January 27, 2014
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Media Lens: Ariel Sharon – War Is Peace By David Edwards
The ‘mainstream media’ – that curious collection of elite-run, profit-maximising business interests sometimes known as ‘the free press’ – performs a similar perceptual trick. In reviewing comparable crimes by the West and its official enemies, it is able to flick between perceiving virtue in ‘our’ criminality where only wickedness is found in ‘theirs’. Indeed, though… Continue reading
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GM Purple Tomatoes Set for EU Legal Problems over Human Testing
The GM tomatoes contain the pigment, known as anthocyanin, which is an antioxidant and claims have been made suggesting that they could help fight cancer. These claims are based on the results of a small scale test on mice which has been refuted or questioned by experts, including the UK’s National Health Service (NHS) and… Continue reading
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“The Death of Social Democracy in the Age of Global Monopoly-Finance Capital”: An Interview with John Bellamy Foster by Tassos Tsakiroglou, MRZine
John Bellamy Foster: The urgency of understanding the interconnections between the economic impasse and the ecological emergency derives from the combined threats they pose to the material conditions of the world’s population and to humanity’s long-term survival. On the surface they may appear to represent discrete, even diametrically opposed, problems. Their real interconnection is apparent… Continue reading
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Video: The UK Doubles Down on Austerity
John Weeks: The UK announces tens of billions of dollars of cuts to social programs despite a poor economic recovery Continue reading
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Video: Capitalism in Long Term Stagnation and Decay – Gar Alperovitz on Reality Asserts Itself (3/5)
Mr. Alperovitz tells Paul Jay that if you concentrate wealth at the top, there’s not enough purchasing power to make the rest of the system work Continue reading
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The Syrian state has already won the first round in Geneva 2 by Wassim Raad
The Geneva Conference 2 showed strongly the sovereign and independent position and attitude of the Syrian state and its determination to seriously find a political solution to the crisis through dialogue with the opposition. However, the opposition presented a crestfallen face and continued, with the enemies of Syria, the campaign of lies to intensify pressure… Continue reading
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The Privatization of War: Mercenaries, Private Military and Security Companies (PMSC) By Jose L. Gomez del Prado
Private military and security companies (PMSC) are the modern reincarnation of a long lineage of private providers of physical force: corsairs, privateers and mercenaries. Mercenaries, which had practically disappeared during the XIXth and XXth centuries, reappeared in the 1960’s during the decolonization period operating mainly in Africa and Asia. Under the United Nations a convention… Continue reading
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The Seeds Of Suicide: How Monsanto Destroys Farming By Dr. Vandana Shiva
“Monsanto is an agricultural company. “Producing more, Conserving more, Improving farmers lives.” These are the promises Monsanto India’s website makes, alongside pictures of smiling, prosperous farmers from the state of Maharashtra. This is a desperate attempt by Monsanto and its PR machinery to delink the epidemic of farmers’ suicides in India from the company’s growing… Continue reading
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Genetic Engineering Companies Promised Reduced Pesticide Use … But GMO Crops Have Led to a 25% Increase In Herbicide Use
One of the main selling points for genetically engineered crops is that they would use substantially less pesticides than conventional crops. However, it turns out that GE crops need a lot more herbicides than conventional ones. Continue reading
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Is Netanyahu Certifiable? By Alan Hart
NetanyahuThe expanded and most explicit form of my headline question is this. Is Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu of sound mind and knowingly talking propaganda nonsense about threats to Israel’s security in order to fool the world including most of its Jews, or, is he unbalanced, mentally disturbed, even clinically insane? Continue reading
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Red tide rising: Numsa in attack mode By Ranjeni Munusamy
Elections 2014 will come and go, the ANC will be top of the pops, and a new bag of Liquorice Allsorts will fill the parliamentary benches. The great shake-up in South African politics looks set to happen after the elections – and metalworkers’ union Numsa is likely to play a big role in the new… Continue reading
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Statewatch News Online, 27 January 2014 (02/14): UK counter-terrorism powers need urgent review, says watchdog
27 January 2014 — Statewatch • e-mail: office@statewatch.org NEWShttp://www.statewatch.org/news/ 1. UK: Use of Tasers by Metropolitan Police doubles over two years2. EU data bill to be delayed until after May elections3. EU: Informal Justice and Home Affairs Council, Greece4. EU: New police cooperation plan includes surveillance, intelligence-gathering and remote vehicle stopping technology Continue reading
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VTJP Occupied Palestine and Israel: News and Articles 26 January 2014: The ethnic cleansing of Jerusalem
26 January 2014 — VTJP News International Middle East Media CenterNumber Of Palestinian Druze Refusing Israeli Service IncreasingIMEMC – A recent poll, conducted by the University of Haifa, has revealed that the number of Druze refusing to serve in the Israeli army is increasing. It also shows that a growing number of Israeli youth prefer Continue reading
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The Syria Peace Talks: When the “International Community” Supports Terrorism By Dr. Ismail Salami
The negotiations started on Wednesday in an ambience charged with vitriol and spite. While Syrian Foreign Minister Walid al-Moallem was trying to clarify the real situation in Syria and give a “Syrian version of facts,” UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon interrupted him and tried to deny him the chance to continue with his speech. Continue reading
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Colonial Partners in Israel’s Crimes By Vacy Vlazna
Is it just me, or do you also see a thread of colonial superiority and racism binding US, Australia, Canada to Israel? Think about it. All are ex-British colonies and like Israel, have a shameful history of genocide committed against their respective Indigenous Peoples and all continue to treat their First Peoples as third class… Continue reading
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Book Review: War on Libya: Not a Humanitarian Intervention By Edward S. Herman
Maximilian Forte’s book on the Libyan war, Slouching Towards Sirte: NATO’s War on Libya and Africa (Montreal: Baraka Books, 2012), is another powerful (and hence marginalized) study of the imperial powers in violent action, and with painful results, but supported by the UN, media, NGOs and a significant body of liberals and leftists who had… Continue reading
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