19 November 2013 — Democracy Now!
Guests
Nitin Sethi, senior assistant editor at The Hindu. He was responsible for leaking U.S. briefing papers for diplomats prior to the climate summit in Warsaw.
Day: November 19, 2013
What a sorry state of affairs By William Bowles
19 November 2013
I have been involved with left-wing politics in one guise or another pretty much my entire life and I have to admit to getting an awful lot of stuff wrong, largely because rather than thinking things through properly for myself, I listened to the ‘authority’, to those who allegedly know best.
VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 17 November 2013: Film review: Arab citizen of Israel, member of the enemy
17 November 2013 — VTJP
News
Israeli forces raid Abu Dis and attack al-Quds University, injuring 40
11/17/2013 – JERUSALEM (Ma’an) — Israeli forces shot 40 Palestinians including a large number of university students with rubber-coated steel bullets during a raid on a Palestinian village east of Jerusalem on Sunday afternoon. Clashes broke out after Israeli forces raided Abu Dis while students from al-Quds University were on their way to class, a local official said. Popular committee spokesman Hani Halbiya told Ma’….
Information Clearing House 17 November 2013: The Logic Behind Mass Spying: Empire and Cyber Imperialism
17 November 2013 — Information Clearing House
Israel, Saudi Arabia Unite For Attack On Iran
By RT
Saudis are willing to assist an Israeli attack by cooperating with the use of drones, rescue helicopters, and tanker planes. “Once the Geneva agreement is signed, the military option will be back on the table.”
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article36884.htm
Criminalising nurses doesn’t make sense By Julius Marstrand
19 November 2013 — Our NHS
Proposals to crimalise NHS staff for ‘wilful neglect’ will be ineffective at best, and may actually make our health service less safe.
Britain accused of collusion in torture in Somalia By Robert Stevens
19 November 2013 — WSWS
Mohammed Ahmed Mohamed, a 27-year-old British citizen of Somali descent, was allegedly tortured in Somalia with the complicity of UK authorities. He was then flown to Britain, where his democratic rights were further abused.
Interview: Political Language with Andrew Gavin Marshall
19 November 2013 — Andrew Gavin Marshall
Interview: Political Language with Andrew Gavin Marshall
The Hampton Institute’s ‘A Different Lens’ Podcast
The following is a podcast interview for The Hampton Institute’s podcast program – ‘A Different Lens’ – conducted by Devon Douglas-Bowers with Geopolitics Chair Andrew Gavin Marshall, to discuss his latest series for the Hampton Institute: Empire Under Obama.
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Owen Jones & Mother Agnes. A lesson on conciliatory “leftists” By Phil Greaves
19 November 2013 — Phil Greaves
Following the news that Mother Agnes Miriam, a nun who heads the Musalaha (reconciliation) initiative in Syria, was due to speak at the Stop The War conference in London, two journalists also due to speak at the event, Jeremy Scahill and Owen Jones, decided to withdraw participation unless Mother Agnes was removed from the speaking list. At the time of writing, neither “journalist” has offered to explain their act of public censure and decision to bolster Zionist-led smear campaigns; aside from a few tweets expressing their “concern” over sharing a platform with an evil Assad-supporting nun. It seems baseless conspiracy theories are more than acceptable in the higher echelons of “professional” journalism, as long as the target of said conspiracy is a supporter of an enemy state of the west and Israel.
The “Progressive Left Anti-War” Movement: Bowing before the Inquisitors on Syria By Jonathan Cook
19 November 2013 — jonathan-cook.net/
[For those of you who may not be au fait with the latest fuckup on the alleged left here in the UK, it seems that Syrian nun Mother Agnes Miriam withdrew from a Stop the War-sponsored conference on the 30 November because two ‘journalists’ (Jeremy Scahill and Owen Jones) objected to her presence, calling her essentially an apologist for the Assad government. The following is one analysis of the event, followed by Phil Greaves piece which is even more scathing in its attack on the organisers of the conference. Frankly, I think Jonathan Cook is being altogether too nice. WB]
The New Dark Age 