December 2013
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Deep divisions over TPP as US pressures to close controversial deal – WikiLeaks
Anti-secrecy group WikiLeaks has released two documents revealing the state of negotiations for the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP). The deal in question includes 12 countries – the United States, Japan, Mexico, Canada, Australia, Malaysia, Chile, Singapore, Peru, Vietnam, New Zealand and Brunei – which represent more than 40 percent of the world’s gross domestic product. The… Continue reading
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‘The Israeli sniper shot my son as if he hunted a bird’: Wajih Wajdi Al-Ramahi, 14, killed while standing outside of West Bank school
An Israeli sniper killed a child yesterday. Wajih Wajdi Al-Ramahi, 14 was shot in the back by while walking in front of a school in Jalazoun refugee camp near Ramallah. Thousands of mourners turned out for his funeral is today. Continue reading
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Global Research Week in Review 8 December 2013: The Struggle For Ukraine and Crocodile Tears for Mandela
8 December 2013 — Global Research Syria Terrorists: The Kidnapping of Nuns in Maaloula, Mother Agnes Mariam, December 08, 2013 Continue reading
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Syria: Whose sarin? By Seymour M. Hersh
In the months before the attack, the American intelligence agencies produced a series of highly classified reports, culminating in a formal Operations Order – a planning document that precedes a ground invasion – citing evidence that the al-Nusra Front, a jihadi group affiliated with al-Qaida, had mastered the mechanics of creating sarin and was capable… Continue reading
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VTJP Occupied Palestine and Israel: News and Articles 7 December 2013: What helps Israel expand
7 December 2013 — VTJP Peace, Love and Occupation? Tell Ben & Jerry’s to Stop its Complicity with the Israeli Occupation! News International Middle East Media CenterSettlers Assault A Palestinian Child In HebronIMEMC – [Saturday Evening December 7, 2013] A number of extremist Israeli settlers attacked a Palestinian child in the heart if the Old City of Continue reading
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Nelson Mandela: Obama, Clinton, Cameron, Blair – Tributes of Shameful Hypocrisy By Felicity Arbuthnot
Accusing politicians or former politicians of “breathtaking hypocrisy” is not just over used, it is inadequacy of spectacular proportions. Sadly, searches in various thesaurus’ fail in meaningful improvement. The death of Nelson Mandela, however, provides tributes resembling duplicity on a mind altering substance. Continue reading
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Audio: The Fukushima Coverup: “Biggest Industrial Catastrophe in the History of Mankind” By Michael Welch and Yoichi Shimatsu
The guests on this week`s Global Research News Hour speak of cover-up. Yoichi Shimatsuspoke to the Global Research News Hour about the misleading statements coming from the Japanese government and the Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO) about the explosions from March of 2011, the radiative effects, and the secretive role of Fukushima as a storage… Continue reading
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NYT Takes Mandela's Death as a Chance to Mock His Fight to Free His Country By Jim Naureckas
Former New York Times executive editor Bill Keller wrote his paper’s obituary for Nelson Mandela (12/6/13). As you might have guessed, it glosses over the CIA’s role in helping the apartheid government catch Mandela (Extra!, 3-4/90): “Upon his capture he was charged with inciting a strike and leaving the country without a passport” is all… Continue reading
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Shimon Peres on Mandela and Apartheid: Now & Then By Adam Horowitz
Now: The world lost a great leader who changed the course of history. On behalf of the citizens of Israel we mourn alongside the nations of the world and the people of South Africa, who lost an exceptional leader. Then: In November 1974, Shimon Peres came to Pretoria to meet secretly with South African leaders.… Continue reading
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Information Clearing House 7 December 2013: John Pilger: Apartheid Did Not Die
7 December 2013 — Information Clearing House Defeated By The Taliban, Washington Decides To Take On Russia And China By Paul Craig Roberts What are the Ukrainian protests about? On the surface, the protests don’t make sense. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article37032.htm Continue reading
