Day: December 26, 2012

South Africa: Politics, profits and policing after the Marikana Massacre By Patrick Bond

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20 December 2012 — Links International journal of Socialist Renewal

Lover of fast cars, vintage wine, trout fishing and game farming and the second richest black businessperson in South Africa (global financial publication Forbes puts his wealth at $675 million or £416 million), Cyril Ramaphosa (left) celebrates his election as deputy president of the ANC with South Africa’s President Jacob Zuma. Ramaphosa demanded that police break the Marikana mineworkers’ strike; police massacred 34 mineworkers and wounded 78 others.

By Patrick Bond

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FBI Considers the “Occupy Movement” a “Terrorist Threat”

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26 December 2012 — Partnership for Civil Justice Fund (PCJF)

occupywallstreet

by Partnership for Civil Justice Fund (PCJF)

FBI documents just obtained by the Partnership for Civil Justice Fund (PCJF) pursuant to the PCJF’s Freedom of Information Act demands reveal that from its inception, the FBI treated the Occupy movement as a potential criminal and terrorist threat even though the agency acknowledges in documents that organizers explicitly called for peaceful protest and did “not condone the use of violence” at occupy protests.

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FBI Considers the “Occupy Movement” a “Terrorist Threat”

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26 December 2012 — Partnership for Civil Justice Fund (PCJF)

occupywallstreet

by Partnership for Civil Justice Fund (PCJF)

FBI documents just obtained by the Partnership for Civil Justice Fund (PCJF) pursuant to the PCJF’s Freedom of Information Act demands reveal that from its inception, the FBI treated the Occupy movement as a potential criminal and terrorist threat even though the agency acknowledges in documents that organizers explicitly called for peaceful protest and did “not condone the use of violence” at occupy protests.

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ICH 26 December 2012: Napoleon and Hitler in Charge of US Foreign Policy

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26 December 2012 — Information Clearing House

Napoleon and Hitler in Charge of US Foreign Policy.

Twin Swords Of Damocles Over The Heads Of All Humanity

By Francis A. Boyle

It is the Unlimited Imperialists along the lines of Alexander, Rome, Napoleon and Hitler who are now in charge of conducting American foreign policy.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article33444.htm

 

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FAIR TV: Second Amendment, Fracking, Syria's Mobile Weapons Labs By Peter Hart

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21 December 2012 — FAIR Blog

In the wake of the Newtown massacre, media are talking about the Second Amendment. But are they getting it right? Also: The New York Times magazine covers fracking– but mostly the upside–and David Ignatius thinks Syria as mobile weapons labs. 

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Unlimited Imperialism and the Threat of World War III. U.S. Militarism at the Start of the 21st Century By Francis Boyle

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25 December 2012 — Global Research

The Legacy of Two World Wars

The Origins of the  First and Second World Wars currently hover like Twin  Swords  of Damocles over the heads of all humanity. It is the Unlimited Imperialists along the lines of Alexander, Rome, Napoleon and Hitler who are now in charge of conducting American foreign policy.

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VTJP Occupied Palestine and Israel: News and Articles 25 December 2012: Live ammunition and child arrests: Israel’s military response to protests

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25 December 2012 — VTJP

News

International Middle East Media Center

Israel Claims Arresting A Cell That Planned To Abduct A Soldier
IMEMC – A gag order was lifted Tuesday on the arrest of what Israel claims to be a Palestinian cell that planned the abduction of an Israeli soldier to negotiate his release in exchange for the release of PFLP secretary-general, Ahmad Sa’adat. … 

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