February 2014
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15 terrifying images which show that Kiev is a real warzone
Corpses on the streets, burning police trucks and military-clad rioters beating law enforcement officers to death with clubs. This collection of visuals proves the words ‘peaceful protests’ are inapplicable to Kiev. Dressed in camouflage and toting firearms, the radicals have high-jacked peaceful protests in the Ukrainian capital. They represent the far-right wing of the Ukrainian… Continue reading
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Ukraine: U.S.’s revenge on Russia for halting war against Syria By Richard Rozoff
19 February 2014 — Stop NATO A roundup of stories on events in the Ukraine and the US role in provoking disorder. Continue reading
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Ukrainian capital going up in flames
18 February 2014 — Stop NATO A roundup of news stories on events courtesy Stop NATO Continue reading
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Cold War CIA Coup Templates Back in Business around the World By Wayne Madsen
The greatest collection of status quo enthusiasts can be found at Central Intelligence Agency headquarters in Langley, Virginia. As nations around the world attempt to distance themselves from Washington’s financial, military, and political grip, the CIA is reaching into its past playbook to deal with wayward governments. Continue reading
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Roundup Linked to Global Boom in Celiac Disease and Gluten Intolerance
Celiac disease, gluten intolerance and irritable bowel syndrome are on the rise worldwide, and that rise has taken place in parallel with the increased use of glyphosate (Roundup) herbicide, shows a new US peer-reviewed paper from Dr. Anthony Samsel and Dr. Stephanie Seneff. The review has been published in the Journal of Interdisciplinary Toxicology. Continue reading
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Clashes in Ukraine signal escalation of US-EU intervention By Oliver Campbell and Peter Symonds
Violent clashes between police and protesters yesterday in Kiev mark an escalation of the campaign by the pro-Western opposition to oust Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych. The opposition, backed by the United States and German governments, aims to install a far-right regime committed to integrating Ukraine within the European Union and implementing its demands for austerity… Continue reading
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On Brighton beach: austerity, alienation and the battle for democracy By Adam Ramsay
The neo-liberal project has purged democracy from almost every corner of our lives. In doing so, it has changed our understanding of the world, and so who we are. A council tax referendum in Brighton would be a signal that England’s democratic soul is still alive. Continue reading
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Statewatch News Online, 18 February 2014 (04/14)
18 February 2014 — Statewatch – e-mail: office@statewatch.org Thanks to all those who made a generous donation last month. It would be really appreciated if other Statewatchers could make a contribution this month. Kind regards, Tony Bunyan Continue reading
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Autoasphyxiation – Who’ll stop the market suffocating the NHS? By David Zigmond
The toxic burden of the market is dooming the NHS to disintegration and depersonalisation – yet GPs coralled into Clinical Commissioning Groups aren’t even allowed to question it. Continue reading
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Snowden’s lawyer: ‘Lawyers targeted in ‘democratic countries’ on the basis of who they represent’
Questions must be raised about the integrity of a judicial system that allows attorneys working on someone’s case to be harassed and intimidated on the basis of whom they represent, Jesselyn Radack, Snowden’s lawyer, told RT. Continue reading
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Top Brit docs wade into GP data grab row, demand ‘urgent’ NHS England talks By Kelly Fiveash
Pressure is mounting on NHS England to stall its incoming data grab of GP-stored medical records, after another health body said that the government needed to improve public awareness of the controversial scheme. Continue reading
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Washington forever scheming in Syria and in Geneva By Thierry Meyssan
While negotiating with one hand in Geneva, with the other Washington is preparing a new military operation against Syria. Whatever the sequence of events, it will be sure to advance its pawns one way or another. War comes at no cost to Washington. It is the Syrians who are dying. To save time, it submitted… Continue reading
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Constructing "Venezuela" Protests: a Photo Gallery
The polarized politics of Venezuela are again in the news as demonstrations by pro- (see above) and anti-government forces are taking place, with, at this point, four deaths: a government supporter; an opposition demonstrator; a police officer; and one of uncertain provenance. But the foreign press is portraying these as evidence of bloody government repression. Continue reading
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Constructing “Venezuela” Protests: a Photo Gallery
The polarized politics of Venezuela are again in the news as demonstrations by pro- (see above) and anti-government forces are taking place, with, at this point, four deaths: a government supporter; an opposition demonstrator; a police officer; and one of uncertain provenance. But the foreign press is portraying these as evidence of bloody government repression. Continue reading
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Widespread abstention in UK’s Wythenshawe by-election By Julie Hyland
The Wythenshawe and Sale East by-election held Thursday was a lacklustre affair marked by widespread abstention and the absence of any popular base for all the competing parties–the coalition government in particular. Continue reading
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Media Lens: Bias Towards Power *Is* Corporate Media ‘Objectivity’: Journalism, Floods And Climate Silence By David Cromwell
The key to what is precisely wrong with corporate journalism is explained in this nutshell by the US commentator Michael Parenti: ‘Bias in favor of the orthodox is frequently mistaken for “objectivity”. Departures from this ideological orthodoxy are themselves dismissed as ideological.’ Continue reading
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Global Research Week in Review 16 February 2014: The Decline of U.S. Press Freedoms and the Rise of Opium Production
16 February 2014 — Global Research Convicted Criminals Serve as “Freedom Fighters” in Syria: Saudi, Pakistani and Iraqi Prison Inmates Replenish Al Qaeda Ranks, Prof Michel Chossudovsky, February 16, 2014 Continue reading
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How do you plead? Saving the megaspecies rhinos, elephant, tigers—the debate heats up By Simon Jenkins
If you really want to save the elephants, farm them The war on ivory, like the war on drugs, intensifies demand. Legalise the trade and breed the animals for their tusks Continue reading
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Mandela Eulogies: Reinventing His Disturbing Legacy By Stephen Lendman
They infest world governments. They run America. They inflict enormous harm. Mandela exceeded the worst of South African apartheid injustice. He deserves condemnation, not praise. White supremacy remains entrenched. Extreme poverty, unemployment, homelessness, hunger, malnutrition, and lack of basic services for black South Africans are at shockingly high levels. They’re much worse than under apartheid. Continue reading
The New Dark Age 