December 2015
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The UN Security Council Has Become A “Rubber Stamp” To Wage US-NATO’s Illegal Wars. Disastrous Results of UNSC “Military Authorizations” By Carla Stea
Since 1991, and United Nations Security Council Resolution 678, which authorized the US-UK attack on Iraq, which, in the words of Marti Ahtissari “destroyed the infrastructure necessary to support human life in Iraq,” the United Nations has been dragged into destructive “adventures” that have literally created the crises it is now trying to resolve. Continue reading
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WaPo Tallies Police Killings–but Holds Back Some of the Numbers That Count
It’s hard for me to escape the feeling that the Post story—by Kimberly Kindy and Marc Fisher—was framed by the paper to minimize the project’s remarkable findings. Continue reading
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The Yes Men: Annual Report!
We can’t afford to send you all fruitcakes. But we do have a small gift – a few fun tales from this past year. At the end of this email, we’ll also let you in on a few little secrets about the next one. Continue reading
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War, Terrorism and the Global Economic Crisis in 2015: Ninety-nine Interrelated Concepts By Prof Michel Chossudovsky
Everything is interrelated: war, terrorism, the police state, the global economy, economic austerity, financial fraud, corrupt governments, poverty and social inequality, police violence, Al Qaeda, ISIS, media disinformation, racism, war propaganda weapons of mass destruction, the derogation of international law, the criminalization of politics, the CIA, the FBI, climate change, nuclear war, Fukushima, nuclear radiation,… Continue reading
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National Security Archive: U.S. Cold War Nuclear Target Lists Declassified for First Time
December 22, 2015 – The SAC [Strategic Air Command] Atomic Weapons Requirements Study for 1959, produced in June 1956 and published today for the first time by the National Security Archive www.nsarchive.org, provides the most comprehensive and detailed list of nuclear targets and target systems that has ever been declassified. As far as can be… Continue reading
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New at Strategic Culture Foundation 20-26 December 2015
26 December 2015 — Strategic Culture Foundation Syria: Has Anyone Stepped Back from the Brink? 26.12.2015 | 00:00 | Michael Jabara CARLEY John Kerry, the US Secretary of State, recently visited Moscow to discuss the Syrian crisis with his colleague Sergei Lavrov and President Vladimir Putin. Journalists observed handshakes, smiles, even hearty laughter, between Kerry and Continue reading
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Black Agenda Report for December 23, 2015: Black-Palestinian Solidarity, the Nonprofit Industrial Complex, Sacrificial Rahm
23 December 2015 — Black Agenda Report Palestinians Resist Zionist Terror, Plus U.S., European, Arab Royal, Turkish and Nigerian Terror by BAR executive editor Glen Ford The West has forced millions to become wandering, destitute refugees, as it destroys nations and peoples that get in the way of Empire. Palestinians have lived this reality for Continue reading
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Housmans Radical Books Newsletter 22 December 2015
22 December 2015 — Housmans HOUSMANS NEWSLETTER JANUARY 2016 NEWS 1. Thank you! 2. Housmans Gift Vouchers 3. Holiday closures Continue reading
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When Terrorism becomes Counter-terrorism: The State Sponsors of Terrorism are “Going After the Terrorists” By Prof Michel Chossudovsky
A complex network of Al Qaeda affiliated terrorist organizations overseen by US and allied intelligence agencies has unfolded, extending across the Middle East, North Africa, sub-Saharan Africa, Central Asia, Western China, South and South East Asia. Continue reading
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Too many, too few; Too few, too many By S. Artesian
Once upon a time, the Goldilocks characters in this parable of the abattoirs called capitalism, were kept busy telling us how there were too many of us. Too many people. There were too many people for the Club of Rome; there were too many for spaceship Earth; there were too many for the ‘carrying capacity’… Continue reading
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National Security Archive: Obama’s Back Channel to Cuba: Events Leading to Historic Breakthrough Revealed in Updated Book
