January 2016
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A new beginning By William Bowles
30 January 2016 Well not exactly, initially it’s a consolidation of my writing into one location and, in one format, a time-consuming operation to conduct on the five hundred or so files that I’ve yet to process and add to the site’s database. Since returning to the UK in 2002, my online work has gone Continue reading
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Media Lens: Obama – The Art Of Ruin
Putin likes to portray himself as a bare-chested, judo wrestling, fighter pilot. But then Thatcher was famously filmed clinging to the commander’s cupola of a charging tank with a Union Jack fluttering at her side. Declaring ‘Mission Accomplished’ in Iraq from an aircraft carrier, George Bush made a grandiose landing in a military jet with… Continue reading
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Video: The Empire Files: Examining the Syrian War Chessboard
Having gone far beyond an internal political struggle, the war is marked by a complex array of forces that the U.S. Empire hopes to command. Abby Martin interviews Vijay Prashad, professor of International Studies at Trinity College and author of Arab Spring, Libyan Winter. Continue reading
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Statewatch: Refugee crisis in the Med and inside the EU: 25 January 2016 (02/16)
25 January 2015 — Statewatch.org/ • e-mail: office@statewatch.org Statewatch: Refugee crisis in the Med and inside the EU: 25 January 2016 (02/16) See Contents list below or Access as a pdf file here: http://www.statewatch.org/news/2016/jan/e-mail-refugees-25-1-16.pdf See: Observatory: EU refugee crisis – a humanitarian emergency See also regularly updated: European Commission: “State of Play”: Refugee crisis: Statistics: Continue reading
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COLDTYPE Issue 111 25 January 2016 Now Online
25 January 2016 — Coldtype COLDTYPE Issue 111 February 2016 – Special Issue – is now on line Download and read it – free of charge at www.coldtype.net Continue reading
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British arms companies ramp up bomb sales to Saudi Arabia by 100 times despite air strikes on civilians By Newpower
British arms companies have cashed-in on Saudi Arabia’s military campaign in Yemen by ramping up arms sales to the country’s autocratic government by over a hundred times, new figures show. Continue reading
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Coldtype: Wapping 1986: How Rupert Murdoch Crushed Britain's Print Union
22 January 2016 — Coldtype Download and read Nic Oatridge‘s 20-page photo essay of the year-long strike that began on January 24, 1986, at www.coldtype.net/Assets/pdfs/Wapping1.pdf —————————- Note: The February issue of ColdType will be on line on Monday, January 25. Continue reading
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New Report On Gates Foundation’s “Corporate Merry-Go-Round”: Spearheading The Neo-liberal Plunder Of African Agriculture By Colin Todhunter
The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF) is dangerously and unaccountably distorting the direction of international development, according to a new report by the campaign group Global Justice Now. With assets of $43.5 billion, the BMGF is the largest charitable foundation in the world. It actually distributes more aid for global health than any government.… Continue reading
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National Security Archive: The United States and Cyberspace: Military Organization, Policies, and Activities
21 January 2016 — National Security Archive The United States and Cyberspace: Military Organization, Policies, and Activities National Security Archive Electronic Briefing Book No. 539 Edited by Jeffrey T. Richelson Posted – January 20, 2016 For more information contact: The National Security Archive 202/944-7000, nsarchiv@gwu.edu Washington, DC, January 20, 2016 — U.S. military activities in cyberspace Continue reading
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New at Black Agenda Report 21 January 2016: Poisoning Black Cities, the Happy Slave, Atlantic City & Behind the Lead Curtain
21 January 2016 — Black Agenda Report Poisoning Black Cities by BAR executive editor Glen Ford They drowned New Orleans. Now they have poisoned Flint, Michigan. The corporate campaign to ethnically cleanse U.S. cities knows no bounds. Michigan’s emergency financial manager law is “part of Wall Street’s tool kit to starve, bulldoze, redline, over-price, oppressively police, and Continue reading
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Statewatch News Online, 18 January 2016 (01/16
18 January 2016 — Statewatch e-mail: office@statewatch.org You can also access as a pdf file here: http://www.statewatch.org/news/2016/jan/email-18-1-16.pdf NEWS http://www.statewatch.org/news/ Statewatch – with links to 12 free resources and databases Continue reading
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New at Strategic Culture Foundation 10-16 January 2016
16 January 2016 — Strategic Culture Foundation Storm Warning for Merkel 16.01.2016 | 08:00 | Dmitriy SEDOV It is difficult to avoid the impression that the «sexual terror» that took place on New Year in Cologne and a number of other German cities was organised by somebody very clever. Regardless of how much the «terror» was Continue reading
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Media Lens: ‘Our Only Fear Was That He Might Pull His Punches’ – BBC Caught Manipulating The News
While some may believe that the corporation’s failure to provide fair and balanced journalism is a relatively recent phenomenon, many others will recognise that it stretches back many decades: coverage of the West’s destruction of Libya in 2011; the invasions of Afghanistan in 2001 and Iraq in 2003; Nato’s war on the former Yugoslavia in… Continue reading
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Video: Junior doctors on the picket line
12 January 2016 — The People’s Assembly Against Austerity Today, for the first time in 40 years, junior doctors have been forced to take strike action over new contracts the Government want to impose which will leave doctors working longer hours for less money. Continue reading
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People’s Assembly: We must support the Junior Doctors’ Strike
11 January 2016 — The People’s Assembly Against Austerity The Junior Doctors will commence their first day of Industrial Action tomorrow. The BMA has stated “it is clear that the government is still not taking junior doctors’ concerns seriously… repeatedly dragged its feet throughout this process, initially rejecting our offer of talks and failing to Continue reading
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COLDTYPE Issue 110 January 2016 – is now on line
11 January 2016 — Coldtype COLDTYPE Issue 110 January 2016 – is now on line Download and read it – free of charge at www.coldtype.net Do your newspaper front-page photographs tell the truth about what’s happening in the world? Probably not, according to David Shields, who, in our cover story, looks at more than 4,500 front pages of Continue reading
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New at Strategic Culture Foundation 3-9 January 2015
9 January 2015 — Strategic Culture Foundation America’s Subservience to Saud Family 09.01.2016 | 00:00 | Eric ZUESSE The Saud royal family are by far the world’s largest buyers of US weapons. The King of Saudi Arabia is by far the world’s richest person, with a net worth well over a trillion dollars; and, when his Continue reading
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'If We Don’t Look at the Larger Structural Issues, We Can’t Begin to Solve the Problem'
9 January 2015 — FAIR ‘If We Don’t Look at the Larger Structural Issues, We Can’t Begin to Solve the Problem’ The December 25, 2015, CounterSpin reprised three interviews dealing with the issues highlighted by the Black Lives Matter movement. This is a lightly edited transcript of those interviews. Continue reading
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Paris climate terror could endure for generations By Patrick Bond
Paris witnessed both explicit terrorism by religious extremists on November 13 and, a month later, implicit terrorism by carbon addicts negotiating a world treaty that guarantees catastrophic climate change. The first incident left more than 130 people dead in just one evening’s mayhem; the second lasted a fortnight but over the next century can be… Continue reading
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The Anti-Empire Report #142, 8 January 2015: New Years Eve 2016 By William Blum
8 January 2015 — The Anti-Empire Report New Years Eve 2016 I stayed up about two hours past my usual bedtime to watch the New Years Eve celebration in Times Square. For one reason only. To see happy people. A year like 2015 can do that to you. Continue reading
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