May 2014
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Former Israeli PM Olmert sentenced to jail for bribery and corruption By Jean Shaoul
A Tel Aviv judge sentenced former Prime Minister Ehud Olmert to six years in prison for bribery when he was mayor of Jerusalem. Judge David Rozen fined him $289,000, and ordered $140,000 of his assets seized. He fined him another $12,500 over a separate project. Continue reading
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The No2EU electoral alliance in the UK: An enemy of the working class and socialism By Michael Barnes
No2EU seeks to exploit the impact of the global economic crisis and the EU’s hated austerity measures to direct growing opposition in the working class into a nationalist dead end. Continue reading
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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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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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