August 2013
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ICH 17 August 2013: Chomsky: American Power is Dangerous
17 August 2013 — Information Clearing House Bonapartism” Egypt’s Revolution After the Smoke Clears By Shamus Cooke Why would one enemy of the revolution be attacking another? http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article35888.htm Continue reading
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Video: South Africa's Largest Union on the Verge of Major Split
Patrick Bond: South Africa trade unions become magnets for capital as an ideological confict masked as a sex scandal threatens to fracture union behind the one-year-old massacre (inc. transcript) Continue reading
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New at Strategic Culture Foundation 11-17 August 2013: USA / Kosovo / Egypt / NSA – Brazil / ICC – Africa / Banking / US-Pakistan / US-Russia
17 August 2013 — Strategic Culture Foundation In Pursuit of Global Dictatorship, or When on Trial for the Truth 17.08.2013 | 00:00 | Nikolai MALISHEVSKI The Snowden affair, which captured the attention of the world’s media, somewhat overshadowed another no less important story also linked to the creation of a global system of total surveillance and… Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine-Israel Newslinks 16 August 2013: Israel’s rabbinate reflects country’s racist streak
16 August 2013 — VTJP News International Middle East Media CenterStormy Round Of Talks Held Amidst Escalating Israeli ViolationsIMEMC – Palestinian officials involved in the direct talks with Tel Aviv have reported that the latest round of direct Palestinian-Israeli talks, held late on Wednesday at night, was very stormy due to Israel’s decision to build hundreds of… Continue reading
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ICH 16 August 2013: Murdering the Wretched of the Earth – Chris Hedges
16 August 2013 — Information Clearing House The Muslim Brotherhood’s Silent Martyrs Lie Soaked In Blood By Robert Fisk Some had chosen to see the dead – that ultimate statement – in all their reality. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article35876.htm Continue reading
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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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‘You don’t oppose settlements… once they’re built’ — AP says to State Dep’t By Philip Weiss
John Kerry’s statement that settlements are illegitimate has opened up new lines of questioning about US foreign policy. Continue reading
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Black Agenda Report for 14 August 2013: Holder & Obama Playing Us on Drug War, Massive Resistance to Stop & Frisk Ruling, Fukushima
14 August 2013 — Black Agenda Report This week in Black Agenda Report Holder & Obama Are Playing Us On Mandatory Minimums, the Drug War and Mass Incarceration by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon Once or twice a year Eric Holder and/or the president discover police brutality, racial profiling, or the injustice of the… Continue reading
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Pambazuka-news Digest, Vol 277, Issue 2: Pambazuka News 643: Economies of misery, genetically modified colonialisms and Trayvon
15 August 2013 — Pambazuka News PAMBAZUKA NEWS 643: ECONOMIES OF MISERY, GENETICALLY MODIFIED COLONIALISMS AND TRAYVON The authoritative electronic weekly newsletter and platform for social justice in Africa Pambazuka News is delivered free to you with the support of donations from Friends of Pambazuka. Continue reading
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