February 2015
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Statewatch News Online, 18 February 2015 (03/15)
17 February 2015 — http://www.statewatch.org/ • e-mail: office@statewatch.org NEWS http://www.statewatch.org/news/ 1. NETHERLANDS: DATA RETENTION: Dutch DPA post-ECJ data retention Bill: “disproportionate infringement of private life”2. EU: “FORCED RETURNS”: Frontex stats report: 74,262 “forced returns” in last year3. EU: CJEU: Advocate General (AG): Opinion: person charged with criminal offence can be removed Continue reading
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HOUSMANS BOOKS NEWSLETTER MARCH 2015
17 February 2015 — Housmans HOUSMANS NEWSLETTER MARCH 2015 NEWS 1. Come along for a Housmans trip to the movies! IN-STORE EVENTS 2. ‘Stitched Up: The Anti-Capitalist Book of Fashion’ with Tansy E. Hoskins Continue reading
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HOUSMANS BOOKS NEWSLETTER February 2015
17 February 2015 — Housmans HOUSMANS NEWSLETTER FEBRUARY 2015 NEWS 1. Come along for a Housmans trip to the movies! IN-STORE EVENTS 2. ‘Stitched Up: The Anti-Capitalist Book of Fashion’ with Tansy E. Hoskins Continue reading
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Sanctions Should Be Imposed on the U.S. By Andre Vltchek
This year, it is all beginning in February. First the onslaught against Argentina and following that comes yet another coup against Venezuela, and its democratically elected, progressive government. The coup has been thwarted. Venezuela prevailed! Continue reading
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Gangsta Paradise By S. Artesian
It’s an ironic analogy, Syriza Greece to Weimar Germany, irony being what happens when ignorance meets history. After all, in this iteration, Greece is demanding war reparations from Germany, and Germany is adamant that Greece fulfill the terms of the 2012 Versailles agreement despite the toll the payments exact on the viability of the economy,… Continue reading
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Britain and Canada Involved in Foiled US Venezuelan Coup Plot By Stephen Lendman
Britain and Canada were co-conspirators in the latest plot to topple Venezuela’s government. TeleSUR provided detailed coverage of Washington’s war on Venezuelan democracy. Its dirty hands manipulate violence and instability worldwide. US funded and supported key opposition fascist figures Antonio Ledezma, Maria Corina Machado and Leopoldo Lopez released a joint February 11 communique a day… Continue reading
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Is Boko Haram a CIA Covert Op to Divide and Conquer Africa? By Julie Lévesque
In 2007, US State Department advisor Dr. J. Peter Pham commented on AFRICOM s strategic objectives of protecting access to hydrocarbons and other strategic resources which Africa has in abundance, a task which includes ensuring against the vulnerability of those natural riches and ensuring that no other interested third parties, such as China, India, Japan,… Continue reading
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Why the United States Always Loses Its Wars By Joachim Hagopian
America loses all its wars because it seems we’ve always been on the wrong side of history. Morally nor legally should any nation have the right to invade and occupy another sovereign nation, much less believe it can achieve victory in long, protracted wars. Yet in violation of all ethical precepts and all international laws,… Continue reading
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The Importance of Being Grecian Earnest By S. Artesian
15 February 2015 — The Wolf Report: Nonconfidential analysis for the anti-investor The challenge to, and the predicament of struggle in Greece is not one of “good” or “bad;” nor of “electoralism” versus “anti-electoralism;” nor of parliamentary, or ministerial, cretinism vs. anti-parliamentary popular power (in this last case, not yet). The challenge is to identify Continue reading
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New at Strategic Culture Foundation 8-14 February 2015
14 February 2015 — Strategic Culture Foundation Washington Wastes No Time to Sabotage Minsk 14.02.2015 | 00:00 | Finian CUNNINGHAM With their noses out of joint and egos bruised, the United States and its European lieutenants immediately got to work to undermine the Minsk ceasefire deal by twisting the terms of the accord and seeking to frame Continue reading
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Study Guide For those applying to the School of Anti-Economics By S. Artesian
