August 16, 2013
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What Do You Call Edward Snowden? By Peter Hart
On CBS Evening News (8/13/13), anchor Scott Pelley gave viewers a brief–and very misleading–update on Edward Snowden Continue reading
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Haiti: Grassroots Groups Afraid “Attractive” Mining Law Could Open Country Up to Systematic Pillage
As the government works on preparing “an attractive law that will entice investors,” Haitian popular organizations are mobilizing and forming networks to resist mining in their country. Already one-third of the north of Haiti is under research, exploration, or exploitation license to foreign companies. Some 2,400 square kilometers have been parceled out to Haitian firms… Continue reading
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Haiti “Reconstruction”: Luxury Hotels, Sweat Shops and Deregulation for the Foreign Corporate Elite By Julie Lévesque
Today, the “international community” is running Haiti again, colonial style. One can easily tell by comparing the very slow construction of shelters and basic infrastructure for the Haitian majority with the rapid rise of luxury hotels for foreigners, sometimes with the help of aid funds which, we were told, were going to provide Haitians with… Continue reading
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Pharaoh al-Sisi sits tight By M K Bhadrakumar
Both Washington and Moscow have chosen to view the Egyptian developments largely through the geopolitical prism and their respective self-interests, singularly devoid of any human compassion or political morality. Their credentials to take to the high ground on the Middle East issues – Palestine problem or Syria or the Arab Spring – have now come… Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine-Israel Newslinks 15 August 2013: The negotiations trap
15 August 2013 — VTJP News International Middle East Media CenterArmy Admits Alleged “Gaza Mall” Is In MalaysiaIMEMC – After being exposed by the Electronic Intifada, the Israeli army issued an apology for an image it published of a lavish mall, allegedly in the besieged Gaza Strip, admitting that the Mall is actually in Malaysia, and claiming Continue reading
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ICH 15 August 2013: How Congressmen Are Bought
15 August 2013 — Information Clearing House Massacre in Egypt: A Collective Crime By ORHAN MIROGLU – Once more, the West has been a bystander to murder committed by an army with which they collaborated. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article35857.htm Continue reading
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Egypt’s Junta Has Nothing to Lose By Melkulangara BHADRAKUMAR
The appointment of Robert Ford as the new American ambassador to Egypt was indeed an ominous sign that the Obama administration expected civil war conditions to arise in Egypt. Ford’s forte during his hugely successful «diplomatic» assignment in Baghdad in the middle of the last decade was to organize the notorious death squads, which tore… Continue reading
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