December 17, 2012
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If There Was Ever a Time for Peace — It’s Now
2012 is quickly drawing to a close, and while many celebrate the season with family and friends, the war machine maintains its imperial depravity with total disregard for humanity and an insatiable appetite for power and profit. And big media lends it credibility because morally bankrupt leaders and institutions of power keep them on their… Continue reading
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ICH 17 December 2012: ‘Useless, useless, useless’: the Palestinian verdict on Tony Blair
17 December 2012 — Information Clearing House West has Lured al-Qaeda into Syria to be killed: Nasrallah By Tehran Times “I warn al-Qaeda: the Americans and the European countries and Arab and Islamic countries have set a trap for you in Syria, and opened for you a battlefield so you come from across the world… to Continue reading
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How Neoliberal Tax and Financial Policy Impoverishes Russia – Needlessly By Michael Hudson
Russian poverty is unnecessary. Like all poverty in today’s high-productivity age, it is the result of bad policy. There is no technological need for it, nor is Russia lacking in a full spectrum of natural resources and economic potential. So future historians no doubt will puzzle over how the nation was convinced to de-industrialize its… Continue reading
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U.S.’s Duplicitous Policy Toward Syria
The United States recognized the Syrian Opposition Council, Syria’s newly formed main opposition group, as the sole “legitimate representative” of the Syrian people on Tuesday. It is evident that the US-led Western countries are determined to push their own agenda on the Syria crisis. Continue reading
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United States and al-Qaeda: Strange Bedfellows? Hassan N. Gardezi
There is a war raging in our times between a coalition of states led by the United States of America and al-Qaeda which has entered its second decade. One of the parties in this war, the United States, needs no introduction. After the collapse of the Soviet Union it became the sole superpower and is… Continue reading
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Military Escalation, Dangerous Crossroads: Russia-US Confrontation in Syria? By Prof Michel Chossudovsky
On December 14, Defense Secretary Leon Panetta signed a Pentagon order to deploy 400 US missile troops to Turkey. According to Washington, the security of Turkey, NATO’s heavyweight, is threatened. US military personnel will to be deployed to Turkey in the coming weeks to operate two US Patriot missile batteries. Continue reading
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Western media and the Brotherhood: Secrets behind the love affair By Hani Shukrallah
Why does the Western media refuse to see the epochal resurgence of Egypt’s revolutionary spirit? Because love is blind Continue reading
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Books: Catastrophism — Left, Right, and Center by Ernesto Aguilar
One of the Left’s great challenges is to understand when the great watershed of change is upon people and seize the time. Racism, sexism, inequality, and uncertain futures have weighed heavily on the conscience of many a movement. For every great moment, hundreds of crushing defeats never to be remembered are handed down. Once in… Continue reading
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Massacre At Aqrab: Video Exposes Anti Syrian Government Propaganda
The Syrian crisis has been plagued by disinformation, especially when it comes to the Mainstream Media (MSM) and its lies about the Syrian conflict to suit their governments’ agendas. Continue reading
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ICH 16 December 2012: Thinking the Unthinkable
16 December 2012 — Information Clearing House Syria: Insurgents On The Run? By Moon Of Alabama The “western” and Gulf support of the insurgents continues even after nearly all insurgent groups pledged their continued support for the jihadist Nusra Front which the U.S. designated as a terrorist organization. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article33342.htm Continue reading
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VTJP Occupied Palestine and Israel: News and Articles 16 December 2012: Under siege: One Bedouin family’s struggle to live in Israel
16 December 2012 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Soldiers Kidnap Four Youths In HebronIMEMC – Israeli soldiers invaded, on Sunday evening, the southern West Bank city of Hebron, broke into and searched dozens of homes and kidnapped four youths before taking them to an unknown destination. … Continue reading
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International Law and the Iran Impasse by Asli Bâli
Israel, the United States and their principal Western partners all now seem agreed upon a spring 2013 make-or-break deadline by which Iran must accept a Western-backed deal or face an array of threatened military operations aiming to damage or destroy its nuclear facilities. In the meantime, a crippling international sanctions regime, reinforced by even more… Continue reading
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Video: Landfill Harmonic film teaser
Landfill Harmonic is an upcoming feature-length documentary about a remarkable musical orchestra in Paraguay, where young musicians play instruments made from trash. Continue reading
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