October 2016
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COLDTYPE Issue 126 October 2016 – is now on line
BLOOD AND FIRE AND SLAUGHTER – The world’s top politicians and elite media lauded Shimon Peres as a great ‘peacemaker’ after his death last month. Robert Fisk recalls a different side of Peres, a man of blood and slaughter. We’re also re-running Fisk’s greatest indictment of Peres – 17 Minutes In Qana – which first… Continue reading
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Video: The Giant Is Falling Official Trailer 2016
10 October 2016 — Youtube The Giant is Falling takes us through the big political events of recent years that signify the dying days of the ANC in South Africa. Locating the moment when things fell apart as the Marikana Massacre, the film charts the various ways people have collectively responded to the ANC’s failure Continue reading
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Debunking the Western Media’s Coverage of the War on Syria: selected Articles
17 October 2016 — Global Research News Debunking the Western Media’s Coverage of the War on Syria By Daniel Espinosa Winder, October 16 2016 There were indeed anti-Assad protests, sometimes clashing with pro-Assad protests, but they were in many cases infiltrated or even promoted by elements with very different goals, mainly not Syrian in origin, and Continue reading
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On Remembering Joe Bageant
17 October 2016 I’ve been doing some housework on the site and I’ve noticed that Joe Bageant’s Website seems not to be available which is a real shame. I had the pleasure of hanging out with Joe when he came to London promoting his first book, ‘Dear hunting with Jesus…” and we had a jolly Continue reading
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Media Lens: ‘Centrist Soft-Liberal Feminism’ – Presidentialising Hillary Clinton
These, then, are the four causes for celebration: Clinton is 1) a woman, 2) a ‘feminist’ with 3) ‘a long track record of standing up for the right causes’, and 4) she would be ‘the safest pair of hands in decades’. Continue reading
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US, Saudis to grant 9,000 ISIS fighters free passage from Iraqi Mosul to Syria – source
The US and Saudi Arabia have agreed to grant free passage to thousands of Islamic State militants before the Iraqi city of Mosul is stormed. The jihadists will be redeployed to fight against the government in Syria, a military-diplomatic source told RIA Novost Continue reading
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ICH 15 October 2016: An Urgently Necessary Briefing on Syria
15 October 2016 — ICH The Warnings of a New World War By Gilbert Doctorow Russia lays down clear warnings that are mostly being ignored. Continue reading
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There Will Be Blood By S. Artesian
After 40 years “coding” for race, attacking social equality with words like “freedom;” after 40 years of presenting liquidation, asset stripping, decertification of unions, assaults on wages, increases in poverty as “entrepreneurship;” after 40 years of torturing language and meaning (along with persons of darker colors) such that the empty-suit empty-headed Reagan becomes a “revolutionary;”… Continue reading
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Hiding US Role in Yemen Slaughter So Bombing Can Be Sold as ‘Self-Defense’
US destroyers in the Gulf of Aden launched airstrikes against Houthi rebels, a Shia insurgent group currently withstanding a massive bombing campaign from a Saudi-led coalition in a year-and-half conflict between largely Shia rebels and the Saudi-backed Sunni government in Yemen. The Pentagon insisted that cruise missiles had been fired onto the USS Mason on… Continue reading
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Syria’s “White Helmets”: Fiction and Reality
14 October 2016 — Global Research Syria’s “White Helmets”: Fiction and Reality By Ahmad Salah, October 14 2016 A young man, wearing a white helmet and a distinctive yellow-and-blue badge on his arm, digs for four hours in the rubble of a destroyed building in Idlib Province in northwest Syria. Finally, he sees what he’s looking for: Continue reading
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Gorbachev’s Nuclear Initiative of January 1986 and the Road to Reykjavik
Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev’s radical proposal in January 1986 to abolish nuclear weapons by the year 2000 met with derision on the part of many U.S. officials, who treated it as pure propaganda, but was welcomed by President Reagan, according to declassified documents posted today by the National Security Archive. The records reveal serious internal… Continue reading
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Towards NAFTA-EU Economic Integration?: Selected Articles
13 October 2016 — Global Research Towards NAFTA-EU Economic Integration? “Back-Door” Canada-EU Trade Agreement (CETA) Sets the Stage… By Prof Michel Chossudovsky, October 13 2016 EU politicians have reluctantly put the TTIP “on hold” in response to the protest movement, while pushing ahead the CETA back-door deal with Canada, The adoption of CETA would in practice validate Continue reading
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Black Agenda Report for October 12, 2016: Apocalypse Hillary, Anti-Trump Hypocrisy, WikiLeaks and Hillary's Private Lies
13 October 2016 — Black Agenda Report Apocalypse Hillary by BAR executive editor Glen Ford Donald Trump is a dead racist walking; there’s no reason for “progressives” to vote for Clinton for fear of Trump. But everyone “should be terrified of Hillary Clinton getting the kind of landslide that she will interpret as a mandate Continue reading
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“Mutually Assured Destruction”(MAD): The Nuclear Debate America Should be Having: Selected Articles
12 October 2016 — Global Research “Mutually Assured Destruction”(MAD): The Nuclear Debate America Should be Having By Adeyinka Makinde, October 11 2016 M.A.D. The concept of ‘Mutually Assured Destruction’ which posited the prospect of a global catastrophe in the event of a nuclear exchange between the United States and the Soviet Union was one which permeated the Continue reading
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ICH 11 October 2016: Leaked emails : Hillary Hates ‘Everyday Americans’ Clinton Campaign Chair
11 October 2016 — ICH U.S. Military Operations Are Biggest Motivation for Homegrown Terrorists, FBI Study Finds By Murtaza Hussain, Cora Currier Grievances over U.S. military action ranked far above any other factor. Continue reading
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Book Review: Petras- The End of the Republic and the Delusion of Empire
The End of the Republic and the Delusion of Empire is his 68th book, and one of his most important. It should be read by anyone concerned with the looming disaster that will eventuate from the upcoming U.S. presidential election, no matter who wins. While not explicitly stating it, it is clear that Petras expects… Continue reading
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Leaked EU documents show that big corporations have seized control of our food safety regulations
It’s a dream come true for the industry giants. In the coming days, the European Commissioner for Health will consider the draft proposal. And even after Brexit, these rules could set the baseline for future UK regulation, too. But a public outcry across Europe for real, legal limits that protect people (not profits!) can still… Continue reading
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Media Lens: Media Silence Over Deadly Sanctions: From Iraq To Syria
Awkward facts that erode the ‘benign humanitarian’ self-image of the West are routinely side-lined or buried by the corporate media. Consider, for example, the severe impact of sanctions imposed on Syria by the United States and the European Union. Continue reading
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Video: 13TH
The title of Ava DuVernay’s extraordinary and galvanizing documentary 13TH refers to the 13th Amendment to the Constitution, which reads “Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States.” The progression from that second qualifying clause to the horrors… Continue reading
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Air Strikes against Syria: Who are the War Criminals? Who is Supporting Al Qaeda? Russia or America? By Prof Michel Chossudovsky
America is coming to the rescue of Al Qaeda under a humanitarian mandate. The unspoken agenda is to undermine the Liberation of Aleppo. The pretext and justification for these actions are based on America’s “responsibility to protect” (R2P) the “moderates” in Aleppo from Syrian and Russian attacks and bombing raids. Continue reading
The New Dark Age 