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Fascism: Our Common Enemy
Russia’s actions in Ukraine have causes which necessitated its actions. Unbiased observers know what those causes are and why Russia’s special military operation was a necessary consequence. Continue reading
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Looking backward autobiographically
It’s reached that time again, a time to look forward but also, for an old geezer like me to look backward. Being 96 for a while yet (until March), I can permit myself some retrospection (while noting that those two digits, if only reversed and embodied, might well have been greatly preferable. Wot-the-hell, while I… Continue reading
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PAMBAZUKA NEWS 653 8 November 2013: SPECIAL ISSUE: KWAME TURE AND THE AFRICAN REVOLUTION TODAY
8 November 2013 — Pambazuka News The authoritative electronic weekly newsletter and platform for social justice in AfricaPambazuka News is delivered free to you with the support of donations from Friends of Pambazuka. Continue reading
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The spread of social blindness: migrants & the immigration Bill By Dexter Dias
The vans have stopped rolling, the posters have been taken down, the police have been forced to apologise. But something of importance has been revealed. For this group of cultural signals are wind chimes. Chimes that have been set in motion by the torrent of rhetoric swirling around the Immigration Bill, which received its Second… Continue reading
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“The struggle to tell the truth through stories”: An interview with British film and television producer Tony Garnett—Part 1
In a retrospective this summer, “Seeing Red,” the British Film Institute (BFI) celebrated the work of veteran film and television producer Tony Garnett. The BFI described Garnett as one of television’s “most influential figures,” who “produced and fostered a succession of provocative, radical and sometimes incendiary dramas.” Continue reading
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Listen to Your Ancestors By William Bowles
I am a big fan of history. Ever since I was a kid, history fascinated me and perhaps in another life I might well have become a historian. And, in an age where history gets rewritten by the corporate media hour by hour, day by day, understanding where we come from and how we got… Continue reading
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‘The bra is a security threat’: Harassment and interrogation at Ben Gurion airport By Anonymous
Anonymous is 21 years old and lives in Berkeley, California. Her father is a Jordanian Palestinian and her mother is a British Jew. The following trip took place in September, 2013. Continue reading
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NSA: “Disreputable if Not Outright Illegal”: The National Security Agency versus Martin Luther King, Muhammad Ali, Art Buchwald, Frank Church, et al.
Newly Declassified History Divulges Names of Prominent Americans Targeted by NSA during Vietnam Era Continue reading
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Syria: Keep Dreaming Kiddos By JASON HIRTHLER
With almost pathological haste, Western governments have moved to undermine Russia’s sensible proposal for Syria to hand over its chemical stores, thus avoiding the needless carnage being proposed by the United States. Continue reading
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The Folly of World War I: and the folly of ‘commemorating’ war By Lesley Docksey
Any student of history knows that many of the problems the Middle East and Africa are now experiencing stem from the Great Powers having parceled up the land, drawn borders where none had existed and put into power various friendly leaders in the aftermath of World War I. Continue reading
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The Art of Collaborating with the Nazi’s: Hollywood & America Reek of Nazi Influence
Ben Urwand’s The Collaboration: Hollywood’s Pact with Hitler (The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2013) is a disturbing, unsettling and must-read. That Hollywood’s studio heavyweights like Jack Warner and Carl Laemmle would cut scenes and dialog offensive to the ideology of National Socialism is a tough fact to digest. But aggressive capitalists, whether operating… Continue reading
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The Snowden Affair: Web Resource Documents the Latest Firestorm over the National Security Agency
Recent press disclosures about National Security Agency (NSA) electronic surveillance activities — relying on documents provided by Edward Snowden — have sparked one of the most significant controversies in the history of the U.S. Intelligence Community. Today, the nongovernmental National Security Archive at The George Washington University posts a compilation of over 125 documents –… Continue reading
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Syria Countdown: an Update from Damascus By Franklin Lamb
Washington’s ill-considered criminal attack will aid and abet these largely Gulf financed militia and provide justification, in their minds for literally hundreds of often competing jihadist groups to spread carnage across Syria. Continue reading
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How Genetically Engineered Foods Will Be Eradicated By Dr. Mercola
Jeffrey Smith, who is one of the leaders in educating people about the concerns and dangers of GMOs, has been at it for about 17 years. He believes we are now at the most critical stage in the history of GMO activism in the United States. Continue reading
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Eviction Brixton: creating housing insecurity in London By Hannah Schling
On Monday 15th July, 75 people were evicted from Rushcroft Road, a long-term community of squats and former short-life housing co-ops in central Brixton. The eviction represents a major step by Lambeth Council towards the further gentrification of the area. Determined to realise the (high) financial value of the Rushcroft Road properties, Lambeth Council has… Continue reading
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CIA Admits It Was Behind Iran’s Coup: The agency finally owns up to its role in the 1953 operation By Malcolm Byrne
Sixty years ago this Monday, on August 19, 1953, modern Iranian history took a critical turn when a U.S.- and British-backed coup overthrew the country’s prime minister, Mohammed Mossadegh. The event’s reverberations have haunted its orchestrators over the years, contributing to the anti-Americanism that accompanied the Shah’s ouster in early 1979, and even influencing the… Continue reading
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Video: EMERGENCY ALERT: Latest Syrian Chemical Attack Follows History of False Flag Provocations
In this exclusive clip from the forthcoming edition of the Jack Blood Podcast, James Corbett and Jack Blood dissect the latest reports of a chemical weapons attack in Syria, occurring just two days after a UN chemical weapons team arrived in the country. Continue reading
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