November 2013
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US plots to kill idea of global digital privacy at the UN – report
The United States is silently watering down the text of an anti-spying UN resolution introduced by Germany and Brazil in order to ensure any extra-territorial violation of online privacy remains legal, according to a document obtained by The Cable. Continue reading
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Black Agenda Report for 20 November 2013: Too Big To Jail Banksters, the Real Axis of Evil, Obamacare Doomed
20 November 2013 — Black Agenda Report This week in Black Agenda Report Obama and Holder Let Gangsters Pay Fine, Continue Business As Usual by BAR executive editor Glen Ford Going on five years into the Obama regime, it is clear that Wall Street is immune from prosecution, no matter the savagery of the economic crime. Attorney Continue reading
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Video: Will Cuban Reforms Create More Inequality? – James Early on Reality Asserts Itself pt3
On Reality Asserts Itself with Paul Jay, James Early who has visited Cuba more than thirty times says what’s needed is more citizen participation and less centralization but Cuba is not headed towards the Chinese capitalist model Continue reading
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Mother Agnes and the ‘liberal’ hawks out to silence her By Neil Clark
Just when you thought the ‘liberal interventionists’ and neo-cons couldn’t stoop any lower, they just have. For the West‘s ‘liberal hawks’ and serial interventionists, this elderly lady, who is working tirelessly for peace and an end to the bloodshed in Syria, has become Public Enemy Number One. Continue reading
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Media Lens: Electrified Thought Fences – Narcissism: Real And Imagined By David Edwards
One of the great tasks of the state-corporate commentariat is to install electrified thought fences between the public and rare voices attempting to challenge the status quo. Dissidents are attacked from ostensibly noble positions opposing fascism, genocide, sexism and selfishness. The smears are empowered by the fact that they target an opponent’s reputation with ugly-looking… Continue reading
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Cuts to legal aid deny hundreds of thousands access to justice in the UK By Dennis Moore
The cutting of legal aid funding and the denial of access to justice are integral to the ever-increasing attacks on civil liberties and the denial of democratic rights, amid escalating attacks on the living conditions of millions of people in the UK. Continue reading
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Terry Bell's 'Right to Fight' download
Now available for download (as pdfs – below) is this selection of 17 years of Inside Labour columns, illustrated by 19 Zapiro cartoons that summarise developments between the watershed years of 1996 (the SA Constitution) and 2012 (Marikana). [Brilliant cartoons by Zapiro. WB] Continue reading
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Terry Bell’s ‘Right to Fight’ download
Now available for download (as pdfs – below) is this selection of 17 years of Inside Labour columns, illustrated by 19 Zapiro cartoons that summarise developments between the watershed years of 1996 (the SA Constitution) and 2012 (Marikana). [Brilliant cartoons by Zapiro. WB] Continue reading
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NHS charges – the Zombie policies walking into Downing Street? By Caroline Malloy
Reform – the think tank that provided David Cameron with his lead health advisor – is trying to resuscitate discredited policies on NHS charging in England and introduce some dangerous new ideas to boot. Continue reading
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UK Prime Minister Covers Up Crimes Against Humanity By Felicity Arbuthnot
Last week a little more was learned as to the circumventions in Whitehall and Washington delaying the publication of the findings of Sir John Chilcot’s marathon Inquiry into the background of the Iraq invasion. Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 19 November 2013: American-Israeli Obstructionism
19 November 2013 — VTJP News International Middle East Media CenterIsraeli Navy Opens Fire A Fishing Boats In GazaIMEMC – Soldiers carry out a limited invasion into Khan Younis. Israeli navy boats opened fire, on Tuesday at dawn [November 19, 2013] at a number of Palestinian fishing boats near the Gaza coast causing damage but no Continue reading
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Information Clearing House 19 November 2013: US Drone Strike Rips Yemeni Community Apart
19 November 2013 — Information Clearing House Endless Afghan Occupation Security Agreement Draft Leaked By The Inquisitr A newly obtained US-Afghanistan security agreement draft suggests that US forces will stay for much longer than originally expected, possibly indefinitely. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article36916.htm Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 18 November 2013: Israel’s Other Silent War: State-sponsored Discrimination against African Migrants
18 November 2013 — VTJP News International Middle East Media CenterRacist Graffiti Found On Islamic Tombstones, Nearby Structures, In JerusalemIMEMC – Dozens of trees cut by extremist settlers near Hebron Israeli sources reported Sunday [November 17, 2013] that a number of extremist Israeli youths invaded an Islamic graveyard in occupied Jerusalem, broke tombstones and wrote racist Continue reading
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Video: Leaked Memo Reveals U.S. Plan to Oppose Helping Poor Nations Adapt to Climate Change
Newly leaked documents have revealed how U.S. negotiators at the U.N. climate summit in Warsaw are opposing efforts to help developing countries adapt to climate change. According to an internal U.S. briefing memo seen by Democracy Now!, the U.S. delegation is worried the talks in Warsaw will “focus increasingly on blame and liability” and that… Continue reading
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What a sorry state of affairs By William Bowles
So Stop the War have organised (yet another) conference and Mother Agnes got invited (and as it turns out, the only person speaking who had actually experienced Syria first-hand!) and a couple of rogues, Jeremy Scahill activist journalist and Owen Jones of the Independent newspaper, refused to attend if Mother Agnes was on the platform,… Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 17 November 2013: Film review: Arab citizen of Israel, member of the enemy
17 November 2013 — VTJP News Ma’an News Israeli forces raid Abu Dis and attack al-Quds University, injuring 4011/17/2013 – JERUSALEM (Ma’an) — Israeli forces shot 40 Palestinians including a large number of university students with rubber-coated steel bullets during a raid on a Palestinian village east of Jerusalem on Sunday afternoon. Clashes broke out Continue reading
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Information Clearing House 17 November 2013: The Logic Behind Mass Spying: Empire and Cyber Imperialism
17 November 2013 — Information Clearing House Israel, Saudi Arabia Unite For Attack On Iran By RT Saudis are willing to assist an Israeli attack by cooperating with the use of drones, rescue helicopters, and tanker planes. “Once the Geneva agreement is signed, the military option will be back on the table.” http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article36884.htm Continue reading
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Criminalising nurses doesn’t make sense By Julius Marstrand
Proposals to crimalise NHS staff for ‘wilful neglect’ will be ineffective at best, and may actually make our health service less safe. Continue reading
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Britain accused of collusion in torture in Somalia By Robert Stevens
Mohammed Ahmed Mohamed, a 27-year-old British citizen of Somali descent, was allegedly tortured in Somalia with the complicity of UK authorities. He was then flown to Britain, where his democratic rights were further abused. Continue reading
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Interview: Political Language with Andrew Gavin Marshall
The following is a podcast interview for The Hampton Institute’s podcast program – ‘A Different Lens’ – conducted by Devon Douglas-Bowers with Geopolitics Chair Andrew Gavin Marshall, to discuss his latest series for the Hampton Institute: Empire Under Obama. Continue reading
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