14 July 2014 — WSWS
Tensions flared over the weekend as Russian officials vowed to respond to the Ukrainian shelling of a Russian border town, amid the offensive by troops of the Western-backed Ukrainian regime in Kiev against pro-Russian militias defending the eastern Ukrainian cities of Donetsk and Luhansk.
14 July 2014 — Global Research
Seeing “free” Western media with headlines like “Rockets raining over Israel”, or describing the success of Israel’s Iron Dome defence system in intercepting missiles from Gaza, you would assume there was a war between equals – or even that “poor Israel” was under attack.
Many Western readers won’t know that all of the 100-plus killed since Tuesday – and practically all of the 700 injured – are Palestinians, many of them children.
14 July 2014 — WashingtonsBlog
We noted Friday that Israel is bombing Gaza back to the stone age to get Hamas … But ISIS – NOT HAMAS – claims credit for attacks against Israel.
14 July 2014 — Liberty
Since our last email, politicians have been busy assuring us that the Government’s “emergency” Data Retention and Investigatory Powers Bill – “DRIP” – simply maintains the status quo.
14 July 2014 18:14:00 — williambowles.info
Not In Our Name: The Jewish duty to stand with the people of Gaza (Mondoweiss)
14 July 2014 — RT
NSA whistleblower, Edward Snowden, has denounced the UK’s emergency surveillance bill, criticizing its heightened powers of intrusion along with the distinct lack of public debate it encompassed.
14 July 2014 — OurNHS
The TTIP trade treaty talks re-open in Brussels this week. We should not be reassured by the convenient ‘leak’ of a private letter between key TTIP advocates claiming the treaty poses no threat to the NHS.
13 July 2014 — OurNHS
Proposals to strip benefits from depressed people who ‘refuse’ treatment are unethical, ignore root causes, and are likely to force people into inappropriate treatment or penury.
13 July 2014 — The Electronic Intifada
The UN says 77 percent of Palestinians killed in Israel’s relentless bombing campaign on the besieged Gaza Strip have been civilians.
Relatives mourning the dead from an Israeli air strike on Gaza Sunday. (Ramadan El-Agha / APA images)
14 July 2014— No Limit to Our Anger (c) V. M. Molotov
Preamble: The following two interviews were given by Igor Strelkov on July 12 and 13, 2014, respectively. The first interview (July 12, 2014) is currently being translated and will be made available as soon as possible. The second interview (July 13, 2014) is now available.
14 July 2014 — Palestinian Centre for Human Rights
Press Releases
Ref: 83/2014
Date: 14 July 2014
Time: 07:00 GMT
Ongoing Israeli Offensive on Gaza:
162 Palestinians Killed, of Whom 137 Are Civilians, Including 34 Children and 28 Women, and 1,058 Others Wounded, Mostly Civilians, Including 332 Children and 212 Women;
14 July 2014 — No Limit to Our Anger (c) V. M. Molotov
Preamble: I never had a brother. He is the brother I wish I had. In fighting for the future of Novorossiya, I would treasure it if he considered me to be of his blood, across the ocean. I do.
14 July 2014 — Haaretz
Cable from the U.S. Embassy in Tel Aviv says Israeli officials wanted Gaza’s economy ‘functioning at the lowest level possible consistent with avoiding a humanitarian crisis.’
14 July 2014 — Global Research
The pretext for bombing and shelling Gaza was the death of three Israeli teenagers allegedly killed by Hamas.
14 July 2014 — Dissident Voice
As I write, the Israelis have slaughtered 160 Palestinians in their latest mad-dog military adventure, the vast majority being civilians including 35 children. 934 others have been wounded, including 280 children.
And still the mighty international community shuffles and mumbles.
14 July 2014 — No Limit to Our Anger (c) V. M. Molotov
Preamble: The document below was published by LifeNews as a true copy of a letter prepared by the acting Ukrainian Minister of Defence, Colonel General Mikhail Koval, and addressed to the President of Ukraine, Pyotr Poroshenko. Unless I receive a specific request, and owing to dire lack of time to devote to this, I am not going to apply my experience as a refugee lawyer (dealing with refugees in Cairo, Egypt, as well as in Canada) fully elaborate on the enormous and obvious failings of the policy herein proposed vis-à-vis the international refugee law.
13 July 2014 — VTJP
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International Middle East Media Center
Eleven Legislators, Many Residents, Kidnapped In West Bank
IMEMC – Israeli soldiers invaded, on Monday at dawn, different Palestinian communities in the occupied West Bank, and kidnapped 11 legislators, and several other Palestinians. …
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14 July 2014 — WSWS
The UK coalition government, with support from the opposition Labour Party, is rushing through emergency legislation maintaining broad surveillance powers ruled unlawful by the European Court of Justice.
14 Julyb2014 — WSWS
Last Thursday, the US Department of Justice quietly announced that it would not launch a criminal investigation following the revelation in March that the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) had spied on the staff of the Senate Intelligence Committee. News of this decision—which concerns one of the most significant constitutional breaches in modern American history—was barely reported in the establishment media and prompted no significant response from any section of the political establishment.
The New Dark Age 