June 2014
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Ukraine Tips From Nameless US Officials: Good Enough for NYT By Peter Hart
Apparently the people who know best about what’s happening in Ukraine are US government officials who won’t let their names be printed in the newspaper. Continue reading
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Ukraine News Links 26 June 2014
26 June 2014 18:29:07 — williambowles.info EU, Russia and Ukraine hold expert consultations on association deal (ITAR-TASS) Poroshenko’s call to Putin ploy to buy time for blitzkrieg: Analyst (Veterans Today) US demands Russian action on Ukraine (BBC) Continue reading
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The ISIS in Iraq Stinks of the CIA/NATO ‘Dirty War’ Operation By William Engdahl
For days now, since their dramatic June 10 taking of Mosul, Western mainstream media have been filled with horror stories of the military conquests in Iraq of the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria, with the curious acronym ISIS. Details leaking out suggest that ISIS and the major military ‘surge’ in Iraq – and less… Continue reading
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US Embassy in Ankara: The Headquarter for the ISIS War on Iraq – Hariri Insider By Christof Lehmann
The green light for the use of ISIS brigades to carve up Iraq, widen the Syria conflict into a greater Middle East war and to throw Iran off-balance was given behind closed doors at the Atlantic Council meeting in Turkey, in November 2013, told a source close to Saudi – Lebanese billionaire Saad Hariri, adding… Continue reading
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Ukraine and the Rise of Euro-Fascism By Sergei Glazyev
Current events in Ukraine are guided by the evil spirit of fascism and Nazism, though it seemed to have dissipated long ago, after World War II. Seventy years after the war, the genie has escaped from the bottle once again, posing a threat not merely in the form of the insignia and rhetoric of Hitler’s… Continue reading
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New at Strategic Culture Foundation 15-21 June 2014
21 June 2014 — Strategic Culture Foundation Chocolate King’s «Peace Plan» With a Hard Centre 21.06.2014 | 00:00 | Finian CUNNINGHAM Petro Poroshenko, the billionaire oligarch who won the Ukrainian presidential election with a dubious majority last month, seems to be relying heavily now on his skills as a confectionery magnate. The man known as the Chocolate Continue reading
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Housmans Books Newsletter July 2014
24 June 2014 — Housmans Books NEWS 1. Second-Hand Book Basement – new stock and Tumblr page2. Peace News 2014 Summer Camp3. First World War Catalogue 4. Laurence Housman Anniversary Walk Continue reading
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Black Agenda Report June 25, 2014: Serial School Privatizer, Iraq & Detroit, Central Park 5, "We Are Not A Monolith
25 June 2014 — Black Agenda Report Serial School Privatizer “Chainsaw Paul” Vallas Gets Ready For His Next Job by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon Neoliberalism holds that all human interactions should to be disciplined and mediated by the market. Paul Vallas is the nation’s neoliberal chainsaw man on public education. After savaging public Continue reading
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Media Lens: ‘Gosh, Are They Still At It?’ An Appeal For Support
A Media Lens reader quipped recently that he had discovered a solution to the climate crisis. Simply harnessing the energy produced by Orwell turning in his grave would provide a limitless source of cheap, clean energy. The comment was prompted by the decidedly Orwellian news that the Guardian’s Jonathan Freedland had been awarded the Orwell… Continue reading
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The Complete History of Monsanto, “The World’s Most Evil Corporation” By E Hanzai
Of all the mega-corps running amok, Monsanto has consistently outperformed its rivals, earning the crown as “most evil corporation on Earth!” Not content to simply rest upon its throne of destruction, it remains focused on newer, more scientifically innovative ways to harm the planet and its people. Continue reading
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BLOWBACK IN IRAQ: The Rise of ISIS By Michael Faulkner
It is now more than eleven years since the unprovoked invasion of Iraq by the USA and Britain. Because those who planned and prosecuted that invasion, and those who supported them, continue to defend what they did with contorted and specious arguments, it is worth recalling the attempted justifications for it that were made at… Continue reading
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The Soaring Profits of the Military – Industrial Complex And the Soaring Costs of Military Casualties By James Petras
The launch of two major wars by the US government had two major beneficiaries, one domestic and one foreign. The three major weapons manufacturers, Lockheed Martin (LMT), Northrop Grumman (NOG) and Raytheon (RTN) have delivered record-shattering returns to investors, CEOs and investment banks during the past decade and a half. Continue reading
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Democracy and the debacle in Iraq By Joseph Kishore
Over the past two weeks, the Obama administration and the foreign policy establishment in the United States have moved rapidly to exploit the crisis in Iraq to intensify military operations throughout the Middle East. Hundreds of US military “advisors” are on their way back to Iraq even as the American ruling class plans air strikes… Continue reading
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US moves inciting sectarian warfare throughout the Middle East By James Cogan
The Obama administration is responding to the uprising in Iraq led by the Sunni extremist Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) with intrigues and provocations that can lead only to yet more death and destruction in both Iraq and Syria, and risk triggering open war with Iran. Continue reading
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Every Internet user in the UK can be spied on without a warrant By Robert Stevens
The UK government has acknowledged that every UK citizen who uses Google and accesses web site services Facebook, Twitter and YouTube, can be monitored, under existing legislation, by the security services. Continue reading
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Ukraine News Links 22-23 June 2014
23 June 2014 17:40:46 — williambowles.info Peace settlement in Ukraine requires ‘enormous external pressure on Kiev’ (RT) Austria weighs EU exceptions to speed up South Stream project (RT) Import the law: EU to send Kosovo-style mission to Ukraine (RT) Continue reading
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Iraq News Links 22-23 June 2014
23 June 2014 17:39:06 — williambowles.info Kerry in Iraq amid Sunni rebel gains (BBC) Democracy and the debacle in Iraq (The Greanville Post) VIDEO: Iraqi army ‘finds Isis weapons haul’ (BBC) Continue reading
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Ukraine News Links 21-22 June 2014
22 June 2014 11:20:22 — williambowles.info As Ukraine declares cease-fire, US points finger at Russia Boston Globe WASHINGTON — On a day that the Ukrainian government announced a unilateral cease-fire in its battle with separatists in the country’s east, the … Continue reading
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Poll spotlights British economic insecurity By Julie Hyland
A poll by the Guardian /ICM turned what the newspaper described as a “spotlight on the anxiety of a nation.” The poll underscored the economic insecurity experienced by many workers and youth. Continue reading
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Iraq News Links 21-22 June 2014
22 June 2014 11:02:37 — williambowles.info Seven killed in air strike in militant-held Iraqi Tikrit (Voice of Russia) Iraqi Hydrocarbon Prize of U.S. Invasion in Danger (4th Media) Lebanonisation of Iraq: An Enterprise Paid for by American Money and Hundreds of Thousands of Lives (4th Media) Continue reading
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