31 March 2014 — Spinwatch
The private health insurance industry has been trying to get think tanks to help it make money in Britain for the last 10 years. Is today’s report by Reform calling for NHS charges the result?
Month: March 2014
Video: Exclusive: Egyptian Activist Alaa Abd El-Fattah on Prison & Regime’s “War on a Whole Generation”
31 March 2014 — Democracy Now!
In a Democracy Now! global broadcast exclusive, we spend the hour with one of Egypt’s most prominent dissidents, Alaa Abd El-Fattah, speaking in his first extended interview after nearly four months behind bars. An open Internet and political activist, Fattah has been at the forefront of the struggle for change in Egypt for many years and has the distinction of having been actively persecuted by Egypt’s past four successive rulers. Facing a potential return to prison in the coming months, Fattah sits down with Democracy Now! correspondent Sharif Abdel Kouddous to discuss his case, Egypt’s future and its ongoing crackdown on activists. “They are on a sentencing frenzy,” Fattah says of Egypt’s military rulers. “This is not just about me. It’s almost as if it’s a war on a whole generation.” Special thanks to Omar Robert Hamilton and Sherine Tadros (inc. transcript).
Video: Exclusive: Egyptian Activist Alaa Abd El-Fattah on Prison & Regime’s "War on a Whole Generation"
31 March 2014 — Democracy Now!
In a Democracy Now! global broadcast exclusive, we spend the hour with one of Egypt’s most prominent dissidents, Alaa Abd El-Fattah, speaking in his first extended interview after nearly four months behind bars. An open Internet and political activist, Fattah has been at the forefront of the struggle for change in Egypt for many years and has the distinction of having been actively persecuted by Egypt’s past four successive rulers. Facing a potential return to prison in the coming months, Fattah sits down with Democracy Now! correspondent Sharif Abdel Kouddous to discuss his case, Egypt’s future and its ongoing crackdown on activists. “They are on a sentencing frenzy,” Fattah says of Egypt’s military rulers. “This is not just about me. It’s almost as if it’s a war on a whole generation.” Special thanks to Omar Robert Hamilton and Sherine Tadros (inc. transcript).
Video: Putin mocks the ‘missile shield’
31 March 2014 — Youtube
The Russian interviewer asks Putin, ‘what does he think of the West alleging that the ‘missile shield’ in Europe is to protect the US and Europe from an Iranian attack.
Video: Putin mocks the 'missile shield'
31 March 2014 — Youtube
The Russian interviewer asks Putin, ‘what does he think of the West alleging that the ‘missile shield’ in Europe is to protect the US and Europe from an Iranian attack.
ColdType Issue 84 Now on line: Ukraine / The UK Miners' Strike and more…
31 March 2014 — Coldtype
Inside This 84-page issue
COVER STORY –THE BATTLE FOR UKRAINE: Analysis and photographs that you didn’t read in your morning paper, by J.P. Sottile, Diana Johnstone, Andy Piascik, Sasha Maksymenko, Randall Amster, Norman Solomon and Fred Reed. In an excerpt from a new book about the British Miners’ Strike, Grenville Williams tells how police falsified statements after the notorious Battle of Orgreave. Tim Knight recalls being captured by rebel forces in the Congo while in the company of a friend now accused of political assassination; Greg Palast reveals the real villain of the Exxon Valdez disaster 25 years ago; and Dave Zirin tells how Israeli soldiers crippled two Palestinian soccer stars. We’ve got a new story by Joe Bageant, insight from John Pilger, John W. Whitehead, Chris Hedges, Chellis Glendinning, and much more.
The Crimean Crisis and US Hypocrisy. “War of Words” to Justify Outright Aggression By Kourosh Ziabari
31 March 2014 — Global Research
The war of words between Russia and the United States is soaring these days over the sovereignty of the Crimean peninsula, and the White House officials are constantly directing accusations and excruciating verbal attacks against Kremlin in what seems to be the most serious dispute between Moscow and the West in the recent years.