18 December 2015 — National Security Archive Obama’s Back Channel to Cuba: Events Leading to Historic Breakthrough Revealed in Updated Book Award-winning Back Channel to Cuba Published in Spanish National Security Archive News Alert Edited by Peter Kornbluh For more information, contact: Peter Kornbluh 202/994-7000, peter.kornbluh@gmail.com Washington, DC, December 18, 2015 – On the first Continue reading
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New at Strategic Culture Foundation 13-19 December 2015
19 December 2015 — Strategic Culture Foundation Turkish-ISIL Oil Trade: The Roles of the Kurdistan Regional Government, Britain, and Israel (III) 19.12.2015 | 00:00 | Mahdi Darius NAZEMROAYA Turkish officials were involved in illegal transport of oil from Iraq long before the emergence of the so-called Islamic State (ISIL/ISIS/IS/DAESH). Their illegal trade expanded to the Syrian Continue reading
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Arun Kundnani on Islamophobia & the ‘War on Terror,’ Keane Bhatt on a Tale of Two Elections
This week on CounterSpin: Alleged San Bernardino killers Syed Farook and Tashfeen Malik did not pledge allegiance to ISIS on social media, the FBI now says, but no matter: The California killings have already added fuel to an upsurge of Islamophobia in US media and politics that in some ways is worse than that seen… Continue reading
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Why the US Pushes an Illusory Syrian Peace Process by Gareth Porter
The anti-Assad coalition led by the United States continues to stagger toward the supposed objective of beginning peace negotiations between the Syrian government and what has now been blessed as the politically acceptable “opposition”. The first such meeting was scheduled for 1 January, but no one on either side believes for a moment that any… Continue reading
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Eddie Palmieri: ‘La Perfecta’
18 December 2015 — Jazz on the Tube Pianist, Eddie Palmieri performs with his band “La Perfecta”featuring the saxophone of Donald Harrison. Born to Puerto Rican immigrants on December 15, 1936, Eddie Palmieri was raised in a Hispanic neighborhood in the South Bronx. His style helped influence the creation of a new Latin Jazz category. Continue reading
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New at Black Agenda Report 17 December 2015: Dems & Repubs Block The Vote, Rich Countries Block Climate Action, Nigeria's Military IS Boko Haram
17 December 2015 — Black Agenda Report How Democrats and Republicans Collude to Block the Vote — And How We Can Un-Block It by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon We hear lots of outrage about how Republicans block the vote. But blocking the vote by keeping third parties off the ballot with unjust laws Continue reading
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Media Lens: The New McCarthyism – Keep The War Versus Stop The War
Media treatment of the term ‘blowback’, the concept that foreign policy has consequences that rebound on its perpetrators, illustrates a fundamental hypocrisy in ‘the mainstream’. It is fine for approved journalists and commentators to use the word when discussing terrorist attacks, actual or feared, here in the West. But abuse and vitriol will be heaped… Continue reading
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COLDTYPE Issue 109 – Mid-December 2015 – is now on line
15 December 2015 — Coldtype COLDTYPE Issue 109 – Mid-December 2015 – is now on line Download and read it – free of charge at www.coldtype.net Our cover story is a brilliant, and very striking, photo essay by Thierry Le Goues on amateur boxing in Cuba. Other main features include two essays and a photo feature on the Continue reading
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Paris Climate Agreement Betrays Humanity Which Must Apply BDS Against Climate Criminal People, Corporations & Counties By Dr Gideon Polya
The weak, non-binding and dishonest Paris Climate Agreement will have delighted climate criminal and war criminal nations likeSaudi Arabia, theUS and US lackeyAustralia, but has betrayed our children, grandchildren, future generations, the Developing World, Humanity and the Biosphere – the target of 1.5 to 2 degrees C is both unavoidable and catastrophic and key matters… Continue reading
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At COP21, the world agreed to increase emissions By Jonathan Neale
The circus is over. The suits are leaving Paris. There have been millions of words written about the text. But one fact stands out. All the governments of the world have agreed to increase global greenhouse gas emissions every year between now and 2030. Continue reading
The New Dark Age 