March 11, 2014
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From the Archives: Cold War crisis in Ukraine Control of oil, key Grand Chessboard ‘pivot’ at stake By Larry Chin
Why does Ukraine merit such furious and violent scrambling by the various parties? Whichever powers manage to prevail will hold the key to the control of Eurasian oil and energy, the political control of the Eurasian corridor itself, and the survival of Russia as a nation. Continue reading
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Outsourcing cancer care – the biggest and most reckless NHS privatisation yet? By Clive Peedell
Outsourcing over a billion pounds of cancer and end-of-life services is reckless and shows just how threadbare government promises of ‘no NHS privatisation’ have become. Continue reading
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Privacy campaigners team up with leading public health professor to fix Hunt’s ‘complete nonsense’ on care.data By Caroline Molloy
Hunt’s fix for the troubled ‘care.data’ project – debated by MPs today – is “complete nonsense” according to medConfidential. They have teamed up with public health professor Allyson Pollock to propose an alternative fix to the troubled care.data project. Continue reading
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3 years on: Contaminated Fukushima water may be dumped as problems mount
Contaminated water at the battered Fukushima plant has taken precedence over everything else. As the larger cleanup effort continues and storage space for the water is rapidly running out, scientists suggest dumping it into the Pacific Ocean. Continue reading
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UK Government Pressed on Pro-GM Position
Food & Water Europe today asked the UK Government to change its vocal but ill-founded pro-GM position in light of the evidence that GM and non-GM farming are incompatible. Continue reading
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VTJP Occupied Palestine and Israel: News and Articles 10 March 2014
10 March 2014 — VTJP News International Middle East Media CenterPalestinian Civilian Killed by Israeli Soldiers; Death Toll in the West Bank Stand at TwoIMEMC – On Monday evening, Israeli soldiers shot and killed a Palestinian young man near the central West Bank city of Ramallah. Israeli forces invaded the village of Bieteen, near Ramallah, Continue reading
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Nuland, Ashton, “Klitsch”, “Yats” and…Oleh Tyahnybok?
Pepe Escobar put me onto these pictures, both taken a few weeks before the new ruling troika’s accession to power in late February. Victoria Nuland in the first, Baroness Ashton in the other. Pretty clear from these formal portraits that a formal anointment by the US and the West was underway. The three are Yarsenyi… Continue reading
The New Dark Age 