July 2015
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New at Strategic Culture Foundation 12-18 July 2015
18 July 2015 — Strategic Culture Foundation Nuland Goes to Europe: End of Compromise Culture 18.07.2015 | 08:00 | Dmitry BABICH Victoria Nuland, the Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs, has just wound up its European trip which included US satellites in the eastern part of old continent: Croatia, Macedonia, Serbia and Ukraine. Making Continue reading
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National Security Archive: Court Rejects Chiquita's Bid to Hide Terror Payment Records
In an important victory for transparency and corporate accountability, a federal appeals court in Washington, D.C., has ruled that the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) should release to the National Security Archive some 9,257 pages of records produced by Chiquita Brands International to the SEC as part of an investigation of the company’s illegal… Continue reading
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The Real News Live-Streaming From Athens, Greece
Tune in to our site right now to watch an exclusive Greece livestream of a panel featuring TRNN regulars Leo Panitch and Syrian MP Costas Lapavitsas. This panel is part of three day conference in Athens, Greece called Democracy Uprising. Continue reading
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medConfidential Bulletin, 17 July 2015: care.data – Are you their guinea-pig?
medConfidential has been asking since last October for this information to be published, so that people can know if they and their family are to be guinea-pigs for ‘care.data round 3’. Some patients may also have questions as to why they have been volunteered in this way – so might some GPs – and we… Continue reading
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ColdType Issue 101 17 July 2015
17 July 2015 — Coldtype COLDTYPE ISSUE 101 Mid-July – is now on line Download and read it – free of charge – at http://coldtype.net 64 PAGES of great writing and photography. Continue reading
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Syriza Betrays Greece’s No Vote: Why the Left Should Form a Popular Front Against the EU By Stavros Mavroudeas
The referendum’s victory with such huge margin was unexpected even for the NO supporters. In the short one-week campaign the Greek economic and political elites unleashed a blatant terror and misinformation campaign through their mass media purporting that a NO vote would destroy Greece and that EU’s terms should be unconditionally accepted. In this unconcealed… Continue reading
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US Military Launches Jade Helm Domestic Training Operations By Thomas Gaist
The US Defense Department (DOD) officially began continental-scale drills across a broad swath of the southern and western United States, including areas of California, Nevada, Utah, Colorado, Arizona, Louisiana, Mississippi, New Mexico and Texas on Wednesday. The drills mark a new and ominous stage in the expansion of domestic military operations and planning. Continue reading
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What a Difference a Year Makes By S. Artesian
16 July 2015 — The Wolf Report: Nonconfidential analysis for the anti-investor What a Difference a Year Makes Mix and Match 2014 “This is not our Europe. This is only the Europe we want to change. In place of a Europe of fear of unemployment, disability, old-age and poverty; in the place of the current Europe Continue reading
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PAMBAZUKA NEWS 735: SPEAKING TRUTH TO POWER: ANGOLA, ETHIOPIA, KENYA
16 July 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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Greece: Sound and Fury Signifying Much By Paul Craig Roberts
The Greek prime minister Alexis Tsipras has agreed to the One Percent’s looting of the Greek people of the advances in social welfare that the Greeks achieved in the post-World War II 20th century. Pensions and health care for the elderly are on the way out. The One Percent needs the money. Continue reading
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Greece: PM Tsipras Banishing Ministers Opposing Sellout to Creditors, Syriza Sharply Divided By Stephen Lendman
Make no mistake. What’s happening in Greece signifies what’s ongoing throughout Europe, America, Canada, and other countries, heading for getting much worse – ending social justice to enrich monied interests more than ever, and at the same time, destroy what remains of democratic rights. Financial tyranny rules! Continue reading
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Blaming the Victim: Greece is a Nation Under Occupation By Andrew Gavin Marshall
One cannot properly assess the political gymnastics being exercised within Greece’s ruling Syriza party without placing events in their proper context. It is inaccurate to mistake the actions and decisions of the Greek government with those taken by an independent, sovereign and democratic country. Greece is not a free and sovereign nation. Greece is an… Continue reading
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Greek Guilt and Syriza Perfidy By F. William Engdahl
At this sad and very dangerous juncture of the unfolding events surrounding Greece and the crushing demands of the Troika, it becomes clear that all this would never have come to pass had the Greek people not felt guilty over their country’s debt situation. As a consequence of their feeling guilty since the crisis began… Continue reading
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The Hard Way By S. Artesian
The Hellenic Parliament has voted to approve, and will presumably implement, the demands of the Troika accepted on July 12 by the prime minister, who now states he doesn’t support the agreement although he will implement it, and urges its approval. This comes five days after the prime minister promised “the bigger the ‘No’ vote… Continue reading
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Lessons From A Defeat In Europe By Martin Hart-Landsberg
The Troika are celebrating the end of negotiations with Greece, proclaiming that thanks to their tireless efforts the Eurozone remains whole. And why wouldn’t they celebrate. They have demonstrated their power to crush, at least for now, the Greek effort to end austerity and its associated devastating social consequences. Tragically, Syriza has not only surrendered,… Continue reading
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New at Black Agenda Report 15 July 2015: Obama's Prison Charade, Towards a Socialist South Africa, Privatizing Public Schools
15 July 2015 — Black Agenda Report Freedom Rider: Obama’s Prison Charade by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley Barack Obama attempts to create a phony legacy as the prison “reform” president by extending clemency to 46 non-violent drug offenders – not all that many, by presidential standards. Yet, he went to the U.S. Continue reading
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Greek parliament’s president: ‘No to ultimatums, No to the Memoranda of servitude’
The following speech was delivered early in the morning of July 11, 2015, by Zoe Konstantopoulou, president of the Greek parliament, on the question of the government’s proposal to the creditor institutions. She voted “present”, in effect an abstention. Translated by Nicholas Evangelos Levis for Analyze Greece. F Continue reading
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Majority of Syriza’s central committee members reject Brussel’s deal – Tsipras has lost control of the party
A statement by 109 out of the 201 members of Syriza CC rejects the Brussels deal which it describes as a coup and says it cannot be accepted by Syriza. Tsipras has lost control of the party. Below we bring the statement: Continue reading
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The Third Time Is the Charm By S. Artesian
So there are no new terms that are milder than in previous agreements, because there are no terms of any agreement. There are minimum requirements placed exclusively upon Greece before any negotiations regarding any possible agreement will even be entertained. Now all the PhDs in the world– the Leos, and Sams, and Hans, and Yannis–… Continue reading
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Statewatch News Online, 15 July 2015 (16/15): Statewatch coverage of the migrant crisis in the Mediterranean
15 July 2015 — Statewatch — e-mail: office@statewatch.org You can access as a pdf file at: http://www.statewatch.org/news/2015/jul/eu-med-crisis-15-jul.pdf Statewatch coverage of the migrant crisis in the Mediterranean New key documents and Commentaries 1. EU discussing common list of “safe countries of origin” and resettlement programmes2. Council of EU: Resettlement scheme & protection for Italy and Greece – Main outstanding issues Continue reading