7 January 2014 — Boiling Frogs Post
The recent protests in Ukraine have the stench of a foreign-orchestrated attempt to destabilize the government of Viktor Yanukovych after he walked away from signing an EU Association Agreement that would have driven a deep wedge between Russia and Ukraine. Continue reading
9 January 2014 — The Anti-Empire Report
“At last the world knows America as the savior of the world!” – President Woodrow Wilson, Paris Peace Conference, 1919
The horrors reported each day from Syria and Iraq are enough to make one cry; in particular, the atrocities carried out by the al-Qaeda types: floggings; beheadings; playing soccer with the heads; cutting open dead bodies to remove organs just for mockery; suicide bombers, car bombs, the ground littered with human body parts; countless young children traumatized for life; the imposition of sharia law, including bans on music … What century are we living in? What millennium? What world?
9 January 2014 — Pambazuka News
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9 January 2014 — Our NHS
As the Care Bill returns to parliament today, campaigners are rallying oppposition to the Hospital Closure Clause that would allow widespread fast-track hospital closures.
9 January 2014 — Our Kingdom
Disabled people are forced to live on the breadline for months as Atos failed to give them an appointment. Sick people are told they can work months before dying. People are driven to suicide. The breaking of our support system for ill and disabled people continues… Continue reading
9 January 2014 — Land Destroyer
US AFRICOM, Israel, and Uganda’s Dictator-for-Life Yoweri Museveni set up in South Sudan, inflame conflict, push out China and prepare to take over oil.
9 January 2014 — FAIR Blog
Columbia University’s Carl Hart reenacted the Marshall McLuhan scene from Annie Hall on the O’Reilly Factor–playing the McLuhan role himself.
It happened as O’Reilly was explaining his latest crackpot theory about why young people are so horrible. According to the Fox News host, texting, marijuana use and videogames are leading the young down an escapist path to destruction. O’Reilly repeated his theory through several iterations: Continue reading
9 January 2014 — Resolute Reader
“Marxist class analysis can help answer many of the questions raised by ecological economists, at the same time that the substantive agenda of ecological economics can enrich the materialist dimension of Marxism”
Paul Burkett
Marxism and Ecological Economics: Toward a Red and Green Political Economy
Haymarket Books, 2009
Reviewed by Martin Empson
8 January 2014 — VTJP
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Miles Of Smiles 24 Arrives In Gaza
IMEMC – [Wednesday January 8, 2014] The “Miles Of Smiles 24” humanitarian convoy arrived in the Gaza Strip through the Rafah Border Terminal, between the besieged Gaza Strip and Egypt. …
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9 January 2014 — Black Agenda Report
by BAR executive editor Glen FordBarack Obama has used up his people-friendly rhetoric over the past five years, and is now repeating promises he’s already made and broken: to raise the minimum wage, strengthen worker rights, establish truly universal health care, and fight for the common man and woman. Obama’s new rhetorical target is gross income inequalities – a catastrophe that has worsened on his watch. Continue reading
The New Dark Age 