March 2016
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Media Lens: Kunduz Killers Go Free
On the night of October 3, 2015, a United States Air Force AC-130 gunship repeatedly attacked a Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) hospital in Kunduz, Afghanistan. Forty-two people were killed and dozens wounded. The US military plane had conducted five strafing runs over the course of more than an hour despite MSF pleas to Afghan, US… Continue reading
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National Security Archive Launches Cyber Vault Web Site
30 March 2016 — National Security Archive New Resource Will Acquire and Publish Primary Documents on All Aspects of Cyber Activity National Security Archive Alert View the posting Washington, D.C., March 30, 2016 – The National Security Archive is pleased to announce the launch of its new Cyber Vault project web site. Continue reading
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FAIR: Journalism’s Dark Matter
For a profession predicated on demanding transparency and accountability from others, the practice of granting anonymity serves as an inconvenient reminder of journalism’s own messy reality. The implied bargain therein—that the value of the light provided by a source’s information outweighs the cost of casting of a shadow over his or her public identity—trades upon… Continue reading
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'We Have Never Ignored Cuba'
Janine Jackson interviewed Aviva Chomsky about Barack Obama’s trip to Cuba for the March 25, 2016, CounterSpin. This is a lightly edited transcript. Continue reading
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Housmans Books April Newsletter
29 March 2016 — HOUSMANS NEWS 1. Housmans wins Best Independent Bookshop in London Award! 2. London Radical Bookfair 2016 – May 7th3. New Left Review and other journal runs for sale4. Quickbooks accountant needed for one-off job Continue reading
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Rare or Routine? Video Captures ‘Cold-Blooded Execution’ By Israeli Soldier By Jon Queally
The release of video footage showing the extrajudicial killing of a wounded Palestinian man on Thursday has led to the arrest of the Israeli Defense Force soldier who pulled the trigger, but rights groups say the documented incident only confirms their warnings regarding how the Israeli military routinely behaves in the Occupied Palestinian Territories when… Continue reading
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Black Agenda Report for 25 March 2016: Dems Road to Black Ruin, the SCOTUS Scam
25 March 2016 — — Black Agenda Report The Democratic Road to Black Ruin by BAR executive editor Glen Ford Democratic Party operatives claim that Blacks are voting “strategically” when they support the corporate warmonger Hillary Clinton for president. The reality is, Blacks believe only Clinton has the money and organization to beat the White Continue reading
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A World War has Begun. Break the Silence By John Pilger
Few seem aware that the bikini swimsuit was named to celebrate the nuclear explosions that destroyed Bikini island. Sixty-six nuclear devices were exploded by the United States in the Marshall Islands between 1946 and 1958 — the equivalent of 1.6 Hiroshima bombs every day for twelve years. Continue reading
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Fake Video Used in News Coverage of Brussels Terror Attacks
Brussels News media Dernière Heure at dhnet.be as well as La Libre reported on the terror attacks by providing a CC Camera Airport Surveillance Video of the terror attacks. The published video footage was fake as documented by a blog posting on Media Part. Continue reading
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Media Manipulation: More Fake Video Reports of the Brussels Terror Attacks
One of the first videos published by Belgium’s mainstream media, was, according to reports, from the CC security surveillance cameras at Brussels airport. The video report was released at 9.07am, one hour after the first bomb attack at the airport. Screen Shot 2016-03-23 at 17.17.57 One of the first videos published by Belgium’s mainstream media,… Continue reading
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Brussels Bombings Destroy Fiction That All Terrorism Deaths Count as Equal
The lasting impression for US readers is that deaths in Belgium are more newsworthy than an equal number of deaths in Turkey, and that if Belgium is to avoid sinking to the level of “failed nations,” it needs to address the outsiders who are dragging it down to a level unbecoming of its continent, or… Continue reading
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How African Slavery Civilized Britain By Garikai Chengu
Britain owes its very existence as a first world nation to the African slave trade. Great Britain’s economic way of life was formed by slavery: about it revolved, and on it depended, most of Britain’s other industries. Continue reading
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Is the ISIS Behind the Brussels Attacks? Who is Behind the ISIS? By Prof Michel Chossudovsky
Dramatic loss of life in the terror attacks in Brussels: 34 killed and more than 180 wounded according to the latest reports. Prior to the conduct of a police investigation, in the hours following the attacks, the Western media went into overdrive, intimating without evidence that the Islamic State (ISIS) operating out of Raqqa, Northern… Continue reading
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COLDTYPE Issue 114 Mid-March 2016 – is now on line
BORDER CROSSINGS –We’ve got another fine selection of features, covering a range of international hotspots. In our cover story, Edward S. Herman discusses the many failings of US President Obama, while John Pilger looks at the shameful conduct of Australian politicians at the time of the invasion of East Timor by Indonesia, Jonathan Cook and… Continue reading
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National Security Archive: Obama Brings ‘Declassified Diplomacy’ To Argentina
Washington, March 18, 2016 – As President Obama prepares to go to Argentina next week on the 40th anniversary of the military coup, the National Security Archive hailed his decision to declassify hundreds of still secret CIA and Defense Department records on the repression during the military dictatorship. The documents, whose release the Archive’s Carlos… Continue reading
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‘Everyone Is Not Watched Equally’
15 March 2015 — FAIR ‘Everyone Is Not Watched Equally’ Janine Jackson interviewed Alvaro Bedoya on privacy, technology and the targets of surveillance for the March 11, 2016, CounterSpin. This is a lightly edited transcript. Alvaro Bedoya: “There is a sad and deep record of companies and the government making very poor decisions of how Continue reading
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McGraw-Hill destroys textbook to placate pro-Israel bloggers By Rania Kalek
An image published by Elder of Ziyon from the textbook Global Politics, as part of the anti-Palestinian blogger’s successful campaign to pressure McGraw Hill over maps depicting land loss in Palestine. Continue reading
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The Anti-Empire Report #144 By William Blum, 11 March 2016: American exceptionalism presents an election made in hell
If the American presidential election winds up with Hillary Clinton vs. Donald Trump, and my passport is confiscated, and I’m somehow FORCED to choose one or the other, or I’m PAID to do so, paid well … I would vote for Trump. Continue reading
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Kodaikanal: Unilever relents and agrees to clean up its mess
Unilever, a huge global corporation that makes billions of pounds in profit, have just buckled under the pressure of ordinary people. [1] That’s right: you and thousands of others have forced this corporate giant – the owner of PG Tips, Marmite, Dove and more – to clean up their mess. Continue reading
The New Dark Age 