June 4, 2013
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Today’s World Environment Reflects Crisis Of Capitalist Civilization By Farooque Chowdhury
The state of today’s global environment reflects the contradiction between the ownership of the world resources by a miniscule group and billions of resource-producing, but resource-starved humans, the contradiction created by an ever accumulating economy, the contradiction between ever greedy capital owners and humanity in chains. Continue reading
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“The Monsanto Protection Plan”: Monsanto’s Deception Game on GMO in Europe By F. William Engdahl
Before the world opens the champagne to celebrate the death of GMO and its paired herbicides such as Roundup, it is worthwhile to look more closely at what was officially said and what not. Continue reading
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Greek Lessons From Below By Sofiane Ait Chalalet and Chris Jones
Life without papers has changed in the last five years. Earlier, before austerity and recession struck, most of the refugees could find work with wages. Without papers they were inevitably highly exploitable and many were. But now there is virtually no work with wages. On top of this terror of having no income to live,… Continue reading
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The Right to the City Movement and the Turkish Summer by Jay Cassano
As I write this, Istanbul is under siege. The might of Istanbul’s entire police force—the largest city police force in Europe—is violently cracking down on peaceful occupiers in Gezi Park. Continue reading
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American Power and the Making of British Capitalism By Jeremy Green
On the opening page of their superb work on the political economy of the American Empire, Leo Panitch and Sam Gindin outline the fundamental premise of their study: that the American state has played ‘an exceptional role in the creation of a fully global capitalism and in coordinating its management, as well as restructuring other… Continue reading
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Syrian opposition launch rocket attacks in Lebanon By Thomas Gaist
Fighting raged in Lebanon on Sunday between Hezbollah militants and US-backed Syrian rebels, with at least 12 killed. According to a Lebanese security official, the clashes broke out as Syrian opposition elements prepared to launch rocket attacks against the city of Baalbek, in north-east Lebanon. These clashes near Baalbek come as another indication that the… Continue reading
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VTJP Occupied Palestine and Israel News and Articles 3 June 2013: Bedouin forced to live beside garbage dump contract unknown diseases
3 June 2013 — VTJP News International Middle East Media CenterIsraeli Illegally Confiscates 370 Dunams Near NablusIMEMC – Monday June 3 2013, the Israeli government announced Monday it decision to illegally confiscate 370 Dunams (91.42 Acres) of Palestinian lands, east of the northern West Bank city of Nablus. … Continue reading
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The Finance Curse: Introduction By Dan Hind
It is now well known that many countries which depend on earnings from natural resources like oil have failed to harness them for national development. In many cases it seems even worse than that: for all the hundreds of billions of dollars sloshing into countries like oil-rich Nigeria, for instance, such places seem to suffer… Continue reading
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How a London Court Repudiated Zionist Abuse of the Anti-Semitism Charge By Mike Marqusee
Taunting and tainting opponents with the charge of anti-semitism is a long-standing Zionist ploy, familiar to everyone involved in the Israel-Palestine issue. As their support weakens in the face of evidence-based argument, Israel’s advocates have stepped up their use of the accusation as a means to close down debate, particularly on proposals for boycott, divestment… Continue reading
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ICH 3 June 2013: 1 in 6 Going Hungry in U.S: New Report
3 June 2013 — Information Clearing House Who Benefits If The Killing In Syria Goes On? By Patrick Cockburn This is a cynical but probably correct explanation for why the US, Britain, France and the Sunni monarchies do not want the war to end. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article35163.htm Continue reading
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Wikileaks Newslinks 4 June 2013
4 June 2013 — williambowles.info Wikileaks soldier ‘naive but good intentioned’ – defence TVNZ Military prosecutors say arrogance drove the US soldier accused of the biggest leak of classified information in US history through the WikiLeaks anti-secrecy website three years ago. But at the opening of the court martial of Private First Class … http://tvnz.co.nz/world-news/wikileaks-soldier-naive-but-good-intentioned-defence-5454764 Continue reading
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Bradley Manning Court-Martial: Secrecy and Injustice on Trial By Stephen Lendman
America honors its worst. It persecutes its best. Manning is heroic. He risked great personal harm. He did so to reveal vital truths. Washington has no right to conceal them. People have a right to know. Continue reading
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Bradley Manning Newslinks 4 June 2013
4 June 2013 — williambowles.info Bradley Manning, US soldier accused of leaking US secrets, generates more … Washington Post LONDON — It’s rare for an American to generate more sympathy abroad than he or she does at home, but Bradley Manning and his trial are unique in a host of ways. With Manning’s trial Continue reading
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