June 2014
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Ukraine New Links 12-13 June 2014
13 June 2014 14:45:32 — williambowles.info Regional official suggests Ukraine to build 2,000-km wall against Russia (ITAR-TASS) Kiev could pay Gazprom debt today – Naftogaz (Voice of Russia) EU transfers first tranche of financial aid toUkraine worth €250 million (ITAR-TASS) Continue reading
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Video: John Oliver on net neutrality—must watch!
The corporate attack on the Internet, a creeping takeover by businesses with the tacit support of the government, threatens to destroy the Net as we know it. We all know what business values are, and what they signify when they run amuck in society. Continue reading
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British NHS patients left without medications by private contractor By Tony Robson
The failure of UK private contractor Healthcare at Home (HaH) to provide the home delivery of medications correctly and on time has placed thousands of National Health Service (NHS) patients at risk…As many as 7 percent of patients have not been delivered their medications on time. In addition to the risk and anxiety these patients… Continue reading
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Occupied Palestine and Israel: News and Articles 12 June 2014
12 June 2014 — VTJP News International Middle East Media CenterUnited Methodist Church Divests from G4SIMEMC – Amid concerns raised by church justice advocates, United Methodist Church Pensions sells all stocks in G4S, a supplier of security services and equipment for Israeli prisons, settlements, checkpoints and Separation Wall. … Continue reading
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‘US blocking gas settlement in Ukraine to prolong conflict’ By Neil Clark
Washington is making Ukraine stall on a gas settlement agreement with Russia to try and draw out the conflict, journalist and broadcaster Neil Clark told RT. Moscow offered Ukraine a 25 percent discount on gas, but Kiev insists this is not enough. Continue reading
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‘White phosphorus’ reports: Ukraine military ‘dropped incendiary bombs’ on Slavyansk
Residents of Slavyansk and its suburbs were awoken overnight on Thursday by what they say were incendiary bombs that were dropped on their city by Kiev’s military. Witnesses and local media reports suggested that the bombs might be phosphorous. Continue reading
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Ukraine News Links 11-12 June 2014
12 June 2014 17:18:07 — williambowles.info Poroshenko to make first presidential visit to Brussels (ITAR-TASS) Gazprom not to postpone gas payment deadline for Ukraine anymore (Voice of Russia) Ukraine reports tank incursion (BBC) Continue reading
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A Matter of Principle: The True Aims of the Terror War By Chris Floyd
The moral insanity of the Terror War continues to spawn more violence, more extremism, more repression, more injustice, and the total subversion of the “Western values,” all of which it is ostensibly designed to defend. Continue reading
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Black Agenda Report for June 11, 2014: White Right Impunity, $25 Million Koch HBCU "Gift", Working Families Party Betrayal
11 June 2014 — Black Agenda Report This week in Black Agenda Report The White Right’s Impunity by BAR executive editor Glen Ford If a thousand armed Blacks had gathered in one place, pointing rifles at federal officers, and two of them later cold-bloodedly assassinated policemen, the federal response would touch every Black neighborhood in Continue reading
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Poroshenko: Off To a Bad Start – Dire Fallout Looming Out to Tower around Ukraine By Natalia Meden
To cease fire this week. Nobody could make out what it means in practice (is it pulling troops out or turning Donbass into scorched earth?). “We have to stop fire this week. For me, every day of people dying, every day of Ukraine paying such a high price is an unacceptable one,” President Poroshenko said… Continue reading
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Iraq News Links 11 June 2014
11 June 2014 19:30:25 — williambowles.info Iraq: The Civil War Restarted (Moon of Alabama) Iraqi insurgents ‘seize new city’ (BBC) Iran offers Iraq support against terrorism (Voice of Russia) Continue reading
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Ukraine News Links 10-11 June 2014
12 June 2014 16:51:19 — williambowles.info Ukraine could up reverse gas flows if shipments from Russia stop (Voice of Russia) Stable gas supplies to Europe depend on Russia- Ukrainian minister (ITAR-TASS) Russian French diplomats discuss Ukraine conflict resolution Foreign Ministry (ITAR-TASS) Continue reading
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Video: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO): FIFA and the World Cup
John Oliver’s excitement for the World Cup is tempered by knowing information about FIFA, the organization that produces it. John details the problems with the upcoming tournament and the staggering allegations of corruption against FIFA. Continue reading
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Disabled Protesters Heading Back To DWP As Fight To Save Independent Living Heats Up
The fight to save the Independent Living Fund (ILF) is heating up with a fresh court challenge to this needless cut which could lead to some disabled people being institutionalised to save money. Continue reading
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Media Lens: The Great White ‘Nope’ – Genevieve Jacobs, Paul Mason and Alain De Botton By David Edwards
When corporations own the news and advertisers ‘sponsor’ the shows, journalists know they are above all answerable to the company managers and allied interests who pay their salaries. The mere public, especially voices of dissent, can be treated with indifference, even contempt. Journalists have power without responsibility, and they know it. Continue reading
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VTJP Occupied Palestine and Israel: News and Articles 11 June 2014
11 June 2014 — VTJP News International Middle East Media CenterHalf of Gaza Beaches Unfit for SwimmingIMEMC – One half of all beaches along the Gaza Strip have been polluted to the point of being rendered unfit for swimming, according to the Palestinian environmental authority. … Continue reading
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Inclusive Capitalism in London – you and I are not invited By John Weeks
On 27 May a conference unfolded in London with the title, “Inclusive Capitalism Initiative”, in Mansion House and Guild Hall in the heart of the City (heart – City, is that an oxymoron?). Unless informed to the contrary, the person in the street would assume that a conference searching to make capitalism more inclusive might… Continue reading
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Multi-Megaton Bomb Was Virtually “Armed” When It Crashed to Earth in North Carolina, Sandia Lab Report Concluded
A recently declassified report by Sandia National Laboratory, published today by the National Security Archive, provides new details on the 1961 Goldsboro, North Carolina, nuclear weapons accident. While both multi-megaton Mk 39 bombs involved in the mishap were in the “safe” position, the report concluded, by the time one of them hit the ground it… Continue reading
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