November 2013
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CNN cuts ‘most crucial points’ from interview with Russia's UN envoy on Syria
CNN has made significant cuts to its interview with the Russian Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Vitaly Churkin, most notably his comments on the number of people that actually support Syrian President Bashar Assad. Continue reading
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PAMBAZUKA NEWS 656 28 November 2013: SPECIAL ISSUE: RACE RELATIONS IN BRAZIL: SPEAKING TRUTH TO WHITENESS
28 November 2013 — Pambazuka News The authoritative electronic weekly newsletter and platform for social justice in Africa Pambazuka News is delivered free to you with the support of donations from Friends of Pambazuka. Continue reading
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Black Agenda Report for Nov 27, 2013: Lynching as a Misdemeanor / Gates Distorts Black History / Thanks for Whistleblowers
27 November 2013 — Black Agenda Report This week in Black Agenda Report Lynching as a Misdemeanor by BAR executive editor Glen Ford Four white San Jose State University students who assaulted a Black teenager for nearly two months have been charged only with misdemeanors, when their crimes actually constitute “felonious battery, terroristic threats, and kidnapping.” Continue reading
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The Plot Thickens: Gaza is Flooded with Sewage and Conspiracies By Ramzy Baroud
The latest punishment of Gaza may seem like another familiar plot to humiliate the strip to the satisfaction of Israel, Mahmoud Abbas’s Palestinian Authority, and the military-controlled Egyptian government. But something far more sinister is brewing. This time, the collective punishment of Gaza arrives in the form of raw sewage that is flooding many neighborhoods… Continue reading
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VTJP Occupied Palestine and Israel: News and Articles 26 November 2013: The taboo on boycotting Israel has been broken
26 November 2013 — VTJP News International Middle East Media CenterThree Palestinians Killed By Army Fire In HebronIMEMC – Palestinian medical sources have reported that three Palestinians have been killed by Israeli army fire, on Tuesday evening [November 26, 2013], east of Yatta town, south of the southern West Bank city of Hebron. … Continue reading
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Information Clearing House 26 November 2013: Pope Slams Capitalism As ‘New Tyranny’
26 November 2013 — — Information Clearing House Overplaying Its Hand, Israel Still Holds Plenty of U.S. Cards By Norman Solomon and Abba A. Solomon All signs point to determined efforts by Israel — and its many allies in the United States — to wreck prospects for a peaceful solution. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article36977.htm Continue reading
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GMOs linked to gluten disorders plaguing 18 million Americans – report
Genetically modified foods such as soy and corn may be responsible for a number of gluten-related maladies including intestinal disorders now plaguing 18 million Americans, according to a new report released on Tuesday. Continue reading
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Manning gives thanks to MLK, Malcolm X in rare prison statement
On the eve of her fourth Thanksgiving behind bars — and the first since being sentenced in August to 35 years in prison — Army whistleblower Chelsea Manning says she’s thankful for fellow seekers of truth and justice who “dare to ask tough questions.” Continue reading
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Iran: White House gave false details of nuclear agreement + One-sided interpretation of N-deal
Iran…claims that the American factsheet, posted a few hours after the deal was announced on the website of the White House, has omitted some key points and is misleading the public by adjusting the language of the original agreement.Tehran has strongly rejected Washington’s interpretation of the long-awaited interim nuclear agreement reached by the P5+1 nations… Continue reading
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Monsanto, the TPP, and Global Food Dominance By Ellen Brown
Global food control has nearly been achieved, by reducing seed diversity with GMO (genetically modified) seeds that are distributed by only a few transnational corporations. But this agenda has been implemented at grave cost to our health; and if the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) passes, control over not just our food but our health, our environment… Continue reading
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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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