July 2017
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Yemen – Court Battle Exposes UK – Saudi Arms Trade. A Marriage Made in Hell. By Felicity Arbuthnot
Anyone following the cataclysmic devastation of Yemen would think it was a million to one that the £3.3Billion worth of arms sold by the UK to Saudi in just two years, had not been used to kill civilians, bomb hospitals, schools, markets, mosques, decimate vital and economic infrastructure and all necessary to sustain life. Continue reading
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War crimes: Mosul families count their dead as US airstrikes kill thousands of civilians
Award-winning journalist Patrick Cockburn, Middle East correspondent of The Independent, writes from Mosul, recording accusations by local people who assert the US-led coalition has ‘massively’ overused force. They allege that the intensity of the bombardment from the air was out of all proportion to the number of Isis fighters on the ground Continue reading
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The Engineered Destruction and Political Fragmentation of Iraq By Prof Michel Chossudovsky
First published by GR on June 14, 2014, updated August 2014, this article reveals how the US and its allies facilitated the incursion of Islamic State (ISIS) convoys into Iraq in June 2014 prior to the onset of the counter-terrorism bombing campaign launched by Obama in August 2014. Continue reading
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Mass Arrests of Protesters: Outrageous in Russia, Barely Worth Mentioning in US
Major media’s relative lack of interest in the mass arrests by Metro DC police on Inauguration Day is a fact noted by activists and journalists since the incident almost six months ago. One way to measure the dearth of coverage is to compare the attention paid to comparable protester arrests in Russia last month. Continue reading
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ICH Headlines 13 July 2017
13 July 2017 — Information Clearing House Syria Summary – Will The Trump-Putin Agreement Hold? By Moon Of Alabama The U.S. effort to impose itself on the area is doomed. Continue reading
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The Shameful Link Tax!
Just a few days ago we wrote to you about key votes in the European Parliament this week, where our right to link and to share content was hanging in the balance. We hoped MEPs would side with citizens. But what we got instead was truly shameful. Continue reading
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Degeneration Nation
After decades of trying to reform public policy on food and farming, including an intense four-year battle to force mandatory labeling of GMOs (rudely terminated in 2016 when Congress and the Obama administration rammed through the outrageous DARK Act), food activists and conscious consumers find ourselves wondering “what’s the use of lobbying the government?” Continue reading
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Black Agenda Report 13 July 2017
13 July 2017 — Black Agenda Report How Did Berniecrats Claim the Jackson Mississippi Movement? Do They Want To Be Claimed? Should They? By BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon When Jackson’s mayor-elect Chokwe Antar Lumumba stepped to the podium at the cynically misnamed “Peoples Summit”, the annual June pilgrimage of Berniecrats, he carried with Continue reading
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The Public Network By Dan Hind
If you’ve tried to access the BBC’s online TV and radio content from the UK recently you will have been asked to create a login profile. By tracking the behaviour of each profile the corporation will now be able to develop a far more detailed and sophisticated understanding of its audience. This is a structure… Continue reading
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Selected Articles: The US Is the Real Warmonger
13 July 2017 — Global Research The imperial agenda of the United States has wreaked havoc across the globe – economically, politically and socially. Millions have died and are threatened through its diabolical machinations including the funding of terrorists as well as unlawful interventions and militarization. Global Research has compiled some articles that showcase the destructive Continue reading
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UK armed drone deployment: brief report from Information Tribunal By Chris Cole
Despite such details being regularly released for ‘manned’ aircraft engaged in such operations – and as we demonstrated in court – many other operations including Operation Herrick (Afghanistan), Operation Ellamy (Libya) and even Operation Desert Fox (Iraq), the MoD insisted in court there were “appropriate reasons”, which could not be revealed in open court, why… Continue reading
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ICH Headlines 12 July 2017
12 July 2017 — Information Clearing House Possible US-Backed War Crimes in Iraq Exposed By Julia Conley Amnesty International details horrific death toll and suffering of civilian population.- Continue Continue reading
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Statewatch News Online, 11 July 2017 (08/17)
SPECIAL: The European Commission asked Italy to draw up a “Code of Conduct” for NGOs carrying out search and rescue in the Mediterranean: Continue reading
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ICH Headlines 11 July 2017
11 July 2917 — Information Clearing House FBI Director’s Leaked Trump Memos Contained Classified Information By Tyler Durden Comey broke his own agency’s rules – by putting his own interests above those of his country. Continue reading
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Black Agenda Radio 11 July 2017
11 July 2017 — Black Agenda Report Black Agenda Radio for Week of July 10, 2017 1. U.S. War Crimes Against “Muslims of Color” 2. Black Is Back Coalition to Gather in Chicago 3. Mumia Remembers Franz Fanon 4. A Challenge to Rwandan Dictatorship 5. New York’s Pacifica Station Resists Empire (State Building) Black Agenda Continue reading
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Europe says no to glyphosate!
A staggering 1.3 million Europeans signed the Stop Glyphosate European Citizens Initiative (ECI). Together we’ve told the European Commission to ban Monsanto’s favourite pesticide, to reform the EU’s pesticide approval procedure, and to set EU-wide mandatory reduction targets for pesticide use. We’ve done it — and only just in time! Continue reading
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An even worse version of the Link Tax now on the cards!
Crucial votes on the Link Tax are happening TOMORROW, and a major EU political party just u-turned to officially back this costly and reckless proposal. The European People’s Party (EPP) has decided to go all-in for the broadest, worst version of the Link Tax — which gives copyright ownership and the right to collect fees… Continue reading
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Climate: 'All These Changes Do Affect Jobs and Affect People'
Janine Jackson interviewed Dan Zukowski about climate disruption for the June 30, 2017, episode of CounterSpin. This is a lightly edited transcript. Continue reading
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Tensions in Hamburg: The G20 Fractures By Dr. Binoy Kampmark
9 July 2017 — Global Research “I think it’s very clear that we could not reach consensus, but the differences were not papered over, they were clearly stated.” – Angela Merkel, BBC News, Jul 8, 2017 Such gatherings and summits are not always smooth, but on a planet bearing witness to a Trump presidency, there was always Continue reading
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ICH Headlines 9 July 2017
9 July 2017 — Information Clearing House The Fraud of the White Helmets By Philip Giraldi Hollywood buys into yet another lie. Continue reading
The New Dark Age 