31 July 2013 — ZCommunications.org
To the World Health Organization (WHO) and the Iraqi Ministry of Health: (New signatures added)
The back-breaking burden of cancers and birth defects continues to weigh heavily on the Iraqi people.
Month: July 2013
VTJP Palestine-Israel Newslinks 30 July 2013: Israel advises Sri Lanka on slow-motion genocide
30 July 2013 — VTJP
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International Middle East Media Center
Kerry appoints former pro-Israel lobbyist to oversee peace talks
IMEMC – On Monday [July 29], US Secretary of State John Kerry named Martin Indyk as the administration’s special envoy for Israeli-Palestinian negotiations. Indyk, 62, who is Jewish, has worked for AIPAC, a pro-Israel lobby group, and he helped found the Washington Institute for Near East Policy (WINEP), a think tank that has been critisied for being a part of the pro-Israel lobby. …
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ICH 30 July 2013: Egypt: Divide and Conquer?
30 July 2013 — Information Clearing House
West War Crimes in Syria Exposed
By Finian Cunningham
Western government and media silence over the latest massacres in Syria is not just a matter of indifference or sloppy journalism. It is indicative of their complicity in the covert genocidal war on Syria.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article35702.htm
Manning not guilty of aiding the enemy, faces 130+ yrs in jail on other charges
30 July 2013 — RT
A US military judge has found Army private Bradley Manning “not guilty” of aiding the enemy. However, he was found guilty of 19 remaining charges, meaning that he still faces the possibility of up to 132 years behind bars. Sentencing begins tomorrow.
Bradley Manning Newslinks 30 July 2013
30 July 2013
Big Update in Bradley Manning Trial | Video
FORT MEADE, Md. (TheBlaze/AP) — Pfc. Bradley Manning will learn Tuesday afternoon whether he will be convicted of aiding the enemy – punishable by life in … Continue reading
BBC welfare reform show breached impartiality guidelines
30 July 2013 — BBC
The Trust’s editorial standards committee said that while there was no evidence that Humphrys advocated the coalition government’s reforms, viewers were likely to have formed the impression that there was a “healthy supply of jobs overall” in the UK economy because no information was given on the ratio of jobs to applicants.
Monsanto-backed GMO giants launch website to combat anti-biotech sentiment
30 July 2013 — RT
A group of biotech seed companies have launched an online forum to rebuff disapproval of genetically modified foods across the world. Activists and consumer groups are skeptical, saying the industry has a ‘track record of being anything but transparent’. Continue reading
Australia’s election campaign is driven by a barbarism that dares not speak its name By John Pilger
29 July 2013 — John Pilger
The election campaign in Australia is being fought with the lives of men, women and children. Some drown, others are banished without hope to malarial camps. Children are incarcerated behind razor wire in conditions described as “a huge generator of mental illness”. Continue reading
A Socialist Programme for London? By Carl Rowlands
30 July 2013 — New Left Project
It is easily forgotten that the 1980s were nearly not the 1980s at all, politically speaking. At the decade’s outset, an aggressively organised, ideologically diverse Left insurgency was the ascendent force in a Labour Party hovering around 50% in opinion polls, as the British public recoiled from the initial, monetarist-brutalist phase of Thatcherism.
Egypt: The officers’ war of terror; latest statements from the Egyptian left
27 July, 2013 — Jadaliyya
Since the toppling of President Hosni Mubarak, Egypt has become a battlefield of narratives. Each narrative has sought to appropriate and define the January 25 Revolution. The wielders of power, most notably the army, along with its allies, advanced a narrative claiming that the revolution succeeded—thanks to the intervention of the officers. Continue reading
Profiting from War: A Look Into the World of Israeli Arms Dealing By Eilat Maoz
27 July 2013 — Haokets
War in Israel has become a constant source of profit, with the West Bank and Gaza Strip used as experimental sites for arms dealers backed up by intellectuals. These are the protagonists of ‘The Lab,’ a new film by Yotam Feldman. In its exceptional interviews, the film reveals that the image of the arms dealer operating in the shadows is a thing of the past.
