December 21, 2013
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VTJP Occupied Palestine and Israel: News and Articles 20 December 2013: Gaza: genocide, food insecurity, sewage flooding, and the usual IOF attacks on civilians
20 December 2013 — VTJP News International Middle East Media CenterGaza Still Flooded After StormIMEMC – Fuel donated by Qatar [Friday, December 20, 2013] Areas of the Gaza Strip are still struggling to cope with severe flooding of homes and businesses, reports +972. … Continue reading
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Mandela and Cuba: another memory hole By Alex Doherty
Recognition of the role of Cuba in aiding the ANC whilst the western powers backed apartheid is hardly serviceable in maintaining the conventional Cold War narrative. Hence the media’s impressive avoidance of the context of the Castro-Obama handshake and its significance. Continue reading
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Palestine: Lessons in desert blooming By Jimmy Johnson
Palestinian Member of Knesset (MK) Hana Sweid lifted his voice against the Prawer Plan during a 9 December Knesset Interior Committee meeting. In response to Israel’s planned removal of up to forty-thousand Bedouin from their Naqab lands he protested that, “You want to transfer an entire population.” Likud MK and former IDFA spokesperson Miri Regev… Continue reading
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New at Strategic Culture Foundation 15-21 December 2013: India-Pakistan-US / Afghanistan-US / Europe-Iskander / Ukraine-EU-NATO
21 December 2013 — Strategic Culture Foundation India, Pakistan Get Rare Chance to Ignore US 21.12.2013 | 00:00 | Melkulangara BHADRAKUMAR The meeting of the Director-General of Military Operations [DGMO] of India and Pakistan, which is due to take place on Tuesday at the GHQ in Rawalpindi, becomes a rare event in the chronicle of the fractured relationship Continue reading
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How much did NSA pay to put a backdoor in RSA crypto? Try $10m – report By Neil McAllister
The mystery of why RSA would use a flawed, NSA-championed algorithm as the default random number generator for several of its encryption products appears to be solved, and the answer is utterly banal, if true: the NSA paid it to. Continue reading
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UK reneges on promised independent inquiry on rendition, torture By Paul Mitchell
The Conservative-Liberal Democrat coalition has abandoned its promise to carry out an independent inquiry into Britain’s involvement in “extraordinary rendition”, detention”and torture carried out by the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). Instead, the inquiry will be undertaken by Parliament’s Intelligence and Security Committee (ISC), whose record is one of covering up the activities of the… Continue reading
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