August 31, 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
The New Dark Age 