8 February, 2013 — IACenter.org
Millions of workers across the United States received a rude and unpleasant jolt this January when they discovered that their take-home pay had just shrunk by 2 percent. The Social Security payroll tax cut of 2009 was restored, costing workers an average amount of $850 a year, a significant wage decrease for workers on the edge of financial ruin.
19 February 2013 — Information Clearing House
Hysteria Over Kim’s Nukes
By Eric Margolis
While everyone was fulminating against the wicked North Koreans, there was barely any mention of US-South Korean-Australian war games near North Korea that Pyongyang claimed were training for a US-led invasion.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article34016.htm
19 February, 2013 — BRussells Tribunal and Global Research 7 May 2012
“…Line up the bodies of the children, the thousands of children — the infants, the toddlers, the schoolkids — whose bodies were torn to pieces, burned alive or riddled with bullets during the American invasion and occupation of Iraq. Line them up in the desert sand, walk past them, mile after mile, all those twisted corpses, those scraps of torn flesh and seeping viscera, those blank faces, those staring eyes fixed forever on nothingness.
This is the reality of what happened in Iraq; there is no other reality….” — Chris Floyd, December 17, 2011[1] Continue reading
19 February, 2013 — Global Research
Capitalism is based on managing its inherent crises. It is also based on the need to maximise profit, beat down competitors, cut overheads and depress wages. In the 1960s and 70s, in the face of increasing competition from abroad, the US began to outsource manufacturing production to bring down costs by using cheap foreign labour. Other countries followed suit. Even more jobs were lost through the impulse to automate. To provide a further edge, trade unions and welfare were attacked in order to suppress wages at home. Problem solved. Or was it?
19 February 2013 — FAIR Blog
Tens of thousands of climate activists marched in Washington D.C.on February 17. Did the corporate media notice them?
The main focus for the activists was the White House’s pending decision on the Keystone pipeline, a project that would deliver tar sands oil from Alberta, Canada, to U.S. refineries on the Gulf of Mexico. The activists argue that the carbon-intensive project would only exacerbate the climate crisis, helping to extract and burn some 170 billion barrels of oil, not to mention threatening other environmental catastrophes in Canada and the United States.
18 February 2013 — Land Destroyer
Baluchistan, Pakistan – long target of Western geopolitical interests, terror wave coincides with Gwadar Port handover to China.
19 February 2013 — Jazz on the Tube
David Murray performing live at Village Vanguard in New York in 1986 with David Murray (tenor sax), Ed Blackwell (drums), John Hicks (piano), and Fred Hopkins (bass). Continue reading
19 February, 2013 — Global Research
Wayne Madsen Report and Global Research 20 November 2005 
Global Research Editor’s Note
This article originally published by Global Research in 2005 sheds light on the nature of Al Qaeda, an intelligence construct used by Washington to destabilize and destroy sovereign countries, while sustaining the illusion of an outside enemy, which threatens the security of the Western World.
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19 February, 2013 — Global Research
We bring to the consideration of our readers this incisive and carefully formulated analysis by Canada’s renowned philosopher Professor John McMurtry.
The complete text published by the Journal of 9/11 Studies can be downloaded in pdf
18 February 2013 — VTJP
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International Middle East Media Center
Israel Admits Using Private Palestinian Lands In Kibbutz Meirav
IMEMC – The so-called “Israel’s Lands Administration” acknowledged that privately-owned Palestinian lands in the West Bank’s Northern Plains have been used for the expansion of the Kibbutz Meirav, located within the Green Line. …
18 February 2013 — Information Clearing House
Upcoming Iranian Nuclear Talks
Humanity May Not Survive Obama’s Second Term
By Stephen Lendman
Tehran’s nuclear program isn’t at issue. It’s red herring cover for imperial aims. It’s the oil, stupid, and regional dominance.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article34004.htm
19 February 2013 — FAIR Blog
Non-violent protesters came up with a novel way to protest Israeli plans to build more settlement colonies in the occupied West Bank: They occupied the land themselves. The Bab Al Shams tents went up on Friday on privately owned Palestinian land in what Israel designates as the E1 part of the West Bank. Israel‘s announcement of a plan to build new colonies in that part of the West Bank was especially controversial. Continue reading
The New Dark Age 