November 26, 2013
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Here’s your "safer world"…By Manlio Dinucci
While the West brags this week about having stopped the military nuclear development programme that Iran ended definitively in 1988, Manlio Dinucci reminds us that the production of nuclear weapons in the world has never ceased. So we’re being offered the celebration of a public relations victory to mask the nuclear reality. Continue reading
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Housmans Books 26 November 2013: Building improvements / Boycott Amazon / Cards & Calendars / Books of the Year
26 November 2013 — Housmans 1. HOUSMANS IMPROVEMENTS & A REQUEST FOR YOUR SUPPORT2. DIARIES & CALENDARS3. CHRISTMAS CARDS4. BOOKS OF THE YEAR Continue reading
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Copyright Maximalists Harm Authors
Copyright maximalists want all sorts of new laws to “help authors get paid”. Well, I’m a published author, and all their efforts to “help” cost me money. Even if we strictly limit the argument to printed books, copyright maximalists still only succeed in harming authors and publishers. This is how. Continue reading
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Media Lens: Endless Stalemate: How Fossil Fuel Interests Are Killing Climate Action By David Cromwell
Sadly, the madness looks set to continue if we recognise that the corporate media is an integral part of the problem: pulverising us with corporate advertising to encourage increased levels of consumption and planetary resource depletion, while averting our gaze from the root cause of the climate problem; namely, corporate-led global capitalism. Continue reading
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War Crimes Tribunal: “Beyond Reasonable Doubt”, Israel Found Guilty of Genocide
The Kuala Lumpur War Crimes Tribunal (KLWCT) after listening to the testimonies of 11 prosecution witnesses and voluminous documentary evidence and extensive submissions by the prosecution and amicus curiae delivered its judgement on the two charges against the State of Israel and retired Army general Amos Yaron. Continue reading
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Book Review: Israel’s Evolution towards a Fascist Racist State By Jim Miles
This is a powerfully written book, a mixture of current events, historical data, and personal anecdotal comments and stories. Throughout there are pervasive themes that clearly outline the nature of the Israeli state as it exists today. From May 2009 up to early 2013, Max Blumenthal passed “many prolonged stays in the Holy Land,” from… Continue reading
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VTJP Occupied Palestine and Israel: News and Articles 25 November 2013: As Kerry talks peace, Israeli settlers dispossess Palestinians
25 November 2013 — VTJP News International Middle East Media CenterPalestinian Security Forces Clashe With Gunmen In NablusIMEMC – [Monday November 25, 2013] Palestinian sources have reported that Palestinian security men and gunmen exchanged fire in the Balata refugee camp, east of the northern West Bank city of Nablus. … Continue reading
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Is Monsanto’s Glyphosate RoundUp the New Agent Orange? By Christina Sarich
Monsanto has been in the poison game for a long time. All the propaganda in the world can’t erase the fact that they first poisoned thousand of Vietnamese, Thai, and Koreans as well as countless American soldiers with Agent Orange, who only now receive compensation for the effects of Monsanto’s bio-warfare decades later. The proof… Continue reading
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‘Enemies within’: the Justice and Security Act 2013 By Rod Jones
The act originated in a consultative or green paper introduced by the then justice secretary, Kenneth Clarke, in 2011. This was an over-the-top affair, proposing to make secret procedures available in all types of civil proceedings—not just those cases involving national security and even when the government itself was involved. It further proposed that the… Continue reading
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Video: Professor Louie What Does it Mean to be Working Class?
At the People’s Voice Café in New York City, the incomparable Brooklyn rapper Professor Louie offers a heavy lesson in class to the 99% in rhythm and rhyme. Continue reading
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NSA strategy document envisions unrestrained global surveillance By Tom Carter
A top secret National Security Administration (NSA) strategy document leaked by whistleblower Edward Snowden envisions spying on “anyone, anytime, anywhere,” free from all legal restraints, and radical expansions in the NSA’s activities in the period of 2012-2016. Continue reading
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