February 7, 2014
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UK national health records database to have ‘backdoors’ for police, govt?
While care.data will not store the names of the patients, it will include National Health System numbers, dates of birth, postcodes, ethnicity and sex, in addition to health condition and prescribed drugs. The goal is to sell access to the data to university researchers, health insurance companies and other parties, which can make use of… Continue reading
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“Africa” a celebrity must have By Samira Sawlani
In recent weeks Israel – Palestine has probably taken up more column inches worldwide than it has in years. In fact the ‘conflict’ has enjoyed a showbiz makeover, gaining a place in every Hollywood rag and becoming a topic of conversation on day time talk shows. It’s entry and new found status is not however… Continue reading
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VTJP Occupied Palestine and Israel: News and Articles 6 February 2014: Why BDS Should Target All Israeli Institutions
6 February 2014 — VTJP News International Middle East Media CenterGaza Cancer Patients On The RiseIMEMC – The number of cancer patients in the besieged Gaza Strip is on the rise, as Israel uses weapons containing carcinogenic agents against Palestinians, medical sources have reported. … Continue reading
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Washington Collaborates with Ukrainian Neo-Nazis By Eric Sommer
The U.S. government is working with neo–Nazis in the Ukraine as part of its machinations to install a pliable pro-U.S. regime to replace the current democratically elected government. A just-surfaced leaked recording, which the U.S. State Dept. has tacitly acknowledged as genuine, features two high U.S. officials discussing how, and with which parties and officials,… Continue reading
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What about apologizing to Ukraine, Mrs. Nuland? (inc. full transcript)
Yesterday’s leak of the flagrant telephone talk between the US Assistant Secretary of State Victoria Nuland and the US Ambassador to Ukraine Geoffrey R. Pyatt has already hit the international media headlines. In short, it turned out that the US officials were coordinating their actions on how to install a puppet government in Ukraine. They… Continue reading
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US regime-change operation in Ukraine exposed in leaked diplomatic phone call By Patrick O’Connor
A leaked phone conversation between Victoria Nuland, assistant secretary of state for European and Eurasian affairs, and Geoffrey Pyatt, the US ambassador to Ukraine, has exposed the anti-democratic and colonialist character of the Obama administration’s intervention in the former Soviet republic. Continue reading
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Lifting The Siege Of Yarmouk One Food Parcel & One Polio Vaccination At A Time By Franklin Lamb
Yarmouk Palestinian camp, Damascus: As of 2/6/14 it’s been seven days since the first humanitarian aid, generally in the form of 56 lb. food parcels packed by UNWRA, the World Food Program, the ICRC or European aid organizations have been able to enter Yarmouk Palestinian refugee camp following half a dozen aborted attempts the past… Continue reading
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Fake images in Ukraine
The images of a naked Ukrainian prisoner in the snow, surrounded by police forces taunting him, have been spread around the world. They show the brutality of the regime that the glorious activists of Maidan Square are trying to overthrow. There is only one problem: at the end of the footage, Andrei Dubrovik can be… Continue reading
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Maidan activists trained by NATO in 2006
7 February 2014 — Voltaire Network A group of young Maidan Square protesters, members of the Nazi organization Ukrainian People’s Self-Defense (UNA-UNSO), were trained in NATO terrorist camps in Estonia, in 2006. The training included manufacturing and handling of explosives, as well as shooting. These young people went to fight alongside Georgian forces during their Continue reading
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Tony Blair whitewashes imperialism’s role in the Middle East By Jordan Shilton
Between 1997 and 2007, Blair led a government that oversaw a policy of imperialist militarism abroad and attacks on democratic rights domestically. Under his premiership, Britain took part in wars in Kosovo (1999), Sierra Leone (2000), Afghanistan (2001) and, most infamously, Iraq (2003). His claim that the roots of conflict today lie in extremist religion… Continue reading