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August 8, 2013

Video: The Great Rift: Capitalism and the metabolism of nature and production John Bellamy Foster

John Bellamy Foster: We need a society that is geared, as István Mészáros always tells us, to substantive equality. And no compromise on the issue of equality. Bolívar said equality is the law of laws. So we need substantive equality and we need ecological sustainability. And they have to go together. Continue reading

Capitalism, Environment, Videos

Bellamy Foster, China, Crisis, equality, nature, Review, sustainability, USA, Video
July 22, 2013

China – Avoid the West’s Debt Overhead: A Land Tax is needed to hold down Housing Prices By Michael Hudson

How can China avoid the “Western financial disease” – a real estate bubble followed by defaults and foreclosures? The U.S. and European economies originally sought to avoid this fate by taxing the location’s site value. A rent tax was the focus of Progressive Era reforms. Continue reading

Capitalism, China

bank, banks, China, debt, financialization, growth, housing, land, rent, resources, value
July 9, 2013

Snowden: towards an endgame By Pepe Escobar

With the Latin American offers of asylum (Venezuela, Bolivia, Nicaragua; even Uruguay would consider it), we’re approaching the clincher: Moscow is now calculating whether – and how – to help Snowden reach his final destination while extracting maximum political capital out of Washington Continue reading

National Security State, USA

Asia, Asylum, China, Moscow, NSA, Obama, Pepe Escobar, snowden, Venezuela
July 1, 2013

New Documents Shed Light on NSA’s Dragnet Surveillance

An unnamed “senior administration official” confirmed the existence of a Bush-era surveillance program which gobbled-up “vast amounts of records detailing the email and internet usage of Americans,” but claimed, without evidence, that “it ended in 2001,” according to The Guardian. Continue reading

National Security State, USA

Antifascist Calling, Big Brother, Booz Allen, China, CIA, data mining, database state, Der Spiegel, James Clapper, Journal, New Yorker, NSA, prism, privacy, snowden, spying, surveillance, Washington Post, WikiLeaks
July 1, 2013

Wikileaks Newslinks 30 June 2013

30 June 2013 — williambowles.info ‘Tensions don’t exist’: WikiLeaks refutes media reports about ‘Ecuadorean … RT (blog) “The story is spun to be about tensions that don’t exist,” WikiLeaks posted on its Twitter account in response to the article that appeared in the Wall Street Journal on Friday. “Hacked/intercepted emails in relation to an NSA spying story. Continue reading

Spies-R-Us

assange, China, FBI, interview, snowden, WikiLeaks
June 27, 2013

US and British Global Spying – the Poachers Appoint Themselves as Gamekeepers By Finian CUNNINGHAM

The poachers – caught in the act – are now appointing themselves as the gamekeepers. Former CIA contractor Edward Snowden has performed an immense service to international public interest and democratic rights by exposing the «industrial scale» illegal spyingoperations of the American and British governments. Continue reading

National Security State, UK, USA

Booz Allen, China, data mining, database state, GCHQ, intelligence, London, Moscow, police, prism, privacy, rights, snowden, spying, Strategic Culture, surveillance, WikiLeaks
June 25, 2013

Snowden sought Booz Allen job to gather evidence on NSA surveillance By Lana Lam

Edward Snowden secured a job with a US government contractor for one reason alone – to obtain evidence of Washington’s cyberspying networks, the South China Morning Post can reveal. Continue reading

National Security State, USA

Booz Allen, China, cuts, data mining, database state, James Bamford, James Clapper, journalists, Narus, NSA, prism, privacy, snowden, spying, surveillance, Verint, whistle blower, WikiLeaks
June 24, 2013

Video: Where is Edward Snowden? Glenn Greenwald on Asylum Request, Espionage Charge; More Leaks to Come

The international mystery surrounding National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden has deepened after the former U.S. intelligence contractor failed to board a flight as expected from Moscow to Havana today. Continue reading

National Security State, USA, Videos

Asylum, Booz Allen, China, data mining, database state, democracy, Glenn Greenwald, GOODMAN, James Bamford, James Clapper, Moscow, Narus, NSA, Obama, prism, privacy, snowden, spying, surveillance, United States, Verint, Video, WikiLeaks
June 24, 2013

Washington v. Edward Snowden: The “Russia -China Connection” By Stephen Lendman

Snowden’s targeted for doing the right thing. He exposed US wrongdoing. He did so responsibly, legally, and at great risk. He sacrificed financial security and potential freedom. He deserves praise, not prosecution Continue reading

National Security State, USA

Booz Allen, China, data mining, database state, Global Research, James Bamford, James Clapper, Narus, prism, privacy, progressive, snowden, spying, Stephen Lendman, surveillance, Verint, washington, WikiLeaks
June 24, 2013

Our man in Quito By Pepe Escobar

It takes a former CIA asset to beat US “intelligence” – more like intel deprivation. The story of Edward Snowden’s escape from Hong Kong is textbook. This correspondent, at dim sum on Sunday, was alerted by a source; “Get ready for something big; he’s leaving soon.” That was about 12:30 pm Hong Kong time. In… Continue reading

National Security State

Asia, Booz Allen, China, data mining, database state, intelligence, James Bamford, James Clapper, Moscow, Narus, Obama, Pepe Escobar, prism, privacy, snowden, spying, surveillance, Verint, WikiLeaks
June 23, 2013

Video: 'Russia safe for Snowden for now as it will not be pressured'

Russia is “a very safe place” for the NSA leaker Edward Snowden as it will not be pressured by the US, former MI5 agent Annie Machon told RT as the whistleblower arrived in Moscow reportedly en route to a third country. Continue reading

