January 2014
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U.S. Human Radiation Experiments Covered up by Public Broadcasting By William Boardman
When the military scientists of an advanced technological nation deliberately explode their largest nuclear bomb (and 66 others) over Pacific islands and use the opportunities to study the effects of radiation on nearby native people, which group is best described as “savage”? And what should you call the people who prevent a documentary about these… Continue reading
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American and British Spy Agencies Have INTENTIONALLY Weakened Security for Many Decades
Norway’s largest newspaper (Aftenposten) reports today that British spies pressured the developers of cellphone standards in the 1980s to intentionally weaken the cellphone’s encryption. In other words, hackers can break into cellphone calls much more easily because the British spies intentionally made the encryption 1,000 times weaker than it otherwise would have been. Continue reading
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Inhuman treatment of UK woman in privately-run prison By Dennis Moore
Nadine Wright, a 37-year-old from Peterborough, was a remand prisoner when she was left alone in a prison cell in November after she suffered a miscarriage. It is alleged that, with the dead foetus on the floor, she was then told to clean up the blood in the cell. She was on remand because she… Continue reading
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Global Research Week in Review 11 January 2014: UN Double Standards and the Battle of Fallujah
11 January 2014 — Global Research North Korea: UN Double Standards Pertaining to Sanctions and their Devastating Social Impacts, Carla Stea, January 10, 2014 Continue reading
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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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Canvas: The Belgrade US-Financed Training Group Behind the Carefully-Orchestrated Kiev Protests By William ENGDAHL
The recent protests in Ukraine have the stench of a foreign-orchestrated attempt to destabilize the government of Viktor Yanukovych after he walked away from signing an EU Association Agreement that would have driven a deep wedge between Russia and Ukraine. Continue reading
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The Anti-Empire Report #124 By William Blum: Stopping The Imperial Machine
9 January 2014 — The Anti-Empire Report “At last the world knows America as the savior of the world!” – President Woodrow Wilson, Paris Peace Conference, 1919 The horrors reported each day from Syria and Iraq are enough to make one cry; in particular, the atrocities carried out by the al-Qaeda types: floggings; beheadings; playing soccer Continue reading
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PAMBAZUKA NEWS 660 9 January 2014: SOUTH SUDAN AT A TIPPING POINT AND AFRICA’S SCHIZOPHRENIAS
9 January 2014 — Pambazuka News The authoritative electronic weekly newsletter and platform for social justice in AfricaPambazuka News is delivered free to you with the support of donations from Friends of Pambazuka. Continue reading
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‘Hospital closure clause’ – have your say now! By Caroline Molloy
As the Care Bill returns to parliament today, campaigners are rallying oppposition to the Hospital Closure Clause that would allow widespread fast-track hospital closures. Continue reading
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The Plundering of South Sudan By Tony Cartalucci
US AFRICOM, Israel, and Uganda’s Dictator-for-Life Yoweri Museveni set up in South Sudan, inflame conflict, push out China and prepare to take over oil. Continue reading
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O’Reilly’s Marijuana/Texting/Videogame Theory Destroyed by Guest By Steve Rendall
It happened as O’Reilly was explaining his latest crackpot theory about why young people are so horrible. According to the Fox News host, texting, marijuana use and videogames are leading the young down an escapist path to destruction. Continue reading
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