February 2014
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Video: Venezuelan Protests & Maduro’s Rocky Tenure: Interview with Mark Weisbrot
Economist Mark Wiesbrot speaks to CCTV America about the recent opposition protests and violent clashes in Venezuela. Continue reading
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‘Good’ and ‘bad’ war – and the struggle of memory against forgetting By John Pilger
Fifty years ago, E.P. Thompson’s ‘The Making of the English Working Class’ rescued the study of history from the powerful. Kings and queens, landowners, industrialists, politicians and imperialists had owned much of the public memory. In 1980, Howard Zinn’s ‘A People’s History of the United States’ also demonstrated that the freedoms and rights we enjoy… Continue reading
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Declassified Documents Shed Light on 1980 Moscow Olympics Boycott By Lauren Harper
Declassified documents, including the confidential memo featured in today’s posting, help contextualize the Carter administration’s final decision to boycott the games in the hopes of preventing Soviet expansion into Afghanistan. Continue reading
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Attempted coup d’état in Libya?
In an 11-minute video statement broadcast Friday, 14 February 2014, on Libyan state television, General Khalifa Belqasim Haftar said he intended to take control of the political institutions and called for the country’s government and parliament to be suspended. Continue reading
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Russia Under Attack. “Neocon Ideologues are Pushing the World toward Destruction” By Dr. Paul Craig Roberts
In a number of my articles I have explained that the Soviet Union served as a constraint on US power. The Soviet collapse unleashed the neoconservative drive for US world hegemony. Russia under Putin, China, and Iran are the only constraints on the neoconservative agenda. Continue reading
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Coups, Media and Stalemates: What Violent Protests Mean for Venezuela
Venezuelanalysis.com’s staff writers offer their concise insights on three different angles of the violent protests that have been occurring in the country: the opposition’s strategy, how the media have reacted, and the implications of the protests for the Bolivarian Revolution. Continue reading
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New at Strategic Culture Foundation 9-15 February 2014: Ukraine / Bosnia / Syria / Egypt / Iran / Central America / Afghanistan
15 February 2014 — Strategic Culture Foundation Bernard-Henri Lévy: Harangues of Ignorant Buffoon 15.02.2014 | 00:00 | Irina LEBEDEVA Zealous French intellectual Bernard-Henri Levi visited the maidan in Kiev on February 9 to deliver another fiery harangue. The next day the article Bernard-Henri Levi: We’re all Ukrainians (Bernard-Henri Lévy: «Nous sommes tous des Ukrainiens») saw light published Continue reading
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The NHS: A Symbol in Peril By Doctormagiot
The NHS is now locked into a transformative process since the enactment of Andrew Lansley’s Health and Social Care Bill last year. My friends in the world of public health tell me there is a fair amount of confusion as to what is actually going on, with the dissolution of primary care trusts in favour… Continue reading
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The Iron Lady may be no more, but her poisonous free-market legacy lives on
Despite the undeniable devastation caused by late PM Margaret Thatcher and the free market fundamentalist ideology that bears her name, Thatcherism continues to dominate British society politically, economically and socially. Continue reading
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Linking to free stuff is not piracy, EU rules
Managing a site with links to freely available copyrighted content does not amount to online piracy, an EU court has ruled. The justices advised their Swedish colleagues, who are reviewing a journalists’ lawsuit against a link-hosting website. Continue reading
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South Africa: “Manifestos and Reality”
I speak to you today with a powerful and united mandate from 341,150 metalworkers. They made their views extremely clear in our workers’ parliament in December last year – the parliament we called the NUMSA Special National Congress. In that parliament there was vigorous debate. Every delegate knew that they would have to account to… Continue reading
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Staged Opposition Violence in Venezuela. Towards a “Colored Revolution”? By Tamara Pearson and Ryan Mallett-Outtrim
Violent opposition groups attacked government buildings and civilians, and clashed with police and government supporters following peaceful marches commemorating the Day of Youth. Continue reading
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Suicides of Bank Executives, Fraud, Financial Manipulation: JPMorgan Chase Advisor Tony Blair is Not Involved By Prof Michel Chossudovsky
JPMorgan Chase is the unspoken architect of fraud, corruption, not to mention the establishment of the largest Ponzi scheme in World history. The agenda is to steal and appropriate wealth through market manipulation Continue reading
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Ariel Sharon, Another War Crime Surfaces: Expulsion and Massacre of the Bedouins By Jonathan Cook
In January 1972, Ariel Sharon decided that 3,000 Bedouin were in the way of a massive military exercise he wanted to conduct in the southern Negev and northern Sinai. So he summarily expelled two tribes in the el-Arish area of the Sinai from their homes, during a deep winter spell. At least 40 people died,… Continue reading
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Fracking: Suicide Capitalism Poisons The Earth’s Fresh Water Supplies By Dylan Murphy
Lena Headley lives in in Fayette County, Pennsylvania. She and her husband bought a small farm for their semi-retirement with the mineral rights but not the oil and gas rights. Over the last seven years five gas wells and a transmission pipeline have been put on their land. The effect has been devastating: Pollution of… Continue reading
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Police State UK: Stripping UK citizenship by stealth By Alice Ross and Patrick Galey
Despite official denials, evidence has emerged that the Home Office has deliberately waited until UK citizens it plans to deprive of their citizenship have left the country. This requires no judicial approval—and greatly hinders any appeal Continue reading
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West and Ukraine: Looking at Possible Scenarios By Irina LEBEDEVA
The Ukraine 2020 report was published in 2010 by the Center for Global Affairs. The paper presents possible options for Ukraine’s political development. Professor Michael Oppenheimer, Center for Global Affairs, New York University, was the founder of the project. The events in Ukraine appear to unfold at present according to the «three scenarios» described in… Continue reading
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U.S. Continues War by Proxy: Playing the Al-Qaeda Card to the Last Iraqi By Nicola Nasser
International, regional and internal players vying for interests, wealth, power or influence are all beneficiaries of the “al-Qaeda threat” in Iraq and in spite of their deadly and bloody competitions they agree only on two denominators, namely that the presence of the U.S.-installed and Iran–supported sectarian government in Baghdad and its sectarian al-Qaeda antithesis are… Continue reading
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The nasty country? Debating immigration in the UK By Roger Roberts
A new Bill removes the right to appeal wrong immigration decisions, excludes undocumented migrants from the rental market, turns landlords into immigration police and extends charges for NHS care. On Monday Lords debated the proposals. Continue reading
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UK watchdog takes another bite out of failing outsourcer G4S By John Grayson
Stephen Small spends a lot of his time trying to convince Members of Parliament that his employer is nothing like as bad as they think. He works for G4S, the gigantic security company that holds £2 billion worth of UK government contracts spanning public health, welfare, education, immigration and the justice sector. Continue reading
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