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Statewatch News Online, 17 April 2012 (05/13)

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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 borders
3.   EU: European Commission: Proposal for a Regulation for the surveillance of the external sea borders in the context of operational cooperation
4.   UK: Secret mission? UK “homeland security” firms were in India three weeks before David Cameron’s February trade mission
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Wikileaks Newslinks 14 April 2013

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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 on October 19, 1973 is based on a …

http://www.indianexpress.com/news/wikileaks-cables-dont-think-youre-supporting-pak-indira-gandhi-told-richard-nixon-in-1971/1102314/

 

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What If They Held A Constitutional Convention and Everybody Came? By Dan Hind

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1 April 2013 — Return of the Public

On March 25th the House of Commons’ Political and Constitutional Reform Committee published Do We Need A Constitutional Convention for the UK? Though the report acknowledged widespread opposition to the idea – from the government, from the Scottish National Party and from the Conservative party in Wales, as well as from some members of the committee itself – it concluded that a convention was necessary, in order to address the growing strains on the UK‘s constitution caused by ‘a huge amount of incremental constitutional change over the past two decades’ (p.17).

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Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa: BRICS go over the Wall By Pepe Escobar

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27 March 2013 — Asia Times

Reports on the premature death of the BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) have been greatly exaggerated. Western corporate media is flooded with such nonsense, perpetrated in this particular case by the head of Morgan Stanley Investment Management.

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BRICS: ‘Anti-imperialist’ or ‘sub-imperialist’? By Patrick Bond

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20 March 2013 — Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal

“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.[1]

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The Return of Empires (V) By Dmitry MININ

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13 March 2013 — Strategic Culture Foundation

Modern-day empires in the East

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 shadow of Washington is discernible. 

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The “Alternative Media” Challenges Officialdom’s Views By Colin Todhunter

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22 February, 2013 — Global Research

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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 kicking above ground and is there for all to access on the net.

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The “Alternative Media” Challenges Officialdom’s Views By Colin Todhunter

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22 February, 2013 — Global Research

news1

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 kicking above ground and is there for all to access on the net.

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Black Agenda Report for February 20 2013: Stopping Obama From Privatizing Education, US Gives Haiti the Gift of Prisons

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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 closure and privatization of thousands of inner-city schools, a feat no white Republican or Democrat could have accomplished. But he’ll only be president 4 more years. If we can stop this now, his successors won’t be able to do this again. Can we? Will we? Continue reading →

GMO Agribusiness and the Destructive Nature of Global Capitalism By Colin Todhunter

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19 February, 2013 — Global Research

Capitalism is based on managing its inherent crises. It is also based on the need to maximise profit, beat down competitors, cut overheads and depress wages. In the 1960s and 70s, in the face of increasing competition from abroad, the US began to outsource manufacturing production to bring down costs by using cheap foreign labour. Other countries followed suit. Even more jobs were lost through the impulse to automate. To provide a further edge, trade unions and welfare were attacked in order to suppress wages at home. Problem solved. Or was it?

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ICH 15 February 2013: Kissinger: If You Can’t Hear the Drums of War Your Deaf

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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

 

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Harvest of Hypocrisy: Farmers Being Blamed for GMO Crop Failures By Glenn Davis Stone

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9 February, 2013 — Fieldquestions.com

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.

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New at Strategic Culture Foundation 13-19 January 2013: Middle East / Israel / Mali / Syria / Lithuania / India-Pakistan / Obama / Venezuela

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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 Arabia are not long for this world. My crystal ball tells me that Egypt will end the 1979 peace treaty with Israel, Saudi Arabia will be governed by Wahabbi militants, and Iran will become a nuclear power with eyes on Israel which will continue to build, provocatively, settlements on occupied land. What will the US do? The better question is what can the US do?.. Continue reading →