30 April 2018 — FAIR
It’s not surprising that the US and North Korea view the history of Libyan disarmament differently, when the New York Times (4/29/18) can’t even agree with the New York Times about it.
Month: April 2018
As Israel Kills Dozens and Maims Thousands, Palestinian ‘Violence’ Under Media Microscope By Gregory Shupak
Syria News Links 30 April 2018
30 April 218 — williambowles.info
Syria announces Yarmouk camp evacuation agreement
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2018/04/syria-announces-yarmouk-camp-evacuation-agreement-180430162239804.html
Two killed, 13 wounded in shelling in Syria’s Homs – Russian reconciliation center
http://tass.com/society/1002574
Aggression: Imperialism strikes Syria again
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TheGreanvillePost/~3/aLfoKRGRkgA/ Continue reading
Racism, Russophobia and the Western Media: Selected Articles
29 April 2018 — Global Research
Whether It’s Russiagate, Skripal or Syria, the Media Have Lost Their Grip on Reality
By Paul Mansfield, April 29, 2018
“Blame Russia” for absolutely everything world we currently occupy has reached a point almost beyond return and is scaling heights that would turn Joseph McCarthy green with envy. Whether it is internally produced political turmoil and scandal, or because of generally reckless and failed foreign policy endeavours, the US and UK governments are more wiling than ever to pin the blame on Russia without fail. Continue reading
COLDTYPE Issue 159 May 2018 – is now on line
COPS campaign update April 2018
29 April 2018 — COPS
It’s been a busy month of revelations abour Britain’s political secret police. Here’s a rundown:
The Met finally admitted that Special Branch officers illegally supplied info on political activists for construction industry blacklisting. Activists have long shown that spycops officer Mark Jenner was a member of construction union UCATT, and whistleblower officer Peter Francis has named five trade unions that were spied on.
Continue reading
Syria News Links 25-29 April 2018
30 April 2018 10:21:09 — williambowles.info
29 April 2018
Syria: SDF reclaim territory hours after government capture
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2018/04/syria-sdf-reclaim-territory-hours-government-capture-180429184747155.html
Pro-Regime Syrian Forces Take Control Of At Least Two Villages Near Iraq Border
http://kclu.org/post/pro-regime-syrian-forces-take-control-least-two-villages-near-iraq-border
Gaza News Links 28 April – 30 March 2018
29 April 2018 — williambowles.info
28 April 2018
Israeli snipers shoot another 178 Palestinian protesters, killing three
http://mondoweiss.net/2018/04/israeli-palestinian-protesters/
Israel needs Palestinian violence to shift world opinion — and ‘The New York Times’ helps out!
http://mondoweiss.net/2018/04/palestinian-violence-opinion/
How Google, Facebook and Twitter are manipulating the Mexican presidential elections—Part 1
28 April 2018 — WSWS
US election meddling in the age of the Internet
By Alex González and Andrea Lobo
This is the first part in a two-part series
In recent months, Google, Facebook and Twitter have signed agreements with the Mexican National Electoral Institute (INE), the organization charged with carrying out elections in Mexico, in what amounts to a massive campaign to manipulate the outcome of the July 1 general elections in the world’s tenth most populous country.
EU Bans Neonics!
27 April 2018 — SumOfUs
I’m writing quickly to let you know some breaking news: WE WON! The EU neonics ban just passed.
A majority of European governments voted in favour of the European Commission’s proposal.
This is a massive win for the bees — and you and SumOfUs members around the world have helped make this happen. Thank you so much for your incredible support!
I’ll be in touch in the coming days with a more detailed report back.
In the meantime, let’s celebrate!
Wiebke and rest of the SumOfUs team
P.S. It’s only thanks to SumOfUs members like you that we won this amazing and historic bee-saving ban. But the battle to save the bees is far from over. Bayer and co will not give up now and neither can we. To keep the bees safe from pesticide giants we need sustained support from members like you — it’s the most powerful form of support. Please can you set up a small monthly donation today so that we can keep fighting for and saving the bees.
More information:
EU to fully ban neonicotinoid insecticides to protect bees, Reuters, April 27 2018.
The Real Reason Social Media Makes Hollywood So Nervous By J. F. Sargent
26 April 2018 — FAIR
The Black Mirror episode “Nosedive” envisions a dystopia where every human interaction is rated on social media.
There’s an episode of the Netflix show Black Mirror called “Nosedive,” about a world where everyone can rate their interactions with everyone else on a scale of 1–5, and each person’s average rating determines their socioeconomic status. The moral of the episode (because most episodes of Black Mirror have a techno-moral at the end) was a warning against the dangers of mob mentality and groupthink on social media. It’s easy to see where they got the idea: you only need to look at the story of Justine Sacco, whose life was turned upside down over an offensive joke she wrote on Twitter, or Zoe Quinn, who’s life was torn apart over lies spread by a vengeful ex, to see that internet hatred and rumor-mongering is dangerous, and we haven’t figured out how to deal with it yet. It’s scary, but TV is obsessed with it.
