30 July 2018 — TRNN
Prof. Leo Panitch and Paul Jay discuss Obama’s Mandela lecture; Obama wants the impossible – a world where the super-rich give up “a little” and there is no massive inequality (inc. transcript) Continue reading
Month: July 2018
New fake ‘rescue’ scenes by White Helmets in Western media narrative on Syria
30 July 2018 — The Indicter
Stage & training scenes published as ‘real action’
White Helmets operatives training “recruits”, rehearsal stage fires and fake lifesaving …and how to pose in photographs and videos later distributed by pro-NATO press agencies as if were ‘real rescue’ imagery or footage.
By Marcello Ferrada de Noli
Professor Emeritus and The Indicter chief editor Continue reading
Statewatch 30 July 2018: Working for civil liberties in Europe since 1991
30 July 2018 — Statewatch
Dear Statewatchers,
Our civil liberties are continually under threat
We provide all our services free. We have just launched a new Observatory on the Creation of a centralised Justic & Home Affairs database “a point of no return:” This Observatory covers the so-called “interoperability” of EU JHA databases which in reality will create a centralised EU state database covering all existing and future JHA databases :http://www.statewatch.org/interoperability/eu-big-brother-database.htm
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Andre Vltchek Releases His North Korean Documentary Online
28 July 2018 — NEO
Here it is – my short film about North Korea. No need to drag it, to prolong it – let’s just watch it all together: This is my 25-minutes piece about the DPRK (North Korea) – country that I visited relatively recently; visited and loved, was impressed with, and let me be frank – admired. Continue reading
Is Washington Planning a Pre-Emptive Strike on Iran? Selected Articles
29 July 2018 — Global Research News
‘Arab NATO’: Trump Pursuing Regional Alliance to Confront Iran
By The New Arab, July 29, 2018
Washington is trying to strengthen cooperation between the countries on various fronts including missile defence, military training and counter-terrorism, as well as boosting regional economic and diplomatic ties, four US and Arab officials told the news agency. Continue reading
Palestine News Links 28-29 July 2018
29 July 2018 — williambowles.info
Breaking the Gaza Blockade: Message From A Former Israeli Air Force Pilot
https://www.globalresearch.ca/breaking-the-gaza-blockade-message-from-a-former-israeli-air-force-pilot/5648942
How Labour’s Dreadful Antisemitism Debate Has to Change
http://novaramedia.com/2018/07/29/how-labours-dreadful-antisemitism-debate-has-to-change/
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Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Socialism – RAI with A. Buzgalin (12/12)
29 July 2018 — TRNN
On Reality Asserts Itself, Prof. Alexandr Buzgalin says the conditions for socialism did not exist in the 1920’s but now they do, but there will be many zigs and zags getting there – with host Paul Jay (inc. transcript) Continue reading
NATO coordinates the evacuation of the White Helmets
28 July 2018 — VoltaireNet
The evacuation of the White Helmets which had been requested by the United Kingdom, was debated by the Summit of the Heads of State and the governing body of NATO on 11 June 2018.
In the final analysis, it was the Organization of the Atlantic Alliance that coordinated the evacuation of 422 White Helmets and their families with the help of Israel and Jordan, both of which have an office which is linked to Nato headquarters in Brussels.
Palestine News Links 28 July 2018
28 July 2018 — williambowles.info
Israel kills children in Gaza protests
https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/maureen-clare-murphy/israel-kills-children-gaza-protests
Gaza protests: All the latest updates
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2018/04/gaza-protest-latest-updates-180406092506561.html
‘Shock and Awe’ Celebrates Reporters Who Got It Right By Gunar Olsen
28 July 2018 — FAIR
It’s now conventional for corporate media pundits and centrist politicians to acknowledge that their support for the US invasion of Iraq was misguided. Most excuse their pro-war record on the grounds that there was no available alternate narrative to the Bush administration’s claim that Saddam Hussein possessed weapons of mass destruction. How could they have known any better?
But as FAIR has long noted (Extra!, 3–4/03), this “we were all wrong” narrative doesn’t hold up. There were, in fact, a few corporate journalists who got it right when everyone else was getting it wrong.
'Shock and Awe' Celebrates Reporters Who Got It Right By Gunar Olsen
28 July 2018 — FAIR
It’s now conventional for corporate media pundits and centrist politicians to acknowledge that their support for the US invasion of Iraq was misguided. Most excuse their pro-war record on the grounds that there was no available alternate narrative to the Bush administration’s claim that Saddam Hussein possessed weapons of mass destruction. How could they have known any better?
But as FAIR has long noted (Extra!, 3–4/03), this “we were all wrong” narrative doesn’t hold up. There were, in fact, a few corporate journalists who got it right when everyone else was getting it wrong.
Ex-Obama Officials Shill, and Bill, for Big Tech’s Pentagon Deals
27 July 2018 — TRNN
As Google faced an internal employee revolt over its involvement in the Pentagon’s drone warfare program, the Obama-veteran firm WestExec stepped in to help. The case highlights the deep ties between the tech industry and government officials, says Yasha Levine, author of “Surveillance Valley: The Secret Military History of the Internet.” (Inc. transcript) Continue reading
