April 2018
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Agneta: Age is not a ticket out of the struggle…
Agneta is a documentary film about the life of the now 80-year-old Swedish peace activist Agneta Norberg. Through Agneta’s extraordinary and humorous personality, the documentary explores questions of what it means to be an activist, how a third world war can be avoided, and what it takes for people with dissenting views to make their… Continue reading
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Planning to join Elon Musk on Mars? Then pay no attention to this
5 April 2018 – Organic Consumers Association [Although OCA is a US-based organisation, I only wish we had something similar here, in the UK. Friends of the Earth? I don’t think so. WB] ESSAY OF THE WEEK Fish Facts Think “factory farm” and most of us envision millions of chickens and pigs crammed into dismally Continue reading
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More than 3000 Google employees want company to drop Pentagon ‘war’ drone program
More than 3,000 Google employees have signed an open letter to management, published in the New York Times. Drone gizmo 2. Citing the company motto, “Don’t be evil” the letter urges the company to pull out of a Pentagon program that uses artificial to aid with video imagery which could improve the targeting of drone… Continue reading
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Towards “NATO-Exit”? Shift in the Structure of Military Coalitions. Turkey’s Alliance with Russia, China and Iran? By Prof Michel Chossudovsky
In this article, we will largely be addressing a concrete case of a NATO member state’s intent to exit the Atlantic Alliance NATO, namely Turkey’s “NATO-Exit” and its evolving rapprochement with Russia as well as with Iran and China. Continue reading
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Sinclair’s Synchronized Fake News Broadcast Goes Viral
The broadcasting giant’s efforts to coordinate the messages coming from local stations has landed it in the national spotlight, but Sinclair’s efforts to effect local education policy in Baltimore may be more nefarious and ultimately more dangerous to democracy (inc. transcript) Continue reading
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U.K. is Lying: If Skripal was Poisoned at His Home, The Agent Used against Him Cannot be Nerve Gas By Bassim al-Khalili
The United Kingdom unknowingly admitted that its government has been lying, accusing Russia of allegedly poisoning former spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia by the nerve agent Novichok on March 4 in Salisbury. The British government has already made two grave mistakes. Continue reading
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UK Foreign Office denies claiming nerve agent from Russia, despite tweet and Boris Johnson interview
The UK Foreign Office denies claiming the nerve agent used in the Salisbury poisoning of the Skripals came directly from Russia. Despite admitting it sent a tweet saying exactly that, and Boris Johnson making the same claim. Continue reading
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Why has Ecuador silenced Julian Assange?
Ecuadorian authorities have blocked the WikiLeaks founder’s access to the Internet as well as all other means of communication from Quito’s embassy in London, where Assange has been confined for nearly six years. In addition, it is barring visitors from seeing him, leaving him with fewer rights than a prisoner behind bars. Continue reading
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Operation Hades – A Model For The 'Novichok' Case?
On August 10 1994 German officials in Munich ‘found’ 363 grams of plutonium on a plane coming from Moscow. They immediately asserted, that the plutonium ‘must’ have come from a Russian reactor. There was a lot of media panic, international political noise and condemnation of Russia. It turned out that the plutonium was not from… Continue reading
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Operation Hades – A Model For The ‘Novichok’ Case?
On August 10 1994 German officials in Munich ‘found’ 363 grams of plutonium on a plane coming from Moscow. They immediately asserted, that the plutonium ‘must’ have come from a Russian reactor. There was a lot of media panic, international political noise and condemnation of Russia. It turned out that the plutonium was not from… Continue reading
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THE ISOLATION OF JULIAN ASSANGE IS THE SILENCING OF US ALL
Citing his critical tweets about the recent detention of Catalan president Carles Puidgemont in Germany, and following pressure from the US, Spanish and UK governments, the Ecuadorian government has installed an electronic jammer to stop Assange communicating with the outside world via the internet and phone. Continue reading
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With more Palestinians than Jews, Israel is waging a numerical war of attrition By Jonathan Cook
The Israeli army’s trigger-finger against Palestinian protesters close to the fence surrounding Gaza at the weekend, killing at least 18 and injuring hundreds more, has an explanation rooted in more than normal conceptions of security. Even before Israel’s creation, its leaders were obsessed with demography and winning a zero-sum numerical war of attrition with the… Continue reading
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Mass Deception and the Prelude to World War? By Colin Todhunter
Sold under the notion of a spontaneous democratic uprising against a tyrannical political leader, Syria is little more than an illegal war for capital, empire and energy. The West and its allies have been instrumental in organising the war as elaborated by Tim Anderson in his book ‘The Dirty War on Syria’. Continue reading
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Last Act Of 'Novichok' Drama Revealed – "The Skripals' Resurrection"
It seems that the ‘Novichok’ fairy-tale the British government plays to us provides for a happy ending – the astonishing and mysterious resurrection of the victims of a “military grade” “five to eight times more deadly than VX gas” “nerve agent” “of a type developed by” Hollywood. Continue reading
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Last Act Of ‘Novichok’ Drama Revealed – “The Skripals’ Resurrection”
It seems that the ‘Novichok’ fairy-tale the British government plays to us provides for a happy ending – the astonishing and mysterious resurrection of the victims of a “military grade” “five to eight times more deadly than VX gas” “nerve agent” “of a type developed by” Hollywood. Continue reading
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News is Propaganda – Open Your Eyes
31 March 2018 — Youtube US Corporate Media speaks with one voice – literally Jungle Surfer pointed out the video – https://youtu.be/JXDgiPbuxoY Original video (Sinclair’s Script for Stations): https://youtu.be/hWLjYJ4BzvI Fake News Lecture: https://youtu.be/c2gkNg-l1GI I added Neil deGrasse Tyson at the end. Continue reading
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Media Boosts Obvious Saudi Front Group as Neutral ‘Think Tank’ By Adam Johnson
The Arabia Foundation appeared in spring 2016, seemingly out of nowhere, as a Saudi-focused think tank with “ties to Riyadh,” but vaguely independent of the regime. Or at least independent enough so that media wouldn’t represent it as an extension of the kingdom. But the past few weeks have clearly shown it to be little… Continue reading
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Four days to declare a Cold War By Thierry Meyssan
The British government and certain of its allies, including US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, have attempted to launch a Cold War against Russia. Their plan was to fabricate an attack against an ex-double agent in Salisbury and at the same time a chemical attack against the « moderate rebels » in the Ghouta. The… Continue reading
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Doubts about 'Novichoks' By Tim Hayward
There are reasons to doubt that these compounds are military grade nerve agents or that a Russian “Novichok” programme ever existed. If they were potentially usable as chemical weapons, people on the OPCW Scientific Advisory Board who were in a position to know the properties of these compounds would have recommended that they be added… Continue reading
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Doubts about ‘Novichoks’ By Tim Hayward
There are reasons to doubt that these compounds are military grade nerve agents or that a Russian “Novichok” programme ever existed. If they were potentially usable as chemical weapons, people on the OPCW Scientific Advisory Board who were in a position to know the properties of these compounds would have recommended that they be added… Continue reading
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