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Statewatch News Online, 17 April 2012 (05/13)
17 April 2013 — Home page: http://www.statewatch.org/ • e-mail: office@statewatch.org 1. EU: Dublin III: Council of the European Union 2. EU: Agency for Fundamental Rights report: Fundamental rights at the EU’s southern sea borders3. EU: European Commission: Proposal for a Regulation for the surveillance of the external sea borders in the context of operational cooperation4. UK: Secret mission? UK “homeland security” Continue reading
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Wikileaks Newslinks 14 April 2013
14 April 2013 — williambowles.info Wikileaks cables: Don’t think you’re supporting Pak, Indira Gandhi told … Indian Express This is what Indira Gandhi told US President Richard Nixon just days before India-Pakistan war when she met him in Washington in November 1971, according to a US diplomatic cable made public by Wikileaks. The cable Continue reading
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What If They Held A Constitutional Convention and Everybody Came? By Dan Hind
As it happens a coalition of left-wing groups have recently announced their plan to establish People’s Assemblies Against Austerity. Everyone has their own hopes, wishes and fears for the assemblies. For myself, I hope that people pick up on the idea of a constitutional convention and use the assembly form to discuss the fundamentals of… Continue reading
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Genetic Engineering, Eugenics and the Ideology of the Rich By Colin Todhunter
Whatever the publicly stated aims of the genetically modified organisms (GMOs) sector, and however terrible its impact is on health, the environment and cotton farmers in India, there is a much more sinister side to this industry. 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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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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The “Alternative Media” Challenges Officialdom’s Views By Colin Todhunter
The mainstream media is under threat. And the threat is in the form of what is known as the ‘alternative media’. Decades ago, the ‘underground’ media took the form of pamphlets and booklets. These days, it’s no longer ‘underground’ and you don’t need money to cover print and distribution costs. It’s very much alive and… Continue reading
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The “Alternative Media” Challenges Officialdom’s Views By Colin Todhunter
The mainstream media is under threat. And the threat is in the form of what is known as the ‘alternative media’. Decades ago, the ‘underground’ media took the form of pamphlets and booklets. These days, it’s no longer ‘underground’ and you don’t need money to cover print and distribution costs. It’s very much alive and… Continue reading
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Black Agenda Report for February 20 2013: Stopping Obama From Privatizing Education, US Gives Haiti the Gift of Prisons
21 February 2013 — Black Agenda Report This week in Black Agenda Report On Education, Barack Obama is the President of Privatization. Can We Stop Him? Will We? by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon By the time his term is over, President Obama and his Race To The Top program will have forced the Continue reading
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GMO Agribusiness and the Destructive Nature of Global Capitalism By Colin Todhunter
It’s apparent that, as the academic David Harvey states, the problems created by capitalism don’t get solved, they just get shifted around. Nowhere is this epitomized more clearly than the role of US agribusiness in India. Continue reading
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ICH 15 February 2013: Kissinger: If You Can’t Hear the Drums of War Your Deaf
15 February 2013 — Information Clearing House Obama, The US And The Muslim World: The Animosity Deepens By Glenn Greenwald Although it seemed impossible to achieve, Obama has presided over an America that, in many respects, is now even more unpopular in the Muslim world than it was under George Bush and Dick Cheney. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article33951.htm Continue reading
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Harvest of Hypocrisy: Farmers Being Blamed for GMO Crop Failures By Glenn Davis Stone
Of all the GMO controversies around the world, the saga of Bt cotton in India continues to be one of the most interesting and important. In the latest chapter, reported by the Business Standard, cotton yields have dropped to a 5-year low, setting off a fascinating round of finger pointing. Continue reading
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New at Strategic Culture Foundation 13-19 January 2013: Middle East / Israel / Mali / Syria / Lithuania / India-Pakistan / Obama / Venezuela
19 January 2013 — Strategic Culture Foundation In which good news is very bad 19.01.2013 | 10:52 | Rafe MAIR To get down to basics, we have in the Middle East, a four pronged budding crisis, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Iran and Israel. Israel has nuclear weapons, Iran will soon have them and the royal family in Continue reading
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The Cancer Cash Cycle: The Causes of Cancer and Ill Health By Colin Todhunter
Cancer is big business. Despite massive public screening campaigns and talk of cures, cancer rates continue to soar, and certain companies not only profit from making the chemicals that cause cancer but also from selling the drugs that treat it. Continue reading
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ICH 13 December 2012: US ‘Tortured and Sodomised’ Suspect – European court rules
13 December 2012 — Information Clearing House European Court of Human Rights Finds US/CIA Guilty of Torture By Amrit Singh The CIA stripped, hooded, shackled, and sodomized el-Masri. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article33307.htm Continue reading
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UK hospitals going digital to fill NHS budget shortfall – report
You’ll no longer need to leave your house to visit the doctor in the UK. Video chats will soon replace face-to-face appointments in a bid to save nearly $5 billion in healthcare costs, a report claims. Critics warn the move may put lives at risk. Continue reading
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Declassified 1964 National Intelligence Estimate Predicts India’s Bomb But Not Israel’s
Finds “Better than Even” Chance India Will Soon Build a Bomb; But Mistakenly Concludes Israeli Leaders “Probably Have Not Yet Decided” Continue reading
The New Dark Age 