7 August 2013 — Black Agenda Report
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford5 August 2013 — AlJazeera
7 August 2013 — WSWS
US drones launched missiles at vehicles carrying four men, alleged to be members of Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, in Yemen’s Marib province early Tuesday. The attack was the latest development in the global terror alert announced by the Obama administration last Friday. On Monday, the administration indicated that the alleged terror plot was centered in Yemen.
7 August 2013 — Mondoweiss
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.
7 August 2013 — Black Agenda Report
Rwandan Warlord Kagame Threatens Neighbors and UN Force
A Black Agenda Radio commentary by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
“Kagame must give up his delusional dreams of invading Tanzania.”
7 August 2013 — Jazz on the Tube
Misty/I Want to Talk’ performed by the fantastic Rahsaan Roland Kirk at the Montreux Jazz Festival, 1972.
7 August 2013 — Andrew Gavin Marshall – Originally published at The Hampton Institute
America’s Mambo with Mubarak
America’s ruling elites – and those of the Western world more generally – are comfortable dealing with ruthless tyrants and dictators all over the world, partly because they’ve just had more practice with it than dealing with ‘democratic’ governments in so-called ‘Third World’ nations. This is especially true when it comes to the Arab world, where the West has only ever dealt with dictatorships, and often by arming them and supporting them to repress their own populations, and in return, they support US and Western geopolitical, strategic and economic interests in the region. America’s relationship with Egypt – and most notably with Hosni Mubarak, who ruled Egypt from 1981 to 2011 – has been especially revealing of this imperial-proxy relationship between so-called ‘democracies’ and dictatorships. Continue reading
7 August 2013 — Links – International journal of socialist renewal
August 6, 2013 — For a good part of his 33 years in power, Robert Mugabe has presided over a ruthless dictatorship. From the thousands killed in the 1980s Gukurahundi massacres and misery for millions under ESAP [structural adjustment plan], Operation Murambatsvina and hyper-inflation of 2008.
7 August 2013 — RT
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.
7 August 2013 — RT
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.
7 August 2013 — WSWS
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.
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
7 August 2013 — The B u l l e t • Socialist Project • E-Bulletin No. 860
1 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 country into a debt colony and led its creative, social, and productive forces to marginalization.
The New Dark Age 