May 20, 2014
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Political Repression Mounts In Run-Up To Ukrainian Presidential Vote By Alex Lantier
As the unelected Western-backed regime in Kiev prepares to hold presidential elections on May 25, right-wing and fascistic forces are attacking and murdering members of opposition parties. This underscores the entirely fraudulent character of the elections arranged by the imperialist powers in an attempt to give the government in Kiev a veneer of democratic legitimacy. Continue reading
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Boris Kagarlitsky on Ukraine: ‘A quadrille of monsters’ and ‘Smashing the feed trough’
— These two commentaries were written in January and February 2014 – before the fall of the Viktor Yanukovich regime and subsequent events — and have only just been translated into English. They are published at Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal as they offer insights into the thinking of an important part of the… Continue reading
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Anatomy of India’s General Election (II) Melkulangara BHADRAKUMAR
There are two competing narratives regarding what to expect from Prime Minister Narendra Modi. His acolytes keep switching between overlapping descriptions of him to convey their adoration of their idol – Loha Purush (Iron Man) and Vikas Purush (Development Man). Continue reading
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Anatomy of India’s General Election (I) By Melkulangara BHADRAKUMAR
The stunning victory of the right-wing Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party [BJP] in the recently-concluded general election in India needs to be understood from three perspectives – first, the sheer dimensions of the victory; second, its meaning; and, third, what it portends for India’s political economy in the coming five-year period in terms of national… Continue reading
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CIA barred from using vaccinations as cover after dozens of doctors killed
The promise was made in a letter to the deans of 12 public health schools – who have criticized the Obama administration for using a vaccination effort as a cover for reconnaissance – and was written by the president’s top counterterrorism and homeland security advisor, Lisa Monaco. Continue reading
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Ukraine News Links 19-20 May 2014
20 May 2014 18:10:51 — williambowles.info Is Ukraine Entering A Revolutionary Moment? (Greanville Post) Estonia: Large-Scale Article 5 NATO War Games On Russia’s Border (Stop NATO) Russian senator initiates parlimentary inquest into Odessa tragedy (ITAR-TASS) Continue reading
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Mastermind of Odessa Massacre Embarrasses Ukraine’s Jews By Eric Zuesse
One official in this conversation, “Noginsky,” is a lobbyist for Ukrainian exports to Russia; the other, “Epshtein,” is Ian Epstein, the Israeli Consul in that region of Ukraine. The Jew who had masterminded the [Odessa] massacre is “Bennie,” the nickname for Ihor Kolomoiskyi, a Ukrainian gas-magnate, who was chosen by the Ukrainian Presidential contender and… Continue reading
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Video: Who Owns What Where?
TRNN Producer Lynn Fries hosts an extended interview with Thomas Piketty about his widely acclaimed Capital in the Twenty-First Century. Continue reading
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West Funds Insurgencies By Felicity Arbuthnot
Thursday, May 15 marked Nakba Day, Yawm an-Nakba, “Day of Catastrophe”, the onset of the displacement of up to 800,000 Palestinians, at the time 67% of the population, followed by the destruction of over 500 villages since the establishment of the State of Israel in 1948, under the commitment agreed to by the then British… Continue reading
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Why NATO Has Not Permitted Russia to Join By John V. Walsh
“Those who doubted the wisdom of [Russia joining NATO], besides the possibility that Russia might not accept, which was a side argument, worried that it would impair the continuing military effectiveness of NATO, that Russia, essentially as an insider, would become obstructive and would work against NATO’s continuing viability.” Continue reading
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More on Washington’s Coordinated Occupy Crackdown, and the Dark Side of the Boston Bombing (Part II) By Dave Lindorff
Lindorff continues talking about his investigation into the FBI’s and Homeland Security Department’s hidden campaign to crush the Occupy Movement, based upon the thousands of documents obtained through a Freedom of Information Act campaign of discovery by the Partnership for Civil Justice. Lindorff also talks about his investigation into the men from Craft International, the… Continue reading
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Barnardo’s and G4S, partners in the child detention business By Frances Webber
Four years ago the coalition government promised to end child detention for immigration purposes. But they didn’t. Instead, the UK’s biggest children’s charity and security giant G4S created a prettier prison. Continue reading
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Russia & China: ‘No to sanctions rhetoric, regime change in other countries’
Moscow and Beijing have rejected the imposition of sanctions as political tools and condemned attempts at “encouraging and financing” regime changes in other countries in a joint statement released during President Putin’s official visit to China. Continue reading
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Russia & China: ‘No to sanctions rhetoric, regime change in other countries’
Moscow and Beijing have rejected the imposition of sanctions as political tools and condemned attempts at “encouraging and financing” regime changes in other countries in a joint statement released during President Putin’s official visit to China. Continue reading
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Renationalisation of the rail services? Why not start with the NHS? By David Zigmond
Labour is flirting with the idea of renationalising the railways – but it should start by renationalising the NHS. Continue reading
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VTJP Occupied Palestine and Israel: News and Articles 19 May 2014: How we lost Palestine
19 May 2014 — VTJP News International Middle East Media CenterAbbas Amends Sentencing for “Honor Killings”IMEMC – Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has amended Article 98 of the Palestinian Criminal Law no. 12 of 1960, abolishing the ease in punishment against crimes of honor killing committed against women. … Continue reading
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