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American Power and the Making of British Capitalism By Jeremy Green
On the opening page of their superb work on the political economy of the American Empire, Leo Panitch and Sam Gindin outline the fundamental premise of their study: that the American state has played ‘an exceptional role in the creation of a fully global capitalism and in coordinating its management, as well as restructuring other… Continue reading
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VTJP Occupied Palestine and Israel News and Articles 27 May 2013: Domestic fissures in Israel will not benefit Palestinians
27 May 2013 — VTJP News International Middle East Media CenterIsraeli Settlements Occupy 538.303 Dunams In West BankIMEMC – Israeli daily, Haaretz, has reported that, in 2012, Israel confiscated 8000 Dunams of Palestinian lands in the occupied West Bank for the benefit of its settlements in areas referred to by Tel Aviv as “State Lands”. … Continue reading
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VTJP Occupied Palestine and Israel News and Articles 20 May 2013: Dutch probe sends warning to firms abetting Israel’s crimes
20 May 2013 — VTJP News International Middle East Media CenterP.A Security Arrests A PFLP Leader In NablusIMEMC – Palestinian sources reported that Palestinian security officers kidnapped, on Monday evening, one of the political leaders of the leftist Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), from his home, in the northern West Bank city of Nablus. Continue reading
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VTJP Occupied Palestine and Israel News and Articles 16 May 2013: Israel’s Racist and Ethnocentric View
16 May 2013 — VTJP News International Middle East Media CenterArmy Kidnapped 28 Children In The first Half Of May, Dozens InjuredIMEMC – 293 Palestinian Children Kidnapped In The First Quarter Of 2013 According to reports by the Palestinian Center for Human Rights (PCHR), based in Gaza, and the Wadi Hilweh Information Center, in Silwan in occupied Continue reading
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VTJP Occupied Palestine and Israel News and Articles 10 May 2013
10 May 2013 — VTJP News International Middle East Media CenterNon-violent protester shot in head by Israeli troops; 4 others woundedIMEMC – 21-year old Ibrahim Awad was shot in the head at close range by a plastic-coated steel bullet fired by Israeli forces at a protest in Beit Ummar, in the southern part of the West Bank. Continue reading
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The Global Economic Crisis: Causes and Devastating Consequences By Global Research
This important collection provides the reader with “a most comprehensive analysis of the various facets – especially the financial, social and military ramifications – from an outstanding list of world-class social thinkers.” Continue reading
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VTJP Occupied Palestine and Israel News and Articles 9 May 2013: Zionism– The Real Enemy of the Jews – Book Review
9 May 2013 — VTJP News International Middle East Media CenterFour Injured By Settlers Attack Near NablusIMEMC – The Wounded Are A Father And His Three Sons Thursday evening, May 9 2013, Palestinian medical sources reported that a Palestinian father and his three sons have been injured after a number of Israeli settlers hurled stones at their Continue reading
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Audio: Dario Fo’s ‘Accidental Death of an Anarchist’
The play is a farce based on events involving a real person, Giuseppe Pinelli, who fell – or was thrown – from the fourth floor window of a Milan police station in 1969. He was accused of bombing a bank (the Piazza Fontana bombing) (Wikipedia.) Continue reading
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Video: Privatizing Europe
Nick Buxton: A massive European fire sale is one way finance is using the crisis to entrench neo-liberalism (inc. transcript) Continue reading
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VTJP Occupied Palestine and Israel News and Articles 12 April 2013: Israel destroys West Bank community center, arrests 20
12 April 2013 — VTJP News Ma’an News Israel offers to exile Issawi abroad4/13/2013 – JERUSALEM (Ma’an) — Israel on Friday offered long-term hunger striker Samer Issawi a deal to exile him to a UN member country, Israeli spokesman said. Ofir Gendelman, a spokesman for the Israeli Prime Minister’s Office,said that an offer was presented to exile Continue reading
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Financial Cleansing: The Cyprus Bail-in Template By grtv
The recent bail-in in Cyprus has given the world a glimpse at the future of the banking landscape. Now, as Canada gets set to hardwire the bail-in process into law, analysts like Michel Chossudovsky are warning how the big banks can use this template to further consolidate their monopoly of economic control. This is the… Continue reading
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Video: Michael Hudson – Thatcher Gave More Power to Finance
Michael Hudson: Thatcher deregulated banking and made London the center of speculation and financialization – April 9, 2013 Continue reading
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Mrs. Thatcher’s Mean Legacy By Michael Hudson and Jeffrey Sommers
We typically honor the convention to refrain from to speak ill of the recently departed. But Margaret Thatcher probably would not object to an epitaph focusing on how her political legacy was to achieve her professed aim of “irreversibly” dismantling Britain’s public sector. Continue reading
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VTJP Occupied Palestine and Israel News and Articles 5 April 2013: Just another Israeli secret service interrogation
5 April 2013 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center 39 Palestinians Injured By Army Fire In HebronIMEMC – Friday April 5, 2013, Palestinian medical sources in Hebron, in the southern part of the occupied West Bank reported that 39 Palestinians have been injured by rubber-coated metal bullets fired at Palestinian protesters in Hebron, and that dozens Continue reading
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VTJP Occupied Palestine and Israel News and Articles 3 April 2013: BBC defends false claims linking Rachel Corrie to killings of Israeli soldiers
3 April 2013 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Army Kidnaps 16 Palestinians In West BankIMEMC – Wednesday at dawn, April 3, 2013, Israeli soldiers invaded several areas in the occupied West Bank districts of Hebron, Bethlehem and occupied East Jerusalem, and kidnapped 16 Palestinians after breaking into their homes, and searching them. … Continue reading
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For the Finance Minister of Germany, Crisis Is a “Necessity” By Victor Grossman
Angela Merkel’s face usually displays a rather plain, friendly, almost benign expression, matching her simple, benign words. But in rare unguarded moments, some claim, they glimpse a very hard visage, which is matched, equally rarely, by hardly benign words, like her annoyed statement that Cyprus was “exhausting the patience of its euro partners.” Continue reading
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VTJP Occupied Palestine and Israel News and Articles 2 April 2013: Stand With Us poster sends truly universal message – accidentally
2 April 2013 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Army Attacks Palestinians Protesters In JerusalemIMEMC – Israeli soldiers, attacked on Tuesday, a nonviolent protest that was held in the Old City of occupied East Jerusalem, and claimed that the protest was held without a permit from the Police in the occupied city. … Continue reading
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It Can Happen Here: The Confiscation Scheme Planned for US and UK Depositors By Ellen Brown
Confiscating the customer deposits in Cyprus banks, it seems, was not a one-off, desperate idea of a few Eurozone “troika” officials scrambling to salvage their balance sheets. A joint paper by the US Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation and the Bank of England dated December 10, 2012, shows that these plans have been long in the… Continue reading
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ICH 28 March 2013: Evidence Shows Syrian Rebels Behind Chemical Attack
28 March 2013 — Information Clearing House Officials: Arms Shipments Rise to Syrian Rebels By Dale Gavlak And Jamal Halaby Mideast powers have dramatically stepped up weapons supplies to Syrian rebels in coordination with the U.S. in preparation for a push on the capital of Damascus, officials and Western military experts said Wednesday. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article34439.htm Continue reading
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The Cypriot Pawn By Thierry Meyssan
Washington was quick to use the financial crisis in Cyprus to implement a strategy for capturing capital described three weeks ago in these columns [1]. With the help of the Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund, US comprador Christine Lagarde, the American leadership challenged the inviolability of private property in the European Union and… Continue reading
The New Dark Age 