June 2013
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Video: Criminal and Complicit Mainstream Media
Michel Chossudovsky speaks in Kuala Lumpur (2012). Reflections on the criminal mainstream mass media after the 9/11 events and “covering up” as obstruction of justice. Continue reading
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Bradley Manning: Prisoner of Conscience By Francis A. Boyle
Since the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, the peoples of the world have witnessed successive governments in the United States that have demonstrated little if any respect for fundamental considerations of international law, human rights, and the United States Constitution itself. Continue reading
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Bradley Manning (not) on TV Network News By Peter Hart
If you care at all about war and peace, press freedom, whistleblowers’ rights and the public’s right to know what the government is doing, the trial is of enormous consequence. Continue reading
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The Anti-Empire Report #117 By William Blum: What our presidents tell our young people
4 June, 2013 — Anti-Empire Report What our presidents tell our young people In this season of college graduations, let us pause to remember the stirring words of America’s beloved scholar, George W. Bush, speaking in Florida in 2007 at the commencement exercises of Miami Dade College: “In Havana and other Cuban cities, there are… Continue reading
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Studies in Intelligence: New Articles from The CIA’s In-House Journal
The Presidential ban against CIA assassinations of foreign leaders, first enacted in 1976, reflected both moral and practical reasons — including concerns about retaliation against U.S. leaders — according to an article in the CIA’s in-house journal posted today by the National Security Archive. However, the U.S. government never spelled out the exact scope of… Continue reading
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London Declaration on Anti-Semitism: Seeking to Criminalize Criticism of Israel By Stuart Littlewood
Australian federal and state MPs have been indulging in an orgy of anti-anti-Semitism by signing en masse the London Declaration on Combating Anti-Semitism. About 300 other lawmakers from some 60 countries have also signed, according to a spokesperson from the Inter-parliamentary Coalition for Combating Anti-Semitism. Fifty of these are Canadians, 18 are British, six are… Continue reading
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VTJP Occupied Palestine and Israel News and Articles 4 June 2013: London Declaration on Anti-Semitism: Seeking to Criminalize Criticism of Israel
3 June 2013 — VTJP News International Middle East Media CenterArmy Demolishes Four Homes, Four Sheds Near JerichoIMEMC – Tuesday June 4 2013, eyewitnesses have reported that dozens of Israeli military jeeps, accompanied by an armored D9 bulldozers, invaded the An- Nuwei’ma area, north of the West Bank city of Jericho, and demolished four homes, and four… Continue reading
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ICH 4 June 2013: NATO Data: 70% Support Assad
4 June 2013 — Information Clearing House Syria and the Sham of “Humanitarian Intervention” By Ajamu Baraka I continue to be amazed with the ease with which the dividing line is blurred between what is real and what is fiction in the reporting on Syria by the Western media. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article35180.htm Continue reading
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Bradley Manning Newslinks 5 June 2013
5 June 2013 — williambowles.info Bradley Manning Looks Downright Ghostly San Francisco Chronicle *In response to Manning’s confinement, more than 250 of the most eminent U.S. legal scholars sent a letter to President Obama in protest of Manning’s treatment; UN special rapporteur on torture Juan Ernesto Mendez called it “cruel, inhuman and … http://www.sfgate.com/technology/businessinsider/article/Bradley-Manning-Looks-Downright-Ghostly-4577722.php… Continue reading
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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
The New Dark Age 