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Syria: The Feckless Left by Malooga
One must not forget the disgraceful petition put out by what calls itself the “Left” in the name of “dignity and freedom” last week, the so-called “Global Campaign of Solidarity with the Syrian Revolution”. The geo-political analysis of the screed would not pass the muster of a child, and the empty verbiage comes straight out… Continue reading
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VTJP Occupied Palestine and Israel News and Articles 5 May 2013
5 May 2013 — VTJP News International Middle East Media CenterIsraeli court rules to allow mosque demolition in JerusalemIMEMC – An Israeli court in Jerusalem has decided to allow the Israeli government to demolish part of a mosque, despite appeals from the mosque’s imam and several Palestinian members of the Israeli Knesset (Parliament). … Continue reading
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GR Week in Review 5 May 2013: “Israeli False Flag” in Syria and Fracking’s True Dangers
5 May 2013 — Global Research America and Israel: Imperial Partners in War against Syria, Stephen Lendman, May 05, 2013 Longstanding ties remain firm. Both nations are imperial partners. Naked aggression is official policy. Regime change in Syria is planned. Daily events head inexorably toward full-scale intervention. The latest incident ups the stakes. Continue reading
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Boston Bombings: Detonator to Mobilize the Entire US Security Apparatus. May Change the World for the Worse! By Prof. James Petras
The official government and corporate media versions claim the FBI may have ‘over-looked’ the security risk posed by Tsarnaev. Congressional critics argue that the FBI was ‘negligent’ in following up leads provided by the Russians and the CIA. A more likely explanation is that the FBI was actively engaged with Tsarnaev and deliberately encouraged the… Continue reading
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ICH 15 April 2013: US Secretary of State Blackmails China over North Korea
15 April 2013 — Information Clearing House Bombs In Boston Kill 3 By Erin McClam New England Cable News, said on Twitter that she saw people’s legs blown off. “Runners were coming in and saw unspeakable horror,” she said. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article34627.htm Continue reading
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Obama’s dangerous “counter-provocation” plan against North Korea By Peter Symonds
The aggressive character of the Obama administration’s actions on the Korean Peninsula was further underlined by leaked details in the New York Times on Sunday of a “counter-provocation” plan against North Korea, drawn up by the US and South Korean militaries. Amid sharply rising tensions, Washington is not simply responding to North Korean threats, but… Continue reading
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New at Strategic Culture Foundation 31 March – 6 April 2013: Bulgaria / South Stream / Middle East / Central African Republic / Korea / Chiina & Brics / Venezuela
6 April 2013 — Strategic Culture Foundation Bulgaria: The Phenomenon of Self-Immolation 06.04.2013 | 00:00 | Georgy KOLAROV There is little more than a month left for the protest movement currently gathering momentum in Bulgaria to climax before the parliamentary elections set for 12 May take place. An outburst of public activity can also be expected Continue reading
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The Dangers of War: What is Behind the US-North Korea Conflict? By Jack A. Smith
The U.S. is well aware North Korea’s statements are not backed up by sufficient military power to implement its rhetorical threats, but appears to be escalating tensions all the same. What’s up? I’ll have to go back a bit to explain the situation. Continue reading
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ICH 2 April 2013: 9/11: Illegitimacy of US Government
2 April 2013 — Information Clearing House Camp Nama: British Personnel Reveal Horrors of Secret US Base in Baghdad By Ian Cobain Prisoners subjected to electric shocks, held for prolonged periods in cells the size of large dog kennels. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article34479.htm Continue reading
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CREATING AN ECOLOGICAL CIVILIZATION by Jiang Chunyun
As the old Chinese proverb goes, “To return a kindness with gratitude is a good deed, the act of an upright man; to treat a kindness with ingratitude is a bad deed, the act of a petty man.” These words, “good” and “bad,” “gratitude” and “ingratitude,” have long been the most fundamental criteria for judging… Continue reading
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BRICS from Below!
In Durban, South Africa, five heads of state meet on March 26-27, to assure the rest of Africa that their countries’ corporations are better investors in infrastructure, mining, oil and agriculture than the traditional European and US multinationals. The Brazil- Russia-India-China-SA (BRICS) summit will also include 16 heads of state from Africa, including some notorious… Continue reading
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New at Strategic Culture Foundation 24-30 March 2013
30 March 2013 — Strategic Culture Foundation BRICS: New Geopolitical Model and Russia’s Foreign Policy Priority30.03.2013 | 00:00 | Alexander MEZYAEV Another annual BRICS summit wrapped up on March 27 in South Africa… The BRICS states recognized the right of Palestine to statehood. They emphasized the resolution of the conflict in Syria should be based on the Continue reading
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BRICS: ‘Anti-imperialist’ or ‘sub-imperialist’? By Patrick Bond
“We reaffirm the character of the ANC as a disciplined force of the left, a multi-class mass movement and an internationalist movement with an anti-imperialist outlook” — so said Jacob Zuma, orating to his masses at the year’s largest African National Congress celebration, in Durban on January 12, 2013. Eleven days later, Zuma spoke to… Continue reading
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The Return of Empires (V) By Dmitry MININ
A peculiarity of the formation of «larger spaces», or modern-day empires in the East, is that some of them were themselves, until quite recently, objects of colonial ambition. Other imperial projects, meanwhile, are part of even larger schemes and are being built into an intricate system of hierarchical relations and vassal dependencies, over which the… Continue reading
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Hugo Chavez, Humble Man Who Transformed the World By Rick Rozoff and John Robles
He reconfigured the power relationships not only in the Western Hemisphere, but globally, in a way that could not have been foreseen. The head of state of a country that isn’t a tremendously large one, isn’t a tremendously powerful one, certainly not in military terms, but this is a man who made frequent visits to… Continue reading
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PAMBAZUKA NEWS 619: INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S DAY, MOURNING CHAVEZ AND CHINA IN AFRICA
8 March 2013 — Pambazuka News The authoritative electronic weekly newsletter and platform for social justice in Africa Pambazuka News is delivered free to you with the support of donations from Friends of Pambazuka. Continue reading
The New Dark Age 