December 2013
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Brand new OurNHS guide to NHS campaigning and resources
10 December 2013 — Our NHS A brand new guide to NHS campaigning and resources from OurNHS’s own archives and across the web. Continue reading
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Resources – Get information on what’s happening to your local NHS
10 December 2013 — Our NHS What to ask and how to ask it. Part of the OurNHS Resource Guide. Continue reading
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Extractive World Order: Plundering Planet Earth, Seizing Resources and Erasing Cultures By Anonymous
Plundering the world’s natural resources and setting up proxy points of guaranteed distribution back to the Motherland is the lead stratagem behind an Imperialist-capitalist agenda that for centuries held their own class as chief inhabitants of the planet. Foreign and domestic policy today is almost entirely dictated by the interests of a few, a ruling… Continue reading
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Second release of secret Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement documents
On 13 November 2013 WikiLeaks released the draft text of the crucial Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPP) Intellectual Property chapter during the lead-up to a TPP chief negotiators’ meeting in Salt Lake City on 19-24 November 2013. Today, 9 December 2013, WikiLeaks has released two more secret TPP documents that show the state of negotiations as… Continue reading
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Conservative Britain: Repackaging the American Dream By Sean Keach
Much of America’s aggression towards communism in the 20th Century was mobilised through a propaganda campaign that dangled white picket fences and warm blueberry pies over the heads of a blue-collar citizenship. Even today, the American dream idealism can be seen propagating the ever raw political divisions of the United States. Fast-forward to modern day… Continue reading
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Global Poverty and Post-colonial “Development Agendas”: Ethiopia and the West By Paul O’Keeffe
The world of international aid is a multi-trillion dollar exercise with transactions affecting every country on earth. Some give, some receive, some give and receive, but all are involved in aid flows that are ultimately held up as virtuous considerations of man to fellow man. The world has long been used to the cycles of… Continue reading
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VTJP Occupied Palestine and Israel: News and Articles 9 December 2013: Settlement wastewater pumped in valleys, plains in Salfit district
9 December 2013 — VTJP News International Middle East Media CenterInternational Human Rights Day, Palestinian People’s Suffering ContinuesIMEMC – On 10 December, the world celebrates the Human Rights Day, which was proclaimed by the United Nations General Assembly in 1950 to review the international achievements in the field of universal respect, promotion and protection of human Continue reading
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Information Clearing House 9 December 2013: The Hijacking of Mandela’s Legacy
9 December 2013 — Information Clearing House The US Killed my Brother with a Drone. I Want to Know Why By Mohammed Al Qawli Americans must demand an end to drone strikes on innocent civilians. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article37058.htm Continue reading
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Hersh: Syria Sarin Story 'Was Bought by the Mainstream Press' By Peter Hart
A new piece by veteran investigative reporter Seymour Hersh argues that the Obama administration’s case against Syria over a sarin gas attack last August relied on cherry-picked intelligence. Hersh’s piece was not published in the New Yorker, where so much of his work appears. And it apparently was not of interest to the Washington Post… Continue reading
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Skyrocketing energy prices increase Britain’s winter death rate By Zach Reed
An estimated 31,100 “excess” deaths occurred in Britain last winter according to the Office of National Statistics (ONS)—a rise of almost a third. Most of the deaths, some 25,600, were of people over 75 years of age and largely the result of cold-related illnesses affecting the heart and respiratory systems. Continue reading
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Are working class people to work until they die? By Ellie May O’Hagan
Last year it was revealed that 18 of the 29 cabinet ministers are millionaires with a combined wealth of £70m. Since then, the “millionaire government” line is so frequently-used, it’s almost a cliché. Rolling our collective eyes at our privileged, out-of-touch rulers has become such a national pastime that we almost forget what the implications… Continue reading
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Seymour Hersh: US Security State Deceived Us on Syria Chemical Weapons By Jonathan Cook
Seymour Hersh publishes his latest, illuminating essay on the machinations of the US security state, this time in regard to Syria. Hersh makes a very convincing case that the US had no credible intelligence that August’s chemical weapons attack in Ghouta using sarin was carried out by Assad’s troops but that it did know that… Continue reading
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Fukushima Testimony: “We are being Used as the World’s first Human Guinea-pigs”
All of a sudden two years have passed since that once-in-a-thousand-years calamity, the Great East Japan Earthquake, and the explosions that followed at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant – and nothing has changed. All that has happened is that our houses are crumbling, our fields are running to weeds, and our village is… Continue reading
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No More US Boots at Afghan Doorsteps? By Dr. Ismail Salami
Unlike the US claim that the presence of its troops is meant to safeguard security and safety in the country, Karzai is manifestly no longer capable of bringing himself to envisage a safe country with American boots at its doorsteps. On the contrary, in the presence of US troops lingers an overriding sense of insecurity… Continue reading
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VTJP Occupied Palestine and Israel: News and Articles 8 December 2013: Reflection on Mandela and Palestine
8 December 2013 — VTJP News Ma’an News Explosive device ‘left by Israeli forces’ injures Palestinian teen12/8/2013 – HEBRON (Ma’an) — A teenager was seriously injured on Sunday after an unidentified device exploded south of Hebron, medics told Ma’an. Medics said that a device left by Israeli forces in an area east of Yatta exploded Continue reading
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Information Clearing House 8 December 2013: The Santa Clausification Of Nelson Mandela
8 December 2013 — Information Clearing House UN, EU Subsidize French Crimes in Africa By Finian Cunningham French neo-colonialism in Africa is now official fact after the deployment this weekend of hundreds of its troops in the poverty-stricken Central Africa Republic. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article37045.htm Continue reading
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What is Britain’s newly founded Left Unity party? By Chris Marsden
Left Unity held its founding conference in London on November 30. Advanced as a party “to the left of Labour,” what united the motley assortment of 400-plus aging cynics in attendance was a determination that any such party would not be revolutionary in its programme and intent. Continue reading
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Amnesty to sue UK intelligence over intercepted emails, phone calls
Human rights organization Amnesty International has declared it will take legal action against British security services. Amnesty claims its calls have been intercepted by UK intelligence agencies. The group has issued a claim at the Investigatory Powers Tribunal (IPT) saying that the alleged actions by UK intelligence would be in breach of article 8 (right… Continue reading
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