July 2017
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Mosul’s “Liberation” Amidst Death and Destruction: Selected Articles
23 July 2017 — Global Research In less than a year, the US-led siege in Mosul has not only resulted to a horrendous shedding of blood and countless of properties tranasformed into rubble; more than the physical damages are the psychological effects it has wrought in the lives of those who survived the US-led bombings. Question Continue reading
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medConfidential Summer Roundup, 21st July 2017
21 July 2017 — medConfidential A longer version of this newsletter is available on our website. Before everyone starts their summer, here are a few ‘tied-up loose ends’ that had previously been left dangling. Continue reading
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Black Agenda Report 20 July 2017
20 July 2017 — Black Agenda Report White Liberal Guilt, Black Opportunism and the Green Party by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon Building a new kind of left party isn’t easy, or it would have been done a long time ago. The Green party’s annual meeting in Newark last week revealed some of the Continue reading
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Video: Boycott Israel, Go to Jail?
A bipartisan Senate bill would make boycotting Israel punishable by up to 20 years in prison. But a new pushback from groups including the ACLU could help stop the ‘draconian’ measure, says Josh Ruebner of the US Campaign for Palestinian Rights Continue reading
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Video: Abby Martin: Dictatorship or Democracy in Venezuela?
Abby Martin addresses the criticisms with Head of the Presidential Commission to oversee the Constituent Assembly process, Elias Jaua, speaks to supporters and participants of the Assembly, interviews historian Chris Gilbert and explains what is at stake in Venezuela if the social programs instated under Chavez are terminated by the opposition. Continue reading
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Monsanto/Bayer: #mergerfromhell
Bayer and Monsanto just filed their merger for approval — and European regulators could approve it in less than three weeks… Can you send an email to the European Commissioner for Competition, Margarete Vestager and ask her to stop this merger from hell? Continue reading
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Media Lens: Mass Media Siege: Comparing Coverage Of Mosul and Aleppo
When Russian and Syrian forces were bombarding ‘rebel’-held East Aleppo last year, newspapers and television screens were full of anguished reporting about the plight of civilians killed, injured, trapped, traumatised or desperately fleeing. Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and Russian leader Vladimir Putin, both Official Enemies, were denounced and demonised, in accordance with the usual propaganda… Continue reading
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Video: Empire Files: Anti-Black Racism Reveals Israel's White Supremacy
In this on-the-ground investigation, Abby Martin talks to Osman Ali, a refugee from Darfur, at Holot prison camp about the treatment of refugees by the government, and Tehune Maharat, an Ethiopian Jewish activist whose cousin was killed in an apparent hate crime by Israeli police, about the rampant and institutional racism in the country. Continue reading
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Video: Empire Files: Anti-Black Racism Reveals Israel’s White Supremacy
In this on-the-ground investigation, Abby Martin talks to Osman Ali, a refugee from Darfur, at Holot prison camp about the treatment of refugees by the government, and Tehune Maharat, an Ethiopian Jewish activist whose cousin was killed in an apparent hate crime by Israeli police, about the rampant and institutional racism in the country. Continue reading
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Make that call to MIchael Gove to ban Glyphosate!
The European Commission hasn’t learnt a bit. They officially presented a proposal to licence a toxic pesticide called glyphosate for ten more years, even though we’ve just submitted over 1.3 million ECI signatures for verification. The Commission is moving forward on glyphosate before they have to address our ECI, and now it is national ministers… Continue reading
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Media: Missile Defense Will Protect You From North Korea, Say USA Today’s Missile Defense-Funded Sources
The piece contains no sources at all substantiating the “N. Korean nuke threat”: “North Korea’s rapid march to develop a nuclear-armed ballistic missile capable of striking the United States” is simply asserted in the lead, and later on the claim that “North Korea may be only a year or so away” from having missiles that… Continue reading
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ICH Headlines 17 July 2017
17 July 2017 — Information Clearing House The Long Reach Of The US Border By Belen Fernandez “We probably have more bases in other people’s lands than any other people, nation, or empire in world history”. Continue reading
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US War in Syria Far From Over: Selected Articles
17 JUly 2017 — Global Research US War in Syria Far From Over By Stephen Lendman, July 17, 2017 Ceasefire in southern Syria was short-lived, discussed in a previous article. On Sunday, Netanyahu said he opposes the Russian/US brokered deal, claiming it “perpetuat(es)” Iranian and Hezbollah presence in the country near Israel’s border. Continue reading
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Video: NATO-Russia Tensions Rise, Arms Makers Benefit
For the first time, the U.S. has deployed advanced Patriot missiles as part of military exercises in the Baltic region, escalating tensions with Russia and boosting military industry stock prices to record highs (inc. transcript) Continue reading
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Gangster Capitalism By William Bowles
London has become “a desert of wealth”. Comment by a former planning officer for London heard on TV yesterday in a movie made by the BBC that managed to spend an hour on the destruction of London without mentioning capitalism once! Continue reading
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Video: Local Community 'Put Their Bodies On the Line' to Protest UK Fracking Site
Anti-fracking activists have joined the local community in Lancashire for a ‘rolling resistance’ month of direct action protests, after the UK government overruled the local government’s ban on fracking (inc. transcript) Continue reading
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Video: Local Community ‘Put Their Bodies On the Line’ to Protest UK Fracking Site
Anti-fracking activists have joined the local community in Lancashire for a ‘rolling resistance’ month of direct action protests, after the UK government overruled the local government’s ban on fracking (inc. transcript) Continue reading
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Media: While Attacks in Israel Make Headlines, Humanitarian Crisis in Gaza Ignored
The recent acute humanitarian crisis in Gaza—on top of the routine humanitarian crisis that defines everyday existence there—has gotten sparse coverage in US media over the past three weeks. Israeli officials have cut off electricity to almost 2 million Gazans for all but three or four hours a day—in conjunction with nominal Palestinian leader Mahmoud… Continue reading
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