February 2013
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The Global Water Grab: Meet the “New Water Barons” By Shiney Varghese
“[U]nless African governments and foreign interests lend support to these farmer-driven initiatives, rather than undermine them through land and water deals that benefit large-scale, commercial schemes, the best opportunity in decades for societal advancement in the region will be squandered.” Continue reading
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Video: The End of Squatting in the UK?
Calls from within government to fully criminalise squatting gather momentum. It could have serious implications for political occupations, and will it backfire on the government’s plans to reduce its welfare budget? (inc. transcript) Continue reading
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Omar Barghouti: We won’t be silenced about Israel’s crimes
Controversy continues to swirl around a planned forum scheduled to take place on Thursday, February 7, at Brooklyn College to discuss the growing global boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) movement against Israel. In a letter to Brooklyn College President Karen Gould, nine members of the New York City Council threatened to cut funding for the… Continue reading
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ICH 8 February 2013: How Western Leaders Terrorized Muslim World
8 February 2013 — Information Clearing House Bulgarian Charge of Hezbollah Bombing Was an “Assumption” By Gareth Porter Bulgarian Interior Minister Tsvetan Tsvetanov’s dramatic announcement Tuesday on the Bulgarian investigation of the July 2012 terror bombing of an Israeli tourist bus was initially reported by Western news media as suggesting clear evidence of Hezbollah’s responsibility… Continue reading
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VTJP Occupied Palestine and Israel News and Articles 8 February 2013: Bulldozers and more talks preserve the status quo
8 February 2013 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Egyptian Army Stops Five Weapons Shipments Heading To GazaIMEMC – Israeli Yedioth Aharonoth reported Friday that the Egyptian army has intensified its activities in Sinai, over the past few weeks, and thwarted five attempts to smuggle weapons to the Gaza Strip. … Continue reading
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New at Strategic Culture Foundation 3-9 February 2013: Suyria / Turkey / CIA-Paraguay / USA-Russia / IMF / Israel / Cuba / UK-EU / Water
9 February 2013 — Strategic Culture Foundation OIC Summit at Cairo and the Syrian Crisis 09.02.2013 | 11:03 | Aurobinda MAHAPATRA The Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) summit at Cairo indicates that the 57-member Islamic body has endeavored to evolve a dialogue format to resolve the crisis in Syria. Continue reading
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Hugo Chavez Told Me He Won't Sell Oil to the Kochs By Greg Palast
Greg Palast: I’ve been tracking a tube of black putrid ooze, a toxic viper slowly slithering 2,000 miles across the belly of America, swallowing all water aquifers, politicians and reason in its path. Continue reading
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VTJP Occupied Palestine and Israel News and Articles 7 February 2013: Bulgarian Charge of Hezbollah Bombing Was an “Assumption”
7 February 2013 — VTJP News Ma’an News Clashes erupt after settlers visit Nablus tomb2/7/2013 – NABLUS (Ma’an) — Israeli settlers visited Joseph’s Tomb in Nablus after mid-night accompanied by Israeli soldiers, locals said Thursday. Ten buses full of settlers raided the city after midnight to perform prayers at Joseph’s tomb. Many Israeli soldiers accompanied them, and… Continue reading
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ICH 7 February 2013: Poll : It’s Illegal to Target Americans: Ok To Kill Foreigners
7 February 2013 — Information Clearing House U.S. Goading Japan into Confrontation with China Will Japan Take the Bait? By John V. Walsh China has no record of expansionism overseas even going back to 1400 when it was the world’s premier naval power but never conquered or established colonies or took slaves. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article33869.htm Continue reading
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America’s WMD Pretext to Wage War on Iraq – Ten Years after Colin Powell By Michael Welch
Powell’s dossier included the testimonies of anonymous defectors, satellite images, schematics of mobile labs for biological weapons agents, intercepted phone conversations and a prop vial supposedly containing Anthrax powder. Continue reading
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America’s WMD Pretext to Wage War on Iraq – Ten Years after Colin Powell By Michael Welch
Powell’s dossier included the testimonies of anonymous defectors, satellite images, schematics of mobile labs for biological weapons agents, intercepted phone conversations and a prop vial supposedly containing Anthrax powder. Continue reading
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Mali: African solution to an African Problem
Omoyele Sowore of SaharaTV interviews Prof. Horace Campbell on the crisis in Mali Continue reading
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Israeli State Terror Crowd Control Weapons by Stephen Lendman
State terror is official Israeli policy. Community incursions, assaults, and other violent incidents occur daily. Palestinian suffering follows. Continue reading
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The Anti-Empire Report #113: American Foreign Policy – Have our war lovers learned anything?
Over the past four decades, of all the reasons people over a certain age have given for their becoming radicalized against US foreign policy, the Vietnam War has easily been the one most often cited. And I myself am the best example of this that you could find. I sometimes think that if the war… Continue reading
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The Good Intentions That Pave the Road to War By Diana Johnstone
Everywhere, “genocide studies” are cropping up in universities. Five years ago, an unlikely “Genocide Prevention Task Force” was set up headed by former secretary of state Madeleine Albright and former defense secretary William Cohen, both veterans of the Clinton administration. Continue reading
Bosnia, Diana Johnstone, genocide, Holocaust, intervention, Libya, NATO, R2P, Rwanda, Srebrenica, UN -
A Gaze into History: Original Images of Venezuela’s 4 February 1992 Coup Attempt
The civic-military coup attempt of 4 February 1992 was a response to the growing social discontent in Venezuela against the system of controlled or “pacted” democracy known as the Punto Fijo system, which had reigned over the country since the overthrowing of the Marcos Jimenez dictatorship in 1958. Continue reading
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Japan And China: Is War Around The Corner?
Japan on Tuesday lodged a protest against China, claiming Chinese military frigates locked their fire-control radar on to a Japanese navy vessel as well as a helicopter. Continue reading
The New Dark Age 