April 3, 2014
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Corporates carve up the African cake By Stanley Ellerby-English
This week World Development Movement activists, dressed as representatives of some of the world’s largest food and drink companies, delivered an Africa shaped thank-you cake to the Department for International Development (DfID). This tongue-in-cheek action highlights the support that DfID is giving to the New Alliance for Food Security and Nutrition, the stated aim of… Continue reading
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#IPCCFail – the police complaints watchdog’s “decade of failure” By Kevin Blowe
It’s ten years since the Independent Police Complaints Commission was founded, and they’ve utterly failed. Tuesday was the tenth anniversary of the Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC), set up in 2004 to replace another public body, the Police Complaints Authority, which had been wholly discredited by its failures during the 1990s. Continue reading
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Series of scandals shakes public trust in the police By Ben Gliniecki
A recent report by the Inspectorate of the Constabulary (HMIC) announced that public trust in the police has been severely shaken by the long list of scandals that have been revealed in recent months. Clearly someone at HMIC is being paid a large salary to say things that everybody else already knows. The working class… Continue reading
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President Marudo: Venezuela, A Call for Peace
CARACAS, Venezuela — The recent protests in Venezuela have made international headlines. Much of the foreign media coverage has distorted the reality of my country and the facts surrounding the events. Continue reading
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Germany: Warmongering against Russia by Die Zeit editor Josef Joffe By Johannes Stern
Buyers of the new issue of the weekly Die Zeit on Thursday will almost certainly read a warmongering comment by its co-editor Josef Joffe. Like no other, Joffe embodies the moral decline of the German media. Together with Stefan Kornelius of the Süddeutsche Zeitung, he is one of the German journalists who have agitated most… Continue reading
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PAMBAZUKA NEWS 672 3 April 2014: MISSED OPPORTUNITIES: SHAM ELECTIONS, COLONIAL LEGACIES AND A FORGOTTEN HEROINE
3 April 2014 —Pambazuka News The authoritative electronic weekly newsletter and platform for social justice in AfricaPambazuka News is delivered free to you with the support of donations from Friends of Pambazuka. Continue reading
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Barton Moss: policing in the absence of democracy By David Cullen
Violence has been a running theme within the policing of anti-fracking protests at Barton Moss. Individual officers are acting with impunity. Is this reflective of a policing strategy seeking to disrupt the protests on behalf of vested interests? Continue reading
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Why America Needs a Face-Saving Retreat Plan for Ukraine By Andrew KORYBKO (USA)
The American foreign policy blunders in Ukraine have been colossal, and as it currently stands, it looks as like they have completely backfired. Ukraine rejected the EU Association Agreement in November, only to have a covert Western-led coup usurp power. At that time, American policy seemed to have prevailed, but the flimsy foundation it was… Continue reading
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NATO, Russia, and the View from Mars By Eric Draitser
3 April 2014 — New Eastern Outlook Robert Heinlein’s classic novel Stranger in a Strange Land tells the story of a human, born and raised on Mars, who comes to Earth and struggles to understand the world around him. The protagonist of the novel, having no knowledge of the planet, is susceptible to misunderstanding issues Continue reading
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Massacre of Christians in Syrian Kasab – the hypocrisy of US and Turkey By Viktor Titov
While the whole world was busy with the Ukrainian issue, Turkey and Saudi Arabia, instigated by Washington, decided to take advantage of the situation and expand their intervention in Syria, where government forces were successfully winning back positions from the rebels. The greatest wickedness was the massacre of the Armenian population in the town of… Continue reading
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US-Ukraine loan ‘final rape and plunder by the West’
The law approved by Congress to grant a one billion dollar loan to Ukraine is only a loan guarantee and will not even dent Ukraine’s huge debts, 25 billion of which must be paid this year, William Engdahl, a geopolitical analyst, told RT. Continue reading
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VTJP Occupied Palestine and Israel: News and Articles 2 April 2014: £50 Tickets for an Israeli war criminal
2 April 2014 — VTJP News International Middle East Media CenterUS Secretary of State Kerry rebukes Palestinian leader for seeking statehoodIMEMC – After the U.S. Secretary of State, John Kerry, refused to attend a meeting Wednesday with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, thus stalling the so-called ‘peace negotiations’ that began last year, Kerry called the Palestinian Continue reading
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Ukraine and 21st Century Neo-Fascism: Left-Wing Support for Imperialism and White Supremacy By Ajamu Baraka
The U.S.-European “Left’s” tepid – and even supportive – response to NATO’s destabilization of Ukraine reveals the deep workings of white supremacy on the “western” mind. We face the specter of a “left-right convergence” to save the global imperial project. How else to explain widespread “leftist” acceptance of racist doctrines like “humanitarian intervention” and “responsibility… Continue reading
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Haiti: Thousands Demonstrate Calling for End of UN Occupation and Resignation of President and Prime Minister By Thomas Péralte
On Sat., Mar. 29, 2014, the anniversary of the 1987 Haitian Constitution, tens of thousands of people took to the streets of the capital, Port-au-Prince, and Haiti’s second largest city, Cap-Haïtien, to demand the unconditional departure of President Michel Joseph Martelly, despite a strange reticence from the Lavalas Family party’s Executive Committee. Continue reading
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CIA torture and the threat of dictatorship By Patrick Martin
Only one conclusion can be drawn from the report published in the Washington Post Tuesday giving grisly details of CIA torture of prisoners and systematic lying by government officials to cover it up: the US ruling elite as a whole is guilty of war crimes for which it must be held accountable. Continue reading
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Black Agenda Report April 2, 2014: Beware Obama's Imperialism, US Special Forces to Africa
2 April 2014 — Black Agenda Report This week in Black Agenda Report U.S. Deploys More Special Forces in Search of Kony, Africa’s Stand-in for Osama bin Laden by executive editor Glen Ford The latest deployment of U.S. Special Forces aircraft to central Africa is an escalation of an effective U.S. occupation of the continent, Continue reading
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