May 2014
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Libya plunging towards civil war By Jean Shaoul
Three years after the NATO-led campaign backed armed Islamist militias to overthrow the regime of Colonel Muammar Gaddafi, Libya teeters on the brink of all-out civil war. Continue reading
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The Financial Times’ attack on Thomas Piketty
In a series of articles over the past several days, and in a major editorial published on Monday, the Financial Times has launched a scurrilous attack on Thomas Piketty and his book, Capital in the Twenty-First Century. Continue reading
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Ukraine News Links 26-27 May 2014
27 May 2014 18:45:31 — williambowles.info Ukraine has no plans to impose visa regime with Russia – foreign ministry (ITAR-TASS) Russia-Ukraine border, its Crimea section to be strengthened (ITAR-TASS) ‘Slaughterhouse’: Civilians die in Kiev’s ruthless military attacks one day after vote (GRAPHIC) (RT) Continue reading
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Video: Up to 100 killed in Kiev military op, Donetsk E. Ukraine – anti-govt forces
“We’ve lost more than 50 self-defense fighters,” Boroday said, as cited by RIA Novosti. “Many of the casualties are a result of two Kamaz trucks having been shelled by the Ukrainian army. The trucks were driving the wounded from the battlefield near the airport. Around 15 people died there.” Continue reading
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Ukraine: ‘Socialist prospects in south-eastern Ukraine’
There is nothing surprising about this anti-capitalist trend which has appeared, to a large extent spontaneously, among the activists of the anti-Maidan who were among the founders of the Donetsk and Lugansk People’s Republics. The people who commissioned and sponsored the Euromaidan are the oligarchic owners of big capital, and these are also its main… Continue reading
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Video: FEEM Lecture by Anatol Lieven, King’s College London: “The Ukraine Debacle”
The recent development of the Ukrainian crisis has unveiled a series of long-neglected problems that today emerge dramatically. The complex current scenario and the difficulties in recomposing the crisis at diplomatic level show the inadequacy of EU and North American foreign policies and international relations with Russia and the former Soviet Union bloc. The possible… Continue reading
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Video: FEEM Lecture by Anatol Lieven, King's College London: "The Ukraine Debacle"
The recent development of the Ukrainian crisis has unveiled a series of long-neglected problems that today emerge dramatically. The complex current scenario and the difficulties in recomposing the crisis at diplomatic level show the inadequacy of EU and North American foreign policies and international relations with Russia and the former Soviet Union bloc. The possible… Continue reading
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Housmans Books June 2014 Newsletter
27 May 2014 — Housmans Books NEWS 1. Peace News 2014 Summer Camp2. Campaign against Climate Change Cabaret Fundraiser3. Thousands needed to join Human Peace Scarf protest Continue reading
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Rather the Useful Idiot By Gavin Rae
The images from Odessa were truly horrific. Burnt corpses, a strangled pregnant woman, people jumping out of windows to their deaths. Yet perhaps the most disturbing of them all was the scene where a group of young educated looking teenage girls, draped in the Ukrainian flag, were happily making the Molotov Cocktails that would later… Continue reading
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Paul Craig Roberts: Putin sees chance to break up NATO, EU
Western propaganda about events in Ukraine has two main purposes. One is to cover up, or to distract from, Washington’s role in overthrowing the elected democratic government of Ukraine. The other is to demonize Russia. Continue reading
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New Ukraine government launches airstrikes, prepares austerity measures By Thomas Gaist
The character of the new Ukrainian government headed by billionaire oligarch Petro Poroshenko has been quickly revealed in the day since presidential elections held over the weekend: violent repression of opposition to the regime, particularly in the east, combined with brutal austerity measures directed at the entire working class. Continue reading
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Unease in UK’s political elite after Prince Charles compares Putin to Hitler By Julie Hyland
The row over Prince Charles’s comparison of Russian President Vladimir Putin with Adolf Hitler continues to rumble. Charles is not the first to make the comparison. The false and provocative analogy was also used by former US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schäuble, among others. In fact, the modern-day equivalent… Continue reading
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Ukraine News Links 25-26 May 2014
26 May 2014 19:11:22 — williambowles.info Russia, Ukraine may agree on gas price Friday — EU commissioner (ITAR-TASS) Two civilians killed in artillery fire in east Ukraine’s Sloviansk (ITAR-TASS) Poroshenko leads after Sunday poll – vote count update (Voice of Russia) Continue reading
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Israeli Archaeological Narratives as an Instrument of Land Grabbing By Beth Staton
It was a find, literally, of biblical proportions. Last week, Israeli archaeologist Eli Shukron boldly claimed that he’d discovered the legendary citadel captured by King David in his conquest of 3,000 years ago – a site that has long evaded discovery, but which is regarded as pivotal to Jewish biblical history. Unsurprisingly, the claim is… Continue reading
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VTJP Occupied Palestine and Israel: News and Articles 25 May 2014: Israel Declares War on Palestinian Banks
25 May 2014 — VTJP News International Middle East Media CenterVIDEO: Crops Set on Fire in South Hebron HillsIMEMC – Palestinian farmers from the village of Qawawis in the South Hebron Hills discovered Thursday morning that about 3 tons of wheat they had recently harvested were set on fire in what they suspect may have Continue reading
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The Russia-China Counter-Alliance to US-NATO Aggression By Alexander Clackson
Russian President Vladimir Putin has said recently that his meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping earlier this week in Shanghai marked a new stage in Russia-China relations, and that the two countries will roll out all-around cooperation. China and Russia signed a $400 billion (237.1 billion pounds) gas supply deal on Wednesday, securing the world’s… Continue reading
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Iraq: the Biggest Petroleum Heist in History? By Mike Whitney
Hooray. Big oil wins again, and all it cost was a million or so Iraqis who got blown to bits in air raids or shot up at checkpoints, or beaten to death with a rubber hose at Abu Ghraib or any of the other democracy reeducation centers that dot the countryside. But, hey, look at… Continue reading
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Laurent Fabius and Justice By Thierry Meyssan
Laurent Fabius’ proposal to the International Criminal Court for crimes committed in Syria was rejected by the UN. Indeed, hidden behind the appearance of justice, the ICC is a tool of Western imperialism. Its procedure is grotesque, it does not hesitate to invent imaginary crimes to convict defendants and it participates in NATO propaganda operations.… Continue reading
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Major UK parties given drubbing in local elections By Robert Stevens
The local council elections in England saw an overwhelming rejection of the UK’s three major parties, the Conservatives, Liberal Democrats and Labour. Many abstained from voting, with turnout estimated to be around 36 percent. In many wards turnout was around 20 percent and less. Continue reading
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Ukraine News Links 24-25 May 2014
25 May 2014 19:02:50 — williambowles.info Voting at Ukraine’s presidential elections finished (ITAR-TASS) Poroshenko leads presidential race with over 55% of votes – exit polls (Voice of Russia) Whoever wins Ukraine elections will have to fight for any authority president has – political analyst (Voice of Russia) Continue reading
The New Dark Age 