15 March 2015 — Pambazuka News
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5 March 2015 — National Security Archive
700 Transcripts Still Withheld, Eight Years after Appeal
Threat of suit in 2001 led to recovery of Kissinger documents
Digital National Security Archive has published 15,000 to date
National Security Archive Electronic Briefing Book No. 503
Edited by William Burr
Posted March 4, 2015
For more information contact:
William Burr – 202/944-7000, nsarchiv@gwu.edu
Washington, DC, Posted March 4, 2015 — The National Security Archive today filed suit against the State Department under the Freedom of Information Act to force release of the last 700 transcripts of former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger’s telephone calls (telcons). The Archive’s appeal of State’s withholding dates back to 2007.
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5 March 2015 — Media Lens
The corporate media have swiftly moved on from Peter Oborne’s resignation as chief political commentator at the Telegraph and his revelations that the paper had committed ‘a form of fraud’ on its readers over its coverage of HSBC tax evasion.
But investigative journalist Nafeez Ahmed has delved deeper into the HSBC scandal, reporting the testimony of a whistleblower that reveals a ‘conspiracy of silence’ encompassing the media, regulators and law-enforcement agencies. Not least, Ahmed’s work exposes the vanity of the Guardian’s boast to be the world’s ‘leading liberal voice’.
5 March 2015 — The Wolf Report: Nonconfidential analysis for the anti-investor
1. The Short
—Submit the “reform package” agreed to by Syriza government to the parliament for a vote
—No to the “reform package” agreed to by the Syriza ministers
–No confidence in the Syriza government
–Repudiate the debt, the MFFA, and the reforms in their entirety.
The New Dark Age 