December 9, 2013
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Are working class people to work until they die? By Ellie May O’Hagan
Last year it was revealed that 18 of the 29 cabinet ministers are millionaires with a combined wealth of £70m. Since then, the “millionaire government” line is so frequently-used, it’s almost a cliché. Rolling our collective eyes at our privileged, out-of-touch rulers has become such a national pastime that we almost forget what the implications… Continue reading
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Seymour Hersh: US Security State Deceived Us on Syria Chemical Weapons By Jonathan Cook
Seymour Hersh publishes his latest, illuminating essay on the machinations of the US security state, this time in regard to Syria. Hersh makes a very convincing case that the US had no credible intelligence that August’s chemical weapons attack in Ghouta using sarin was carried out by Assad’s troops but that it did know that… Continue reading
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Fukushima Testimony: “We are being Used as the World’s first Human Guinea-pigs”
All of a sudden two years have passed since that once-in-a-thousand-years calamity, the Great East Japan Earthquake, and the explosions that followed at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant – and nothing has changed. All that has happened is that our houses are crumbling, our fields are running to weeds, and our village is… Continue reading
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No More US Boots at Afghan Doorsteps? By Dr. Ismail Salami
Unlike the US claim that the presence of its troops is meant to safeguard security and safety in the country, Karzai is manifestly no longer capable of bringing himself to envisage a safe country with American boots at its doorsteps. On the contrary, in the presence of US troops lingers an overriding sense of insecurity… Continue reading
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VTJP Occupied Palestine and Israel: News and Articles 8 December 2013: Reflection on Mandela and Palestine
8 December 2013 — VTJP News Ma’an News Explosive device ‘left by Israeli forces’ injures Palestinian teen12/8/2013 – HEBRON (Ma’an) — A teenager was seriously injured on Sunday after an unidentified device exploded south of Hebron, medics told Ma’an. Medics said that a device left by Israeli forces in an area east of Yatta exploded Continue reading
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Information Clearing House 8 December 2013: The Santa Clausification Of Nelson Mandela
8 December 2013 — Information Clearing House UN, EU Subsidize French Crimes in Africa By Finian Cunningham French neo-colonialism in Africa is now official fact after the deployment this weekend of hundreds of its troops in the poverty-stricken Central Africa Republic. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article37045.htm Continue reading
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What is Britain’s newly founded Left Unity party? By Chris Marsden
Left Unity held its founding conference in London on November 30. Advanced as a party “to the left of Labour,” what united the motley assortment of 400-plus aging cynics in attendance was a determination that any such party would not be revolutionary in its programme and intent. Continue reading
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Amnesty to sue UK intelligence over intercepted emails, phone calls
Human rights organization Amnesty International has declared it will take legal action against British security services. Amnesty claims its calls have been intercepted by UK intelligence agencies. The group has issued a claim at the Investigatory Powers Tribunal (IPT) saying that the alleged actions by UK intelligence would be in breach of article 8 (right… Continue reading
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Deep divisions over TPP as US pressures to close controversial deal – WikiLeaks
Anti-secrecy group WikiLeaks has released two documents revealing the state of negotiations for the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP). The deal in question includes 12 countries – the United States, Japan, Mexico, Canada, Australia, Malaysia, Chile, Singapore, Peru, Vietnam, New Zealand and Brunei – which represent more than 40 percent of the world’s gross domestic product. The… Continue reading
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‘The Israeli sniper shot my son as if he hunted a bird’: Wajih Wajdi Al-Ramahi, 14, killed while standing outside of West Bank school
An Israeli sniper killed a child yesterday. Wajih Wajdi Al-Ramahi, 14 was shot in the back by while walking in front of a school in Jalazoun refugee camp near Ramallah. Thousands of mourners turned out for his funeral is today. Continue reading
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