May 2014
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More on Washington’s Coordinated Occupy Crackdown, and the Dark Side of the Boston Bombing (Part II) By Dave Lindorff
Lindorff continues talking about his investigation into the FBI’s and Homeland Security Department’s hidden campaign to crush the Occupy Movement, based upon the thousands of documents obtained through a Freedom of Information Act campaign of discovery by the Partnership for Civil Justice. Lindorff also talks about his investigation into the men from Craft International, the… Continue reading
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Barnardo’s and G4S, partners in the child detention business By Frances Webber
Four years ago the coalition government promised to end child detention for immigration purposes. But they didn’t. Instead, the UK’s biggest children’s charity and security giant G4S created a prettier prison. Continue reading
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Russia & China: ‘No to sanctions rhetoric, regime change in other countries’
Moscow and Beijing have rejected the imposition of sanctions as political tools and condemned attempts at “encouraging and financing” regime changes in other countries in a joint statement released during President Putin’s official visit to China. Continue reading
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Russia & China: ‘No to sanctions rhetoric, regime change in other countries’
Moscow and Beijing have rejected the imposition of sanctions as political tools and condemned attempts at “encouraging and financing” regime changes in other countries in a joint statement released during President Putin’s official visit to China. Continue reading
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Renationalisation of the rail services? Why not start with the NHS? By David Zigmond
Labour is flirting with the idea of renationalising the railways – but it should start by renationalising the NHS. Continue reading
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VTJP Occupied Palestine and Israel: News and Articles 19 May 2014: How we lost Palestine
19 May 2014 — VTJP News International Middle East Media CenterAbbas Amends Sentencing for “Honor Killings”IMEMC – Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has amended Article 98 of the Palestinian Criminal Law no. 12 of 1960, abolishing the ease in punishment against crimes of honor killing committed against women. … Continue reading
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The Kiev Junta is waging war on its own citizens By Olga Shedrova
Acting Ukraine’s President Alexander Turchinov has recently called on the people of self-proclaimed Donetsk and Lugansk national republics to support the anti-terrorist operation and side with the government to wipe out «terrorists and separatists». Kiev is trying to make others believe that it’s nobody else but Russian soldiers and fictitious terrorists who are involved in… Continue reading
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Ukraine News Links 18-19 May 2014
19 May 2014 20:59:28 — williambowles.info Kiev Protégé allegedly behind Mariupol and Odessa Massacres – Leaked Tapes (SCF) CIA, FBI agents dying for illegal junta in Ukraine (Voice of Russia) Russia invested $200 bn in Ukraine over 20 years – Minister of Economic Development (RT) Continue reading
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A Powerful Long-term Alliance Between China and Russia Is Unnerving Washington 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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VTJP Occupied Palestine and Israel: News and Articles 18 May 2014
18 May 2014 — VTJP News International Middle East Media CenterArmy Demolishes Wall, Uproot Land, In HebronIMEMC – [Sunday, May 18, 2014] Several Israeli military jeeps, accompanied by a military bulldozer, invaded Tel Romedia area, in the center of the southern West Bank city of Hebron, demolished a wall surrounding a Palestinian home, and uprooted Continue reading
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Britain’s richest 1% own as much as poorest 55% of population By Phillip Inman
Britain’s richest 1% have accumulated as much wealth as the poorest 55% of the population put together, according to the latest official analysis of who owns the nation’s £9.5tn of property, pensions and financial assets. In figures that also lay bare the extent of inequality across the north-south divide, the Office for National Statistics said… Continue reading
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India elects the BJP: Stories
18 May 2014 — Countercurrents No! Indians Don’t Vote Intelligently By Trevor Selvamhttp://www.countercurrents.org/selvam180514.htmUnkind? No, not all. Unsparing? No, not for now. Because, you just cannot wake up to the fascist menace in the last few months before the elections. Just last week, you were saying, the “tide is turning.” “It won’t be a wave, it Continue reading
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Video: Dr. Mercola Interviews Dr. Carman About GMO Dangers
Internationally renowned natural health expert and Mercola.com founder Dr. Joseph Mercola interviews Dr. Judy Carman about the dangers of eating genetically modified foods. Continue reading
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Labour support collapses in the polls – socialist policies needed! By Daniel Morley
Some recent opinion polls have put the Tories ahead of Labour for the first time since 2012. Does this mean that the public has made an historic shift to the right, at a time when the right wing is presiding over possibly the biggest ever fall in living standards and rise in inequality? Is the… Continue reading
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Video: Thousands across Europe rally against EU policies
Thousands of activists took to the streets of Germany and Spain on Saturday to protest the EU’s policies as the union prepares for parliamentary elections at the end of May. Continue reading
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Chaos in Libya: How the US-NATO War Destabilized North Africa and Now Threatens Europe By Timothy Alexander Guzman
Libya has been steadily deteriorating politically and economically since the US-NATO invasion of 2011. The South African based News24 reported that a battle had erupted between rebel forces that ousted President Muammar Gaddafi and Islamist militants in the eastern city of Benghazi. Khalifa Haftar (who helped the West remove Gaddafi) and his ‘National Army’ were… Continue reading
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The globalization of special forces By Manlio Dinucci
The Special Forces of the U.S. army were created to use their military skills with a focus on conducting unconventional warfare operations, mainly by fomenting riots or assassinating political opponents. Washington secretly deploys them in 78 countries, while denying their existence, even though the budget for their missions exceeds 10 billion dollars annually. The proliferation… Continue reading
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Ukraine News Links 17-18 May 2014
18 May 2014 12:00:31 — williambowles.info Anger rising in Ukrainian army over Kiev policies (Voice of Russia) US Intensifies Information Warfare Efforts to Bolster Kiev and Divide Ukraine (SCF) German FM calls for ‘cooperation instead confrontation’ with Russia (RT) Ukraine ‘near point of no return’ (BBC) Continue reading
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U.S. Intelligence Terrorizes Venezuela By Nil Nikandrov
After the victory of Hugo Chavez’ successor Nicolas Maduro in the 2013 presidential election, the CIA tried to use a modernized version of the Chilean scenario to overthrow him. Forty years ago that scenario worked: in September 1973 the government of Salvador Allende was literally destroyed. Continue reading
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Ukraine in Turmoil: War May Come at Any Time as It Came Twice during the Last Century By Israel Shamir
It is not much fun to be in Kiev these days. The revolutionary excitement is over, and hopes for new faces, the end of corruption and economic improvement have withered. The Maidan street revolt and the subsequent coup just reshuffled the same marked deck of cards, forever rotating in power. Continue reading
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