October 2013
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Your address book belongs to the NSA
NSA stealing e-mail contact lists too – the revelations just keep coming Continue reading
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Now NATO is getting in on the digital snooping racket
Why is it compulsory that the state, or this case the military confab known as NATO, to have to hijack all of our digital devices throughout Europe? Is it even legal? Continue reading
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New at Strategic Culture Foundation 13-19 October 2013
19 October 2013 — Strategic Culture Foundation Washington Casts Blame for Expansion of Al-Qaeda on Turkey 19.10.2013 | 00:00 | Dmitry MININ It is no longer possible to conceal the obvious. The West, in its attempts to remove Bashar al-Asad from power during the years of the war in Syria, has nurtured a force so sinister Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine-Israel Newslinks 17 October 2013: It’s Time to Put an End to Israel’s “Don’t ask-don’t tell” Nuclear Policy
17 October 2013 — VTJP News International Middle East Media CenterPeace Now: “Settlement Construction Rises By 70%”IMEMC – Israeli Peace Now movement issued a report on Israeli settlement construction and expansion activities, and revealed that settlement construction increased by %70 in the period between January and June 2013. … Continue reading
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Information Clearing House 17 October 2013: The Forgotten Story Of Iran Air Flight 655
17 October 2013 — Information Clearing House West Toxic Lie On Syria Exposed By Finian Cunningham Western propaganda lies evidently have a memory problem. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article36555.htm Continue reading
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Video: Manufacturing Dissent: The Covert War on Syria By Lizzie Phelan and Mostafa Afzalzadeh
Manufacturing Dissent is a feature about the psychological-warfare by the media and political establishment of the west and their allies aimed at facilitating the US, European and Israeli agenda of getting rid of the current Syrian government. It demonstrates how the media has directly contributed to the bloodshed in Syria. Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine-Israel Newslinks 16 October 2013
16 October 2013 — VTJP News International Middle East Media CenterSources: “Egyptian Army Opens Fire At Palestinians in Rafah”IMEMC – [Wednesday October 16, 2013] The Palestine Now News Agency has reported that Egyptian soldiers opened fires at the Palestinian side near the border area in Rafah, in the southern part of the Gaza Strip. … Continue reading
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Video: Nuclear Danger: World Action Now on Fukushima By grtv
Journalist, author, activist and historian Harvey Wasserman has been reporting on, and participating in, the nuclear free movement for decades. In that time, by his judgment, only one other event matches the danger to the world posed by the Cuban Missile Crisis. That event is the ongoing nuclear disaster at Fukushima. Continue reading
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“Intelligence Led Surveillance” and Britain’s Police State: The Manufacture of “Mass Surveillance by Consent” By Charles Farrier
In the dark ages known as the twentieth century, mass surveillance of entire populations was a sport practised only by elitist totalitarian states . Those unlucky enough to live in what was then termed a “free country”, had to sit on the sidelines and simply imagine what it was like to be subject to constant… Continue reading
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History Will Absolve Me: Fidel Castro, Sixty Years Later By Maximilian Forte
Today marks the 60th anniversary of Fidel Castro’s famous “History Will Absolve Me” speech, given in his defense during his trial following the unsuccessful guerrilla attack on the Moncada barracks on July 26 of that year. Continue reading
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Even the World Bank Understands Palestine is being disappeared By Jonathan Cook
Two recent images encapsulate the message behind the dry statistics of last week’s report by the World Bank on the state of the Palestinian economy. Continue reading
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Abdullah Ibrahim: ‘The Mountain / Nisa / Mississippi’
17 October 2013 — Jazz on the Tube Festival de Jazz de San Sebastian 2011. Filmed in Plaza de la Trinidad, Donosti, Spain. Beautiful music Personnel: Abdullah Ibrahim, piano, Cleave Guyton, alto sax, flute, Keith Loftis , tenor sax, Andrae Murchinson, trombone, Toni Kofi, baritone sax, Belden Bullock, bass, George Gray, drums Continue reading
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Why bad movies keep coming out and what to do about it By John Pilger
As an inveterate film fan, I turn to the listings every week and try not to lose hope. I search the guff that often passes for previews, and I queue for a ticket with that flicker of excitement reminiscent of matinees in art deco splendour. Once inside, lights down, beer in hand, hope recedes as… Continue reading
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Information Clearing House 16 October 2013: Starve the (Military) Beast
16 October 2013 — Information Clearing House US War On Iraq Claimed Half a Million Lives, Study Finds By Joseph Brownstein US Public perception of the civilian death toll from the war is in the neighborhood of 10,000. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article36540.htm Continue reading
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Video: F**k the Tories Freestyle
14 October 2013 — New Left Project This is an amazing work. Please republish. Don’t know anything about the artist except that he’s a bin man but will attempt to find out more for your delectation. See NextgenUK. Continue reading
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Black Agenda Report 16 October 2013: Was the Affordable Care Act Worth It? Did the Hip Hop Mayor Sink Detroit?
16 October 2013 — Black Agenda Report This week in Black Agenda Report Obamacare VS Single Payer – Top 10 Things the ACA Gave Us VS the Top 10 We Gave Up By BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon Most things have two prices — the price you pay outright, and the opportunity cost, the Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine-Israel Newslinks 15 October 2013: Teenagers face 25 years imprisonment for allegedly throwing stones
15 October 2013 — VTJP News International Middle East Media CenterUNICEF Publishes Report On Detained Palestinian ChildrenIMEMC – The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has reported that Israeli violations against detained Palestinian children are still ongoing, despite an alleged Israeli decision to improve their conditions, and the methods of interrogation. … Continue reading
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Information Clearing House 15 October 2013: Edward Snowden’s Brave Integrity
15 October 2013 — Information Clearing House Breaking: Iran, US Hold Direct Talks in Geneva By Al-Monitor The U.S. and Iranian nuclear negotiating teams met for one on one talks for one hour this evening, Iranian and American officials confirmed. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article36536.htm Continue reading
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NYT's Iraq War History, Still Misleading By Peter Hart
As the story goes (and was reported at the time), Bustani had been working on getting Iraq to agree to join the Chemical Weapons Convention. This was an unwelcome development for the Bush administration, since it could complicate efforts to invade Iraq based in part on its chemical weapons stockpile. Continue reading
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UK Government moves to make it easier to shut hospitals without consultation By Caroline Molloy
Amendments tabled today to the Care Bill – due to have its third reading in the Lords on Monday – give the government or Monitor the right to order any hospital they like to ‘reconfigure’ – in other words, close – with little consultation, to benefit neighbouring struggling hospitals. Continue reading
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