August 2014
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VTJP Occupied Palestine and Israel: News and Articles 9 August 2014: Gaza: raw power and the murdering of justice
9 August 2014 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center ISM Journal: Clashes in HebronIMEMC – As ISM volunteers were heading back from al-Masara village yesterday, we were dropped at off at Bab Al-Zawiye, the city center of Hebron. … Continue reading
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India: Selling Out To Monsanto. GMOs and the Bigger Picture By Colin Todhunter
The bedrock of any society is its agriculture. Without food there can be no life. Without food security, there can be no genuine independence. A recent report by the organisation GRAIN revealed that small farms produce most of the world’s food and are more productively efficient than large farms [1]. Facilitated by an appropriate policy… Continue reading
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Transcarpathian Gambit By Alexander Donetsky
The third wave of mobilization is launched in Ukraine to compensate for losses suffered in Donbass. It hits big bumps on the way. Nobody wants to be cannon fodder for the ruling regime to add to the death toll of thousands. People run away from different regions of the country, even the ones situated far… Continue reading
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Washington Threatens The World By Dr. Paul Craig Roberts
The reality in the Middle East stands in vast contradiction to the stage managed landing of George W. Bush on the US aircraft carrier Abraham Lincoln where Bush declared “Mission Accomplished” on May 1, 2003. The mission that Washington accomplished was to wreck the Middle East and the lives of millions of people and to… Continue reading
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VTJP Occupied Palestine and Israel News and Articles 8 August 2014: UN's Ban Ki-moon is a partner in Israel's crimes
8 August 2014 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Foreign Journalists Refuse to Meet Netanyahu’s ExpectationsIMEMC – Foreign correspondents covering Gaza have rejected Israeli PM Netanyahu’s allegations regarding their reports, which have been described as “unbalanced” and “biased” towards Palestinians due to pressure exerted by Hamas. … Continue reading
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A Slavyansk Farewell – Film by Alexander Kots & Dmitry Steshin
8 August 2014 — Slavyangrad.org Preamble: Our gratitude goes to our partners at Anti-Maidan.Com for preparing a superb translation of this landmark documentary film by Komsomolskaya Pravda (“KP”) journalists, Alexander Kots and Dmitry Steshin. Neither the film, nor the authors require any further introduction. Please watch, reflect, and share. Continue reading
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New at Strategic Culture Foundation 3-9 August 2014
9 August 2014 — Strategic Culture Foundation Will Cameron Prevail Over Germany? 09.08.2014 | 00:02 | Arkady DZIUBA On August 4 Prime Minister David Cameron visited the NATO Allied headquarters in Brussels. Formally the event was timed with the marking the 100 year anniversary of the British Empire’s entrance into the First World War, but Russia and Continue reading
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Poem from Gaza: You have 58 seconds to run
8 August 2014 — Jonathon Cook Running Orders Lena Khalaf Tuffaha Continue reading
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VTJP Occupied Palestine and Israel: News and Articles 7 August 2014: Israel cracks down on dissent
7 August 2014 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Israel Orders Halt on Palestinian Home Construction near BethlehemIMEMC – Settlers uproot more trees, near Ramallah Israeli forces have ordered several Palestinians working on their houses in the village of al-Khader, to the south of Bethlehem, to stop construction, under the pretext of “building Continue reading
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PAMBAZUKA NEWS 690: US-AFRICA LEADERS’ SUMMIT, GAZA AND WESTERN IRE
7 August 2014 — Pambazuka News PAMBAZUKA NEWS 690: US-AFRICA LEADERS’ SUMMIT, GAZA AND WESTERN IREThe authoritative electronic weekly newsletter and platform for social justice in AfricaPambazuka News is delivered free to you with the support of donations from Friends of Pambazuka. Continue reading
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UK: Take action for public rail!
The Tories are scared. Publicly owned East Coast has made over £1bn profit for the taxpayer – showing that public trains can be efficient and effective. They’re now trying to sell it off before more people notice. Continue reading
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Video: Flight #MH17: What You’re Not Being Told
Preamble: An excellent overview of some of the key damning evidentiary red flags inexorably pointing to the real culprits behind the collapse of Ukraine as a country, the genocidal fratricidal civil war, and, most recently, the devastating catastrophe of Malaysian Airlines Boeing MH17 that took away almost 300 lives. These culprits are the gang of… Continue reading
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Video: Flight #MH17: What You’re Not Being Told
Preamble: An excellent overview of some of the key damning evidentiary red flags inexorably pointing to the real culprits behind the collapse of Ukraine as a country, the genocidal fratricidal civil war, and, most recently, the devastating catastrophe of Malaysian Airlines Boeing MH17 that took away almost 300 lives. These culprits are the gang of… Continue reading
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Julian Assange: The Six and a Half Million Pound Man
On 19 June 2014 Julian Assange will have spent two years living within Ecuador’s London embassy. The summer of 2012 witnessed extraordinary scenes with the Metropolitan Police (Met) surrounding the embassy, issuing a “surrender notice” and carrying orders to arrest Assange “under all circumstances”. The UK government considered violating the Vienna Convention in order to… Continue reading
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VTJP Occupied Palestine and Israel: News and Articles 6 August 2014: In Gaza, We Have Lost So Many That We Love
6 August 2014 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Settlers Smash Doors Of Palestinian Stores In Hebron’s Old CityIMEMC – Army Destroys Workshops Near Jenin A number of fanatic Israeli settlers invaded, on Wednesday at noon, the “Gold Market” area, under full Israeli security and military control, in the Old City of the Continue reading
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Black Agenda Report for August 6, 2014: CBC & Apartheid Israel, Irreversible Climate Change, Ted Wafer Trial
6 August 2014 — Black Agenda Report Time For The CBC and our Black Political Class Denounce Apartheid and Ethnocracy in Israel-Palestine by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon The contradiction between the supposed origin of our black political class out of the struggle against Jim Crow and its collaboration with Israeli apartheid can’t be Continue reading
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Israeli army summarily executed fleeing civilians in southern Gaza
Even before a short-lived ceasefire allowed journalists to enter the besieged southern Gaza Strip town of Khuzaa on 1 August, desperate reports of an Israeli massacre — including execution-style shootings — had emerged from survivors who had escaped to nearby Khan Younis. Continue reading
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VTJP Occupied Palestine and Israel: News and Articles 5 August 2014: “Only then, when the soldiers knew for certain that they had put an end to this ambulance’s mission, did the shelling stop.”
5 August 2014 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center 38 Palestinians Kidnapped in Jerusalem and West BankIMEMC – Settlers attack Palestinian worker in Jerusalem At least 38 Palestinians across the West Bank and Jerusalem have been abducted by Israeli forces, on Tuesday, while several others were summoned for interrogation, according to reports by Continue reading
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Crimes against Humanity. Israel’s “Own Words”: “We Must Expel Arabs…We Struck Civilians Because They Deserved It” By Steve Chovanec
[After Israel won the Six Day War in June 1967] We enthusiastically chose to become a colonial society, ignoring international treaties, expropriating lands, transferring settlers from Israel to the occupied territories, engaging in theft and finding justification for all these activities. Passionately desiring to keep the occupied territories, we developed two judicial systems: one ?… Continue reading
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Evidence Is Now Conclusive: Two Ukrainian Government Fighter-Jets Shot Down Malaysian Airlines MH17. It was Not a ‘Buk’ Surface to Air Missile By Eric Zuesse
We’ll go considerably farther than has yet been revealed by the professional intelligence community, to provide the actual evidence that conclusively shows that (and how) the Ukrainian Government shot down the Malaysian airliner, MH-17, on July 17th. Continue reading