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“The Monsanto Protection Plan”: Monsanto’s Deception Game on GMO in Europe By F. William Engdahl
Before the world opens the champagne to celebrate the death of GMO and its paired herbicides such as Roundup, it is worthwhile to look more closely at what was officially said and what not. Continue reading
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Media Lens: ‘You Say What You Like, Because They Like What You Say’ By David Cromwell
The local elections in England earlier this month saw the right-wing UK Independence Party win over 140 council seats, gaining around 25 per cent of the vote where it stood. This led to a deluge of media headlines and stories echoing UKIP leader Nigel Farage’s gleeful claim of a ‘game changer’ in domestic politics. Continue reading
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A Roster of Bigotry: UKIP, the Tories and the Far Right By Tim Holmes
When the racism and bigotry fuelling the EDL-backed UK Independence Party were finally revealed to public view, the results were never going to be pretty. So it proved last week, as the threat to the Tories prompted a huge dirt-digging operation, exposing a party bringing far-right extremism into the mainstream. Continue reading
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PAMBAZUKA NEWS 629: IMPERIAL AGENDAS, WAGE SLAVERY AND BLACK STRUGGLES
9 May 2013 — Pambazuka News The authoritative electronic weekly newsletter and platform for social justice in Africa Continue reading
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VTJP Occupied Palestine and Israel News and Articles 7 May 2013: Israel Wants Detainees To Pay For Their Medical Expenses
7 May 2013 — VTJP News International Middle East Media CenterIsrael Forces Palestinian To Demolish His Home In JerusalemIMEMC – Tuesday May 7 2013, A Palestinian man from occupied East Jerusalem had to demolish his own home in order to avoid high fines and expenses after an Israeli court decided to demolish his property under the pretest Continue reading
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Thatcher’s Record: It’s All Smoke and Mirrors By Tim Holmes
Beneath the tide of stirring political rhetoric, it is worth taking a careful look at the woman’s true record in and out of office. What follows is an attempt to shed light on several key areas of that record. Continue reading
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New World Order Political Puppets: How Thatcherism Paved the Way for Tony Blair and “New Labour” By Colin Todhunter
Affable Tony could always ham it up with a good dose of media-friendly mock sincerity and tough talking. Thatcher and her PR people cynically forged the template for that. And both had a tendency to ignore that damned nuisance called public opinion and to land the country into a gruesome mess not of its own… Continue reading
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Billionaire Burglar Breaks into Obama's Cabinet By Greg Palast
A parade of media reports this week name Penny Pritzker as Obama’s prime choice for Secretary of Commerce. No longer will criminal bankers have to lobby the administration – because now they’ll have one of their own in the Cabinet. Continue reading
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The health hurricane: a year of destruction in the NHS By Alex Nunn
It is almost a year since the controversial Health and Social Care Act was passed in March 2012. At the time, campaigners issued apocalyptic warnings that it would break up the health service, allowing the NHS to be offered up for privatisation bit by bit. A year on that fear is being realised at breathtaking… Continue reading
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Brainwashing and Obama’s War Propaganda: Pentagon Gearing Up to Fight the ‘PR War’ By Patrick Henningsen
How much money does it cost to get populations to think a certain way? Answer: it requires a blank cheque. But can Americans really afford it? Continue reading
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VTJP Occupied Palestine and Israel News and Articles 24 January 2013: A Vote against Common Sense
24 January 2012 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Abbas To Invite Newly Elected Israeli MK’s To RamallahIMEMC – Israel daily, Yedioth Aharonoth, reported that Palestinian President, Mahmoud Abbas, intends to officially invite newly elected Israeli members of Knesset (MK) from leftist and centrist parties to visit him in Ramallah. … Continue reading
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ICH 21 January 2013: Bomber in Chief: 20,000 Airstrikes in the President’s First Term
21 January 2013 — Information Clearing House Algeria Hostage Crisis: Most Weapons Used in Attack Came From Libya By Mélanie Matarese, Algiers The Islamists wore the same type of outfits that Qatar provided to Libyan National Transitional Council rebels by Qatar – The also employed 60mm gun-mortars used by France and Libyan rebels. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article33673.htm Continue reading
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Fracking Industry Goes After Promised Land Film by Meher Ahmad
Before Gus Van Sant’s latest film Promised Land even premiered, the energy industry was up in arms, gearing up to counter the film’s apparent anti-fracking stance with a barrage of “community” responses (read: thinly veiled corporate PR). James Schamus, chief executive of Focus Features the distributor of the film, expressed shock about the attacks on… Continue reading
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VTJP Occupied Palestine and Israel: News and Articles 2 January 2013: Anti-Christian graffiti sprayed on church in destroyed Galilee village of Bir’em
2 January 2012 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Likud Officials Call On Government To “Annex C Area” In West BankIMEMC – Israeli sources reported that two senior officials of the Likud Party of Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, called on the government to “officially annex C area” of the occupied West Bank, where Continue reading
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VTJP Occupied Palestine and Israel: News and Articles 12 December 2012: Lieberman: “Heading To ICC, A Palestinian Declaration Of War On Israel”
12 December 2012 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Extremist Israeli Settlers Write Racist Graffiti On Christian MonasteryIMEMC – A number of extremist Israeli settlers wrote, on Wednesday at dawn, racist graffiti attacking Christianity and Jesus Christ on the walls of a monastery in occupied Jerusalem, the WAFA News Agency reported. … Continue reading
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Exposed: UN agency rips IDF for video alleging militants use its Gaza schools to launch rockets
A UN relief agency has shot down allegations levied by the IDF via an animated film posted on their official YouTube channel saying Hamas used UN schools and facilities to fire rockets at Israel. Continue reading
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Excuse Me While I Vomit By Alan Hart
I imagine I am not the only one who feels the need to vomit (dictionary definition – “to throw up the contents of the stomach through the mouth”) when Israel’s Goebbels justifies the Zionist state’s ferocious and monstrously disproportionate attacks by air and sea on the Israeli-blockaded Gaza Strip, the prison camp which is home… Continue reading
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Imperialism In The X-Factor Age By Colin Todhunter
In Vietnam, Agent Orange was dropped by the US to poison a foreign population. In Iraq and the former Yugoslavia, depleted uranium was used. In Western countries, things are a bit more complicated because various states have tended to avoid using direct forms of physical violence to quell their own populations (unless you belong to… Continue reading
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VTJP News & Articles 23 September 2012: Two water pipes for two peoples: Palestinians and Israelis
23 September 2012 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center PCHR Statement Regarding Recent Israeli Violations In JerusalemIMEMC – Continuing its Efforts to Judaize Occupied East Jerusalem, Israel’s Forces Close the Ras Khamis Checkpoint and Declare the Establishment of a Bridge between Silwan and al-Buaq Wall. … Continue reading
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