April 2014
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It’s Not Russia That Is Destabilizing Ukraine By Sergei Lavrov
The profound and pervasive crisis in Ukraine is a matter of grave concern for Russia. We understand perfectly well the position of a country which became independent just over 20 years ago and still faces complex tasks in constructing a sovereign state. Continue reading
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How Israel’s war industry profits from violent US immigration “reform” By Gabriel Schivone
Bill approved by Senate and stalled in the House guarantees more deaths along the US-Mexico border and huge payouts to Israeli contractors whose military technology has been “battle-proven” on Palestinians living under occupation Continue reading
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NATO’s aggression against Russia and the danger of war in Europe By Chris Marsden and Julie Hyland
Since they mounted a coup in Kiev on February 22 with the aid of oligarchs and fascists, the United States and its allies in NATO have outlined measures against Russia that are tantamount to an unofficial declaration of war. In the space of just six weeks, the NATO powers have gone from helping stage a… Continue reading
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Video: West Looks to Carve Up Ukraine & Privatize Industries Held by Kleptocrats
Michael Hudson: The financial grab for Ukraine’s industries is simply war by another name, as other Eastern European countries have experienced a similar fate (inc. transcript). Continue reading
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VTJP Occupied Palestine and Israel: News and Articles 9 April 2014: Living in a Fantasy World, or How to Write About Palestine for Mainstream Media
9 April 2014 — VTJP News International Middle East Media CenterHamas Calls for End to PA Security Coordination with IsraelIMEMC – Arab League blames Israel for talks stalemate Hamas said today [Wednesday, April 9, 2014] that Palestinians in the West Bank should “give full rein” to resistance against the Israeli occupation and end security cooperation… Continue reading
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“If Stones Could Weep”: Syria, Blair’s Plans and an Archbishop’s Son By Felicity Arbuthnot
Not only is Middle East “Peace Envoy”, Catholic convert and Butcher of Baghdad, Tony Blair gunning for another overthrow and mass destruction in Syria, he has recruited the son of an Archbishop to help him. Continue reading
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NATO Members Conduct False Flag Terror In Attempt to Whip Up War
Pulitzer-prize winning investigative reporter Seymour Hersh (who uncovered the Iraq prison torture scandal and the Mai Lai massacre in Vietnam) says that high-level American sources tell him that the Turkish government carried out the chemical weapons attacks blamed on the Syrian government. Continue reading
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Venezuela’s Maduro charges US with fomenting Ukraine-style coup By Bill Van Auken
Venezuela’s President Nicolás Maduro has charged that Washington is fomenting a Ukrainian-Style “slow-motion” coup against his government in a bid to “get their hands on Venezuelan oil.” Continue reading
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Imperialist hypocrisy and lies on eastern Ukraine protests By Alex Lantier
Amid the escalating conflict over the seizure of local government buildings by pro-Russian protesters in eastern Ukraine, US officials and the American media are hypocritically denouncing Russia for allegedly inciting the actions. These charges, presented as facts but without any substantiation, are part of an intensification of the imperialist offensive in Eastern Europe, the aim… Continue reading
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“US Produced Sarin Gas Used in Syria”
The commentary to the video states, “The video which you are watching right now was filmed in Syria and shows the chemical weapons which were sent from Georgia. The US is standing behind all this. Former US Senator Richard Lugar is the person whose assistance made it possible to transport weaponsfrom Georgia via Turkey into… Continue reading
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Examining the Existence of Fascism in the United States By Danny Haiphong
Is the U.S. a fascist society? It’s a classic fit – a country where “the relationship between the state and corporation becomes indiscernible,” militarism is the highest value, and demonization of the Other is the organizing principle of the ruling circles and state. Continue reading
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Black Agenda Report April 9, 2014: Al Sharpton/King Rat / CNN Chicagoland a Big Lie / Charter School Corruption
9 April 2014 — Black Agenda Report This week in Black Agenda Report CNN’s Chicagoland: An 8 Part Miniseries Campaign Commercial For Rahm Emanuel and Urban Neoliberalism by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon CNN’s Chicagoland “documentary” is an 8 part wet kiss for Rahm Emanuel & neoliberalism by the same crew that made Brick City,… Continue reading
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Toxic Combo of Roundup and Fertilizers Blamed for Tens of Thousands of Deaths By Dr Mercola
The public’s appreciation of the toxicity of glyphosate—the active ingredient in Monsanto’s broad-spectrum herbicide Roundup—is still limited, despite highly damning research being published. The fact that Monsanto marketed Roundup as “environmentally friendly” and “biodegradable” probably has a lot to do with this general lack of insight. Continue reading
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The Bush Family Saga – Airbrushed out of history By William Bowles
That a family with so many skeletons in its collective closet could have produced two presidents of the world’s most powerful nation should have every last one of us wondering whether the world has gone completely mad, and perhaps it has. Perhaps this is the lesson we need to learn from the Bush Family Saga,… Continue reading
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FOIA Lawsuit Fights to Reveal US Government’s Involvement in Nelson Mandela’s 1962 Arrest
Nelson Mandela was found guilty of sabotage and conspiracy to violently overthrow South Africa’s apartheid government on June 12, 1964, served 27 years in prison, and stayed on the US’ terror watch list until 2008 –including while he was president of South Africa. While the US joined the international community in condemning Mandela’s arrest in… Continue reading
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Seymour Hersh unearths more lies on Syria By Jonathon Cook
Investigative journalist Seymour Hersh has a second fascinating essay that rewrites the official record of the sarin gas attack on Ghouta, near Damascus, in August last year. As usual, Hersh uses his sources in the US security establishment to throw light on what really took place. The bottom line: Turkey was almost certainly the party… Continue reading
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Media Blackout over Syria By Brad Hoff
On April 6, The London Review of Books published in its online journal Seymour Hersh’s “The Red Line and the Rat Line.” Hersh continues to expose details surrounding the staged August 21 chemical attack incident in Syria, which apparently pretty much everyone in Washington’s intelligence bureaucracy suspected was carried out by the rebels as soon… Continue reading
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Frame of Reference and Journalistic Integrity By Kim Petersen
Can writers, can anyone be truly objective? In his article, “Journalism and the Illusion of Objectivity,” Michael Holtzman tackles a topic that impacts media and journalistic integrity. It is correct to question claims to journalistic objectivity and to question the very existence of such a beast as objectivity. Continue reading
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Judge dismisses lawsuit challenging drone assassinations of US citizens By Tom Carter
On Friday, federal Judge Rosemary M. Collyer entered an order dismissing a civil rights case that challenged the Obama administration’s “targeted killing” program. Judge Collyer ruled that there is no legal remedy for the extrajudicial killings of US citizens, endorsing a battery of totalitarian pseudo-legal doctrines advanced by the Obama administration. Continue reading
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Harvard University report endorses police state measures in Boston Marathon lockdown By Nick Barrickman
A new report by the Program on Crisis Leadership of Harvard University’s Kennedy School, entitled “Why was Boston Strong?”, examines the response of police and other government agencies to the events of April 15 last year, when two pressure cooker bombs detonated near the finish line of the Boston Marathon. The report purports to “analyze… Continue reading
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