26 October 2013 — Our NHS
The House of Lords has blown a hole in local people’s right to have a say if their hospital is closed – all eyes are now on the Commons.
Month: October 2013
‘Go Home’ texts expose racist, anti-migrant British policy to the world By Les Back and Shamser Sinha
26 October 2013 — Our Kingdom
Last week two London academics exposed a racist government blunder, sparking international embarrassment and a statement from the Prime Minister. A small victory in the jaws of defeat, they say. Here is their report on one week in anti-immigrant times.
VTJP Occupied Palestine and Israel: News and Articles 25 October 2013
25 October 2013 — VTJP
News
International Middle East Media Center
Remains Of 36 Palestinians To Be Released
IMEMC – The Israeli government decided to release the remains of 36 Palestinians, buried at the numbers graveyard. The remains are for Palestinians involved in bombings and attacks; the decision angered the families of Israelis killed in those attacks. …
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VTJP Palestine-Israel Newslinks 24 October 2013: U.S. Jews Battle Over Blumenthal’s 'Goliath'
24 October 2013 — VTJP
News
International Middle East Media Center
Kerry Asks Netanyahu To “Advance Talks”
IMEMC – U.S Secretary of State, John Kerry, held on Wednesday [October 23, 2013] a seven-hour meeting with Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, in Rome, and urged him to advance peace talks with the Palestinians, especially on core issues. The two also discussed the “Iranian file”. …
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VTJP Palestine-Israel Newslinks 23 October 2013: Palestinians Entitled to Defend Themselves
23 October 2013 — VTJP
News
International Middle East Media Center
Palestinian Child Injured By Settlers In Nablus
IMEMC – Palestinian sources have reported that a number of extremist Israeli settlers attacked, late on Tuesday at night, a Palestinian child after breaking into her family s home, in Burin village, south of the northern west Bank City of Nablus. …
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VTJP Palestine-Israel Newslinks 22 October 2013: PHOTOS: Eid Al-Adha in Area C
22 October 2013 — VTJP
News
International Middle East Media Center
Settlers Flood Farmlands With Sewage Water
IMEMC – [Tuesday October 22, 2013] A number of extremist Israeli settlers used sewage water to flood Palestinian farmlands in the Al-Khader town, south of the West bank city of Bethlehem. …
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Information Clearing House 24 October 2013: NSA Monitored Calls of 35 World Leaders After US Official Handed Over Contacts
24 October 2013 — Information Clearing House
Marines ‘Murdered Man Live on Camera’:
By Kim Sengupta
Court martial sees graphic footage of ‘execution’ of injured Taliban fighter.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article36640.htm
Information Clearing House 23 October 2013: Drone Victims Recount Horror of Follow-Up Strikes Launched Against People Rescuing Wounded
23 October 2013 — Information Clearing House
US is Fighting in Yemen’s Civil War
By Ryan Goodman
The president is waging a secret war in Yemen, and it’s time for him to come clean.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article36620.htm
Melted Nuclear Fuel Sank into the Ground under Fukushima Reactors. Irradiated Groundwater Flowing into Ocean, “it’s too Late to do Anything about This” : Japan Journalist
24 October 2013 — ENE News
According to Kyunghyang Shinmun (Major daily newspaper in South Korea –Source), Oct. 21, 2013:
Japan‘s Prime Minister Abe Shinzo, promoting Tokyo as the site for the 2020 Summer Olympics, said to the International Olympic Committee: “Some may have concerns about Fukushima. Let me assure you, the situation is under control. It has never done and will never do any damage to Tokyo.” […] To [journalist Hirose Takashi], Abe‘s words were a bald-faced lie. Continue reading
“The struggle to tell the truth through stories”: An interview with British film and television producer Tony Garnett—Part 2
24 October 2013 — WSWS
In a retrospective this summer, “Seeing Red,” the British Film Institute celebrated the work of veteran film and television producer Tony Garnett. The BFI described Garnett as one of television’s “most influential figures,” who “produced and fostered a succession of provocative, radical and sometimes incendiary dramas.”
