December 2013
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The Lies Behind The West’s War On Libya By Jean-Paul Pougala
It was Gaddafi’s Libya that offered all of Africa its first revolution in modern times – connecting the entire continent by telephone, television, radio broadcasting and several other technological applications such as telemedicine and distance teaching. And thanks to the WMAX radio bridge, a low cost connection was made available across the continent, including in… Continue reading
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Click here to BEAT OFF Cameron’s SMUT ban By Jasper Hamill
Anyone using Chrome can now employ a simple extension called Go Away Cameron to bypass the new network-level “safety” filters implemented by the UK’s biggest ISPs: TalkTalk, Sky and this week, BT. Continue reading
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Kerry’s “Framework Agreement”: The West Bank Modelled on Gaza, The Fiction of a Palestinian State By Jonathan Cook
A sense of urgency looms because Washington is supposed to unveil next month its so-called “framework proposal” for the creation of a Palestinian state, in a last desperate effort to break the logjam in negotiations. For this reason, the outlines of the US vision of an agreement are finally coming into focus. And, as many… Continue reading
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O Little Town of Bethlehem By Francis A. Boyle
Those of us on the Palestinian Team who were Christian were wondering if we were going to be able to get home for Christmas–many Palestinians are Christian, the original Christians, going back to Jesus Christ and the Apostles themselves. I would periodically check in with my wife and 2 sons at the time–little boys. My… Continue reading
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VTJP Occupied Palestine and Israel: News and Articles 22 December 2013: Kerry’s Framework Agreement: US Plans ‘Gazafication’ of the West Bank
22 December 2013 — VTJP News International Middle East Media CenterPCHR – In Excessive Use Of Force, Israeli Forces Kill Palestinian CivilianIMEMC – 4 Others, Including Child, injured in 2 Separate Incidents in the Northern Gaza Strip. On Friday, 20 December 2013, Israeli forces killed a Palestinian civilian and wounded his brother while working near… Continue reading
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Mid Staffs and the great hospital scale-back? By Diana Smith
Mid Staffordshire hospital is ‘unsustainable’, we are told. But is the controversy being used to test drive a dramatic scaling-back of hospital provision, especially for mothers and children, elsewhere in the country? Continue reading
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Mass opposition blocks Portuguese pension reform By Jordan Shilton
The “week of indignation, protest and fight” was in response to the budget of the right-wing coalition of the Social Democratic Party (PSD) and Popular Party (CDSPP), which passed the 2014 budget on November 26. It contained €3.9 billion in spending cuts, equivalent to 2.3 percent of the country’s GDP. Continue reading
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Case Against Syria’s Assad Falls Apart
Pulitzer-prize winning journalist Seymour Hersh recently destroyed America’s claim that it was clearly the Syrian government which carried out the chemical weapons attacks. Now, the U.N. weapons inspectors have quietly retracted one of their main claims implying that Assad we behind the attack. Continue reading
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Ukrainian Dream Comes True By Oriental Review
No doubt that the deals became an oxygen bag for official Kyiv, the EU & IMF commissioners (commissars in Russian, a word associating them in the eyes of both Russians and Ukrainians with the ruthless bolshevik emissaries of the 1920s) tried to hug to death. President Yanukovich could hardly conceal his content stating “today’s fruitful… Continue reading
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Egyptian revolutionary socialist: ‘We are facing a counterrevolution’
Sameh Naguib: It is more difficult than any of us can ever remember, and one of the most difficult aspects is the fact that the majority of left wing and liberal intellectuals are completely in support of Egypt’s military leadership, 100 per cent. Continue reading
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Democratic Left Front: Together, a new South Africa is possible
There is a spectre haunting the ruling class and government in South Africa: it is the radical anti-capitalist movement that the National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (NUMSA) has given birth to at its historic special national congress held last week. The Democratic Left Front (DLF) congratulates NUMSA for this congress that united metalworkers… Continue reading
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The Enduring Power of Zionism’s Propaganda Lies By Alan Hart
The truth about the killing of the nine Israeli athletes who were taken hostage by Fatah’s Black September terrorists after they had killed one is as summarised in Chapter 8 of Volume Three of the American edition of my book Zionism: The Real Enemy of the Jews, which is subtitled Conflict Without End? Here now… Continue reading
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Statewatch News Online, 23 December 2013: UK: Torture victims have “well-founded claim” that UK complicit in their abuse, says High Court
22 December 2013 — Statewatch • e-mail: office@statewatch.org NEWS1. EU: FRA: Racism, discrimination, intolerance and extremism: learning from experiences in Greece and Hungary2. UK: Torture victims have “well-founded claim” that UK complicit in their abuse, says High Court3. UK: RENDITION: Report of the Detainee Inquiry Continue reading
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US: The Monitoring of Our Phone Calls? Government Spooks May Be Listening
The American government is in fact collecting and storing virtually every phone call, purchases, email, text message, internet searches, social media communications, health information, employment history, travel and student records, and virtually all other information of every American. Continue reading
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Video: Global Labour Migration
A meeting, designed as a dialogue, to build greater solidarity between the labour and migrant justice movements in their shared struggle against workers’ exploitation by global capital. Continue reading
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Wave of Radiation from Fukushima Will Be 10 Times Bigger than All of the Radiation from Nuclear Tests Combined
As nuclear engineer and former nuclear executive Arnie Gundersen notes, the wave of radioactive cesium from Fukushima which is going to hit the West Coast of North America will be 10 times greater than from the nuclear tests. Continue reading
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UK youth unemployment hits one million By Joe Mount
More than 650,000 young people are classified as NEETs (not in education, employment, or training), or 9 percent of the total. The number of under-25s in work has fallen rapidly since 2008, reaching 49.9 percent in recent months, the lowest figure since records began in 1992. Continue reading
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U.S. Navy Sailors Sue TEPCO over Cluster-Fukushima Snafu By William Boardman
The core of this story is the lawsuit filed December 21, 2012, by attorney Paul C, Garner of Brooks & Associates of Encinatas, California, on behalf of nine plaintiffs (including a one-year-old), all of whom “were among the members of the U.S. Navy crew and attached to the U.S.S. Ronald Reagan (CVN-76), whose home port… Continue reading
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Bedouin Expulsion Law is Well and Drinking Tea By Roi Tov
Former Member of the Knesset Benny Begin, who was behind the law expelling the Bedouins had announced that he retired his support from it. MK Regev said that his words didn’t matter, she will continue to advance the law through the two last stages of legislation. The law had passed the first stage in June. Continue reading
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Putin Scores a New Victory in the Ukraine by Israel Shamir
A tug-of-war between the East and the West for the future of Ukraine lasted over a month, and has ended for all practical purposes in a resounding victory for Vladimir Putin, adding to his previous successes in Syria and Iran. The trouble began when the administration of President Yanukovich went looking for credits to reschedule… Continue reading
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