25 November 2012 — Global Research
Abbas: Collaborating with the Enemy, Stephen Lendman, November 25, 2012 Continue reading
GR Week in Review 25 November 2012: Criminal Wars in the Middle East
Day: November 25, 2012
Egypt's Morsi: Biting the bullet By Eric Walberg
25 November 2012 — Eric Walberg
At last Egyptian politics is moving. President Mohamed Morsi is slowly building on his summer ‘coup’, when he stared down Egypt’s generals and put his men in the top army and defence positions, following terrorist attacks in Sinai which the army, so old and bumbling, so involved in Egyptian internal politics, failed to prevent.
Books: The Contradictions of “Real Socialism”
25 November 2012 — Monthly Review Press
The Conductor and the Conducted
<div class=”bookinfo”><strong class=”bookinfo”>What was “real <strong class=’StrictlyAutoTagBold’>socialism”—the term which originated in twentieth-century <strong class=’StrictlyAutoTagBold’>socialist societies for the purpose of distinguishing them from abstract, theoretical <strong class=’StrictlyAutoTagBold’>socialism? In this volume, Michael A. Lebowitz considers the nature, tendencies, and contradictions of those societies. Beginning with the constant presence of shortages within “real <strong class=’StrictlyAutoTagBold’>socialism,” Lebowitz searches for the inner relations which generate these patterns. He finds these, in particular, in what he calls “vanguard relations of production,” a relation which takes the apparent form of a social contract where workers obtain benefits not available to their counterparts in capitalism but lack the power to decide within the workplace and society.
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Video: Insurgents in Syria equipped with American arms
25 November 2012 — PressTV
A newly released video shows members of an al-Qaeda-affiliated insurgent group in Syria equipped with US-made weapons, Press TV reports.
Video: The Concept of "Fairness": Possibilities, Limits, Possibilities
Ottawa — 4 May 2012 — Leftstreamed
Critical Social Research Collaborative (CSRC) – the Fourth Annual Conference in Critical Social Research: Faultlines of Revolution!
Gaza Ceasefire: An Early Assessment By Richard Falk
25 November 2012 — Global Research
The Gaza Ceasefire, unlike a similar ceasefire achieved after Operation Cast Lead four years ago, is an event that has a likely significance far beyond ending the violence after eight days of murderous attacks. It is just possible that it will be looked back upon as a turning point in the long struggle between Israel and Palestine. Many have talked about ‘the fog of war,’ but it pales besides the ‘the fog of truce making,’ and in our media-infected air, the outcomes along with conjectures about the future are already being spun in all possible directions Continue reading
Leveling Gaza: Israel airstrikes to cost Gaza over $300 million – report
25 November 2012 — RT
<img style="margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 10px;" src="http://rt.com/files/news/gaza-israel-economic-damage-508/headquarters-hamas-cabinet-air.n.jpg" alt="Israeli air strikes hit the cabinet headquarters of Gaza's Hamas government. (AFP Photo / Mohammed Abed)” width=”222″ height=”166″ /> Israeli air strikes hit the cabinet headquarters of Gaza’s Hamas government. (AFP Photo / Mohammed Abed)The eight-day Israeli assault on Gaza has resulted in $300 million in economic damage, a Palestinian Chamber of Commerce report concludes. The document also calls for the Gaza Strip to be recognized as an economic disaster area.
Drones Create Hatred of the U.S., Which Is Their Real Purpose By John Spritzler
<p class=”title”>24 November, 2012 — New Democracy World
<p class=”general_text”><span class=”dropcap_character”>Pundits are perplexed. Why, they ask, does <strong class=’StrictlyAutoTagBold’>Obama carry out the <strong class=’StrictlyAutoTagBold’>drone attacks on Muslims in <strong class=’StrictlyAutoTagBold’>Pakistan, <strong class=’StrictlyAutoTagBold’>Somalia and <strong class=’StrictlyAutoTagBold’>Yemen when he surely knows that the main thing they accomplish is to make more people hate the <strong class=’StrictlyAutoTagBold’>United States government and lean towards joining groups like <strong class=’StrictlyAutoTagBold’>Al Qaeda? The Washington Post reports, in an article titled, “In <strong class=’StrictlyAutoTagBold’>Yemen, U.S. airstrikes breed anger, and sympathy for al-Qaeda,” that “Across the vast, rugged terrain of southern <strong class=’StrictlyAutoTagBold’>Yemen, an escalating campaign of U.S. <strong class=’StrictlyAutoTagBold’>drone <strong class=’StrictlyAutoTagBold’>strikes is stirring increasing sympathy for al-Qaeda-linked <strong class=’StrictlyAutoTagBold’>militants and driving tribesmen to join a network linked to terrorist plots against the <strong class=’StrictlyAutoTagBold’>United States.” Continue reading
Video: Fiscal Cliff An Artificial Crisis
25 November, 2012 — The Real News Network
Michael Hudson: Fiscal cliff was manufactured to shift more of the burden of the crisis onto ordinary people (inc. transcript) Continue reading
Video: Africa Lost 1.6 Trillion in Capital Flight and Odious Debt Over Forty Years
25 November, 2012 — The Real News Network
Léonce Ndikumana: $619 billion of embezzled capital flight from North Africa with connivance of big banks according to new research (inc. transcript) Continue reading
When Propaganda Masquarades as News By Prof. James F. Tracy
24 November, 2012 — Global Research
The week-long Israeli onslaught against largely defenseless Palestinians in Gaza that began on November 14 provides a basis for assessing how Western corporate media whitewash the war crimes of America’s foremost ally in the Middle East. There are three often intertwined techniques consciously applied to such news coverage—historical context, sourcing, and objectification of the enemy to be targeted. Such practices can readily transform journalism into propaganda that acts to abet such crimes while at the same time allowing journalistic institutions to still claim the mantle of “objectivity.”
VTJP Palestine/Israel News & Articles 24 November 2012: Gaza children return to rubble-strewn schools
24 November 2012 — VTJP
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International Middle East Media Center
Arafat’s Body To Be ExhumedTuesday
IMEMC – Tawfiq Tirawi, head of the Palestinian committee that is investigating the assassination of Palestinian President, Yasser Arafat, stated that Arafat’s grave will be opened this coming Tuesday in order to exhume his body for forensic analysis as part of the investigation into his death. …
As Gaza is savaged again, understanding the BBC's historical role is vital By John Pilger
22 November 2012 — John Pilger
In Peter Watkins’ remarkable BBC film, The War Game, which foresaw the aftermath of an attack on London with a one-megaton nuclear bomb, the narrator says: “On almost the entire subject of thermo-clear weapons, there is now practically total silence in the press, official publications and on TV. Is there hope to be found in this silence?”
As Gaza is savaged again, understanding the BBC’s historical role is vital By John Pilger
22 November 2012 — John Pilger
In Peter Watkins’ remarkable BBC film, The War Game, which foresaw the aftermath of an attack on London with a one-megaton nuclear bomb, the narrator says: “On almost the entire subject of thermo-clear weapons, there is now practically total silence in the press, official publications and on TV. Is there hope to be found in this silence?”
International Peace Bureau Requests Swedish Foundation Authority to Stop Paying the 2012 Nobel Peace Prize & to Investigate into the Unlawful Reinterpretation of Nobel's Will
25 November 2012 — Boiling Frogs
The International Peace Bureau has today requested the Swedish Foundation Authority to stop the payment of the 2012 Nobel Peace Prize to the European Union, and urgently investigate the unlawful reinterpretation of Alfred Nobel‘s will and testament that has taken place over the last few years.
The New Dark Age 
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