VTJP Palestine-Israel Newslinks 29 July 2013: Images of Bedouin displacement foreshadow a ‘Nakba in the Negev’
29 July 2013 — VTJP
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International Middle East Media Center
PCHR Calls Upon Abbass To Intervene To Save Lives Of 36 Patients Suffering From “Leukemia”
IMEMC – The Detainees Have Been With No Treatment For 8 Months The Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR) is gravely concerned over the lives of 36 patients, who suffer from Leukemia in the Gaza Strip, due to not receiving the necessary treatment they need for 8 months. …
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ICH 29 July 2013: In Defense of Hezbollah, a “Terrorist” Organization
29 July 2013 — Information Clearing House
The Boycott of Israel Eight Years In
By Lawrence Davidson
In the private and public sectors of Western society, greater numbers of people no longer follow the line of historical interpretation set down by the Zionists.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article35685.htm
Movie Review: “We Steal Secrets”: A Masterclass in Propaganda. The Assassination of Julian Assange By Jonathan Cook
30 July 2013 — Jonathan Cook
I have just watched We Steal Secrets, Alex Gibney’s documentary about Wikileaks and Julian Assange. One useful thing I learnt is the difference between a hatchet job and character assassination. Gibney is too clever for a hatchet job, and his propaganda is all the more effective for it.
The Anti-Empire Report #119 By William Blum: Nationalism and Hypocrisy
29 July 2013 — Anti-Empire Report
That most charming of couples: Nationalism and hypocrisy
It’s not easy being a flag-waving American nationalist. In addition to having to deal with the usual disillusion, anger, and scorn from around the world incited by Washington’s endless bombings and endless wars, the nationalist is assaulted by whistle blowers like Bradley Manning and Edward Snowden, who have disclosed a steady stream of human-rights and civil-liberties scandals, atrocities, embarrassing lies, and embarrassing truths. Believers in “American exceptionalism” and “noble intentions” have been hard pressed to keep the rhetorical flag waving by the dawn’s early light and the twilight’s last gleaming.
The Threat of Nuclear War, North Korea or the United States? By Prof Michel Chossudovsky
25 July 2013 — Global Research
While the Western media portrays North Korea’s nuclear weapons program as a threat to Global Security, it fails to acknowledge that the US has being threatening North Korea with a nuclear attack for more than half a century.
VTJP Palestine-Israel Newslinks 28 July 2013: Workers on Israel’s illegal railway robbed of half their pay
28 July 2013 — VTJP
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International Middle East Media Center
Protest tent evicted by Israeli troops south of Bethlehem
IMEMC – A group of around thirty protesters, including Palestinian, Israeli and international supporters of a Palestinian family whose home was recently demolished, were evicted Saturday from a protest tent they had set up on the family’s land in the village of Umm Salamuna, near Bethlehem. …
Obama “Wins” the Korean War. Celebrating the Destructive Nature of US led Wars By Jack A. Smith
29 July 2013 — Global Research
There are times when the Obama Administration’s deep attachment to U.S. militarism and excessive praise of the armed forces causes the White House to seem either out of touch with reality or intentionally dishonest in its praise of America’s past wars.
The Political Assassination of Dr. David Kelly: The Post Mortem Reports By Dr. David Halpin
29 July 2013 — Global Research
Andrew Watt ended his article with the post-mortem examination being carried out by Dr Nicholas Hunt on the evening the body was found 18 July 2003.
Reading Marx in Cairo By Kaveh L Afrasiabi
29 July 2013 — Asia Times
“Every giant presupposes a dwarf … Caesar the hero leaves behind him the play-acting Octavianus.” – Karl Marx
When Egypt’s new strongman, General Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, called on his supporters to show their solidarity with the army on Friday (July 26), the 57th anniversary of nationalization of the Suez Canal by the charismatic Gamal Abdel Nasser, this author’s instinct reaction was to re-read Karl Marx’s 18th Brumaire of Louis Napoleon for the sake of historical analogy. [1]
The New Dark Age 