Varoufakis is playing a part in the recuperation, the re-composition of capitalism by the loyal pretend-opposition. He flaunts his ignorance of Marx as “Marxist economics” when in fact Marx’s work is the end of “economics,” as it was the end of “philosophy.” He thinks he, the minister to finance, embodies the prospects for an “enlightened… Continue reading
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Black Agenda Report February 11, 2015: Loretta Lynch is Condi Rice With a Law Degree, Criminal Justice Reform, War Is Peace
12 February 2015 — Black Agenda Report Loretta Lynch is Condoleeza Rice With A Law Degree by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon In private practice Loretta Lynch was a “white collar crime specialist” keeping banksters, tax evaders and money launderers out of jail. She did exactly that at Obama’s Justice Department, passing get out Continue reading
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Greece: GameBoy at the PlayStation By S. Artesian
All dressed up in his Roy Batty best, the new finance minister of Greece, Yanis “GameBoy” Varoufakis was on the road. Laptop, Ipad, and PlayStation all synched, linked, and tethered, he was a man in full in that great digital daisy chain of bankers, academics, politicians. and entertainers. Continue reading
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New Video Evidence of the US-Sponsored Coup in Ukraine —and What it Means By Eric Zuesse
New video evidence has been added to the already-conclusive video evidence which shows that the U.S. Government was the controlling power behind the extremely violent and illegal 18-27 February 2014 Ukrainian coup, which overthrew the democratically elected and never legally removed-from-power Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych. Continue reading
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UK’s Lottery Election
You’d have thought that in a democracy, the result of an election would reflect the wishes of voters. Well, in 2015, it’s looking increasingly as if that won’t be the case. When there are six parties commanding a decent chunk of the vote, our broken two-party electoral system is more like a game of chance… Continue reading
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New at Strategic Culture Foundation 31 January – 7 February 2015
7 February 2015 — Strategic Culture Foundation Economics Wars and Economic Sanctions (II)07.02.2015 | 00:00 | Valentin KATASONOV Economic sanctions are a set of measures that put pressure on a government to achieve predominantly political objectives. However, although sanctions lead to negative consequences in the economy of the sanctioned country, the ultimate political objectives are by no Continue reading
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Bill Evans talks about his music: The Universal Mind of Bill Evans
One of my alltime favourite musos. Bill Evans is joined by his brother Harry for an in-depth discussion on jazz. The (fascinating) interview with Bill Evans on the nature of the creative process starts at 6:21. Continue reading
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Black Agenda Report for 4 February 2015: Oprah & Sharpton Attack #BlackLivesMatter, ISIS Chicken Home to Roost, Detroit Model to Atlantic City
5 February 2015 — Black Agenda Report Oprah and Sharpton Attack Black Lives Matter Movement by BAR executive editor Glen Ford When prominent members of the Black Misleadershp Class start ranting and raving against the new movement, you know it must be doing something right. Al Sharpton and Oprah Winfrey are attempting to “infantilize the Continue reading
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RA Sessions: Fatima – Gave Me My Name
Fatima’s style is rooted in modern soul and R&B. Music from her forthcoming debut album—including the excellent Family / La Neta—has crept out over the last few months, and this stunning performance of “Gave Me My Name,” which features Jonathan Geyevu on keys, is further proof that she could be one of 2014’s standout artists. Continue reading
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Media Lens: Conundrum – Syriza, Democracy And The Death Of A Saudi Tyrant
It’s always a tricky moment for the corporate media when a foreign leader dies. The content and tone need to be appropriate, moulded to whether that leader fell into line with Western policies or not. Thus, when Venezuela’s Hugo Chavez died in 2013, conventional coverage strongly suggested he had been a dangerous, quasi-dictatorial, loony lefty. Continue reading
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