May 2016
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EU Link Tax Update
On Wednesday the European Commission announced the results of their consultation on platforms where thousands of you gave your views on the link tax and proposed new copyright laws. We’ve been sifting through all of this for what it means for our campaign to save the link. Turns out there’s good news and there’s some… Continue reading
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The Criminalization of Politics: Hillary Accused of Racketeering by the FBI, Will She be Dumped from the Presidential Race? By Prof Michel Chossudovsky
30 May 2016 — Global Research In a recent release, the FBI has indicated that it will be presenting a recommendation to Loretta Lynch, Attorney General of the Department of Justice: “James Comey and The FBI will present a recommendation to Loretta Lynch, Attorney General of the Department of Justice, that includes a cogent argument that Continue reading
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Silencing America as it Prepares for War By John Pilger
Returning to the United States in an election year, I am struck by the silence. I have covered four presidential campaigns, starting with 1968; I was with Robert Kennedy when he was shot and I saw his assassin, preparing to kill him. It was a baptism in the American way, along with the salivating violence… Continue reading
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National Security Archive: Operation Condor Verdict: GUILTY!
Washington D.C., May 27, 2016 – As a federal tribunal in Buenos Aires announced guilty verdicts in the historic prosecution of eighteen Argentine military officers for participating in the coordinated, cross-border system of repression known as “Operation Condor,” the National Security Archive today hailed the ruling as a “major milestone for the principle of human… Continue reading
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Statewatch News Online, 27 May 2016 (10/16)
27 May 2016 — Statewatch e-mail: office@statewatch.org You can also access as a pdf file here: http://www.statewatch.org/news/2016/may/e-mail-gen-27-may.pdf European conference marking Statewatch’s 25th anniversary STATEWATCHING EUROPE Civil liberties, the state and the European Union 10:00 – 17:00, Saturday 25 June 2016 Resource for London, 356 Holloway Road, London N7 Workshops and discussions on the refugee crisis in Continue reading
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Black Agenda Report for May 26, 2016: Dem Platform Committee a Dead End, Racist Crime Predictions, Georgietown Should Pay For Slavery
26 May 2016 — Black Agenda Report New This Week at Black Agenda Report Seats on the 2016 Democratic Platform Committee Are NOT a “Political Revolution” by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon The Sanders campaign named Cornel West, James Zogby and 3 others to the 15 member Democratic party 2016 platform committee. But platform Continue reading
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National Security Archive: Anatoly S. Chernyaev Diary – 1976
Marking the 95th birthday of one of glasnost’s true champions, the posting provides an insider’s view of the workings of the Soviet government and its leadership, and of the emerging challenges posed by Eurocommunism and by human rights in the wake of the Helsinki Accords. Continue reading
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HOUSMANS BOOKS NEWSLETTER JUNE 2016
25 May 2016 — Housmans NEWS 1. Saturdays In The Vaults 2. Infinite Jest Reading Group 3. The Public Reading Rooms Project IN-STORE EVENTS Continue reading
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Will China Help Pakistan Get the Bomb?
Recently declassified State Department intelligence reports – posted today by the National Security Archive – illuminate a range of important questions about nuclear weapons in world politics during the 1950s and 1960s, including whether new nuclear weapons states would raise the risks of nuclear proliferation. Continue reading
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Black Agenda Report for May 18, 2016: Repubs Split, Maybe Democrats Too, Dixiecrat Ballot Laws Temporarily Overturned
19 May 2016 — Black Agenda Report Down with the Duopoly: The Republicans Have Split; Now It’s the Democrat’s Turn by BAR executive editor Glen Ford The split in the Democratic Party will become an unbridgeable chasm “when Sanders supporters are forced to recognize that the 40-plus percent of the Democratic base they represent cannot Continue reading
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COLDTYPE Issue 118: Mid-May 2016 – is now on line
18 May 2016 — Coldtype Download and read it – free of charge at www.coldtype.net VOTERS’ DILEMMA: As November approaches, it looks increasingly likely that Donald Trump may emerge as the most powerful man on the planet. Danny Katch analyzes his chances, while Nomi Prins wonders how Trump, Hillary Clinton or Bernie Sanders might repatriate some Continue reading
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Vox’s CIA-Backed ‘Democracy’ Standard Is OK With Slavery and Women Not Voting
Defining democracy is a notoriously difficult thing, but much is revealed by how media outlets choose to do so. One popular metric is called “Polity IV”—a methodology created by the Center for Systemic Peace, headed by Dr. Monty G. Marshall of Georgetown University, which has been cited in prestigious outlets like the Washington Post and… Continue reading
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Media Lens: Anatomy Of A Propaganda Blitz – Part 2: ‘Hitlergate’
As with so many propaganda blitzes, intense media coverage was triggered by ‘dramatic new evidence’; namely, the discovery of a graphic posted by Naz Shah two years ago, before she became a Labour MP. The graphic shows a map of the United States with Israel superimposed in the middle, suggesting that a solution to the… Continue reading
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TTIP: ‘A Corporate Agenda Is Really What’s Driving the Process’
The leak of a draft of the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership, or TTIP, by Greenpeace Netherlands may have thrown a wrench in that deal’s inevitability, though media’s interpretation of the document’s meaning will play a role there. So what’s in and what’s not in the TTIP, according to these revelations? We’re joined now by… Continue reading
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Media Lens: Anatomy Of A Propaganda Blitz – Part 1
We live in a time when state-corporate interests are cooperating to produce propaganda blitzes intended to raise public support for the demonisation and destruction of establishment enemies. Continue reading
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Statewatch News Online, 9 May 2016 (08/16)
9 May 2016 — Home page: http://www.statewatch.org/ e-mail: office@statewatch.org You can also access as a pdf file here: http://www.statewatch.org/news/2016/may/e-mail-gen-9-5-16.pdf European conference marking Statewatch’s 25th anniversary STATEWATCHING EUROPE Civil liberties, the state and the European Union 10:00 – 17:00, Saturday 25 June 2016, London BOOK NOW Continue reading
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Climate Change: Exxon 'Knew Earlier, They Knew With Certainty and They Knew Globally'
Brendan DeMelle: “They knew that they could evade accountability, or at least delay regulatory and public scrutiny, by suggesting that there was doubt about the science.” Continue reading
The New Dark Age 