January 10, 2014
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The NHS – my part in its downfall By Anonymous
10 January 2014 — Our NHS I have broken the NHS in to digestible bits ripe for being eaten up by private companies, confesses an NHS clinician. Continue reading
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The African National Congress: The Rise and Tragic Fall of a Revolutionary Movement By Anthony Monteiro
Black “rule” in South Africa is illusory. “White supremacy without the obvious hand of white people is the form of social and political control, which replaces legal apartheid.” The revolution was derailed. “The road from the Freedom Charter, to the Morogoro Consultative Conference, to the 1994 elections, to the murder of 34 miners at Mirikana… Continue reading
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UK police get away with killing of Mark Duggan By Julie Hyland
The eight to two verdict by a coroner’s inquest that Mark Duggan was lawfully killed by London’s Metropolitan Police is a travesty of justice. The jurors arrived at their findings despite unanimous agreement that the 29-year-old father of six was unarmed when he was shot twice in Tottenham, north London by an armed police officer… Continue reading
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Crucible of Resistance: Class Struggle Over Ways Out of the Crisis By Andreas Bieler
Having postponed the necessary restructuring for too long, austerity would be the only solution to enforce liberalization and deregulation from the outside. In their impressive book Crucible of Resistance: Greece, the Eurozone and the World Economic Crisis (Pluto Press, 2013), Christos Laskos and Euclid Tsakalotos challenge these understandings and reveal the class dynamics underlying the… Continue reading
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Kim purges for a new economic dawn By Sascha Matuszak
But after Kim Jong-eun executed his uncle for a laundry list of crimes including corruption and drug smuggling, media and academia collectively shook their heads at yet another spectacular public relations disaster for North Korea. Essays in the Council of Foreign Relations, articles in mainstream media, and analysis from enduring Korea watchers painted a multi-hued… Continue reading
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VTJP Occupied Palestine and Israel: News and Articles 9 January 2014
9 January 2014 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center6 Arrested In Jerusalem, West BankIMEMC – 12-year-old boy indicted [Thursday January 9, 2014] Six people from Jerusalem, Salfit, Jenin, Ramallah and Hebron were arrested by Israeli forces today, according to local and security sources. A Palestinian boy from Himza, aged 12, is facing Israeli Continue reading
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Basra: Profiting from their Destruction, the British are Back By Felicity Arbuthnot
In December 2007, Major General Graham Binns, Commander of British Forces in Basra, handed illegally occupied Basra Province back to the Iraqis, with Basra city centre “festooned with flags, lights and banners to mark the occasion.” In fact, the whole nonsense was window dressing. British soldiers had been under siege in their bases between February… Continue reading
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Statewatch News Online, 10 January 2014 (01/14): UK: Mark Duggan family reacts with fury to inquest verdict of lawful killing
10 January 2014 — Statewatch.org e-mail: office@statewatch.org NEWS 1. UK: Interception Commissioner fails to report on Section 8(4) certificates authorising GCHQ’s mass data collection Continue reading
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