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Reflections on Events in Afghanistan-34
The information war is so intense nowadays that unsung melodies are often more alluring that the sung ones. The lines from English poet Shelley’s famous ode To a Skylark come to mind — ‘In the broad day-light / Thou art unseen, but yet I hear thy shrill delight…’ Continue reading
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Reflections on Events in Afghanistan-21
An Indian news website that is wired into Panjshir Valley reported this morning that Amrullah Saleh, former Afghan vice president and security tsar in the Ghani government has relocated to Tajikistan and that that he was given a safe passage by the Tajikistan government. Continue reading
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Taliban get a government!
Stories about censorship usually focus on the individuals prevented from publishing or saying something. But if we are to defend free expression from the new era of digital censorship, we need to focus much more closely on the censors themselves. Continue reading
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Don’t waste the opportunity at UN SC
India’s thirty-day tenure through August as the president of the UN Security Council has got mired in needless controversy. The issue is about the “emergency meeting” regarding Afghanistan that India convened on Friday. According to Pakistan, it had made a “a formal request” for participation in the meeting but India turned it down. Continue reading
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PEPE ESCOBAR: The India-China, Himalayan Puzzle
It was straight from an Orientalist romantic thriller set in the Himalayas: soldiers fighting each other with stones and iron bars in the dead of night on a mountain ridge over 4,000 meters high, some plunging to their deaths into a nearly frozen river and dying of hypothermia. Continue reading
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With eye on Trump, India scrambles for Russian support By M.K. Bhadrakumar
Within a week of National Security Advisor Ajit Doval’s consultations in Moscow on August 21, External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar is travelling to the Russian capital for talks with his Russian counterpart Sergey Lavrov on Tuesday. Continue reading
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India’s Tryst with Destiny: Freedom Struggle from Exploitation and Degradation Is Global By Colin Todhunter
Today, we are in the grip of a globalised system of capitalism which drives narcissism, domination, ego, anthropocentrism, speciesism and plunder. A system that is using up oil, water and other resources much faster than they can ever be regenerated. We have poisoned the rivers and oceans, destroyed natural habitats, driven wildlife species to (the… Continue reading
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US embarrassment “trumps British justice” in drone victim’s case By David Swanson
The Court of Appeal today ruled that, despite Mr Khan’s arguments being “persuasive,” they accepted the British Government’s claims that the case should not proceed as “a finding by our court that the notional UK operator of a drone bomb which caused a death was guilty of murder would inevitably be understood…by the US as… Continue reading
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Information Clearing House 6 November 2013: President Arafat Murdered
6 November 2013 — Information Clearing House The Brutal Past and Present are Another Country in Secret Australia By John Pilger More than any colonial society, Australia consigns its dirtiest secrets, past and present, to a wilful ignorance or indifference. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article36776.htm Continue reading
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New at Strategic Culture Foundation 27 October – 2 November 2013
2 November 2013 — — Strategic Culture Foundation Who is the USA in Debt to? (II) 02.11.2013 | 00:00 | Valentin KATASONOV …Switzerland, Belgium, Great Britain, Luxembourg and Ireland each have a bundle of securities amounting to more than USD 100 billion, and each of them has external debt that far exceeds their GDP… It is one of Continue reading
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Deaths on the Nile: Is Egypt’s revolution following the course of Iran’s? BY SLAVOJ ŽIŽEK
Now that the Egyptian Army has decided to break the stalemate and cleanse the public space of Islamist protesters, and the result is hundreds of deaths, one should first just imagine what an uproar this would have caused if the same bloodbath were to happen, say, in Iran. However, it is more urgent to take… Continue reading
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New at Strategic Culture Foundation 11-17 August 2013: USA / Kosovo / Egypt / NSA – Brazil / ICC – Africa / Banking / US-Pakistan / US-Russia
17 August 2013 — Strategic Culture Foundation In Pursuit of Global Dictatorship, or When on Trial for the Truth 17.08.2013 | 00:00 | Nikolai MALISHEVSKI The Snowden affair, which captured the attention of the world’s media, somewhat overshadowed another no less important story also linked to the creation of a global system of total surveillance and Continue reading
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New at Strategic Culture Foundation 4 – 10 August 2013: USA / Greece / NSA / Drones – Pakistan / UK / Venezuela / 9/11 / Syria
10 August 2013 — Strategic Culture Foundation The War on Corruption or the Building of a Pax Americana? (II) 10.08.2013 | 13:21 | Valentin KATASONOV The scandal surrounding the revelations of Edward Snowden have made the question of why American intelligence was so active in Europe, more pointed. Without claiming to have a full answer, one Continue reading
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ICH 8 August 2013: US Wars, Dehumanization, and Me
8 August 2013 — Information Clearing House America’s Mambo with Mubarak Dancing Between Dictatorship and Democracy By Andrew Gavin Marshall The United States champions its domestic propaganda outwardly, presenting itself as a beacon of democratic hope, a light of liberty in a dark world. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article35789.htm Continue reading
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ICH 14 July 2013: White Supremacy Acquits George Zimmerman
14 July 2013 — Information Clearing House Good Coups, Bad Coups By Joost Lagendijk Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and Kuwait promised no less than $12 billion support to the new regime in Cairo. – “It’s pretty clear what the counter-revolutionary Gulf monarchs expect for their generosity, and it’s not democracy. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article35536.htm Continue reading
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New at Strategic Culture Foundation 9-15 June 2013: Golan / Syria / Energy / Africa / NSA / Finance / Afghanistan-Pakistan / US-China / Turkey / Venezuela
15 June 2013 — Strategic Culture Foundation UNDOF in Pinch, Russia Lends Helping Hand15.06.2013 | 00:00 | Andrei AKULOV The peacekeeping story is a proof Russia plays by the rules. The country has no reputation of international law abuser and can be trusted… What is important – Russia has good relations with Israel, Syria and a Continue reading
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ICH 10 June 2013: Exposed: Obama’s Turnkey Tyranny
10 June 2013 — Information Clearing House From The Trojan Horse To The Golden Calf-The Power Of Deceit By William A. Cook We may weep for the innocents slaughtered in the fulfillment of the Zionist dream that took America to war against Iraq, and Afghanistan, and Pakistan, and Syria, and the ultimate goal of Israel, Iran. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article35229.htm Continue reading
The New Dark Age 