May 21, 2014
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China pivot fuels Eurasian century By Pepe Escobar
A specter is haunting Washington, an unnerving vision of a Sino-Russian alliance wedded to an expansive symbiosis of trade and commerce across much of the Eurasian land mass – at the expense of the United States. Continue reading
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Black Agenda Report May 21, 2014: Michelle & Barack Shill 4 WalMart, Newark Voters Reject School Privatizatn, Asante Must Go
21 May 2014 — Black Agenda Report This Week in Black Agenda Report Always Low Wages, More Pollution: Why Barack & Michelle Obama Relentlessly Shill For Wal-Mart By BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon Democrats in labor unions and figures like former Labor Secretary Robert Reich and others were justly outraged at Barack Obama’s latest Continue reading
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Cuba/USA: CIA SUCCESSFULLY CONCEALS BAY OF PIGS HISTORY
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit yesterday joined the CIA’s cover-up of its Bay of Pigs disaster in 1961 by ruling that a 30-year-old volume of the CIA’s draft “official history” could be withheld from the public under the “deliberative process” privilege, even though four of the five volumes have previously been… Continue reading
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Ukraine News Links 20-21 May 2014
21 May 2014 16:03:23 — williambowles.info Ex-Ukrainian president urges to dissolve Rada (ITAR-TASS) Western Media Blackout on the Reality in Ukraine (Washington’sBlog) British journalist held in Ukraine (BBC) Continue reading
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Video: New video shows Palestinian youths killed by Israeli army on Nakba Day posed no threat to soldiers By Allison Deger
Video of the two Palestinians killed last Thursday at an annual Nakba Day protest outside of Ofer prison show the youths did not pose a threat to life to Israeli soldiers. And a photo set reveals one medic was shot in the head while aiding a wounded youth. Continue reading
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VTJP Occupied Palestine and Israel: News and Articles 20 May 2014
2 May 2014 — VTJP News International Middle East Media CenterAl-Hamdallah: No Peace Agreement, Or Truce, Without Releasing All Detainees IMEMC – [Tuesday, May 20, 2014] Palestinian Prime Minister, Rami al-Hamdallah, stated there can be no peace with Israel, or even a truce, without the release of all Palestinian political prisoners held by the Israeli Continue reading
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‘Zombie parliament:’ British MPs set for 223 days off work in 2014
MPs have just started a 19 day early summer holiday, right after they had an 18 day Easter break, RT’s Sara Firth reports. They’ll then sit for seven weeks before a six week fully paid summer holiday. And if that’s not enough they get a month off in the autumn for party conferences. Continue reading
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Sunday Times rich list: “Astonishing year” for Britain’s most wealthy By Jordan Shilton
In its entirety, the list reveals that the richest 1,000 people in Britain possess combined wealth of £519 billion, equivalent to a staggering one third of the country’s GDP. This is a rise of 15.4 percent from the 2013 list, when the super-rich held total wealth of £449 billion. Since 2008, the year of the… Continue reading
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