26 March 2014 — Black Agenda Report
Day: March 26, 2014
by BAR executive editor Glen FordWho Is Dying in Venezuela? A Revealing NYT Correction By Peter Hart
26 March 2014 — FAIR Blog
Venezuelan protester (cc photo: Andrés E. Azpúrua)
Venezuelan opposition leader Leopoldo Lopez has an op-ed in the New York Times today (3/26/14). Given that he is currently being held in a military prison, the piece is notable. But the most revealing part might be a correction that appears at the end:
Risk Expert: GMOs Could Destroy the Global Ecosystem
26 March 2014 — WashingtonsBlog
“Black Swan” Author Nassim Nicholas Taleb Demolishes the Claim that GMOs Are Low-Risk
Video: 'What's really going on in Venezuela?'
14 March 2014 — Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal
This is what’s really going on in Venezuela since January 2014.
My reply to Guardian’s Shaun Walker By Jonathon Cook
26 March 2014 — Jonathon Cook
Dear Shaun,
I wanted to bring my readers’ attention to your response to my critique of your recent article in the Guardian headlined “Ukraine and Crimea: what is Putin thinking?”. Given that you commented late, and only on Facebook, most of those who read the critique probably never saw your reply. I am therefore posting it in full at the bottom of this page.
Ukraine: The Corporate Annexation. “For Cargill, Chevron, Monsanto, It’s a Gold Mine of Profits” By JP Sottile
25 March 2014 — The Ecologist
As the US and EU apply sanctions on Russia over its annexation’ of Crimea, JP Sottile reveals the corporate annexation of Ukraine. For Cargill, Chevron, Monsanto, there’s a gold mine of profits to be made from agri-business and energy exploitation.
The potential here for agriculture / agribusiness is amazing … production here could double … Ukraine’s agriculture could be a real gold mine.
Will El Salvador become another Venezuela? By Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya
26 March 2014 — RT
Inspired by the US-backed anti-government protests in Venezuela, El Salvador’s oligarchs are preparing to follow the same strategy.
Social media: A Weapon of PsyWar & you’re the target By Tony Gosling
26 March 2014 — RT
For centuries the most powerful intelligence gathering service on the planet was the Catholic rite of ‘confession’, where millions of people told vital info to the Pope on guilty acts which could then be used to blackmail them and their co-sinners.
Ukraine: Recalling Night of Long Knives By Olga Shedrova
26 March 2014 — Strategic Culture Foundation
Historic parallels are a risky thing, but the similarity between the past and our times is stunning. The Kiev junta – Maidan armed groups relationship and the bloody events known in the history of Germany as the Night of Long Knives are by and large the same stories.
Ukrainian Junta and Maidan By Alexander Gaponenko
26 March 2014 — Strategic Culture Foundation
The newly installed regime in Kiev does not control the situation neither in the country, nor in the capital. At the beginning of March the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the Ukraine Security Service declared an amnesty for those who give in illegally held arms. The deadline was March 21, the plans failed. Even according to distorted official data, 638 pistols, 43 Kalashnikov automatic rifles and 6 handguns are missing. The issue is acute because Maidan is seen as a growing threat to the junta, pretty soon it is going to be swept and cleaned up.
Egypt on the verge of a social explosion By Jean Shaoul
26 March 2014 — WSWS
The purpose of the military junta’s savage repression of the Muslim Brotherhood (MB), expressed most recently in the mass death sentence handed down March 24 against 529 of its members, is not just the elimination of its main bourgeois political rival. It is aimed at intimidating and suppressing opposition to what the military-backed government has in store for the working class.
Video: Media 'Staged' Syria Chemical Attack
24 March 2014 — Truthseeker
BBC ‘total fabrication from beginning to end’ of Syria ‘atrocity’. CIA caught infiltrating CNN, and Operation Mockingbird is back. The Truthseeker interviews, UK Member of Parliament George Galloway; Illinois University Professor of International Law Francis Boyle; investigative reporter John Helmer and ordinary Syrians.
VTJP Occupied Palestine and Israel: News and Articles 25 March 2014: Tourism as a tool to erase Palestinian identity
25 March 2014 — VTJP
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International Middle East Media Center
Japan: “Settlements Violate International Law”
IMEMC – The Japanese government issued a statement strongly denouncing recent Israeli plans to build hundreds of units, for Jewish settlers, in occupied East Jerusalem and the occupied West Bank. …
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