May 1, 2013
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Audio: Dario Fo’s ‘Accidental Death of an Anarchist’
The play is a farce based on events involving a real person, Giuseppe Pinelli, who fell – or was thrown – from the fourth floor window of a Milan police station in 1969. He was accused of bombing a bank (the Piazza Fontana bombing) (Wikipedia.) Continue reading
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New John Pilger film, Utopia, to be broadcast on ITV and released worldwide
Eleven miles by ferry from Perth is Western Australia’s “premier tourist destination”. This is Rottnest Island, whose scabrous wild beauty and isolation evoked for me Robben Island in South Africa. Empires are never short of devil’s islands; what makes Rottnest different, indeed what makes Australia different, is a silence and denial on an epic scale. Continue reading
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'Manteca!' – The Dizzy Gillespie Orchestra with Chano Pozo
Co-written by Dizzy Gillespie, Chano Pozo and Gil Fuller in 1947, it is among the most famous of Gillespie’s recordings (along with the earlier “A Night in Tunisia”) and is “one of the most important records ever made in the United States,” according to Gary Giddins of the Village Voice. Continue reading
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Boston Bombings: Detonator to Mobilize the Entire US Security Apparatus. May Change the World for the Worse! By Prof. James Petras
The official government and corporate media versions claim the FBI may have ‘over-looked’ the security risk posed by Tsarnaev. Congressional critics argue that the FBI was ‘negligent’ in following up leads provided by the Russians and the CIA. A more likely explanation is that the FBI was actively engaged with Tsarnaev and deliberately encouraged the… Continue reading
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Black Agenda Report for May 1, 2013: NY Times Slanders Black Farmers, Crushed By Capitalism, Death in Somalia
1 May 2013 — Black Agenda Report This week in Black Agenda Report Breitbart Lives? New York Times & Slate.com Do Sloppy Racist Hatchet Job on Black Farmers Lawsuit By BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon On Friday, April 26, the New York Times, with an assist from the Washington Post property Slate.com committed a journalistic atrocity Continue reading
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VTJP Occupied Palestine and Israel News and Articles 30 April 2013: PHOTOS: The face of Israel’s discriminatory home demolition policy
30 April 2013 — VTJP News International Middle East Media CenterSeveral Palestinians Injured near NablusIMEMC – Tuesday April 30 2013; Palestinian medical sources reported that several Palestinians have been injured after a group of extremist Israeli settlers hurled stones at their vehicles close to various roadblocks, near the northern West Bank city of Nablus. … Continue reading
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Wikileaks / Bradley Manning Newslinks 1 May 2013
1 May 2013 — williambowles.info Pirate Party gains three seats in Iceland’s parliament CBS News Physically isolated near the Arctic Circle, it is one of the world’s most wired countries and has been a hub for the online secret-spilling group WikiLeaks. Jonsdottir has worked with WikiLeaks in the past. In 2011 the country announced it would crowd Continue reading
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ICH 30 April 2013: Did Muslims Attack America on 9/11?
30 April 2013 — Information Clearing House Why Would Syria Use Chemical Weapons Now? By Tim Marshall Why attempt a very limited attack, resulting in no obvious military advantage? http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article34776.htm Continue reading
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