December 19, 2013
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European Left selects Tsipras as lead candidate in European elections By Christoph Dreier
The fourth congress of the European Left (EL) took place in Madrid last weekend. The alliance of parties discussed a joint programme for the European elections in May next year and elected Alexis Tsipras, chairman of the Greek Coalition of the Radical Left (SYRIZA), as its leading candidate. Continue reading
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An NSA Coworker Remembers The Real Edward Snowden: “A Genius Among Geniuses”
The black sweatshirt sold by the civil libertarian Electronic Frontier Foundation featured a parody of the National Security Agency’s logo, with the traditional key in an eagle’s claws replaced by a collection of AT&T cables, and eavesdropping headphones covering the menacing bird’s ears. Snowden wore it regularly to stay warm in the air-conditioned underground NSA… Continue reading
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How the Federal Reserve and the Bank of England are Fueling Massive Global Inequality By Steve Rushton
Benjamin works as the local authority manager for the U.K. campaign Move Your Money and is investigating how much public money authorities lost in the financial crisis. Founded in early 2012, Move Your Money — which has parallel groups like this oneoperating in the U.S. — has helped over 2 million people in the U.K.… Continue reading
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The Post-colonial Imperial Agenda: America and France Join Hands in the Destabilization of the African Continent By Abayomi Azikiwe
Prior to the partition of Sudan, the country represented the largest geographic nation-state in Africa. Sudan was emerging as a significant oil-producing state with some 500,000 barrels-per-day being extracted for export and internal usage. It was the U.S. and the state of Israel that pushed strongly for the South of the country to breakaway and… Continue reading
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VTJP Occupied Palestine and Israel: News and Articles 18 December 2013: How Israeli diplomats tried to muzzle an Irish journalist
18 December 2013 — VTJP News International Middle East Media CenterPalestinian Child Wounded By Israeli Gunfire While Harvesting Potatoes In GazaIMEMC – Gaza, Occupied Palestine – On Sunday, the 15th of December, a young Palestinian was injured by Israeli gunfire in Beit Lahia, in the northern Gaza Strip. … Continue reading
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Information Clearing House 18 December 2013: Did Someone Say “Crash”?
18 December 2013 — Information Clearing House China vs US ‘Sea-to-shining-sea’ By Pepe Escobar The paper spelt it loudly; “If the American navy and air force always encroach near China’s doorstep, confrontation is bound to take place.” http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article37159.htm Continue reading
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Mandela is gone, but apartheid is alive and well in Australia By John Pilger
In the late 1960s, I was given an usual assignment by the London Daily Mirror’s editor in chief, Hugh Cudlipp. I was to return to my homeland, Australia, and “discover what lies behind the sunny face”. The Mirror had been an indefatigable campaigner against apartheid in South Africa, where I had reported from behind the… Continue reading
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Q&A: “Libyan Women Were Handed Over as Spoils of War” By Karlos Zurutuza
TRIPOL — Unless immediate changes are enforced, Libya is heading towards an “Afghan” model regarding women´s rights, Aicha Almagrabi, a Libyan writer and senior women rights activist, told IPS from her residence in Tripoli. Continue reading
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The Washington Post and Amazon are “Doing Business with the CIA” By Norman Solomon
News media should illuminate conflicts of interest, not embody them. But the owner of the Washington Post is now doing big business with the Central Intelligence Agency, while readers of the newspaper’s CIA coverage are left in the dark. Continue reading
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