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The Gentification of the Left By Mike Wayne, Deidre O’Neill
The post-colonial philosopher Gayatri Spivak once famously asked: ‘Can the subaltern speak?’ Colonialism though is not just about race, it is also about that great unmentionable, class. And class colonization is one of the most central features of British social and political life. Continue reading
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The International Justice System and the Hunt for Africans By Alexander MEZYAEV
The summer of 2013 was a hot one for Nigeria, and not just in terms of the weather. On the one hand, the country’s populace and government have been subjected to new and increasingly violent attacks from terrorist groups, first and foremost from Boko Haram. On the other hand, Nigeria is experiencing massive pressure from… Continue reading
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Africa: Monsanto – the Unrepentant Repeat Offender By James N. Kariuki
The uproar in Ireland over horsemeat, the narrow defeat of Proposition 37 in California which would have made it mandatory to label all food containing GMOs – reveal that Africans must now join the rest of the world in resisting GMO foods and biotechnology, no matter how effectively packaged Continue reading
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FAIR TV: Misreporting WikiLeaks, NYT Defines the "Center," MSNBC's Walmart "Debate" By Peter Hart
This week: The corporate media finally paid attention to the Bradley Manning trial–but NBC botched some of the history. Plus the New York Timestries to show how Democrats are moving ‘away from the center.’ But how do they define the center anyway? And we look at an MSNBC debate over Walmart and a living wage… Continue reading
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Reading Marx in Cairo By Kaveh L Afrasiabi
In Marx’s book we find a timeless grasp of farcical repetitions in history, by comparing the French coup of December 1851 by a nephew of the great Napoleon who, even though he lacked the minutest genius of his uncle, called himself Emperor Napoleon III. From Marx’s point of view, the 1851 coup was a caricature… Continue reading
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Bradley Manning Newslinks 26 July 2013
26 July 2013 — williambowles.info Bradley Manning’s court-martial for leaking US secrets to WikiLeaks … The trial of Pfc. Bradley Manning enters its eighth week Thursday at Fort Meade, near Baltimore. The former intelligence analyst from Crescent, Okla., is charged … Continue reading
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Video: How the Pentagon Papers Came to be Published By the Beacon Press Told by Daniel Ellsberg & Others
Forty-one years ago, Beacon Press lost a Supreme Court case brought against it by the U.S. government for publishing the first full edition of the Pentagon Papers. It is now well known how The New York Times first published excerpts of the top-secret documents in June 1971, but less well known is how the Beacon… Continue reading
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Seeds of Destruction: The Diabolical World of Genetic Manipulation By F. William Engdahl
“Seeds of Destruction: The Hidden Agenda of Genetic Manipulation” by F. William Engdahl is a skillfully researched book that focuses on how a small socio-political American elite seeks to establish control over the very basis of human survival: the provision of our daily bread. Continue reading
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“The Shell Game” and the Osama bin Laden Documents By Lauren Harper
What could possibly compel the government to go out of its way to hide the official record on the most important raid in history? It’s hard to fathom, but a recent Associated Press article by Richard Larner shows that the Pentagon is doing just that by sending all its records on the Osama bin Laden… Continue reading
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Cholera poisoning: How all Haiti water is being privatized / Responses to a saboteur and NGO/US collaborator
9 July 2013 — HLLN Recommended HLLN Link Ezili Dantò: The United States is making a mess of Haiti, Wisconsin State Journal – http://bit.ly/152VvWa Happy Birthday Guy Cayemite, Le Poète! http://www.potomitan.info/ayiti/cayemite/ Continue reading
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Bonapartist Coup in Egypt! By Sungur Savran
The near equality in strength of the two camps contending for power in Egypt led the army to stage a Bonapartist coup. It is not only the recent episode of unprecedented crowds in the millions coming out on 30 June that has made the army move. This struggle between the Muslim Brotherhood government of now… Continue reading
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Ecuador’s Correa: Solution for Edward Snowden’s destination ‘in hands of Russia’
“At this moment, the solution of Snowden’s destination is in the hands of Russian authorities,” Correa said in an interview with the private Oromar channel, according to AFP. Continue reading
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Statewatch News Online, 27 June 2013: EU-USA: DATA SURVEILLANCE
27 June 2013 — http://www.statewatch.org/ • e-mail: office@statewatch.org EU-USA: DATA SURVEILLANCE 1. EU-USA: DATA SURVEILLANCE: For those that missed here are three three original leaks by Snowden:2. UK: SPYING ON THE EU: Germany blasts Britain over GCHQ’s secret cable trawl3. EU-USA-UK: DATA SURVEILLANCE: GCHQ taps fibre-optic cables for secret access to world’s communications Continue reading
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Disturbances Continue, Schism in Society Intensifies By Dimitriy Sedov
The events on Istanbul’s Taksim Square are presented in the world media as the consequences of an «ecologically incorrect» decision by the government to clear a landscaped area in a park located on the square. This is far from the truth and raises questions about the real interests of the West in the spreading conflict. Continue reading
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VTJP Occupied Palestine and Israel News and Articles 14 June 2013: ’Infiltrators’ or refugees: back to Jewish history
14 June 2013 — VTJP News International Middle East Media CenterPalestinian Injured In NablusIMEMC – A Palestinian man was injured on Friday [June 14] in Jama’in town, near the northern West Bank city of Nablus, after being attacked by several Israeli soldiers during clashes that took place between local residents and extremist Israeli settlers. … Continue reading
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Stalin's personal archives available
Rosarchiv (Russian Archives) announced the launch of a new website called Documents of the Soviet Era, where one may find materials from Stalin’s personal foundation. It took experts five years to digitize them. Continue reading
The New Dark Age 