November 14, 2013
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PAMBAZUKA NEWS 654 14 November 2013: SEASON OF DISCONTENT: ERITREANS UNDER SIEGE, CRUSHING M23 AND IMPERIAL HYPOCRISIES
14 November 2013 — Pambazuka News The authoritative electronic weekly newsletter and platform for social justice in Africa Pambazuka News is delivered free to you with the support of donations from Friends of Pambazuka. Continue reading
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Black Agenda Report 13 November 2013: Broken Promises Min Wage / Detroit Down for Count / Justice for Renisha McBride
13 November 2913 — Black Agenda Report This week in Black Agenda Report Progressive Sheepdogs, Democrat Sheep: Broken Promises & the Minimum Wage by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon If President Obama and his party didn’t even try to deliver on their 2008 campaign promise of a minimum wage hike when they had the Continue reading
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Information Clearing House 13 November 2013: David Cameron Blocks Report that Exposes Tony Blair’s Iraq War Crimes
13 November 2013 — Information Clearing House America on the Self-Defeating Path to War By Flynt Leverett and Hillary Mann Leverett The Obama administration’s hegemonically abusive refusal to recognize Iran’s right to safeguarded enrichment is not just diplomatically and strategically counter-productive-it is illegal. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article36840.htm Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 13 November 2013
13 November 2013 — VTJP News International Middle East Media CenterMan Seriously Injured After Being Assaulted By Extremists In JerusalemIMEMC – A Palestinian man identified as Kamel Basseela, 48 years of age, was seriously injured after two Israeli extremists dropped a stone on him as he was heading to work in occupied Jerusalem. The wounded man Continue reading
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Ahmad Jamal, Idris Muhammad
Idris Muhammad (born Leo Morris) was born in New Orleans, Louisiana on November, 13, 1939. At 16, Muhammad was the drummer on Fats Domino’s 1956 hit “Blueberry Hill”. He’s been the backbone of many bands including ones led by Lou Donaldson, Johnny Griffin, Pharoah Sanders and Grover Washington, Jr. Continue reading
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Why, really, has Netanyahu put settlement expansion on hold? By Alan Hart
His own explanation was that he wants to avoid or minimise the prospects for an “unnecessary confrontation” with the international community, for which read President Obama and the European leaders who would follow his lead (with the arguable exception of the French whore). Continue reading
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Police State UK: Britain’s Surveillance State By Stephen Dorril, Tom Mills
Former NSA contractor Edward Snowden has revealed the existence of an international network of mass surveillance in which Britain’s GCHQ plays a central role, working closely with European partners, but subordinate to the United States. Stephen Dorril is the founding co-editor of Lobster and a lecturer at the University of Huddersfield. He has worked as… Continue reading
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The realities of outsourcing: court interpreters mean miscarriages of justice By Joel Sharples
Since court interpreting has been outsourced, wages have plummeted, quality of interpreting has dropped to a dangerous level, and the justice system has often ground to a halt. A foretaste of what to expect from outsourced services across the country? Continue reading
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Famine-Stricken Niger Feeds French Development and Wealth By Finian Cunningham
The former French African colony of Niger is facing famine – yet again – with international aid agencies reporting this week that up to one million people are currently without access to food. Niger is the world’s fifth top producer of uranium ore – after Kazakhstan, Canada, Australia and Russia. Niger has also other mineral… Continue reading
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Mutualise the private sector, not England’s NHS By Dexter Whitfield
As the government pushes the ‘mutualisation’ of the NHS, Professor Dexter Whitfield argues all such transfers are privatisation. Continue reading
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Jailed by Israel for his cartoons, Mohammad Saba’aneh speaks out By Patrick O. Strickland
More than 300 persons came to the opening night of cartoonist Mohammad Saba’aneh’s Cell 28 exhibition at Ramallah’s Khalil Sakakini Cultural Center in the occupied West Bank on 6 November. Continue reading
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U.S. Occupation Leads to All-Time High Afghan Opium Production
It is well-documented that the U.S. government has – at least at some times in some parts of the world – protected drug operations. (Big American banks also launder money for drug cartels…Indeed, drug dealers kept the banking system afloat during the depths of the 2008 financial crisis. And the U.S. drug money laundering is… Continue reading
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TPP Leaked Treaty: Worse Than SOPA and ACTA
An international treaty being negotiated in secret which would not only crack down on Internet privacy much more than SOPA or ACTA, but would actually destroy the sovereignty of the U.S. and all other signatories. Continue reading
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The Funk Allstars Live in Japan
Recorded in Osaka, Japan in 2008. Personnel: Dr. Lonnie Smith, Hammond organ, Pee Wee Ellis, tenor sax, Fred Wesley, trombone, Rodney Jones, guitar, Idris Muhammad, drums Continue reading
The New Dark Age 