December 2013
-
UK police threaten Guardian editor with terrorism charges over Snowden leaks
British police have launched an investigation into whether the Guardian committed “potential” terrorism offenses by publishing the incriminating NSA and GCHQ documents leaked earlier this year by Edward Snowden. Continue reading
-
VTJP Occupied Palestine and Israel: News and Articles 3 December 2013: How the New York Times silences Palestinians
3 December 2013 — VTJP News International Middle East Media CenterArmy Invades Kofur QaddoumIMEMC – [Tuesday, December 3, 2013] Palestinian medical sources have reported that one resident was injured, with several suffering the effects of tear gas inhalation, after dozens of soldiers invaded Kofur Qaddoum village, near the northern West Bank city of Qalqilia. … Continue reading
-
NHS: In the days when I used to kill people… By Jeremy Fox
You hear a lot of bad things about the NHS, much of which from the Tories, the gutter press and those with a vested interest in the privatisation of health. I was braced for the worse, but what I got actually made me feel proud. We need to hold onto this. Continue reading
-
Red-herring ‘inquisition’: Guardian editor robustly defends Snowden leaks to UK MPs
Guardian editor Alan Rusbridger strongly defended his newspaper’s publication of the Snowden leaks in response to a hostile grilling by a UK parliamentary committee Tuesday, as MPs attempted to show that national security was breached. Continue reading
-
Housmans Newsletter December 2013
3 December 2013 — Housmans NEWS 1. Please encourage your friends and family to support Housmans2. Seasonal closing times3. Date change for Seumas Milne event4. ForcesWatch petition to stop recruitment of 16 year olds into the UK armed forces Continue reading
-
HLLN: UN shoots five bullets into 14 year old unarmed student / Like Haiti, Honduras has World Bank, IMF to thank for its poverty…
3 December 2013 — HLLN Recommended HLLN Link: Honduras has World Bank, IMF to thank for its poverty Its current plight is, for the most part, by design http://bit.ly/1g34OOZ Haitian migrants risk Dominican deportation: Thousands of descendants face expulsion from adopted homeland following court ruling http://aje.me/1846mpk Continue reading
-
Information Clearing House 2 December 2013: Zionism’s Last Card and Hope For Palestine
2 December 2013 — Information Clearing House A Narcissistic US, an Anxious Saudi Arabia and a Hysterical Israel By Amal Saad-Ghorayeb The Iran nuclear deal has brought out the ‘borderline’ personality disorder of Saudi Arabia and Israel. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article37031.htm Continue reading
-
‘Information vampires’ hoping to charge press outlets for publishing Snowden leaks
Guardian editor Alan Rusbridger said the officials wanted the Guardian to destroy all the information from Snowden despite the fact the data had already been disseminated to different news organizations around the world. Rather than working to correct the growing surveillance state lawmakers on both sides of the Atlantic are dragging their feet and exploring… Continue reading
-
Exposed: Globally Renowned Activist Collaborated With Intelligence Firm Stratfor
Serbia’s Srdja Popovic is known by many as a leading architect of regime changes in Eastern Europe and elsewhere since the late-1990s, and as one of the co-founders of Otpor!, the U.S.-funded Serbian activist group which overthrew Slobodan Miloševi? in 2000. Lesser known, an exclusive Occupy.com investigation reveals that Popovic and the Otpor! offshoot CANVAS… Continue reading
-
Europeans renew contact with Syria?
According to the agency, “While the Ambassador of the Czech Republic, Eva Filippi, never left Damascus, the representatives of Austria, Romania, Spain, Sweden, Denmark and the EU have been meeting all along in the Syrian capital on a regular basis.” The agency continues by reporting on meetings between members of French and British secret services… Continue reading
-
UK Ministry of Defence rejects FOIA request for leaked 2001 security manual
Although the document was published by WikiLeaks four years ago, it is still considered classified material by the UK government. It would seem that the UK government does not want any officially public information out about how it has placed investigative journalists and members of the public in the same category as “terrorists organisations.” Continue reading
-
Celebrating the Spirit of Envy By Alastair McIntosh
What most struck me last week about Boris Johnson’s speech canonising Margaret Thatcher and thereby, paving the way for his own beatification, was how deeply and intimately familiar it all sounded. Continue reading
-
Video: Watching the Watch List: Landmark Case Goes to Trial over Massive U.S. Terrorism “No-Fly” Database
With hundreds of thousands of people now on the government’s terrorist watch lists, a closely watched trial begins today in San Francisco. Stanford University Ph.D student Rahinah Ibrahim is suing the U.S. government after she was barred from flying from Malaysia back to the United States in 2005 to complete her studies at Stanford after… Continue reading
-
Tribunal Issues Landmark Verdict against Israel for Genocide By Yoichi Shimatsu
“The Kuala Lumpur War Crimes Tribunal is satisfied, beyond reasonable doubt, that the first defendant, (General) Amos Yaron, is guilty of crimes against humanity and genocide, and the second defendant, the State of Israel, is guilty of genocide.” Continue reading
-
ColdType Issue 80: Pilger / Guns / South Korea and more…
ONE COUNTRY, TWO HISTORIES: John Pilger takes a penetrating look at the harsh differences between the cash-strapped North of England and the richer London and South; Alexander Zaitchik visits a US gun fair and finds a stack of bomb-making advice; Sam Pizzigati wonders why the rich and powerful are so callous; Tony Sutton takes a… Continue reading
-
Argentine Protesters vs Monsanto: “The Monster is Right on Top of Us” By Fabiana Frayssinet
The people of this working-class suburb of Córdoba in Argentina’s central farming belt stoically put up with the spraying of the week-killer glyphosate on the fields surrounding their neighbourhood. But the last straw was when U.S. biotech giant Monsanto showed up to build a seed plant. Continue reading
-
Argentine Protesters vs Monsanto: “The Monster is Right on Top of Us” By Fabiana Frayssinet
The people of this working-class suburb of Córdoba in Argentina’s central farming belt stoically put up with the spraying of the week-killer glyphosate on the fields surrounding their neighbourhood. But the last straw was when U.S. biotech giant Monsanto showed up to build a seed plant. Continue reading
-
Ratted out: Scientific journal bows to Monsanto over anti-GMO study By William Engdahl
The Journal of Food and Chemical Toxicology has apparently decided to violate those procedures, announcing it is retracting a long-term study on the toxic effects of Monsanto Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs)—GMO Maize it published a year ago. Rigid criteria exist for a serious scientific journal to accept a peer-reviewed paper and to publish it. As… Continue reading
-
Groping in the Dark: Jack Straw and the Irrelevance of the Left By Carl Rowlands
No-one knows exactly how many people have moved to the UK from Hungary, Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia and the Baltic countries. Despite this, former Foreign Secretary Jack Straw has said that immediately admitting workers from the 2004 EU accession countries into the UK labour market was, in his words, a ‘mistake.’ Blithely untroubled by… Continue reading
The New Dark Age 