January 29, 2014
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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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