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John Coltrane: Evolution: 1960, 1961 and 1965
7 December 2013 — Jazz on the Tube Here’s the run down of this hour and a half of music… Set One: March 28, 1960 in Dusseldorf, Germany Continue reading
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Revelations on Rafik Hariri’s Assassination By Thierry Meyssan
All the conflicts rocking the Middle East today crystallize around the Special Tribunal for Lebanon (STL). Peace hinges on it, and so does war. For some, the STL should bring about the dissolution of the Hezbollah, quell the Resistance and establish a Pax Americana. Others consider that the STL is flouting the law and subverting… Continue reading
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VTJP News & Articles 12/6/2013 Occupied Palestine and Israel: News and Articles
6 December 2013 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Price Tag Graffiti Found Near NablusIMEMC – [Friday, December 6, 2013] Local sources in Jaloud village, south of the northern West bank city of Nablus, have reported that Israeli settlers threw rocks at a Palestinian car in the village, and wrote racist graffiti on Continue reading
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New at Strategic Culture Foundation 1-7 December 2013: Ukraine / Afghanistan / Israel-Iran / CIA-Lithuania / Armenia / Hungary / Monroe Doctrine / China
7 December 2013 — Strategic Culture Foundation Euromaidan in Kiev or Poland against Poland War 07.12.2013 | 12:09 | Vladislav GULEVICH The December 1, 2013 session of Poland’s National Security Council was called by President Bronislaw Komorowski to discuss the situation in Ukraine. Warsaw said it would work out a new strategy defining its policy towards this country Continue reading
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Spread of GM plants out of control in many countries
Today Testbiotech published the first global overview showing how genetically engineered plants such as maize, rice, cotton, oilseed rape, bentgrass, and poplar trees are spreading uncontrollably. This is happening in regions and countries such as the USA and Canada, Middle America, Japan, China, Australia, and Europe. In many cases, the plants have escaped far beyond… Continue reading
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Biotechnology, GMO and Scientific Analysis: The Powers of Corporate Manipulation By Colin Todhunter
gmofood The biotech sector often yells for “peer review” when the anti-GMO movement refers to analyses or research-based findings to state its case. Despite Professor Seralini publishing his research findings (rats fed on GMOs) that were critical of the health impacts of GMOs in an internationally renowned peer-reviewed journal in 2012, his methodology and findings… Continue reading
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Revealed: The secret of the East China Sea By Pepe Escobar
The spin in the US is relentless. This was no less than “saber-rattling,” a “bellicose” posture and a unilateral “provocation.” A possibly tense meeting between Chinese President Xi Jinping and US Vice-President Joe Biden in Beijing may have done nothing to dispel it. Continue reading
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VTJP Occupied Palestine and Israel: News and Articles 5 December 2013: A wall in Issawiya
5 December 2013 — VTJP News International Middle East Media CenterArab MK’s Demand Kerry To Stop Israel’s Prawer PlanIMEMC – Israeli TV, Channel 10, has reported that Arab Members of Israeli Knesset demanded the visiting US Secretary of State, John Kerry, to intervene, and stop Israel’s Prawer Negev displacement plan. … Continue reading
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Israel Aims to Sabotage the Geneva Agreement with Iran By Dimitri Minin
Israel is stepping up its efforts to sabotage the agreements reached in Geneva on the issue of Iran’s nuclear program. On December 1 the head of the Israeli military intelligence agency AMAN, Amos Yadlin, and former CIA director Michael Hayden simultaneously and in unison, although in different parts of the world, stated that Iran has… Continue reading
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PAMBAZUKA NEWS 657: BLACKS UNBOWED: CONFRONTING RACISTS, POLLUTERS AND LOOTERS
6 December 2013 — Pambazuka News The authoritative electronic weekly newsletter and platform for social justice in Africa Pambazuka News is delivered free to you with the support of donations from Friends of Pambazuka. Continue reading
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