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
30 October 2013 — Our Kingdom
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.
30 October 2013 — Black Agenda Report
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford30 October 2013 — VTJP
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Erekat: 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. …
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27 October 2013 — 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, it’s overwhelming.
30 October 2013 — Media Lens
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 enormous reaction on social media and in the press, just as those media gatekeepers who selected Brand to appear would have wished.
29 October 2013 — Red Pepper
28 October 2013 — VTJP
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International Middle East Media Center
Israeli Forces Arrest 2 PLC Members and 20 Other Palestinians Affiliated to Hamas
IMEMC – 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 Aziz Abdul Hamid Ramadan (53); and Mohammed Maher Yusef Bader (55), both from Hebron, in addition to 20 other Palestinians. …
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29 October 2013 — VTJP
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International Middle East Media Center
Palestinian Negotiators Provide Document Of Stances Regarding Core Issues
IMEMC – Israeli sources reported that Palestinian negotiators submitted to their Israeli counterparts a document representing the Palestinian stances regarding talks on final status core issues. …
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28 October 2013 — Statewatch News Online, 28 October 2013 (18/13)
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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
28 October 2013 — The Guardian
With General Alexander calling for NSA reporting to be halted, US and UK credibility as guardians of press freedom is crushed
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 carrier-killer Missile Cruiser Moskva and supported by Chinese warships.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article36668.htm
28 October 2013 — Statewatch News Online, 28 October 2013 (17/13)
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27 October 2013 — Jazz on the Tube
The great Joe Hnderson performs 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.
27 October 2013 — Global Research
The Real Reason U.S. Targets Whistleblowers, Washington’s Blog, October 27, 2013 Continue reading
26 October 2013 — VTJP
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International Middle East Media Center
Settlers, Soldiers, Invaded Qaryout Village, Near Nablus
IMEMC – [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. …
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27 October 2013 — VTJP
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Settlers Burn Olive Saplings, Trees, South Of Bethlehem
IMEMC – [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
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
26 October 2013 — RT
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.
The New Dark Age 