October 2013
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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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Repeal Schedule 7 of the Terrorism Act!
Schedule 7 allows for people to be detained for nine hours, fingerprinted, strip searched and asked questions without a right of access to a lawyer. It can be exercised without the need for any grounds to suspect the person is involved in terrorism, or any other criminal activity. This means it can be used against… Continue reading
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Listen to Your Ancestors By William Bowles
I am a big fan of history. Ever since I was a kid, history fascinated me and perhaps in another life I might well have become a historian. And, in an age where history gets rewritten by the corporate media hour by hour, day by day, understanding where we come from and how we got… Continue reading
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NATO’s Worldwide Expansion in the Post-Cold World Era
One of the most significant developments of the post-Cold War era, and certainly the most ominous, is the transformation of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), a military bloc created by the United States during the genesis of the Cold War in 1949, into one that has grown to encompass the entirety of Europe, has… Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine-Israel Newslinks 13 October 2013: Court denial of Israeli nationality reinforces discrimination
13 October 2013 — VTJP News International Middle East Media CenterPalestinian village continuously inhabited for 3,000 about to be destroyed by IsraelIMEMC – The Israeli High Court is set to rule on the forced expulsion of all of the residents of the village of Khirbat Zanuta, southwest of Hebron in the southern West Bank on Monday. … Continue reading
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Information Clearing House 13 October 2013: Arafat Poisoned With Polonium 210? The Lancet
13 October 2013 — Information Clearing House Post-Intervention Libya: A Militia State By Richard Falk The seizure of al-Libi and the subsequent kidnapping of the prime minister may be metaphors of what ‘governance’ in Libya has come to signify. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article36513.htm Continue reading
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Statewatch News Online, 14 October 2013 (16/13): EU-USA Data Surveillance
14 October 2013 — Statewatch – e-mail: office@statewatch.org e-mail on EU-USA: DATA SURVEILLANCE follow later : See Observatory: http://www.statewatch.org/eu-usa-data-surveillance.htm 1. EU: SEARCH & RESCUE AT SEA: WILL ALL EU MEMBER STATES TAKE RESPONSIBILITY? Continue reading
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Media Lens: Where Journalism Collides With State ‘Security’: BBC News, MI5 And The Mantra Of ‘Keeping People Safe’ By David Cromwell
In our May 13 media alert we highlighted how the state, and a compliant media, relentlessly raise fears of the ‘shadows and threats’ that supposedly assail us. Continue reading
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GR Week in Review 13 October 2013: Libyan Chaos and Nuclear Disaster
13 October 2013 — Global Research Obscuring the Details: A Panoramic Look at America’s Case Against Syria, Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya, October 13, 2013 Continue reading
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‘The bra is a security threat’: Harassment and interrogation at Ben Gurion airport By Anonymous
Anonymous is 21 years old and lives in Berkeley, California. Her father is a Jordanian Palestinian and her mother is a British Jew. The following trip took place in September, 2013. Continue reading
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Global Protest: ‘March Against Monsanto’ – Live Updates
RT is providing live updates on what started as a small event back on May 25, but has turned into a global campaign – with over 2 million people in 436 cities, across 52 countries… Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine-Israel Newslinks 12 October 2013: As Egypt’s army fights its own civilians, Israel is on the verge of annexing Sinai
12 October 2013 — VTJP News International Middle East Media CenterIsrael To Build 1500 Units For Settlers In Occupied JerusalemIMEMC – Israeli sources have reported that bids for the construction of 793 new settlement units will be announced soon, as part of a plan to build 1500 new units in a number of Jewish settlements in the… Continue reading
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More on Nigeria’s Hidden History By William Bowles
This particular history haunts Africa to this day and one that the British Establishment have yet to pay for, for it resulted in the deaths of millions and almost led to the break-up of Nigeria. The results determined the nature of the Nigeria of today including all the talk about post-colonial ‘corruption’. And, it should… Continue reading
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The Nobel 'Peace Prize': A Sick Joke And A Demented Fraud By Professor Francis A. Boyle
This past week, we saw the mouthpiece of Imperialism, the Norwegian Nobel Committee award its ‘Peace Prize’ to the UN’s Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW), before it’s even completed its work (if it ever will or can)! Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine-Israel Newslinks 11 October 2013
11 October 2013 — VTJP News International Middle East Media CenterIsraeli Reserve Colonel Killed In Jordan Valley SettlementIMEMC – [Thursday at night October 10 2013] Israeli daily, Haaretz, has reported that an Israeli reserve officer settler was killed outside his home in the Brosh Habika illegal Israeli settlement in the occupied Jordan Valley. … Continue reading
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Luxembourg NSA dragnet hauls in Skype for investigation – report
Once heralded as a communication tool free from eavesdropping, Skype is now reportedly under scrutiny for secretly and voluntarily handing over personal data on users to government agencies. Continue reading
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Video: Genetically Modified Foods and PR Wars: Fighting Against Biotech Giants By James Corbett
In the face of yet more scientific evidence of the adverse health effects of genetically modified foods, country after country is working to ban, limit or restrict the cultivation and testing of GM crops. Continue reading
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Video: Media Camouflage – Monsanto’s Alleged Cancer-Causing Additives to Milk By Brasscheck TV
When it comes to food, it would be in your best interest to realize that you are being lied to on a daily basis. If a big company grows it, processes it and sells it, then it’s probably garbage that you’d be better off not consuming. In some cases, this problem goes far beyond “garbage”… Continue reading
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Strategic Culture Foundation 6-12 October 2013
12 October 2013 — Strategic Culture Foundation US: Debts and Back Up 12.10.2013 | 00:00 | Valentin KATASONOV The published piece called America’s Debt: Upper and Lower Tips of Iceberg offers a wide range of assessments to determine the size of US debt. Today the country has to raise the debt ceiling again, otherwise the United States will… Continue reading
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Top Websites Secretly Track Your Device Fingerprint
Websites that really want to track you without permission have a way. A new report shows a surprising number of top Internet websites using so-called “device fingerprints” to secretly track visitors—a method that avoids legal limits on the use of cookies and also ignores the Do Not Track HTTP header. Continue reading