December 22, 2012
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ICH 22 December 2012: I Quit Murdering People on November 17, 2012
22 December 2012 — Information Clearing House Fact Or Fiction? US and Russia Back Bid to Find End to Syrian War By Alex Spillius, Damien McElroy The United States and Russia have backed a final bid to find a political solution to Syria’s civil war, as Moscow said it was prepared to accept President Bashar al-Assad’s Continue reading
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Wired’s Most Dangerous: Russia’s cyber-security mogul behind Flame virus downfall hits top 15
“If all he did in the last year was intercede in America’s efforts to short-circuit Iran’s nuclear ambitions – definitively unmasking a cyber-weapon for the first time – Kaspersky would’ve earned himself a spot on our list of the most dangerous people in the world.” Continue reading
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Cancer of Corruption, Seeds of Destruction: The Monsanto GMO Whitewash By F. William Engdahl
This revolving door of corrupt ties between powerful private industry lobby groups and the EU Commission was in full view recently with the ruling of the European Food Safety Administration (EFSA) trying to discredit serious scientific tests about the deadly effects of a variety of Monsanto GMO corn. Continue reading
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UK Reporting on Venezuela Continues to be Clouded by Partiality
As Hugo Chávez receives further cancer treatment in Cuba, this time seemingly with much higher stakes than before, the UK media has again shown where its interests lie when it comes to reporting on left-wing Latin American governments. The attack has come in many forms, from portraying once again the country as militaristic, to demonising… Continue reading
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PAMBAZUKA NEWS 611: ELECTIONS, EMPIRE ON TRIAL AND AFRICA IN 20 YEARS
22 December 2012 — Pambazuka News The authoritative electronic weekly newsletter and platform for social justice in Africa Continue reading
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The Religious and Social Crisis in America. Political Consequences By Prof. James Petras
The opening long decade of the 21st century (2000-2012) has been a period of repeated and profound economic and social crises, of serial and prolonged wars and declining living standards for the vast majority of Americans. How have people responded to this crisis? No large scale, long term, socio-political movements have emerged to challenge the… Continue reading
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Video: US Blocks UN Condemnation of Israeli Settlements
Vijay Prashad: Most European countries including UK support statement denouncing new settlements (inc. transcript) Continue reading
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VTJP Occupied Palestine and Israel: News and Articles 21 December 2012: Israel’s assault on Gaza killed 177, mostly civilians
21 December 2012 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Europe Trying To Convince U.S To Obtain Security Council Resolution Against SettlementsIMEMC – Nimir Hammad, Political Advisor to President Mahmoud Abbas, stated that several European Countries are exerting efforts meant at convincing the United States to obtain a serious resolution at the United Nations General Assembly Continue reading
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ICH 21 December 2012: NRA Wants Guns in Every School
21 December 2012 — Information Clearing House House Approves Bill Authorizing $633 Billion in War Spending By David Alexander Reuters The Republican-controlled House approved the 2013 National Defense Authorization Act by a vote of 315-107. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article33406.htm Continue reading
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Egypt in Light of the Iranian Revolution: The Restoration of a Dictatorship? By Araz Bagban
The new constitution submitted to referendum by Mohamed Morsi, the president of Egypt elected with the support of the Freedom and Justice party, i.e. the political wing of the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt, in addition to its properties of attacking working-class achievements as well as women’s and minorities’ rights, is preparing the legal ground for… Continue reading
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Chavez. Venezuela is on the Threshold of New Tests By Nil NIKANDROV
The issue of Chavez succession is constantly debated. Mostly the campaigns are initiated by the opposition and pro-American media, and sometimes by «moderate Chavistas» who believe in a «Bolivarian revolution without Chavez». Allegedly, his radicalism, his attraction to Marxist ideology, desire to use Soviet and Cuban experiences (literacy, free health care, education, mass housing construction),… Continue reading
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New at Strategic Culture Foundation 16-22 December 2012: Egypt / Venezuela / US Space / Asia-China / N Korea / Syria Obama
22 December 2012 — Strategic Culture Foundation Aleut Internment Camps 22.12.2012 | 00:00 | Vladislav GULEVICH …The movie called Aleut Story has hit the screens recently. This is the story devoted to the horrible events of 1942, when the population of the Aleutian Islands and the island of Pribilof was replaced and interned… The story of Continue reading
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