October 2016
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Will Hillary Make it to the White House? Selected Articles
31 October 2016 — Global Research The Real Reasons Why FBI Director James Comey Reopened the Hillary Email Investigation By Joachim Hagopian, October 30 2016 This year’s unending batches of Wiki-leaked DNC/Hillary emails and Project Veritas undercover campaign videos confirm that the entire US political as well as economic system is morally and financially bankrupt, irreparably broken and in need of complete overhaul. Voter Continue reading
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The Real Reasons Why FBI Director James Comey Reopened the Hillary Email Investigation By Joachim Hagopian
Because it’s so blatantly obvious to the entire world that Hillary is guilty as sin, Comey’s whitewash didn’t go over well with either Americans or longtime FBI agents who reacted angrily to Comey’s over-the-top corruption. Subsequently in recent months Comey has had a virtual mutiny on his hands as in the FBI boss has lost… Continue reading
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Video: Rebels of the 9th Art A documentary film by Nicoletta Fagiolo
A rising generation of African editorial cartoonists is addressing corruption, violence and the difficulties of daily life What are their styles? Who are their heroes? What is the “African angle” they portray? How do they see the west? What censorship issues do they face? Why are cartoonists in Africa assaulted, jailed, sacked, banned and even… Continue reading
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TRIPS: The Story of How Intellectual Property Became Linked to Trade (5/7)
Professor Peter Drahos explains the TRIPS Agreement gave multinational corporate owners of intellectual property rights a global form of private taxing power (inc. transcript) Continue reading
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TRIPS: The Story of How Intellectual Property Became Linked to Trade (6/7)
Professor Peter Drahos says the story of the trade agreement is not just a story of power, it’s also a story of clever psychology Continue reading
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COLDTYPE Issue 127 November 2016 – is now on line
MINDING RONNIE – Cover story is the remarkable tale of a journalist who hid Ronnie Kasrils, the ‘Red Pimpernel,’ an ‘armed and dangerous’ terrorist on the loose during the latter days of South Africa’s final days of apartheid. We’ve also got the story of Hanoi Hannah, the woman behind the famous Vietcong propaganda broadcasts to… Continue reading
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At DAPL, Confiscating Cameras as Evidence of Journalism
While elite media wait for the resistance to the Dakota Access Pipeline to go away so they can return to presenting their own chin-stroking as what it means to take climate change seriously, independent media continue to fill the void with actual coverage. Continue reading
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Bayer-Monsanto: We need to stop this nightmare merger
In just a few weeks Bayer and Monsanto are getting ready to file their merger with antitrust authorities in Europe and the U.S.. If they succeed, we are facing a nightmare scenario: more bee-killing neonics in our fields, more toxic glyphosate on our plates, and more corporate control over our food supply. Continue reading
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Inside the Invisible Government: War, Propaganda, Clinton and Trump: Selected Articles
28 October 2016 — Global Research Inside the Invisible Government: War, Propaganda, Clinton and Trump By John Pilger, October 27 2016 Propaganda is most effective when our consent is engineered by those with a fine education – Oxford, Cambridge, Harvard, Columbia — and with careers on the BBC, the Guardian, the New York Times, theWashington Post. These organisations are Continue reading
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TRIPS: The Story of How Intellectual Property Became Linked to Trade (4/7)
The globalization of intellectual property rights will not improve trade, competition, or the livelihood of workers; it leads to underdevelopment, says professor Peter Drahos (inc. transcript) Continue reading
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The Russian are Coming: War Propaganda Goes into High Gear: Selected Articles
27 October 2016 — Global Research The Russians are Coming: War Propaganda Goes into High Gear. Renewed NATO Military Deployments on Russia’s Doorstep… By Prof Michel Chossudovsky, October 27 2016 The Headlines on Britain’s tabloids point to US-NATO war preparations in response to alleged Russian aggression. It is largely a display of war propaganda including an array of images Continue reading
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Media Roll Out Welcome Mat for ‘Humanitarian’ War in Syria
Beyond the opinion pages, media figures are pushing the “humanitarian” approach with varying degrees of subtlety. Meet the Press host Chuck Todd (10/16/16) recently pressed Vice President Joe Biden on the lack of a no-fly zone over Aleppo, suggesting that the Obama administration will “look back and wonder what if? What if? What if? What… Continue reading
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‘Drug Dependence Hasn’t Been Stopped by 45 Years of the War on Drugs’
Every 25 Seconds: The Human Toll of Criminalizing Drug Use in the United States, a study from Human Rights Watch and the ACLU, is a multi-level, cradle-to-grave if you will, look at the myriad impacts of the criminalization—selective criminalization—of drug possession on the people caught up in the system. Continue reading
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Housmans Books November 2016 Newsletter
27 October 2016 — Housmans NEWS 1. Housmans Peace Diary 2017 2. Cleaner wanted // 3hrs per week // London Living Wage 3. Hatha Yoga at Housmans! Sunday 20th November 4. Phone Credit for Refugees 5. London Anarchist Bookfair Continue reading
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Councillors must look before they leap into secret NHS cuts plans By John Lister
Theresa May has not taken kindly to the NHS boss’s belated admission that he had originally asked for considerably more than £8billion “extra” for the NHS (even as that £8bn figure was itself criticised as “misleading” by Sarah Wollaston MP, who points out the true amount given to the NHS is considerably less than the… Continue reading
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Making the NHS a “hostile environment” for migrants demeans our country By Erin Dexter
Three years have passed since Theresa May, then home secretary, committed to creating a “hostile environment” for so-called “illegal” migrants in the UK. Since then the UK has reinforced and multiplied its inland borders, making border guards of teachers, landlords, and healthcare workers. Continue reading
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Black Agenda Report for October 26, 2016: Malcolm on Hillary VS Trump, Fighting Ghost Facists Aiding Real Ones, Organizing in the Age of Hillary
26 October 2016 — Black Agenda Report Malcolm X on Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump A Black Agenda Radio Commentary by Bruce A. Dixon When astute political commentary from a half century ago eloquently describes the current political conundrum it means we’ve been stuck in a bad place for a long time. Do we really Continue reading
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TRIPS: The Story of How Intellectual Property Became Linked to Trade (3/7)
26 October 2016 — TRNN Countries like India and Brazil saw early on how excessive monopoly protection due to intellectual property rights would be an impediment to development, says professor Peter Drahos (inc. transcript) Continue reading
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Washington’s Intent is Economic Destabilization and “Regime Change” In Venezuela: Selected Articles
26 October 2016 — Global Research Washington’s Intent is Economic Destabilization and “Regime Change” In Venezuela By Stephen Lendman, October 25 2016 Venezuela’s oil-dependent economy suffers greatly from low crude oil prices and US economic warfare – waged to destabilize the country, create enormous hardships, mobilize majority opposition to President Nicolas Maduro’s leadership, and end nearly Continue reading
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The Iran Nuclear Deal – Debunking A Myth: Selected Articles
25 October 2016 — Global Research The Iran Nuclear Deal – Debunking A Myth. A Short List of “Negative” US Foreign Policy Decisions By Don L. Durivan, October 24 2016 With the first anniversary of the Iran nuclear deal, known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, or JCPOA, recently having passed, and the Obama Administration Continue reading
The New Dark Age 