June 6, 2014
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Slaney Street: Birmingham’s new co-operative media project
Slaney Street is a new Birmingham-based co-operative media organisation. Initially starting as a modest blog last year, it has just held its official founding conference and is gearing up for its fourth print edition to be distributed free across the city. Continue reading
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Ukraine News Links 5-6 June 2-14
6 June 2014 18:22:39 — williambowles.info Ukraine’s Sloviansk under heavy fire from armored vehicles (SCF) Putin, Obama Exchange Views on Ukraine Crisis, Call to End Hostilities – Kremlin (SCF) Twelve Thousand People Flee Eastern Ukraine to Rostov – Russian Rights Ombudsman (SCF) Continue reading
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Video: Los Van Van!
Juan Formell, who died Thursday, May 1, in Havana, was one of the most internationally recognized Cubans of his time, and an artist whose music transcended boundaries: national, generational, and political. Continue reading
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The Anti-Empire Report #129 By William Blum
Is Edward Snowden a radical? The dictionary defines a radical as “an advocate of political and social revolution”, the adjective form being “favoring or resulting in extreme or revolutionary changes”. That doesn’t sound like Snowden as far as what has been publicly revealed. In common usage, the term “radical” usually connotes someone or something that… Continue reading
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Rewriting history at George Orwell’s ‘Ministry Of Truth’ By Tony Gosling
Britain has been stunned this week by yet another stride a morally bereft Westminster has taken towards totalitarianism. In a process begun by Bilderberg steering group member Kenneth Clarke while he was Lord Chancellor and Justice Secretary, the Justice and Security Act through “closed material procedures” has opened the way for criminal trials not just… Continue reading
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Omar – Film Review by Gilad Atzmon
ne of the most important Palestinian feature films ever, Omar is, to date, the deepest expose of the diabolical nature of the Israeli occupation and the inhuman situation imposed on Palestinians by the Jewish State. It also throws light on the tragic and depressing Palestinian struggle against a sophisticated, demonic enemy – an on-going battle… Continue reading
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VTJP Occupied Palestine and Israel: News and Articles 5 June 2014: Netanyahu is Running Out of Excuses
5 June 2014 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center160 Settlers Storm al-Aqsa MosqueIMEMC – This morning, 160 settlers under the protection of Israeli police marched through the courtyards of al-Aqsa Mosque from the Mughrabi Gate. … Continue reading
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PAMBAZUKA NEWS 681: BOKO HARAM, BANANALISATION OF RACISM & ELUSIVE UNITY
6 June 2014 — Pambazuka News The authoritative electronic weekly newsletter and platform for social justice in Africa Pambazuka News is delivered free to you with the support of donations from Friends of Pambazuka. Continue reading
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Provoking World War III By Andre Vltchek
It appears that those who are ruling the Empire are not obsessed with prudence. They seem to be tired of tiny conflicts, which they are continuously stirring all over the globe. Libya is not enough and Congo is not enough. They need something big, really big; even much bigger than what they had already ‘achieved’… Continue reading
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Spanish State: After the Abdication of the King, It’s Time to Checkmate the Regime By Esther Vivas
The regime is collapsing, it is dying and in its last-ditch struggle to survive, the king has abdicated. Never has the regime resulting from the Transition [The Transition is the name given to the political process following the death of Franco, which culminated in the Constitution of 1978] been as widely challenged as it is… Continue reading
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The Syrian People Have Spoken By Thierry Meyssan
The Syrian presidential election surprised both Syrians and their allies and enemies. The poll, which everyone agrees was legitimate, mobilized 73.42% of the electorate, despite the inability of some people to get to the polls because of the occupation of part of the country by foreign mercenaries. Bashar al-Assad won 88.7% of the vote and… Continue reading
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The US media and the release of POW Bowe Bergdahl By Patrick Martin
The American media is once again exhibiting its boundless capacity for dispensing propaganda and promoting the most backward and reactionary conceptions. Such is the campaign of vilification directed against Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl, released May 31 in Afghanistan in a prisoner exchange with the Taliban. Continue reading
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The US is attempting to organize a redistribution of the European energy market By Petr Lvov
Once the current and illegitimate authorities in Kiev, in their most insolent manner, ceased hiding the fact that they were being backed by the United States, they immediately began reneging on their payment obligations for Russian gas supplies. It became obvious that the motivation behind Washington’s provocation in the Ukrainian crisis, along with their EU… Continue reading
The New Dark Age 