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HOUSMANS RADICAL BOOKS NEWSLETTER MARCH 2012
24 February 2012 — NEWS 1. Housmans Virtual Book Club2. Competition to win a pair of tickets to Camus’ ‘Caligula’ IN-STORE EVENTS3. Women’s History Month presents: ‘Women’s history: half the future half the past’ with Jessica Metheringham-Owlett4. Coalition of Resistance presents: ‘Eurozone in crisis: what is to be done?’5. Bent Bars presents: ‘Gender and the prison Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 22 February 2012: Court gives Israel “licence to pillage” West Bank, say rights groups
22 February 2012 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Troops kidnap A Former Detainee, His Wife And DaughterIMEMC – Palestinian security sources reported that Israeli soldiers kidnapped, on Wednesday at night, former political prisoner, Majdi Al-Ajouly, in addition to his wife and underage daughter, in Foqeen village, near the northern West Bank city of Continue reading
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Ellen Brown: How Greece Could Take Down Wall Street
CDS are a form of derivative taken out by investors as insurance against default. According to the Comptroller of the Currency, nearly 95% of the banking industry’s total exposure to derivatives contracts is held by the nation’s five largest banks: JPMorgan Chase, Citigroup, Bank of America, HSBC, and Goldman Sachs. The CDS market is unregulated,… Continue reading
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SWIFT: Iranian Sanctions Endanger Global Financial System By Charles Gray
Nations that do not agree with the US position or sanctions will find this move making it difficult or impossible for their own businesses to effectively deal with Iran. In effect, if this becomes reality, the economic and foreign policy of nearly every nation on the planet may find itself hijacked by US demands. For… Continue reading
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Video: Austerity Policy Destroying Greek Society
Dimitri Lascaris: Heart wrenching personal stories show that Greece should reject austerity deal and pull out of Eurozone Continue reading
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WikiLeaks Newslinks 9-10 February 2012
10 February 2012 — williambowles.info 012 WikiLeaks cables: Philippine bank secrecy laws under fire ABS CBN News … The US government had criticized Philippine laws and local court rulings that block investigation and prosecution of suspected corrupt government officials, according to several US embassy cables published by anti-secrecy group WikiLeaks. http://www.abs-cbnnews.com/-depth/02/09/12/wikileaks-cables-philippine-bank–secrecy-laws-under-fire Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 8 February 2012: Putting the spotlight on London university's links to Israel's war machine
8 February 2012 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Abbas To Hale: “No Contradiction Between Peace, Palestinian Reconciliation” IMEMC – Palestinian President, Mahmoud Abbas, told US Middle-East Envoy, David Hale, on Thursday, that there is no contradiction between internal Palestinian reconciliation, and the peace process with Israel. … Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 21 January 2012: US newspaper owner writes op-ed proposing Israel assassinate Obama
21 January 2012 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center US newspaper owner writes op-ed proposing Israel assassinate Obama IMEMC – The editor and publisher of the Atlanta Jewish Times, Andrew Adler, has come under fire, and on Friday issued an apology, for an op-ed in which he surmised that the Israeli Prime Minister Continue reading
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Structural Reform: The Case for Public State Banks By Ryan Holeywell
Try to find a bank president that’s beloved by supporters of the Occupy Wall Street movement. It’s not impossible. You’ll just have to travel to North Dakota. Continue reading
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US Troops going to Israel
Jerusalem: In one of the most blacked-out stories in America right now, the US military is preparing to send thousands of US troops, along with US Naval anti-missile ships and accompanying support personnel, to Israel. It took forever to find a second source for confirmation of this story and both relatively mainstream media outlets are… Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 3 January 2012: Israeli companies can profit from West Bank resources, court rules
3 January 2012 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Haniyya Meets Erdogan In Ankara IMEMC – Head of the Hamas-led government in the Gaza Strip, Prime Minister Ismail Haniyya, visited the Turkish Parliament on Tuesday, and held a meeting with Turkish Prime Minister, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who affirmed the Turkish support to the Continue reading
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Information Clearing House Newsletter 2 January 2012: Americans Greatest Catastrophic Fear
2 January 2012– Information Clearing House UK’s Secret Plots For Syria By Deborah Sherwood “MI6 and the CIA are in Syria to infiltrate and get at the truth,” said the well-placed source. “We have SAS and SBS not far away who want to know what is happening and are finding out what kit dissident soldiers Continue reading
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Iran Newslinks 31 December 2011 – 2 January 2011
2 January 2012 — williambowles.info 2 January 2012 ‘Iran opposes US hegemony’ Russiatoday.ru Today at 17:54 The US has slapped sanctions on Iran, targeting its financial sector while the EU is considering an embargo on Iranian oil. But if the West suffocates Iran, it will have no option but to respond in a severe manner Continue reading
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Fundamentals of Political Economy – Weekend School January 21-22
Understanding the unfolding crisis and proposing real alternatives requires us to grasp Karl Marx’s critique of political economy. But while education in the basics of Marx’s ideas was commonplace on the far left in the 1970s, today it has withered away: there are academics and theorists who ‘do’ political economy, while left activists and groups… Continue reading
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Information Clearing House Newsletter 1 January 2012: Qatar invaded Libya, now invades Syria
1 January 2012 — Information Clearing House Arab League Mission to Syria Becomes Focus of Demands for Military Intervention By Chris Marsden The Arab League monitors are clearly under orders from Washington to come up with a hostile report on the regime of President Bashir al-Assad. On Tuesday, the US State Department warned that “if Continue reading
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Somalia Newslinks 1 January 2012
1 January 2012 Ethiopian troops invade key central Somalia town San Francisco Chronicle A mother from southern Somalia prepares some powdered milk mixture to feed her child on December 30, 2011 at a refugee camp located in southern Mogadishu. Ethiopian troops and Somali government forces seized control of a key Somali city on December 31, Continue reading
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Guided By Our Grandchildren By Jane Miller
Paternoster Square, in the heart of London, is the grim and newish development owned by Mitsubishi. It contains the Stock Exchange, Goldman Sachs, Merrill Lynch and a wing of the London School of Economics (once the nursery of left politics, now a bastion of the right). It was there that the Occupy protestors planned to… Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 16 December 2011: Soldiers: “West Bank Problem Is Jews, Not Palestinians”
16 December 2011 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Palestinian Killed By Army Fire In Central Gaza IMEMC – Israeli soldiers shot and killed, on Saturday at dawn, a Palestinian man in Al Boreij Refugee camp, in central Gaza, medical sources reported. … Continue reading
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Democracy and Debt By Michael Hudson
Book V of Aristotle’s Politics describes the eternal transition of oligarchies making themselves into hereditary aristocracies – which end up being overthrown by tyrants or develop internal rivalries as some families decide to ‘take the multitude into their camp’ and usher in democracy, within which an oligarchy emerges once again, followed by aristocracy, democracy, and… Continue reading
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