17 April 2013 — Black Agenda Report
by BAR executive editor Glen FordWho will defend the indefensible Obama? Answer: There will be fewer and fewer Obamapologists, as each day passes. “For the monumentally dysfunctional Black Misleadership Class, the winding down of the Age of Obama is cause for frantic repositioning, and for the revising of their own histories.”
17 April 2013 — The Real News Network
With negotiations for a two state solution going nowhere, more Palestinians are calling for a single state solution
16 April 2013 — Washington’s Blog
17 April 2013 — Home page: http://www.statewatch.org/ • e-mail: office@statewatch.org
1. EU: Dublin III: Council of the European Union
2. EU: Agency for Fundamental Rights report: Fundamental rights at the EU’s southern sea borders
3. EU: European Commission: Proposal for a Regulation for the surveillance of the external sea borders in the context of operational cooperation
4. UK: Secret mission? UK “homeland security” firms were in India three weeks before David Cameron’s February trade mission
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17 April 2013 — MRZine
Opposition protests turned deadly yesterday, with at least seven people having been reported killed and over 61 others injured as opposition groups reportedly burned the homes of PSUV leaders, community hospitals, andmercales (subsidized grocery stores), attacked Cuban doctors, attacked state and community media stations, and threatened CNE president Tibisay Lucena and other officials. Violence is likely to continue today, as both Capriles and Maduro have called for their supporters to demonstrate in the streets. Continue reading
16 April 2013 — VTJP
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Official: 3 men attacked by settlers near Nablus
4/16/2013 – NABLUS (Ma’an) — Three men were injured late Monday after being attacked by settlers near Nablus, a PA official said. Ghassan Daghlas, who monitors settlement activities in the northern West Bank, told Ma’an that a group of settlers from Homesh attacked three men near the village of Burqa. Ala Yaish, 25, and….
16 April 2013 — Information Clearing House
Syria’s Civilian Suffering
Western Imperialism Resorts to Medieval Barbarity
By Finian Cunningham
How could such a rapid descent into barbarism be possible?
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article34630.htm
17 April 2013 — New Left Project
If hagiography is the norm after the death of a public figure, Thatcher’s has been no exception. True, it has not gone uncontested: the “folk hatred” of poor and post-industrial Britain has fuelled an unprecedented upsurge of rage among her opponents. At times the media struggled to cope – the Telegraph’s editor shutting its comment threads and objecting that its email address for tributes was “filled with abuse”. Continue reading
16 April 2013 — Venezuelanalysis.com
This afternoon president Maduro said the opposition’s call for a general strike today had “failed”. He also blamed the losing candidate in Sunday’s elections, Henrique Capriles, for the seven deaths last night.
The New Dark Age 