27 March 2014 — openSecurity – TomDispatch.com
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.
27 March 2014 — Good Morning Turkey
[The following is the leaked transcription of secretly recorded conversations of top Turkish government officials contemplating a false flag operation that would implicate Syria in an attack on Turkey. Source? The Russians? WB]
A new audio leak reveals secret conversations which allegedly took place between intelligence chief Hakan Fidan, FM Ahmet Davutoglu, FM undersecretary Feridun Sinirlioglu and General Yasar Güler. In the leaked audio they talk about arming Syrian rebels and attacking Turkish soil for casus belli if necessary.
27 March 2014 — WSWS
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 of democracy and peace.
27 March 2014 — Global Research
Governments and major corporations control or, at least, try to manipulate public opinion and discursive processes through mass media communication. They also wage information wars through the use of mass media communication. Like other geopolitical events, this is the case concerning the Ukrainian anti-government protests and the proceeding February 2014 coup in Kiev. This information war is a contest where the international news networks and major newspapers act as armies, the weapons being used are the media, and the frontline is the interactive space known as the public sphere. Radio frequencies, air waves, satellite feeds, social media, cellular or mobile phone uploads, communication networks, and the internet are all part of the war.
27 March 2014 — OurNHS
The planned sell-off of George Elliott hospital has been cancelled, hailed as a victory for common sense by unions and campaigners.
27 March 2014 — Moon of Alabama
On March 23 AlQaeda 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 given artillery support and anti-air cover from Turkey. A Syrian jet on a bombing run against the Jihadists was shot down by the Turkish air-force.
27 March 2014 — VSC
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27 March 2014 — OurNHS
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.
26 March 2014 — VTJP
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Woman Injured after Being Rammed by Settler’s Car near Bethlehem
IMEMC – [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 Bethlehem. …
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27 March 2014 — Statewatch
1. Constructing the secret EU state: “Restricted” and “Limite” documents hidden from view by the Council
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27 March 2014 — Media Lens
Prior to the March 16 referendum, the BBC website reported:
‘Crimeans will vote on whether they want their autonomous republic to break away from Ukraine and join Russia.’
26 March 2014 — Black Agenda Report
27 March 2014 — williambowles.info
America does not at the moment have a functioning democracy.
— Former US President Jimmy Carter
26 March 2014 — Dissident Voice
The West must understand that, to Russia, Ukraine can never be just a foreign country. Russian history began in what was called Kievan-Rus. The Russian religion spread from there. Ukraine has been part of Russia for centuries, and their histories were intertwined before then. — Henry Kissinger, Washington Post, March 6, 2014
27 March 2014 — RT
RT: The US President said that we’re not facing a new Cold War yet. He has also called on Russia to be deeply isolated – how do these points come together, how do they even work side by side?
27 March 2014 — Strategic Culture Foundation
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.
27 March 2014 — WSWS
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 New Dark Age 