January 18, 2013
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ALAN GROSS CASE SPOTLIGHTS U.S. DEMOCRACY PROGRAMS IN CUBA
The U.S. government has “between five to seven different transition plans” for Cuba, and the USAID-sponsored “Democracy” program aimed at the Castro government is “an operational activity” that demands “continuous discretion,” according to documents filed in court this week, and posted today by the National Security Archive. The records were filed by Development Alternatives Inc… Continue reading
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ICH 18 January 2013: Burn, Burn – Africa’s Afghanistan
18 January 2013 — Information Clearing House Iraq: A Twenty Two Year Genocide By Felicity Arbuthnot Incredibly it is twenty two years to the day since the telephone rang in the early hours and a friend said: “They are bombing Baghdad.” http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article33657.htm Continue reading
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Mali Conflict Could Refuel Algeria’s Civil War By Abayomi Azikiwe
The French offensive against Malian militants can refuel the Algerian government’s more than a decade-long armed conflict with various rebel forces which ended in 2002, an analyst tells Press TV. Continue reading
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The Lies Of Democracy and the Language Of Deceit By Colin Todhunter
In an increasingly media-driven age, language is everything and is often used by officialdom to tyrannise meaning. With the deaths of millions on its hands since 1945, the US has become the world’s number one terror state. By the 1980s, former CIA man John Stockwell had put the figure at six million. Continue reading
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Video: Theo Parrish remixes Jill Scott
From the Album ‘Ugly Edits’, Jill Scott’s ‘Slowly Surely’ apres Theo Parrish mashing it up. Continue reading
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Fracking Industry Goes After Promised Land Film by Meher Ahmad
Before Gus Van Sant’s latest film Promised Land even premiered, the energy industry was up in arms, gearing up to counter the film’s apparent anti-fracking stance with a barrage of “community” responses (read: thinly veiled corporate PR). James Schamus, chief executive of Focus Features the distributor of the film, expressed shock about the attacks on… Continue reading
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Interview: U.S. Approach To Russia More Abrasive, Dismissive Than During Cold War
16 January 2013 — Voice of Russia Recorded in late December 2012 Clinton’s language has no place in international diplomacy – John Robles interviews Rick Rozoff Continue reading
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PAMBAZUKA NEWS 613: LUMUMBA, M.L.KING JR, WOES AT WORLD BANK CONTINUE
18 January 2013 — Pambazuka News The authoritative electronic weekly newsletter and platform for social justice in Africa Continue reading
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The Left in Europe: From Social Democracy to the Crisis in the Euro Zone. An Interview with Leo Panitch
Because we need time. If the catastrophists, of which there are a great many, are right that we’ve only got five or ten years, we’re screwed. I mean, really screwed. Whether that’s the ecological crisis, or before fascism takes over, or what have you. Continue reading
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VTJP Occupied Palestine and Israel News and Articles 17 January 2013: How the media let Israel get away with murder
17 January 2012 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Resident’s Body Found Under Collapsed TunnelIMEMC – Thursday January 17; Palestinian rescue teams located the body of a resident who went missing last week when a siege busting tunnel on the border with Egypt collapsed on him due to heavy rain. … Continue reading
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The Guardian vs. the Conventional Wisdom on Venezuela By Alex Main
Just as it appeared that the current conventional wisdom on Venezuela had spread and hardened irreversibly throughout the major media, on Monday the UK daily The Guardian published an editorial entitled “Venezuela, defying predictions – again.” The piece deftly takes on a few commonly held views found in much of the media coverage of Venezuela. Continue reading
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Director Kathryn Bigelow defends her indefensible Zero Dark Thirty By David Walsh
Director Kathryn Bigelow took to the pages of the Los Angeles Times Tuesday to defend her pro-CIA film Zero Dark Thirty which has provoked opposition inside and outside the film industry. Bigelow’s column, which reveals her as a slavish admirer of the US intelligence and military apparatus, only sinks her—deservedly—deeper in the mire. Continue reading
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Iraq: A Twenty Two Year Genocide By Felicity Arbuthnot
Then Secretary of State James Baker’s vow to: “reduce Iraq to a pre-industrial age” was being minutely executed over what was to become a forty three day blitz, which morphed in to a thirteen year, vicious, murderous, one sided war of attrition and ultimately illegal invasion and occupation. Continue reading
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Copyright for People, Not for Publishers By Jim Naureckas
In a release today from the Institute for Public Accuracy (1/17/13) on the legacy of Aaron Swartz, I came across a link to a great essay by Richard Stallman that appears to have been written about a decade ago. Called “Misinterpreting Copyright: A Series of Errors,” it’s one of the best explanations I’ve seen for… Continue reading
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Syria: Proxy War By U.S. And Gulf Monarchies By By Zhao Jinglun
A dozen Russian warships from the Northern, Baltic and Black Sea fleets are converging on the Mediterranean and the Gulf of Aden, as part of a large-scale strategic exercise. Russian intentions are obvious, even though it declares this has nothing to do with the situation in Syria. Continue reading
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Mali War Retaliation: World Police Protecting Corporate Interests in Africa By grtv
Geopolitical analyst Patrick Henningsen joins RT from Beirut to discuss the prospects of the mission and the rising threat of retaliation attacks. Continue reading
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