25 April 2014 — OurNHS
Four out of five hopsitals are short of midwives, a new investigation has found. Funding cuts mean the situation is “getting worse, not better”, according to midwife leaders.
Day: April 25, 2014
Will Labour defend the NHS from the EU/US trade deal? By Linda Kaucher
23 April 2014 — OurNHS
Andy Burnham and John Healey’s statments on the risks to the NHS of the trade deal between the EU and the US seem at odds. Labour should be speaking clearly for the NHS.
A moment of honesty is required – New Labour began the dismantling of our NHS By Kailash Chand
25 April 2014 — LabourLeft
Labour must pledge that it believes hospitals and community health services should be publicly owned, publicly run and publicly accountable, writes Kailash Chand OBE.
Statewatch News Online, 25 April 2014 (06/14): UK: So who exactly IS now classified as a ‘Domestic Extremist’?
25 April 2014 — Statewatch • e-mail: office@statewatch.org
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1. USA: No-fly list used by FBI to coerce Muslims into informing
2. EU: European Data Protection Supervisor (EDPS): European Terrorist Finance Tracking System (TFTS)
3. UK: So who exactly IS now classified as a ‘Domestic Extremist’?
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Patients occupy threatened mental health clinic, some signs of victory? By Steve Sweeney
23 April 2014 — OurNHS
A seven-week occupation of a Cambridge NHS mental health clinic in Britain threatened with closure is having more success than past campaigning – is this the way forward?
Letter to European Friends from Lugansk By Alexander Akentiev
24 April 2014 — Strategic Culture Foundation
Dear European friends!
I live in Lugansk, the eastern part of Ukraine. I am elected to chair the Russian Union of Donbass, a public organization. The city of Lugansk is a leader of mass protests against the interim government in Kiev.
The CIA: Photoshopping a Crisis into a War By Wayne Madsen
24 April 2014 — Strategic Culture Foundation
A major Central Intelligence Agency conspiracy operation is currently playing out in Eastern Ukraine where, in an age of Photoshop and mail order credentials and military patches, photographs of the same bearded Russian “special forces” commando in Slavyansk and Kramatorsk in Ukraine this year and Georgia in 2008 are being successfully parlayed to the corporate media and by the Ukrainian ambassador to the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) headquarters in Vienna. The conspiracy operation follows closely on the heels of CIA director John Brennan’s visit to Kiev where he provided intelligence advice to the unelected junta now governing the country…
De-escalation in Ukraine as Seen by Joe Biden (II) By Nikolai Bobkin
23 April 2014 — Strategic Culture Foundation
According to the White House statement, the Vice-President Joe Biden’s visit to Ukraine was to demonstrate the support of Ukraine by the United States. Washington realizes the interim government in Kiev is on the verge of collapse. But its fall would be tantamount to a defeat suffered by the United States. Biden landed in Kiev to make the US save face and define the ways to retreat if need be. Under the pretext of global commitments, the White House is focused on the local-scale mission to maintain power in Ukraine in the hands of its puppets…The country is in disarray; the plan to convert it into an anti-Russian springboard has failed. Here is another US global failure and Biden had to cover it up by statements calling for «defense of Ukraine’s unity and independence and the restoration of its national honor and pride». But the results of the visit tell a different story.
Preparing Ukraine for a Proxy War with Russia By Tony Cartalucci
23 april 2014 — Strategic Culture Foundation
The BBC reported in their article, “Ukraine crisis: Biden to meet Kiev leaders in show of support,” that:
US Vice-President Joe Biden is to meet Ukraine’s new leaders in a show of support for the pro-Western government.
Mr Biden is due to discuss the forthcoming elections with the country’s interim prime minister and president during his visit to Kiev.
US NGOs in Ukraine – Washington’s Foreign Policy Tools or Biden Visits Kiev (I) By Nikolai Bobkin
23 April 2014 — Strategic Culture Foundation
Vice-President John Biden came to Kiev to see with his own eyes how the events unfold in the country. The second part of the article will be devoted to the results of the visit. Here it’s important to state the fact that Ukraine serves as an irritant for Moscow which may turn into its enemy and that’s the only thing Washington needs Ukraine for. The situation in the country has deteriorated to the point of bringing it to the brink of civil war, but Washington does not care. The main thing is to keep the puppet regime in power. Biden is an author of «color revolutions» policy and the person responsible for staging unrest in other countries, for him Ukraine is just another testing ground no different from North Africa…
Washington and the Corporate Media are in Full Propaganda Mode on Ukraine By Dave Lindorff
25 April 2014 — Greanville Post
Unfortunately, self-righteous “exceptionalism” makes the sanctimonious complaints by US leaders plausible to many brainwashed Americans.
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Obama: “Remaking the Middle East”: The American Gulag By Prof. James Petras
22 April 2014 — James Petras
Introduction: During the beginning of his first term in office President Obama promised “to remake the Middle East into a region of prosperity and freedom”. Six years later the reality is totally the contrary: the Middle East is ruled by despotic regimes whose jails are overflowing with political prisoners.
Fukushima Didn’t Just Suffer 3 Meltdowns … It Also Suffered Melt-THROUGHS and Melt-OUTS
25 April 2014 — WashingtonsBlog
The Nuclear Core Has Finally Been Found … Scattered All Over Japan
We reported in May 2011 that authorities knew – within days or weeks – that all 3 active Fukushima nuclear reactors had melted down, but covered up that fact for months.
New York Times Admits It Pushed Fabricated Evidence about Iraq, Syria and Ukraine
24 April 2014 — WashingtonsBlog
Mainstream Media Is Being Forced to Retract Its Propaganda More and More Quickly
The New York Times pushed fabricated evidence in the run up to the Iraq war. A year later, the newspaper apologized for its inaccurate, one-sided coverage.
The REAL Reasons We’re Drifting Towards World War III
23 April 2014 — WashingtonsBlog
War: The Big Picture
All of the talk of war in the Ukraine and Syria is confusing … so here’s an executive summary: Continue reading
Ukrainian regime launches fascist-led crackdown By Alex Lantier
25 April 2014 — WSWS
The Western-backed regime in Kiev and fascist militias allied to it launched a bloody crackdown against pro-Russian protests across eastern Ukraine yesterday. With the Kremlin massing forces on Russia’s border with Ukraine, threatening to intervene defend ethnic Russians, the situation is on the brink of a war between Russia and Ukraine, which could escalate into a direct clash between Russia and NATO.
Family doctor services “under severe threat of extinction” in Britain By Mark Blackwood
24 April 2014 — WSWS
The Royal College of General Practitioners (RCGP), the professional membership body for family doctors in Britain, is warning that the future of health care provided by General Practitioners (GPs) is “under severe threat of extinction”.
Does Washington want war with Russia? By Bill Van Auken
24 April 2014 — WSWS
Does Washington want a war with Russia? A review of recent US actions surrounding the crisis in Ukraine clearly poses what would have once seemed an unthinkable question. The Obama administration is playing a very dangerous game of Russian Roulette.
Twitter campaign backfires on New York Police Department By Sandy English
24 April 2014 — WSWS
On Tuesday, the New York City Police Department (NYPD) attempted a public relations campaign on the popular microblogging platform, Twitter. @NYPDNews, the Twitter account of the department, asked its followers, “Do you have a photo w/ a member of the NYPD? Tweet us & tag it #myNYPD.”
The New Dark Age 