9 May 2013 — New Left Project
When the racism and bigotry fuelling the EDL-backed UK Independence Party were finally revealed to public view, the results were never going to be pretty. So it proved last week, as the threat to the Tories prompted a huge dirt-digging operation, exposing a party bringing far-right extremism into the mainstream. Continue reading
8 May 2013 — Moon of Alabama
[As ever MofA is carrying some excellent analysis of the situation in Syria. WB]
One of the three alleged “chemical weapon” attacks in Syria was done by chlorine on a checkpoint of the Syrian army. Fifteen soldiers died.
9 May 2013 — John Pilger
The other day, I stood outside the strangely silent building where I began life as a journalist. It is no longer the human warren that was Consolidated Press in Sydney, though ghosts still drink at the King’s Head pub nearby. As a cadet reporter, I might have walked on to the set of Lewis Milestone’s The Front Page. Men in red braces did shout, “Hold the front page”, and tilt back their felt hats and talk rapidly with a roll-your-own attached indefinitely to their lower lip. You could feel the presses rumbling beneath and smell the ink.
8 May 2013 — Black Agenda Report
The announcement that the FBI added Assat Shakur to the list of most wanted terrorists was initially mystifying, a real life example of the shock doctrine. Shakur has been a fugitive ever since 1979 and was granted asylum by Cuba in 1984. It seemed inexplicable that the government would reinitiate searching for a 65-year old woman who had already been at large for more than thirty years. Continue reading
5 May 2013 — The Real News Network
Richard Wolff is an economist who has studied class issues for more than 40 years. In this animation and audio presentation, Wolff explains what class is all about and applies that understanding to the foreclosure crisis of 2007–2011. He argues that class concerns the “way our society splits up the output [and] leaves those who get the profits in the position of deciding and figuring out what to do with them… We all live with the results of what a really tiny minority in our society decides to do with the profits everybody produces.”
8 May 2013 — Black Agenda Report
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by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon9 May 2013 — Pambazuka News
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8 May 2013 — VTJP
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International Middle East Media Center
Settlers Attack Palestinian Cars Near Ramallah
IMEMC – Wednesday evening, May 8 2013, dozens of extremist Israeli settlers attacked Palestinian cars at the entrance of Nabi Saleh village, near the central West Bank city of Ramallah, and hurled stones at them. Settlers also attacked the village leading to clashes with the locals. …
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9 May 2013 — wiliambowles.info
Bradley Manning SF Pride: Directors Try to Weasel Out Of Ditching Manning …
PolicyMic
In a press release on the afternoon of May 7 prior to their monthly board meeting, the San Francisco Pride Board of Directors released a statement intended to clarify the reasons that Bradley Manning was named a community grand marshal before having …
8 May 2013 — Information Clearing House
The West and its Allies Cynically Bleed Syria to Weaken Iran
By Seumas Milne
If western politicians were really interested in saving lives, they would use their leverage to negotiate a settlement.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article34872.htm
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