November 8, 2013
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Video: Robert Altman’s “Moten Swing”
Kansas City native Robert Altman left behind a marvelous body of work, but for us this has to be the cream of the crop. He hired top contemporary jazz musicians to re-create the look, feel and sound of Kansas City in the 1930s. Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 7 November 2013
7 November 2013 — VTJP News International Middle East Media CenterPCHR Calls for Investigation into Death Palestinian Prisoner in Israeli HospitalIMEMC – The Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR) calls for an immediate and independent investigation into the circumstances of the death of a Palestinian prisoner, Hassan al-Turabi, in Affoula Hospital inside Israel on Tuesday, Continue reading
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Police State UK: The National Security State – grilling wouldn’t scare a puppy
As feared, yesterday’s “grilling” consisted of friendly and open-ended questions – resulting in few specific answers and barely anything not already on the public record. These public servants presided over blanket surveillance of the entire population without public, parliamentary or democratic mandate. Yet they faced questioning that wouldn’t have scared a puppy. Continue reading
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Fukushima: We’re In The Most Dangerous Moment Since the Cuban Missile Crisis
Award-winning scientist David Suzuki says that Fukushima is terrifying, Tepco and the Japanese government are lying through their teeth, and Fukushima is “the most terrifying situation I can imagine”. Continue reading
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Information Clearing House 7 November 2013: Torture on Tape: Disturbing Video Shows U.S. Special Forces
7 November 2013 — Information Clearing House Torture on Tape: Disturbing Video Shows U.S. Special Forces Observing Brutal Afghan Interrogation Video A video just posted online shows a hogtied prisoner being whipped by Afghan security forces, as what appears to be two unidentified American military officers look on. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article36785.htm Continue reading
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Black Agenda Report for Friday, Nov 9, 2013: Detroit As Dred Scott, Saving the White Man, AFRICOM Riding High
8 November 2013 — Black Agenda Report Friday, Nov. 8: This week in Black Agenda Report Detroit as Dred Scott by BAR executive editor Glen Ford The bum-rush to bankrupt Detroit is the leading legal edge in Wall Street’s drive to declare Black urban dwellers “beings of an inferior order” with no rights that Capital Continue reading
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The Anti-Empire Report #122 By William Blum: NSA / The United Nations vote on the Cuba embargo – 22 years in a row / Let’s not repeat the Barack fuckup with Hillary
7 November 2013 — The Anti-Empire Report National Security Agency – The only part of the government that really listens to what you have to say The New York Times (November 2) ran a long article based on NSA documents released by Edward Snowden. One of the lines that most caught my attention concerned “Sigint” – Continue reading
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PAMBAZUKA NEWS 653 8 November 2013: SPECIAL ISSUE: KWAME TURE AND THE AFRICAN REVOLUTION TODAY
8 November 2013 — Pambazuka News The authoritative electronic weekly newsletter and platform for social justice in AfricaPambazuka News is delivered free to you with the support of donations from Friends of Pambazuka. Continue reading
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Wounds of Class By Mark Fisher
Knowing that you’re common, not good enough, not one of the decent people. That for some obscure reason despite all your work and care, being a good parent, educating your children, paying your taxes and scrimping and saving you should be ashamed, not of what you have done or failed to do but of what… Continue reading
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The spread of social blindness: migrants & the immigration Bill By Dexter Dias
The vans have stopped rolling, the posters have been taken down, the police have been forced to apologise. But something of importance has been revealed. For this group of cultural signals are wind chimes. Chimes that have been set in motion by the torrent of rhetoric swirling around the Immigration Bill, which received its Second… Continue reading
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Denied work, Britain’s poor have become ‘untermensch’ By Tony Gosling
Millions of hardworking families can no longer afford a social life, shoes for their children, to go swimming or to the cinema. Not satisfied with their seventh home, brace of sports cars and servants, the rich are paying Tory politicians, press and the City to grind the faces of Britain’s poor into the dirt. Continue reading
The New Dark Age 