30 April 2015 — Pambazuka News
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29 April 2015 — VTJP
News
International Middle East Media Center
Israeli Forces Demolish Livestock Structure in Nablus
IMEMC – 29 Apr 2015 – Israeli forces, on Wednesday, demolished a Palestinian-owned structure used for raising livestock in Rujeib village, to the south of Nablus, according to a local activist. …
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28 April 2015 — Media Diversified
Senior Tory peer and former Times editor, Lord Finkelstein, sits on board of think-tank promoting far-right racism and extremism
Lord Daniel Finkelstein, a close confidant of Prime Minister David Cameron and Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne, has expressed his pride in providing a platform for racist far-right extremist views, and leading figures who have promoted such views. He sits on the board of a controversial little-known American think-tank that has endorsed calls for the forcible depopulation of ethnic minorities and Muslims in parts of Europe, and published discredited racist myths such as the idea of “Muslim no-go-zones.”
Lord Finkelstein is a political columnist and former executive editor at The Times of London. Until recently, he was chairman of the well-known Conservative think-tank Policy Exchange and a longtime adviser in the Tory Party. He is currently still a director at Policy Exchange according to company records.
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According to the Center for American Progress in Washington DC, a leading think-tank, Nina Rosenwald and the foundations controlled by her and her family are part of “a small, tightly networked group of misinformation experts” that “peddle hate and fear of Muslims and Islam.”[2] Gatestone is an integral part of that network.
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27 April 2015 — The Wolf Report: Nonconfidential analysis for the anti-investor
Here’s the thing about history: it always, but always, out-goofs me. I mean I’ve been known to use hyperbole, satire, spoof, sarcasm, exaggeration, and near-drunk hallucination to illuminate the macabre humor, the grinning madness that is the result of, and circulates with value production, but I’m an amateur, a naïf, when compared to what capitalism and its attenuated attendants come up with, and come up with constantly, and with straight faces…unlike me. Example, you ask? Example you get. There’s this gem, this perfect, this flawless, this naïf story:
27 April 2015 — VTJP
News
International Middle East Media Center
Soldiers Break Into Homes, Shops, In Aida Refugee Camp
IMEMC – 27 Apr 2015 – Israeli soldiers invaded, on Monday evening, the Aida refugee camp, north of the West Bank city of Bethlehem, broke into homes, and destroyed doors of a number of stores, before searching them. …
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23 April 2015 — Institute of Race Relations
My conversation with Colin was recorded in 2011. But I have been given the chance to update some of those ideas for this event on 18 April 2015. Neoliberalism is not working. All that stuff, about wealth trickling down, no society only individuals, the market as the regulator of everything, is shown to be false in terms of everyday reality. What Tory ideology has produced on the ground are closures to libraries, youth centres, hospitals, the selling off of whole housing estates, benefit caps, workfare programmes. The combination of austerity and marketisation has impacted on the sheer need to exist.
26 April 2015 — VTJP
News
International Middle East Media Center
Thousands Attend Funeral Procession of Slain Palestinian in Hebron
IMEMC – 26 Apr 2015 – Thousands of Palestinians participated, Sunday, in the funeral procession and ceremony for the young man who was killed on Saturday by Israeli army fire near the Ibrahimi Mosque, in the southern West Bank city of Hebron. …
Palestinian Homes in Hebron Stoned by Israeli Settlers
IMEMC – 26 Apr 2015 – A group of Israelis from settlements in the occupied West Bank district of Hebron, Sunday morning, were reported to have stoned Palestinian homes in the center of the city. …
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27 April 015 — Statewatch • e-mail: office@statewatch.org
Statewatch coverage of the migrant crisis in the Mediterranean
1. UN-UK-MEDIA: UN Human Rights chief urges UK to tackle tabloid hate speech
2. Draft list of Member State “pledges” of military and other assets
3. Don’t rock the boat: EU leaders do as little as possible, Analysis
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27 April 2015 — Statewatch • e-mail: office@statewatch.org
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1. “The time is here to be seized” and “Catching History on the Wing” A. Sivanandan
2. EU: Regulation on Data Protection: Consolidated version (630 pages) from EP
3. Frontex and eu-LISA Cooperation Plan 2015
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27 April 2015 — Housmans
HOUSMANS NEWSLETTER MAY 2015
NEWS
