August 2015
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New at Strategic Culture Foundation 23-29 August 2015
29 August 2015 — Strategic Culture Foundation EU Falls on Hard Times as UK Speeds Up In-or-Out Referendum 29.08.2015 | 08:00 | Andrei AKULOV After winning the election in May British Prime Minister David Cameron promised to re-negotiate the terms of Britain’s European Union (EU) membership before holding a referendum by the end of 2017… Continue reading
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Media Lens: ‘Bullying’ – BBC Political Editor’s Bizarre Term For The Public Resisting The Establishment
The BBC’s Nick Robinson has made a career out of telling the public what leading politicians say and do; sometimes even what they ‘think’. This stenography plays a key role in ‘the mainstream media’, given that a vital part of statecraft is to keep the public suitably cowed and fearful of threats from which governments… Continue reading
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Purge of Jeremy Corbyn Voters Unmasks Britain’s Labour Party By Jonathan Cook
If Corbyn wins, it would be the first time in living memory that the UK has had a Labour leader who is actually of the left. It is a prospect terrifying our supposedly liberal media, including the BBC and most of the Guardian’s senior staff, from Polly Toynbee to Jonathan Freedland. Continue reading
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New at Black Agenda Report 27 August 2015: #FightForDyett Hunger Strike in Chicago, Katrina, Logic of Genocide, Bernie Sanders
287 August 2015 — Black Agenda Report Organizing, Not Activism: Chicago’s Dyett HS Hunger Strikers Mark 11th Day Resisting Closing & Privatization of Their School By BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon Activism is showing up, speaking out, demonstrating here, tweeting there, disrupting that and blogging that. But activists are only responsible to themselves. Organizing, Continue reading
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Housmans Radical Books September Newsletter – 26 August 2015
26 August 2015 — Housmans HOUSMANS NEWSLETTER SEPTEMBER 2015 NEWS 1. Malcolm’s Retirement 2. Volunteer needed with interest in Peace books 3. Calling Housmans customer CJ Hind! Continue reading
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Video: Smoke and Mirrors of Corporate Buybacks Behind the Market Crash By Michael Hudson
Michael Hudson, the author of Killing the Host: How Financial Parasites and Debt Destroy Global Economy, says the stock market crash on Monday has very little to do with China and all to do with shortermism and buybacks of corporations inflating their own stocks. Continue reading
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National Security Archive: New Documents Trace Controversial Use of Drones and other Aerial Surveillance for Domestic National Security
“FBI spy plane zeroes in on Dearborn area” was the headline in The Detroit News on August 5, 2015. The story, which broke the news that the FBI had conducted at least seven surveillance flights recently over downtown Detroit, also raised a broader issue. It illustrated the fact that along with the controversy concerning electronic… Continue reading
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TTIP threatens our bees!
There’s a huge new threat to our bees – and it’s wrapped up in a secret trade deal. If we don’t stand up for our bees, the dangerous bee-killing pesticides we’ve fought so hard against could be flooding our fields again – and back for good. Continue reading
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Ukraine and the MH17 Crash: Washington’s Use of the UN Security Council as an Instrument of Propaganda, “Regime Change” and War By Carla Stea
The agenda of the Malaysia draft resolution S/2015/562 was transparent, and any suggestion of impartiality was ludicrous. The war drums were beating, and without trial, without the presumption of innocence, and without any impartial investigation into the actual perpetrators of the internecine warfare which is now destroying Ukraine, Russia is condemned as the guilty party,… Continue reading
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New at Strategic Culture Foundation 16-22 August 2015
22 August 2015 — Strategic Culture Foundation «23 August 1939» 22.08.2015 | 00:00 | Michael Jabara CARLEY 23 August marks the anniversary of the Nazi-Soviet non-aggression pact which allowed Hitlerite Germany to attack Poland nine days later without fear of Soviet intervention against it. There will undoubtedly be comment in the western Mainstream Media about Soviet Continue reading
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National Security Archive: OBAMA’S SECRET DIPLOMACY WITH CUBA
On the eve of Secretary of State John Kerry’s historic trip to Havana tomorrow to raise the American flag over the newly reopened U.S. Embassy, the National Security Archive today distributed a ground-breaking article revealing key details of the behind-the-scenes political operations and secret negotiations that have led to the normalization of diplomatic relations. Continue reading
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New at Black Agenda Report 20 August 2015: #BlackLivesMatter Humiliates Itself, Katrina in the White Imagination
20 August 2015 — Black Agenda Report #BlackLivesMatter Performs a Self-Humiliation at Hillary Clinton’s Hands by BAR executive editor Glen Ford Hillary Clinton found it easy to reduce a #BlackLivesMatter delegation to “school children at an elementary civics class,” when they met with her last week. Clinton lectured the activists on the need to make Continue reading
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National Security Archive: The Kissinger Telcons: New Documents Throw Light on Sensitive Ford and Kissinger Views
The 905 telcons released in full contain highest-level verbatim conversations between Kissinger and a wide range of officials and journalists about the evacuation of Saigon at the end of the Vietnam War, the crisis in Cyprus, Middle East negotiations, revelations of CIA misdeeds, Ronald Reagan’s challenge to Ford in the 1976 primaries, and other topics,… Continue reading
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The world’s shame: America expects a ‘cascading series of global crises’ & plans to increase drone flights in 90 ‘combat air patrols’ each day
The Pentagon plan grows the capacity for expanding surveillance and lethal airstrikes, the most controversial part of the U.S. drone program, with its rapid growth under President Barack Obama – killing 3,000 people or more as estimated by non-partisan groups. Continue reading
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What does the “Jeremy Corbyn phenomenon” represent? By Chris Marsden and Julie Hyland
A new “one member, one vote” system for the leadership contest was meant to help consolidate the party’s right-wing course, based on the assumption that the electorate—or, more properly, the narrow social layer to which all the parties pitch their rotten wares—shared the party’s concerns and prejudices. This appears to have backfired. Continue reading
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New at Strategic Culture Foundation 9-15 August 2015
15 August 2015 — Strategic Culture Foundation Poles Oppose Flood of Ukrainians into their Country 15.08.2015 | 08:00 | Valéry VRUBLEVSKY The German media is reporting that Poles are outraged at the «arrogance» of the Ukrainians who continue to flood into their country, viewing Poland as the «reachable West». The Pole’s dissatisfaction is being extended to Continue reading
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Tell Unilever to pay up!
I’ve got an important meeting tomorrow with UK company Unilever – and I need your help to make sure it has an impact. 38 Degrees members have been piling on the pressure for Unilever to fix the mess left by their factory’s deadly mercury spill in India. Unilever’s mercury spill has ruined lives and poisoned… Continue reading
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New at Black Agenda Report 13 August, 2015: #BlackLivesMatter & the Dems, Holding Movement Figures Accountable, Palestine and Free Speech
13 August 2015 — Black Agenda Report #BlackLivesMatter and the Democrats: How Disruption Can Lead to Collaboration by BAR executive editor Glen Ford The #Black Lives Matter organization may believe that it is confronting, rather than collaborating with, the Democratic Party, by disrupting candidates’ speeches. However, the tactic inevitably leads to “either a direct or Continue reading
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New book exposes U.S. ‘hidden war’ on Africa By Abayomi Azikiwe
Since Africom was launched, instability has increased in Africa. The ongoing war in Somalia, the breakup of the Republic of Sudan and subsequent civil war in the newly created Republic of South Sudan, and the wars against so-called Islamic extremists in Nigeria, Niger, Mali, Cameroon and Chad have fueled Washington’s militarism on the continent. Continue reading
The New Dark Age 