NSA: Gina Haspel’s CIA Torture File
26 April 2018 — National Security Archive
CIA nominee supervised detainee torture at Thailand black site,
Drafted cable to destroy videotape evidence,
Helped feed repeated lies about effectiveness of torture to CIA superiors, Congress, two Presidents
National Security Archive Electronic Briefing Book No. 625
Organic Bytes: What will it take to get this chemical banned?
26 April 2018 — Organic Consumers Association
[First, a whinge about the the UK environmental movement: It sucks! Organisations like Friends of the Earth (FOE) and Greenpeace with millions in resources can’t even manage a weekly newsletter like this one from OCA, a US-based organisation or another I carry here, Sustainable Pulse. Greenpeace do have RSS feeds but you have hunt around the website to find them and my subscription to FOE has yet to deliver anything. What does it tell us about the state of political involvement here in the UK? WB]
ESSAY OF THE WEEK
What Could Go Wrong?
Monsanto is working frantically with its cronies at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to get another 15-year approval for its Roundup weedkiller—before EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt gets fired or Trump is impeached.
Media Lens: Douma: Part 2 – ‘It Just Doesn’t Ring True’
26 April 2018 — Media Lens
Jonathan Freedland’s ‘committed denialists and conspiracists’, and Paul Mason’s victims of Putin’s ‘global strategy’ clutching at ‘false flag theories’, presumably include Lord West, former First Sea Lord and Chief of Defence Intelligence. In an interview with the BBC, West commented:
Black Agenda Report 25 April 2018: Dems Prepare to Pimp the Left in 2018 and 2020, RussiaGate Shows Democrats' Warmongering Colors, Windrush and Britain’s Crimes Against Black People
25 April 2018 — Black Agenda Report
Democrats Prepare to Pimp the Left in 2018 and 2020
– Bruce A. Dixon , BAR managing editor
Democrats allow their left activists out of the hole every 2 or 4 years to campaign for justice at home and peace abroad. Democrats are a party of capital and empire. The Democrat left will be stuffed down a hole afterward till needed next election cycle. Continue reading
Media Lens: Douma: Part 1 – Deception In Plain Sight
25 April 2018 — Media Lens
UK corporate media are under a curious kind of military occupation. Almost all print and broadcast media now employ a number of reporters and commentators who are relentless and determined warmongers. Despite the long, unarguable history of US-UK lying on war, and the catastrophic results, these journalists instantly confirm the veracity of atrocity claims made against Official Enemies, while having little or nothing to say about the proven crimes of the US, UK, Israel and their allies. They shriek with a level of moral outrage from which their own government is forever spared. They laud even the most obviously biased, tinpot sources blaming the ‘Enemy’, while dismissing out of hand the best scientific researchers, investigative journalists and academic sceptics who disagree.
Let’s See Who Pushes War for “Peace”: Selected Articles
25 April 2018 — Global Research
South Korea Government: “…We Got a Call from Our Next-door Neighbor”
By Massoud Nayeri, April 25, 2018
In the last ten days, people around the world have witnessed two different approaches by the different leaders. They saw the uselessness of the forces of war in Syria versus the constructive power of peaceful plans in Koreas – one to increase endless hostilities by military strikes and the other to reduce tensions by compromising and embracing diplomacy. Continue reading
Let’s See Who Pushes War for “Peace”: Selected Articles
25 April 2018 — Global Research
South Korea Government: “…We Got a Call from Our Next-door Neighbor”
By Massoud Nayeri, April 25, 2018
In the last ten days, people around the world have witnessed two different approaches by the different leaders. They saw the uselessness of the forces of war in Syria versus the constructive power of peaceful plans in Koreas – one to increase endless hostilities by military strikes and the other to reduce tensions by compromising and embracing diplomacy. Continue reading
HOUSMANS NEWSLETTER MAY 2018
25 April 2018 — Housmans
NEWS
1. Housmans Writer in Residence 2018: Eleanor Penny
2. Marx’s 200th Birthday: conference / shop event / 2nd hand books / tote bag give away
3. Bread & Roses Award for Radical Publishing Shortlist 2018 + London Radical Bookfair 2018
4. Bank Holiday Closures
Global Breaking News on GMOs and Pesticides 25 April 2018
25 April 2018 — Sustainable Pulse
Editors’ picks
UCSF Places Secret Agrichemical Industry Documents including Monsanto Papers Online
The University of California, San Francisco Industry Documents Library placed online several collections of agrichemical industry documents on Thursday, including some acquired and donated by U.S. Right to Know, a consumer and public health watchdog group. The documents shine light on the public relations, scientific, legislative and regulatory tactics the industry has used to defend […] The post UCSF Places Secret Agrichemical Industry Documents including Monsanto Papers Online …
The New Dark Age 