September 2016
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Statewatch News Online, 30 September 2016 (17/16)
30 September 2016 — Statewatch e-mail: office@statewatch.org Follow on Twitter: https://twitter.com/StatewatchEU EU-Afghanistan returns plan: Another “dodgy” deal Deal to be signed next week to start immediate refugee “return” flights Is Afghanistan a “safe country”? Quick return of 80,000 refugees planned “effectively implement readmission commitments” – by-passing parliamentary scrutiny Continue reading
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Syria: False Claims In Western “News” By Moon Of Alabama
The White House and State Department are miffed that Syria and Russia are cleaning up their Jihadis in Aleppo city. There is a false claim evolving in western “news” that the current Aleppo operation led to the breakdown of the ceasefire agreement. Continue reading
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Big Food and the Politics of Diabesity By Dan Hind
The UK is in the midst of a public health crisis. According to the NHS’ most recent Health Survey for England 24% of men and 27% of women are obese; 41 percent of men and 31 percent of women are overweight. Obesity has increased markedly over the last twenty years. In 1996 only about 15… Continue reading
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Black Agenda Report for September 28, 2016: The Great Debate That Never Was, Outside the Debates, Vote Green in 2016
29 September 2016 — Black Agenda Report The Great Debate That Never Was by BAR executive editor Glen Ford If the Green Party’s Jill Stein had been allowed in this week’s presidential debate, it would have transformed the discussion and altered the race. That’s why Democrats and Republicans kept it a duopoly-only affair. “The only Continue reading
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International Right to Know Day Impact Stories
Today we celebrate the 14th annual International Right to Know Day by highlighting a few of the year’s most impactful news stories that were made possible by people taking advantage of right to know (RTK) laws around the world. Continue reading
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Last Chance to Stop the Privatisation of the National Discrimination Helpline
The government wants to privatise a national discrimination helpline – and hand it over to G4S. Anti-discrimination groups have launched a legal challenge to stop them. A judge decides tomorrow on whether that challenge can go ahead. Continue reading
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HOUSMANS BOOKS NEWSLETTER OCTOBER 2016
28 September 2016 — Housmans NEWS 1. Locomotrix poetry and fiction events at Housmans 2. Housmans Peace Diary 2017 3. November: Zed Books takeover 4. A is for Activist // London Anarchist Bookfair Continue reading
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CIA: “Pinochet personally ordered” Letelier bombing
A CIA special intelligence assessment in 1987 concluded that Chilean General Augusto Pinochet ordered an “act of state terrorism” on the streets of Washington, D.C., that took the lives of former Chilean diplomat Orlando Letelier, and his 25-year-old colleague, Ronni Moffitt, forty years ago this week. Continue reading
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A Cop Killed a Black Man–Then Things Got ‘Ugly’
23 September 2016 — FAIR From the New York Times (9/20/16): About 16 police officers in Charlotte, N.C., were injured when a standoff between law enforcement and demonstrators turned ugly overnight after an officer fatally shot a black man on Tuesday afternoon. Funny—some might say that the turn toward ugliness occurred in the afternoon, when Continue reading
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Black Agenda Report for Sep 21, 2016: No Crime To Rob the Poor, US Rulers Split on Syria, Anti-Russian Hysteria, Murder By Cop in Tulsa
22 September 2016 — Black Agenda Report The Obama Legacy: It’s No Crime For Corporations To Steal From the Public, or the Poor A Black Agenda Radio Commentary by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon After 8 years of the first black president, it’s time to take stock of what we’ve won and lost, what’s Continue reading
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Voices from Syria: Contradictory Reports Regarding Attack on Aid Convoy: Selected Articles
21 September 2016 — Global Research Syria: Attack on Aid Convoy Kills Twenty, Destroys Aid, And Obliterates US War Crimes in Support of ISIS-Daesh Terror Group? By Felicity Arbuthnot, September 21 2016 In the words of Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova: “We are reaching a really terrifying conclusion for the whole world: That the White House Continue reading
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Obama is Protecting the Terrorists, America to the Rescue of ISIS-ISIL-Daesh: Selected Articles
20 September 2016 — Global Research Obama is Protecting the Terrorists, America to the Rescue of ISIS-ISIL-Daesh. Testimonies of Syrian Soldiers Who Witnessed the US Airstrikes By Prof Michel Chossudovsky, September 19 2016 These testimonies by Syrian soldiers who are fighting the Islamic State rebels (ISIS-Daesh) confirm what we already know. The United States of America is Continue reading
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Libya, David Cameron’s “Iraq”? Selected Articles
19 September 2016 — Global Research News Selected Articles: Libya, David Cameron’s “Iraq”? Damning Report Shreds Another War Monger. By Felicity Arbuthnot, September 18 2016 Cameron who said he wanted to be “heir to Blair” seems to have ended up as just that, pivotal cheerleader for the butchery of a sovereign leader, most of his Continue reading
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Video: ‘Don’t Lecture Me From London About What’s Happening In Syria’
Bouthaina Shaaban is a Syrian politician and is currently the political and media adviser to the President of Syria. Continue reading
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The NHS is ‘Hanging by a Thread’
If things go Jeremy Hunt’s way, he’ll get the ball rolling on his plans next month. [2] But we’ve got a plan to push them into the spotlight. If enough of us chip in, we can make a powerful documentary to expose the real impact of his NHS cuts – and then get everyone in… Continue reading
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David Cameron, Libya And Disaster: The Findings Of The Foreign Affairs Select Committee By Dr Binoy Kampmark
16 September 2016 — CounterCurrents The UK Foreign Affairs Committee was a long time coming with this judgment, but when it came, it provided a firm reminder about how far the 2011 intervention against the Gaddafi regime was not merely flawed but calamitous in its consequences. There had been no coherent strategy on the part Continue reading
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In Solidarity with the People of Syria: The Mercenary Terrorists are Losing By Global Research News
16 September 2016 — Global Research In Solidarity with the People of Syria: The Mercenary Terrorists are Losing.The Historic Significance of Defeating the West’s Dirty War… By Mark Taliano, September 16 2016 Many people have wished me well and wished and wished me a safe journey. Some people have donated money. I am grateful for the best Continue reading
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Bayer and Monsanto: The Merger from Hell!
Breaking news: agrochemical giant Bayer just announced it’s merging with the most hated company on the planet: Monsanto. These two companies joining into one mega-corporation is truly the stuff of nightmares. Together they would be the biggest seed company AND the biggest pesticide company in the world with control over nearly everything we eat and… Continue reading
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Black Agenda Report for Sept. 14, 2016: Clinton's Basket of Deplorables, GA Gov to Close 100 Public Schools, Standing With Syria
15 September 2016 — Black Agenda Report Clinton’s Basket of “Deplorables” by BAR executive editor Glen Ford Hillary Clinton should include herself in her basket of “deplorables.” She’s got “racism” and “sexism” covered through her endorsement of mass Black incarceration and welfare “reform.” Killing hundreds of thousands of Muslims in Syria surely qualifies as Islamophobia, Continue reading
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Cutting the Cords of Empire: The Spectacle of US Elections: Selected Articles
14 September 2016 — Global Research Cutting the Cords of Empire: The Spectacle of US Elections By William Hawes, September 14 2016 “The more powerful the class, the more it claims not to exist.” -Guy Debord, The Society of the Spectacle It’s almost time for our quadrennial political distraction, masquerading as the US presidential election. As opposed to previous Continue reading
The New Dark Age 