May 2013
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Freedom of the Press: Obama Justice Department Secretly seized Associated Press Telephone Records By Barry Grey
In a brazen and illegal attack on press freedom, the Obama Justice Department secretly subpoenaed the telephone records of Associated Press editors and journalists and tracked ingoing and outgoing calls on at least 20 telephone lines, including the national headquarters of the press agency and its news bureaus in New York, Hartford and Washington DC.… Continue reading
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Video: Chris Hedges: Monitoring of AP Phones a "Terrifying" Step in State Assault on Press Freedom
The Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Chris Hedges joins us to discuss what could mark the most significant government intrusion on freedom of the press in decades. The Justice Department has acknowledged seizing the work, home and cellphone records used by almost 100 reporters and editors at the Associated Press. The phones targeted included the general AP… Continue reading
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Black Agenda Report 15 May 2013: The More Effective Evil, When Prosecutors Are Crimimals
15 May 2013 — Black Agenda Report This week in Black Agenda Report The More Effective Evil by Your World News For some time now, Black Agenda Report has been calling the Obama administration not the lesser of two but the more effective evil, able to enact measures that white Democrats or Republicans could not Continue reading
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South Africa’s ‘sub-imperial’ seductions By Patrick Bond
Thanks are due to an odd man, the brutally frank Zambian vice-president Guy Scott who last week pronounced, “I dislike South Africa for the same reason that Latin Americans dislike the United States”. Thanks are also due to South Africa’s President Jacob Zuma for forcing a long-overdue debate, just as the World Economic Forum Africa… Continue reading
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VTJP Occupied Palestine and Israel News and Articles 14 May 2013: Gaza: a Lie Agreed Upon
14 May 2013 — VTJP News International Middle East Media CenterBarghouthi: “Right Of Return, A Sacred Right”IMEMC – In a statement released from his prison cell, detained Palestinian political leader, Marwan Barghouthi, stated that May 15, marks the 65th anniversary of the Nakba, when Israel was established in the historic land of Palestine, over the ruins Continue reading
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Imperialism, The Cold War, and the Contradictions of Decolonization By Anthony Mustacich
The Second World War had devastated the colonial empires of Western Europe, leaving the United States as the capitalist world’s undisputed superpower. At the same time, the war demolished the colonial system that had defined the imperialist era up until that point, giving rise to a new stage of imperialism called neo-colonialism. Continue reading
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ICH 14 May 2013: The Criminalization of Political Dissent in America
14 May 2013 — Information Clearing House Syrian Minister: We Have the Right to Enter the Occupied Golan Heights Anytime By Elad Benari “Everybody should know that we are people who don’t forget to respond to an aggression against the aggressors, nor do we forget our martyrs and those who killed them,” said al-Zoubi. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article34934.htm Continue reading
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Charles Mingus Live
14 May 2013 — Jazz on the Tube Difficult to know who is playing in this incredible live session as the camera focuses largely on Mingus but it’s definitely Dannie Richmond on the drums. Continue reading
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Sam Rivers Live
Filmed in Germany on November 14, 1979 with Sam Rivers tenor sax, flute, piano, soprano sax and voice, Dave Holland bass cello, and Thurman Barker drums. Rivers in full flight with an 8-minute plus, solo. Continue reading
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VTJP Occupied Palestine and Israel News and Articles 13 May 2013: PA: Settlers exhume graves, spray racist graffiti
13 May 2013 — VTJP News International Middle East Media CenterSettlers Burn Palestinian Agricultural Lands Near NablusIMEMC – Monday evening, May 13 2013; a group of extremist Israeli settlers set ablaze Palestinian olive orchards and farmlands that belong the villages of Qaryout, south of the northern West Bank city of Nablus. … Continue reading
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ICH 13 May 2013: Chris Hedges: Murder Is Our National Sport
13 May 2013 — Information Clearing House Syria Endgame Approaching Fast By Shamus Cooke Syrian government forces have scored significant battlefield victories over the rebels, and this has provoked a mixture of war provocations and peace offers from the U.S. and its anti-Assad allies. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article34922.htm Continue reading
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A United Nations For the Rest of Us, But Not For Israel By Mohamed Khodr
On May 15, 2013 Israel will celebrate its 65th year of “independence” (from whom?), a celebration steeped in historical lies, myths, blood, and the forced expulsion and dispossession of Palestinians from their homeland with the political, economic, and military support of the U.S. and Britain, two colonial racist powers who themselves understand the meaning of… Continue reading
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Christian village breathes easier as Syrian army advances By Sammy Ketz
The advance of regime troops on the rebel stronghold of Qusair in central Syria has come as a relief for at least one village, mostly Christian, nestled on the shores of Lake Quttina. Continue reading
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VTJP Occupied Palestine and Israel News and Articles 12 May 2013: Ahrar: “Israel Still Holding Captive 13 Legislators, 2 Ministers”
12 May 2013 — VTJP News International Middle East Media CenterIsrael Violates Lebanese AirspaceIMEMC – Lebanese sources reported Sunday that four Israeli F-16 war jets violated the Lebanese airspace, and circled at law altitude over several cities and towns south of the country. … Continue reading
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ICH 12 May 2013: Ronald Reagan: Accessory to Genocide Claims
12 May 2013 — Information Clearing House Buying Time in Syria By Phil Greaves The current softening of US rhetoric is merely a smokescreen to enable the US Government and its autocratic GCC (Gulf Co-Operation Council) allies to shift strategies and proxy allegiances. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article34907.htm Continue reading
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Video: Dario Fo su Berlusconi (d'annata ma tragicamente attuale)
13 May 2013 — Youtube More Dario Fo! Title roughly translated to English: ‘Vintage Berslusconi but unfortunately still current’. Prologue of a (famous Italian NOBEL award-winning) Dario Fo’s show aired in late 90′, where he jokes about Silvio Berlusconi (“Psiconano” ITA – “Psycodwarf” ENU). Veronica Lario (Berlusconi’s wife) is amongst spectators. Greetings from non-Italian viewers are Continue reading
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