16 July 2014 20:49:14 — williambowles.info
Israel declares ‘humanitarian truce’ (BBC)
Each one is a world (Mondoweiss)
Only 14% of Americans Sympathize with Palestinians. 73% of Republicans – and 44% of Democrats – Sympathize With Israel (WashingtonsBlog)
16 July 2014 — Black Agenda Report
by BAR managing editor Bruce A. DixonWhy can’t Latino politicians and corporate media call the current wave of Central American children refugees, when that’s what they plainly are? What’s the role of the US drug war, US trained cops and military, and US funded death squads in the violence and poverty that sent them here, and why won’t Latino politicians mention that either? And why are none fleeing Nicaragua, which is just as poor as Honduras, Guatemala or El Salvador?
16 July 2014 — No Limit to Our Anger (c) V. M. Molotov
[I don’t know how accurate these situation reports from the Eastern Ukraine are, but they make interesting reading. I wonder also, how much is down to the translation as they come across more like prose than journalism? But most surprising of all is the fact that the ‘rebels’, ‘separatists’, or ‘federalists’, take your pick, might actually stand a chance of winning, but at what cost? WB]
16 July 2014 — RT
British MPs are pressing ahead with implementing a controversial bill requiring phone and internet companies to retain their customer’s data for up to a year granting security services unprecedented access to it. Continue reading
16 July 2014 —OurNHS
So-called ‘mutuals’ have been tried in the NHS – and flopped badly. But they can’t let this Trojan horse for privatisation go.
Here we go again. Turning the NHS into a ‘staff-owned’ mutual or ‘social enterprise’ has been re-launched more times than Liam Fox’s career, generally to a resounding wave of indifference or hostility from NHS staff who are generally less interested in being ‘social entrepreneurs’ than in getting on with doctoring and nursing.
16 July 2014 —OurNHS
Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt’s plans to charge non-EU migrants 150% of the cost of NHS treatment are a sideshow that will do nothing to address the real challenges facing the NHS under his government.
15 July 2014 — International Middle East Media Center
Prize winning Israeli defense and aerospace engineering expert Dr. Moti Shefer stated, during a recent interview with Radio 103, that the infamous Israeli “Iron Dome” security system was one of the biggest bluffs that he’d ever seen.
16 July 2014 — Palestinian Centre for Human Rights
Press Releases
Ref: 87/2014
Date: 16 July 2014
Time: 07:00 GMT
On the 9th Day of the Offensive on the Gaza Strip, Israeli Warplanes Escalate Attacks on Houses, Especially Those of Political Leaders
16 July 2014 — No Limit to Our Anger (c) V. M. Molotov
Briefings Combined for end of July 14, July 15 and beginning of July 16, 2014
Translated from Russian by Gleb Bazov Continue reading
16 July 2014 — WashingtonsBlog
Newly-released documents from Edward Snowden show that the British spy agency GCHQ has developed numerous offensive digital tools.
But what exactly are they doing with these dirty tricks?
16 July 2014 — WSWS
Former Labour Party MP George Galloway has held a series of meetings throughout Scotland calling for a “No” vote in the Scottish independence referendum scheduled for September 18.
15 July 2014 — WSWS
France’s Socialist Party (PS) government is ramming through an anti-terrorism law that tramples on fundamental democratic rights, and gives authorities special power to spy on the population and censor web sites accused of supporting terrorism.
