October 2015
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The NHS winter is coming – what’s the one thing all progressive politicians must do to save it? By Caroline Molloy
All week we’ve been waiting for the figures that would show just how bad the scale of the NHS financial crisis was. The regulator, Monitor, had been ‘leaned on’ to delay publication til after the Tory Party Conference. And no wonder. The figures that were finally released today were bad. Really bad. NHS Trusts and… Continue reading
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PCHR: 10 Palestinian Civilians Killed and 187 Civilians Wounded, Including 27 Children, Physician and Turkish Journalist, by Israeli Forces in the oPt…
Using excessive force, on Friday, 9 October 2015, Israeli forces killed seven Palestinian civilians, and wounded 67 civilians, including 17 children and a Turkish photojournalist, in five locations near the border between the Gaza Strip and Israel. Israeli forces opened fire at hundreds and young men and children who demonstrated in protest against attacks by… Continue reading
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New at Strategic Culture Foundation 4-10 October 2015: Syria/Russia – Ukraine – Taliban – USA
10 October 2015 — Strategic Culture Foundation Russia, Syria on United Front against Terrorism (II) 10.10.2015 | 08:00 | Pyotr ISKENDEROV The urgent NATO meeting in Brussels was another good example of «double standards» practiced by the leadership of the organization. Instead of studying the ways to interact with Russia in the air campaign against terrorists Continue reading
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SECRET CIA REPORT: Pinochet “Personally Ordered” Washington Car-Bombing
Washington D.C., October 8, 2015 – The CIA concluded that there was “convincing evidence” that Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet “personally ordered his intelligence chief to carry out the murder” of exiled critic Orlando Letelier in Washington D.C., according to a SECRET memo prepared for President Ronald Reagan in 1987. “Pinochet decided to stonewall on the… Continue reading
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Media Reports ISIS Nuclear Plot That Never Actually Involved ISIS
The AP published this week (10/5/15) a thrilling account of how the FBI, in concert with Moldovan authorities, “disrupted” a smuggling ring that was supposedly trying to sell “nuclear material” to ISIS and other terror organizations over a five-year span. The primary developments in the story are almost a year old, but the resurfaced tale… Continue reading
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National Security Archive: THE PINOCHET FILE: U.S. DECLASSIFIES MISSING DOCUMENTS IN THE LETELIER-MOFFITT CASE
Washington D.C., October 8, 2015– Chile’s intelligence service assassinated exiled critic Orlando Letelier with a car bomb in 1976 on “direct orders” from Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet, according to newly declassified documents personally delivered this week by Secretary of State John Kerry to Chilean president Michelle Bachelet. Continue reading
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PAMBAZUKA NEWS 745 8 October 2015: CELEBRATING THE JOYS AND COSTS OF RESISTANCE
8 October 2015 — Pambazuka News PAMBAZUKA NEWS 745: CELEBRATING THE JOYS AND COSTS OF RESISTANCE 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 Continue reading
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New at Black Agenda Report 7 October 2015: AGs Lynch Shields Killer Cops, Putin Bombs Islamic State, Obama Bombs a Hospital, Charter Schools Flunk in NOLA
7 October 2015 — Black Agenda Report Obama’s Justice: Holder Fought Prisoner Release, Lynch Backtracks on Killer Cops by BAR executive editor Glen Ford President Obama and former Attorney General Eric Holder are given false credit for the pending release of 6,000 drug offenders, when in fact “the administration has fought tooth-and-nail to limit and Continue reading
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NYT Continues to Obscure Responsibility in US’s Bombing of Hospital
The New York Times followed up its euphemistic and equivocal coverage (FAIR Blog, 10/5/15) of the US bombing of the Médecins Sans Frontières hospital in Kunduz, Afghanistan, with an article (10/6/15) that continued to downplay the US’s responsibility for the deaths of 12 hospital staffers and 10 patients. Continue reading
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Media Are Blamed as US Bombing of Afghan Hospital Is Covered Up
When US enemies like Russia carry out airstrikes, all nuance is thrown out the window; US media drop their standards and gleefully accuse the enemies of war crimes. Yet when the US and NATO carry out airstrikes, journalists suddenly have a newfound skepticism. Their language immediately becomes ambiguous, their writing unclear; murky passages written in… Continue reading
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Media Lens: Nuclear War And Corbyn – The Fury And The Farce
Last month, 250,000 party members voted Jeremy Corbyn leader of the Labour party, ‘the largest mandate ever won by a Party Leader’. The combined might of the political and media establishment had fought and lost its Stalingrad, having bombarded Corbyn with every conceivable smear in a desperate [attempt] to wreck his reputation with the British… Continue reading
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New at Strategic Culture Foundation 27 September -3 October 2015
3 October 2015 — Strategic Culture Foundation American Revolution: Top-Down Rebellion Against System 03.10.2015 | 00:00 | Dmitry MININ It might seem unlikely to some, but a real political revolution is underway in the US right under our noses. The deeply underwhelming start to the American presidential campaign has unexpectedly evolved into a significant social phenomenon Continue reading
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Miles Davis at Juan-Les-Pins Jazz Festival 1969
2 October 2015 — Jazz on the Tube July 25th, 1969 at the Juan-les-Pins Jazz Festival, France Milestones, Footprints, ‘Round Midnight Miles Davis – trumpet Wayne Shorter – tenor and soprano saxophones Chick Corea – electric piano Dave Holland – bass Jack DeJohnette – drums Continue reading
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Volkswagen chose profit over the planet By Tyler Zimmer
Volkswagen, the world’s largest auto manufacturer, was recently caught rigging millions of its cars to cheat on emissions tests. Software known as “defeat devices” was installed in more than 11 million cars that enabled the vehicles to pass emissions tests they would otherwise have failed. The illicit devices detect when a car is being tested… Continue reading
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Obama Accuses Russia of Going After America’s “Good Guy Terrorists” By Prof Michel Chossudovsky
Amply documented but rarely mentioned in news reports, the ISIS is a creation of US intelligence, recruited, trained and financed by the US and its allies including Britain, France, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Turkey, Israel and Jordan. Continue reading
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New at Black Agenda Report 30 September 2015: Not Getting on the MMM Bus, Venezuelan Leader in Harlem, Putin VS. Obama
30 September 2015 — Black Agenda Report Why I Ain’t Getting on the Bus for the MMM This Or Any Other Year by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon Getting on the bus to DC this October 10? BAR managing editor Bruce Dixon wishes you safe travels, but he ain’t coming. “Justice or Else” is Continue reading
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