August 2017
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Statewatch: New report: Market Forces: the development of the EU security-industrial complex
Transnational corporations are winning millions of euros of public research funds to develop ever more intrusive surveillance and snooping technologies, a new report by Statewatch and the Transnational Institute reveals today. The report, Market Forces, shows how the EU’s €1.7 billion ‘Secure societies’ research programme has been shaped by the “homeland security” industry and in… Continue reading
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Selected Articles: Heightened Tensions Between Iran and the US?
30 August 2017 — Global Research Trump Seeks Rigged Intelligence to Renege on Iran Nuclear Deal By Stephen Lendman, August 29, 2017 According to London’s Guardian, “US intelligence officials are under pressure from the White House to produce a justification to declare Iran in violation of a 2015 nuclear agreement” – despite no evidence suggesting it. Continue reading
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NYT Only the Latest Corporate Media Outlet to Give Free Publicity to Mercenary Profiteer
The New York Times (8/30/17) decided to turn over a large chunk of the most precious opinion space in the English-speaking world to mercenary entrepreneur Erik Prince, so he could promote his plan to privatize and profit from the US occupation of Afghanistan. Continue reading
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Black Agenda Report 30 August 2017
30 August 2017 — Black Agenda Report The Missing Black History At Some Civil War Memorials Bruce A. Dixon , BAR managing editor 56,000 white boys died in Civil War prison camps only because Confederates insisted on murdering captured black soldiers or selling them into slavery. There are memorials for the northern and southern prisoners Continue reading
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NSA: "Clean" Nukes and the Ecology of Nuclear War
30 August 2017 — National Security Archive Officials in 1960s Sought Studies of “Longer-term Consequences of Nuclear Attacks on the Health of People or on Their Living Environment” National Security Archive Electronic Briefing Book No. 602 Continue reading
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Give Push Doctor the Shove!
A new private health company called Push Doctor wants to profit by undermining the NHS. They’re on an aggressive expansion drive, pumping out adverts to lure people away from their NHS doctor. Yet they’ve just been found to be “unsafe” and “ineffective” by the official health watchdog. [1]Together we can stop their business taking root. Continue reading
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New FoI figures on UK air and drone strikes in Iraq and Syria By Chris Cole
New figures released to Drone Wars UK in response to Freedom of Information requests shows a dramatic increase in the number of RAF operations in Syria in the first six months of 2017. According to the figures, UK armed air missions in Syria rose by 480% in the first half of 2017 compared with the… Continue reading
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‘Media’s First Instinct Is to Strip Ideology From the Conversation’
Janine Jackson: The spectre of white supremacists marching with guns and torches, throwing KKK salutes, and screaming about Jews and Commies is a test for Americans, individually and institutionally, and we’re still seeing how various folks are responding. One of the primary institutions that should be asking themselves some questions right now are corporate media. Continue reading
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ICH Headlines 29 August 2017
29 August 2017 — Information Clearing House Syria and Lebanon Defeating The ISIS Terrorists By Andre Vltchek Syria survived; supported by its allies and at an enormous cost, it has managed to stop the imperialists and their brutal extremist. Continue reading
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All The Countries America Has Invaded… in One Map
28 August 2017 — Global Research Watch: Brave Congressman Explains How US Keeps Afghan Heroin Trade Alive at Your Expense By Matt Agorist, August 28, 2017 Congressman Thomas Massie blows the lid off the US subsidized opium trade and taxpayer funds flowing into the hands of the Taliban in Afghanistan. Continue reading
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ICH Headlines 27 August 2017
27 August 2017 — Information Clearing House How the Deep State Ties Down Trump By Alastair Crooke President Trump has had his foreign policy hands and feet tied by the Russia (and Iran) Sanctions Act. Continue reading
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Washington’s Relentless Quest for Neo-colonies
26 August 2017 — Global Research Venezuelan Collapse? Wishful Thinking? Caracas Oil Deals with Russia and China By Marwan Salamah, August 26, 2017 From a geopolitical aspect, this means ever closer relations with Russia and China, which together with a couple more anti-western South American countries, could result in a ‘backyard’ full of pickles! Will it be Continue reading
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ICH Headlines 25 August 2017
25 August 2017 — Information Clearing House Why Can’t Wheeler-Dealer Trump Cut a Deal with North Korea? By Mike Whitney For many it’s clear that the Oslo framework, which expired in 1999, was a trap. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/47692.htm Continue reading
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Video: Secret plans to cut NHS Services Revealed
The government is trying to keep plans to slash NHS funding secret – but together we’re doing the last thing they want by getting it all over the media. 38 Degrees members are coming together in their hundreds of thousands to get the plans revealed – share so everyone knows. Continue reading
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ICH Headlines 22 August 2017
22 August 2017 — Information Clearing House President Trump Addresses Nation on Afghanistan Watch Trump’s Base Goes Ballistic Over His ‘Unlimited War’. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/47658.htm Continue reading
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Trump ‘Presidential’ Again–for Ramping Up War in Afghanistan
Foreign Policy‘s Paul Miller (8/22/17) liked the speech in part because “Trump said ‘win’ and ‘victory’ more times in 15 minutes than President Barack Obama did in eight years.” Donald Trump is finally “presidential” again, pundits insist, now that he is ratcheting up another US war. Continue reading
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ICH Headlines 24 August 2017
24 August 2017 — Information Clearing House A Military Junta is Now Ruling the United States By Moon Of Alabama At the core of Trump’s circle is a seasoned trio of generals with experience as battlefield commanders: http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/47677.htm Continue reading
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More American Troops to Afghanistan, To Keep the Chinese Out? Lithium and the Battle for Afghanistan’s Mineral Riches By Prof Michel Chossudovsky
The implication of Trump’s resolve is to plunder and steal Afghanistan’s mineral riches to finance the “reconstruction” of a country destroyed by the US and its allies after 16 years of war, i.e “War reparations” paid to the aggressor nation? Continue reading
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Black Agenda Report 24 August 2017
24 August 2017 — Black Agenda Report Blacks Should Not Become Uncle Sam’s Clean-Up Crew – Glen Ford , BAR executive editor “Protests that focus on the racist personalities and structures of the past must demand remedies for oppressions of the present.” Otherwise, you are only cleaning up Uncle Sam’s act. Continue reading
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Geopolitical Crisis: Afghanistan, Syria, China-US Relations and North Korea
24 August 2017 — Global Research The Long, Long Story: “Principled Realism”, Trump and Afghanistan By Dr. Binoy Kampmark, August 23, 2017 Addressing the nation from Fort Myer military base in Arlington, Virginia, Trump conceded to weariness – weary, that is, of not achieving victory in Afghanistan. “I share that American people’s frustration.” Continue reading
The New Dark Age 