20 August 2012 — Information Clearing House
The War in the Shadows
By Chris Hedges
There are hundreds of millions of people who have a tragic intimacy with the twisted and brutal soul of American imperialism. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article32231.htm
20 August, 2012, 23:20 — RT
The website for the UK Ministry of Justice is under attack after hacktivists engaged a mission to try and take down justice.gov.uk in retaliation for Britain’s handling of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange.
20 August 2012
It didn’t advocate socialism but it was at least an attempt to begin to redress the evils of Apartheid Capitalism. Dumped of course, in its entirety by the ANC government once they got elected but still well worth reading especially in the light of the events at Marikana this past week.
20 August 2012 — Daily Maverick
The company that preceded Lonmin was once dubbed ‘the unacceptable face of capitalism’ by a British prime minister. Tiny Rowland, man who turned the company into an international colossus, wore the slur happily. In the aftermath of the Marikana shootings, it seems like not much has changed since his day. By SIPHO HLONGWANE. Continue reading
012 — http://www.statewatch.org/ e-mail: office@statewatch.org
1. European Court of Human Rights to examine complaint against ban on anonymous prepaid mobile phone cards
2. GREECE: Racist Violence Recording Network: Fatal attack on Iraqi in Athens
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20 August 2012 — The Real News Network
Precis
Now that the dust is settling after the London Summer Olympics, many from the local community are left wondering who the Olympics benefited. This story features local Councillor, Ian Rathbone of Hackney Council, one of the poorest boroughs in all of Britain. Local residents turned into campaigners forming the Save Leyton Marsh Campaign when their local public green space was appropriated by the Olympic Delivery Authority for a Olympic basketball training facility. Members of Occupy London also became involved in the local campaign when the locals couldn’t sustain it on their own. Has the Olympics been an excuse for a land grab by cash-strapped local authorities and big business? Continue reading
20 August 2012 — The Real News Network
Precis
Now that the dust is settling after the London Summer Olympics, many from the local community are left wondering who the Olympics benefited. This story features local Councillor, Ian Rathbone of Hackney Council, one of the poorest boroughs in all of Britain. Local residents turned into campaigners forming the Save Leyton Marsh Campaign when their local public green space was appropriated by the Olympic Delivery Authority for a Olympic basketball training facility. Members of Occupy London also became involved in the local campaign when the locals couldn’t sustain it on their own. Has the Olympics been an excuse for a land grab by cash-strapped local authorities and big business? Continue reading
20 August 2012 — williambowles.info
Julian Assange demands end to US witch-hunt
World Socialist Web Site Today at 16:54 About 200 police lined the streets around the Ecuadorean embassy in London as the WikiLeaks editor addressed hundreds of supporters and media representatives.
20 August 2012 — Craig Murray
A first class documentary from the Australian Broadcasting Corporation which exposes the risibility of the sexual allegations about Assange. The truth the <strong class=’StrictlyAutoTagBold’>UK media will not tell. For just the key points, start viewing at 20 minutes in. Continue reading
19 August 2012 — VTJP
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International Middle East Media Center
U.S: “Settler Violence Is Terrorism”
IMEMC – In its 2011 Country report, an annual report about global terrorist activities, the United States described the escalating attacks carried out by extremist Israeli settlers against the Palestinians as “terrorist attacks”. This is the first time the United States describes Israeli settler attacks against the Palestinians as acts of terrorism. …
20 August, 2012 — Media Lens
Gore Vidal took great delight in demolishing the fragile confections of ‘mainstream’ politics. While corporate journalists typically portray US Presidents as benign demigods, Vidal described George W. Bush as ‘the stupidest man in the United States’. In 2008, Vidal said of the 2003 war on Iraq: Continue reading
The New Dark Age 