National Security State, Videos

Booz Allen, China, data mining, database state, Iceland, James Bamford, James Clapper, Moscow, Narus, NSA, prism, privacy, RT, security, snowden, spying, surveillance, Verint, Video, WikiLeaks
June 19, 2013

Fake WMD “Intelligence” and Orwellian Double-speak : Washington Is Insane By Dr. Paul Craig Roberts

In the 21st century the two hundred year-old propaganda that the American people control their government has been completely shattered. Both the Bush and Obama regimes have made it unmistakenly clear that the American people don’t even influence, much less control, the government. As far as Washington is concerned, the people are nothing but chaff… Continue reading

National Security State, USA

Booz Allen, China, data mining, database state, Global Research, James Bamford, James Clapper, mercenaries, Narus, NATO, Obama, Paul, prism, snowden, spying, surveillance, Syria, Verint, WMD
June 15, 2013

New at Strategic Culture Foundation 9-15 June 2013: Golan / Syria / Energy / Africa / NSA / Finance / Afghanistan-Pakistan / US-China / Turkey / Venezuela

15 June 2013 — Strategic Culture Foundation UNDOF in Pinch, Russia Lends Helping Hand15.06.2013 | 00:00 | Andrei AKULOV The peacekeeping story is a proof Russia plays by the rules. The country has no reputation of international law abuser and can be trusted… What is important – Russia has good relations with Israel, Syria and a Continue reading

Strategic Culture Foundation

Afghanistan, Africa, China, culture, Pakistan, Syria, Turkey, Venezuela
June 14, 2013

Video: James Bamford on NSA Secrets, Keith Alexander’s Influence & Massive Growth of Surveillance, Cyberwar

Says Bamford of Alexander: “Never before has anyone in America’s intelligence sphere come close to his degree of power, the number of people under his command, the expanse of his rule, the length of his reign or the depth of his secrecy.” Continue reading

National Security State, USA, Videos

China, data mining, database state, Democracy Now, GOODMAN, James Bamford, James Clapper, Narus, NSA, prism, snowden, spying, surveillance, Verint, Video
June 10, 2013

Video: Edward Snowden – NSA Whistle Blower: ‘I don’t want to live in a society that does these sort of things’

Edward Snowden was interviewed over several days in Hong Kong by Glenn Greenwald and Ewen MacAskill. “The NSA has built an infrastructure that allows it to intercept almost everything. With this capability, the vast majority of human communications are automatically ingested without targeting. If I wanted to see your emails or your wife’s phone, all… Continue reading

Spies-R-Us, Videos

China, CIA, crime, database state, edward snowden, intelligence, NSA, Obama, prison, security, spying, surveillance, terrorist, Video, Whistleblower
June 9, 2013

Bradley Manning Newslinks 9 June 2013

9 June 2013 — williambowles.info Bradley Manning: Martyr To Freedom Of Expression Or Traitor? Sunday Leader Will the 25-year-old Bradley Manning, former First Class Private of the US Marines, now being tried for leaking the biggest ever trove of diplomatic and military secrets of America to the web site Wikileaks, in the future be considered a 21st Continue reading

Liberties

bradley manning, China, intelligence, Julian Assange, San Francisco, WikiLeaks
May 18, 2013

The Korean Atrocity: Forgotten US War Crimes and Crimes against Humanity By Yves Engler

After the Communists took control of China in 1949 the US tried to encircle the country. They supported Chiang Kai-shek in Taiwan, built military bases in Japan and backed a right-wing dictator in Thailand. One of Washington’s early objectives in Vietnam was to “establish a pro-Western state on China’s southern periphery.” The success of China’s… Continue reading

Korea, USA, War

Canada, China, Korea, soldiers, UN
May 12, 2013

Say No to War on the Korean Peninsula! For a Lasting Peace in the Northeast Asian Region By Dr. Kiyul Chung

On July 27, 1953, Korean War hostilities were ended only temporarily by introducing the fragile Armistice Agreement which was signed by DRPK, China and USA/UN. However, that “temporary cessation” of the deadly military conflicts has not put an end to all hostilities as it was supposed to and as was clearly stated as its intent… Continue reading

Korea

Asia, China, DPRK, Global Research, Korea, peace, UN
May 11, 2013

Radioactive: Abe Government Preparing for the Depopulation of Japan By Wayne Madsen

Informed Japanese sources have told WMR that Japan’s right-wing Liberal Democratic Party government of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is laying plans for the forced depopulation of most of the Japanese archipelago due to the deadly radiation emanating from the crippled Fukushima Daichi nuclear reactors. Continue reading

Environment

Asia, China, culture, fukushima, Government, Israel, Japan, Korea, radiation, Russia, Wayne Madsen
May 7, 2013

VTJP Occupied Palestine and Israel News and Articles 5 May 2013

6 May 2013 — VTJP News International Middle East Media CenterArmy Kidnaps 13 Palestinians In Bethlehem, 2 In JeninIMEMC – Monday at dawn, May 6 2013, Israeli soldiers invaded Beit Fajjar, Al-Khader and Beit Sahour, in the West Bank district of Bethlehem, and kidnapped 13 Palestinians. Army also invaded Jenin and kidnapped two residents. … Continue reading

VTJP Palestine/Israel

China, Egypt, Gaza, Israel, PA, Strike, Syria

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The richest 1% owns more than TWICE as much wealth as 6.9 billion people and the super-rich one percent of the world’s population has accumulated twice as much wealth as the remaining 90 percent, global charity Oxfam said in a newly-released report. The world’s richest 1% emit double the carbon of the poorest 50%, the 2020 Oxfam study found.

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