May 2018
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medConfidential Bulletin, 18th May 2018
The National Data Guardian said there should be “no surprises for patients about their data”, and so with the launch of the ICO’s ‘Your data matters’ campaign next week, we’ll see whether the NHS agrees. Continue reading
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PCHR: Accountability Guarantees End of International Law Violations Against Peaceful Demonstrators
Recently, violations of international law have escalated in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (oPt), particularly after several political developments that have threatened of ending Palestinians’ right to self-determination and return along with tightening the closure on the Gaza Strip which is on the blink to collapse. These developments led to a popular march started on 30… Continue reading
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Syria News Links 17-18 May 2018
18 May 2018 — williambowles.info Russia expects foreign troops to be withdrawn from Syria — Kremlin http://tass.com/politics/1004962 Iran eyes Israel: the fire next time https://www.opendemocracy.net/paul-rogers/iran-eyes-israel-fire-next-time Continue reading
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Iran News Links 17-18 May 2018
18 May 2018 — williambowles.info European Commission nixes US sanctions against Iran on EU soil http://tass.com/world/1004957 Donald Trump is a hero to Jewish Israelis http://mondoweiss.net/2018/05/donald-jewish-israelis/ Continue reading
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This is how to do it: A new land occupation in Germiston, South Africa
On 11 May 2018, more than two hundred people occupied unused land in Germiston, on the East Rand in Gauteng, South Africa. We laid out our design for the occupation in the afternoon, built throughout the night and slept on the occupied land. Around 350 stands have been marked out via a democratic and carefully… Continue reading
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Gaza News Links 16-17 May 2018
16 May 2018 18:16:42 — williambowles.info Murder as a way to make a political point http://mondoweiss.net/2018/05/murder-political-point/ Israel Commemorates Nakba with Mass Murder at the Gaza Fence http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TheGreanvillePost/~3/9G291GlXfO4/ Continue reading
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Black Agenda Report 17 May 2018: Gaza Massacre Democrats' Baby Too, 500 Years of Nakbas, Black Support for Police State, Kanye & Black Unemployment
17 May 2018 — Black Agenda Report Deafening Silence of Democrats on Gaza Massacre Is Because It’s Their Baby Too – Bruce A. Dixon , BAR managing editor Democratic party leaders are as always firmly behind their Israeli clients, and their party machinery remains under lock and key. Apartheid laws and periodic mass killings are Continue reading
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500 Years of Nakbas By Glen Ford
The great nakba, or “catastrophe,”began in 1492, when Christopher Columbus proclaimed the lands of the “Indies” for Spain. Within half a century of his voyage, 95 percent of the inhabitants of the America’s had been killed by European-borne diseases, war, famine and enslavement: 100 million dead, or one out of every five human beings on… Continue reading
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Israeli forces continue systematic crimes in the occupied Palestinian territory (oPt)
17 May 2018 — PCHR (10 – 16 May 2018) Israeli forces continued to use appallingly lethal force against Palestinian peaceful protestors in the Gaza Strip. In another bloody week, 46 Palestinian civilians, including 7 children and a wheelchair-bound man, were killed. Continue reading
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'Most Americans Say They Want Protections for the Open Internet' By Janine Jackson
Janine Jackson: All social justice fights intersect in some way. But net neutrality is the definition of a keystone issue: The policy protects the space in which to discuss and debate and organize all the other fights, the means to talk around the legacy media gatekeepers—the ones who tell you that killing people in other… Continue reading
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The Gaza Massacre. Western Governments Complicit in Crimes against Humanity
16 May 2018 — Global Research News Western Governments Complicit in Crimes against Humanity. “Israel has the Right to Defend itself” Says Trump By Prof Michel Chossudovsky, May 16, 2018 Not a single Western country has sofar ordered the expulsion of Israeli diplomats in protest over the mass killings of Palestinian civilians by IDF snipers, including children. A Continue reading
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NYT Edit Board Are Last Humans on Earth Who Believe US Neutral in Israel/Palestine Conflict By Adam Johnson
The fact that the United States favors Israel in its decades-long “conflict” with the Palestinians is not a subjective or abstract question; it’s a well-established empirical fact. The US gives over $3 billion a year in military aid to Israel (more than the US spends on aid for the last seven countries it’s bombed combined),… Continue reading
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Oliver North’s Checkered Iran-Contra Record
Oliver North’s conduct during the infamous Iran-Contra affair featured a pattern of deliberate deception, a willingness to cooperate with known drug dealers, and according to some colleagues a propensity for flawed judgment, a review of declassified documents and sworn testimony shows. Continue reading
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Conspiracy emerges to push Julian Assange into British and US hands By Mike Head
Moves are afoot to force Assange out of Ecuador’s London embassy, where he sought political asylum close to six years ago and has been forced to live as an effective prisoner. If he is taken into custody by British authorities, he faces being handed over to the US government, which has long sought to place… Continue reading
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NHS data-sharing U-turn is welcome – but more to do to scrap the ‘hostile environment’By Peter Pannier
Recent attention to the Windrush scandal has focused attention on the many ways migrants are deterred from accessing healthcare. The government has this week announced it will be suspending “with immediate effect” the controversial memorandum of understanding (MOU) under which NHS Digital shared NHS patients’ details with the Home Office. Continue reading
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North Korea May Cancel Summit Over Bolton’s ‘Absurd’ Demands
The Trump administration thought it was an easy path in its negotiations with North Korea. Trump was euphoric when North Korea released three U.S. prisoners and proudly announced the June 12 summit with Kim Jong-un in Singapore where North Korea would agree to give up all its nuclear weapons and nuclear development programs. Trump would… Continue reading
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The West’s pampering of Israel will lead to the next Gaza massacre By Jonathan Cook
Faced with protests at the perimeter fence in Gaza, Israeli snipers killed dozens of unarmed Palestinians and wounded more than 2,000 others, including children, women, journalists and paramedics, in a hail of live fire. Amnesty, the international human rights organisation, rightly called it a “horror show”. Continue reading
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‘A Suffocating Groupthink’: Sampling The Corporate Media On Israel, Iran, Syria And Russia
The gaping chasm between reality and unreality is exemplified by recent contrasting statements about journalism from two veteran reporters. On the one side we have Jeremy Bowen, the BBC’s Middle East editor, who enjoys a public image of principled honesty and a supposedly fierce commitment to news balance and impartiality. But, when he was challenged… Continue reading
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Global Glyphosate Study Pilot Phase Shows Adverse Health Effects at ‘Safe’ Doses
The results reveal that glyphosate based herbicides (GBHs) were able to alter certain important biological parameters, mainly relating to sexual development, genotoxicity and the alteration of the intestinal microbiome. Continue reading
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