May 30, 2014
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Ukraine News Links 29-30 May 2014
30 May 2014 17:42:37 — williambowles.info Russian investigators open criminal case over banned methods of war in Ukraine (ITAR-TASS) Slavyansk militia asks Ukraine army not to fire at purification facilities using liquid chlorine (Voice of Russia) ‘The disgraced oligarch’: WikiLeaks cables reveal changing US views on Poroshenko (SCF) Continue reading
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Bush’s Anti-Terror Chief: Bush, Cheney and Rumsfeld Can Be Tried at the Hague for War Crimes They Committed In Iraq
Bush’s top counter-terrorism official for his first year as president – Richard Clarke – tells Democracy Now that Bush, Cheney and Rumsfeld committed war crimes in Iraq … and that they can be tried at the Hague Continue reading
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Britain: Behind the strong vote for far-right UKIP By Dave Kellaway
Despite a strong support for the far right, the radical anti-austerity left maintained and increased its votes in some countries such as Greece, but also Spain and Portugal. Continue reading
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The future visible in St Petersburg By Pepe Escobar
In more ways than one, last week heralded the birth of a Eurasian century. Of course, the US$400 billion Russia-China gas deal was clinched only at the last minute in Shanghai, on Wednesday (a complement to the June 2013, 25-year, $270 billion oil deal between Rosneft and China’s CNPC.) Continue reading
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VTJP Occupied Palestine and Israel: News and Articles 29 May 2014
29 May 2014 — VTJP News International Middle East Media CenterCommunities Demand An End to Ethnic Cleansing in Jordan ValleyIMEMC – Palestinians protested Wednesday in front of the United Nations office in Ramallah against the latest wave of home demolitions and displacement of the Palestinian Bedouin community in the village of Abu al Jaj. The Continue reading
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51st Anniversary: The African Union and the Illusive Promise of Unity By Abayomi Azikiwe
May 25, 2014 marked the 51st anniversary of the founding of the Organization of African Unity (OAU), the predecessor of the African Union (AU), which was initiated through the Sirte Declaration of 1999 and formally established in 2002. Last year was the focus of the Jubilee Celebrations for the AU where there was much reflection… Continue reading
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Kiev Launches Genocide Campaign against Donbass By Olga Shedrova
On May 26 the Kiev junta abruptly intensified the combat actions as the punitive operation against Donbass proceeded. It was the first time when front-line aviation and artillery delivered strikes to destroy houses in the populated areas of the Donetsk region. The fighting was raging during the whole day near the city’s airport. Continue reading
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Germany: Leading journalists attempt to censor TV program By Peter Schwarz
Since February, Germany’s second public television channel, the ZDF, has been broadcasting the political satire show “Die Anstalt” (the German word is used for a TV station as well as for a mental asylum) at regular intervals. Featuring 46-year-old Max Uthoff and 36-year-old Claus von Wagner, a younger generation of comedians has taken over from… Continue reading
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Obama’s West Point speech: A prescription for unending war By Bill Van Auken
The US media has broadly cast the speech delivered by President Barack Obama at West Point on Wednesday as a farewell to the decade-long wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and an embrace of a more multilateral and less militaristic American foreign policy. Continue reading
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Obama’s West Point speech: A prescription for unending war By Bill Van Auken
The US media has broadly cast the speech delivered by President Barack Obama at West Point on Wednesday as a farewell to the decade-long wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and an embrace of a more multilateral and less militaristic American foreign policy. Continue reading
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US Biolabs: A New Smallpox-like disease breaks out in Georgia By Henry Kamens
Jeffrey Silverman, an investigative journalist in the Republic of Georgia and US Army veteran, was once stationed at a chemical weapons storage site in the United States, the Bluegrass Army Depot in Richmond, Kentucky, during his service. He has long alleged that a US biological research facility near Tbilisi International Airport not only is involved… Continue reading
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