March 31, 2014
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Who is behind Reform’s call for NHS charges? By Tamasin Cave
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? Continue reading
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Video: Exclusive: Egyptian Activist Alaa Abd El-Fattah on Prison & Regime’s “War on a Whole Generation”
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… Continue reading
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Video: Exclusive: Egyptian Activist Alaa Abd El-Fattah on Prison & Regime’s "War on a Whole Generation"
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… Continue reading
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Video: Putin mocks the ‘missile shield’
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. Continue reading
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Video: Putin mocks the 'missile shield'
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. Continue reading
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ColdType Issue 84 Now on line: Ukraine / The UK Miners' Strike and more…
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… Continue reading
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The Crimean Crisis and US Hypocrisy. “War of Words” to Justify Outright Aggression By Kourosh Ziabari
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. Continue reading
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Ukrainian crisis: Eight strategic recommendations BY GEAB
This crisis is well and truly a test of national leaders’ ability to grasp the tools of independence, power and peace that their fathers (the generations of politicians which ruled right until the end of the 80s basically) have put at their disposal, this united and institutionalized Europe which only remains to be put under… Continue reading
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Secrets About Suspected Israeli Theft of U.S. Weapons-Grade Nuclear Material Declassified
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. Continue reading
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New evidence of US intelligence links to Boston Marathon bomber By Nick Barrickman
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… Continue reading
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UK benefits claimants victimised and driven into destitution By Barry Mason
The British government has greatly increased the number of sanctions against benefit claimants, resulting in their benefits being “stopped.” Continue reading
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Target: Ukraine – How foreign intervention is tearing the country apart By grtv
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… Continue reading
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VTJP Occupied Palestine and Israel: News and Articles 30 March 2014: Israeli Checkpoints Crippling Palestinian Society
30 March 2014 — VTJP News International Middle East Media CenterSeveral Kidnappings, Detentions Across West BankIMEMC – Israeli occupation forces abducted, on Sunday morning, several citizens from the West Bank. … Continue reading
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Iraq Nation Destroyed, Oil Riches Confiscated. Surviving Iraqi Population Impoverished By Asad Ismi
Capitalism has inflicted war on most of humanity for centuries to acquire the world’s resources and markets. The establishment of capitalism as a global economic system by European imperialists has killed more than a billion people, most of them in the Global South. Continue reading
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The Kerry-Lavrov chess match By Pepe Escobar
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. Continue reading
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Historic Day: “Al-Qaida’s flag now flies on the Mediterranean Sea” with NATO member help By Brad Hoff
The Syrian rebels are in the midst of a new coastal offensive in Northwest Syria – a region that has historically been a stronghold of government support. This offensive has the full backing of Turkey and other NATO countries, including the United States. Continue reading
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Imposters in Kiev and Criminal Oligarchs: Alliance against People of Ukraine By Andrey Sulimenko
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… Continue reading
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