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Europe’s Transition From Social Democracy to Oligarchy By Michael Hudson
The easiest way to understand Europe’s financial crisis is to look at the solutions being proposed to resolve it. They are a banker’s dream, a grab bag of giveaways that few voters would be likely to approve in a democratic referendum. Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 13 December 2011: Record number of Palestinians displaced in 2011
13 December 2011 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Troops Demolish 4 Homes Near Bethlehem IMEMC – Israeli troops invaded, on Tuesday morning, the Al Makhrour area, in Beit Jala city, north of Bethlehem, and demolished four Palestinian homes. … Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 26 November 2011: European bank pulls out of Israel after pressure from boycott campaign
26 November 2011 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Turkey: Relations Not To Be Normalized until Israel Lifts Gaza Blockade IMEMC – Turkish Minister of Foreign Affair, Ahmed Dawud Aghlo, reconfirmed that relations between Turkey and Israel won’t be normalized till the latter issues an official statement, apologizing for Israeli attacks on the Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 25 November 2011: In photos: Israeli forces raze buildings across the West Bank
25 November 2011 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Islamic Jihad Will Not Participate In New Elections IMEMC – The Islamic Jihad Movement stated Friday that it will not participate in new presidential and legislative elections scheduled to be held in May next year. … Continue reading
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Euro-US cold winter/ seething anger BY Eric Walberg
The eviction of demonstrators last week is an ominous metaphor for ruling elites, whose own days are surely numbered, ponders Eric Walberg Continue reading
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Palestinian Freedom Riders On Their Way to Jerusalem Violently Arrested on Israeli Settler Bus
Palestinians who boarded a segregated Israeli bus in the occupied West Bank to travel to East Jerusalem were arrested for taking action reminiscent of the Civil Rights Movement’s Freedom Rides Continue reading
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Video: EU: Democracy Incompatible with Debt Collection By Michael Hudson
Democracy Now! video stream from Germany by Michael Hudson, who’s been closely following the Greek crisis. Continue reading
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Occupy Wall Street & the World Newslinks 25-27 October 2011
27 October 2011 — williambowles.info 27 October 2011Amidst police crackdown, widespread public support for Occupy movementWorld Socialist Web Site Today at 16:22Recent polls show widespread popular support for the Occupy Wall Street movement and its basic aims, centered on opposition to inequality and corporate domination of politics. The growth of support comes as local governments, Continue reading
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Occupy Wall Street: What You Can Demand versus What You Must DO By Glen Ford
Occupy Wall Street activists are under some pressures to come up with demands to make of the powerful. However, ‘in many cases, there is no point in demanding anything from your enemy, except that he drop dead in a hurry.’ Continue reading
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Notices of Eviction as served in Palestine
We enclose a Notice which, like many hundreds of them, will be served (in Hebrew of course) by the Zionist authorities, upon the Palestinian indigenous population of the Jordan Valley in yet another attempt at stealing and confiscating their Palestinian property in broad daylight while the world (and the PA) looks on. Continue reading
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Wikileaks Newslinks 7 October 2011
7 October 2011 — williambowles.info Arab Spring galvanizers, WikiLeaks among Nobel contenders CNN Of those, 53 are organizations, including WikiLeaks — the website founded by Julian Assange that facilitates the publication of classified information and made headlines for leaking documents and videos related to the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. … http://www.cnn.com/2011/10/06/world/norway-nobel-peace-prize/ Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 6 October, 2011: Revealed: UK government plotted with Israel lobby to ban Salah
6 October 2011 , 2011 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Abed-Rabbo: “No Talks Unless Israel Halts Settlement Activities” IMEMC – Friday October 07, 2011 – 02:26, Secretary-General of the Executive Committee of the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO), Yasser Abed-Rabbo, stated that the Palestinian leadership will not return to the negotiations table before Continue reading
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Obama and Bush Administrations Complicit With Bankers’ in Massive Foreclosure Scheme
A new report shows the Obama administration has been just as protective as its Republican predecessor of bank robo-signing: forging the signatures of millions of homeowners in order to foreclose their homes. ‘Theft and fraud were standard practice on Wall Street, and both the Bush and Obama administrations knew it, and protected the criminals.’ Obama… Continue reading
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Action Alert: CNN’s Factcheck Failure on Occupy Wall Street
If CNN is interested in factchecking claims about Wall Street, they might want to start by taking a look at those made by their new host. At the very least, the show should invite the economists and policy experts who could set the record straight. Continue reading
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Action Alert: CNN's Factcheck Failure on Occupy Wall Street
If CNN is interested in factchecking claims about Wall Street, they might want to start by taking a look at those made by their new host. At the very least, the show should invite the economists and policy experts who could set the record straight. Continue reading
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UPDATE FROM THE ELECTRONIC INTIFADA: Statehood bid rallies and repression | Peres: peacemaker or thug? | Irvine 11 | And more …
23 September 2011 — Electronic Intifada A verdict is expected very soon in the Irvine 11 trial. Follow @intifadaLive on Twitter for immediate updates THE LATEST FROM THE ELECTRONIC INTIFADA BLOGS Why is there a peace center named after that thug Peres? By David Cronin, 22 September 2011 Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 22 September, 2011: Knesset moves forward on bill granting Israel unchecked, draconian powers
22 September 2011 , 2011 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Israeli Military Storm Villages, Break Into West Bank Homes IMEMC – Thursday September 22, 2011 – 20:10, Israeli military stormed the villages of Burqin and al-‚ÄòArqah near the northern West Bank city of Jenin on Thursday. Military vehicles patrolled the streets of Continue reading
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Destroying a Country’s Standard of Living: What Libya Had Achieved, What has been Destroyed By Prof. Michel Chossudovsky
Whatever one’s views regarding Moamar Gadaffi, the post-colonial Libyan government played a key role in eliminating poverty and developing the country’s health and educational infrastructure. According to Italian Journalist Yvonne de Vito, “Differently from other countries that went through a revolution – Libya is considered to be the Switzerland of the African continent and is… Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 13 September, 2011: Israel demolishes West Bank water infrastructure
13 September 2011 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Sheikh Salah To Sue UK Over Arrest, Deportation Order IMEMC – Wednesday September 14, 2011 – 01:22, Sheikh Raed Salah, head of the Northern Branch of the Islamic Movement, decided after consulting his team of layers, to file a lawsuit against the British Authorities Continue reading
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