November 2013
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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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Video: Masterful combo: Aya El Zinati’s video of Susan Abulhawa reading ‘Black’ By Annie Robbins
During the recent power outages Gazan Aya El Zinati made this knockout video with clips of her friend Susan Abulhawa reading ‘Black’, a masterful harsh/heart-thrashing critical poem from her first volume of poetry My Voice Sought the Wind. Continue reading
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Video: Masterful combo: Aya El Zinati’s video of Susan Abulhawa reading ‘Black’ By Annie Robbins
During the recent power outages Gazan Aya El Zinati made this knockout video with clips of her friend Susan Abulhawa reading ‘Black’, a masterful harsh/heart-thrashing critical poem from her first volume of poetry My Voice Sought the Wind. Continue reading
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South Africa: Tongaat Mall Collapse – the Boomerang Effect By Richard Pithouse
In 1961 Frantz Fanon described the colonial world as “cut in two”, divided into “compartments …. inhabited by different species”. For Fanon the creation of different kinds of spaces was central to the creation of different types of people and their ordering in a hierarchy of value. Almost twenty years after apartheid our society remains… Continue reading
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The Syria Chemical Weapons Attack and the Role of Saudi Intelligence. The Mint News Report By Phil Greaves
Following AP reporter Dale Gavlak’s attempt to disassociate from the Mint Press News report: “Syrians In Ghouta Claim Saudi-Supplied Rebels Behind Chemical Attack” (see previous article for background here) Mint Press Editor in Chief Mnar Muhawesh published a statement in response reiterating her support for, and the credentials of, the two journalists involved, along with… Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 24 November 2013: PHOTOS: Deciding the fate of the Bedouin, without consulting any Bedouin
24 November 2013 — VTJP News International Middle East Media CenterBedouin Arabs protest forced displacement plan in Negev, southern IsraelIMEMC – A visit by several Israeli legislators to the Negev desert in southern Israel Sunday was met by protests organized by local residents opposed to the Israeli plan to forcibly remove them from their ancestral land. Continue reading
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Information Clearing House 24 November 2013: America’s Little Spy Helpers Down Under Create an Uproar
24 November 2013 — Information Clearing House Netanyahu: Israel Is ‘By Itself,’ ‘Not Bound By This Agreement’ By Philip Weiss Gray and solemn pronouncements about Israel acting “by itself” were issued by the Israeli prime minister at his Cabinet meeting today and mark Israel’s sudden isolation from world opinion- and signal division inside the Israel lobby Continue reading
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The Gagging Bill: Criminalising peaceful participation in public debate By Ian Leggett
The Gagging Bill is an attack on the foundations of our democracy. Far from supporting the “Big Society”, Cameron and Clegg are crushing it. The legislation has been paused in the Lords. Now it must be abandoned, says Ian Leggett. Continue reading
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Media Diversified: An Interview with Samantha Asumadu By Alice Bell
We talked to Samantha Asumadu, a documentary filmmaker, former journalist and campaigner about her project Media Diversified, which tackles the lack of diversity in UK media and the ubiquity of whiteness it both reflects and perpetuates. Continue reading
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NATO and the Gulf Cooperation Council Organized and Financed the Death of 120,000 Syrians By Thierry Meyssan
What has been happening in Syria for the past three years? According to NATO and GCC media reports, the “regime” has shed blood to suppress a democratic revolution. However this version is contradicted by the current support for the government estimated at, according to sources, between 60 and 90 % of the population. Continue reading
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Turkey should prepare itself for mass exodus of fighters from Syria By Lale Kemal
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s regime has been making significant advances on the ground against opposition fighters in a civil war of over two-and-a-half years, raising the possibility of the potential risk of a massive exodus of opposition fighters to neighboring countries including Turkey. Reports coming from both NATO as well as Turkish military sources provide… Continue reading
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UK government moves to clamp down on Internet, citing child pornography By Julie Hyland
A new clampdown on the internet has been authorised by the British government under the guise of the fight against child pornography. Continue reading
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Why TEPCO is Risking the Removal of Fukushima Fuel Rods. The Dangers of Uncontrolled Global Nuclear Radiation By Yoichi Shimatsu
The potential for disaster at the Unit 4 SFP is probably of a higher magnitude than suspected due to the presence of fresh fuel rods, which were delivered during the technical upgrade of Reactor 4 under completion at the time of the March 11, 2011 earthquake and tsunami. The details of that reactor overhaul by… Continue reading
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VTJP Occupied Palestine and Israel: News and Articles 23 November 2013
23 November 2013 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center15 Palestinians Injured Near RamallahIMEMC – [Saturday Evening November 23, 2013] Palestinian medical sources have reported that at least fifteen Palestinians have been injured by Israeli army fire during clashes that took place after Israeli soldiers invaded the Al-Jalazoun refugee camp, north of the central West Continue reading
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Information Clearing House 23 November 2013: The Problem is Civil Obedience
23 November 2013 — Information Clearing House Deal Reached on Iran’s Nuclear Program By Al-Jazeera Diplomats say a deal has been reached in Geneva regarding Iran’s nuclear programme. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article36957.htm Continue reading
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Americans Are Finally Learning About False Flag Terror
False flag operations are covert operations conducted by governments, corporations, or other organizations, which are designed to appear as if they are being carried out by other entities. The name is derived from the military concept of flying false colors; that is, flying the flag of a country other than one’s own. False flag operations… Continue reading
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NSA hacked over 50,000 computer networks worldwide – report
The US National Security Agency hacked more than 50,000 computer networks worldwide installing malware designated for surveillance operations, Dutch newspaper NRC reports citing documents leaked by Edward Snowden. Continue reading
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Are we stupid? By Alan Hart
The following is the text of the address I made to the Seek, Speak and Spread Truth Conference in London yesterday, 23 November. Its main thrust is about the need for citizens to become politically engaged to make democracy work (before it’s as dead as the two-state solution for Israel-Palestine) in order for our children… Continue reading
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Real estate, racism, and righteousness — a grim visit to Israel By Philip Weiss
Every time I go to Israel I like to report on my response to the conflict, and after visiting in September my feelings are bleaker than they’ve ever been. That’s been the trend, the last couple of visits; but this one was particularly bad. The degree of oppression and persecution, of the indifference to it… Continue reading
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