27 February 2014 — http://coldtype.net
Inside This 84-page issue
COVER STORY –INSIDE IRELAND’S HOUSE OF EVIL: Our main story consists of two remarkable first person accounts of abuse at one of Ireland’s most notorious children’s homes, by Alan Rodgers. Continue reading
27 February 2014 — WSWS
“When the Soviet Union was collapsing in late 1991, Dick wanted to see the dismantlement not only of the Soviet Union and the Russian empire but of Russia itself, so it could never again be a threat to the rest of the world,” wrote former US Secretary of Defense Robert Gates in his recently published memoirs. Gates was referring to the then-Secretary of Defense, and later US Vice President, Dick Cheney.
27 February 2014 — WSWS
The Kremlin carried out large-scale military exercises along its border with Ukraine yesterday, amid rising tensions with the Western-backed Ukrainian regime that seized power in Saturday’s fascist-led putsch in Kiev.
27 February 2014 — Greanville Post
Editor’s Note: The dispatch below, originating with the controversial site Whatdoesitmean.com, seems to us to be correct. The sheer number of rightwing venues denigrating this site —and its purported chief correspondent, Sorcha Faal—tells us that it is not likely to be just one more wacko outfit distributing nonsense. Fact is, we don’t give a fig as to whether “Sorcha Faal” exists or not. Or whether it is a man or a woman, or a nun or some guy in some basement typing these reports on his laptop computer.
27 February 2014 — RT
The US government is saying it will help Ukraine’s new government with money, but the US Treasury is not in any political shape to give billions of dollars to the Ukrainian economy which requires $35 billion, geopolitical analyst William Engdahl told RT.
27 February 2014 — OurKingdom
How do we know that the money we collectively give to our governments is being properly spent? We don’t. A new campaign seeks to change that.
The British government has just awarded a contract to manage the plundering of personal health data from GPs’ records. The winner, French company Atos, is best known in Britain for incompetently assessing disabled people’s “fitness to work”. That doesn’t inspire confidence.
27 February 2014 — Oriental Review
Today the European parliament has passed an extremely irrelevant resolution on Ukraine.
1. They recognize the putchist “government” and self-nominated “Supreme Rada” in Kiev as the legitimate central authorities in Ukraine.
27 February 2014 — Washington’s Blog
Glenn Greenwald’s piece on manipulation of the Internet by intelligence agencies gives examples – based upon documents leaked by Edward Snowden – of how governments disrupt social media websites.
27 February 2014 — ecowatch.com
A stunning new report indicates the U.S. Navy knew that sailors from the nuclear-powered USS Ronald Reagan took major radiation hits from the Fukushima atomic power plant after its meltdowns and explosions nearly three years ago.
If true, the revelations cast new light on the $1 billion lawsuit filed by the sailors against Tokyo Electric Power. Many of the sailors are already suffering devastating health impacts, but are being stonewalled by Tepco and the Navy.The Reagan had joined several other U.S. ships in Operation Tomodachi (“Friendship”) to aid victims of the March 11, 2011 quake and tsunami. Photographic evidence and first-person testimony confirms that on March 12, 2011 the ship was within two miles of FukushimaDai’ichi as the reactors there began to melt and explode.
27 February 2014 — OurNHS
MPs raise concerns about the impact the forthcoming trade treaty, TTIP, will have on the NHS – but Minster Without Portfolio Ken Clarke says it will make no difference.
27 February 2014 — Sustainable Pulse
The mystery of what is causing thousands to die each year from a fatal kidney disease may now be solved, with evidence pointing to the world’s most heavily used herbicide Roundup (glyphosate) as the primary culprit. Continue reading
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