January 2014
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Goldman Sachs Sued for Selling Libya Billions in Worthless Options By Richard Smallteacher
Goldman Sachs, the Wall Street investment bank, is being sued in London for selling Libya “worthless” derivatives trades in 2008 that the country’s financial managers did not understand. Libya says it lost approximately $1.2 billion on the deals, while Goldman made $350 million. Continue reading
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Outsourcing Haiti: How Disaster Relief Became a Disaster of its Own By Jake Johnston
Outsourcing the construction drove the price up, since international companies had to fly in, rent hotels and cars, and spend USAID allowances for food and cost-of-living expenses. To incentivize working in Haiti, the U.S. government also gave contractors and employees “danger pay” and “hardship pay,” increasing their salaries by over 50 percent. With all these… Continue reading
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Spy Agencies Work On Psychologically Profiling Everyone
Newly-released documents from Edward Snowden show that the NSA and other spy agencies are tracking people’s psychological and lifestyle traits such as sexual preference, extroversion-versus-introversion, and whether people are leaders or followers. Continue reading
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Will transatlantic trade treaty really boost wages and growth, asks TUC By Owen Tudor
As Davos trade negotiators announced they would ‘consult’ over one part of the controversial deal, the TUC met them to ask if the deal would really benefit ordinary people – or just offer up our public services to multinational investors. Continue reading
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‘Doing more with less’, the low paid and the unpaid By Shibley Rahman
Re-engineering the health system has become a hobby of thinktankers, in the best spirit of the blind watchmaker. But policy wonks are still unable to escape from the fact that the NHS is not a widget factory. The management school of Frederick Taylor is unfit for purpose in considering outcomes rather than outputs. It can… Continue reading
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New chief executive calls for “opening up” of Britain’s National Health Service By Ben Trent
Incoming National Health Service chief executive Simon Stevens has called for the “opening up” of healthcare and “reshaping our care system”. Continue reading
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US attorney general seeks death penalty for Boston Marathon bombing suspect By Nick Barrickman
In seeking the death penalty, US authorities are creating the best conditions for extracting a plea deal that would prevent unwanted testimony from ever being heard in an open court. Continue reading
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VTJP Occupied Palestine and Israel: News and Articles 30 January 2014: The Israel-Palestine ’peace process’ as a capitalist metaphor
30 January 2014 — VTJP Peace, Love and Occupation? Tell Ben & Jerry’s to Stop its Complicity with the Israeli Occupation! News International Middle East Media CenterIsraeli Forces Demolish Entire Village In Jordan ValleyIMEMC – [Thursday Evening, January 30, 2014] The Israeli army demolished, on Thursday, at least 50 structures, including residences, displacing 13 families in… Continue reading
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UK Labour pledges itself to legally binding savage cuts By Julie Hyland
The United Kingdom’s opposition Labour Party has pledged to introduce laws to enforce “tough” fiscal rules if it wins the election in 2015. Continue reading
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Ukraine: Foreign Engineered Regime Change Operation By Rick Rozoff and John Robles
The situation in Ukraine is a fluid one and changing by the hour. Although it had appeared that there was a resolution to the protests that had broken out after the government of Ukraine had made the sovereign decision of sticking with Russia and saying no to closer European Union integration, excessive violence from the… Continue reading
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VTJP Occupied Palestine and Israel: News and Articles 29 January 2014: Netanyahu steps up demands, wants settlers to remain in Palestinian state
29 January 2014 — VTJP Peace, Love and Occupation? Tell Ben & Jerry’s to Stop its Complicity with the Israeli Occupation! News International Middle East Media CenterJerusalemite Prisoner Announces Open-ended Hunger StrikeIMEMC – Jerusalemite Ubaida Asaid, age 16, has begun an open-ended hunger strike to protest against transferring him to Ofek criminal jail. … Continue reading
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Black Agenda Report 29 January 2014: 2014 State of the Union: Awful, A Festival of Lies, Hypocrisy on Minimum Wage
29 January 2014 — Black Agenda Report This week in Black Agenda Report American State of the Union: A Festival of Lies by BAR executive editor Glen Ford Before the nation and the world, President Obama pledges to take “action” against “economic inequality,” while simultaneously holding secret negotiations on a Trans Pacific Partnership trade scheme… Continue reading
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VTJP Occupied Palestine and Israel: News and Articles 28 January 2014
28 January 2014 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Clashes Reported In al-Azza Refugee Camp In BethlehemIMEMC – Soldiers Place Sand Barrier On Road Near Beit Ummar [Tuesday Evening, January 28, 2014] Dozens of Israeli soldiers attempted to invade the al-Azza refugee camp, north of the West Bank city of Bethlehem, and clashed… Continue reading
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Video: Checkpoint By Jasiri X
Up-and-coming Pittsburgh Emcee Jasiri X releases “Checkpoint,” a chilling music video documenting his experience visiting Palestine in 2014. The video features footage Jasiri himself captured of Israeli soldiers, as well as newsreel clips of IDF brutality against Palestinians and internationals. Watch closely, Ferrari Sheppard of Stop Being Famous has cameo in this powerful video. Continue reading
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Kurds in Syria: ‘We don’t want to draw new borders’, says Democratic Union Party
Salih Muslim shares the presidency of the Democratic Union Party (Partiya Yekitîya Demokrat, PYD) with Asya Abdullah. The PYD is a sister party of the Kurdistan Workers Party PKK and shares the same ideological background as its leader Abdullah Öcalan. The party is the ruling force in the Kurdish areas of Syria and took over… Continue reading
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South Africa: Forging a New Movement – Numsa and the Shift in SA Politics By Leonard Gentle
The decision of the National Union of Metal Workers of South Africa (NUMSA) to cut ties with the African National Congress (ANC) has received poor analysis. Comment has tended to focus on the possibility of a new political party in 2019 or whether all this means that Zwelenzima Vavi will get his job back. As… Continue reading
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VTJP Occupied Palestine and Israel: News and Articles 28 January 2014: On Scarlett Johansson and ’Blood Bubbles’
28 January 2014 — VTJP News International Middle East Media CenterClashes Reported In al-Azza Refugee Camp In BethlehemIMEMC – Soldiers Place Sand Barrier On Road Near Beit Ummar [Tuesday Evening, January 28, 2014] Dozens of Israeli soldiers attempted to invade the al-Azza refugee camp, north of the West Bank city of Bethlehem, and clashed with… Continue reading
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NHS: GP surgeries MUST DO BETTER on data handling, says ICO By Kelly Fiveash
A number of GP surgeries in England allowed their employees to have unrestricted internet access – thereby increasing the risk of data being leaked, hacked and targeted by viruses, Britain’s information watchdog warned today. Continue reading
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Ukrainian ultras: New challenge to West By Sergey Strokan
As the Euromaidan (Independence Square) movement went into a third month, its magic ‘revolutionary velvet’ has seemingly been worn out. Molotov cocktails, gunshots and medieval-age catapult to fire at police, hastily erected at the streets of Kiev, along with the seizure of government buildings, including the Ministry of Justice, show that Ukrainian peaceful protests have… Continue reading
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