April 2013
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Secret Documents Expose Offshore’s Global Impact
ICIJ has just launched the largest investigative reporting project in its 15-year history. Drawing on a leaked cache of 2.5 million records, ICIJ (a project of the Center for Public Integrity) has cracked open the secrets of more than 120,000 offshore companies and trusts and about 130,000 individuals and agents, exposing hidden dealings of politicians,… Continue reading
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VTJP Occupied Palestine and Israel News and Articles 3 April 2013: BBC defends false claims linking Rachel Corrie to killings of Israeli soldiers
3 April 2013 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Army Kidnaps 16 Palestinians In West BankIMEMC – Wednesday at dawn, April 3, 2013, Israeli soldiers invaded several areas in the occupied West Bank districts of Hebron, Bethlehem and occupied East Jerusalem, and kidnapped 16 Palestinians after breaking into their homes, and searching them. … Continue reading
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ICH 3 April 2013: US Protection Racket at Root of Korea Conflict
3 April 2013 — Information Clearing House The Long History of Lies about Iran By Muhammad Sahimi If the lies about Iraq taught us anything, it is that we must pay attention to the massive campaign of lies about Iran. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article34495.htm Continue reading
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European Trade Unions and the Struggle for Public Services By Christoph Hermann
The public sector is a key battleground for a progressive trade union strategy and for an alternative to neoliberalism in Europe. On the one hand the existence of a public sector is a continuing example that a not for profit driven production of goods and services is not only possible in the 21st century –… Continue reading
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HOUSMANS RADICAL BOOKS NEWSLETTER APRIL 2013
3 April 2013 — Housmans NEWS 1. Housmans special offer: buy Tim Gee’s ‘Counterpower’ and get ‘You Can’t Evict an Idea: What Can We Learn From Occupy?’ free 2. Housmans special offer: The Anarchist FAQ volumes 1 and 2 3. The ARB London Radical Bookfair 2013 – Saturday May 11th Continue reading
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Freedom of Information Follies: FOIA Reviewers Declassify Same Rwanda Document Four Times, Creating New Secrets Each Time
The U.S. government’s Freedom of Information Act reviewers produced four different versions of the same State Department document over a 12-year period, releasing different information each time, according to the National Security Archive’s posting today of the documents obtained by author and journalist Michael Dobbs. Continue reading
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Jacob Collier sings 'Pure Imagination'
Got sent this by a companero: an interesting video by Jacob Collier doing a rendition of the title song from ‘Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory’, ‘Pure Imagination’ with Collier doing six-part harmony and on melodica. Enjoy Continue reading
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Video: Jimmy Smith Trio on Jazz Scene USA
Jazz Scene U.S.A. was a short-lived syndicated television show shot in Los Angeles in the early ‘60s and hosted by Oscar Brown, Jr. This episode is given over to the Jimmy Smith trio with Quentin Warren and Donald Bailey. If you’ve never had the pleasure of seeing this amazing musician live, enjoy this. Continue reading
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For the Finance Minister of Germany, Crisis Is a “Necessity” By Victor Grossman
Angela Merkel’s face usually displays a rather plain, friendly, almost benign expression, matching her simple, benign words. But in rare unguarded moments, some claim, they glimpse a very hard visage, which is matched, equally rarely, by hardly benign words, like her annoyed statement that Cyprus was “exhausting the patience of its euro partners.” Continue reading
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VTJP Occupied Palestine and Israel News and Articles 2 April 2013: Stand With Us poster sends truly universal message – accidentally
2 April 2013 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Army Attacks Palestinians Protesters In JerusalemIMEMC – Israeli soldiers, attacked on Tuesday, a nonviolent protest that was held in the Old City of occupied East Jerusalem, and claimed that the protest was held without a permit from the Police in the occupied city. … Continue reading
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ICH 2 April 2013: 9/11: Illegitimacy of US Government
2 April 2013 — Information Clearing House Camp Nama: British Personnel Reveal Horrors of Secret US Base in Baghdad By Ian Cobain Prisoners subjected to electric shocks, held for prolonged periods in cells the size of large dog kennels. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article34479.htm Continue reading
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“Liberating Iraqis”, Limb by Limb, Life by Life, Home by Home, Gene by Gene By Felicity Arbuthnot
In these days of the tenth anniversary of the illegal invasion and near destruction of Iraq, answers are owed not alone for the dead, but to the cancer stricken, the deformed, to their parents, their siblings and all Iraqis. They were left with a land poisoned by depleted uranium in 1991, the burden ever building… Continue reading
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The BBC and Iraq Ten Years On By David McQueen
The tenth anniversary of the invasion of Iraq was marked in Baghdad with a wave of deadly bombings that killed at least sixty people and injured over two hundred. In Britain the anniversary brought on a wave of retrospectives and handwringing recollections by the likes of the BBC’s John Simpson. Simpson and other media pundits… Continue reading
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VTJP Occupied Palestine and Israel News and Articles 1 April 2013: Dying prisoner treated cruelly by Israeli doctors over many years
1 April 2013 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Settlers Attack A Child In JerusalemIMEMC – Monday April 1, 2013, The Wadi Hilweh Information Center in Silwan, in occupied East Jerusalem, reported that a group of settlers attacked a Palestinian child in Ash-Sharaf neighborhood as he was heading to school, causing various injuries that required hospitalization. Continue reading
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NATO Triggers Destruction, Insecurity and Poverty. It Must be Abolished! By Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya and Silvia Cattori
In 400 dense, fascinating and worrying pages it makes us realize the extent of the threat that NATO poses to world peace and to the future of many nations. It also makes us aware of the urgency involved in obtaining the dissolution of this dangerous organization. Continue reading
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Has The Arab League Mortally Wounded Itself By Declaring War On Syria? By Franklin Lamb
It is Syria, along with Palestine, out of all the 22 Arab League members, who most consistently and steadfastly have represented Arab Nationalism, Arab resistance to occupation, and the stated goals enunciated 66 years ago when the Arab League was established. Continue reading
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Depleted Uranium: The BBC’s John Simpson does a hatchet job on Fallujah’s genetically damaged children By William Bowles
Under the title ‘Fallujah’s children’s ‘genetic damage’ that old war horse ‘literally’ of the BBC’s foreign propaganda service, John Simpson, manages not to mention the phrase ‘depleted uranium’ when allegedly reporting on the alarming rise in birth defects that include cancer, leukaemia and a horrific rise in child mortality since the US demolished the city… Continue reading
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Video: South Africa: The Big Debate – Episode 1 – Land
The recent farmworkers’ strike in the Western Cape has highlighted low pay and unbearable working conditions as the main causes of the workers’ grievances. However, some farmworkers have also revealed that land reform and redistribution are at the centre of their concerns. Continue reading
The New Dark Age 