November 2015
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The Internet: The future of the link depends on you
Legislators in the European Union have a plan — a terrible, Internet-breaking plan1 — that could soon see links lose their power to expose us to knowledge, culture and new ideas online. Tell them what you think of their scheme today. “Whose idea was this?!” you cry. None other than the usual suspects: giant publishing… Continue reading
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Video: Political author Gearoid O Colmain discusses the Paris attacks with RT International
Political author Gearoid O Colmain discusses the Paris attacks with RT International Continue reading
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Statewatch News Online, 17 November 2015 (24/15)
17 November 2015 — Statewatch • e-mail: office@statewatch.org You can also access as a pdf file here: http://www.statewatch.org/news/2015/nov/news-online-17-nov.pdf NEWS: http://www.statewatch.org/news/ 1. CoE: Commissioner Mui nieks intervenes in ECHR on migration cases concerning 2. EP study: Implementation Lisbon Treaty: Improving Functioning of EU: Foreign Affairs 3. EU: CJEU Judgment: Commission right to refuse access to documents Continue reading
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COLDTYPE Issue 107: MidNov 2015 – is now on line
16 November 2015 — Coldtype COLDTYPE Issue 107: MidNov 2015 – is now on line Download and read it – free of charge at www.coldtype.net More in-depth journalism, more eye-catching photographs. Is this total war? asks Barry Lando, after the terror attack on Paris. We’ve also got stores on the biggest corporate power grab in history, Britain’s political attack Continue reading
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Selected Articles: “Selective Empathy”, Double Standard Regarding Paris Terror Attacks By Global Research News
15 November 2015 — Global Research Selected Articles: “Selective Empathy”, Double Standard Regarding Paris Terror Attacks By Global Research News French Security Left Blind During November 13 Paris Terror Attacks By Dr. Paul Craig Roberts, November 15 2015 I have received a report from European security that there was a massive cyber attack on French systems Continue reading
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New at Strategic Culture Foundation 8-14 November 2015
14 November 2015 — Strategic Culture Foundation G20 Puts on Global Security Uniform 14.11.2015 | 08:00 | Andrey FEDYASHIN The G20 summit will take place on November 15-16, 2015 in Belek, a spa town located 15 km from Antalya, the Turkey’s resorts heaven. 30 out of 45 most luxurious hotels of Turkish Mediterranean seashore have already Continue reading
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The Paris Terrorist Attacks, “9/11 French-Style”, “Le 11 septembre à la française” By Prof Michel Chossudovsky
President Hollande had ordered by decree without debate or consultation with France’s National Assembly the enactment of a State of Emergency throughout France, coupled with the closing of France’s borders allegedly to prevent terrorists from coming in, and from terror suspects from leaving the country. These drastic police state measures (including the repeal of habeas… Continue reading
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Help Save the FOIA Act!
There are serious problems with stubborn and powerful elites who refuse to accept that in a democracy the public have a right to know. Don’t let them get away with keeping the truth from you. Sign the petition and support the campaign to keep FOI strong. Continue reading
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New at Black Agenda Report 11 November 2015: This Ain't Your Grandpa's Movement & Corporate Media Is Never Your Friend
11 November 2015 — Black Agenda Report This Ain’t Your Grandfather’s Civil Rights Movement by BAR executive editor Glen Ford Shaun King and others like to compare today’s incipient movement to the civil rights era. But that’s a mistake. Today’s youth confront “a profoundly post-civil rights phenomenon”: the Mass Black Incarceration State, a national project that Continue reading
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US Deploys F-15s To Syria, Targeting Russian Jets By Thomas Gaist
The US will send a squadron of F-15C fighter jets to Turkey’s Incirlik air base, the US Defense Department (DOD) announced on Friday. The nature of the US war planes, which are specifically designed for dogfighting with other highly advanced fighter jets, indicates that the deployment carries a significance far beyond what its small scale… Continue reading
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New at Strategic Culture Foundation 1-7 November 2015
7 November 2015 — Strategic Culture Foundation Syria and Ban Ki-moon’s «Propaganda Props» 07.11.2015 | 08:00 | Alexander MEZYAEV In accordance with a number of UN Security Council resolutions, the UN Secretary-General must submit reports on the situation in Syria every 30 days. The most recent of these reports was submitted by Ban Ki-moon on 22 Continue reading
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Why Is The U.S. Silently Bombing Syria’s Electricity Network?
The Aleppo power plant is a 1,000 megawatt thermal plant in five units build by Mitsubishi Heavy Industry in 1995-1998. It is situated some 25 kilometers east of Aleppo city center. During the fighting around Aleppo various electricity distribution stations were damaged and electricity in parts of the city has become scarce and unpredictable. But… Continue reading
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Digital labour: Wages for crowdwork
Byron Peters is an artist and writer who has produced collaborative art pieces to tell the story of resistance movements centred on digital labour. He spoke to Jenny Nelson about online activism and the hidden labour behind digital life Continue reading
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Media Lens: ‘Let’s Bring In Our Pentagon Spokesman’ – Bombing Syria
One of the great Freudian slips of our time was supplied by a Fox News anchor on March 24, 1999, as Nato was preparing to wage war on Yugoslavia: ‘Let’s bring in our Pentagon spokesman – excuse me, our Pentagon correspondent.’ For indeed the unwritten rule informing this type of journalism is: if you want… Continue reading
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Black Agenda Report for November 5, 2014: Obama Appoints Another Stooge, Privatizer Sec'y of Education, Americans ARE Poor
5 November 2015 — Black Agenda Report The Obama Education Legacy Part 1 of 3: Obama Appoints Another Privatizing Stooge Secretary of Education by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon When president-elect Barack Obama announced Arne Duncan would be Secretary of Education in December 2008, Black Agenda Report called him an “underqualified stooge and privatizer.” Continue reading
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Video: Climate change: It’s going to take a revolution
A new video by Suhail Ilyas: The growing strength of the climate movement around the world gives us great hope, but it’s going to take a revolution to make the world inhabitable for future generations. Continue reading
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Vladimir Putin and the Patterns of Power By Adeyinka Makinde
The masterful deconstruction Putin gave before the United Nations laid bare the failings of American foreign policy during the decades succeeding the ending of the Cold War. The Russian president correctly characterised it as one abounding in mischief, negativity and hubris – an analysis which has been bolstered by the widely favourable reaction of swathes… Continue reading
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Curb the surveillance state! Email your MP!
On Wednesday, Home Secretary Theresa May is expected to introduce new ‘snooping’ laws. But she knows she’ll only get them through if enough MPs support them. A growing number of MPs from all political parties are starting to speak out against her plans. If enough of us email our MPs in the next 24 hours,… Continue reading
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New at Black Agenda Report 2 November 2015: Devolution of BlackLivesMatter, Obama Fakes Funk on Standardized Testing, Nuke Waste in St. Louis
2 November 2015 — Black Agenda Report Garza vs. McKesson: The Great Debate Over How the Democratic Party Will Liberate Black People by BAR executive editor Glen Ford One side wants the Democrats to sponsor a town hall meeting on racial justice, the other prefers that the Party hold a Black issues oriented debate. Both Continue reading
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COLDTYPE Issue 106, November 2015 – is now on line: Will Blair ever face justice?
2 November 2015 — Coldtype COLDTYPE Issue 106, November 2015 – is now on line Download and read it – free of charge at www.coldtype.net When will Tony Blair face justice? asks Felicity Arbuthnot in this issue’s cover story following the latest exposure of his lies to the British parliament before the war on Iraq. Other stories in Continue reading
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