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History Will Absolve Me: Fidel Castro, Sixty Years Later By Maximilian Forte
17 October 2013 — Zero Anthropology
Today marks the 60th anniversary of Fidel Castro’s famous “History Will Absolve Me” speech, given in his defense during his trial following the unsuccessful guerrilla attack on the Moncada barracks on July 26 of that year.
The complete speech, which was transcribed after the fact entirely from memory, is available here in English and aquí en Castellano, and below I am highlighting certain extracts which I think are still critically relevant today.
New Statewatch Journal 23 September 2013: Informants, spies and subversion
23 September 2013 — http://www.statewatch.org/ • e-mail: office@statewatch.org
New Statewatch Journal: Informants, spies and subversion
http://www.statewatch.org/contents/swjournal23n2.html
Eviction Brixton: creating housing insecurity in London By Hannah Schling
22 July 2013 — Open Security
The marketisation of access to housing security is central to the increasingly normative experience of housing precarity in London. Lambeth Council’s eviction of long-term squatted and short-life housing co-op communities is pouring fuel onto the fire: making people homeless to clear the way for public housing stock sell-offs.
UK can look at Greenwald partner’s seized electronic documents
22 August 2013 — RT
British authorities can sift through electronic documents seized from journalist Glenn Greenwald’s Brazilian partner, in the interests of “national security”, a court ruled on Thursday. The “highly sensitive” material could risk lives, said UK police.
CCR Says: This is Your Victory: End Stop and Frisk Today
13 August 2013 — Center for Constitutional Rights
[It’s great to know, that every once in awhile, we, that is, we the People, achieve a significant victory over the forces of repression and reaction. And CCR’s legal battle to overturn ‘stop and frisk’ in NYC reminds me that back in 1980, the equivalent law here in the UK was called the “Suss Law” and its use against people of colour by the Met police eventually triggered riots that saw cities burn. The Suss Law was eventually repealed only to be re-instated (conveniently) by the phony ‘war on terror’ and used to stop hundreds of thousands of people, with virtually no ‘terror’ arrests. WB]
The British Police: getting away with murder since 1969 By Koos Couvé
9 August 2013 — Open Democracy
827 people have died in police custody since 2004. Not a single police officer has been convicted. Families have struggled hard for justice, encountering multiple failures and police collusion from the IPCC. Why is police accountability failing in this most serious of issues?
UK: Stand Against Racist “Show Your Papers” Spot Checks
A golden moment for Lewisham NHS campaigners in Britain By Ruby Waterworth
1 August 2013 — Open Democracy
Today Health secretary Jeremy Hunt’s plans to cut services and close departments at Lewisham Hospital were defeated in the High Court after a fiercely fought grassroots campaign. Continue reading
Egypt: The officers’ war of terror; latest statements from the Egyptian left
27 July, 2013 — Jadaliyya
Since the toppling of President Hosni Mubarak, Egypt has become a battlefield of narratives. Each narrative has sought to appropriate and define the January 25 Revolution. The wielders of power, most notably the army, along with its allies, advanced a narrative claiming that the revolution succeeded—thanks to the intervention of the officers. Continue reading
David Kelly and the silence of British media – 10 years on By Justin Kelly
18 July 2013 — Our Kingdom
Are concerns over the official narrative “conspiracy fodder”, or have the media failed to adequately challenge the state’s account of what happened?
Britain to use secret evidence in court By Jordan Shilton
15 July 2013 — WSWS
The Justice and Security Act 2013 (JSA) came into force this month. The key provision contained within the legislation creates a new judicial procedure which will permit the use of secret evidence in any civil trial in the UK.
The rules of secret justice in Britain By Angela Patrick
14 July 2013 — Open Democracy
To impliment the deployment of ‘Secret Justice’ in the UK the government has to table the rules that will deliver the legisation. It has done so in a sneaky fashion and has announced they will be debated and decided in the House of Commons tomorrow!
German authorities persecute anti-fascist protester By Martin Nowak
9 July 2013 — WSWS
After seven days of proceedings, the Dresden District Court has suspended the trial of Lothar König indefinitely. The prosecution accuses König, a youth pastor from Jena, of serious breach of the peace, obstruction of justice and resisting a law enforcement officer. He is alleged to have incited protesters to engage in violence against police on February 19, 2011 at the annual anti-fascist demonstration in Dresden.
Statement from Edward Snowden in Moscow
1 July 2013 — Wikileaks Press
One week ago I left Hong Kong after it became clear that my freedom and safety were under threat for revealing the truth. My continued liberty has been owed to the efforts of friends new and old, family, and others who I have never met and probably never will. I trusted them with my life and they returned that trust with a faith in me for which I will always be thankful.
PAMBAZUKA NEWS 635: SPECIAL ISSUE: MOBILISING YOUTH IN AFRICA AND THE DIASPORA
20 June 2013 — Pambazuka News
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Monsanto Refuses to Testify on Genetically Modified Crops in Puerto Rico By Carmelo Ruiz-Marrero
19 June 2013 — WHAT’S NEW ON CORPWATCH: Holding Corporations Accountable
Monsanto has refused to testify at a major government hearing in Puerto Rico about local testing and sale of genetically modified seeds. Critics say that crops from these seeds harm the environment and can cause serious human health problems.
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Google & Facebook Discussed Secret Systems for U.S. to Spy on Users By Pratap Chatterjee
8 July 2013 — CORPWATCH: Holding Corporations Accountable
Google and Facebook have discussed – and possibly built – special portals for the U.S. government to snoop on user data, according to revelations sparked by an investigative series of articles by Glenn Greenwald of the Guardian.
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PAMBAZUKA NEWS 633: MILITARISM, CHINA IN AFRICA AND SILENCING TRUTHS
7 June 2013 — Pambazuka News
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Video: Criminal and Complicit Mainstream Media
5 June 2013 — GRTV
Michel Chossudovsky speaks in Kuala Lumpur (2012). Reflections on the criminal mainstream mass media after the 9/11 events and “covering up” as obstruction of justice. Continue reading
The New Dark Age 