October 2013
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Turning Blood into Money – Profiting from Killing By Vacy Vlazna
Yotam Feldman’s documentary, released in August, is one of the most important exposés of the obscene rationale and execution of Israel’s hugely lucrative arms and security industries through the voices of some of its ex-military key operators: Amos Golan, Shimon Naveh, Leo Gleser, and Yoav Galant. Continue reading
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NSA harvesting hundreds of millions of personal email contact lists – report
The National Security Agency is logging hundreds of millions of email and instant messaging contacts belonging to Americans and others around the world, according to a report based on documents provided by NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden. Continue reading
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The NHS and dog whistle politics By Kambiz Boomla 15 October 2013
The new Immigration Bill introduces hefty charges for migrants to use the NHS. It is a costly, wrong-headed insult to the migrants – like my father – on whom the NHS has always relied. Continue reading
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People’s Inquiry – a grassroots vision for our NHS? By John Lister
Campaigners fighting hospital closures, cutbacks and the erosion of mental health and other services have years of bitter experience of presenting solid, evidence-based arguments in “consultations” that ignore them and press ahead regardless. I know. In almost 30 years, I’ve been there with them too many times. Continue reading
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Welcome to Britain. Go Home. And have a pleasant journey By Les Back and Shamser Sinha
The Home Office gave Capita the mobile phone number of a leading civil rights activist. They texted him and told him to Go Home. Landlords, doctors, health visitors, teachers are being enlisted as agents of border control. What’s happening to the character of Britain? Continue reading
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Climate change: What would Frederick Engels say? By Martin O'Beirne
We had not yet destabilised the climate and trounced other planetary ecological boundaries back in 1876 when Frederick Engels wrote these passages in his unfinished The part played by labour in the transition from ape to man. But it is clear that back then Engels had established a biophilous ethic… Continue reading
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Ready to detonate: Saudi-backed rebels strap bombs to Geneva-2 talks By Nile Bowie
As Syria’s rebels refuse to take part in Geneva-2, Saudi Arabia has emerged as the primary state-backer of rebel groups now trying to escalate the Syrian conflict and topple Assad by force. Continue reading
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NYT's OPCW "He Said, She Said" Reporting Misses Major Judgement
In 2002 José Bustani, the then head of the now Nobel prized Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, was fired because his insistence on bringing Iraq into the Chemical Weapon Treaty conflicted with the war plans of the Bush administration. Continue reading
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Mining your information for big brother By Pratap Chatterjee
Big Bro is watching you. Inside your mobile phone and hidden behind your web browser are little known software products marketed by contractors to the government that can follow you around anywhere. No longer the wide-eyed fantasies of conspiracy theorists, these technologies are routinely installed in all of our data devices by companies that sell… Continue reading
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Three Duke Ellington Classics: Medley – Black and Tan Fantasy/Creole Love Call/The Mooch
16 October 2013 — Jazz on the Tube I think I could have been no more than 13 or perhaps 14 when I bought my first jazz album and it was the 1957 classic, ‘Duke Ellington Presents – The Bethlehem Years Volume 2’ made I think after his epic return to fame at the… Continue reading
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Obscuring the Details: A Panoramic Look at America’s Case Against Syria By Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya
The US federal government and the various agencies, media organizations, individuals, foreign governments, non-governmental organizations, lobbies, forces, and other entities that are tied to it have done everything in their power to obscure the details involving the chemical attacks that took place in Syria on August 21, 2013. Continue reading
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A Brave New Transatlantic Partnership: The Social and Environmental Consequences of the Proposed EU-US Trade Deal
As the second round of negotiations on the EU-US trade agreement kick off in Brussels next week, a new report published by members of the Seattle to Brussels Network (S2B), including CEO, reveals the true human and environmental costs of the proposed deal. Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine-Israel Newslinks 14 October 2013: How Israel increases its odds of international prosecution
14 October 2013 — VTJP News International Middle East Media CenterRefugees Drown As Ship Came Under Libyan FireIMEMC – The Action Group for Palestinians of Syria has reported that a ship carrying hundreds of Palestinian and Syrian refugees who fled from Syria drowned in the Mediterranean close to Libyan shores after coming under fire from Libyan side… Continue reading
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Information Clearing House 14 October 2013: How the World Health Organisation Covered Up Iraq’s Nuclear Nightmare
14 October 2013 — Information Clearing House Obscuring the Details A Panoramic Look at America’s Case Against Syria By Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya The US government and Israel want the fighting in Syria to continue as long as possible between all combating sides. Washington and Tel Aviv do not want to see anyone coming out totally victorious. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article36524.htm… Continue reading
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The Vaccine Coverup: 30 Years of Secret Official Transcripts Show UK Government Experts Cover Up Vaccine Hazards To Sell More Vaccines And Harm Your Kids” by Child Health Safety
An extraordinary new paper [March 2012] published by a courageous doctor and investigative medical researcher has dug the dirt on 30 years of secret official transcripts of meetings of UK government vaccine committees and the supposedly independent medical “experts” sitting on them with their drug industry connections. Continue reading
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Israeli Factor in Syrian Conflict Unveiled By Nicola Nasser
More than two and a half years on, Israel’s purported neutrality in the Syrian conflict and the United State’s fanfare rhetoric urging a “regime change” in Damascus were abruptly cut short to unveil that the Israeli factor has been all throughout the conflict the main concern of both countries. Continue reading
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Video: "Edward Snowden is a Patriot": Ex-NSA CIA, FBI and Justice Whistleblowers Meet Leaker in Moscow
In a Democracy Now! special, we spend the hour with four former U.S. intelligence officials — all whistleblowers themselves — who have just returned from visiting National Security Agency whistleblower Edward Snowden in Russia. They are former CIA analyst Ray McGovern, former FBI agent Coleen Rowley, former National Security Agency senior executive Thomas Drake, and… Continue reading
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