8 August 2013 — Strategic Culture Foundation
It’s the diplomatic equivalent of the proverbial spoiled child picking up the ball and walking off in a huff – because the others “won’t play by my rules”.
Day: August 8, 2013
Enemies of the People: Georgina Rinehart By Branford Perry
8 August 2013 — Hipokrisy Monitor
Get to know your ruling class!
In the huge barrel of plutocratic arrogance rotten apples don’t come much bigger than Gina Rinehart, the cantankerous, cheap, and mean-spirited Australian mining heiress for whom Randian hyper individualism and the law of the jungle come as naturally as breathing.
Connections Between Michael Hastings, Edward Snowden And Barrett Brown—The War With The Security State By Christian Stork
8 August 2013 — WhoWhatWhy
At the time of his death in a mysterious one-car crash and explosion, journalist Michael Hastings was researching a story that threatened to expose powerful entities and government-connected figures. That story intersected with the work of two controversial government critics—the hacker Barrett Brown and the on-the-run surveillance whistleblower Edward Snowden.
The Challenge of Sustainable Development and the Culture of Substantive Equality By István Mészáros
December 2001 — Monthly Review
is author of Socialism or Barbarism: From the “American Century” to the Crossroads (Monthly Review Press, 2001), and Beyond Capital: Toward a Theory of Transition (Monthly Review Press, 1995).
Paying for private failure in England’s NHS – again By Caroline Molloy
8 August 2013 — Our NHS
The NHS is paying millions to a failed private Treatment Centre to escape a contract after a series of patient deaths – and the figures don’t quite add up.
VTJP Palestine-Israel Newslinks 7 August 2013
7 August 2013 — VTJP
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International Middle East Media Center
Tel Aviv Sets Timeframe For Releasing 104 Detainees
IMEMC – The Israeli Government has officially announced a timeframe for the release of 104 Palestinian detainees, imprisoned since before the first Oslo peace accord was signed in 1993, and said that the detainees will be released in four stages, starting next week, and ending in eight months of direct talks. …
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ICH 7 August 2013: US; The Real Global Terror Alert
7 August 2013 — Information Clearing House
A Familiar Script in Egypt
By Sarah Gold
Anyone who thinks military rule bends toward democracy in Egypt has misread the country’s history.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article35779.htm
Pump and pray: Tepco might have to pour water on Fukushima wreckage forever By Professor Christopher Busby
8 August 2013 — Russia Today
‘Anyone living within 1km of the coast near to at least 200km north or south of Fukushima should get out. It is not eating the fish and shellfish that gets you – it’s breathing.’
Fukushima is a nightmare disaster area, and no one has the slightest idea what to do. The game is to prevent the crippled nuclear plant from turning into an “open-air super reactor spectacular” which would result in a hazardous, melted catastrophe. On April 25, 2011 – one month after the explosions at the Fukushima nuclear plant and the anniversary of Chernobyl – I was interviewed by RT and asked to compare Chernobyl and Fukushima. The clip, which you can find on YouTube, was entitled, “Can’t seal Fukushima like Chernobyl – it all goes into the sea.” Continue reading
Does the BBC not trust US intelligence on Iran? By David Morrison and Peter Oborne
8 August 2013 — Our Kingdom
If the BBC wants to speculate on Iranian nuclear capabilities and the potential for conflict, why is it ignoring the clear consensus of US intelligence, and for what purpose?
Nazareth Illit mayor says, ‘If you think I’m a racist, then Israel is a racist state’ By Adam Horowitz
8 August 2013 — Mondoweiss
Shimon Gapso is back on the scene. You might remember Gapso made headlines in April when he published a broadside on Facebook promising to continue the “daily struggle” of keeping Nazareth Illit “Jewish Forever!” Nazareth Illit was established in the 1950s overlooking the Palestinian city of Nazareth to promote the Judaization of the Galilee.
Video: The Great Rift: Capitalism and the metabolism of nature and production John Bellamy Foster
7 August 2013 — MRZine
John Bellamy Foster: We need a society that is geared, as István Mészáros always tells us, to substantive equality. And no compromise on the issue of equality. Bolívar said equality is the law of laws. So we need substantive equality and we need ecological sustainability. And they have to go together. How do we know they have to go together? Because what is causing the ecological damage and what is causing the social damage is the same thing: it’s the rift in the production system; it’s the alienation of nature, which is one with the alienation of human society. Continue reading
NSA Defenders Take to the Airwaves By Peter Hart
7 August 2013 — FAIR Blog
The vague-yet-apparently-very-serious intelligence about a possible Al-Qaeda attack became a big issue on the Sunday chat shows–and a chance for supporters of National Security Agency (NSA) surveillance programs to claim that the agency’s controversial tactics are working.
Billion-pound NHS contract offered to private health care providers By Joan Smith and Paul Mitchell
8 August 2013 — WSWS
The biggest ever contract for the sell-off of public health services in England, worth between £700 million to £1.1 billion, is being offered to private health care providers by the Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) as part of its “Older People’s Programme”. From July 2014, six National Health Service (NHS) contracts that include four hospital trusts, one mental health trust and one community service trust will be replaced.
The New Dark Age 