9 April 2013 — The Real News Network
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Video: Michael Hudson – Thatcher Gave More Power to Finance
9 April 2013 — The Real News Network
Michael Hudson: Thatcher deregulated banking and made London the center of speculation and financialization – April 9, 2013
Mrs. Thatcher’s Mean Legacy By Michael Hudson and Jeffrey Sommers
8 April, 2013 — Michael Hudson
The Queen Mother of Global Austerity and Financialization
We typically honor the convention to refrain from to speak ill of the recently departed. But Margaret Thatcher probably would not object to an epitaph focusing on how her political legacy was to achieve her professed aim of “irreversibly” dismantling Britain’s public sector. Attacking central planning by government, she shifted it into much more centralized financial hands – the City of London, unopposed by any economic back bench of financial regulation and “free” of meaningful anti-monopoly price regulation.
Isolating the DPRK: US Threatens War With North Korea, Demands China to Cut Off Support By Alex Lantier
9 April 2013 — World Socialist Web Site
Over the weekend, US officials continued to threaten North Korea with war, demanding that China cut off its support to the regime in Pyongyang.
Obama’s dangerous “counter-provocation” plan against North Korea By Peter Symonds
9 April 2013 — WSWS
The aggressive character of the Obama administration’s actions on the Korean Peninsula was further underlined by leaked details in the New York Times on Sunday of a “counter-provocation” plan against North Korea, drawn up by the US and South Korean militaries. Amid sharply rising tensions, Washington is not simply responding to North Korean threats, but is engaged in reckless provocations of its own that risk the outbreak of war.
Video: “Aleppo, the Castle”: Documentary on Atrocities Committed by US-NATO Sponsored Terrorists in Syria
11 November 2012 — Syrian TV
This is a documentary of 7 parts, broadcasted by Syria TV, with subtitles in English, about the war launched by the Islamist fighters in Aleppo.
The Role of MI6 in the Assassination of Patrice Lumumba By Abayomi Azikiwe
8 April 2013 — Pan-African News Wire
A recent letter to the London Review of Books has opened back up discussions about those responsible for the assassination of revolutionary Congolese leader Patrice Lumumba. Lumumba, a charismatic and popular organizer during the 1958-1960 period, captivated the hearts and minds of the majority of his people and the African continent during the struggle against Belgian colonialism.
VTJP Occupied Palestine and Israel News and Articles 8 April 2013: Youth move back to Palestinian village stolen from their families
8 April 2013 — VTJP
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Palestinian Cameraman Shot In The Face In Bethlehem
IMEMC – Bethlehem, Monday April 8, 2013, Palestinian medical sources reported that a Palestinian cameraman was shot in the face, on Monday evening, by a rubber-coated metal bullet, in the Aida refugee camp in the West Bank city of Bethlehem. …
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ICH 8 April 2013: The Five Stages Of Collapse
8 April 2013 — Information Clearing House
US Threatens War With North Korea, Demands China Cut Off Support
By Alex Lantier
Sections of the US press and foreign policy establishment are now mooting the possibility that Washington will go to war and kill the North Korean leadership.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article34546.htm
Smearing those Who Speak the Truth: The Media Myth of “Regime Apologists” By Devon DB
8 April 2013 — Global Research
Given the current conflict in Syria, there are many in the alternative media whose main focus when reporting on the fighting is the actions of the rebels. This has earned such media outlets and writers the taunts and attacks of others who label them “regime apologists.” Continue reading
The New Dark Age 