May 23, 2014
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U.S. Covert Intervention in Chile: Planning to Block Allende Began Long before September 1970 Election
Covert U.S. planning to block the democratic election of Salvador Allende in Chile began weeks before his September 4, 1970, victory, according to just declassified minutes of an August 19, 1970, meeting of the high-level interagency committee known as the Special Review Group, chaired by National Security Advisor Henry Kissinger. Continue reading
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New York Times’ vision of Ukrainian “democracy” By Bill Van Auken
The New York Times, which from the outset of the Ukrainian crisis has tailored its coverage slavishly to the line of the US State Department, spelled out its vision for a “democratic Ukraine” Wednesday in an editorial entitled “A Critical Election in Ukraine.” Continue reading
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Ukraine: The conflict in the Ukraine as seen by a professional soldier
I have been asked by The Saker to share my view of the current conflict in the Ukraine. I will provide no information that is not publicly available if one wants to dig and one is observant with the many videos available on the internet amongst other places. Continue reading
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Mobilisation starts in self-proclaimed Donetsk Republic
The city of Sloviansk (Ukraine’s Donetsk region) and adjoining settlements have again been subjected to intense artillery fire in which several [d]welling houses have been destroyed. The local people’s militia claim that an attack on a block post in the area of the Karlovka settlement (30 km from Donetsk towards Dnepropetrovsk) was repelled on Friday.… Continue reading
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VTJP Occupied Palestine and Israel: News and Articles 22 May 2014: Europe should atone for its sins
22 May 2014 — VTJP News International Middle East Media CenterHunger Striking Detainee Facing Serious Health ConditionsIMEMC – [Thursday, May 22, 2014] The International Red Cross – Palestine Branch has informed the family of detainee Ayman Tbeish, from the southern west Bank city of Hebron, that their hunger-striking son could die at any given moment. Continue reading
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Ukraine News Links 22-23 May 2014
23 May 2014 13:56:57 — williambowles.info Putin ‘to respect’ Ukraine vote (BBC) West reluctant to help Russia release LifeNews journalists — human rights ombudsman (ITAR-TASS) Russia will respect choice made by Ukrainians on May 25 – Putin (Voice of Russia) Continue reading
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The new aristocracy in Britain By Jordan Shilton
Remarking on social conditions at the end of the 18th century, Thomas Paine wrote, “The contrast of affluence and wretchedness continually meeting and offending the eye is like dead and living bodies chained together.” More than 200 years later, Paine’s scathing critique of social inequality can be applied even more forcefully to modern day Britain,… Continue reading
The New Dark Age 