December 2013
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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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VTJP Occupied Palestine and Israel: News and Articles 17 December 2013: Prawer protesters beaten, threatened with rape by Israeli police in Haifa
17 December 2013 — VTJP News International Middle East Media CenterSoldiers Conduct Training Rashayda VillageIMEMC – [Tuesday December 17, 2013] Israeli soldiers invaded the Rashayda village, east of the West Bank city of Bethlehem, and conducted military training in the village after surrounding it, the Radio Bethlehem 2000 has reported. … Continue reading
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Information Clearing House 17 December 2013: Did The Saudi Government Fund The 9/11 Attacks?
17 December 2013 — Information Clearing House Does Opposing Western Intervention in Syria Make the Anti-war Movement “Assad Apologists”?By Lindsey GermanThe accusation is that by opposing western intervention the anti-war movement is giving tacit support to dictators or despots: but is it?http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article37150.htm Continue reading
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EU and US both threatened by secret trade talks By Magda Stoczkiewicz and Erich Pica
This week’s talks, like the previous rounds, will happen behind closed doors. The negotiating texts will be kept secret from the public but not from the approximately 600 corporate representatives who have been named ‘cleared advisors’ for the United States. Continue reading
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Oil Found by Israel Should Belong to Palestine: 3.5 Billion Barrels of Oil Reserves on the “Border between Israel and Palestine”
While Israel is now facing a bright future as an oil producer, there is one problem: Meged 5 is located on the Green Line, the official border between Israel and Palestine. Lying a few dozen meters inside Palestinian territory, according to international law and the Oslo Accords, the well should belong to Palestine. Continue reading
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Former Top NSA Official: “We Are Now In A Police State”
32-year NSA Veteran Who Created Mass Surveillance System Says Government Use of Data Gathered Through Spying “Is a Totalitarian Process” Continue reading
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UK local government spending will have fallen by a third by 2015 By Barry Mason
Local government spending in England (excluding police, school and housing benefits) will have fallen by nearly 30 percent in real terms between 2008 and 2015. Spending in Scotland will have declined by 24 percent. Continue reading
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“GRANITO: How to Nail a Dictator” now available on iTunes By Kate Doyle
In a startling loop of time and memory, Granito: How to Nail a Dictator shows how a filmmaker’s first documentary became instrumental in the indictment and conviction of Guatemala’s ex-dictator Ríos Montt for genocide against the Mayan population. “Granito” transports us back in time through haunting tale of state repression and violence, and then returns… Continue reading
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NHS regulations are unfair: they’ll stop us tax dodging! By Richard Whittell
The healthcare companies taking over NHS provision are lobbying regulators to allow their tax avoidance schemes to continue. Continue reading
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Russia: Aug. 21 Syria Chemical Attack Was 'Staged'
Russia’s ambassador told the council that the dramatic Aug. 21 attack that led to Syria agreeing to give up its chemical stockpile was “staged” and a “large-scale provocation.” Continue reading
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Isa Muazu and the Perversion of Refugee Law By Akwesi Shaddai
Just as British wars abroad are justified by spurious claims about concern for human rights, it seems that the battle for rights at home has itself already been lost. It is well known that on-going conflicts throughout Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Syria, Somalia and elsewhere have resulted in millions being displaced from their country of origin.… Continue reading
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Information Clearing House 16 December 2013
16 December 2013 — Information Clearing House Federal Judge Says NSA Program Appears to Violate Constitution By Pete Williams A federal judge rules that the National Security Agency’s program of gathering data on all telephone calls made in the US is unconstitutional. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article37143.htm Continue reading
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VTJP Occupied Palestine and Israel: News and Articles 16 December 2013
16 December 2013 — VTJP News International Middle East Media CenterPrawer Plan Resurfaces In KnessetIMEMC – Ex IDF general: No instructions to halt legislation. [December 16, 2013] The Prawer Plan may not be shelved after all, reports +972. … Continue reading
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Media Lens: An Awkward Silence – Burying The Hersh Revelations Of Obama’s Syrian Deceit By David Cromwell
After the nerve gas attack at Ghouta, Obama had unequivocally pinned the blame on Syrian President Assad, a propaganda claim that was fervently disseminated around the world by a compliant corporate news media. Continue reading
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