December 2012
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Facebook Yields to Pressure: Reactivates Political Critics’ Accounts
Prominent political critics confirmed to us that their accounts had been suspended or inactivated yesterday in a coordinated purge. Continue reading
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GR Week in Review: 9/11 Revisited and Financial Conspiracies
28 December, 2012 — Global Research Facebook Yields to Pressure: Reactivates Political Critics’ Accounts, Washington’s Blog, December 28, 2012 Continue reading
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The P.U.-litzer Prizes for 2012
They’re back: The P.U.-litzers, FAIR’s annual rundown of some of the stinkiest moments in American journalism. As usual, there were more contenders than we could possibly consider. So think of this as just a sampling of the bias, spin and misinformation that we noted over the course of the year. Continue reading
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South Africa: The road from 1996 to Mangaung By Terry Bell
The tortuous road to the governing ANC’s centennial conference at Mangaung ends next week. And, not to put too fine a point on it, much of the country is gatvol with the route it has taken and where it has arrived. Continue reading
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Workers’ Rights in South Africa: Does the Ruling ANC Party Represent the People? By Eric Draitser
The ruling class in South Africa, though fronted by black faces, continues to work in the service of Western finance capital and the neoliberal agenda, lining their own pockets while the streets, mines, and slums ring with the cries of the workers and the poor demanding justice. Continue reading
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Washington’s Dilemma: The “Good Terrorists” versus the “Bad Terrorists” By Dr. Ismail Salami
Terrorism is terrorism and it cannot be defined otherwise unless the interests of one party tilt the scale in disfavor of another and the dichotomization of the terrorists in Syria into good and bad by the West casts doubt on its claim on democracy. Continue reading
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Is a Zionist Connection at Play to Frame Wikileaks’ Assange in Sweden? By John Goss, Rafik Saley, and Okoth Osewe
Petersson should know about Sweden having an extradition treaty with the US because he signed it on December 16, 2004 together with US Attorney General John Ashcroft and other permanent European representatives from Finland and Belgium. The purpose of the treaty was to help the US with its illegal war on terror. Continue reading
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Love You Madly – Ella Fitzgerald acc. by The Tommy Flanagan Trio
Ella Fitzgerald performs at Montreux in 1969 accompanied by pianist Tommy Flanagan’s Trio featuring Ed Thigpen on drums Continue reading
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There Is No American Left By Salvatore Babones
Unfortunately, all the evidence is that the rest of the world is following America down the road to perdition. Nowhere are national health insurance schemes, access to free education, and old age pensions being expanded. Nowhere is the world moving forward. Everywhere the social gains of the twentieth century are either being eroded, or destroyed. Continue reading
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VTJP Occupied Palestine and Israel: News and Articles 27 December 2012: How Israel’s supporters are attempting to shut down boycott debate in UK unions
27 December 2012 — VTJP News Ma’an News Palestinian critically wounded in Yatta clashes12/27/2012 – HEBRON (Ma’an) — A Palestinian man suffered a critical head injury on Wednesday in clashes with the Israeli army in Yatta in the southern West Bank. Mohammad Kamal Abu Qbaieta was hit in the head by a tear gas canister Continue reading
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ICH 27 December 2012: Russia Warns of ‘Bloody Chaos’ in Syria
27 December 2012 — Information Clearing House UN Envoy Calls for Interim Syria Government By Al Jazeera Lakhdar Brahimi urges “real change” in Damascus and for transitional leaders with full power until elections are held. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article33453.htm Continue reading
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VTJP Occupied Palestine and Israel: News and Articles 26 December 2012: Jolly Christmas: BBC celebrates ‘return’ of a ‘lost tribe of Israel’ — and not a word about Palestinians’ right
26 December 2012 — VTJP News Ma’an News Official: Israel demands 52,500 shekels to delay home demolitions12/26/2012 – NABLUS (Ma’an) — Israel’s high court on Wednesday ordered 21 Palestinians to pay 52,500 shekels to delay the demolition of their homes in the northern West Bank, a Palestinian Authority official said. Ghassan Daghlas, who monitors settlement Continue reading
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South Africa: Politics, profits and policing after the Marikana Massacre By Patrick Bond
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… Continue reading
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FBI Considers the “Occupy Movement” a “Terrorist Threat”
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… Continue reading
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FBI Considers the “Occupy Movement” a “Terrorist Threat”
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… Continue reading
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ICH 26 December 2012: Napoleon and Hitler in Charge of US Foreign Policy
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 Continue reading
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FAIR TV: Second Amendment, Fracking, Syria's Mobile Weapons Labs By Peter Hart
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. Continue reading
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The Sandy Hook School Massacre: Unanswered Questions and Missing Information By Prof. James F. Tracy
Inconsistencies and anomalies abound when one turns an analytical eye to news of the Newtown school massacre. The public’s general acceptance of the event’s validity and faith in its resolution suggests a deepened credulousness borne from a world where almost all news and information is electronically mediated and controlled. Continue reading
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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
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. Continue reading
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John Coltrane: 'Greensleeves'
From the album “Live! at the Village Vanguard” (1961) featuring John Coltrane(tenor and soprano sax), McCoy Tyner (piano), Reggie Workman (double bass), and Elvin Jones (drums). Continue reading
The New Dark Age 