March 2015
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New at Strategic Culture Foundation 21-28 March 2015
28 March 2015 — Strategic Culture Foundation Ankara – Riyadh: A Geopolitical Fault Line (I) 28.03.2015 | 00:00 | Pyotr ISKENDEROV …In some regional conflicts (primarily in Syria), Ankara and Riyadh are tactical allies, but since both countries aspire to regional leadership, the natural result is an intensification of their rivalry and discord. This process Continue reading
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COLDTYPE ISSUE 96 now on line
27 March 2015 — Coldtype GREED is the theme of this month’s issue of ColdType, with seven essays exposing the problems of wealth inequality in the modern world. We’ve also got two photo essays – on Canada’s ‘terror bill’ protests and the 30th anniversary of the UK miners’ strike. In addition, you can read how Castro Continue reading
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Wikileaks: Secret Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPP) – Investment Chapter
WikiLeaks releases today the “Investment Chapter” from the secret negotiations of the TPP (Trans-Pacific Partnership) agreement. The document adds to the previous WikiLeaks publications of the chapters for Intellectual Property Rights (November 2013) and the Environment (January 2014). Continue reading
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Wikileaks Publishes Full Text of Secret TPP Proposal
Huge news. WikiLeaks just released the full text of the secret Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) chapter on “Investor State Dispute Settlement.”1 It’s terrifying. The TPP is even worse than we thought. The leaked chapter shows how the TPP would set up a shadowy international “court system” that would have no accountability to the public. Continue reading
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Black Agenda Report 25 March 2015
25 March 2015 — Black Agenda Report Philadelphia’s Killer Cops Prove the Necessity of Black Community Control of Police by BAR executive editor Glen Ford In response to the Black Lives Matter movement, the U.S. Justice Department has attempted to position itself on the side of “reform.” Its new report on the Philadelphia police is Continue reading
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New at Strategic Culture Foundation 15-21 March 2015
21 March 2015 — Strategic Culture Foundation Contest of Absurdity and Victory Day 21.03.2015 | 09:26 | Yuriy RUBTSOV All the proposals to mark the Victory Day in any other place but the capital of the Soviet Union/Russia – the leading victorious power in the main war of the 20th century – look like an absurdity contest… Continue reading
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medConfidential Bulletin 21 March 2015
While the Government and NHS England still refuse to rule out the commercial re-use of your medical information, their commercial cronies have lobbied the Office of National Statistics to consult on commercial, speculative and secret access to the unprotected data that ONS holds. Continue reading
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PAMBAZUKA NEWS 718: THE CHALLENGE OF AFRICA’S UNFINISHED LIBERATION
20 March 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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NHS: another sell-off
My name’s Gail. I’m a 38 Degrees member from Staffordshire, and I’m trying to stop the biggest-ever sell-off of NHS services. Cancer treatment and end-of-life care in Staffs are being sold off to the tune of £1.2 billion. These services saved my husband’s life and cared for my mother – we can’t let profit-hungry companies… Continue reading
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The ISIS Described by the US Media as a “Sunni Muslim Militia” is “Made in America”. It has Nothing to Do with Sunni Islam By Prof. Henry Francis B. Espiritu
As a lifetime student of classical mainline Islamic jurisprudential school of thought called “Sunni fiqh”, I feel saddened to note how the Western mainstream media succumbed to the Islamophobic propaganda of affixing the epithet “Sunni” to the militia of the so-called Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS). Continue reading
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New at Black Agenda Report 18 March 2015: No Justice, No Peace in Ferguson, 47 Republicans, Black Economic Progress a Myth
18 March 2015 — Black Agenda Report No Justice, No Peace, Without Black Community Control of Police by BAR executive editor Glen Ford Police, prosecutors, politicians and corporate propagandists seized on the shooting of two cops in Ferguson, to claim that the Black Lives Matter movement had suffered a “setback” – as if they have Continue reading
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Media Lens: Love For Libya: 2011-2015
Islamic State’s horrific mass beheading of 21 Coptic Christians last month forced a reluctant UK media system to return to Libya, scene of saturation news coverage in 2011. Then, the media lens hovered obsessively over every Libyan government crime – indeed, over every alleged and even predicted crime – in an effort to justify a… Continue reading
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Russian history exposes media lies By Eric Walberg
Today’s fearful standoff is yet another epic struggle reflecting Russia’s past glory, but unfortunately, now in a nightmarish world of drones and nuclear bombs. Far more tragic than could be easily reconstructed in tales of how Boris Gudonov pushed the Poles out of Moscow, leading eventually to the rise of Moscow. Continue reading
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Doctor’s Orders
Today, Britain’s most senior doctors told politicians to “put their money where their mouth is” and fund the NHS properly. Their open letter said that our NHS will be put at risk unless it has the money it needs. Continue reading
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The ECB’s Noose Around Greece: How Central Banks Harness Governments By Ellen Brown
Remember when the infamous Goldman Sachs delivered a thinly-veiled threat to the Greek Parliament in December, warning them to elect a pro-austerity prime minister or risk having central bank liquidity cut off to their banks? It seems the European Central Bank (headed by Mario Draghi, former managing director of Goldman Sachs International) has now made… Continue reading
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Statewatch News Online, 17 March 2015 (05/15): Fingerprinting by force / UK: Police “spying” whistleblower admits to MPs that he infiltrated six trade unions…
17 March 2015 — Statewatch • e-mail: office@statewatch.org NEWShttp://www.statewatch.org/news/ Top stories and analyses from Statewatch 1. EU: Fingerprinting by force: secret discussions on “systematic identification” of migrants and asylum seekers2. EU: Statewatch Analysis: Proposed Data Protection Regulation: What has the Council agreed so far?3. Is it time to go back to the typewriter, carbon paper and Tippex? “Remote access” to any Continue reading
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EU Splits on Supplying Weapons to Ukraine — How and Why By Eric Zuesse
There are 28 member-nations in the EU. Apparently, 17 of them do not want to sell weapons to the Ukrainian Government. That’s 17 EU nations which are apparently siding with Russia in opposing the extermination of the residents in the region of the former Ukraine, Donbass, where the residents had voted 90% for the Ukrainian… Continue reading
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New at Strategic Culture Foundation 8-14 March 2015
14 March 2015 — Strategic Culture Foundation Merkel Is Erasing May 9, 1945 from the National Memory 14.03.2015 | 12:06 | Dmitriy SEDOV …For the Russian people, the German chancellor’s refusal to attend the Victory Day celebrations in Moscow is a very serious sign that soon Germans might refuse to acknowledge the victory over Nazism. Germany’s political Continue reading
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No More NHS Privatisation!
A huge NHS privatisation deal has just been announced. £780 million more of taxpayers’ money will now go to private companies for services which used to be delivered by the NHS. Piece by piece, the NHS is being sold off to the highest bidder. But our NHS is precious and belongs to us all. We… Continue reading
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What does Putin want? By Rostislav Ishchenko
It is gratifying that Putin was not instantly blamed by “patriots” for a full-scale defeat of Ukrainian troops in the Donbass, which did not happen in January-February, and for the Moscow consultations with Merkel and Hollande. Continue reading
The New Dark Age 