July 2016
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The European Union: Part of America’s Imperial Project: Selected Articles
20 July 2016 — Global Research Video: The European Union: Part of America’s Imperial Project By Prof Michel Chossudovsky and James Corbett, July 18 2016 The EU is a Cold War Construct, a US imperial project formulated by the Washington Consensus. The growing movement against EU domination is an anti-imperial initiative of Worldwide significance. Continue reading
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Snoopers Charter Breaks the Law!
A senior judge at the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) has concluded that the Government’s surveillance law breaches our fundamental rights. Continue reading
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Wide Purges After Stage-Managed Coup Will Cripple Turkey By Moon of Alabama
As fake evidence now gets sorted out from the real stuff considerable evidence emerges that the coup in Turkey was either completely staged or at least a controlled provocation as a prelude to large, well planned purges. While some junior officers involved in the coup may have believe that it was for real, Erdogan and… Continue reading
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Turkey’s Attempted Military Coup d’Etat against President Erdogan- Selected Articles
18 July 2016 — Global Research Turkey’s Attempted Military Coup d’Etat against President Erdogan By Prof Michel Chossudovsky, July 16 2016 A faction within Turkey’s military announced that it had seized power against president Recep Tayyip Erdogan. The statement accused Erdogan of “eroding the country’s secular traditions”, Martial law was announced and a curfew was implemented late Continue reading
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Turkey’s Failed Coup: “A Gift from God” or from Washington? By Tony Cartalucci
17 July 2016 — Land Destroyer The coup this weekend that rocked Turkey was a particularly spectacular geopolitical development. Theories abound regarding who was behind it and their motivations for carrying out what ultimately proved an apparently failed attempt at removing the government of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. Still, it is too early to tell, as facts are Continue reading
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Britain Faces the Biggest Crisis of Democracy in its History By Nafeez Ahmed
Britain is now being run by an unelected leader presiding over a draconian surveillance-state, hell-bent on accelerating war on the poor and vulnerable, at home and abroad. And if that wasn’t bad enough, the official opposition to this regime is falling apart. Continue reading
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A Mass Murderer Becomes a ‘Terrorist’–Based on Ethnicity, Not Evidence
17 July 2016 — FAIR The New York Times (7/15/16), writing about the man who reportedly killed 84 people in a truck attack in Nice, France, provided no evidence that Mohamed Lahouaiej Bouhlel was motivated by either politics or religion to commit violence—yet still labeled the murders as “terrorism,” as though the definition of that Continue reading
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The Nice Terror Attack: Towards Martial Law? Selected Articles
15 July 2016 — Global Research Selected Articles: Nice, 14th of July Massacre: Towards Martial Law? The Islamic State (ISIS-Daesh) Claims Responsibility? By Peter Koenig, July 15 2016 Another terror event in France resulting in a dramatic and tragic loss of life. On Bastille Day: 14th of July, the day commemorating the French Revolution of 1789, the most Continue reading
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Military faction attempts coup in Turkey By James Cogan
A faction of the Turkish military is attempting to carry out an overnight coup and oust the government headed by President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. Fighting between rival military and police units has been reported in both Istanbul, the country’s economic centre, and Ankara, the political capital. At least 42 people are dead and an estimated… Continue reading
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COLDTYPE Issue 122 Mid-July 2016 – is now on line
14 July 2016 — Coldtype THE CHILCOT REPORT: At last, Tony Blair has been called to account for his reckless handling of the build-up that led to the disastrous 2003 war in Iraq. We’ve got 17 pages of insights into the events from George Monbiot, Felicity Arbuthnot, and David Cromwell & David Edwards. Plus a Continue reading
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Black Agenda Report July 13, 2016: Why Sanders Didn't Get Black Votes, We Need Black Anger, Rulers Shocked But Blacks Not By Attacks In Dallas
13 July 2016 — Black Agenda Report Sanders Didn’t Lose the Black Vote: He Never Had It, and Never Asked Why by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon On the issues, Bernie Sanders should have won the black vote. But presidential politics isn’t just about issues, it’s about entrenched alliances and relations of power. Without Continue reading
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NYT Lets $27 Million Man Brag About What He’s Doing for Income Inequality
Chase’s CEO, Jamie Dimon, was given prime space on the New York Times‘ op-ed page today (7/12/16) to declare that his bank was doing something about “wage stagnation” and “income inequality” by “giving thousands of employees a raise”. Chase is the largest bank in the United States, and in 2015 it made $23.9 billion in… Continue reading
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Media Lens: The Great Iraq War Fraud
Last week, seven years after the Iraq Inquiry was set up, Sir John Chilcot finally delivered his long-awaited report. Although it stopped short of declaring the Iraq war illegal, and although it failed to examine the real motives for war, the report was not quite the whitewash that had been feared by peace campaigners. Continue reading
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Video: The Anthropocene and Marxism Today
12 July 2016 — Climate & Capitalism Video: John Bellamy Foster discusses the theoretical and programmatic challenges that the Anthropocene, a dangerous new epoch in planetary history, poses for socialists in the 21st century. Continue reading
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Warsaw Summit: Western Leaders Ignore Reality By The Saker
A world split in two with, on one hand, a dying, delusional and weak Empire and, on the other, pretty much the rest of mankind. In this dying and unstable world, the NATO summit in Warsaw played the same role as the XXVIth Congress of the CPSU in the Soviet Union in 1981: a touching… Continue reading
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No to the Snoopers Charter!
ICRs (Internet Connection Records) are an expensive and unwarranted invasion on all of our privacy. They’re just one part of the controversial Snoopers’ Charter, which will be debated in the House of Lords, starting today. We want to show Peers just how intrusive these ICRs would be – so we’ve sent a mock ICR on… Continue reading
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“The Doomsday Forum”: Senior Military, Nuclear Weapons Officials Convene… America’s “$1 Trillion Nuclear Weapons Plan”. Take out Russia, Iran and North Korea? By Prof Michel Chossudovsky
Nuclear Weapons And Interceptor Missiles: Twin Pillars Of U.S.-NATO Military Strategy In Europe On June 21, 250 top military brass, military planners, corporate military-industrial ”defense” contractors, top officials and scientists from the nuclear weapons laboratories as well as prominent academics gathered at the Crowne Plaza Hotel in Albuquerque, New Mexico to discuss, debate and promote… Continue reading
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East European Shoe Factories Often Pay Below Minimum Wage, Says New Report By Richard Smallteacher
Shoes labeled “Made in Europe” are often assembled in poor East European countries for ‘starvation wages’ according to a new research report from the Change Your Shoes campaign. The companies whose labor practices were examined include Ara, Bata, Deichmann, Geox, Leder & Schuh AG, Lowa and Zara. Continue reading
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Some Pundits Think the Solution to Right-Wing Populism Is Less Democracy
The core orthodoxies of neoliberalism are under attack by populist forces, and commentators are scrambling for a response. Some are suggesting more left-wing red meat. Others, a moment of self-reflection. But a number of pundits are doing that most noxious of political commentary pastimes—equating right and left responses to the failures of globalization and advocating… Continue reading
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Roger Dodger By S. Artesian
Cameron resigns, but not until October. Britain votes out of the EU, but not out until….well, nobody knows. Boris Johnson, playing Yeltsin to Cameron’s Gorbachev, pulls himself out of the race to replace Cameron. Farage pulls out because……well, because that’s what the British ruling class has perfected over the last 70 years of dissembling, and… Continue reading
The New Dark Age 