March 27, 2014
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The heavy imprint of America's 'light footprint’ in Africa By Nick Turse
New documents reveal the blinding pace of US military operations in Africa as the Pentagon prepares for future wars. The numbers tell the story: 10 exercises, 55 operations, 481 security cooperation activities. Continue reading
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False flag op? Audio Leak Reveals Turkish Intelligence Chief and FM Planning to Attack Own Soil to Start War
A new audio leak reveals secret conversations which allegedly took place between intelligence chief Hakan Fidan, FM Ahmet Davutoglu, FM undersecretary Feridun Sinirlio?lu and General Ya?ar Güler. In the leaked audio they talk about arming Syrian rebels and attacking Turkish soil for casus belli if necessary. Continue reading
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Obama’s speech on Ukraine: Propaganda and lies By Patrick Martin
The speech delivered by President Barack Obama in Brussels Wednesday was a call to arms for a US-NATO confrontation against Russia. With a series of lies and evasions, Obama presented a world turned upside down in which the US and European imperialists, who backed the coup in Ukraine spearheaded by fascistic forces, are the defenders… Continue reading
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Controlling the Lens: The Media War Being Fought Over Ukraine Between the Western Bloc and Russia By Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya
Different technologies and modes of communication are used to enforce certain themes in the conflict. Language, selective words, particular expressions, specific pictures, multimedia presentations, and communication are all the ammunition for the war. Continue reading
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Shock U-turn as sell-off of George Eliot hospital cancelled By Caroline Molloy
The planned sell-off of George Elliott hospital has been cancelled, hailed as a victory for common sense by unions and campaigners. Continue reading
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Syria: Erdogan’s Invasion Plans Revealed
On March 23 A-lQaeda affiliated groups crossed the border from Turkey and attacked the western Syrian province of Latakia. They seized the Kasab border crossing and the Armenian town of Kessab. People there fled as the Jihadist removed the crosses from the Armenian churches and replaced them with their black flag. The Jihadist groups were… Continue reading
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Action Alert: Protest Inaccurate Guardian Video on Events in Venezuela
Please find below a letter recently sent from academics to The Guardian requesting correction of an inaccurate video published on their website. We now are asking you to show your opposition to media misrepresentation of Venezuela by taking 30 seconds to fill in this easy online form to add your name to their letter. Continue reading
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Gaza Friends: Israel Put on Notice Throughout the World
Internationals from 20 countries came to Istanbul to hear testimony on March 27, 2014 against Israeli officials and to offer their support to the victims on board the Mavi Marmara. Many of these supporters had also been attacked on other flotilla boats; suffering wounds, unlawful detention, torture and theft of money, credit cards and possessions… Continue reading
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Tory links of health agencies exposed as Hunt lines up next NHS sell-off By Jos Bell
Whilst understaffed wards and surgeries turn to well-connected private sector agencies to fill the gaps created by Cameron’s health ‘reforms’, the NHS’s own in-house recruitment agency is to be sold off, it has emerged. Despite a turnover of about £450million, the agency operates with low profit margins, with most funds going to staff pay rather… Continue reading
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VTJP Occupied Palestine and Israel: News and Articles 26 March 2014: Analysis: Demolishing homes, demolishing peace
26 March 2014 — VTJP News International Middle East Media CenterWoman Injured after Being Rammed by Settler’s Car near BethlehemIMEMC – [Wednesday Evening, March 26, 2014] Palestinian medical sources have reported that a 55-year-old woman was moderately injured, after being hit by a settler’s car in Teqoua’ village, east of the West Bank city of Continue reading
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Statewatch 27 March 2014: Two new Analyses exposing secrecy in the EU
– The Commission has failed to implement the Lisbon Treaty to ensure that all legislative documents are made public as they are produced – this means that 60% of Council documents relating to legislative decision-making are made public after “the final adoption” of measures Continue reading
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Media Lens: Voting At Gunpoint – The Jaw-Dropping Media Bias On Crimea By David Edwards
‘Ukraine and the West have dismissed the referendum as illegal and one that will be held at gunpoint, but Russia supports it.’ Legality was not an issue in BBC coverage of the January 2005 election held in Iraq under US-UK occupation. This was accepted on the main BBC evening news as ‘the first democratic election… Continue reading
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Obama Expands Bush’s Fascist Domestic and International Infrastructure By Glen Ford
President Obama has thrown international law into history’s dustbin, torn up the U.S. Bill of Rights, and is mapping millions for possible future detention. “One court order + one suspect number + three hops = everybody remotely involved in anti-war activity.” Continue reading
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How Much War Does Washington Want? By Paul Craig Roberts
I doubt that the Ukraine crisis precipitated by Washington’s overthrow of the democratic government is over. Washington has won the propaganda war everywhere outside of Russia and Ukraine itself. Within Ukraine people are aware that the coup has made them worse off. The Crimea has already separated from the US puppet government in Kiev and… Continue reading
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What Really Happened in Ukraine? By Jack A. Smith
Russia has taught the United States a stern and embarrassing lesson in Ukraine as a riposte to Washington-backed regime change in Kiev, the capital. “So far,” Moscow in effect warned a thoroughly shocked Washington, “but no further.” President Vladimir Putin then annexed Crimea. Continue reading
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Russia is enemy of the Western global financial system’
Lawrence Freeman: First of all you should not believe what President Obama says. We are in a very dangerous situation that could escalate to a world war. The decisions that President Obama’s made are not his own. He is a effectively a tool of Wall Street and the British financial system, and they have declared… Continue reading
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NATO Intensifies Activities to Counter Russia By Andrei Akulov
NATO is calculating the moves to intensify the diplomatic pressure and give teeth to verbal threats as it is preparing to provoke further escalation of relations with Russia. Continue reading
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UK Labour Party proposes compulsory cheap-labour scheme By Danny Richardson
Labour Party Leader Ed Miliband has launched Labour’s Jobs Guarantee scheme, aimed at young people age 18 to 25 who have been unemployed for 12 months or more. The scheme will last the lifetime of the next parliament if Labour wins the 2015 election. Those enrolled will be compelled to stay for a six-month period… Continue reading
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