September 2018
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Housmans Books Newsletter October 2018
29 September 2018 — Housmans Books NEWS /ACTIONS 1. Housmans Peace Diary 2019 2. #nottheanarchistbookfair INSTORE EVENTS 3. ‘Kettling the Unions?’ with Alan Tuckman 4. David Rovics and Jack Harris Unplugged at Housmans 5. ‘Fault Lines’ poetry with Laura Taylor and Janine Booth Continue reading
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The Bluffer’s Guide to Bombing Syria
The propaganda mills of the British and American governments – spokespersons, media, think tanks – are working overtime churning out ‘talking points’ to justify the upcoming large scale bombing of Syria on the pretext of use of prohibited weapons. Continue reading
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Selected Articles: Trump’s Lies at the UN General Assembly
28 September 2018 — Global Research News Trump at the UN: Lies, Damn Lies, & Statistics By Dr. Jack Rasmus, September 28, 2018 In typical Trump style, he immediately launched into bragging about his accomplishments. Like most of his recent public appearances, it was a campaign speech directed to his political base. Continue reading
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‘Harlem River Drive’ Revisited – Eddie Palmieri
29 September 2018 — Jazz on the Tube The magnificent Eddie Palmieri, now in his 80th year! A replay of his groundbreaking 1971 (I think) composition, ‘Harlem River Drive’, in a live performance in E. Harlem. Continue reading
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UK and US Now Overtly Honor Al Qaeda By Eric Zuesse
The United Kingdom is resettling Al Qaeda’s Syrian medical unit, called the “White Helmets,” as “refugees” in UK. The White Helmets organization is funded by UK’s MI6 and America’s CIA, and is headed by Raed Saleh, who was prohibited from visiting the US because he’s a terrorist. These jihadists won’t just have UK honors (and… Continue reading
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MH17: Some Truth Emerging at Last
The structure of the investigation compromised, that compromise was compounded by the signing of a secret agreement in August 2014 by the four countries that no information from the investigation would be released without the approval of all of the parties to the agreement. This is unprecedented. It gives the prime suspect, Ukraine, an effective… Continue reading
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An Ever Increasing Number of Military Ships Arrives to the Eastern Mediterranean By Martin Berger
The last couple weeks in the Eastern Mediterranean could remind a casual observer of some sort of a military parade, with members of the US-led coalition bringing an ever increasing number of military assets to the region. Continue reading
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Russia is going to apply a total no fly zone in Syria By Valentin Vasilescu
While the international press is asking questions on the number and version of the S-300 missiles that will be delivered in two weeks to Syria, Valentin Vasilescu is more interested in the Russian anti-air set up. This is involves applying a total no-fly zone to the Westerners (Israeli included). Nothing more, nothing less. Continue reading
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Death and Extinction of the Bees. The Role of Monsanto? By Joachim Hagopian
Perhaps the biggest foreboding danger of all facing humans is the loss of the global honeybee population. The consequence of a dying bee population impacts man at the highest levels on our food chain, posing an enormously grave threat to human survival. Since no other single animal species plays a more significant role in producing… Continue reading
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Global Breaking News on GMOs and Pesticides 28 September 2018
28 September 2018 — Sustainable Pulse Editors’ picks First Ever Glyphosate Strip Tests for Food and Water Enable Affordable Home Testing The first ever home-use strip tests for identifying glyphosate residues, have been released to the public on Wednesday. It is now possible for people everywhere to find out whether the world’s most used weed-killer Continue reading
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Scientific Reviews of Glyphosate’s Cancer Risk Fail to Fully Disclose Monsanto’s Role
The scientific journal Critical Reviews in Toxicology has issued a rare “Expression of Concern” and requested corrections to articles it published that failed to fully disclose Monsanto’s role in reviews of glyphosate’s cancer risks. Continue reading
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New MRC research finds inaccuracies and distortions in media coverage of antisemitism and the Labour Party
The Media Reform Coalition has conducted in-depth research on the controversy surrounding antisemitism in the Labour Party, focusing on media coverage of the crisis during the summer of 2018. Following extensive case study research, we identified myriad inaccuracies and distortions in online and television news including marked skews in sourcing, omission of essential context or… Continue reading
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The Fracking Industry’s Water Nightmare: Injection Wells Damage Production Wells, Rising Disposal Costs Will Increase Industry Losses
The fracking industry in the US currently has no feasible way to dispose of its wastewater using environmentally safe methods … and yet it pushes on full speed ahead. Continue reading
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The Foreign “Visible Hand” of the Market Exposed and Barred in Venezuela By Nino Pagliccia
Since 2012 Venezuela has undergone an economic war directed mostly by and from the U.S. that has targeted market prices of goods and services, in part, by the impact of unilateral economic sanctions, but also in large part by the manipulation of the exchange rate in the illegal parallel market that determined the prices of… Continue reading
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S-300’s to Syria Sets the Stage for the Standoff to End By Tom Lungo
In the game of power politics, appeasement always ends in tears. Once you commit to a path you have no option but to see it through to its fullest end or fold when the stakes rise beyond an acceptable level. Continue reading
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S-300 for Syria: the United Kingdom, France and Israel will no longer be able to fly over Syrian territory
In two weeks time, the Russian Federation will hand over to Syria, S-300anti-air defense batteries, and modern systems for automated control for anti-air command posts. This equipment has until now only been available in the Russian military installations in Syria. Continue reading
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British Intelligence Throws More Novi-Fog™ To Hide The Holes In Its Skripal File
The British government asserts that the two visiting men are agents of the Russian military intelligence service GRU. It says that they applied ‘Novichok’ to the doorknob of Sergej Skripal’s house with the intent to kill the former British spy. The ‘highly deadly’ poison is said to have affected Sergej Skripal, his daughter Yulia and… Continue reading
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IRR News (13 – 26 September)
27 September 2018 — IRR Institute of Race Relations weekly digest – Against Racism, for Social Justice This week, Anya Edmond-Pettitt digs deep into the IRR’s Black History Collection, a unique archive of posters, newspaper cuttings, pamphlets and campaign materials from black community and grassroots groups from 1950s to 1980s. Read her article, ‘Empire Windrush, Notting Continue reading
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Skripal, the Russkies and Bellingcat
27 September 2018 — William Bowles I smell a rat! A quick comment about the two Russian alleged assassins, exposed, we are told by the ‘investigative’ Website, Bellingcat. Not mentioned by any of the major news media is the fact that Bellingcat is funded by the National Endowment for Democracy (sic), renowned for its interference Continue reading
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