23 January 2014 — Jazz on the Tube
This performance — on June 20, 1969 — would occur just a couple of days after Eddie Harris had finished recording “Swiss Movement,” a live album that would become a smash hit. One of jazz’s best-selling records ever, it also nearly topped R&B charts of the day. Personnel: Eddie Harris, tenor sax, Jodie Christian, piano, Melvin Jackson, bass, Billy Hart, drums
23 January 2014 — StopImperialism
The battles currently raging in the South of Libya are no mere tribal clashes. Instead, they represent a possible burgeoning alliance between black Libyan ethnic groups and pro-Gaddafi forces intent upon liberating their country of a neocolonial NATO-installed government. Continue reading
23 January 2014 — The Bureau of Investigative Journalism
Obama has launched over 390 covert drone strikes in his first five years in office (Pete Souza/White House).
Five years ago, on January 23 2009, a CIA drone flattened a house in Pakistan’s tribal regions. It was the third day of Barack Obama’s presidency, and this was the new commander-in-chief’s first covert drone strike.
Initial reports said up to ten militants were killed, including foreign fighters and possibly a ‘high-value target’ – a successful first hit for the fledgling administration.
21 January 2014 — Black Agenda Report
23 January 2014 — OurNHS
London GP Louise Irvine, who led the successful ‘Save Lewisham Hospital’ campaign, is standing for European parliament for the National Health Action Party in a bid to stop privatisation and NHS cuts. Continue reading
23 January 2014 — RT
New energy goals set out by the European Union for 2030 will allow Britain to meet emissions targets by building more nuclear power plants instead of wind farms and expand fracking operations, despite criticism by green campaigners.
23 January 2014 — Sustainable Pulse
Today, Testbiotech has published a new report on future developments in agro-biotechnology and genetic engineering. It focuses on genetically engineered organisms pending for market authorisation in the EU and those that are in the pipeline and might soon be on the market. Continue reading
23 January 2014 — WSWS
Wednesday’s opening of talks on the Syrian crisis was dominated by the Obama administration’s insistence that the purpose of the “Geneva II” discussions was to remove President Bashar al-Assad and install a pro-US puppet government.
22 January 2014 — VTJP
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International Middle East Media Center
Dozens Of Students Injured At Al-Quds University
IMEMC – [Wednesday, January 22, 2014] Palestinian medical sources have reported that dozens of students have been injured at Al-Quds University, in Abu Dis town of occupied East Jerusalem, after dozens of Israeli soldiers invaded it. …
23 January 2014 — New Left Project
For Oscar Wilde, 1891 was a busy year. In addition to ‘The Soul of Man under Socialism,’ published that February in the Fortnightly Review, Wilde released four books, wrote Lady Windermere’s Fan and penned the bulk of Salome. ‘The Soul of Man’ is now read, when it is read at all, through the prism of ‘Oscar Wilde’—gay martyr, canonical playwright and official member of the Irish literary pantheon. A certain effort is required to recall the circumstances of its appearance. But by revisiting the intellectual and cultural world in which it first arrived, we can come to see it—and, perhaps, its author—afresh.
23 January 2014 — OurNHS
NHS England has still not done enough to inform patients of the privacy-busting implications of the new ‘care.data’ scheme, former home secretary David Davies tells openDemocracy.
23 January 2014 — WSWS
The UK Conservative-Liberal Democrat government is set to introduce, for the first time, charges for accident and emergency (A&E) treatment for temporary migrants and overseas visitors. Until now, charges have only applied to subsequent treatment as an inpatient or outpatient.
The New Dark Age 