December 13, 2013
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The U.S.’ South Africa Policy at the Time of Mandela’s Arrest By Lauren Harper
13 December 2013 — Unredacted Nelson Mandela was sentenced to life in prison by a South African court on June 12, 1964, after being found guilty of sabotage and conspiracy to violently overthrow the apartheid government. While Mandela’s imprisonment was criticized in the U.S. and abroad, at the time of his arrest, U.S. policy towards Continue reading
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The U.S.’ South Africa Policy at the Time of Mandela’s Arrest By Lauren Harper
13 December 2013 — Unredacted Nelson Mandela was sentenced to life in prison by a South African court on June 12, 1964, after being found guilty of sabotage and conspiracy to violently overthrow the apartheid government. While Mandela’s imprisonment was criticized in the U.S. and abroad, at the time of his arrest, U.S. policy towards Continue reading
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“Why I do and why you should fight for our #NHS” By Glen Chisholm
By the law of averages it is highly unlikely that if you’re reading this in the UK, that you have had no experience of the NHS. I’ve had many myself; from being born in an NHS hospital to trips for sports injuries over the years, from treatment for a heart problem to watching my father… Continue reading
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Syria: Media Disinformation, War Propaganda and the Corporate Media’s “Independent Bloggers” By Phil Greaves
A glaring example of one of the major pitfalls emerging in supposed “new media” has arisen during the conflict in Syria. Most notably in the form of YouTube blogger, and self-proclaimed weapons expert Eliot Higgins, aka “Brown Moses”. The clique of highly ideological analysts, think-tankers and journalists Higgins’ regularly works with and consults – alongside… Continue reading
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Settler siren Arfa channels Miley Cyrus in soft-core bulldozer vid By Philip Weiss
A few words of explanation. +972 and Heeb magazine say the video, by settler siren Orit Arfa, is the worst video ever made. Called “Jews Can’t Stop,” Arfa riffs off Miley Cyrus’s song, We Can’t Stop. Continue reading
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Information Clearing House 12 December 2013: The BBC Must Declare the Interests of its Contributors, or Lose Our Trust
12 December 2013 — — Information Clearing House Top U.S.-Backed Rebel Commander Flees Syria By Noah Rayman Gen. Salim Idris of the Free Syrian Army fled into Turkey and flew to Doha, Qatar on Sunday after Islamist rebel groups took over his headquarters and warehouses of U.S.-provided military gear along the border between Turkey and Syria. Continue reading
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VTJP Occupied Palestine and Israel: News and Articles 12 December 2013: What’s next for Bedouin in a post-Prawer Israel?
12 December 2013 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Israel Drops Prawer Plan, Bedouins Still Face DisplacementIMEMC – Bedouin Communities Still Unrecognized [Thursday, December 12, 2013] The Israeli government has decided to discard a controversial draft law to relocate thousands of Bedouin residents from the Negev desert, the Ma’an News Agency has reported. The Continue reading
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Media Lens: The Media’s Hypocritical Oath – Mandela And Economic Apartheid By David Edwards
What does it mean when a notoriously profit-driven, warmongering, climate-killing media system mourns, with one impassioned voice, the death of a principled freedom fighter like Nelson Mandela? Continue reading
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UK parliamentary pay: Party leaders taking MPs back 200 years By Tony Gosling
The paralysis that is British parliamentary democracy took a further excruciating nosedive this week with all three party leaders ‘agreeing’ that MPs should have their real pay levels reduced! Continue reading
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Video: Michel Warschawski on Israel's Non-Existent Left
At most, there are moments in which a part or even a majority of the public’s opinion, what’s called the “peace camp”, feels that the government, which is right-wing, is taking the country in the direction of international isolation to a disastrous war; and then it is recruited, but not around its own values, but… Continue reading
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Video: Michel Warschawski on Israel’s Non-Existent Left
At most, there are moments in which a part or even a majority of the public’s opinion, what’s called the “peace camp”, feels that the government, which is right-wing, is taking the country in the direction of international isolation to a disastrous war; and then it is recruited, but not around its own values, but… Continue reading
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South Africa Under the ANC: A Flawed Freedom By John S. Saul
Has the time come when it might be possible to move past the well-deserved praise-song phase of the marking of Nelson Mandela’s death in order to strike a more careful balance sheet on the meaning for present-day South Africa of his storied career? Continue reading
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Video: Number of Foreign Mercenaries in Syria Much Higher than Estimates
Press TV talks with Michel Chossudovsky, from the Center for Research on Globalization from Montreal, regarding the figures released by Foreign Policy magazine about the number of foreign militants fighting President Bashar al-Assad’s government in Syria. Continue reading
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Video: Inside the Evidence: The Truth about Chemical Attacks in Syria By Mother Agnes Mariam
RT’s Meghan Lopez speaks with Mother Agnes-Mariam de la Croix, founder of the James the Mutilated Monastery in Syria, who says that the videos show the chemical weapons were used by Syrian rebels, not the Assad administration. Continue reading
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Haiti: Aristide’s Party Fanmi Lavalas Taken Over by “Macouto-Bourgeois Group” By Kim Ives
Last week, for the first time in its history, the Fanmi Lavalas (Lavalas Family) party publicly cast out two of its leading members. It hadn’t done this for other prominent members, such as Dany Toussaint in 2003, Leslie Voltaire in 2004, or Mario Dupuy in 2011, all of whom, in one way or another, betrayed… Continue reading
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