February 2015
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Save our NHS
Today, 38 Degrees members went out on the streets in Streatham. They added name after name to a petition telling all your local politicians to save the NHS. And it’s not just here – 38 Degrees members were out in hundreds of locations across the country. Continue reading
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The Cat in the Box: Quantum Social Democracy and the Uncertainty Principle By S. Artesian
I have to wonder what’s “wholly correct” about the approach of the “The Left Platform” if it provides an indication to Tsirpas that he should by-pass parliament and simply impose the reform package, because that “would possibly have split Syriza in a big way”? Unless it is to keep Syriza in power. Continue reading
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Yani and the Hand Jive By S. Artesian
Before and upon assuming government, Syriza explicitly recognized that none of the “reforms” required by the Troika could or would allow Greece to repay the debt. Liquidation sales are never designed to repay the face value of the debt. Prior to taking power, Syriza correctly identified the Greek economy as insolvent with the privatization program… Continue reading
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New at Strategic Culture Foundation 21-28 February 2015
28 February 2015 — Strategic Culture Foundation Tony Blair and the Hidden Agenda of Serbian Policy 28.02.2015 | 00:00 | Pyotr ISKENDEROV The appointment of former UK Prime Minister Tony Blair as advisor to the head of the Serbian government, Aleksandar Vu?i?, has rocked the media. The Russian television channel RT referred to the decision as an Continue reading
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A taste of Israeli apartheid, courtesy of Waitrose
The booklet passes off Palestinian/Arab dishes and ingredients such as za’atar, tahini and falafel as Israeli. And it contains tourist features on towns within Israel which, while mentioning their Ottoman past, ignore their Palestinian heritage and the ethnic cleansing of their Palestinian inhabitants during the creation of Israel. Continue reading
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Video: Venezuelan Gov. Releases Audio of Coup Plotters
On Thursday, Venezuela officials released recordings of what it said was proof that opposition figures and some military officers were plotting to overthrow the government – Analysis with Miguel Tinker Salas and Paul Jay Continue reading
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Pambazuka News 715 27 February 2015: Vatican Lies, Malcolm X and White Empire
27 February 2015 — Pambazuka News The authoritative electronic weekly newsletter and platform for social justice in Africa Pambazuka News is delivered free to you with the support of donations from Friends of Pambazuka. KEEP PAMBAZUKA FREE AND INDEPENDENT! BECOME A FRIEND OF PAMBAZUKA NOW! http://www.pambazuka.org/en/friends.php Continue reading
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Black Agenda Report for 26 February 2015: Chicago Stuns Rahm Emanuel, Student Debt Strike, Silence on Libya
26 February 2015 — Black Agenda Report The People of Chicago Stun Obama’s Mayor Rahm Emanuel. Now It’s Round 2 by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon Despite support from local black & Latino politicians former Obama chief of staff and Rahm Emanuel failed to win re-election as Chicago mayor on Feb. 24. He faces Continue reading
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Media Lens: ‘Corrosive, Shallow, Herd-Like And Gross’ – Peter Oborne And The Corporate Media
In a free society, Oborne’s courageous whistleblowing would have triggered a wide-ranging debate on how profit-seeking media owned and run by a tiny elite, dependent on corporate advertisers, subsidised by state and corporate ‘news’, obviously produce a vision of the world in which corporate domination is viewed as ‘just how things are’. The astonishing, hidden… Continue reading
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24 hours late, and € 240 billion short
A day late and more than a dollar short, Yanis Varoufakis submitted a “program” of reforms to the Eurozone finance ministers (Eurogroup) regarding the Greek government’s development and implementation of tax policies, public finance management, revenue administration, public spending, social security reform, public administration and corruption, instalment schemes, labor market reforms, product market reforms, better… Continue reading
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The Anti-Empire Report #137 By William Blum: A Greek Tragedy
In 1964, the liberal George Papandreou came to power, but in April 1967 a military coup took place, just before elections which appeared certain to bring Papandreou back as prime minister. The coup had been a joint effort of the Royal Court, the Greek military, the KYP, the CIA, and the American military stationed in… Continue reading
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Bruiseology By S. Artesian
You will recall that way back when in 2009 and 2010 some of us sectarian, socialism now, ultra-left types where sectarianly and ultra-leftly calling for the immediate repudiation of the debt. When the recent contest for parliamentary power took place, we, incurable sectarians/Bordiga-ists/ultra-leftists/DeLeonites, urged no support for Syriza’s program because that program did not call… Continue reading
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ColdType, MARCH 2015, Issue 94 now online: Malcolm
23 February 2015 — http://coldtype.net 84 PAGES THIS MONTH – MALCOLM X WAS RIGHT. Cover story this month is Chris Hedge’s wonderful essay on the impact of the often overlooked Black American leader 50 years after his assassination. Other stories in this issue cover the British House of Lords, wars past and present, leaders alive and assassinated, Continue reading
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New at Strategic Culture Foundation 15-21 February 2015
21 February 2015 — Strategic Culture Foundation Egypt – Confrontation with Radical Islamism 21.02.2015 | 00:00 | Boris DOLGOV …It can be assumed that terrorist attacks against Egypt by the Islamic State (IS) have been prompted by the Egyptian leadership’s policy on rapprochement with Russia, including military-technical cooperation, which was strengthened after President Putin’s recent visit to Continue reading
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Is Washington Preparing to Wage War on Russia? By Prof. John McMurtry
20 February 2015 — Global Research Seeing through the Official Lies on Ukraine Truce on the First Anniversary of the US-Led Coup “We can no longer find any willingness on the part of Poland to conduct serious negotiations with us. These proposals for mediation have failed because [of ] – – Polish mobilization.” (Adolph Hitler, 1939) Continue reading
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Obama’s “Fake War” against the Islamic State (ISIS). The Islamic State is Protected by the US and its Allies By Prof Michel Chossudovsky
Since August 2014, the US Air Force with the support of a coalition of 19 countries has relentlessly waged an intensified air campaign against Syria and Iraq allegedly targeting the Islamic State brigades…The airstrikes have been casually described by the media as part of a “soft” counter-terrorism operation, rather than an act of all out… Continue reading
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The Strategic Implications of the Battle for Debaltsevo By The Saker
The Novorussians are in control of most of Debaltsevo (officially 90%, officially 100% as of midnight GMT). More relevantly, there is no more organized resistance. Russian sources say that about 1000 junta soldiers have refused to surrender and are hiding in the outskirts or have fled to the south end of the cauldron. The Novorussians… Continue reading
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Black Agenda Report February 18, 2015: CBC, the Cowardly Black Caucus, US Empire & ISIS, Angry White Man Kills Again
18 February 2015 — Black Agenda Report Cowardly Black Caucus Reacts to Israeli Insults, Ignores Israeli Apartheid by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon The CBC is silent when Israel passes discriminatory laws, steals Palestinian land, or punishes Palestinian civilians with power and water cutoffs and blockades. Like the rest of Congress, the CBC endorsed Continue reading
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IMF Loans to Ukraine: Deadly “Economic Medicine” Aimed at Total Destabilization By Ernst Wolff
On February 12, Christine Lagarde, Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund, announced that the IMF had reached an agreement with the Ukrainian government on a new economic reform program. Ms Lagarde’s statement, made in Brussels, came only minutes after peace negotiations between the heads of the German, French, Russian und Ukrainian governments in Minsk,… Continue reading
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