It is almost a year since the controversial Health and Social Care Act was passed in March 2012. At the time, campaigners issued apocalyptic warnings that it would break up the health service, allowing the NHS to be offered up for privatisation bit by bit. A year on that fear is being realised at breathtaking speed.
10 February 2013 — VTJP
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Soldiers Surround Azzoun Town
IMEMC – Israeli soldiers surrounded, on Saturday at night, Azzoun town, east of the northern West Bank district of Qalqilia, and fired dozens of gas bombs at local residents. …
9 February 2013 — VTJP
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Injuries Reported As Army Attacks Bil’in’s Weekly Protest
IMEMC – Israeli soldiers attacked, on Friday afternoon, the weekly nonviolent protest against the Annexation Wall and settlements, in Bil’in village, near the central West Bank city of Ramallah; dozens suffered the effects of tear gas inhalation. Similar attacks have been carried out against protests in different parts of the West Bank. …
9 February 2013 — Information Clearing House
Syria: How Jihadist’s Are Taking Over Syria‘s “Revolution”
By Ruth Sherlock, Aleppo
Life in Syria‘s most populous city has become a dog-eat-dog existence: a battle for survival in a place where the strong devour the weak.
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The New Dark Age 