25 February 2014 — Housmans
NEWS
1. Agit Disco: a benefit shindig for Housmans
2. Office space to let at 5 Caledonian Road
3. Left Unity job opportunity: Administrative Assistant
Day: February 25, 2014
Video bolsters BDS battle on US campuses
20 February 2014 — Jonathon Cook
It’s great to see the recent burst of creativity among Palestinians in telling their story where it is needed most: in the United States. Here’s a video that promotes BDS while pummelling all that hypocrisy we keep hearing about “singling out” Israel, not just from Israeli leaders but from US campus administrators. The video is a collaboration between performance-poet Remi Kanazi and Suhel Nafar, of the hip-hop band DAM. Continue reading
Video: Why is Inflation So High in Venezuela?
24 February 2014 — The Real News Network
Gregory Wilpert (2/2): Attempting to build socialism surrounded by a global capitalist economy and being reliant on oil revenues, Venezuela is struggling to find a solution to capital flight and exchange rate problems (inc. transcript). Continue reading
Video: US Backing the Destabilization of Venezuela
24 February 2014 — The Real News Network
Keane Bhatt: Elite forces in Venezuela and the US are determined to undermine the accomplishments of the Bolivarian revolution (inc. transcript) Continue reading
Does Venezuelan Television Provide Coverage That Opposes the Government?
24 February 2014 — Center for Economic and Policy Research
The New York Times begins its news report on Friday from Venezuela with “The only television station that regularly broadcast voices critical of the government was sold last year and the new owners have softened its news coverage.”
The Ukraine: Neo-Nazi criminal state looming in the centre of Europe
25 February 2014 — Oriental Review
“There are many who do not know they are fascists
but will find it out when the time comes.”
Ernest Hemingway, For Whom the Bell Tolls
Human Health and the GMO Industry: Puppets in High Places By Colin Todhunter
25 February 2014 — Global Research
Anne Glover recently declared that there is no evidence pertaining to the adverse impacts of GMOs. This is an extremely disturbing statement. It’s disturbing because it is not only patently wrong, but also because Anne Glover is chief scientific adviser of the European Commission.
The Same High-Level U.S. Officials Who Ask Us to Trust Them On Protecting the Constitution Want to Assassinate Snowden Without a Trial
25 February 2014 — WashingtonsBlog
Do People Like This Sound Like The Kinds Of People You Can “Trust” To Not Abuse Their Power?
New Snowden Documents Show that Governments Are “Attempting To Control, Infiltrate, Manipulate, and Warp Online Discourse”
25 February 2014 —
Spy Agencies Manipulate and Disrupt Web Discussions to Promote Propaganda and Discredit Government Critics
DO NO EVIL GOOGLE – CENSOR & SNITCH FOR THE STATE
25 February 2014 — WashingtonsBlog
“The conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organized habits and opinions of the masses is an important element in democratic society. Those who manipulate this unseen mechanism of society constitute an invisible government which is the true ruling power of our country. We are governed, our minds are molded, our tastes formed, our ideas suggested, largely by men we have never heard of.
Coup in Ukraine: A warning to the international working class By Peter Schwarz
25 February 2014 — WSWS
The recent events in Ukraine are a warning to the international working class. Under conditions in which workers lack both a perspective and a party to enable them to intervene independently in political events, the situation in Ukraine has developed in an extremely reactionary direction. What had been unthinkable in Europe since the fall of Hitler’s Third Reich in 1945 has come to pass: while the US and Germany ruthlessly and recklessly destabilized the country, fascists became the decisive force on the ground.
The New Dark Age 