March 2015
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Syriza’s Only Choice: A Radical Step Forward By Spyros Lapatsioras, John Milios, and Dimitris P. Sotiropoulos
The transitional “bridge Agreement” of the 20th of February is a truce intended by the Greek government and welcomed by the other side (the European “institutions”). Within the truce period (the next four months), the conditions for negotiating the next agreement will be shaped. This could mean that everything is still open. However, that is… Continue reading
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National Security Archive: Perestroika in the Soviet Union: 30 Years On
Washington, DC, Posted March 11, 2015 — Thirty years ago today, in the Kremlin, the Soviet Politburo unanimously elected its youngest member, Mikhail Gorbachev, to the pinnacle of Soviet power — General Secretary of the Politburo of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. This election ushered in the “perestroika” period of revolutionary change, which… Continue reading
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Black Agenda Report 11 March 2015: Selma 50th Anniversary, "Chicago Will be Detroit", Final Insult to Michael Brown
11 March 2015 — Black Agenda Report Obama’s Selma Song: America Is Not Racist – It’s Just Ferguson by BAR executive editor Glen Ford No matter how many Black people are shot down in the streets by cops, no matter how far Black people fall relative to whites in the economy, Barack Obama has always Continue reading
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The Relationship between Washington and ISIS: The Evidence By Prof. Tim Anderson
Reports that US and British aircraft carrying arms to ISIS have been shot down by Iraqi forces have been met with shock and denial in western countries. Few in the Middle East doubt that Washington is playing a ‘double game’ with its proxy armies in Syria, but some key myths remain important amongst the significantly… Continue reading
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Greece Told Deeper Austerity Needed to Secure Additional Loans By Robert Stevens
Euro zone finance ministers met Monday to discuss a set of proposals from the Syriza-led Greek government based on the austerity programme both sides signed on February 20. Greece was required to submit a list of austerity measures deemed acceptable to its creditors as a precondition for receiving a pending load of €7.2 billion and… Continue reading
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W.E.B. Du Bois and the Radicalization of 21st Century Black Studies By Dr. Anthony Monteiro
February 23 was W.E.B Du Bois’ 147th birthday. He was a man of the Enlightenment, reason and Black resistance. He believed in scientific inquiry, poetry and art as methods for acquiring knowledge. Most of all he believed that knowledge had to be practical and purposeful and must be connected to the struggles for freedom of… Continue reading
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New at Strategic Culture Foundation 1-7 March 2015
7 March 2015 — Strategic Culture Foundation Ukraine – Country Ruled By Most Corrupt Regime in the World 07.03.2015 | 00:00 | Dmitry MININ If somebody asked those who joined the Maidan protests a year ago what were the reasons for doing so, they would probably say that the rampant corruption was the last straw. The protests Continue reading
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From the horse's mouth: U.S. Dollar Strategic Backfire On U.S. Government Policy
It is very difficult to find a foreign policy deployed by the United States Govt that has been successful in recent years. In fact, almost all aggressive foreign policy initiatives have resulted in profound losses either in financial strategic position or in alliances with previous staid allied nations. They have almost uniformly backfired, while bravado… Continue reading
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Dollar Imperialism, 2015 Edition By MICHÈLE BRAND and RÉMY HERRERA
The Fed effectively acts as the world’s central bank, but sets monetary policy only in its own interest. Under the pressure and the orders of financial oligopolies, it fixes interest rates and prints money to suit itself, sending economies across the globe into tailspins. When the Fed wanted to halt the decade-long decline in the… Continue reading
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The Battle Of Britain By Gilad Atzmon
The Royal Northern College of Music (RNMC) stated yesterday that it could no longer ensure “the safety of all involved” after extreme intimidation by a foreign Zionist lobby that demanded they cancel my Orient House Ensemble’s music performance. Continue reading
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Statewatch News Online, 6 March 2015 (04/15)
6 March 2015 — Statewatch • e-mail: office@statewatch.org NEWS http://www.statewatch.org/news/ 1. EU-UK: House of Lords report: CIVILIAN USE OF DRONES2. EU Commissioner: Migration Agenda: No search & rescue3. UK: A critical response to “The British Armed Forces: Learning Resource 2014 Continue reading
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Ukraine: This Is a Declaration of War
At times I feel completely overwhelmed by the current US-NATO military operations aimed at Russia. It’s growing rapidly – one can’t help but wonder if the recent ‘victory’ of the self-defensive forces in eastern Ukraine wasn’t allowed by Washington and Kiev as a way to get public opinion behind the already well established plans for… Continue reading
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PAMBAZUKA NEWS 716: WAR GAMES: LIBYA, SOUTH SUDAN – AND CRICKET
15 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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Archive Sues State Department Over Kissinger Telcons
Kissinger had removed the telcons, along with his memcons and office files, from State when he left office at the end of 1976. A lawsuit by the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press to recover the documents failed in 1980 with a Supreme Court ruling that the plaintiffs lacked standing. Continue reading
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Media Lens: ‘A Conspiracy Of Silence’ – HSBC, The Guardian And The Defrauded British Public
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’. Continue reading
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The Shorty Long of It By S. Artesian
No sooner does the Syriza government reverse its “policy” regarding the extension of and compliance with the 2012 agreement and its so-called reforms, than our eternalists take hope from the very bleakness of the situation. Syriza has “bought time.” To do what, exactly? Continue reading
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Black Agenda Report 4 March 2015: Obama's Criminal Justice Reforms – Trayvon, the Final Insult, Bibi Punks Barack
4 March 2015 — Black Agenda Report Obama’s Ferguson Commission a Joke: Why Liberal Proposals and “Solutions” Don’t Cut It by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon The Task Force for 21st Century Policing, Obama’s response to public disgust with police misconduct after Ferguson is the wish list of big city cops, nonprofits, Justice Department Continue reading
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Housmans Books, London – March Newsletter
3 March 2015 — Housmans HOUSMANS NEWSLETTER MARCH UPDATE NEWS1. Melissa Gira Grant’s talk has been cancelled due to visa problems IN-STORE EVENTS2. [Again] Introductions presents: ‘Feminism’ with Prof. Stella Sandford 3. ‘Copy Readers Union’ with Vit Hopley and friends4. ‘NHS FOR SALE: Myths, Lies and Deception’ with Dr Jacky Davis, Dr John Lister and Dr David Continue reading
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