November 2013
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UK Government Set to Support Monsanto in EU Court
The UK Government has confirmed that it will support Monsanto in a European court case brought by European civil society groups. In a written Parliamentary Answer today, Earl Howe stated that the Government will intervene in the European Court of Justice to support the biotechnology giant, which wishes to import a GMO soy variety called… Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 22 November 2013: One year later, Gaza journalists remember stories of resilience
22 November 2013 — VTJP News Ma’an News Israeli settlers erect tent outside of Palestinian village11/22/2013 – BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — Israeli settlers set up a tent near the entrance of a Palestinian village east of Bethlehem late Thursday, locals told Ma’an. Dozens of settlers from the settlement of Teqoa, while under the guard of Israeli soldiers, Continue reading
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New at Strategic Culture Foundation 17-23 November 2013: Turkey-Iraq / USA / Syria / Iran / Russia-Middle East / Africa
23 November 2013 — Strategic Culture Foundation Turkey and Iraqi Kurdistan: What’s in Store for Alliance of Convenience? 23.11.2013 | 11:17 | Mikhail AGHAJANYAN The Kurdish conundrum makes Turkey face tall orders again. Its policy of supporting terrorist and insurgent forces in Syria has stymied. Now the Turkish officials change the tune. Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu speaks more Continue reading
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NHS funding changes will worsen inequality
The government is planning funding shifts that will reduce access to NHS services where they are needed most Continue reading
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Music Video: Darryl Reeves ‘Retrograde’
22 November 2013 — Darryl Reeves Great album. The track is off the album ‘Mercury’. Continue reading
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Northern Ireland 1972: A ‘model’ of sectarian ‘divide & rule’ By Tony Gosling
The secret Military Reaction Force (MRF) was tasked with conducting plainclothes ‘drive-by’ shootings of Republican IRA suspects. Revelations about the British Army’s collusion with Loyalist terrorists during the Northern Ireland ‘troubles’ went one step further this week with TV testimony from former soldiers that they had been part of a secret unit. Continue reading
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Syria, Egypt Reveal Erdogan’s Hidden “Neo-Ottoman Agenda” By Nicola Nasser
The eruption of the Syrian conflict early in 2011 heralded the demise of Turkey ’s officially pronounced strategy of “Zero Problems with Neighbors,” but more importantly, it revealed a “hidden agenda” in Turkish foreign policy under the government of Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan. Continue reading
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WordPress.com Stands Up For Its Users, Goes to Court to Challenge DMCA Abuse
The abuse of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act’s notice-and-takedown process to silence lawful speech is well-documented and all too common. Far less common, though, is a service provider that is willing to team up with its users to challenge that abuse in court. Continue reading
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Neither working at a kebab shop, nor intending to blow up a plane By Gunes TAVMEN
When I first read Les Back and Shamser Sinha’s influential work on the texts that the UK Border Agency has been sending to ‘immigrants’ advising them it was time to leave the UK, and then their article on racist vans, I thought, “At last! The ways UKBA treats overseas people are finally made public!” I… Continue reading
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9/11 and the Collapse of WTC Building 7: The BBC’s Role in Distorting the Evidence and Misleading the Public By Peter Drew
In their documentary, the BBC went to great lengths to attempt to demonstrate through their own analysis that WTC Building 7 had not actually achieved free fall acceleration, as claimed by the professional experts, and that therefore this was not evidence that could be used to contradict the official version of events on 9/11. The… Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 21 November 2013: In defiance of internationalism – Israel's manipulation of humanitarian aid
21 November 2013 — VTJP News International Middle East Media CenterPCHR Weekly Report: 15 Palestinians wounded in 56 incursions by Israeli troopsIMEMC – In its Weekly Report On Israeli Human Rights Violations in the Occupied Palestinian Territory for the week of 14- 20 November 2013, the Palestinian Center for Human Rights (PCHR) found that Israeli Continue reading
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Information Clearing House 21 November 2013: Iran Nuclear Negotiations 4 Dummies
21 November 2013 — Information Clearing House Undercover British Soldiers ‘Killed Unarmed Civilians in Belfast’ By BBC Speaking publicly for the first time, the ex-members of the Military Reaction Force (MRF), which was disbanded in 1973, said they had been tasked with “hunting down” IRA members in Belfast. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article36929.htm Continue reading
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PAMBAZUKA NEWS 655 21 November 2013: ARRESTING CLIMATE CHANGE, RESOURCE GRABS AND MALDEVELOPMENT
21 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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G4S & Serco fraud: Oops, we couldn’t tell the difference between right and wrong By Ellie Butt
British outsourcers cheated taxpayers out of tens of millions of pounds. Yesterday they said sorry. So that’s all right, then. All eyes were on the representatives for G4S and Serco, companies that charged taxpayers tens of millions of pounds for doing absolutely nothing. Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 20 November 2013: The Wahhabi-Likudnik war of terror
20 November 2013 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center33 Palestinians Killed Due To Israeli Violations This YearIMEMC – Medical and legal sources in the West Bank and Gaza report that Israeli soldiers have killed 33 Palestinians since the beginning of this year; 23, including four detainees, have been killed in the West Bank and Continue reading
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Information Clearing House 20 November 2013: Libya: Rule of the Gun
20 November 2013 — Information Clearing House The Wahhabi-Likudnik War Of Terror By Pepe Escobar What happened in Beirut was a terror attack, cheered by Israel, and fully enabled by Saudis; a graphic display by the Likudnik-House of Saud axis. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article36924.htm Continue reading
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Former UK Labour Home Secretary David Blunkett’s anti-Roma rant By Liz Smith
David Blunkett, Sheffield Brightside MP and former Labour Party Home Secretary, has launched a vicious attack on Roma families from Slovakia. Continue reading
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Truth as an Issue 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. The truth… Continue reading
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US, UK hammered secret deal on all Britons’ private data in last days of Blair
The US National Security Agency has subverted an international agreement in order to save and examine the phone, internet, and other communication records of UK citizens not suspected of any wrongdoing, according to a new report. Continue reading
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