December 18, 2013
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VTJP Occupied Palestine and Israel: News and Articles 17 December 2013: Prawer protesters beaten, threatened with rape by Israeli police in Haifa
17 December 2013 — VTJP News International Middle East Media CenterSoldiers Conduct Training Rashayda VillageIMEMC – [Tuesday December 17, 2013] Israeli soldiers invaded the Rashayda village, east of the West Bank city of Bethlehem, and conducted military training in the village after surrounding it, the Radio Bethlehem 2000 has reported. … Continue reading
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Information Clearing House 17 December 2013: Did The Saudi Government Fund The 9/11 Attacks?
17 December 2013 — Information Clearing House Does Opposing Western Intervention in Syria Make the Anti-war Movement “Assad Apologists”?By Lindsey GermanThe accusation is that by opposing western intervention the anti-war movement is giving tacit support to dictators or despots: but is it?http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article37150.htm Continue reading
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EU and US both threatened by secret trade talks By Magda Stoczkiewicz and Erich Pica
This week’s talks, like the previous rounds, will happen behind closed doors. The negotiating texts will be kept secret from the public but not from the approximately 600 corporate representatives who have been named ‘cleared advisors’ for the United States. Continue reading
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Oil Found by Israel Should Belong to Palestine: 3.5 Billion Barrels of Oil Reserves on the “Border between Israel and Palestine”
While Israel is now facing a bright future as an oil producer, there is one problem: Meged 5 is located on the Green Line, the official border between Israel and Palestine. Lying a few dozen meters inside Palestinian territory, according to international law and the Oslo Accords, the well should belong to Palestine. Continue reading
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Former Top NSA Official: “We Are Now In A Police State”
32-year NSA Veteran Who Created Mass Surveillance System Says Government Use of Data Gathered Through Spying “Is a Totalitarian Process” Continue reading
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UK local government spending will have fallen by a third by 2015 By Barry Mason
Local government spending in England (excluding police, school and housing benefits) will have fallen by nearly 30 percent in real terms between 2008 and 2015. Spending in Scotland will have declined by 24 percent. Continue reading