March 2013
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The Crisis of the European Welfare State An interview with Asbjørn Wahl
This is the start of a new era of social struggle. Social models, however, cannot be copied, neither from previous phases in history, nor from country to country. Social models are the concrete results of struggles and power relations in society. Continue reading
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The Obama Kerry Hagel Regime: Selling Death and Buying Assassins in the Middle East, North Africa and South Asia By Prof. James Petras
As President Obama enters his second term with a new Cabinet, the foreign policy legacy of the past four years weighs heavily on their strategic decisions and their empire-building efforts. Central to the analysis of the next period is an evaluation of the past policies especially in regions where Washington expended its greatest financial and… Continue reading
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VTJP Occupied Palestine and Israel News and Articles 24 March 2013: Dismantling the myth of peace in Obama’s discourse
24 March 2013 — VTJP Occupied Palestine and Israel: News and Articles News International Middle East Media Center Army Evicts Palestinian Protest VillageIMEMC – Sunday at dawn March 24, 2013; dozens of Israeli soldiers invaded the Ahfad Younis Palestinian protest village, installed by nonviolent activists five days ago, and removed it after detaining several activists. … Continue reading
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ICH 24 March 2013: “Where might is master, justice is servant”: Proverb
24 March 2013 — Information Clearing House Obama Boosts Syria Support as Congress Pushes Military Intervention By Samer Araabi “The CIA is on the ground helping sort out who should get money, and they’re training people in Jordan.” http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article34398.htm Continue reading
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The BBC: Impartial Reporting or Pro-Israel Bias? By Lesley Docksey
Is the BBC anti-Semitic as Israel claims or, as many others claim, does the BBC have a pro-Israel bias in its reporting? Continue reading
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GR Week in Review 24 March 2013: The “Ides of March” and the New Ice Age
24 March 2013 — Global Research <a style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px;" title=""Washington's Pope"? Who is Pope Francis I? Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio and Argentina’s "Dirty War" ” href=”http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?e=001T65KN0O_Ub6bE5EYNuVv_yJRcX4xKXU-8nWqV9lvkihF_g9QcYwHaCCqa55qT2f9Sj_winXESADhyg24Zud1MLTGoGkstsK0LqFd50bW6TiTiDEPu1g7u1smHg6Kv_kpFwSYu1bjRviB2WBWc18EqWfepBWpDEaaGpMrYqK-To6PpFn1QyeYwFa7f_otvr5C0l4D8eG8rO3L5hywZTMdyilVDAZ31Zu4FapbKySnpQePtWzIvQ9Nq2lR3JQ7YlWG”>“Washington’s Pope”? Who is Pope Francis I? Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio and Argentina’s “Dirty War” 013 Continue reading
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Video: Cuba Feliz – A Trip Through Cuba
Seventy-six-year-old Cuban street musician Miguel Del Morales, known as El Gallo (The Rooster), travels around Cuba with his guitar, making music in the homes of friends, in bars, and on street corners, in courtyards and stairwells. Continue reading
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ICH 23 March 2013: Capitol Hill, Calls for Attack On Syria
23 March 2013 — Information Clearing House CIA Passing Info to Syrian Rebels: Report By AFP The US Central Intelligence Agency has been feeding information to select rebel fighters in Syria to try to make them more effective against government troops, The Wall Street Journal reported Saturday. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article34378.htm Continue reading
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Dizzy Gillespie 'Salt Peanuts' and more…
Recorded at a time when Diz was fronting his fabled post-war big band featuring jazz greats such as pianist John Lewis, vibraphonist Milt Jackson or bassist Ray Brown, this concert film catches the irrepressible trumpeter in top artistic form. Continue reading
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The Return of Empires (VII) By Dmitry MININ
Historian Niall Ferguson states that the majority of modern-day academics see an entirely appropriate parallel between the “imperial rule” of the USA and the British Empire as it was 100 years ago. Joseph Nye, meanwhile, believes that “not since Rome has one nation loomed so large above the others… Respected analysts on both the left… Continue reading
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VTJP Occupied Palestine and Israel News and Articles 22 March 2013: Israeli Settlers Continue to Attack Palestinians with Impunity
22 March 2013 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Abbas’ Speech in the news conference in Ramallah with President ObamaIMEMC – Below is the full text of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas’ speech in Ramallah in the press conference with US President Barack Obama on Thursday as interpreted. … Continue reading
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New at Strategic Culture Foundation 17-23 March 2013
23 March 2013 — Strategic Culture Foundation Journalists Who Got Iraq Wrong 10 Years Ago and Syria Wrong Now Should Be Sacked23.03.2013 | 10:48 | Wayne MADSEN Continue reading
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HOUSMANS RADICAL BOOKS NEWS UPDATE 22 March 2013
22 March 2013 — Housmans 1. ‘The Revolution of Everyday Life’ with Donald Nicholson Smith this Friday 29th March2. Housmans new publication ‘You Can’t Evict an Idea: What Can We Learn From Occupy?’ by Tim Gee now in stock3. Appeal from Ken Loach4. Easter opening hours5. ‘Is green growth possible and do we really need it?’ a debate with Pete Continue reading
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How to Read Stories About Israel in the NY Times (Hint: Very Carefully) By Peter Hart
Some days the Newspaper of Record says a lot–not always in ways you might expect. Today (3/21/13) a story by Mark Landlerand Rick Gladstone about allegations of chemical weapons in Syria includes something you see often–anonymous government sources. That can often be a bad thing; but today it’s pretty useful: Continue reading
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ICH 21 March 2013: CIA Plans to Keep Your Information ‘Forever’
21 March 2013 — Information Clearing House Friction Behind The SmilesObama’s New Strategy in the Middle EastBy Ron Ben-YishaiWashington wants Israel to be a quiet partner in this axis so that the Jewish state will be able to cooperate with its neighbors over the table, and mainly under it. This could be beneficial in the event that Continue reading
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VTJP Occupied Palestine and Israel News and Articles 21 March 2013: Obama the tourist seeks Israel Lobby approval
21 March 2013 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Obama reiterates calls for two-state solution in RamallahIMEMC – On his second day of the first presidential visit to Palestine U.S. President Barack Obama met with the Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas in Ramallah. Although Obama condemned the rocket attacks that hit Sderot, yet, he insisted that Continue reading
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The Iran 'Nuclear Threat' and “The Second Hostage Crisis” By Nile Bowie
From talk of “red lines” and cartoon bombs to having “all options on the table”, an undeniably delusional logic emanates from leadership in Washington and Tel Aviv regarding the alleged threat posted by Iran’s nuclear program. Continue reading
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BRICS: ‘Anti-imperialist’ or ‘sub-imperialist’? By Patrick Bond
“We reaffirm the character of the ANC as a disciplined force of the left, a multi-class mass movement and an internationalist movement with an anti-imperialist outlook” — so said Jacob Zuma, orating to his masses at the year’s largest African National Congress celebration, in Durban on January 12, 2013. Eleven days later, Zuma spoke to… Continue reading
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New at Strategic Culture Foundation 10-16 March 2013: Chavez / EU-oil / Syria / Obamacare / Empires / CIA / Falklands /US Psychotic Superpower
16 March 2013 — Strategic Culture Foundation The Return of Empires (VI)16.03.2013 | 00:00 | Dmitry MININ The rebirth of the imperial spirit in the West is moving along two sometimes converging, but in recent times increasingly diverging, lines. Looking at Europe’s relations with its neighbours, one can see that the European Union initially pursued an Continue reading
The New Dark Age 