October 2013
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Information Clearing House 31 October 2013: “Peace Is War: Negotiations, Israeli Settler Colonialism, and the Palestinians”
31 October 2013 — Information Clearing House Empire Under Obama Counterinsurgency, Death Squads, and the Population as the Target By Andrew Gavin Marshall We can have Empire, or we can have Humanity. The choice is yours. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article36702.htm Continue reading
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G4S guard bludgeoned woman to death By Clare Sambrook
Last November a 42 year-old pharmaceutical worker from Thailand took part in a conference about HIV treatment at Glasgow’s Clyde Auditorium. Her name was Khanokporn Satjawat. A G4S guard checked Satjawat’s ID. He didn’t like her manner. Later he followed her into the toilets and bludgeoned her to death with a fire extinguisher. Continue reading
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Black Agenda Report for Oct 30, 2013: Wall St. vs Detroit / Military Takeover Chicago / Black Faces for White People
30 October 2013 — Black Agenda Report This week in Black Agenda Report Detroit Will be Democracy’s Decisive Battle by BAR executive editor Glen FordDetroit is the battleground chosen by Wall Street to crush the last vestiges of American democracy by creating “the template for direct corporate rule.” Finance capital recognizes that it can no Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 30 October 2013: Israel's twisted logic in keeping EU legislators out of Gaza
30 October 2013 — VTJP News International Middle East Media CenterErekat: Abbas Never Accepted A Transitional Solution IMEMC – [Wednesday October 30, 2013] Chief Palestinian Negotiator, Dr. Saeb Erekat, stated that Palestinian President, Mahmoud Abbas, never accepted a transitional solution to the conflict, and will never abandon the legitimate Palestinian rights. … Continue reading
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Got His Gun — Lost His Legs, Arms, Penis By David Swanson
Ann Jones’ new book, They Were Soldiers: How the Wounded Return from America’s Wars — The Untold Story, is devastating, and almost incomprehensibly so when one considers that virtually all of the death and destruction in U.S. wars is on the other side. Statistically, what happens to U.S. troops is almost nothing. In human terms,… Continue reading
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Media Lens: Launchpad For A Revolution? Russell Brand, The BBC And Elite Power By David Cromwell
When someone with interesting things to say is granted a high-profile media platform, it is wise to listen to what is being said and ask why they have been given such a platform. Comedian and actor Russell Brand’s 10-minute interview by Jeremy Paxman on BBC’s Newsnight last week was given considerable advance publicity and generated… Continue reading
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Mythbuster: Health warning By Jacky Davis
By repackaging privatisation as ‘reform’, the government has tried to sell voters the idea of dismantling the health service. Jacky Davis exposes the main marketing myths behind the NHS giveaway Continue reading
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VTJP Occupied Palestine and Israel: News and Articles 28 October 2013
28 October 2013 — VTJP News International Middle East Media CenterIsraeli Forces Arrest 2 PLC Members and 20 Other Palestinians Affiliated to HamasIMEMC – The Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR) strongly condemns the Israeli forces’ detention of 2 Members of the Palestinian Legislative Council (PLC) from the Change and Reform Bloc of Hamas: Nizar Abdul Continue reading
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VTJP Occupied Palestine and Israel: News and Articles 29 October 2013
29 October 2013 — VTJP News International Middle East Media CenterPalestinian Negotiators Provide Document Of Stances Regarding Core IssuesIMEMC – Israeli sources reported that Palestinian negotiators submitted to their Israeli counterparts a document representing the Palestinian stances regarding talks on final status core issues. … Continue reading
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Statewatch News Online, 28 October 2013 (18/13): full background coverage on EU-UK-USA Data Surveillance
28 October 2013 — Statewatch News Online, 28 October 2013 (18/13) Home page: http://www.statewatch.org/ e-mail: office@statewatch.org Continue reading
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Information Clearing House 28 October 2013: Please Tell Me, Mr President, Why a US Drone Assassinated my Mother
28 October 2013 — Information Clearing House Playing Hard to Get in the Middle East By Stephen M. Walt A balance of power (or if you prefer, balance of threat) approach to the Middle East also highlights the costs of America’s “special relationships” with Israel and Saudi Arabia. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article36671.htm Continue reading
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Information Clearing House 27 October 2013: Stasi Meets Steve Jobs
27 October 2013 — Information Clearing House American Hegemony is Over: The Bully Has Been Subdued. By Israel Shamir The most dramatic event of September 2013 was the high-noon stand-off near the Levantine shore, with five US destroyers pointing their Tomahawks towards Damascus and facing them – the Russian flotilla of eleven ships led by the Continue reading
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Statewatch News Online, 28 October 2013 (17/13): EU rules on maritime rescue: Member States quibble while migrants drown
28 October 2013 — Statewatch News Online, 28 October 2013 (17/13) Home page: http://www.statewatch.org/ e-mail: office@statewatch.org EU “SEARCH & RESCUE Continue reading
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Joe Henderson Trio: ‘Ask Me Now’
This is a performance of Thelonious Monk’s “Ask Me Now,” off of the album “Solo Monk.” Stuttgart, Germany, 1993. Joe Henderson, a tenor saxophonist, leads the trio, in the rendition. Dave Holland is joining him on bass and drummer Al Foster. Continue reading
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Global Research Week in Review 27 October 2013: Fukushima Fraud and the Monopolization of the Biosphere
27 October 2013 — Global Research The Real Reason U.S. Targets Whistleblowers, Washington’s Blog, October 27, 2013 Continue reading
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VTJP Occupied Palestine and Israel: News and Articles 26 October 2013
26 October 2013 — VTJP News International Middle East Media CenterSettlers, Soldiers, Invaded Qaryout Village, Near NablusIMEMC – [Saturday at dawn October 26, 2013] Dozens of Israeli soldiers invaded Qaryout village, south of the northern West bank city of Nablus, shortly after extremist settlers invaded the village. … Continue reading
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VTJP Occupied Palestine and Israel: News and Articles 27 October 2013
27 October 2013 — VTJP News International Middle East Media CenterSettlers Burn Olive Saplings, Trees, South Of BethlehemIMEMC – [Sunday Morning October 27, 2013] A number of extremist Israeli settlers, burnt dozens of Palestinian olive saplings, and trees, that belong to residents of the Al-Khader town, south of the West Bank city of Bethlehem. … Continue reading
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Information Clearing House 26 October 2013: Partnership Between Facebook and Police Could Make Planning Protests Impossible
26 October 2013 — Information Clearing House What a Surprise: U.S.-Based Iran “Experts” Promoting Israeli Policy By Flynt Leverett and Hillary Mann Leverett Who is the author of this Op Ed? An AIPAC spokesperson? One of the many neocon firebrands to whom the Washington Post long ago turned over its Op Ed page? http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article36658.htm Continue reading
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Police State UK: ‘Press handling with talking heads’: Snowden files reveal enormous GCHQ efforts to escape legal challenge
The UK’s spy agency GCHQ was doing whatever it could to avoid igniting a “damaging public debate” and a subsequent possibility of a legal threat over its surveillance practices and cooperation with telecoms, new Snowden papers reveal. Continue reading
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