Month: March 2013

It Can Happen Here: The Confiscation Scheme Planned for US and UK Depositors By Ellen Brown

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28 March, 2013– webofdebt

Confiscating the customer deposits in Cyprus banks, it seems, was not a one-off, desperate idea of a few Eurozone “troika” officials scrambling to salvage their balance sheets. A joint paper by the US Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation and the Bank of England dated December 10, 2012, shows that these plans have been long in the making; that they originated with the G20 Financial Stability Board in Basel, Switzerland (discussed earlier here; and that the result will be to deliver clear title to the banks of depositor funds.

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Video: BBC-Guardian Expose Uses WikiLeaks to Link Iraq Torture Centers

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29 March 2013 — NationofChange

 A shocking new report by The Guardian and BBC Arabic details how the United States armed and trained Iraqi death squads that ran torture centers. It is a story that stretches from the U.S.-backed death squads in Central America during the 1980s to the imprisoned Army whistleblower Bradley Manning.

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VTJP Occupied Palestine and Israel News and Articles 28 March 2013: Just where does Israel’s legitimacy stem from anyway?

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28 March 2013 — VTJP

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International Middle East Media Center

PCHR Weekly Report: 4 wounded, 30 abducted by Israeli troops this week
IMEMC – In its Weekly Report On Israeli Human Rights Violations in the Occupied Palestinian Territories for the week of 21- 27 March 2013, the Palestinian Center for Human Rights (PCHR) found that Israeli forces continued to use excessive force against peaceful protests in the West Bank. 4 protesters were wounded in the center and south of the West Bank, including a Norwegian human rights defender and a Palestinian one. …

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ICH 28 March 2013: Evidence Shows Syrian Rebels Behind Chemical Attack

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28 March 2013 — Information Clearing House

Officials: Arms Shipments Rise to Syrian Rebels

By Dale Gavlak And Jamal Halaby

Mideast powers have dramatically stepped up weapons supplies to Syrian rebels in coordination with the U.S. in preparation for a push on the capital of Damascus, officials and Western military experts said Wednesday.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article34439.htm

 

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The Cypriot Pawn By Thierry Meyssan

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25 March 2013 — Voltaire Network

Washington was quick to use the financial crisis in Cyprus to implement a strategy for capturing capital described three weeks ago in these columns [1]. With the help of the Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund, US comprador Christine Lagarde, the American leadership challenged the inviolability of private property in the European Union and attempted to confiscate a tenth of bank deposits, supposedly to bail out the Cypriot national bank affected by the Greek crisis.

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Cancer Pandemic: Reaping the Seeds of Nuke Tests By John LaForge

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28 March, 2013 — Global Research – Consortiumnews

The warnings about fallout from nuclear tests six decades ago often noted that cancers from the radiation would probably not begin appearing in large numbers for many years. But that time is now – and medical experts are wondering whether the surge in some cancers is a result.

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VTJP Occupied Palestine and Israel News and Articles 27 March 2013: Israel To Build Settlement Units On Palestinian Lands In Bethlehem

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27 March 2013 — VTJP

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International Middle East Media Center

Mada: 238 Violations Of Media Freedoms In 2012
IMEMC – The Palestinian Center for Development and Media Freedoms” MADA” held a press conference on Wednesday which reviewed the Annual Report on the violations against Media freedom in Palestine during 2012. The conference was held at MADA’s headquarter in Ramallah. …

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ICH 27 March 2013: ICH: “Respect Us Or Kill Us” Gitmo Prisoner

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27 March 2013 — Information Clearing House

N. Korea Warns : Danger of Nuclear War on Korean Peninsula

By Korea News Service

On Monday U.S. B-52 strategic bombers – staged a nuclear bomb dropping drill aimed at a surprise nuclear preemptive attack on the DPRK. Their flight defying our repeated warnings clearly proves that the U.S. plan for a nuclear war has entered an uncontrollable phase of practice.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article34429.htm

 

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Black Agenda 27 March 2013: Is the Prison Industrial Complex Real? Throwing BRICS at US Empire, Obama Turns Right

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27 March 2013 — Black Agenda Report

This week in Black Agenda Report

Black Mass Incarceration —- Is It New? Is It Jim Crow? Is the Prison-Industrial Complex Real? And What Difference Does It Make

By BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon

Michelle Alexander’s 2010 book “New Jim Crow” provided a language to talk about the prison state that we never had before. But is it entirely accurate? Is the prison industrial complex real? What’s the difference between fighting against racism or a “new jim crow” or a “prison industrial complex” and confronting the reality of the prison state?

