August 10, 2013
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Miles goes Electric: 'Milestones', 'Footprints', 'Round Midnight'
Antibes 1969. Miles goes electric with, amongst others; Wayne Shorter, Chick Corea, Dave Holland and Jack DeJohnette. Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine-Israel Newslinks 9 August 2013: Where is the BBC’s objectivity where Palestine is concerned?
9 August 2013 — VTJP News Ma’an News US: Israeli-Palestinian talks Aug. 14 in Jerusalem8/9/2013 – WASHINGTON (AFP) — Palestinian and Israeli negotiators will resume talks on ending their long-standing conflict on August 14 in Jerusalem, the US State Department said Thursday. The talks restarted last month in Washington under US mediation, and both sides agreed to Continue reading
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New at Strategic Culture Foundation 4 – 10 August 2013: USA / Greece / NSA / Drones – Pakistan / UK / Venezuela / 9/11 / Syria
10 August 2013 — Strategic Culture Foundation The War on Corruption or the Building of a Pax Americana? (II) 10.08.2013 | 13:21 | Valentin KATASONOV The scandal surrounding the revelations of Edward Snowden have made the question of why American intelligence was so active in Europe, more pointed. Without claiming to have a full answer, one Continue reading
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Seeking Compensation for Vietnamese Agent Orange Victims, 52 years on By Marjorie Cohn and Jeanne Mirer
Today marks the 52nd anniversary of the start of the chemical warfare program in Vietnam, a long time with NO without sufficient remedial action by the U.S. government. One of the most shameful legacies of the American War against Vietnam, Agent Orange continues to poison Vietnam and the people exposed to the chemicals, as well… Continue reading
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The European Union and Greece: the Murder of a Nation By Anna FILIMONOVA
At the end of July, eurozone deputy finance ministers approved another transfer of money to Greece to the tune of EUR 6.8 billion (it had previously been thought that Athens would be allocated EUR 8.1 billion). Several days earlier, meanwhile, the Greek parliament approved the latest in a series of legislative acts, the adoption of… Continue reading
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Africa: Monsanto – the Unrepentant Repeat Offender By James N. Kariuki
The uproar in Ireland over horsemeat, the narrow defeat of Proposition 37 in California which would have made it mandatory to label all food containing GMOs – reveal that Africans must now join the rest of the world in resisting GMO foods and biotechnology, no matter how effectively packaged Continue reading
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FAIR TV: Terror Alerts and the NSA, Snowden's Asylum, Covering Weiner By Peter Hart
10 August 2013 — FAIR Blog The media are using the government’s warnings about a terror attack to boost NSA surveillance. Plus media get mad about Russia’s decision to grant whistleblower Edward Snowden temporary asylum. But what’s the U.S. record on extradition? Plus ABC covers the Anthony Weiner campaign–and can’t much figure out why they’re Continue reading
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Media: Iran Has Space Program–Some See Crisis! By Peter Hart
A well-respected research group posted a short article on its website about the location of a second launchpad for Iran’s space program. That’s not big news–but it can be made to sound like scary news in the New York Times. Continue reading
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