2012 — Global Research

The USNATO Military Crusade on Syria and Iran

Selected Articles

Michel Chossudovsky (Editor)

Global Research News and Analysis

American-led imperialism has evolved from bloody bouts of episodic militarism over several decades to the present day state of permanent belligerence, with wars or war-making stretching from North and East Africa into the Middle East and Central Asia and beyond to Eurasia, the Far East and the Arctic. Of most immediate concern are the ongoing American-led war plans within the broader Middle East/Central Asian region involving coordinated actions against Iran, Syria and Pakistan.

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Bradley Manning Newslinks 28 June 2012

28 June 2012williambowles.info

 

Bradley Manning defense claims victory on due process motion

Democratic Underground

“The Obama administration can’t hide from reality forever” said Jeff Paterson, a lead organizer with the Bradley Manning Support Network. “Any ruling in favor of …

http://www.democraticunderground.com/1002865107

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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 27 June 2012: Israel Plans Demolition of Entire Palestinian Village

27 June 2012 — VTJP

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International Middle East Media Center

Israeli government fails to carry out terms of prisoner agreement
IMEMC – Palestinian and international rights groups have condemned the Israeli government’s failure to live up to the agreement made one month ago in order to end the month-long hunger strike of over 2,000 Palestinian prisoners. …

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NATO War Council To Target Syria By Rick Rozoff

26 June, 2012 — Global Research – Stop NATO

On Tuesday, June 26 Belgium time the North Atlantic Council, the highest governing body of the U.S.-dominated North Atlantic Treaty Organization military bloc, will take up the issue of Syria under provisions of its founding document that in the past ten and a half years have resulted in military deployments preparatory to and the subsequent waging of full-scale wars.
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BA_Report 27 June 2012: Re-Open Cointelpro / ATL Plantation Politics / Race Talk Taboo

26 June 2012 — Black Agenda Report News, commentary and analysis from the black left

Black On The Old Plantation

A Black Agenda Radio Commentary by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon
Metro Atlanta is now the second largest concentration of African-descended people in North America. But with civil rights organizations firmly in corporate pockets, it’s still a spot where the racist corporations like Southern Companies feel free and unashamed to celebrate their history of theft and plunder and future prospects of the same. What does that say about the state of black leadership, about all of us?

VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 26 June 2012: G4S in Israel: The Soldiers of Global Occupation

26 June 2012 — VTJP

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International Middle East Media Center

Israel Begins The Evacuation Of Ulpana Settlement
IMEMC – On Tuesday Israeli officials started removing the illegal Ulpana settlement outpost, built on privately-owned Palestinian lands, close to the Beit El settlement near the central West Bank city of Ramallah. Israel vowed to build hundreds of new housing units in the West Bank in exchange to relocating the settlers. …

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