December 2015
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The Criminalization of Parliamentary Democracy By Prof Michel Chossudovsky
While the ISIL is said to be “threatening the Western World”, the evidence confirms that the Islamic State is supported and financed by the Western military alliance, together with Turkey, Israel, Saudi Arabia and the Gulf states. Amply documented, Al Qaeda and its various affiliates including the Islamic State Caliphate Project are creations of Western… Continue reading
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National Security Archive: The Clinton White House and Climate Change: The Struggle to Restore U.S. Leadership
11 December 2015 — National Security Archive The Clinton White House and Climate Change: The Struggle to Restore U.S. Leadership Early U.S. Optimism Frustrated by Disputes over Greenhouse Gas Goals, Role of Developed and Developing Countries, Other Enduring Challenges High-Level Documents Track Internal Debates and Public Disappointments, Prefiguring the Road to Paris 2015 National Security Continue reading
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New at Strategic Culture Foundation 6-12 December 2015
12 December 2015 — Strategic Culture Foundation What’s Next for Canada and Russia? 12.12.2015 | 00:00 | Michael Jabara CARLEY For more than nine years, from 2006 to 2015, the Conservative Party held power in Canada under its leader Stephen Harper. For progressive Canadians, essentially the centre-left, who constitute more than 60% of the voting population, Continue reading
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AFRICOM’s Secret Empire: US Military Turns Africa Into ‘Laboratory’ Of Modern Warfare
The U.S. military already plans to expand its massive military footprint in Africa and elsewhere to the tune of “several million dollars” a year and thousands of troops. Continue reading
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Jamie Kalven on the Laquan McDonald Cover-Up
The video that belied the official story of the police killing of 17-year-old Laquan McDonald, along with an autopsy that also showed police’s initial story to be false, eventually came to light through the work of journalists—but not mainstream journalists Continue reading
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NYT Rewrites Scalia to Make Him Sound Less Racist
The fact that a Supreme Court justice justifies eliminating affirmative action on the basis of openly racist views ought to be big news. By sugarcoating what Scalia actually said, the New York Times disguises that news–making the ethnic cleansing of America’s top schools a more palatable possibility. Perhaps that shouldn’t make me gasp. Continue reading
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New at Black Agenda Report 9 December 2015: Dyson's Latest Offical Spokesnegro Audition, Syria & World War, DOJ Investigates Chicago Cops
9 December 2015 — Black Agenda Report Dyson’s “Yes She Can” Is Another Lazy, Shameless Official Spokesnegro Audition Tape A Black Agenda Radio Commentary by Bruce A. Dixon You’d think a “Yes She Can” piece about Hillary Clinton from a supposed black “public intellectual” would explain what and how she might do and why we Continue reading
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Friedman Goes After Trump: Hey, Massive Bombing Was MY Idea!
Where could Trump have gotten the idea that his “infantile threats of massive bombing” would be taken seriously as foreign policy proposals? Well, as a resident of New York City, maybe he reads the New York Times: There is only Option 2 — bombing Iraq, over and over and over again, until either Saddam says… Continue reading
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Media Lens: Manufacturing Consensus – Hilary Benn’s Speech
The myth of corporate media impartiality – vital for retaining readers’ support – makes it hard for structurally pro-war media to declare too openly in favour of the West’s endless wars. What they can do is celebrate speeches that just happen to be pro-war. To applaud skills of oratory, courage, leadership – to note that… Continue reading
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Statewatch: Refugee crisis in the Med and inside the EU: 8 December 2015 (27/15)
8 December 2015 — Statewatch Statewatch: Refugee crisis in the Med and inside the EU: 8 December 2015 (27/15) e-mail: office@statewatch.org See Contents list below and Access as a pdf file here: http://www.statewatch.org/news/2015/dec/email-8-12-15-refugees.pdf Continue reading
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Video: At the People's Climate Summit in Paris, Exxon-Mobil Put on Trial
Following revelations that Exxon buried extensive scientific evidence of the dangers posed by greenhouse gas emissions, author-activists Naomi Klein and Bill McKibben led a mock prosecution of the world’s largest publicly-traded oil and gas company in a working-class city near the venue of COP21 Continue reading
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Growing opposition to government air strikes in Syria
7 December 2015 — Stopwar Newsletter 07 December 2015 Growing opposition to government air strikes in Syria There is growing opposition to government air strikes in Syria. Over the weekend there were protests and meetings across the country which reflected this opposition and a determination to do something about the government’s latest war. See lobby of Continue reading
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Statewatch News Online, 7 December 2015 (26/15)
7 December 2015 — Statewatch.org Statewatch News Online, 7 December 2015 (26/15) e-mail: office@statewatch.org You can also access as a pdf file here: http://www.statewatch.org/news/2015/dec/email-7-12-15.pdf Continue reading
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New at Strategic Culture Foundation 29 November – 5 December 2015
5 December 2015 — Strategic Culture Foundation Does Turkey Really Belong to NATO? 05.12.2015 | 00:00 | Andrei AKULOV The tensions between Moscow and Ankara are on the rise as a result of downing the Russian Su-24 warplane by Turkish F-16 fighter – an outright provocation pursuing Turkey’s long-term foreign policy goals. So far, Russia Continue reading
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We marched for peace – not to ‘bully’ Stella Creasy
Sue Wheat gives the truth behind media reports of an ‘intimidating’ anti-war protest in MP Stella Creasy’s Walthamstow constituency. “I just want to set the record straight for anyone reading or listening to the news about Walthamstow and Stella Creasy, which as far as I can tell is totally untrue.” Continue reading
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National Security Archive 2 December 2015: U.S. Climate Change Policy in the 1980s
Presidents Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush actively promoted measures to combat climate change, with Reagan in 1987 overruling objections within his own Cabinet to a major proposed treaty to protect the ozone layer, according to recently declassified records posted today by the George Washington University-based National Security Archive (www.nsarchive.org). As world leaders, including President… Continue reading
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The Real Reason for Turkey’s Shoot-Down of the Russian Jet by Gareth Porter
The Turkish shoot-down was thus in essence an effort to dissuade the Russians from continuing their operations in the area against al-Nusra Front and its allies, using not one but two distinct pretexts: on one hand a very dubious charge of a Russian border penetration for NATO allies, and on the other, a charge of… Continue reading
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Video: Interview with NC Heikin, director of “The Sound of Redemption: The Frank Morgan Story”
30 November 2015 — Jazz on the Tube Interview with NC Heikin, director of “The Sound of Redemption: The Frank Morgan Story” Download the mp3 here NC called in from the set of “Boss” where Episode #8 was being filmed. “The Sound of Redemption” was conceived and co-produced by novelist and jazz fan Michael Connelly Continue reading
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“Shooting to Kill” Jeremy Corbyn – The Coup is On By Oliver Tickell
Right wing Labour MPs have launched a full-scale coup against Jeremy Corbyn, and against the members of the party they represent, writes Oliver Tickell. Their plan is simple – backed by mainstream media, to discredit him so utterly that even his supporters turn against him – and elect a new ‘heir to Blair’ leader. Continue reading
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Video: Fossil Fuel Reps Invited to COP21 While Protest is Banned in Paris
30 November 2015 — The Real News Network Fossil Fuel Reps Invited to COP21 While Protest is Banned in Paris 350.org organizer Cameron Fenton says the voices of indigenous groups and civil society will be silenced while fossil fuel industry is seated at the negotiating table Continue reading
The New Dark Age 