Black Agenda Report for 20 November 2013: Too Big To Jail Banksters, the Real Axis of Evil, Obamacare Doomed

20 November 2013 — Black Agenda Report

This week in Black Agenda Report

by BAR executive editor Glen Ford

Going on five years into the Obama regime, it is clear that Wall Street is immune from prosecution, no matter the savagery of the economic crime. Attorney General Eric Holder “has ruthlessly maneuvered every case against the oligarchs into his own jurisdictional arena, in order to protect the banksters from aggressive prosecution.” JP Morgan’s Jamie Dimon is a far bigger bandit than Lucky Luciano. Continue reading

Video: Will Cuban Reforms Create More Inequality? – James Early on Reality Asserts Itself pt3

20 November 2013 — The Real News Network 

On Reality Asserts Itself with Paul Jay, James Early who has visited Cuba more than thirty times says what’s needed is more citizen participation and less centralization but Cuba is not headed towards the Chinese capitalist model (inc. transcript)

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Terry Bell's 'Right to Fight' download

20 November 2013 — Terry Bell Writes

Now available for download (as pdfs – below) is this selection of 17 years of Inside Labour columns, illustrated by 19 Zapiro cartoons that summarise developments between the watershed years of 1996 (the SA Constitution) and 2012 (Marikana). [Brilliant cartoons by Zapiro and I particularly like the one reproduced below. By way of an explanation; the car’s number plate refers to Blade Nzimande, then gen sec of the South African Communist Party and COSATU of course is the Congress of South African Trade Unions, the SA’s TUC. WB] Continue reading

Terry Bell’s ‘Right to Fight’ download

20 November 2013 — Terry Bell Writes

Now available for download (as pdfs – below) is this selection of 17 years of Inside Labour columns, illustrated by 19 Zapiro cartoons that summarise developments between the watershed years of 1996 (the SA Constitution) and 2012 (Marikana). [Brilliant cartoons by Zapiro and I particularly like the one reproduced below. By way of an explanation; the car’s number plate refers to Blade Nzimande, then gen sec of the South African Communist Party and COSATU of course is the Congress of South African Trade Unions, the SA’s TUC. WB] Continue reading

UK Prime Minister Covers Up Crimes Against Humanity By Felicity Arbuthnot

19 November 2013 — williambowles.info

Lectures Sri Lanka on Crimes Against Humanity

Hypocrisy, the most protected of vices.
— Moliere, Jean-Baptiste Poquelin, 1622-1673

Last week a little more was learned as to the circumventions in Whitehall and Washington delaying the publication of the findings of Sir John Chilcot’s marathon Inquiry into the background of the Iraq invasion.

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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 19 November 2013: American-Israeli Obstructionism

19 November 2013 — VTJP

News

International Middle East Media Center

Israeli Navy Opens Fire A Fishing Boats In Gaza
IMEMC – Soldiers carry out a limited invasion into Khan Younis. Israeli navy boats opened fire, on Tuesday at dawn [November 19, 2013] at a number of Palestinian fishing boats near the Gaza coast causing damage but no injuries. …

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Information Clearing House 19 November 2013: US Drone Strike Rips Yemeni Community Apart

19 November 2013 — Information Clearing House

Endless Afghan Occupation

Security Agreement Draft Leaked

By The Inquisitr

A newly obtained US-Afghanistan security agreement draft suggests that US forces will stay for much longer than originally expected, possibly indefinitely.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article36916.htm

 

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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 18 November 2013: Israel’s Other Silent War: State-sponsored Discrimination against African Migrants

18 November 2013 — VTJP

News

International Middle East Media Center

Racist Graffiti Found On Islamic Tombstones, Nearby Structures, In Jerusalem
IMEMC – Dozens of trees cut by extremist settlers near Hebron Israeli sources reported Sunday [November 17, 2013] that a number of extremist Israeli youths invaded an Islamic graveyard in occupied Jerusalem, broke tombstones and wrote racist graffiti on tombstones and buildings adjacent to the graveyard. …

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