February 2014
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Spy Agency Engaged In Internet “False Flag” Attacks
A new report from NBC News – based on documents leaked by Edward Snowden – appear to confirm our fears, documenting that Britain’s GCHQ spy agency has carried out cyber false flag attacks Continue reading
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Police State UK: Democratic rights under attack in Scotland By Steve James
An unprecedented police and legal clampdown is underway in Scotland. Primarily directed against young people, an escalation of stop and search measures has been unearthed by a recent report from Edinburgh University. According to the Scottish Centre for Crime and Justice Research, the rate with which particularly youth are stopped in working class areas of… Continue reading
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US threats mount against journalists, Snowden By Patrick Martin
Congressional leaders and representatives of the US military-intelligence apparatus have stepped up their threats against Edward Snowden and the journalists who have worked with him to expose massive illegal spying by the National Security Agency (NSA). Continue reading
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This week in Black Agenda Report 5 February 2014: Whitening Detroit, Documents Prove DEA Coached Cops To Lie, Legal Lynchings
5 February 2014 — Black Agenda Report This week in Black Agenda Report “Operation Afro-Dilution”: Michigan’s Plan to Flood Detroit with Upscale Immigrants by BAR executive editor Glen Ford It is the general consensus among white people that Detroit’s problem is, too many Blacks. Michigan’s governor has a solution: flood the city with upscale green… Continue reading
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VTJP Occupied Palestine and Israel: News and Articles 4 February 2014
4 February 2014 — VTJP News International Middle East Media CenterPress Release: Israeli Forces Raid Ein Hijleh As Villagers Remain SteadfastIMEMC – February 4, 2014 – Large numbers of Israeli soldiers and Border Police have made several attempts to raid the reclaimed village of Ein Hijleh and in return the villagers stopped their forced advancement… Continue reading
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Police State UK: GCHQ secret unit uses DDOS attack tactics against Anonymous – Snowden leak
British intelligence has its own hacker subdivision that uses questionable practices for hunting down enemies of the state, reveals a new leak from Edward Snowden. GCHQ is fighting Anonymous and LulzSec hacktivists with DDoS attacks and malware. Continue reading
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The Anti-Empire Report #125 By William Blum: All the 'news' that fit to print
4 February 2014 — Anti-Empire Report “Bias in favor of the orthodox is frequently mistaken for ‘objectivity’. Departures from this ideological orthodoxy are themselves dismissed as ideological.” – Michael Parenti Continue reading
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Ukraine and the pro-imperialist intellectuals By Alex Lantier
The “Open letter on the future of Ukraine” issued by a group of Western academics and foreign policy operatives is a vile defense of the ongoing far-right protests in Ukraine supported by Washington and the European Union (EU). It peddles the old lie, repeated over nearly a quarter century of imperialist wars and interventions in… Continue reading
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UK “bedroom tax” leads to record requests for emergency assistance By Mark Blackwood and Paul Mitchell
More than 200,000 people requested emergency assistance from local councils in the six months after the bedroom tax and other cuts to benefits were introduced in April of last year. Continue reading
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The London Underground strikes
The Mayor of London, who campaigned for election on the promise of keeping ticket offices open, now plans to close every London Underground ticket office as part of this budget cut. The first tranche of cuts will also see the loss of nearly 1000 front line, safety critical and customer facing station jobs. Continue reading
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Should David Cameron be Prosecuted for Recruiting Brits to Fight in Al Qaeda Ranks in Syria? By Prof Michel Chossudovsky
According to the London Evening Standard, a top British prosecutor has “warned that Britons who travel to join the Syrian conflict will face prosecution and potential life sentences on their return.” What the British prosecutor fails to address is that the British “freedom fighters” are being recruited with the full support of the British government… Continue reading
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85 billionaires rule the world: rich elite robs the poor By Rob Sewell
In Britain, a handful of super-rich plutocrats control our lives. On a world scale, according to Oxfam, a mere 85 top billionaires, who could all comfortably fit into a double-decker bus, own more wealth than half of the world’s population put together. Continue reading
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Capitalist Facts and Stats
The richest 400 individuals own as much as two-thirds of America and acquired $300 billion, equivalent to almost the entire welfare budget (SNAP, WIC, Child Nutrition $107 billion; EITC $56 billion; SSI $60 billion; TANF $17 billion; Housing $46 billion) Continue reading
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‘Maybe we haven’t been clear enough about med records opt-out’, admits NHS data boss By Kelly Fiveash
NHS data chief Tim Kelsey admitted today that the health service had failed to adequately inform patients about how they can opt out of having their GP medical records shared throughout England. Continue reading
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VTJP Occupied Palestine and Israel: News and Articles 3 February 2014: Scarlett Johansson: Israeli Apartheid is Profitable
3 February 2014 — VTJP News International Middle East Media CenterPETL Launching Ceremony Held in RamallahIMEMC – The launching ceremony of the Palestinian Electricity Transmission Company (PETL) was held on Monday, in Ramallah, and was attended by high-ranking Palestinian officials and an EU representative. … Continue reading
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Police State UK: Making UK citizens non-persons By Alice Ross and Patrick Galey
Last week at Westminster, the home secretary introduced a late amendment to an immigration-control bill which would allow her to make UK citizens stateless—without first requiring recourse to the courts. MPs voted last week at Westminster overwhelmingly in favour of giving the home secretary, Theresa May, powers to make people stateless if she felt they… Continue reading
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Media Lens: ‘Not Even Close To Reality’ – Filtering Sources On The Syrian War By David Edwards
If corporate media performance on Iraq was shocking, the response to Syria is made worse precisely because the lessons from Iraq could hardly be more obvious. Continue reading
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EU and Washington step up pressure on Ukraine By Peter Schwarz
The European Union and the US used last weekend’s Munich Security Conference to massively step up pressure on Ukraine. They are seeking to install a technocratic government pledged to implement harsh economic reforms drafted by the International Monetary Fund, change the constitution, curtail the power of the president and bring the opposition into power. Continue reading
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The Video Is Mightier Than the Missile
Can a video help change the world? It’s one of a great many tools we’re developing at http://worldbeyondwar.org and yes we hope it can. Continue reading
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ColdType Issue 82: Wealth and Power / Ariel Sharon / Propaganda-Cromwell-Pilger-Kozy…
Three big features this month, focussing on: 1. The shifting of wealth and power to the rich – articles by John W. Whitehead, Chris Hedges, Rowan Wolf, Bill Quigley and Sam Pizzigati; 2. The Death of Ariel Sharon, the Butcher of Beirut, marked by essays from David Edwards, Uri Avnery, Alan Hart and Ramzy Baroud;… Continue reading
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