March 13, 2013
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French army suppresses reporting of Mali war By Ernst Wolff
Since the start of the war the French army, in collaboration with the Malian army, has systematically prevented reporters and journalists from any possibility of conducting objective reporting. Continue reading
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Video: The EyeOpener- Chile-Contra: The CIA's Latest Latin American Scandal
Bring up the issue of US interference in Latin America, and among that section of the public that does not greet the topic with blank stares, you will usually hear about t he same few pieces of well-documented history. US involvement in the overthrow of Allende in Chile in 1973, for instance, or Iran-Contra, where… Continue reading
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Black Agenda Report 13 March 2013: Iraq Scorched Earth 10 Years Later, Exposing Democrats, Against Privatization
13 March 2013 — Black Agenda Report This week in Black Agenda Report The U.S. Scorched Earth Policy, Ten Years After Iraq Invasion by BAR executive editor Glen Ford In desperation to halt the slide into “non-empire” status, the U.S. makes every government on Earth a potential target for “humanitarian” military intervention. The imposition of… Continue reading
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VTJP Occupied Palestine and Israel News and Articles 12 March 2013: Sheriffs of the land: Meet the settlers with military authority
12 March 2013 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Israeli security officer brutally beats unarmed Palestinian shepherdIMEMC – Israeli activists caught on film an attack by an Israeli settlement security guard on a Palestinian shepherd Monday, near the Palestinian village of Susya in the southern West Bank on Monday. … Continue reading
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ICH 12 March 2013: William Blum: ‘Hugo Chávez Was Murdered By The United States’
12 March 2013 — Information Clearing House Western Media Set Up North Korea For War By Finian Cunningham Western so-called news media coverage of the escalating tensions on the Korean Peninsula is like watching a cross between a bad James Bond movie and a cheap horror flick about flesh-eating zombies. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article34278.htm Continue reading
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We Must Not Fail Wikileaks Whistleblower Bradley Manning By Kevin Zeese
bradlymanning As I sat in court last Thursday at Fort Meade, watching Bradley Manning take responsibility as the Wikileaks whistleblower, two things struck me: (1) his thorough intelligence fueled by intellectual curiosity and (2) his empathy for other people when so many in war had lost their humanity. Continue reading
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Video: The fatal choice between food or heating in Modern Britain
Senior Citizens and Disabled people say they’re being abandoned by society. Thousands are left to die in cold homes every year in the UK, while energy companies threaten to raise cost of heating further Continue reading
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Manning: US Army like ‘child torturing ants with a magnifying glass’ (FULL LEAKED TESTIMONY)
A speech freedom advocacy group has released audio of Bradley Manning’s testimony about his motives for leaking secret US government documents to WikiLeaks. It marks the first time the public has heard Manning’s voice since his 2010 arrest. Continue reading
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Reporters Without Borders: Report on Internet Surveillance, Focusing on 5 Governments and 5 Companies Enemies of Internet
On 12 March, World Day Against Cyber-Censorship, Reporters Without Borders is releasing a Special report on Internet surveillance, available at surveillance.rsf.org/en. It looks at the way governments are increasingly using technology that monitors online activity and intercepts electronic communication in order to arrest journalists, citizen-journalists and dissidents. Around 180 netizens worldwide are currently in prison… Continue reading
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The Return of Empires (V) By Dmitry MININ
A peculiarity of the formation of «larger spaces», or modern-day empires in the East, is that some of them were themselves, until quite recently, objects of colonial ambition. Other imperial projects, meanwhile, are part of even larger schemes and are being built into an intricate system of hierarchical relations and vassal dependencies, over which the… Continue reading
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Media Lens: Death Of A Bogeyman – The Corporate Media Bury Hugo Chávez By David Edwards
What lies behind the Western media’s obsession with Chávez? Why the extreme hostility and bias? A clue was provided by the Guardian when it observed that Venezuela is sitting on ‘The world’s biggest oil reserves’… One of the great tasks of our time is to appreciate how these undeniable realities distort coverage right across the… Continue reading
The New Dark Age 