December 2013
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The BBC and Government: time for some more light? By Brian Winston
The unwritten conventions of the British Constitution, anyway very much a concept cut from whole cloth by 19th century Vinerian professors of English Law at Oxford, are scarcely of a piece with the low political horse trading that has gone on at every BBC Charter renewal since the first in 1936. A BBC veto is… Continue reading
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VTJP Occupied Palestine and Israel: News and Articles 1 December 2013: Bantustan Borders: Israel s Colonisation of the Jordan Valley and the security myth
1 December 2013 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center13 Palestinians Killed, 374 Kidnapped, In NovemberIMEMC – [Sunday December 1, 2013] The Ahrar Center for Detainees Studies and Human Rights issued its monthly report revealing that Israel soldiers shot and killed 13 Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza in November, while more than Continue reading
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Information Clearing House 1 December 2013: Iran Gets Short End of the Geneva Deal
1 December 2013 — Information Clearing House Dollar Survival Behind US-China Tensions By Finian Cunningham In the imperialist, megalomaniac mindset of Washington, the “threat” to the US economy and indebted way of life is perceived as a tacit act of war. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article37025.htm Continue reading
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Britain’s poorest summonsed to court to pay council tax arrears By Allison Smith
In London’s Labour Party-controlled Southwark borough alone, more than 5,000 residents were summonsed to court in October and forced to pay past due council tax plus court fees. In the Labour-controlled borough of Brent, 3,500 summonses were issued to the poorest residents. This is being repeated across the country. The Citizen’s Advice Bureau in Hull… Continue reading
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Israel — Just Another Hapless British Colony By John Kozy
When Israel is seen as an English colony, England has to be seen as primarily responsible for all of the horrors committed by its “colonists.” In fact, England and France must be seen as primarily responsible for the horrors committed by all the West in the Middle East at least since 1857, the end of… Continue reading
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Israel — Just Another Hapless British Colony By John Kozy
When Israel is seen as an English colony, England has to be seen as primarily responsible for all of the horrors committed by its “colonists.” In fact, England and France must be seen as primarily responsible for the horrors committed by all the West in the Middle East at least since 1857, the end of… Continue reading
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Dead Poppies: When Remembrance Becomes Militarism by Lesley Docksey
The ‘Remembrance’ poppy grew out of WWI and became a symbol for that dire and catastrophic war. Catastrophic, that is, for those British men who died (725,000) leaving widows and orphans behind, or the 1.75 million wounded, half of whom were permanently disabled and unable to work or support their dependents. The British Legion was… Continue reading
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Video: Matt Damon channels Howard Zinn – "The problem is civil obedience."
We’re mighty glad that Damon, a very decent man and a thinker, even if deeply embedded in the Hollywood miasma, took it upon himself to make this video. Fact is, Howard Zinn and other radicals had been saying this for decades, (Zinn gave this speech in 1970), reaching a puny audience. But it took Damon… Continue reading
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Video: Matt Damon channels Howard Zinn – “The problem is civil obedience.”
We’re mighty glad that Damon, a very decent man and a thinker, even if deeply embedded in the Hollywood miasma, took it upon himself to make this video. Fact is, Howard Zinn and other radicals had been saying this for decades, (Zinn gave this speech in 1970), reaching a puny audience. But it took Damon… Continue reading
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On the «bombshell» dropped by China on 20 November 2013 (II) By Valentin Katasonov
The possible repercussions of «liberating» the yuan. We, however, are not going to put a lid on it as the Chinese liberals would like to do, but are going to continue examining the chain of cause and effect: Continue reading
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On the «bombshell» dropped by China on 20 November 2013 (I) By Valentin Katasonov
Since 21 November, an article by well-known financial analyst and blogger Michael Snyder under the headline «China announces that it is going to stop stockpiling US dollars» has spread through the media like wildfire. Continue reading
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Left Unity: A Report from the Founding Conference By Richard Seymour
Based on the votes, I would estimate that somewhat over 400 people gathered in Bloomsbury on Saturday to launch the new left party first suggested by Ken Loach some months ago. The attendees were disproportionately veterans of the Left, older and white, but there were a lot of them. Continue reading
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VTJP Occupied Palestine and Israel: News and Articles 30 November 2013
30 November 2013 — VTJP News International Middle East Media CenterSoldiers Assault Nonviolent Protesters Near RamallahIMEMC – Three Palestinians Kidnapped Saturday evening [November 30, 2013] Israeli soldiers attacked dozens of nonviolent Palestinian and international peace activists protesting near the Beit El illegal settlement, north of the central West Bank city of Ramallah, and kidnapped Three. Continue reading
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