May 2014
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Bilderberg’s silent takeover of Britain’s $60bn defence budget By Tony Gosling
Democracy had another near-fatal stroke, and the military industrial complex further tightened UK defense spending with the appointment of ex-army officer and Tory hothead Rory Stewart MP as the new chairman of Westminster’s Defence Select Committee. Continue reading
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Ukraine News Links 16-17 May 2014
17 May 2014 20:10:08 — williambowles.info Gunmen attempt to enter Ukraine’s largest nuclear power plant (RT) Ukrainian M.P. – Investigation Shows No Evidence Snipers in Kiev Were Police (Greanville Post) Hungary’s PM calls again to grant autonomy to ethnic Hungarians in Ukraine (Voice of Russia) Continue reading
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VTJP Occupied Palestine and Israel: News and Articles 16 May 2014: ’Israel can’t erase the Nakba from history’
16 May 2014 — VTJP News International Middle East Media CenterHaniyah Expresses Solidarity With TurkeyIMEMC – Palestinian Prime Minister Haniyah called all Palestinians in the West Bank, Jerusalem, Gaza and Pre-1948 Palestine, Thursday, to unify in prayer for the souls of some 230 Turkish miners who were killed in a disastrous explosion, last Tuesday. … Continue reading
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Kiev Snipers: Mystery Solved By Henry Kamens
Despite all the reporting on Ukraine, there is one aspect of the war which, perhaps not surprisingly, has not made it to most media outlets. The democratic West has largely ignored the revelation made by the Estonian Foreign Minister Urmas Paet, in an intercepted phone discussion with EU foreign affairs chief Catherine Ashton, that “that… Continue reading
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New at Strategic Culture Foundation 10-17 May 2014: Ukraine / Venezuela / Syria / Banking / Russia-Iran
17 May 2014 — Strategic Culture Foundation The OSCE in Ukraine: How to Make a European Country into a New Afghanistan 17.05.2014 | 00:01 | Andrey ARESHEV Officials from the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe, who modestly remained silent during the coup d’état in Ukraine and have not said a word about the tragedies in Continue reading
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NATO Invitations Fuelled Neo-Fascism In Ukraine, Georgia: Russian Foreign Minister
“The current crisis started, the seeds for the current crisis were sown in 2008 in April during the NATO Summit in Bucharest, when NATO leaders stated in a declaration that Georgia and Ukraine will be in NATO,” Lavrov said. Continue reading
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Michael Hudson: The New Cold War’s Ukraine Gambit
Finance in today’s world has become war by non-military means. Its object is the same as that of military conquest: appropriation of land and basic infrastructure, and the rents that can be extracted as tribute. In today’s world this is taken mainly in the form of debt service and privatization. That is how neoliberalism works,… Continue reading
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90% of All Deaths In War Are CIVILIANS
To support its world-wide empire at the turn of the 19th century, Great Britain adopted the “two power standard,” which called for the Royal Navy to be equal to the combined strength of the next two largest navies in the world. The United States has more than doubled that standard as regards budgets, and yet… Continue reading
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Public Health Experts Identify Militarism as Threat By David Swanson
“Since the end of World War II, there have been 248 armed conflicts in 153 locations around the world. The United States launched 201 overseas military operations between the end of World War II and 2001, and since then, others, including Afghanistan and Iraq. During the 20th century, 190 million deaths could be directly and… Continue reading
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Despite round table talks, Ukrainian regime escalates crackdown By Johannes Stern
As the cable makes clear, the US and its European allies, including Germany, knew that the installation of a pro-European and pro-NATO government in Kiev would provoke opposition both inside Ukraine and from Russia. This response—which has taken the form of a separatist rebellion in the east, and the incorporation of Crimea into the Russian… Continue reading
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UK parliament attempts to restore confidence in intelligence agencies By Paul Mitchell
A report published last week by the UK parliament’s Home Affairs Committee (HAC) declares the current system of monitoring the British intelligence agencies MI5, MI6 and GCHQ “not fit for purpose.” Continue reading
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In the service of imperialism: Right-wing “intellectuals” gather in Kiev By David North
A group of right-wing academics, journalists, pro-war human-rights activists, and specialists in “discourse” are gathering in Kiev this coming weekend (May 16–19). The purpose of the meeting—headed by Professor Timothy Snyder of Yale University and Leon Wieseltier, the neo-con literary editor of the New Republic—is to bestow political and moral respectability on the Ukrainian regime… Continue reading
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Ukraine News Links 16 May 2014
16 May 2014 — williambowles.info How NATO Jabs Russia on Ukraine (SCF) SINOGRAPH Ukraine creates arc of chaos (Asia Times) Moscow regrets that UN report on Ukraine justifies punitive operation in southeast (ITAR-TASS) Continue reading
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VTJP Occupied Palestine and Israel: News and Articles 15 May 2014: On Nakba Day, Israelis Forced to Confront a Guilty Secret
15 May 2014 — VTJP News International Middle East Media CenterThousands Mark Nakba Anniversary with Rallies in Israel, West Bank and GazaIMEMC – Palestinians commemorated, today, the 66th anniversary of the Nakba (Catastrophe) of 1948, by participating in a series of nonviolent actions in the West Bank, the Gaza Strip, pre-1948 occupied lands and diasporas. Continue reading
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The Dirty Details Behind the Attacks on Seralini’s Notorious GMO Rat Study by Paul Fassa
Remember the GMO rat study finding that rats fed GMOs developed tumors and died prematurely? After Seralini’s long term toxicity study results were publicized with displays of rats showing huge tumors, a tsunami of outrage from pro-GMO related scientists got favorable mainstream media (MSM) press. The hundreds of scientists who defended Seralini’s work were ignored.… Continue reading
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Ukraine News Links 14-15 May 2014
15 May 2014 19:01:42 — williambowles.info NATO Chief To New Members: Time To Pay Up As Ukraine War Looms (Stop NATO) Major European company to make reverse gas supplies to Ukraine through Hungary (ITAR-TASS) Russian Foreign Ministry voices concern over deterioration of situation in Ukraine (ITAR-TASS) Continue reading
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Can the Top 10% Prop Up the Whole Economy? By Charles Hugh Smith
Since the entire economy depends on consumption for its “growth,” and discretionary consumption is financed with either cash or debt, that leads to two questions: 1) who has cash to spend on non-essentials and 2) who is credit-worthy enough to borrow money for non-essentials? Continue reading
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Bloodbath in Odessa Guided by Interim Rulers of Ukraine
Ten days before the tragedy a secret meeting was held in Kiev, chaired by the incumbent president Olexander Turchinov, to prepare a special operation in Odessa. Present were minister of internal affairs Arsen Avakov, the head of the Ukrainian Security Service Valentin Nalivaychenko, and the secretary of the National Security and Defense Council Andriy Parubiy.… Continue reading
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VTJP Occupied Palestine and Israel: News and Articles 14 May 2014: Odeh Hamad, shot dead by Israel on his birthday
14 May 2014 — VTJP News International Middle East Media CenterMinistry of Social Affairs, UNICEF Sign Childhood Protection AgreementIMEMC – The Ministry of Social Affairs and UNICEF have signed a cooperation agreement on childhood protection in Palestine. … Continue reading
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Media Lens: Thinking The Right Thoughts By David Cromwell & David Edwards
There are always convenient news-hooks on which corporate journalists can hang their power-friendly prejudices about the West being ‘the good guys’ in world affairs. Channel 4 News is not immune from this chauvinism. For example, Matt Frei introduced a report about last month’s elections in Iraq with this propaganda bullet: ‘Now, America once invaded Iraq… Continue reading
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