November 2013
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Close smaller hospitals in haste, repent at leisure By Shibley Rahman
The UK government has quietly launched an inquiry into whether the smaller half of our hospitals are ‘sustainable’. Should we be worried? Continue reading
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Helen Caldicott: ‘Any country with a nuclear plant is a bomb factory’
Caldicott: First of all, parts of Tokyo are extremely radioactive. They’ve taken dirt from the streets, moss from the roofs, and dust from vacuum cleaners inside apartments. And in some cases there are very high measurements of cesium and strontium and other such elements, literally over a hundred elements apart from cesium-137 and 134. People… Continue reading
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The Security State: Our business doesn’t depend on collecting personal data says Apple
Apple’s transparency report on governmental data requests assures the company mostly helps investigating criminal offences, such as thefts of Apple products. The company complains of a ‘gag order’ banning disclosure of number and core of such requests. Continue reading
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Police State UK: The NSA spy scandal and the attack on press freedom By Chris Marsden
Recently released police documents on the August 18 arrest and questioning at London’s Heathrow airport of David Miranda, the domestic partner of journalist Glenn Greenwald, are a serious warning on the advanced stage of the decay of democracy in Britain and internationally. Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 4 November 2013
4 November 2013 — VTJP News International Middle East Media CenterEight Palestinians Kidnapped, Two Injured, In West BankIMEMC – [Monday At Dawn November 4, 2013] Israeli soldiers invaded different parts of the occupied West Bank, and kidnapped at least eight Palestinians. Two Palestinians were shot and injured by army fire near Nablus. … Continue reading
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The Censorship That Dare Not Speak Its Name By James F. Tracy
The panel on which I participated was organized by Project Censored Director Mickey Huff to address the contrast between the radical journalistic activity practiced by Project Censored and the decade-old US media reform movement that has sought to initiate broader policy changes at the federal level. In previous years PC has been excluded from media… Continue reading
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Video: Israeli soldiers detain, terrify young Palestinian boys in Hebron By Annie Robbins
Israeli soldiers hid in an alleyway outside a school and fired stun grenades directly at school children, before grabbing two young boys and marching them towards a nearby police station. Continue reading
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Remembering Thomas Sankara, the EFF’s muse By Rebecca Davis
Julius Malema’s Economic Freedom Fighters have invoked the legacy of former Burkina Faso president Thomas Sankara as a model of governance they apparently wish to emulate. And indeed, Sankara remains one of the least-remembered, but most creative and principled, of post-independence African leaders. Malema and his fighters might particularly like to remember Sankara’s commitment to… Continue reading
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Privatisation, a very British disease? By Joe Guinan and Thomas M. Hanna
Britain is an extreme oddity regarding privatisation: nowhere else in the advanced world is there such a willingness to sell everything that isn’t nailed down. Time and again the British public is ripped off and sold out by its leaders. Continue reading
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Police State Britain By Stephen Lendman
The vanishing of real democracy in Britain and the US, their close partnership in global lawlessness, and the mounting roster of crimes and trespasses against all forms of established law protecting citizens and institutions, shows conclusively that ruling class interest always trumps formal protections for the population at large. Democracy’s values and norms are respected… Continue reading
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Legal Expert: “Under [the Government’s] Definition, The Pentagon Papers Could Be Treated As The Same Act As The 9-11 Bombings”
As we’ve documented ad nauseum, the American and British governments are treating whistleblowers and reporters as terrorists. Continue reading
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Amnesty Intl. Tries to Explains Why It Won’t Oppose All Drone Murders By David Swanson
Shah [of Amnesty Intl] explained that AI cannot oppose all drone strikes in an illegal war, because Amnesty International has never opposed a war, because doing so would make it look biased, and A.I. wants to appear to be an unbiased enforcer of the law. But, of course, an illegal war is a violation of… Continue reading
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Video: UK's Royal Mail Privatized and Sold to Investors
John Weeks: The privatization of the Royal Mail will enrich investors but leave workers worse off Continue reading
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Video: UK’s Royal Mail Privatized and Sold to Investors
John Weeks: The privatization of the Royal Mail will enrich investors but leave workers worse off Continue reading
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PRISM is driving the uptake of privacy services, but there’s no simple solution to beating the NSA By Nick Pearson
While Edward Snowden’s PRISM revelations failed to spark much widespread outrage among the general public, an apparent spike in the uptake of Virtual Private Networks suggests the online privacy market could be entering a golden period. But when commerce is driven by fear there is plenty of opportunity for exploitation and many privacy-concerned citizens may… Continue reading
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Information Clearing House 4 November 2013: Imploding the Myth of Israel
4 November 2013 — Information Clearing House The Neocons’ Iraq War Mess By Paul R. Pillar The neocons are rewriting more Iraq War history, arguing that if only President Obama had stayed the course on an open-ended US military occupation, the regional situation would be a lot better. But the truth is that it was their Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 3 November 2013
3 November 2013 — VTJP News International Middle East Media CenterPeace Now: “Israel Issues New Tenders For 1889 New Settlement Units”IMEMC – Israeli Peace Now Movement issued a press release denouncing a new Israeli decision of the Israeli Government of Benjamin Netanyahu, to build additional 1889 units for Jewish settlers in the occupied West Bank, and Continue reading
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Turkey seizes massive chemical haul at Syrian border – army
Turkish authorities have seized a large quantity of chemicals from a convoy trying to illegally enter the country from Syria, which “could be transformed into weapons”, the army said Sunday. Continue reading
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#BurnAusterity: Join a ‘Bonfire of Austerity’ action near you
Tomorrow’s [Nov 5] ‘Bonfire of Austerity’ looks set to be one of the biggest days of action for many years. Actions are taking place up and down the country as people are forced into poverty, forced to choose whether to heat the home or put food on the table and forced into the hands of… Continue reading
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Media Fabrications and the War on Syria: How the Western Press Parrots Israeli Propaganda By Phil Greaves
In a report titled “Hezbollah shows strain of Syria war”, The Guardian’s Middle East Editor Ian Black, explains to the reader that Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah “sounds more troubled than defiant when he talks about the Syrian war these days”. Black doesn’t offer the reader a link to Nasrallah’s latest speech to check, nor… Continue reading
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