14 November 2013 — Pambazuka News
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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
by BAR managing editor Bruce A. DixonIf 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 White House and both houses of Congress on lockdown in 2010 and 2011, what does their sudden rediscovery of the minimum wage mean now, when they know they can move nothing through Congress? Are they and their sheepdogs, the so-called “progressive Democrats” just yanking our chain again? Continue reading
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
VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 13 November 2013
13 November 2013 — VTJP
News
International Middle East Media Center
Man Seriously Injured After Being Assaulted By Extremists In Jerusalem
IMEMC – 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 was moved to surgery suffering fractures in his spine, and a ruptured artery. …
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Ahmad Jamal, Idris Muhammad
13 November 2013 — Jazz on the Tube
Personnel: Ahmad Jamal, piano, James Cammack, bass, Idris Muhammad, drums. Recorded in Vienna 2001
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
Why, really, has Netanyahu put settlement expansion on hold? By Alan Hart
14 November 2013 — Alan Hart
Netanyahu
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).
Police State UK: Britain’s Surveillance State By Stephen Dorril, Tom Mills
14 November 2013 — New Left Project
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 an author, researcher and investigative journalist specialising in intelligence since 1986 and is the author of a number of books on intelligence and British politics including MI6: Inside the Covert World of Her Majesty’s Secret Intelligence Service. He spoke to NLP’s Tom Mills about the Snowden revelations, corporate power and the origins of British intelligence and the ‘special relationship’. Continue reading
The realities of outsourcing: court interpreters mean miscarriages of justice By Joel Sharples
14 November 2013 — Our Kingdom
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
Is the “Nightmare of Marxist revolution” stalking Britain? By Rob Sewell
14 November 2013 — Socialist Appeal
People are becoming increasingly revolutionary, according to the latest polls. A growing hatred for big business and profiteering comes on top of the bankers’ bonus scandals, the Libor rigging scandal, the foreign exchange manipulation scandal, and the callous profiteering of the energy companies. Energy companies are now trusted less than bankers and car salesmen. This backlash against capitalism has rung alarm bells amongst the apologists of big business.
Famine-Stricken Niger Feeds French Development and Wealth By Finian Cunningham
14 November 2013 — Strategic Culture Foundation
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.
Mutualise the private sector, not England’s NHS By Dexter Whitfield
14 November 2013 — Our NHS
As the government pushes the ‘mutualisation’ of the NHS, Professor Dexter Whitfield argues all such transfers are privatisation.
Jailed by Israel for his cartoons, Mohammad Saba’aneh speaks out By Patrick O. Strickland
13 November 2013 — The Electronic Intifada
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
U.S. Occupation Leads to All-Time High Afghan Opium Production
14 November 2013 — WashingtonsBlog
Drug War? American Troops Are Protecting Afghan Opium
It is well-documented that the U.S. government has – at least at some times in some parts of the world – protected drug operations.
TPP Leaked Treaty: Worse Than SOPA and ACTA
14 November 2013 — WashingtonsBlog
Treaty Threatens Global Government … Run by Giant Corporations
The Funk Allstars Live in Japan
14 November 2013 — Jazz on the Tube
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
The New Dark Age 