November 2013
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Thanks to you, Rolling Jubilee has abolished over thirteen million dollars of medical debt!
Strike Debt is pleased to announce that, with your participation, we have purchased and abolished$13.5 million in medical debt, affecting 2,693 individuals across 45 states and Puerto Rico. These debts ranged from $50 to over $200,000, including several accounts over $100K. These individuals will no longer have to pay this debt. They have been informed… Continue reading
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America and Israel Created a Monster Computer Virus Which Now Threatens Nuclear Reactors Worldwide
In their obsession to stop Iran from developing nuclear weapons, the U.S. and Israel created a computer virus (called “Stuxnet”) to take out Iran’s nuclear reactors. The virus appears to have spread to other countries. Continue reading
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Hiding behind the Cenotaph, Cameron will seek to re-write history By Adam Ramsay
The First World War plays a key role in our national story: a warning against violence, to be wary of our leaders. With his 100th anniversary events, David Cameron is seeking to change that. Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 11 November 2013
11 November 2013 — VTJP News International Middle East Media CenterPalestinian Police Torture Detained JournalistIMEMC – Radio Bethlehem 2000 announced on Monday that its director George Qanawati, was beaten up and tortured while being under police custody. … Continue reading
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Information Clearing House 11 November 2013: Poppycock – Or Why Remembrance Rituals Make Me See Red
11 November 2013 — Information Clearing House Why France Sank an Iran Nuke Deal By Robert Parry Saudis and Israelis wanted to sink the negotiated deal on Iran’s nuclear program, so the French launched the diplomatic torpedo to take it down. But behind France’s action were Saudi financial muscle and Israel’s political skill. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article36822.htm Continue reading
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Inside the OpenMIND: Open Source Social Media Datamining and “Predictive” Policing
Records obtained by DBA Press and the Center for Media and Democracy (DBA/CMD) shed new light on a technology, OpenMIND, utilized by law enforcement/counter-terrorism fusion center personnel in gathering and analyzing mass amounts of “open source intelligence” derived from the online lives of Americans. Continue reading
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HLLN: US Legalized Slavery in Haiti
11 November 2013 — HLLN Recommended HLLN link: “Legalized slavery in many cases..”- Adoptive parents of Ethiopian girl found guilty of letting her starve “No one is keeping track of how many Afrikan children, adopted by white people are being killed and abused, but they should.” http://dailym.ai/187yabs ************************in this post****************** Another Day Under Occupation – Continue reading
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Who are the ‘illegals’? By Rebecca Omonira-Oyekanmi
The UK Immigration Bill has no clear targets: it gives ordinary individuals the power to decide. Will we use an accurate legal definition, or act on what we read in the papers and hear from the Home Secretary herself? Continue reading
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Arafat’s Death – There’s really no mystery By Alan Hart
For once Israel is telling a part of the truth. It was impossible for any of its own (Israeli-Jewish) agents to get into the rubble of Arafat’s compound to administer the poison that killed him. But they didn’t need direct access. Israel’s role was to provide the radioactive polonium for one of its collaborators in… Continue reading
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The latest allegations against the Home Office are as serious as they are absurd By Wayne Myslik
The recent charge that the Home Office takes steps to ‘fix’ the figures is a shocking one. It shines light on a system dogged by maladministration and misplaced priorities. Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 10 November 2013: Cabinet OK’s razing Bedouin towns to build Jewish settlement in their place
10 November 2013 — VTJP News International Middle East Media CenterArmy Hands Demolish Orders Against Homes In Al-EesawiyyaIMEMC – [Sunday November 10, 2013] Palestinian sources have reported that Israeli soldiers invaded the Al-Eesawiyya town, in occupied East Jerusalem, and handed destruction orders targeting a home, and a residential building, allegedly for being built without permits. … Continue reading
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Information Clearing House 10 November 2013: US Built ‘Powerful Organs of State Terrorism’ in Iraq
10 November 2013 — Information Clearing House France Wrecks P5+1 Deal for Arab Money By Finian Cunningham By wrecking a potential deal with Iran, Fabius was no doubt bidding to please Saudi Arabia and the other Persian Gulf Arab regimes. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article36813.htm Continue reading
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“Lest we forget…Victim X” By John Andrews
Obviously this doesn’t go anywhere, fellas. I just broke the Geneva Convention. Here we have hard incontrovertible evidence of a premeditated war crime. The fact that Marine A, as the court martial chose to label the murderer, knew that the Geneva Convention explicitly forbids such action is interesting; and the fact that he, together with… Continue reading
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The Dark Road from the Clipper Chip to PRISM Reveals ‘Crypto Wars’ Never Ended
The veritable explosion of networked communication systems spawned by the mass marketing of easy-to-use personal computers equipped with newly-invented internet browsers, set off a panic amongst political elites. How to control these seemingly anarchic information flows operating outside “normal” channels? Continue reading
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John Riddell: Do we need an anti-capitalist government? United fronts in the 20th and 21st centuries (videos)
ohn Riddell, editor and translator of Towards the United Front: Proceedings of the Fourth Congress of the Communist International, 1922, speaking in London on November 3, 2013, at the “Building Unity, Taking Power: Left Histories and Contemporary Practice” seminar organised by the Anti-Capitalist Initiative, International Socialist Network and Socialist Resistance. The above talk is “Do… Continue reading
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Police State UK: UK spy agency possibly with help of NSA uses LinkedIn to target global mobile traffic exchange
The UK’s intelligence spying agency has been using bogus accounts created on the professional social networking site LinkedIn to target global roaming data exchange companies and spy on the Vienna headquarters of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC). Continue reading
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The Rise of Establishment Reporting: How a Crisis in Journalism Led to the “Cult of Balance” By John Nichols and Robert W. McChesney
A crisis in journalism lasted from the 1890s until the 1920s. Party-driven journalism had disintegrated, the increasingly lucrative and powerful newspaper magnates ruled their independent empires and exercised considerable political power, and the pursuit of profit sometimes led to an incredible, even appalling, journalism. Mounting public anger and dissatisfaction with the journalism of this era… Continue reading
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Global Research Week in Review 10 November 2013: The Global Economic Chessboard and Weather Warfare
10 November 2013 — Global Research Pact with the Nuclear Devil: Saskatchewan’s Uranium Companies Derogate Metis Land Rights, Michael Welch, November 10, 2013 Continue reading
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Feds Accused of Harassing “Boston Bomber” Friends, and Friends of Friends By Dave Lindorff, Russ Baker and Milicent Cranor
In the six months since the Boston Marathon bombing, the FBI has by all appearances been relentlessly intimidating, punishing, deporting and, in one case, shooting to death, persons connected, sometimes only tangentially, with the alleged bombers. Continue reading
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