January 2014
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Doreen Lawrence, police spies and institutional racism By Adam Elliott-Cooper
Allegations of police spying on anti-racism groups shed new light on the meaning and operation of ‘institutional racism’. Here, Adam Elliott-Cooper reflects on the Stephen Lawrence Campaign and the MacPherson Report. Continue reading
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Race, class and the price of policing By Ashok Kumar
Metropolitan Police officers assaulted two protesters, then claimed they had been attacked. Video footage exposed their lie. One of the victims, this week awarded a £20,000 settlement, writes about police brutality Continue reading
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Housmans Radical Books January 2014 Newsletter
14 January 2014 — Housmans HOUSMANS NEWS UPDATE1. Housmans New Year Clearance Sale now on!2. Peace News WW1 event and campaign3. Two event additions and a date change Continue reading
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“Fakethrough!” New Report Shows How Easily Media Was Duped by Claims of GMO “Breakthroughs”
In an article entitled “Fakethrough! GMOs and the Capitulation of Science Journalism,” Latham describes how GMOs lauded in the media as “breakthroughs” are often just PR boosts for genetically engineered varieties or traits that either aren’t new, are untested, or fail (and the failures are too often not reported). Often, GMO reporting also ignores or… Continue reading
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How the Big Papers Remember Ariel Sharon By Peter Hart
Reading the pieces in the Sunday editions of the New York Times and the Washington Post (3/12/14) about the death of former Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, one gets the sense that reporters were aware of some of Sharon’s bloodiest history–but mostly kept that out of their accounts of his life. Continue reading
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Sharon and a Nobel prize for nonsense By Alan Hart
Until recently I thought Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu had no rivals in the business of talking propaganda nonsense (Israel’s Jews in danger of annihilation etcetera, etcetera, etcetera). But if there was a Nobel Prize for talking nonsense it does now seem that there would be a number of contenders. At the top of my list… Continue reading
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Fracking study finds combustible levels of methane in water after EPA gave the all clear
A report has found contaminated drinking water in parts of Texas, infuriating residents who had pressured the EPA to test for methane only to see the agency back off when the company allegedly responsible claimed that its own tests proved otherwise. Continue reading
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Exclusive: Devastating dossier on ‘abuse’ by UK forces in Iraq goes to International Criminal Court By Jonathan Owen
A devastating 250-page dossier, detailing allegations of beatings, electrocution, mock executions and sexual assault, has been presented to the International Criminal Court, and could result in some of Britain’s leading defence figures facing prosecution for “systematic” war crimes. Continue reading
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Iraq: “Devastating” Dossier Lodged with the International Criminal Court By Felicity Arbuthnot
A “devastating” two hundred and fifty page document, “The Responsibility of UK Officials for War Crimes Involving Systematic Detainee Abuse in Iraq from 2003-2008?, has been “presented to the International Criminal Court, and could result in some of Britain’s leading defence figures facing prosecution for “systematic war crimes” the (London) Independent on Sunday has revealed. Continue reading
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GMOs and the fables of industrial agriculture By Colin Tudge
Governments these days are not content with agriculture that merely provides good food. In line with the dogma of neoliberalism they want it to contribute as much wealth as any other industry towards the grand goal of “economic growth.” High-tech offers to reconcile the two ambitions – producing allegedly fabulous yields, which seems to be… Continue reading
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VTJP Occupied Palestine and Israel: News and Articles 11 January 2014: Ariel Sharon: Enemy of peace
11 January 2014 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Amidst Serious Israeli Escalation, Detainees Start Hunger StrikeIMEMC – [Saturday January 11, 2014] The Palestinian Ministry of Detainees has reported that Palestinian political prisoners held at the Israeli detention facility Ramon started a hunger strike to protest the latest serious Israeli assaults carried out Continue reading
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‘Humanitarian Warfare’: ‘Stabilizing’ Central Africa for the Multinationals By Burkely Hermann
All the while, high-level UN officials have said that “a strong peacekeeping force” is needed in the Central African Republic and that 6,000 to 9,000 UN Peacekeepers would be needed to “stabilize the country.” This brings one to the question of who or what is being stabilized by the military intervention in the Central African… Continue reading
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'Humanitarian Warfare': 'Stabilizing' Central Africa for the Multinationals By Burkely Hermann
All the while, high-level UN officials have said that “a strong peacekeeping force” is needed in the Central African Republic and that 6,000 to 9,000 UN Peacekeepers would be needed to “stabilize the country.” This brings one to the question of who or what is being stabilized by the military intervention in the Central African… Continue reading
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VTJP Occupied Palestine and Israel: News and Articles 10 January 2014: Incitement against Palestine: Israel Not Ready to Give up ‘Villa in the Jungle’
10 January 2014 — VTJP News International Middle East Media CenterPalestinian Activists Disrupt Normalization Meeting In JerusalemIMEMC – Dozens of nonviolent Palestinian activists managed to stop a meeting that was taking place at the Ambassador Hostel in occupied Jerusalem between Palestinian and Israeli officials, and said “normalization with the occupation weakens the Palestinian cause, and Continue reading
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Why Did the US Invade Iraq? The Answer in 2014 By Peter Hart
So at the 10-year mark, some reporters recall Fallujah as a place where US forces “redeemed the possibility of peaceful Iraq,” and the Iraq War as a noble effort to “plant democracy.” It boggles the mind what they’ll be telling us about the Iraq War in 2024. Continue reading
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TAO: The NSA’s Band of Technology Criminals By Alfredo Lopez
The TAO unit, founded in 1997 and now comprised of an estimated 1,000 technologists and support staff in a half dozen offices nationwide, attacks highly selective and well-protected targets. It steals data, conducts on-line denial of service and other attacks against computers and servers in other countries (including government servers and websites), sneaks into offices… Continue reading
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