June 2018
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IRR News (17 May – 7 June 2018)
7 June 2018 — IRR Institute of Race Relations weekly digest – Against Racism, for Social Justice This week, IRR News celebrates the opening of the exhibition at the British Library, Windrush: Songs in a Strange Land, on which our chair, Colin Prescod was lead external adviser. Windrush traces the relationship between Britain and the Continue reading
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Israel scores painful own goal in run-up to the World Cup By Dr James M Dorsey
7 June 2018 — CounterCurrents Argentina’s cancellation of a friendly against Israel because of Israeli attempts to exploit the match politically is likely to reverberate far beyond the world of soccer and spotlights the risks of Israeli efforts to persuade the international community to recognize Jerusalem as its capital. Continue reading
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Your favourite websites CENSORED!
URGENT: The European Union is just weeks from passing a law that would destroy the best things about the Internet as we know it. As a result of lobbying by big corporate publishers, the European Commission is proposing to force websites to pay a tax to link to news content and use censorship machines to… Continue reading
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Palestinian Courage Should Spur International Action By Rick Sterling
In the past couple months, Israeli Defence Force (IDF) soldiers have killed 118 Palestinian protesters and seriously wounded many thousands more. The protesters were unarmed and no threat to the soldiers. Gaza hospitals overflow with victims. Continue reading
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With Literal Nazis Running for Office, NYT Suggests Candidate’s Israel Criticism Is Antisemitic By Adam Johnson
With the increase on the US right in overt Nazi activity, one might be surprised to see the paper of record (New York Times, 5/29/18) turn its sights not on this disturbing trend, but on progressive candidate Leslie Cockburn, whose criticism of Israel is being cynically exploited by her opponents in the Republican Party—the same… Continue reading
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The Empire’s Media and the Quest for Veto Authority in the Americas by Joe Emersberger
In April, the Summit of the Americas in Peru predictably led to articles fretting about declining US influence in the Western Hemisphere. Analysts were quoted (Christian Science Monitor, 4/11/18) worrying that Trump’s belligerent and racist outbursts would weaken Washington’s power in the region. Continue reading
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NSA: CyberWar Map
Washington D.C., June 6, 2018 – The National Security Archive’s Cyber Vault Project announces the launch of the CyberWar Map. An interactive resource, it is both a visualization of state-sponsored cyberattacks and an index of documents in the Archive’s Cyber Vault relevant to the subject. Continue reading
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Cousin of Palestinian Medic Killed by Israel Speaks Out
Palestinian nurse Razan al-Najar was shot and killed by an Israeli sniper in Gaza while she was wearing a white medic’s uniform and had her hands raised. Dalia al-Najjar says her cousin “Razan showed everyone what it is to want freedom.” She tells TRNN’s Ben Norton, “Everyone is joining the protests because people want their… Continue reading
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The UN Is Silent Amid Israeli Aggression in Gaza; Is It a Defunct Agency? Selected Stories
5 June 2018 — Global Research News Israel Bombs Gaza Hours After Funeral of Murdered 21-year-old Paramedic By Morning Star, June 04, 2018 Israeli warplanes blitzed the Gaza Strip today as the country continued to punish Palestinians for daring to hold peaceful demonstrations near the fence that seals off the territory. Continue reading
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Beekeepers at the Bayer AGM
With your help, we sponsored beekeepers’ attendance at the shareholder meeting and directly confronted Bayer about its bee-killing pesticides. The beekeepers joined a group of incredible SumOfUs volunteers, and together we made our protests heard, handed out leaflets and staged a mock-funeral for “the last bee”. Continue reading
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Media Lens: The Syrian Observatory – Funded By The Foreign Office
No-one, it seems, would dream of challenging such a high figure supplied by a clothes shop owner supporting regime change in Syria from Coventry. Nobody challenges SOHR’s methodology, or complains of statistics being thrown about with irresponsible abandon. Why? Because the 2004 and 2006 Lancet reports seriously undermined the US-UK case for conquering Iraq, whereas… Continue reading
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Peace Is a Cliché
3 June 2018 — Global Research News Peace Is a Cliché: When the West Cannot Control the World Unopposed It Means War By Andre Vltchek, June 03, 2018 Today, some 60 percent of Kenyans live in slums; some of the toughest in Africa. Some of these ‘settlements’, like Mathare and Kibera are housing at least one million people, in Continue reading
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Humanity Is Buried in Israel
1 June 2018 — Global Research News US Opposes Protecting Gazans from Excessive Israeli Force By Stephen Lendman, June 01, 2018 Since mid-2007, Gazans have been besieged under suffocating/illegal blockade – imposed for political reasons, unrelated to security, as Israel falsely claims. Its action is one of countless examples of callous indifference to Palestinian lives, rights and Continue reading
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Korea News Links 26 May – 2 June 2018
2 June 2018 15:45:58 — williambowles.info Japan urges caution on any North Korea agreement https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2018/06/japan-urges-caution-north-korea-agreement-180602052545026.html North Korea, China on the agenda of security summit in Singapore https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2018/06/north-korea-china-agenda-security-summit-singapore-180602121314109.html Continue reading
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Ukraine – The Babchenko Hoax Was Part Of A Corporate Raid
The case of the death and resurrection of the Russian journalist Babchenko in Kiev is even more surreal than it seemed so far. According to Ukrainian sources and court documents the whole hoax was part of an attempt to raid and take over a private company. High levels of the Ukrainian security services staged the… Continue reading
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Max Blumenthal Reveals Surveillance Program in Yemen Run by Cambridge Analytica Parent Company SCL Group
Journalist Max Blumenthal published documents showing how Cambridge Analytica’s parent company SCL Group ran a secret counter-insurgency operation in Yemen on behalf of a US-based military contractor, called Project Titania. The UK government likely contracted it, exploiting NGOs and spying on populations in the Middle East (inc. transcript). Continue reading
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Under Trump, the Israel lobby is a Hydra with many heads By Jonathan Cook
Since Trump took office, the Israel lobby has mobilised four other powerful lobbies: Christian evangelicals, the alt-right, the military-industrial complex and Saudi Arabia. The Trump administration’s recent steps in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict should surely lay to rest any doubts about the enormous, and dangerous, power of the Israel lobby in Washington. Continue reading
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The Purpose Of The Babchenko Hoax
The Ukrainian secret service SBU claims it plotted the fake murder of the Russian journalist Arkady Babchenko in Kiev to uncover a real murder plot by the Russian state. That makes no sense at all. The hoax is one of several incidents which dangerously escalate the new cold war. Continue reading
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