5 October, 2012 — Michael Hudson
The word is out: Treasury Secretary Geithner is the inside man for Wall St according to an explosive new book. The second half of this Keiser Report covers this latest machination in the world of financial crime. Continue reading
27 September 2012 — Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal
Alexis Tsipras, leader of Greece‘s left party SYRIZA, visited the European Parliament as a guest of the United Left Group/Nordic Green Left (GUE/NGL), the coalition of radical left parliamentarians in the European Parliament to which SYRIZA is affiliated. At a press conference, Tsipras discussed the current economic, political and social situation facing Greece and the European Union. Chaired by Gabi Zimmer, GUE/NGL president, from Germany‘s Die Linke party. Continue reading
5 October 2012 — Morning Star
Officers at a flagship Tory council pleaded with ministers for more joined-up government after an asylum-seeker’s child starved to death, it emerged today.
27 September 2012 — Open Democracy
In the two years building up to the government’s NHS reform bill, the BBC appears to have categorically failed to uphold its remit of impartiality, parroting government spin as uncontested fact, whilst reporting only a narrow, shallow view of opposition to the bill. In addition, key news appears to have been censored. The following in-depth investigation provides a shocking testimony of the extent to which the BBC abandoned the NHS. Download the PDF of this article. Continue reading
28 September 2012 — New Left Project
openDemocracy’s ourBeeb project has today published a report into the BBC‘s coverage of the highly controversial Health and Social Care Act, which looks to be a very important piece of research. Here’s the press release: Continue reading
2 October 2012 — MRZine
Dr Issa Chaer is a member of the Syrian Social Club (based in England).
Carlos Martinez: Thanks very much for agreeing to be interviewed. You have been very active in spreading information about the Syria conflict. Can you explain why you have chosen to give so much time and energy to this cause? Continue reading
5 October, 2012 — RT
The European Food Safety Authority has rejected a controversial study by French scientists linking GM corn to cancer. Many in Europe are already calling for stricter controls on GMOs, as farmers weigh the lucrative crops against health concerns.
5 October 2012 — The Real News Network
Opposition agrees voting technology functions well, but criticizes use of state resources in Chavez reelection campaign Continue reading
4 October 2012 — GRtv
In a bid to speed up their time tables for Spring 2013, the West and their proxy Turkey are now baiting Syria into a wider regional conflict. Turkey‘s parliament has authorized cross-border military operations into Syria ‘when necessary’ following a casual mortar-shelling incident on the Turkish-Syrian border.
3 October 2012 — The Bullet • Socialist E-Project No. 706
“They call it democracy but this isn’t one” was the cry repeated in the squares and on the demonstrations. And as time went by, this slogan took on still more meaning. The stigmatization and repression against those who struggle in the street for their rights has only intensified in recent times. The worse the crisis gets, the more popular support broadens for those who protest and the more the brutal repression increases. The thirst for liberty is being smothered along with the current “democracy.”
3 October, 2012 — Global Research
Provoking a war and then blaming the enemy for carrying out an act of aggression is no longer part of a hidden agenda, a safely guarded secret as in the case of Pearl Harbor (1941) which was used by the FDR administration as a justification for America’s entry into the Second World War. (Michel Chossudovsky, Provoke an Attack on Iran? “Lets Bring it On… At the End of the Day… We Ought to Take ‘Em Out”, October 03, 2012)
3 October, 2012 — Global Research
Provoking a war and then blaming the enemy for carrying out an act of aggression is no longer part of a hidden agenda, a safely guarded secret as in the case of Pearl Harbor (1941) which was used by the FDR administration as a justification for America’s entry into the Second World War. (Michel Chossudovsky, Provoke an Attack on Iran? “Lets Bring it On… At the End of the Day… We Ought to Take ‘Em Out”, October 03, 2012)
4 October 2012 — — National Security Archive
Documents Trace Effort to Declassify the Operations of America’s Intelligence Satellite Agency
National Security Archive Electronic Briefing Book No. 392
Edited by Jeffrey T. Richelson
1 October 2012 — National Security Archive
Telling the Story of the Cuban Missile Crisis From the Perspective of Kennedy, Khrushchev and Castro
Innovative Transmedia Project Takes Visitors Behind the Scenes As Never Before
4 October 2012 — VTJP
News
International Middle East Media Center
Soldiers Invade Tulkarem, Jenin And Hebron; Clashes Reported
IMEMC – Israeli soldiers invaded, on Thursday at dawn, several areas in the northern West Ban districts on Tulkarem, Jenin and Hebron, broke into several homes and buildings leading to clashes with dozens of local youths, injuries were reported. …
4 October 2012 — Information Clearing House
Ex-defense Chief Says Attack On Iran Would Be Disastrous
By Bill Sizemore
Neither the United States nor Israel is capable of wiping out Iran‘s nuclear capability, he said, and “such an attack would make a nuclear-armed Iran inevitable.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article32644.htm
3 October, 2012 — Global Research
<div class=”article-content” style=”margin-top: 10px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px;”>
Knowledge in modern societies has expanded to the point whereby specialisms and sub-specialisms are the norm. It is just not possible for one person to have in-depth knowledge of every discipline. We must rely on others to convey such knowledge, usually in relatively simplistic terms. Most of us have to take at face value many of the ideas and concepts that we are bombarded with in this age of instant, mass communications and information overload.
3 October, 2012 — Black Agenda Report
The New Dark Age 