April 30, 2014
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Ukraine: Coup-Government Acknowledges Defeat
Pushed by CIA Director Brennan and Vice President Biden the Ukrainian government twice tried to use its military against federalists in the east. The second time, when it pushed to blockade the city of Slovyansk, the Russian Federation announced a snap maneuvers of its border troops and threatened to intervene. Kiev called back its forces… Continue reading
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Selling Hydraulic Fracking: The Myth Of Energy Independence Used To Hoodwink The American People By Dylan Murphy and Jo Murphy
In the last year the corporate media has been full of triumphant articles declaring that America is on the way to becoming energy independent thanks to oil and gas fracking. The hyperbole goes further declaring that fracking will lead to America overtaking Saudia Arabia as the world’s biggest oil producer and so become an oil… Continue reading
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This week in Black Agenda Report 30 April 2014: Donald Sterling Owns NAACP, Bad Jobs Country, Lessons of Bundy & Sterling
30 April 2014 — Black Agenda Report This week in Black Agenda Report Donald Sterling Thinks He Owns Basketball Players, But He Really DOES Own the NAACP A Black Agenda Radio commentary by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon Billionaire racists will be billionaire racists. Not much we can do about that. But the fact Continue reading
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Why Rebellion Is Spreading In Ukraine
In the news we’re hearing a lot about the chaos in Eastern Ukraine, but there are several key elements of the story that aren’t being talked about at all by the mainstream media. Continue reading
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Video: The 1% and Piketty
So, Michael, this week we’re going to be talking about the very popular book by French economist Thomas Piketty. It’s a 700-page book that takes on the topic of income inequality. Why do you think so many people are talking about this book? What’s in it that has people buzzing? Statistics. It shows that wealth… Continue reading
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Osborne’s flagship employment scheme fails on launch date By Symon Hill
George Osborne’s headline policy at the last Conservative Party conference, known as “Community Work Placements” or “Help to Work” has launched today. However, the scheme is already in jeopardy, having failed to generate the voluntary sector participation it requires. Continue reading
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G4S given job of community placements
G4S is the biggest winner of “Help to Work” contracts, the latest workfare programme which started yesterday. G4S is currently under investigation for fraud. As part of this contract G4S will seek placements in voluntary groups, which will be responsible for reporting claimants for benefit sanctions if they fail to comply with the placement. Continue reading
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Obama’s ‘Strategy’ Against ‘Pariah’ Russia By Pepe Escobar
Yet the sanctions game will persist (like it did with Cuba, Iraq, Iran). The White House is already concocting more of the same. No adults in Europe will follow. Even poodles are able to sniff that the Obama administration does not even qualify to play Game of Thrones on PlayStation 3. Continue reading
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Putin: Washington Behind Ukraine Events All Along, Though Flying Low
The US has been behind the Ukrainian crisis from the beginning, but was initially flying low, Russian President Vladimir Putin has said. He added that if sanctions continue, Russia will have to reconsider who has access to key sectors if its economy. “I think what is happening now shows us who really was mastering the… Continue reading
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Ukrainian Soldiers Killed by Neo-Nazi for Refusing to Fire at Own People By Olga Shedrova
The «anti-terrorist operation» announced by the Kiev-based regime to quell the protests in the south-eastern parts of Ukraine is unpopular in the army. The local police units in the Donetsk, Lugansk, Kharkov and other south-eastern cities refused to take action after the administrative buildings were captured by Donbass protesters. In response acting Minister of Internal… Continue reading
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David Cameron praises ‘Health Heroes’ while he destroys the NHS By Tim Crocker-Buqué
In a Daily Mail campaign the Prime Minister deploys his personal tragedy and patronises health care workers as ‘angels in aprons’. Misleading rhetoric provides cover for Cameron’s legislative demolition of the NHS. Continue reading
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Ukraine Crisis Accelerating the Restructuring of the World By Pierre Charasse
The Ukrainian crisis has not radically changed the international situation but it has precipitated ongoing developments. Western propaganda, which has never been stronger, especially hides the reality of Western decline to the populations of NATO, but has no further effect on political reality. Inexorably, Russia and China, assisted by the other BRICS, occupy their rightful… Continue reading
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Tony Blair calls for stepped up intervention in Middle East By Jordan Shilton
In a speech delivered in London last Wednesday, former Labour Party leader and British Prime Minister from 1997 to 2007 Tony Blair urged a renewed focus by the imperialist powers on the Middle East, including further military engagements. Continue reading
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Wall Street Journal outlines US military options against China By Tom Peters
An article in the Wall Street Journal last Sunday revealed that the Pentagon has devised a range of “military options” to intervene against China in territorial disputes in the South and East China Seas. The options, described as “muscular” and “provocative,” include “increasing surveillance operations near China,” deploying nuclear-capable B-2 and B-52 bomber aircraft, and… Continue reading
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