ISIS “Made in USA”. Iraq “Geopolitical Arsonists” Seek to Burn Region By Tony Cartalucci

18 June 2014 — New Eastern Outlook 

us soldier iraqWhen 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.

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US in Iraq: Geopolitical Arsonists Seek to Burn Region By Tony Cartalucci

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.

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The Labour government was to blame for the NHS’s biggest disgrace – why should we listen to them now? By Caroline Molloy

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.

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VTJP Occupied Palestine and Israel: News and Articles 17 June 2014: Gaza – a hellhole created by Israel

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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Information Clearing House 17 June 2014: Is Open-Ended Chaos the Desired US-Israeli Aim in the Middle East?

17 June 2014 — Information Clearing House

Barack Obama Orders US Troops Back To Iraq

By Paul Lewis, Spencer Ackerman and Saeed Kamali Dehghan

While Obama has vowed to keep US troops out of combat in Iraq, he said in his notification to Congress that the personnel moving into the region were equipped for direct fighting.

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Personal Health Budgets lead to individualism and isolation By Richard Blogger

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.

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Are plans to move the NHS ‘into the community’, a wolf in sheep’s clothing? By Jenny Shepherd

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.

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The Truth About US Troops “Sent to Iraq” By Tony Cartalucci

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.

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Portugese Communist Party Central Committee Statement – May 27, 2014

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.

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Iraq Witnessing a Popular Revolution, Association of Muslim Scholars

18 June 2014 — BRussells Tribunal

iraqDr. 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)

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