1. London Radical Bookfair 2015: The Tanner St Takeover, Saturday 9th May
2. Little Rebels Shortlist 2015
3. May Day/forthcoming shop closures
24 April 2015 — VTJP
Occupied Palestine and Israel: News and Articles
News
International Middle East Media Center
Palestinian Loses His Eye Due To Israeli Fire In Kufur Qaddoum
IMEMC – 24 Apr 2015 – Israeli soldiers used excessive force, on Friday, against the weekly protest against the Wall and Settlements in Kufur Qaddoum, near the northern West Bank city of Qalqilia, causing a serious injury to a young man who lost his eye; one was shot by a live round, and five others were injured by rubber-coated metal bullets, and many suffered the effects of tear gas inhalation. …
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25 April 2015 — Strategic Culture Foundation
25.04.2015 | 11:18 | Nikolai BOBKIN
…Saudi Arabia’s King Salman on April 21 ordered the Saudi Arabian National Guard, widely regarded as the kingdom’s best equipped military ground force, to take part in Riyadh’s campaign against Iran-allied Houthi rebels in Yemen… The National Guard is a separate military structure run by its own ministry. It will be responsible for control of border and Shia-populated areas. This is especially important because the Saudis started the ground phase of the operation on their own soil. Saudi Shiites have demonstrated to protest the intervention by Sunni regimes into Yemeni conflict…
22 April 2015 — Black Agenda Report
by BAR executive editor Glen FordMichael Eric Dyson has never produced even a few words of substantive critique of President Obama’s wars, his “Grand Bargain” with the GOP, or his role in the economic collapse of Black America. Instead, Dyson has written a hit-piece on Dr. Cornel West. “The true purpose of his elongated smear of Dr. West is to demonstrate to Hillary Clinton’s camp that Dyson remains a loyal Democratic Party operative who is available for service to the new regime.”
22 April 2015 — Coldtype
THE FACE OF OCCUPATION.
In a moving 6-page photo essay, Mats Svensson gives us on an eye witness view of a Palestinian family being evicted and their home destroyed by Israeli soldiers. Other stories include a critical look at Hillary Clinton, a trip inside war-ravaged Donetsk, the strange tale of the activist, McDonald’s and an undercover cop, a taxi ride to prison, a poem about Vladimir Putin, World War 2.0. And much more writing and opinions you won’t want to miss.
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18 April 2015 — Strategic Culture Foundation
18.04.2015 | 00:03 | Nikolai MALISHEVSKI
The Polish social democratic political party Democratic Left Alliance (SLD) considers the Ukrainian parliament’s recent recognition of the UPA as fighters for independence to be an insult to Poland and its President, Bronislaw Komorowski, an SLD representative stated at a press conference on April 12. The UPA is the Ukrainian Insurgent Army, a wing of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN). In the days of the Second World War it collaborated with Hitler’s Germany, including the Wehrmacht, police and security services. Continue reading
16 April 2015 — medConfidential
For years, we’ve had credible reports of highly accurate marketing that could only be based on health records. Now reports in the media have revealed “a nice little trade” in your health records – and that’s the Information Commissioner’s description, not ours.
These latest reports reveal two ways in which information about your health may be collected and sold on: from insurance forms you fill in and, in particular instances, from information provided to “the UK’s largest online pharmacy”, Pharmacy2U.
15 April 2015 — Black Agenda Report
Black People Must Police ThemselvesWhen police murder Black people on the streets of U.S. cities, they do not think they are behaving like “rogue” cops or “bad apples.” Rather, most of them believe – and are encouraged in believing – that they are protecting and serving their communities. The central question task of the Black Lives Matter mobilization must become empowering the Black community to protect and police itself – with the understanding that this cannot occur without an insurgency.
16 April 2015 — Media Lens
We live in a time when compassionate rhetoric is used as a weapon of state-corporate control. The rhetoric focuses on ethical concerns such as racial, gender and same-sex equality, but is disconnected from any kind of coherent ethical worldview. Corporate commentators are thereby freed to laud these moral principles, even as they ignore high crimes of state-corporate power.
11 April 2015 — Strategic Culture Foundation
11.04.2015 | 00:00 | Arkady DZIUBA
No matter how hard the European political beau monde tried to prevent it, Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras did visit Moscow. Neither Cypriot President Nicos Anastasiades, nor Hungarian leader Victor Urban, who have also recently met Russian President Vladimir Putin, had received so many warnings and admonitions as the Greek PM…
The New Dark Age 