Ukrainian crisis: Eight strategic recommendations BY GEAB
31 March 2014 — Newropeans Magazine
GEAB N°83: Global systemic crisis – The Ukrainian crisis, the ultimate test of Europeans’ ability to build their political union to take control of their common destiny
Secrets About Suspected Israeli Theft of U.S. Weapons-Grade Nuclear Material Declassified
29 March 2014 — PR Newswire
On March 18, 2014 ISCAP, the highest declassification authority in the U.S., released 84 pages (PDF) of formerly secret information about investigations into the illegal diversion of weapons-grade nuclear material from a Pennsylvania plant into the clandestine Israeli nuclear weapons program. Files now available to the public from IRmep’s ISCAP process include:
New evidence of US intelligence links to Boston Marathon bomber By Nick Barrickman
31 March 2014 — WSWS
Last Friday, lawyers for Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, the suspect charged with detonating pressure cooker bombs near the finish line of last year’s Boston Marathon, alleged in a court statement that FBI agents had attempted to force Dzhokhar’s older brother Tamerlan to inform on the Chechen and Muslim community in the Boston area, contributing to the latter’s decision to carry out the attacks on April 15 last year.
UK benefits claimants victimised and driven into destitution By Barry Mason
31 March 2014 — WSWS
The British government has greatly increased the number of sanctions against benefit claimants, resulting in their benefits being “stopped.”
Target: Ukraine – How foreign intervention is tearing the country apart By grtv
3 March 2014 — grtv
William Engdahl and Michel Chossudovsky
As geopolitical analysts from across the board explain, the Ukrainian coup has been deliberately provoked by outside agents to promote a combination of US, EU, NATO and IMF interests. Perhaps more worrying than the interference itself are its potential implications. As Russia’s every move is now being scrutinized for a possible military response to the ongoing crisis, the specter of a larger military operation now hangs over Eastern Europe.
VTJP Occupied Palestine and Israel: News and Articles 30 March 2014: Israeli Checkpoints Crippling Palestinian Society
30 March 2014 — VTJP
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International Middle East Media Center
Several Kidnappings, Detentions Across West Bank
IMEMC – Israeli occupation forces abducted, on Sunday morning, several citizens from the West Bank. …
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Iraq Nation Destroyed, Oil Riches Confiscated. Surviving Iraqi Population Impoverished By Asad Ismi
30 March 2014 — Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives Monitor
Iraqis who survived U.S. genocide still poor and oppressed. U.S.-created puppet government spawns lethal insurgency.
The Kerry-Lavrov chess match By Pepe Escobar
31 March 2014 — Asia Times
It’s hardly a match between equals – as one is playing Monopoly while the other plays chess. It’s as if Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has been postponing his checkmate, while US Secretary of State John Kerry increasingly realizes he’s facing the inevitable.
Historic Day: “Al-Qaida’s flag now flies on the Mediterranean Sea” with NATO member help By Brad Hoff
29 March 2014 — Levant Report
Dr. Joshua Landis, internationally recognized Syria expert and founder of Syria Comment, linked to the above photo on his Twitter account today (3/29). Landis commented: “Al-Qaida’s flag now flies on the Mediterranean Sea” -presumably in acknowledgement of the historic precedent this sets.
Imposters in Kiev and Criminal Oligarchs: Alliance against People of Ukraine By Andrey Sulimenko
31 March 2014 — Strategic Culture Foundation
The Kiev regime is bouncing back after the first shock of the events in Crimea. It starts to quash the unrest in the south-eastern part of the country where people resist the coup. Its leaders have…widely rejected recognition. There is a reason to believe that the regime will use the most repressive and outright coercive methods to deal with the population and resistance leaders.
VTJP Occupied Palestine and Israel: News and Articles 29 March 2014: Israel loses eight billion dollars and Arab parties join the boycott
29 March 2014 — VTJP
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International Middle East Media Center
Israeli Officials Refuse to Carry Out Promised Release of Palestinian Prisoners
IMEMC – As negotiations between Israeli and Palestinian officials reach a standstill, Palestinian negotiators have voiced their objection to the Israeli decision not to release the last of four groups of Palestinian long-term prisoners whose release had been promised as part of the so-called ‘peace negotiations’. …
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Lavrov: Russia has info about Ukraine’s Right Sector involved in Kiev sniper shooting
30 March 2014 — Global Research
Russia will respond if the European Union issues Schengen visas to Crimean residents only on Ukrainian passports
Obama’s speech on Ukraine: vocal juggler at work
29 March 2014 — Oriental Review
International media chime on Wednesday’s speech of the US President Barack Obama in Brussels made us download and scroll down the transcript. The overall impression: too many controversial statements and logical faults to take it seriously.
The New Dark Age 