18 June 2014 20:30:24 — williambowles.info
How America Is Bringing Peace and Democracy to the World (WashingtonsBlog)
Official: 65-Day U.S.-NATO Proxy War In Ukraine Is…War (Stop NATO)
Donetsk miners threaten to take arms if Kiev continues military operation (Voice of Russia)
18 June 2014 — New Eastern Outlook
When a fire is raging, firefighters are called – not the arsonist who started it, especially if they return to the scene of the crime dragging a barrel of gasoline behind them. Yet, this is precisely what the US proposes – that they – the geopolitical arsonists – be allowed to return to Iraq to extinguish the threat of heavily armed sectarian militants streaming from NATO territory in Turkey and edging ever closer to Baghdad.
18 June 2014 20:18:41 — williambowles.info
US in Iraq: Geopolitical Arsonists Seek to Burn Region (The Greanville Post)
VIDEO: Iraq’s special forces ‘ready for ISIS’ (BBC)
‘Deadly danger’: UK and Germany warn of Islamist fighters’ plans to attack in Europe (RT)
18 June 2014 — New Eastern Outlook
When a fire is raging, firefighters are called – not the arsonist who started it, especially if they return to the scene of the crime dragging a barrel of gasoline behind them. Yet, this is precisely what the US proposes – that they – the geopolitical arsonists – be allowed to return to Iraq to extinguish the threat of heavily armed sectarian militants streaming from NATO territory in Turkey and edging ever closer to Baghdad.
6 June 2014 — New Left Project
Time for a plug: As well as co-editing NLP I’ve helped to found and run Demand the Impossible, a summer school on radical politics and activism for London youth. Applications for this year’s course, which will be at City University from August 4-8, are now open. Here’s the trailer for the course:
18 June 2014 — OurNHS
The latest ex-Blair advisor to lambast the NHS for being ‘slow’ to adopt privatisation is Paul Corrigan. But his past hastiness had a little-noted role in the NHS’s darkest episode.
If you were going to release a report arguing for the UK’s health system to become more like that of the United States, you probably shouldn’t do so the day after a huge international study has shown that the UK’s health system is the best in the world – and the US’s the worst.
19 June 2014 — The Register
Yet again, someone who should know better appears to be hyping up the size of the so-called “darkweb” to push an agenda.
17 June 2014 — VTJP
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International Middle East Media Center
Ahrar: “197 Palestinians Kidnapped In The West Bank”
IMEMC – [Tuesday, June 17, 2014] Israeli soldiers have kidnapped 197 Palestinians, and invaded more than 791 homes, in different parts of the West Bank, since three settlers went missing last Thursday at night, the Ahrar Center for Detainees Studies and Human Rights has reported. …
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17 June 2014 — Information Clearing House
By Paul Lewis, Spencer Ackerman and Saeed Kamali Dehghan
18 June 2014 — OurNHS
A Thatcherite ‘voucher’ system is being imposed on the NHS is the worst way to deliver ‘personalisation’.
From April 2015 all Clinical Commissioning Groups (CCGs) must be able to offer Personal Health Budgets (PHBs) to all patients who have a long term condition (LTC). Personal Budgets were mentioned in the Conservative 2010 manifesto, but the plans attracted little scrutiny and few people were aware of them. For most of the 15 million people with a long term condition, the first they will hear of PHBs will be when their CCG offers them one.
17 June 2014 — OurNHS
Plans to ‘create a local market’ in health and social care, including personal budgets, threaten to undermine our collective rights and our systems based on social solidarity. The final part in our View from the Grassroots series.
17 June 2014 — OurNHS
The government’s plans for the future of primary care are long on gimmicks, but short on cash. Jonathan Tomlinson sees a more interesting vision of the future – if sufficient funding is there. Continue reading
13 June 2014 — OurNHS
On top of NHS cuts, the government is squandering cash and morale on ill thought through ‘integration’ plans. Will volunteers and gadgetry fill the gaps as experienced staff walk away in despair? Part 3 of our ‘View from the Grassroots‘.
12 June 2014 — OurNHS
Are big NHS changes in England including local closures and more ‘care at home’ driven by the need to save money – or something else? The second of our View from the Grassroots
10 June 2014 — OurNHS
Plans to close swathes of Yorkshire hospital services will ‘improve care’, say local NHS bosses. Campaigners are unconvinced. In the first of a four-part series Jenny Shepherd asks who – and what – is really behind similar claims being made across the country.
17 June 2014 — Land Destroyer
Indeed, nearly 300 troops are being prepared to deploy to Iraq, as they would be to any nation on Earth where a US embassy is located, and may possibly require evacuation. It is in no way an “intervention” or a gesture of “assistance” to the government of a destabilized country. However, in Iraq, Western headlines would have readers think otherwise.
29 May 2014 — PCP
The Central Committee of the PCP met on May 27, 2014, and assessed the results of the elections for the European Parliament as well as their political consequences; assessed the most relevant aspects of the country’s economic and social situation and the consequences of the Troika’s policies, the campaign of mystification surrounding the so-called “clean exit” and the new developments in the government’s political offensive; assessed the workers’ struggle and its prospects; defined the Party’s main lines of work, regarding political initiatives, the struggle to materialize an alternative, patriotic and left-wing policy, and the strengthening of the [Party] organization.
18 June 2014 — WSWS
The catastrophe engulfing Iraq—with the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) controlling much of its northern and central regions—is as much a crisis for British imperialism as it is for its US ally.
18 June 2014 — BRussells Tribunal
Dr. Sheikh Mohammed Bashar al-Faidhi, spokesman of the Association of Muslim Scholars, said that what is happening in Iraq today is a popular revolution against the policy of oppression, marginalization and exclusion pursued by successive governments under the brutal occupation, including the current Maliki government.
Sheikh Bashar Al-Faidhi, Spokesperson of the Association of Muslim Scholars (right)
The New Dark Age 