Victims of Haiti cholera epidemic sue the United Nations By John Marion
24 October 2013 — WSWS
On October 9, a lawsuit was filed against the United Nations in the US federal court for the southern district of New York by lawyers from the Bureau des Avocats Internationaux, the Institute for Justice and Democracy in Haiti, and a Miami law firm. The suit, brought on behalf of the families of five victims of the Haitian cholera epidemic, seeks class action status for all victims of the epidemic, which to date has caused at least 8,300 deaths and left more than 679,000 sick.
UK Labour seeks to outdo Conservatives with right-wing policies By Jordan Shilton
24 October 2013 — WSWS
Labour is intensifying its rightward shift and is seeking to outdo the Conservative-Liberal coalition on every area of government policy.
Black Agenda Report for Oct 23, 2013: Black Homeland Security Chief / Remember Grenada Invasion / Forgiving White People
23 October 2013 — Black Agenda Report
This week in Black Agenda Report
By BAR managing editor Bruce A. DixonThe Department of Homeland Security is a secretive, lawless, largely privatized police and surveillance agency, with its own prisons and soon, its own drones. Now it’s headed by a black man, a progressive Democrat, a Morehouse man & Pentagon lawyer who invokes Dr. King as patron saint for murderous US global empire, a certifiable member of the black misleadership class. Continue reading
Video: Growing Up Black in American Apartheid – Glen Ford Pt1
23 October 2013 — The Real News Network
On Reality Asserts Itself with Paul Jay: Glen Ford, Executive Editor of Black Agenda Report, tells his story as a red-diaper baby, growing up facing racism in the North living with his white activist mother, and living in the Deep South with his black deejay father. (inc. transcript) Continue reading
28 Signs That The West Coast of the US Is Being Absolutely Fried With Nuclear Radiation From Fukushima
21 October 2013 — The Truth
The map below comes from the Nuclear Emergency Tracking Center. It shows that radiation levels at radiation monitoring stations all over the country are elevated. As you will notice, this is particularly true along the west coast of the United States. Every single day, 300 tons of radioactive water from Fukushima enters the Pacific Ocean. That means that the total amount of radioactive material released from Fukushima is constantly increasing, and it is steadily building up in our food chain. Ultimately, all of this nuclear radiation will outlive all of us by a very wide margin. Continue reading
“The struggle to tell the truth through stories”: An interview with British film and television producer Tony Garnett—Part 1
23 October 2013 — WSWS
In a retrospective this summer, “Seeing Red,” the British Film Institute (BFI) celebrated the work of veteran film and television producer Tony Garnett. The BFI described Garnett as one of television’s “most influential figures,” who “produced and fostered a succession of provocative, radical and sometimes incendiary dramas.” Continue reading
Video: Girl rapper tells of sharing stairs to her Jerusalem house with Jewish settlers who flash pistols By Annie Robbins
23 October 2013 — Mondoweiss
This is a short film produced by Defence for Children Palestine. Tayma ‘Fteiha is a 13-year-old girl rapper who must share the steps to her home in Silwan, East Jerusalem, with settlers who have colonized her neighborhood and aim to demolish Palestinians houses. They flash their pistols at her as they walk up the steps. She says she feels “crushed” every time she leaves her house. Continue reading
Shock Doctrine' Americana: Endless War as the Ultimate Business Model By William Astore
22 October 2013 — TomDispatch
Disaster Capitalism on the battlefield and in the boardroom
New Kind of War Is Being Legalized By David Swanson
22 October 2013 — War Is A Crime
There’s a dark side to the flurry of reports and testimony on drones, helpful as they are in many ways. When we read that Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch oppose drone strikes that violate international law, some of us may be inclined to interpret that as a declaration that, in fact, drone strikes violate international law. On the contrary, what these human rights groups mean is that some drone strikes violate the law and some do not, and they want to oppose the ones that do.
Media Lens: Journalist Or Activist? Smearing Glenn Greenwald By David Edwards
22 October 2013 — Media Lens
Modern thought control is dependent on subliminal communication. Messages influencing key perceptions are delivered unseen, unnoticed, with minimal public awareness of what is happening or why.
The New Dark Age 