January 2017
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Housmans Books Newsletter February 2017
31 January 2017 — Housmans NEWS 1. Supporting Haven Distribution’s Books to Prisoners work IN-STORE EVENTS 2. ‘Training for Exploitation’, book launch with the Precarious Workers Brigade 3.‘A People’s History of the Russian Revolution’ with Neil Faulkner 4. Locomotrix presents SEESAW with Serena Braida, Livia Franchini, Gloria Sanders, and Vera Chok 5. Capitalism’s Next Crisis? Continue reading
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Trump: The CIA’s “Deep State”, “War on Terrorism”, Preparations for World War III?: Selcted Articles
30 January 2017 — Global Research The CIA’s “Deep State”, Donald Trump and His “War on Terrorism” By Larry Chin, January 30 2017 The CIA is responsible for orchestrating international terrorism and untold atrocities. How does Trump plan on the CIA “ending” Islamic terrorism when it is the institution he “loves and respects” is the institution that Continue reading
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ICH Headlines 30-31 January 2017
30-31 January 2017 — Information Clearing House US Soldiers Invade Yemen, Shoot and Kill 8-year-old Girl, 29 Others BY MEMO She was reassuring her mother as she was bleeding out; ‘Don’t cry mama, I’m fine, I’m fine” Continue reading
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Trump’s Neo-Fascism will be Built on Neo-Fascism of Obama and Democrat Party By Ajamu Baraka
White “radicals” and Black “nationalists” join with corporate Democrats and “latte” liberals” to mouth nonsense about Russians. Clinton Democrats attack Trump from the right — and sweep know-nothings of all stripes along with them. “Collaboration from the left with the new McCarthyism is providing an opening for the isolation and repression of those of us… Continue reading
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Statewatch News Online, 30 January 2017 (02/17)
30 January 2017 — Statewatch ANALYSES, BRIEFING & VIEWPOINT: http://www.statewatch.org/analyses.htm 1. Analysis: EU: Eighth report on relocation and resettlement: Commission welcomes increase in relocations and ignores harmful systematic effects NEWS http://www.statewatch.org/news/newsfull.htm 1 USA: Executive Order: Executive Order: Border Security and Immigration Enforcement 2. EU: PNR: Belgium, France, Netherlands to introduce rail ID checks 3. Continue reading
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Media Lens: Deranged And Deluded: The Media’s Complicity In The Climate Crisis
Today many scientists believe that we have effectively entered a new geological era called the Anthropocene during which human activities have ‘started to have a significant global impact on Earth’s geology and ecosystems’. Indeed, we are now faced with severe, human-induced climate instability and catastrophic loss of species: the sixth mass extinction in four-and-a-half billion… Continue reading
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Media: (The Absence of) Power is Exhausting By Dan Hind
The Guardian could use its membership scheme to create reader-owned co-ops across the UK. The Guardian still has enormous communicative power and this could be put to work promoting democratic, accountable media. A working model for this exists already, in the shape of the Bristol Cable. Continue reading
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COLDTYPE Issue 133 February 2016 – is now on line
29 January 2017 — Coldtype Continue reading
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The British Government Colludes with Monsanto. Crimes against Humanity and “Ecocide” By Colin Todhunter
The British public and the environment are being poisoned with a deadly cocktail of 320 pesticides. Moreover, Wales has become a storage dump for Monsanto’s most toxic chemicals. These are the messages conveyed by Dr Rosemary Mason in her recent open letter to Councillor Rob Stewart, the leader of Swansea City and County Council. Continue reading
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ICH Headlines 26-27 January 2017: Trumping all over the place!
26-27 January 2017 — Information Clearing House Trump Orders ‘Safe Zones’ in Syria By Carlo Muñoz “Right now, for us to control all of the airspace in Syria, it would require us to go to war against Syria and Russia” Gen. Joseph F. Dunford, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Continue reading
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Trump Bans Muslims from Entering the United States, Launches “Holy War against Radical Islam” By Prof Michel Chossudovsky
Trump’s Executive Order to ban Muslims from entering the US, will have devastating consequences both in the US and internationally. It also has a bearing on America’s military agenda in Syria, Iraq, Libya, Yemen, Afghanistan and Pakistan. Continue reading
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ICH Headlines 25-26 January 2017
25-26 January 2017 — Information Clearing House Russia Will Join Forces With Syria, Rebel Groups to Fight Islamic State By Ed Adamczyk Shifting alliances have led to plans for a unified attack on the Islamic State, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said Wednesday. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/46308.htm Continue reading
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Black Agenda Report for Jan 25, 2017: Cory Booker Corporate Hooker, Trump to Dump Cop Consent Decrees, Dems Attack Trump From the Right
26 January 2017 — Black Agenda Report Cory Booker, Corporate Hooker: The Perfect Establishment Opposition to Donald Trump by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon After losing the White House to the most unpopular president in history, Democrats have lots to say, but even more to avoid saying, lest they expose themselves as every bit Continue reading
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US Anti-China Saber Rattling, Syrian Peace Talks Close, U.S. Voters’ Rights Amendment
26 January 2017 — Global Research The Trump Administration’s Disturbing US Anti-China Saber Rattling By Stephen Lendman, January 25 2017 Saber rattling by Trump administration officials on China give pause for concern, continuing Obama’s hostile approach, risking direct confrontation if not curbed. Continue reading
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It’s Austerity, Not Globalization, That Pulls European Workers to the Right
Both the Washington Post (1/22/17) and New York Times (1/22/17) had pieces about declining support for the left in France and the rise of a nationalist right in both Italy and France. Both pieces attributed the rise in support for the right to people losing from globalization, implying that this is some impersonal process that… Continue reading
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ICH Headlines 23-24 January 2017
23-24 January 2017 — Information Clearing House US Intervention in Syria? Not Under Trump By Gareth Porter With Trump in office, the supporters of a US war in Syria now have little or no chance of selling the idea. Continue reading
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The Last Superpower Summits
The historic summit meetings between Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev and two U.S. presidents, Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush, built an intensive learning process on both sides that ended the Cold War, but missed numerous other opportunities to make the world safer, according to the new book, The Last Superpower Summits, featured today in the… Continue reading
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This week the issue is not Trump. It is ourselves By John Pilger
Today, false symbolism is all. “Identity” is all. In 2016, Hillary Clinton stigmatised millions of voters as “a basket of deplorables, racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, Islamaphobic – you name it”. Her abuse was handed out at an LGBT rally as part of her cynical campaign to win over minorities by abusing a white mostly working-class… Continue reading
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ICH Headlines 19 January 2017
19 January 2017 — Information Clearing House FBI, 5 Other Agencies Probe Possible Covert Kremlin Aid To Trump By Peter Stone and Greg Gordon Investigators are examining how money may have moved from the Kremlin to covertly help Trump win. Continue reading
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NYT Ignored Reality at 2001 Bush Inauguration; Now Ignorance Is History
19 January 2017 — FAIR It was much harder for TV than for newspapers to downplay the reality that George W. Bush was greeted in 2001 by massive protests. Discussing the security challenges posed by the inauguration of Donald Trump, the New York Times (1/18/17) reported: Those numbers are quite likely to be larger than Continue reading
The New Dark Age 