19 June 2013 — Black Agenda Report
Day: June 19, 2013
Capitalism in Crisis: Our Opportunity for a New System By Margaret Flowers and Kevin Zeese
19 June 2013 — Truthout
(Photo: adam greenfield / Flickr)
[I can’t say I entirely agree with this essay’s approach to dealing with the crisis of capitalism (after all, it’s not the first crisis but the umpteenth) but nevertheless I still think it’s worth reading if only because it’s a refreshing change after the British left’s attempt at addressing the crisis (see for example Richard Seymour’s video, ‘In practical terms today, we are all reformists …’) Though I would argue that the British left has always been reformist, well at least William Morris’s time, and in any case, he speaks not for me. WB]
ICH 19 June 2013: The FUKUS Bully-Boys
19 June 2013 — Information Clearing House
Plan B: War By Another Name in Syria
By Franklin Lamb
There is growing confidence among pro-Zionist neocons in Congress that while Syrian regime-change has failed for several reasons that thwarted the Gulf funded military campaign, Syria can still be brought to heel through an economic campaign dressed to look, well, down right “humanitarian.”
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article35341.htm
Fake WMD “Intelligence” and Orwellian Double-speak : Washington Is Insane By Dr. Paul Craig Roberts
17 June, 2013 — Global Research
In the 21st century the two hundred year-old propaganda that the American people control their government has been completely shattered. Both the Bush and Obama regimes have made it unmistakenly clear that the American people don’t even influence, much less control, the government. As far as Washington is concerned, the people are nothing but chaff in the wind.
The Terror Con, Booz Allen Hamilton and the NSA By Robert Scheer
19 June 2013 — Truthdig
For defense contractors, the government officials who write them mega checks, and the hawks in the media who cheer them on, the name of the game is threat inflation. And no one has been better at it than the folks at Booz Allen Hamilton, the inventors of the new boondoggle called cyber warfare.
Ikea’s Race to the Bottom BY John Logan
19 June 2013 — In These Times
Turkish workers say Ikea takes advantage of the authoritarian government’s anti-union policies.
Ikea’s labor practices in Turkey are more like those in Saudi Arabia—a country that represses independent unions—than those of Sweden, where companies generally have cooperative relationships with their unions.
With total sales of $36 billion in 2012, Ikea is the world’s largest furniture retailer, and one of the world’s most recognizable retail brands. Worldwide, Ikea operates in approximately 40 countries and has more than 100,000 employees.
How Today’s NSA Is Much, Much Worse Than Stasi Or Orwell’s “1984”
19 June 2013 — Falkvinge on Infopolicy
There are still people warning us of sleepwalking into a Stasi or “1984” society. They missed the boat by a long shot: we are already far, far past the point of Stasi or “1984”. The apparatus that governments have built to trace, track, and record citizens is the stuff of nightmares.
Intelsat suspends satellite services to Iranian TV channels
19 June 2013 — Press tv
Communications satellite services provider Intelsat has announced the suspension of its services to Iranian channels, especially the English-language news network, Press TV, as the West’s campaign against free speech intensifies
The National Security Industrial Complex and NSA Spying: The Revolving Doors Between State Agencies and Private Contractors By Pratap Chatterjee
18 June 2013 — Global Research
When Edward Snowden, an employee of Booz Allen Hamilton – a military contractor based in McLean, Virginia – blew the whistle on the extent of U.S. global electronic surveillance, he unexpectedly shone a light on the world of contractors that consume some 70 percent of the $52 billion U.S. intelligence budget.
Syria Is Becoming Obama’s Iraq By Shamus Cooke
19 June 2013 — Global Research
In perfect Bush-like fashion, President Obama has invented a bogus pretense for military intervention in yet another Middle East country. The president’s claim that the Syrian government has used chemical weapons — and thus crossed Obama’s imaginary “red line” — will likely fool very few Americans, who already distrust their president after the massive NSA spying scandal. Obama has officially started down a path that inevitably leads to full-scale war. At this point the Obama administration thinks it has already invested too much military, financial, and diplomatic capital into the Syrian conflict to turn back, and each step forward brings the U.S. closer to a direct military intervention.
Syria Is Becoming Obama’s Iraq By Shamus Cooke
19 June 2013 — Global Research
In perfect Bush-like fashion, President Obama has invented a bogus pretense for military intervention in yet another Middle East country. The president’s claim that the Syrian government has used chemical weapons — and thus crossed Obama’s imaginary “red line” — will likely fool very few Americans, who already distrust their president after the massive NSA spying scandal. Obama has officially started down a path that inevitably leads to full-scale war. At this point the Obama administration thinks it has already invested too much military, financial, and diplomatic capital into the Syrian conflict to turn back, and each step forward brings the U.S. closer to a direct military intervention.
Spinning Surveillance via Discredited NSA Talking Points By Steve Rendall
Cameron insults our intelligence over Syria… and gets a slap from Putin By Finian CUNNINGHAM
19 June 2013 — Strategic Culture foundation
They say a picture paints a thousand words. The photograph of British Prime Minister David Cameron and Russian President Vladimir Putin in London recently certainly does. When the two leaders gave a press conference at the weekend in Downing Street ahead to the G8 summit, Cameron had the excruciating look of a desperate man. Putin, by contrast, appeared in control. The latter spoke in measured tones and with discernible contempt in his voice.
No, NSA Spying Did NOT Prevent a Terror Attack on Wall Street
19 June, 2013 — WashingtonsBlog
NSA Grasps at Straws
In response to the revelation that the NSA has been illegally spying on all Americans for more than a decade, NSA chief General Keith Alexander claimed that the spying prevented a terrorist attack on Wall Street and the New York subway. There’s only one problem: the claim is completely false.
Video: Edward Snowden: War on Whistleblowers “Only Builds Better Whistleblowers”
18 June 2013 — The Real News Network
Larry Wilkerson: Snowden’s expertise allowed him to understand the threat of the NSA’s surveillance programs on civil liberties – government power exercised in secret will be abused (inc. transcript)
VTJP Occupied Palestine and Israel News and Articles 18 June 2013: House demolitions: Zionism’s constant background noise
18 June 2013 — VTJP
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Settlements Budget Exceeds Allotted Finances By Millions
IMEMC – Israeli daily, Haaretz, reported that the Israeli government budged, allotted for settlement activities in the occupied territories, is hundreds of millions over the allocated annual budget. …
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ICH 18 June 2013: “We Will Always Be Independent and Free” President al-Assad
18 June 2013 — Information Clearing House
US Proxy War In Syria
Obama Is Making Us De Facto Allies Of Al-Qaida
By Patrick J. Buchanan
Where does our imperial president get his authority to draw red lines and attack countries that cross them?
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article35327.htm
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