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Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa: BRICS go over the Wall By Pepe Escobar

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27 March 2013 — Asia Times

Reports on the premature death of the BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) have been greatly exaggerated. Western corporate media is flooded with such nonsense, perpetrated in this particular case by the head of Morgan Stanley Investment Management.

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Obama Unleashes Dogs of War in Syria By Melkulangara BHADRAKUMAR

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26 March, 2013

The smoke screen given to the United States President Barack Obama’s visit to Israel has lifted. But then, no one really bought the thesis that it was a mere kiss-and-make-up visit aimed at improving Obama’s personal chemistry with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that prompted the US president to jet down to the Middle East in a rare overseas trip. 

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VTJP Occupied Palestine and Israel News and Articles 26 March 2013: Time to Freeze Ben & Jerry’s Ice Cream Profits in Israel

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26 March 2013 — VTJP

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International Middle East Media Center

Journalists detained in Hebron, two civilians abducted by Israeli troops
IMEMC – On the afternoon of the 24th March, two Palestinian Al Jazeera journalists arrived into Hebron to interview a Palestinian family living near the illegal Israeli settlement in the area of Tel Rumeida. When they arrived, settlers called the Israeli military and police, who arrived and confiscated the journalists’ ID cards, despite having seen their press credentials. … 

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ICH 26 March 2013: Obama Unleashes Dogs of War in Syria

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26 March 2013 — Information Clearing House

Threat of Pre-emptive Nuclear War Directed Against Iran

By Michel Chossudovsky

Mini-nukes are the chosen weapons system under the doctrine of pre-emptive nuclear war, to be used in the conventional war theater against terrorists and ‘state sponsors of terrorism’, including the Islamic Republic of Iran.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article34427.htm

 

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VTJP Occupied Palestine and Israel News and Articles 25 March 2013: Israel’s government of settlers

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25 March 2013 — VTJP

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International Middle East Media Center

On day 236 of Hunger Strike, Issawi’s Heart rate drops
IMEMC – Palestinian prisoner Samer al Issawi is near death, according to doctors, after spending 236 days without food to challenge the Israeli policy of ‘administrative detention’, in which Palestinians are imprisoned for extended periods without trial. …

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ICH 26 March 2013: Chris Hedges: The Day TV News Died

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26 March 2013 — Information Clearing House

Jihadists, Not Assad, Apparently Behind Reported Chemical Attack In Syria

By Anshel Pfeffer

The explosion claimed the lives of Syrian Armed Forces soldiers who are apparently loyal to Assad, and the Syrian government was quick to demand an international investigation of the incident. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article34403.htm

 

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The Cyprus Eurocrisis: The Beginning of the End of the Eurozone? By Nicos Trimikliniotis

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26 March 2013 — The Bullet • Socialist Project • E-Bulletin No. 790

The Cyprus crisis is essentially a Eurozone crisis which threatens the very foundations of the European Union (EU). This small island economy, only 0.2 per cent of the Eurozone, is proving to be ‘systemic’ at the political, social and economic level. The Cyprus crisis is a manifestation of a deep crisis of democracy and equality in EU institutions, which subordinates the democratic will of the people to finance interests. More significantly, it is threatening the European integration project itself as it is only the beginning of a process.

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Media Lens: Heading For A Different Planet By David Cromwell

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26 March 2013 — Media Lens

Global Warming, Propaganda-Journalism And The Definition Of Insanity

The systematic propaganda of the corporate media – its deep-rooted antipathy towards upholding proper journalistic standards in the public interest – extends to its coverage of human-induced climate change. The Independent recently delivered a masterpiece of headline obfuscation with: ‘World cools on global warming as green fatigue sets in.’

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