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Video: Is The War on Drugs “All About the Money”?
Stephen Downing,a retired deputy chief of police for the Los Angeles Police Department and Terry Nelson, retired from Department of Homeland Security on why they support treating addiction as a health problem and are for the total legalization of drugs Continue reading
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ICH 23-24 October 2012: Blood is Their Argument: The Real Campaign Trail
24 October 2012 — Information Clearing House Third Party Presidential Debate Moderated by Larry King Video Four alternative candidates for president of the United States debated Tuesday night in Chicago and agreed America needs a good dose of what they could provide — clear, straight talk that has not been market-pasteurized. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article32842.htm Continue reading
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VTJP News & Articles 18 October 2012: Israel approves 800 new homes in Gilo settlement
18 October 2012 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Al-Qassam Publishes Video Documenting Shalit AbductionIMEMC – Video Included Marking the first anniversary since the implementation of the Egyptian-mediated prisoner-swap deal that secured the release of 1037 of Palestinian detainees, the Al-Qassam Brigades published a video detailing the planning and actual implementation of the cross border Continue reading
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Video: If the "War On Drugs" has Failed, is Legalization the Answer?
Leigh Maddox and Peter Christ (members of Law Enforcement Against Prohibition): The “War on Drugs” helped create a situation where from gangs, to police to lawyers to jails, there is massive amounts of money to be made in this never-ending “war” Continue reading
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Video: Omar Khadr Returned to Canada After US and Canada Ignored International Law for Years
Michael Ratner: The Khadr case and others show how human rights have deteriorated in the US; Assange right to fear extradition Continue reading
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Video: Pressure Put on Manning to Implicate Assange
Michael Ratner: As Wikileaks Founder Nears 100 Days in Ecuadorian Embassy Sweden’s refusal to interview Assange in London suggests they are working with US towards extradition Continue reading
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My Visit to a London Embassy Under Threat By Jeff Cohen
On Friday, I visited Ecuador’s embassy here in the capital of the former British empire and saw a building surrounded by a phalanx of cops, with several of them at the front door. The embassy is in an upscale neighborhood near Harrods department store. The intimidating police presence was ordered by a Conservative government that… Continue reading
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Video: US war on whistleblowers must end – Assange
“On Wednesday night, after a threat was sent to this embassy and police desceneded on this building, you came out in the middle of the night to watch over it, and you brought the worlds eyes with you. Inside this embassy after dark I could hear teams of police swarming up into the building through… Continue reading
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Media Lens: Incinerating Assange – The Liberal Media Go To Work By: David Edwards
The media response to Assange’s asylum request tells us much about the default brutality and reflexive herdthink of elite corporate journalism. We witnessed a rush to be seen to revile Assange as a ‘turd’, ‘weirdo’, ‘narcissist’ and joke. The crucial importance of his achievements, of his cause, was deemed utterly irrelevant beside his allegedly unbearable… Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 11 May 2012: Nuclear Israel: Image of Apocalyptic Horror
11 May 2012 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center New UNRWA Upgrade Plan To Improve Dheisheh Refugee CampIMEMC – Dheisheh, the oldest refugee camp in the West Bank, is set to receive a facelift under a new UNWRA upgrade plan. The UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA), is launching a new program Continue reading
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After Libya, NATO Intervention Threatens To Destabilize Entire Region By John Cherian
One year after the NATO intervention, Libya faces disintegration as the oil-rich eastern region seeks semi-autonomy Continue reading
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The U.S. Empire’s Achilles Heel: Its Barbaric Racism
American racism will always cripple its ability to occupy non-white countries, whose people the U.S. fundamentally disrespects. “The United States cannot help but be a serial abuser of the rights of the people it occupies, especially those who are thought of as non-white, because it is a thoroughly racist nation.” The latest atrocities in Afghanistan… Continue reading
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Starving for Freedom: Six Years on the Abduction of Ahmad Sa’adat – One Month on the Hunger Strike of Hana Shalabi
March 14-15, 2012 marks the sixth anniversary of the attack on Jericho prison and the Israeli abduction of Palestinian national leader Ahmad Sa’adat and his comrades, who had been held under U.S. and British guard in a Palestinian Authority prison. Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 14 March 2012: “I can’t take part in these crimes”: Israeli refusenik interviewed
14 March 2012 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Gaza: Boy Dies of Wounds Sustained on Monday; Jetfighters Bomb Gaza CityIMEMC – Seven year-old, Baraka Al Mughrabi, died, on Wednesday midday, after succumbing to wounds he sustained during an Israeli air raid targeting Gaza City on Monday. His death brings the death toll due Continue reading
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HLLN 14 March 2012: UN soldiers jailed for raping Haitian boy | Cholera, United Nations: Negligence and the Rule of Law | HLLN on Haiti's cholera case against the UN in light of UN-US recent admissions
14 March 2012 — HLLN In this post Two Pakistani UN soldiers jailed for raping Haitian boy UN soldiers patrol in Port-au-Prince, March 13, 2012, BBChttp://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-17351144 Two UN Pakistani peacekeepers convicted in Haiti ?http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/story/2012-03-13/Haiti–UN-peacekeepers/53515134/1 Haiti, Cholera and the United Nations: Negligence and the Rule of Law http://bit.ly/ABF3ox Link Ezili Danto’s Note on: Bill Clinton – Slick Continue reading
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ACTA in UK: 10 years in jail for ‘illegal downloads’
UK web surfers have caught a grim glimpse of the future with Internet users being threatened with 10 years in jail for “illegal downloading” after a prominent music file-sharing site was shut down shortly after Britain signed the notorious ACTA bill. Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 3 March 2012
3 March 2012 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Israel Accepts Appeal Against New Settlement Plan In HebronIMEMC – The Israeli Higher Planning Council, running under the Military leadership in the occupied West Bank, accepted an appeal against a construction plan for a new Israeli settlement, south of the southern West Bank city of Continue reading
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HOUSMANS RADICAL BOOKS NEWSLETTER MARCH 2012
24 February 2012 — NEWS 1. Housmans Virtual Book Club2. Competition to win a pair of tickets to Camus’ ‘Caligula’ IN-STORE EVENTS3. Women’s History Month presents: ‘Women’s history: half the future half the past’ with Jessica Metheringham-Owlett4. Coalition of Resistance presents: ‘Eurozone in crisis: what is to be done?’5. Bent Bars presents: ‘Gender and the prison Continue reading
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Fidel on NATO’s genocidal criminals
NATO assumed this global repressive role as soon as the USSR, which had served as the U.S. pretext for its creation, disappeared. Its criminal purpose became obvious in Serbia, a country of Slavic origin, whose people heroically struggled against the Nazis during World War II. Continue reading
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Video: In Libya, death and disappearance still stalk the land — RT
People are vanishing in broad daylight in Libya, as the country’s new rulers continue to settle accounts with their opponents. Widespread insecurity means the families of the kidnapped can do no more than hope that their loved ones are still alive. Continue reading
The New Dark Age 