August 7, 2013
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Black Agenda Report for 7 August 2013: Stand Yr Ground & Beyond, Detroit: Tar Sands Hell, NSA-DEA Info Pipeline
7 August 2013 — Black Agenda Report This week in Black Agenda Report Stand Your Ground and Beyond: The Whole Criminal Justice System is Arrayed Against Blacks by BAR executive editor Glen Ford The battle against Stand Your Ground laws must be “one front in the war against the legitimacy of a criminal justice system Continue reading
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Snowden’s Asylum: ‘It’s the law, stupid’ By Richard Falk
Russia’s grant of temporary refugee status to Snowden for one year was in full accord with the normal level of protection to be given to anyone accused of nonviolent political crimes in a foreign country, writes Richard Falk Continue reading
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EU stance on settlements threatens Israeli participation in bonanza called ‘Horizon 2020′
Israel is cringing under the European Union’s “guideline” requirement– the demand by the EU to “recognize in writing that the West Bank settlements are not part of Israel.” And Israel is drawing red lines of its own. Continue reading
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Rwandan Warlord Kagame Threatens Neighbors and UN Force
Paul Kagame, the minority Tutsi warlord of Rwanda, is in a dangerous mood. For 17 years, the United States armed Kagame’s military to the teeth as Rwanda and another U.S. ally, Uganda, plundered and destabilized the Democratic Republic of Congo, killing millions in the process. However, in the face of mounting international outcry, the U.S.… Continue reading
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Rahsaan Roland Kirk – ‘Misty/I Want to Talk’
Misty/I Want to Talk’ performed by the fantastic Rahsaan Roland Kirk at the Montreux Jazz Festival, 1972. Continue reading
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Fukushima drainage has 20,000 tons of water with radioactive substance – TEPCO
Tokyo Electric Power Co. (Tepco) said on Tuesday that the drainage system of the crippled Fukushima nuclear power plant contains more than 20,000 tons of water with high levels of radioactive substances. Continue reading
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Fukushima leaking radioactive water for ‘2 years, 300 tons flowing into Pacific daily’
Contaminated water has been pouring into the Pacific Ocean from the disabled Fukushima nuclear plant for the past two years, an Industry Ministry official told reporters on Wednesday as PM Shinzo Abe pledged to step up efforts to halt the crisis. Continue reading
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British government introduces Internet censorship filters By Mark Blackwood
Complying with the dictates of the Conservative-Liberal-Democrat coalition government, the UK’s biggest Internet Service Providers (ISPs), covering 95 percent of all households, have agreed to initiate a “family-friendly” filtering system for the Internet. Smaller ISPs are expected to follow suit. The government will consider legislation if the self-regulatory agreement does not work Continue reading
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ICH 6 August 2013: Engineering Consent For Preemptive Attacks
6 August 2013 — Information Clearing House A Statement of Peace, or an Epitaph By Robert Scheer August 6 marks 68 years since the United States committed what is arguably the single gravest act of terrorism that the world has ever known. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article35770.htm Continue reading
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SYRIZA: The Great Social and Political Movement of Subversion
The Conference of the Coalition of the Radical Left (SYRIZA) is a continuity and a breakthrough in its course, which started in 2000, continued with its official founding in 2004, and was sealed when it took on the historic responsibility to deliver the Greek people from the catastrophic neoliberal memoranda policies that have turned our… Continue reading
The New Dark Age 