June 2014
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Here’s how we Reset the Net
Yesterday was unbelievable. Together, we as everyday Internet users harnessed the power of the largest websites on earth and launched the biggest effort in human history to shut down mass surveillance on the web. Continue reading
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British care home scandal deepens By Mark Blackwood and Ajanta Silva
In a letter to the Daily Telegraph on May 30, the families of those abused in Winterbourne View said, “Today we have seen the appalling failure of the Government, the NHS [National Health Service] and Local Authorities to meet their own deadline for moving people with a learning disability out of places like Winterbourne View. Continue reading
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D-Day anniversary: Commemorating the Second World War and preparing the Third By Bill Van Auken
The presence of this dwindling band of survivors of World War II—the greatest exercise in mass killing in the history of the planet—only underscored the boundless hypocrisy of the official ceremonies in which President Barack Obama played the leading role. Continue reading
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Labour embraces UK Independence Party’s right-wing nationalism By Jordan Shilton
The victory by the United Kingdom Independence Party (UKIP) in the May European elections in Britain and its strong gains in local elections have prompted the Labour Party to move even further to the right and adopt many of UKIP’s core positions. Continue reading
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Monty Alexander Live at Montreux ’94
Monty with a line-up to die for! Personnel: Monty Alexander, keyboards; Jean-luc Ponty, violin; Al Di Meola, guitar; Stanley Clarke, bass Continue reading
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VTJP Occupied Palestine and Israel: News and Articles 6 June 2014: Israeli film festival in London part of efforts to rebrand apartheid
6 June 2014 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center “Our Battle Is Not With Guns, Our Strike Continues”IMEMC – Hunger Striking Detainees Affirm Steadfastness [Friday, June 6, 2014] In a letter sent by hunger striking Palestinian detainees in Israeli prisons, the detainees stated their strike, and their ongoing legitimate battle, is ongoing despite aggression, Continue reading
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Vodafone Reveals Existence of Secret Wires That Allow State Surveillance By Juliette Garside
Vodafone, one of the world’s largest mobile phone groups, has revealed the existence of secret wires that allow government agencies to listen to all conversations on its networks, saying they are widely used in some of the 29 countries in which it operates in Europe and beyond. Continue reading
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The Lies Grow More Audacious By Paul Craig Roberts
If there were any doubts that Western “leaders” live in a fantasy make-believe world constructed out of their own lies, the G-7 meeting and 70th anniversary celebration of the Normandy landing dispelled the doubts. Continue reading
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New at Strategic Culture Foundation 1-7 June 2014: Ukraine / Obama / Gas / US-Poland / Bilderberg / China-India
7 June 2014 — Strategic Culture Foundation Obama in Europe on ‘Russian Bogeyman’ Tour 07.06.2014 | 00:00 | Finian CUNNINGHAM With typical American hubris, US President Barack Obama came to Europe this week – yet again – with the rhetoric and demeanour of a knight in shining armour. The self-proclaimed «indispensable nation» was again indulging its own Continue reading
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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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